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I'm sure I'm wrong but nix just sounds like someone made ansible into a package manager

Quad9 won the appeal against Sony, they don't have to block websites at the DNS level (in Germany at least)! quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-turn

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mutual aid, homeless trans woman, please boost! 

hey yall, i recently got kicked out of place and im shacked up in a motel for a few days while i look for a new place. i dont have enough money atm to afford first months + deposit and all the fees for an apartment, and i dont get paid until next week which would give me enough if it was in time

i need about 500 dollars to either extend my stay or help me with move in costs, anything helps!

cashapp: $digitalcreature
paypal: tgrehawi@gmail.com

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #transcrowdfund

having to confirm manually that yes, I want to set my screens to higher than 75% brightness even though I set the brightness through DDC [1948 meme]

oh and the #1 Youtube feature I need them to copy is chapters, considering there's a lot of long video essays on there

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decided to try out Nebula since it has some of the best stuff I actually wanna watch on Youtube but it's still much cheaper than Yt Premium and it's really nice to use a website that's not overloaded with ads and algorithmic recommendations

they gotta work on their subtitle implementation though, at least on the hbomb video they're broken up randomly and since they're embedded in the video you can't change any of the features.

sure is a six gigabyte file too, huh
clown operating system

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fuck the media creation tool I wanted to add it to my ventoy stick

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god, seriously? to download a Windows 10 iso on Windows you need to pretend you're on an iPad or it won't give you a link, how annoying

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A decade ago, a tribe of JS partisans took the web by the reins, forked HTML and JS syntax, and yeeted userland abstractions into the critical path because "a better user experience".

This was premised on the idea that everyone's CPUs/networks would get faster the way their top-end phones did.

They could not have been more wrong.

JS-first web development has been a planetary-scale exercise in the rich making life harder for the less well-off.

httparchive.org/reports/state-

infrequently.org/2022/12/perfo

I wish the Firefox screenshot tool would let me select multiple block elements, I love not having to crop anything manually

my body is a machine that (sometimes) turns video essays into completed chores

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shoutout to hbomb, my dishes are clean, I made and ate dinner and I'm not even close to finishing the video

it started working again sometime through the night… I guess the heat provider had an issue

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welp, it's -3°C out and my heating stopped working. dunno what's wrong with it since it's for the whole house and inaccessible to me but I hope my landlord reads his emails early tomorrow

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tired of writing bad code, time to go home and write worse code

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I went to the library today – and, well, I simply *had* to get this book!

This is the utopia I'm here for!

("Hypersonic trains – requirements for a European network at 7200 km/h".)

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