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  Having to pay for a library card seems so incredibly backwards. Germany. WTF. “But there are discounts.” NO. FREE. FREE FOR EVERYONE. “But there’s so little funding.” NO. How do you think governments get most people to support nice things for broke people? “Free for everyone” is how. Means testing for libraries? Fuck off.

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  Fascism takes a complex issue and offers a solution so devoid of context that it addresses nothing and only creates suffering. However, sometimes the good things are also simple. The complexity is in knowing the difference. Sometimes it really does take a bunch of researchers to figure something out. For many issues, a knee-jerk reaction based on which policy sounds like it was dreamed up by assholes will be backed up by lots of research. People are homeless. Give them homes. Children are h...

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  Capitalism is a system that asserts that recycling electronics where they are used is too expensive and time-consuming, but enslaved children mining rare materials that pay for war on civilians is peak efficiency.

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  “Have some manners when talking to me” and “Do not talk to me at all” are not the same thing but reply guys can’t tell the difference.

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  I don’t want a new phone. I want my perfectly good hardware to keep getting updates until it actually stops working. I want replaceable batteries that get recycled. If a company stops giving updates I want to be able to change the OS.

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  Software selection checklist: - does it do the thing? - is it secure? - is it user friendly and accessible? - is the project secretly hiring a violent serial abuser or openly employing a creep? - do they have fascists on the payroll? - do they funnel money to or from fascists? seriously people, fill out that “about us” page and if your team is anonymous, abide by a contributor covenant/code of conduct and say so!

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  Who are your favourite professors? Who is writing accessible papers on interesting subjects? Who is writing with actual ethics instead of hateful bullshit labeled “ethics”?

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@akareilly/117163122785452591 No AI, just paper, pencil, and an endless font of horror.

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  Reparations are owed for climate change.

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  Here, it's almost Friday. Here's something to colour while pushing to production or listening to the news.

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  New list of assholes to avoid hiring. https://johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/letter.php?campaign=cofnas

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  RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@oliof/117019133140870610 If a heat pump can work in a house built in 1431 (not a typo!) it can work in yours.

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  Add to the list of how to improve your open source project: don’t piss off the grant writers

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  If you want people to switch to your non-evil tool: - make it accessible - make it usable - make communicating with you about bugs and usability easy

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  To quote Reginé Gilbert: “If It’s Annoying, It’s Probably not Accessible” This is the key to making all the alternatives to Big Evil US Silicon Valley Closed Source Slopified Stalkerware tech.

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  A reminder that even if someone is good at computer and can make more bleep boop than anyone has made a computer bleep or bloop before, assholes kill joy, community, and whatever technical goals you have. Many bleep bloop plus asshole equals no bleep bloop. Thank you for coming to my Fed Up Talk.

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  There should be physical barriers between cars and pedestrians. Period.

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  Remember when computers got smaller and did more stuff faster, year after year?

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  RE: https://fedi.lilahexe.top/notes/aowfk837mxmcve5b Infrastructure friends, assemble!

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  Linux is revolutionary anti-corporate tech if you just ignore all the corporations with Linux-based infrastructure in datacenters.

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  Omg you don’t like the textiles that are available? Just go shear a sheep, gather stinging nettles, skirt the fleece, rett the stalks to get at the bast fibers, make a spindle, spin the fiber, build a loom, disassemble a bike wheel to make knitting pins, weave your own cloth, knit your own socks, sew a tunic, go live in a bog without any human contact because all of this takes too much time for being social. This post is about technology.

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  “Don’t speak ill of the dead” is more about not starting a fist fight at the funeral. In other words, when a horrible person dies, wait until the relatives and friends leave before watering the flowers.

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  Remember to manage expectations. The question is not *whether* the Democrats will cock this up, it’s *how*

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  Thinking you haven’t blocked enough people lately? Post about making FLOSS appeal to and be usable for more people! You’ll be blocking entire domains in no time!

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  Demanding command line interface use from people who are not sysadmins is not reasonable, realistic, or kind. Make your free libre open source alternative usable for the intended end users. Write documentation that isn’t “sudo the glorble fleegeller, but first make sure you were installing sketchy gitblob three hours ago”

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  Why is the appeal to “traditional European values” always about xenophobia and patriarchy, and not dragging nobles off their horses and bludgeoning them with farming implements in a peasants’ revolt?

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  what really messes with my suspension of disbelief during a talking sheep movie is the mismatch between sheep breed and accent

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  Alright Burnham, let’s try freedom to protest a genocide, no deadly cuts to disability services, leaving trans people the fuck alone, renewable energy, taxing the rich, safe third spaces for kids, and Scottish independence. Oh and last but not least, going after the fascist networks organising hate mobs. You know, actual terrorism instead of the Met wrestling old age pensioners to the ground for protesting the fact that one can’t even express support for Palestine Action without getting in ser...

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  @mhoye@cosocial.ca I also think about air filters in schools so that kids don’t end up with preventable chronic illnesses. Paid for by taxing the Epstein class out of existence.

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  it’s still not a wiki