its use by leftists wasn’t opening a door to normalizing and welcoming right-wing influence and making original targets of the meme unwelcome; the original meme wasn’t made to specifically target any demographic. it overwhelmingly stifled right-wing influence by derailing threads with furries pushing bigoted talking points, getting them to STFU. Leftist furries took an untargeted meme and gave it a target.
like, there’s no contest. leftist furries had an overwhelming victory on this front. it’s not a leftist remix of a meme; it’s entirely a leftist furry meme now, and the perfect response to anyone from one of the bigoted corners of furry culture who doesn’t deserve a proper response but does deserve to be inflated, making them big and round.
ICYMI: Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
1. Nobody is safe.
2. A non-profit is using bcrypt to hash passwords, no reason why your for-profit company can't do the same.
New blog post:
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Should we have the same standard for everyone's behavior in a volunteer group? In particular, when we're evaluating and addressing destructive behavior, should we apply two different standards? One if they're a "known quantity" and one if they're not?
My answer is: yes, sort of. Not so much for *assessing* the behavior. But I suggest different approaches in how we react to it as we work on repair.
This quote made me physically cringe.
"One ear, nose and throat specialist CNET previously spoke to has even treated patients who seriously damaged their eardrums by answering the phone with a Q-tip sticking out of one of their ears. That's a phone call that can truly ruin your day!"
I can't even imagine that. Ow.
Did you catch Ron's recent Freedom Scientific Training Podcast? Listeners will explore how the F6 key simplifies navigation across Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint, offering practical tips for quickly moving between different panes and boosting efficiency. The Power of the F6 Key in MS Office Products: freedomscientifictraining.libs…
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If your home timeline is way too full, you could try using Mastodon's "Lists" feature. This lets you put selected accounts into their own themed mini-timelines and hide them from your Home timeline. You can then browse these Lists when you want, like channels on a TV.
For example you could put all your sports news follows into their own List, and then view your sports List when you want sports news.
More info on creating lists and hiding them from your Home timeline:
Latest update on the DDOS attack from @brewsterkahle (Oct 11 @ 10:22am PT):
"The data is safe.
Services are offline as we examine and strengthen them. Sorry, but needed. @internetarchive staff is working hard.
Estimated Timeline: days, not weeks.
Thank you for the offers of pizza (we are set)."
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Daniel's weekly report October 11, 2024
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strncpy, complexity, CVE, pie chart, early data, MVP, cURL closet
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You're in a game show. There are three closed chests, 1, 2, and 3. One of them contains a prize, the other two are empty. You can choose one chest and choose chest 1. "Are you sure?" the game host asks. "You can still switch if you want to!"
At that very moment, chest 2 malfunctions and accidentally opens. It is empty. "Huh," says the host, genuinely surprised. "Well, my offer stands."
What should you do?
- Switch to chest 3 (59%, 192 votes)
- Stay with chest 1 (9%, 32 votes)
- It doesn't matter (30%, 100 votes)
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Would you work for free? 🤯
For 33% of the respondents to our open source maintainer survey, this is reality: they are not paid or not paid enough to make a living.
With the new Fellowship program, we are investing directly in the people behind the code by paying maintainers of important open source components for their work. Applications are accepted until October 20th. Find more insights about the maintainer survey on our website:
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The Open Collective Platform is moving to a community governed non-profit!
A group of fiscal hosts representing thousands of collectives have created a new independent, community-governed, non-profit organization and have reached an agreement with Open Collective Inc. to take over the Open Collective platform as it exists today.
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I have been thinking a lot about headphones lately...
I have a simple list of requirements, but so far I haven't found anything that meets all of them, which is frustrating because most of the requirements don't contradict each other!
1) Noise cancelling. Like, REALLY good noise cancelling. Please, please, please I want to drown out all of the noises.
2) Physical tactile buttons. None of this capacitive touch sensitive bullshit, that ignores my intentional presses but is suddenly incredibly responsive when I'm trying to adjust their position in my ear!
3) They can't fall out, just because I made a facial expression or yawned!
4) Discrete! This is important to me. I don't want to wear big honking over the ear headphones all the time. I'm already self conscious enough, and don't want to stand out.
5) The ability to hear others talking to me, when needed. This can be a toggle for how the noise canceling works, but it is important that it works and works well. I keep headphones on ALL the time, and I don't want to have to take them off every time someone wants to talk to me.
6) Comfort! Again, I wear them ALL THE TIME.
7) Multi device pairing!!! This is so basic and important, and so many devices fail at this. I keep my headphones on ALL THE TIME! I need to be able to pair them with my phone, and tablet, and laptop, and desktop, and VR headset, and... You get the idea. I hope.
8) Waterproof, because I keep them on ALL THE TIME and I'm not very smart. A few months ago I went swimming, and forgot I had them on. Yeah... *sigh*
9) USB-C charging!!! It is 2024. If it is an electronic device that I'm going to be carrying with me, then it ABSOLUTELY MUST BE ABLE TO BE CHARGED VIA USB-C, NO FUCKING EXCEPTIONS!!!
I feel like I'm forgetting something too... Oh well. The point is, these shouldn't be hard. This is a small easy set of requirements. Why doesn't anything exist that meets them all perfectly?
![Litani Red Ironheart writes: "OK so I did my research and I actually FOUND the weather machines that are making all the hurricanes and heat waves and wild fires and floods worse:"
[A photo of an oil platform in the sea on fire, being extinguished by several firefighting ships]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/598642 "Litani Red Ironheart writes: \"OK so I did my research and I actually FOUND the weather machines that are making all the hurricanes and heat waves and wild fires and floods worse:\"
[A photo of an oil platform in the sea on fire, being extinguished by several firefighting ships]")
That's what I run, and while "works for me" is not a general recommendation, I would argue that the upcoming release is the time to dip one's toe in, now that it will have proper audio support, among other missing features until now.
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