Apparently people are using "cracking" as a word to mean "fucking" now, and not only is that lame and stupid because just say fuck you cowards, but also as a trans woman hearing people say "yeah we're gonna crack [insert character]" is impossible to hear as implying sex

The internet was not a mistake
Social media was not a mistake

Allowing Corporations to dictate and control both of these things was the mistake.

I think for Christmas I will give my workstation an OS lobotomy

I'm so tired of this crumbling Ubuntu install

but this bing wrapper will surely fix the web search ecosystem

unfortunately your so-called "breasts" are proprietary bloatware. you should've really switched to OpenTiddy already

TIL

About a third of women are misdiagnosed with Personality Disorders, OCD, or Anxiety Disorders, before being appropriately diagnosed with Autism.

YIKES

oh , my window manager ? yea it's misskey

Actually its pronounced 'jaslight' you've just been saying it wrong

it's sometimes nice to just relax and do nothing.

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6 panel comic of my ram-sona sitting by a window, with the sun slowly setting into night time. Ending with me saying "pretty good day" with a gentle smile.

One of the best human design elements I've ever seen in a UI is in the Loop Habit Tracker app. There's an option that's called "Extend day a few hours after midnight" in settings.

What it does is shift the "it's the next day" logic to trigger at 3 am instead of midnight. So when I lay down to sleep at (usually) about 1, the habit stuff I'm recording is for the same day that's current in my head, even though the clock officially says it's tomorrow.

Top tier. I'm legit so impressed, it makes a huge difference for being such a simple idea that probably only added a few lines of code.

#Frauenrechte

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wittyidiot @stephenszczerba Stop abortion at the source. Vasectomies are reversible. Make every young man have one. When he's deemed financially & emotionally fit to be a father it will be reversed. What's that? Did the idea of regulating a man's body make you uncomfortable? Then mind your fucking business Stoppt Abtreibungen an der Quelle. Vasektomien sind reversibel. Jeder junge Mann sollte eine haben. Wenn er finanziell und emotional als geeignet für die Vaterschaft gilt, wird sie rückgängig gemacht. Was? Hat dich die Idee, den Körper eines Mannes zu regulieren, beunruhigt? Dann kümmere dich um deinen eigenen verdammten Kram

our most transgender engineers need funding to develop a table that does not vibrate even when multiple people are legshaking

Just saw the take that waymo shouldn't be expected to have tested for an edge case like unpowered stop lights.

That edge case that human drivers are required to know from page 34 of the california drivers handbook.

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A screenshot from the handbook pdf, page 34. The highlighted text has the header "Traffic Light Not Working". When a traffic light is not working, stop as if the intersection is controlled by STOP signs in all directions. Then proceed cautiously when it is safe to do so.

We investigated performance issues on our systems. The cause was identified to be huge inrush in AI-generated nonsense spam creation that slows the notification system.

We have temporarily disabled the creation of new issues while we clean up the noise. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Introducing page actions.

Custom commands can now be executed from the page context menu. Combined with the new dilloc tool, it allows users to arbitrarily manipulate the current page.

Here are some examples:

- Using curl impersonate to bypass browser detection.
- Replace current page by the output of rdrview (reader mode).
- Per-page custom fixes by URL.

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Dillo showing a nytimes page requesting JS to be enabled, but the context menu is open and the entry "Mimic Firefox" is selected. After clicking it, the page loads properly via curl impersonate and is rendered in Dillo.

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Another example loading a blog post with large font size and no margins. Clicking the context menu entry "Reader Mode" the page is rendered with margins and normal font size.

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Another example where Dillo loads the URL specification page, which contains a table with Emojis, which Dillo cannot render properly so it is not possible to see which entries of the table are Yes or No. After clicking the context menu element "Do Magic" the page is shown again but now the Emojis of the table are replaced with Yes or No accordingly.

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A screenshot of the dillorc configuration used to add the context menu entries. It also shows the magic command which runs several commands depending on the page that is currently loaded.

okay so virtualisation is enabled in the BIOS

the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:

Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.

I wanna live in a world where every creator gets to just make cool stuff and put it out into the world and then they don’t have to worry about fundraising or running a business or anything that isn’t just making cool stuff