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"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

LB: I don't trust a cell phone's airplane mode to be enough to keep itself quiet when a gov's highest level alerts come in. I do, however, trust this mode to be enough:

If you have a secret mobile phone hidden from an abusive partner, remember to switch it off or put it in aeroplane mode. Otherwise it will be activated with the loud national alert on the evening of 23rd April.

gov.uk/alerts/announcements

Please boost.

Encabulator technology got its first real video start as a government research bid, and market encabulation hasn't been the same since. youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2A

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Google's Chatbot Panic: pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/twe

"Hapsburg AI." What a phrase.

In other news, among the hype hasn't bought into is chatbot nonsense. If you use Firefox, it's one of your default search engine choices in Settings.

i've posted another update to our fundraiser: i'm no longer leaving today! we decided to extend my stay here thanks to the help of everyone who donated so far which has enabled us to get a head start on the bureaucracy involved in getting us married. we're officially engaged! but we could still use whatever help we can get, so please boost! :boost_ok: gofundme.com/f/get-taylor-and-

@nixCraft That's why the most important person you have to write comments for is your future self.

if you care about disabled people at all, please put whatever money you can where your mouth is, i'm disabled and desperately need my partner with me long term, but that costs money to get a legal partnership arranged, please help gofund.me/580dbcb4

hi please hire me i have over 8 years professional experience making computers do what i want and i've been failing to get a job anywhere for almost a whole year now and i need not to be homeless please

mynameiser.in/
maple.pet/tech

#transcrowdfund #mutualaid #hireme #fedihire

i'm leaving the uk in 2 days. i don't know when i'll be able to come back. i have been denied a job anywhere for a year now. my savings are running out. we are scared. @Atatra and i need to be together to survive. please help. gofundme.com/f/get-taylor-and-

thank you everybody who donated to us so far. i've posted another update to our fundraiser trying to get @Atatra and i living together once and for all. this is really important to us. pease help us reach more folks if you can. :boost_ok:gofundme.com/f/get-taylor-and-

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