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Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️

Exactly as I predicted… AIs are routinely being compromised to not act in your interest. schneier.com/blog/archives/202

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While I slept, portmaster descended thousands of levels deep into a circular dependencies loop: deskutils/zim > devel/xdg-utils > textproc/xmlto > www/w3m > graphics/imlib2 > graphics/libheif > multimedia/ffmpeg > graphics/libcaca > graphics/imlib2 > graphics/libheif > multimedia/ffmpeg.

Make-installing zim and restarting portmaster without zim somehow broke the circular dependency loop, despite nothing being functionally different.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I'm weighing options for a Chromebook browser that's generally decent and doesn't actively sabotage good ad blocking like Google does.

So help me, one of the options I'm considering is Microslop Edge.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Good news: It's possible to install Firefox in the ChromeOS Linux development environment using the regular Debian apt commands now, not just with Flatpak.

Bad news: It's a straightforward yet daunting task straight out of a '90s Linux hacking guide. support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/r

Other news: No matter which way it's installed, Firefox 148 on ChromeOS 144 is so unstable that it crashes unpredictably within a few seconds to a few minutes.

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Ahah. The first `pkg` in my path is /usr/sbin/pkg from base, while the first `pkg-static` is /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static from ports-mgmt/pkg, the two sources got out of sync (ports a higher version number than base), ports-mgmt/portmaster explicitly uses pkg-static, and I never noticed which `pkg` and `pkg-static` I was using outside of that. Yep, that would do it.

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That's a first, and if my futile searches are any indicator, a first ever for anyone.

Everything I use in is installed from ports, not pkg, yet I somehow managed to bork my pkg database so badly that pkg-static keeps randomly removing vital packages like www/firefox and x11/xorg-server while upgrading (and later reinstalling) completely unrelated ports.

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It's taking me a month of Sundays, but I'm slow-cooking my code into something I like.

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Do not move fast and break things.

Move purposefully and fix things.

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Being Left Behind Enjoyer

Is there a slow software movement?

as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

It is completely unfair to refer to Microsoft as Microslop, because that implies a small quantity of slop.

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Microslaw Cole: Pile-It

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Overwide pride flag stripes with words on them feel like the words should be scrolling side to side with '80s cracktro tunes blasting out the speaker.

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cheese :neodog_flag_agender: :neodog_flag_ace: :neocat_flag_transmasc:
...this sounded funnier in my head
also made a textless version
(feel free to use credit not necessary but appreciated)
vaguely inspired by the nonbinary "no binary? no problem" one i saw
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Some random trivia living rent-free in my head:

The Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Game & Learn Controller knows the Konami code.

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Mina

Pickup time. I'm waiting.

Photo: Tim Walker

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)

Here's to all the kids who were born with non-default settings; to all you who put the effort in to figure yourselves out.

You're amazing and deserve to be celebrated.

I'm glad you're here 💝

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙

I feel like whoever is running the phishing op to scam fediverse people out of money may not be that great at their jobs

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Fedi.Tips

⚠️ Scam warning: there are accounts posing as Mastodon admins claiming to offer "rewards" or "payments" or "partnerships".

These are scams. There is no reward or payment schemes on Mastodon. No genuine admin would ever send this kind of post or reply.

If you see scam posts like the ones in the screenshot below, report them by clicking ⋯ on the scam posts and then selecting "report".

#Mastodon

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Daniel Howard 🌻

@kagihq

high impact

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Oasus Plainsview :verified:

I made this in five minutes lmao

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