Millie @Atatra@computerfairi.es

🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨

The UK government's online safety consultation closes TODAY.

We must push back against more and more online ID checks. Making every adult hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers is itself UNSAFE.

Let's take on Big Tech business models instead!

Have your say ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

#onlinesafety #privacy #ageverification #bigtech #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol

it's still fat shaming if you're talking about someone reprehensible

next year computer fairies will be 10 years old and in 2 years lesbiaboard will be 10 years old

they're both kinda frumpy and broken around the edges but that's longevity you can't say for a lot of web spaces anymore these days

my wife's windowsill garden is pretty and she posts about it on a forum not controlled by big corporations or reliant on cloudflare infrastructure and you should look at it https://forums.transbian.love/?page=post&id=2668

Too real

“Get rid of the police? But what about domestic abusers?”

I guess they’ll have to get new jobs

Everyone wants to wear the V for Vendetta mask, but none of them want to wear the straight-black wig with bangs or cook me lunch.

bad advice reaffirms the parent/child power dynamic.

if your child has a problem, and you give them GOOD advice, they might get better at solving their own problems. then, they'd have fewer problems for you to cluck over and be disappointed by.

if you give them BAD advice, they have more problems and less idea what to do about any of them, so they 'need advice' again (whether they ask for it or not), and you have more opportunities to be superior.

of course you can only get away with telling your child to do exactly the wrong thing so often. the best bad advice is merely useless, impossible to follow, or causes your child to doubt themself.

and always remember: if your advice doesn't work, it's because your child applied it incorrectly. that's the whole point of giving bad advice!

my favorite kind of AI/LLM criticism media is when the person begins with a huge hedge like "I'm not an AI hater. *of course* AI is a useful technology and it will doubtlessly have transformative effects on the way we work" and then they spend the next 8k words/45 minutes showing how AI isn't actually useful and won't actually transform the way we work. it's like... it's okay to just say that AI sucks

seems like i've been stuck on seafile 9 since who knows when and now they're up to version 14 and docker is a requirement. looks like upgrading / migrating will be a pain and not worth it.

nextcloud looks to do everything i want (i remember only giving up on it in favour of seafile becaue of how slow it ran on my 4th gen i5 server a decade ago) but i'm not keen on how bloated and ai-happy it looks today.

what other self-hosted file/docs cloud are people using today?

I think there should be adult classes for learning things you wouldn't have for not having grown up as a girl.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116521307476692073

In case none of the other dozens upon dozens of reasons to quit Chrome and quit Google before were enough.

Listen to me.

Install Firefox from this link: https://www.firefox.com/en-CA/

Install the uBlock Origin addon from this link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

That's it. There's more you can do, but spend a few days with a proper web browser and a real ad blocker and you'll get it.

There is no Notepad++ for any Mac, but a vibe-coded port and its sloperator "author" want you to believe otherwise.

Ars Technica, "'Notepad++ for Mac' release is disavowed by the creator of the original": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/unofficial-vibe-coded-notepad-for-mac-draws-objections-from-original-author/

bring back wuhu island

I hate zionists so much. Having cultural memory of being displaced, ethnically cleansed, and being the victims of genocide and then doing that to someone else? It requires virulent, dehumanizing racism, disgusting hypocrisy, shocking entitlement, and deep and contemptible cruelty. "Liberal" zionists are just as guilty for trying to legitimize their supremacist ideology and settler-colonial project. From the river to the sea, gey kacken afenyam.

hello https://alterspring.org/@maple

https://bsky.app/profile/getamouraapp.bsky.social/post/3mknta2ejrv2q

Leftists really need to step it up and start acting like they support sex workers.