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Today I learned that I might have Shiny New Stuff Syndrome. I've never realised how new technologies might not always be better. Example? GDPR leading to the return of text-only sites.

You don't realise how much you've been conditioned to think that Javascript and the like are important for the web, until you don't use it.

Authortarism, Tumblr 

I've always learnt that when someone is accused of doing something, it's innocent until proven guilty. Yet, there is a tendency around these circles to make it guilty until proven innocent. That's tumblr's way. Don't be like Tumblr. Please.

Cancer, Celebrity Death 

Well, Totalbiscuit lost the fight against cancer about a day or so ago...I really don't have anything to say except cancer sucks.

uspol, the SS 

Literally how do you lose over 1400 kids? Especially if you’re supposed to be quasi-law enforcement?

Even if I didn’t want ICE abolished; even if I didn’t consider their work legalized discrimination in the service of slave labor; I’d want their operations suspended until this was investigated and reviewed.

Nazis 

Nazis would like you to believe that they are the opressed. They're not. They're the opressors, and a repeat of history is on the cards if we don't fight back now.

~ Pol 

Do you ever get the feeling that you can't fucking win in politics in any form?

UKPol, Local Elections 

So, Labour are hanging onto the local council, as to who's in it?

Don't know, don't really care, the area seems to attract wankers from every party.

@Mycroft Storing anything in plain text if it's PII is just dumb.

Okay, so new antennae arrived, installed, after some diffuculty, and works fine!

Oh yeah, it seems like Mastodon is currently on Know your Meme. Be careful and keep an eye for any attacks.

@marcozehe In other news, water is wet. You can't expect a company to keep data private if there's money to be made from selling it. Captialism.

@gulfie @sc Which is why most mediums of communication are considered insecure. If you want absolute privacy, you have to put some work into it.

facebook 

@lifning@cybre.space Unfortnately, it feels like at least one person in my family is addicted to it, no matter how bad it gets. How he hell do I approach them about it?

Oddly enough, the date that this entire Qubes laptop oddesey ended is about a month to the day of Qubes' R4 release.

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I can get around it by using a USB Wifi adapter. It took me a bit of learning through the USB qube, but I've got the hang of it.

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Okay, so, refurbishing the X230 went well, and I stripped out parts that weren't needed. Unfortinately, I lost the antanae for the Wifi, but it's no big deal. (I would just take it out anyway, Intel stuff needs a blob.)

Korean Relations, poking fun at 45 

It looks like North and South Korea are working on denuclearization, and hoping to end the Korean War later this year.

In other news, 45 is like "Oh shit! I didn't have anything to do with that! I better do something, otherwise the Nazis, as dumb as they are, will begin to turn against me!"

Expect more war bluster to come from him soon.

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