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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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i make music: maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

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if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

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Ken Thompson, 1984: Whenever you use other people's software, you should think about why you trust it.

npm, 2010: LEEEEROY JENKINNNNNSSSSSSS!

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/se

i have come to the conclusion internal card readers for computers are something that sounds incredibly convenient in theory and nobody has ever made it work in practice

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the best really cool human invention is internal sd card readers that stop working entirely until next reboot if you eject them and that treat cards as readonly if you remove them without ejecting

💭 diy floppy disks

i've seen two different people attempt different complicated processes with middling results. what if you:

  1. sandwich ferromagnetic liquid between two sheets of thin film like sellotape sticky sides in
  2. hydraulic press
  3. cut the disk from the result

computer fairies' official moderation position is that it's ok if it's funny and the guy sucked ass

won’t lie to you: all of us here at the taco bell labs moderation desk haven’t even had to think about banning anyone for making jokes about a recent assassination. turns out it’s pretty easy to not piss off yr core userbase.

youtube.com/watch?v=SY00ri_a9y4 And so, one of the longest-running, most well-known mysteries in the history of video games, has been solved.

... All because of an argument between a mom and her adult son.

let's see uhh queer isn't a slur, people who disrespect plurals because of non-medical origins are idiots, TMA/TME are stupid made up labels to promote infighting, age regressors aren't actually harming anyone with their kinks, hating all men indistinctly is bad for feminism actually

did i miss anything

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i need to piss people off more so at least i get hate mail and death threats again

re: negative post which will get you blocked for liking it 

can you imagine having friends, or hobbies, or literally receive any message

i miss being harrassed. not even my sexual abusers want me anymore

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negative post which will get you blocked for liking it 

taurine-accelerated girlrotting by drinking energy drinks to do nothing alone all day but faster

wikipedia editors raced so hard for the "was" that the info sidebar got completely mangled lmao

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