salith @salith@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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Valve: "We love our fans! We even let them use our IP!"
Microsoft: "We love our customers! Just don't use our IP please."
Sony: "We like you as long as you don't try to reverse engineer anything."
Nintendo: "I swear to fucking Christ if you so much as doodle an M in red crayon I will come to your house, kill your family, and strangle you with your own intestines"
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! The Marriage Equality Bill has received royal endorsement and was published in the Royal Gazette, officially making #Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to officially recognize same-sex marriage! It takes 120 days for laws to process here. In case you didn't know, I live in Thailand, my wife is Thai, and in 120 days we will be able to legally marry in Thailand, along with millions of other queer people who have waited SO LONG for this day. Love wins!! #LGBTQ
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🚨 Firefox quietly enabled a supposed “privacy feature” that tracks users - noyb files complaint today!
Read more here: https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature
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ACAB
u.s. coast guard released the images of the oceangate sub and i kind of find it funny cuz it's kind of rubbing salt in the wounds to send a government submarine to take photos of an imploded libertarian submarine
Always a fun read (The Door Problem);
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/-quot-the-door-problem-quot-of-game-design
Figured out the CD player in my car is so old that it doesn't like 80 minute CD-Rs, just 74 minute ones.
Kinda sucks since they're harder to source, but at least it can play burnt CDs, which I kinda figured it couldn't.
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“I genuinely believe Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history. It’s easy to attack them for being musically regressive: after all, they didn’t just Stop The Clocks, to quote the title of their 2006 best-of, but rewound them by 30 years. But the real problem is that they set social attitudes back even further.
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It’s no coincidence that Oasis are the band of choice for flag-shaggers and Reform voters”
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With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.
- Open
about:configin your browser. - Accept the Warning it gives.
- Search
browser.mland blank all values and setfalsewhere necessary as shown in the screenshot, anything that requires a numerical string can be set as0.
Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.
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This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.
The authors propose
pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read
This is a draft.
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The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
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Wonder how long till AirTags get banned because they can be used to track the scam that's called "recycling" and the other scams of the so called "free market" and "secure supply chain":
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I have walked this earth for almost fifty years, and today for the first time I heard somebody refer to a phoenix as a "molotov cockatiel".
And sure, it's not new to the world, it's just new to me. But the world still has undiscovered joy and wonder in it, it can still surprise you, and I thought I'd mention that.
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writer: "she quickly dragged a brush through her curly, thick hair"
me: she absolutely did not
#openai pleads that it can’t make money without using copyrighted materials for free.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament
So, update on the BT situation.
My mum finally has phone and internet back.
Once they transfer the new phone number back to her old phone number, then there will finally be a discussion of what happened and what will happen.
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Feel how you want about Billy Joel and his music, but the fact that the dude thinks we should be taking baseball bats to the heads of open Neo Nazis is pretty rad if you ask me
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For context Brazil only just left a dictatorship in 1985 as a result of a coup, a lot of people in Brazilian leadership were alive then and lived through it for 21 years.
The country's entire legal system is currently designed around preventing that from happening again. Musk refusing to participate in the investigation of the coup attempt by Bolsanaro fans is why X is banned. If you think that's about muh freeze peach you lack full historical context
https://theworld.org/stories/2024/04/01/brazil-remembers-1964-coup-and-victims-dictatorship
The country's entire legal system is currently designed around preventing that from happening again. Musk refusing to participate in the investigation of the coup attempt by Bolsanaro fans is why X is banned. If you think that's about muh freeze peach you lack full historical context
https://theworld.org/stories/2024/04/01/brazil-remembers-1964-coup-and-victims-dictatorship
I hate BT. Phoned up a couple of weeks ago to alter my mum's BT package to remove the TV and get a better deal on the phone and broadband.
Come this Tuesday and they just cancelled everything, but couldn't figure out what was happening until today. So my mum's been without internet or phone for 3 days and counting and the only thing BT can do is create a new account and rush it through... but who knows when that will be since they have to liase with OpenReach :(
7 hours on the phone in 3 days!
Joined Aug 2018
