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Tech journalists:

Soon, quantum computers will be able to break RSA by factoring arbitrarily large numbers, by way of [insert pseudoscience here]. Cryptography is doomed!!!

Meanwhile, quantum computers after decades and billions of dollars:

Sorry, I can't factor 35 yet.

@oldredsubby @mattmcirvin

I used to feel like I could always find anything I wanted with search engines. But, in the last five years that has no longer been true.

@SnowBlind2005 sorta, its not just when you open a new terminal window its a timed thing and its images not ASCII. But generally on the right track

This is what Twitter looked like last time the federal minimum wage was raised btw……In 2009.

Does anyone remember what the program that posts cat picture to your terminal periodically while you are using it. I've been searching and getting no where.

if you're migrating to mastodon from bluesky i have one tip: you gotta write out "jesse singal". if you just say "i left bluesky to get away from js" they will agree with you but think you are talking about javascript

Bad excuse for WiFi issues 

It's wpa_suppliCANT, not wpa_suppliCAN

"competition is how everyone improves"

No. Cooperation is how everyone improves. Get that fucking brain worm out of your head. No more fucking secret-keeping to preserve an edge in "the market" and stifling the free exchange of ideas.

I love that anytime some corpo service wants to join the fediverse, 90% of us are like:

Meta, a trans man musing on "transmisandry" 

The funny thing is, if you'd expect anyone to be opposed to so-called transmisandry or "kill all men", it's me, just on the front of being a binary trans man who is romantically involved with men and works with young boys. I'm clearly pretty invested in manhood in many contexts.

But manhood and patriarchy are death cults. Aside from hating women, the whole structure of patriarchy makes men miserable tools of capital. Because I care about (specific) men, I want to get rid of manhood as it exists.

Pretty much every problem the boys and men I know experience is rooted in a specific structural issue. The "male loneliness epidemic" is alienation under capital. What trans men face is really just transphobia. So not only should you care about women enough to be feminist, but chasing "transmisandry" or "the male loneliness epidemic" is just a red herring keeping us from tackling transphobia, capitalism, etc.

Aside from it all just being very basic problems of people misunderstanding punching up, I feel like coddling men actually does the opposite of making us safer.

First dose of new meds, had a little panic attack about it. But everything seems to be fine, very sleepy like not exhausted I can't sleep, sleepy. No real I'm ready to go to bed sleepy, its crazy.

@mcc I can go more in depth later about the ins and outs but I'm making dinner rn

@mcc Mastodon is a fairly good example of anarcho syndicalism, we have a decentralized layout of resources and some amount of control of what's on our respective instances. Most of fedi blocked meta so there is a collective actions there. But the fact that the software is owned by one person and he controls how its up dated and what happens with it is not along the lines of what the philosophy demands. Even with the small oversight board.

@mcc OK so the basis is use trade Unions collective power to starve the wealthy of power and money not by electoralism but by taking the means of production directly and without inflow of elite controlled resources government will fall. Paving the way for an egalitarian society were the people already have the resources and the means to distribute. See revolutionary Catalonia. I think blue sky is a very good example of libertarianism its centralized and for profit with no regulatory over sight.

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