salith @salith@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
salith
boosted
“Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts”
•••
No no no, Fortune! Let me help you with a rewrite:
•••
“Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel–backed verification software after people got mad about its ties to U.S. surveillance efforts, and canceled their accounts en masse”
#privacy #discord #DissDiscord
https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/
salith
boosted
A warning for Adobe #InDesign users. I recently updated my copy, and after preparing a document, the recipient of that document sent me the alt text that popped up on one of their figures. Apparently, by default, InDesign uses AI to generate (often hilariously wrong) alt text for images.
salith
boosted
If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?
salith
boosted
Just so disabled people in the UK know, if Reform UK get in, they would repeal the Equality Act, describing it as divisive and a political fashion statement. If you aren't interested in politics, it's worth bearing in mind that politics is interested in you - the immigrant carers that help you, your benefits, your access to work, your right to live free from discrimination, companies' obligations for accessibility, Uber's obligation to take guide dogs.
salith
boosted
Brimstone and gloss: a devil-lady about to hit the town.
An experiment: I've been wanting to improve how I draw glossy/shiny materials, so the focus here is on the dress.
Honestly I think my artstyle favours matte materials and flat colours; too much highlighting and texturing can wreck a perfectly good piece of line-art. But I can't improve if I never try new techniques.
So a question: does it look good?
#MastoArt #FediArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Fantasy #Illustration #Tiefling #Devil #Glossy
salith
boosted
salith
boosted
salith
boosted
salith
boosted
“What do you have to hide?“
Everything.
Full stop. Period.
Every. Thing.
What I had for breakfast is my choice to put out in the world.
Who I love, who my friends are, what we talk about, the books I read, the websites I visit, my favourite animal, my choice of shoelaces.
It. Does. Not. Matter. How. “Big”. Or “Small”.
Every. Thing.
It’s all up to me to decide who I want to share anything with.
salith
boosted
salith
boosted
joanne rowling info overview
ok so:
• jk rowling invited epstein to a children's play in 2018, a decade after he was already a known sex criminal
• she is lying about not doing it, but the emails to JE (besides the invitation itself) are written in her cadence with her signature
• this is the first time she has ever posted about epstein and has not threatened to sue anyone over this, despite suing for much less on a whim
• rowling's anti-trans prop started a month after this incident in 2018, starting with liking a transphobic tweet that was chalked up by her PR team as a "middle aged moment" . this campaign largely focused on the idea that children are being groomed through transness, while the epstein cabal was doing terrifying John money-esque experiments to kids
• epstein basically begged to meet her while she seems to claim this didn't happen
• emails with her publicist Peggy siegel describe him as a close personal friend [of siegel] while JE being accidentally discluded from an event ruined all of their [PS and JKR] nights
• JKR rallied online in support of Johnny depp
• JKR sent gifts to Marilyn Manson
• after her reveal in the files, the marine logs of her superyacht were wiped from marinetraffic, with people mentioning her docking at St Barts
- note: she did buy this yacht "samsara" in 2023, and people are treating it otherwise, although a decades worth of logs have in fact been wiped . it was previously owned by billionaire Brett Blundy . possible dead lead but I'd be elated to be proved otherwise
• graham lineham's twitter has gone private
• terf heads suddenly defending jeffery epstein en masse
• jk rowling invited epstein to a children's play in 2018, a decade after he was already a known sex criminal
• she is lying about not doing it, but the emails to JE (besides the invitation itself) are written in her cadence with her signature
• this is the first time she has ever posted about epstein and has not threatened to sue anyone over this, despite suing for much less on a whim
• rowling's anti-trans prop started a month after this incident in 2018, starting with liking a transphobic tweet that was chalked up by her PR team as a "middle aged moment" . this campaign largely focused on the idea that children are being groomed through transness, while the epstein cabal was doing terrifying John money-esque experiments to kids
• epstein basically begged to meet her while she seems to claim this didn't happen
• emails with her publicist Peggy siegel describe him as a close personal friend [of siegel] while JE being accidentally discluded from an event ruined all of their [PS and JKR] nights
• JKR rallied online in support of Johnny depp
• JKR sent gifts to Marilyn Manson
• after her reveal in the files, the marine logs of her superyacht were wiped from marinetraffic, with people mentioning her docking at St Barts
- note: she did buy this yacht "samsara" in 2023, and people are treating it otherwise, although a decades worth of logs have in fact been wiped . it was previously owned by billionaire Brett Blundy . possible dead lead but I'd be elated to be proved otherwise
• graham lineham's twitter has gone private
• terf heads suddenly defending jeffery epstein en masse
Degaussing a monitor in slow-mo
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fkshp4Ikk6Y
salith
boosted
JK Rowling / Bill Gates / Jeffrey Epstein / gross shitpost
Maybe she's in the Epstein files about Bill Gate's hog warts
Things that show you're getting old.
Saved up and got a new PC case that's much bigger, so would better fit my 3070 and still have tons of air flow.
Took around 2.5 hours and was so exhausting that I'm still shattered 4 hours later.
Hopefully sleeping will help.
But at least now I have a quieter system with plenty of room. Just wish there wasn't all those stupid LEDs on the fans.
salith
boosted
Is this a good idea for a sticker?
I'd want to clean up the design if I were getting it printed, for sure
salith
boosted
After watching Dankpods’s new video I wonder how nobody’s talking about Gigabyte purposefully crippling performance of their laptops if you boot Linux.
Either nobody’s buying their rubbish… or nobody noticed that if you add acpi_os_name="Windows 2021" to your kernel parameters you suddenly get much better performance.
salith
boosted
hey, heads up. if you see one of those ads for a survey about trans people by AYAGDOS online, ob reddit, or anywhere, please don't take them. i researched the organization and it's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and J. Michael Bailey, transphobic scientists that want to undermine access to trans healthcare and mental health counseling. spread the word
salith
boosted
Today in Labor History January 27, 1969: A group of African-American auto workers in Detroit led a wildcat strike against racism and poor working conditions. Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) began on July 8, 1968, when a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge Main plant in Hamtramck, Michigan. The movement sprang from a deep mistrust of the existing United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, and a strong anti-imperialist sensibility. DRUM was committed to building a revolutionary movement capable of challenging capitalist exploitation, union complacency, imperialism, and state violence. By 1969, the Revolutionary Union Movement had developed into the communist League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #union #wildcat #racism #revolutionary #uaw #detroit #drum #imperialism #communism #BlackMastodon
salith
boosted
Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett
Joined Aug 2018
