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The FOSSbros are moving in laughing about how if you're still on Slack when this buyout finalizes you deserve what you get.

There's a reason I say "Have a backup" and "Don't rely exclusively on X" instead of "Stop using X": no one with a community on a shaky platform is going to listen to some random poke-furry on the internet yelling at them to stop using it and abandon that community.

Laughing that they deserve what they get is just toxic FOSSbro elitism in another coat.
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Hey so, Salesforce just bought Slack. Salesforce has a history of monetizing things they buy in really aggressive manners so I'm expecting some Changes there soon.

If you use Discord, I'll also note that when a thing's main competition has a problem is when companies choose to make Big Moves so don't be shocked if Discord makes major changes or either gets bought themselves very soon.

I've been banging the drum of "Have backups for your communities" for years now, but it's more serious now.
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accountability is important!

RT @CMYKGenet@twitter.com

Hey young furries especially, what this person is referring to is called "holding your idols accountable" and dropping popular people who refuse to apologize and do better when they fuck up is a good thing. Unquestionable loyalty is not better than being a "fake follower"

🐦🔗: twitter.com/CMYKGenet/status/1

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MY FAVORITE MISQUOTED IDIOMS, by Kaye Devin Age 36

(original post: oct 5, 2020)

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i use folx instead of folks because im trying to destroy the english language as an institution

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"only punch up" also applies to doing tactical copyright infringement in my experience. It's cool and good to steal from corporations but really shitty to do to independent artists or marginalized communities

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RT @reilukah@twitter.com

If you’re an artist thinking about having discounts for commissions because it’s Black Friday, please reconsider.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/reilukah/status/13

ph (-) 

I think it's about time to make an appointment with my doctor. These migraines are killing me. Hopefully, I can get on topiramate or propranolol or something, along with getting a few sumatriptan autoinjectors in case I have a few more migraines while I'm starting a prophylactic. I guess thankfully I'm privileged enough to have insurance that'll cover all that for less than $50 (less than $30 for the meds).

Some notes:
- Those are all the printf format specifiers I have (aside from %%, but you could probably tell that).
- I don't know why cos and fabs are failing, but it's probably floating point precision errors. Unfortunately, until I get %g done, I won't know.
- That random number never changes. Until I get various time stuff setup, I can't change the seed for the generator, so the seed is always the same.

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Alright. I can't figure out why multiboot breaks in higher half (I think it's getting pushed out of place, but I can't figure out how to push it back), so I've reverted the kernel back to not higher half. Now that it's booting again, here it is! A very early version of FENIX! (I told you it wasn't much.)

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I guess I should clarify. When I say "my OS", I don't mean my Arch install. I mean the OS I'm writing myself: FENIX. But, again, I try to get it working tomorrow and post a screenshot.

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(Don't expect too much. It's currently just a self-check for some libc functions.)

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In good news, my OS is at least going somewhere. Once I get it booting again, I'll post a screenshot of the (admittedly little) I've got

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In bad news today, I broke my OS. I tried to get it to start doing higher half stuff and now GRUB isn't recognizing the multiboot header. So, that's a headache for tomorrow

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In good news today, I was ma'am'd while I was at the store today! I was waiting for self-checkout and the woman there was like "there, ma'am"! And, when I had to get her help because a price was showing horribly wrong, she didn't """correct""" herself!

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Folks, how gay are we feeling?

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468.56% gay!!!
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also ive never heard of Lou Sullivan before and i am LIVID. He did many amazing things and i feel like i owe so much to him despite never being fucking told about him before

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Oh, where my brain has gone...
I just read the sentence "I made my coffee and I came" wrong. Pretty sure "I came" is supposed to be in regards to a place, but is that how my brain read it? NOPE! Instead, I read it as orgasming.

I'm blaming y'all, the folx on here (mostly on the federated timeline) for this, ya horny fuckers.

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