Notices by Sam (samuteki@ohay.ooo), page 2

Anybody know of any left-handed keyboards with programmable keys that are budget-friendly?

All you have to do is *be* *Black* *online*.
That's it.
That's all it takes to make a racist angry.
No—that is not hyperbole.
And if you don't get it, it shows.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/24/24227672/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-ceo

"French authorities believe that the platform’s lack of moderation has “allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.”"

Why is this "weird" thing working?

The type of person who responds to someone complaining about racism by asking them to draw up a detailed incident report is not the type of person who really wants to help anyway.

If UBI was a thing, far from having no motivation and doing nothing, I would be so productive that people would be telling me to take a break.

The difference is I would (have the time and freedom to) be doing the things I *want* to be doing.

Some of you all are the most far-right leftists on the internet I swear to God.

Every single time someone talks about improving Mastodon software for the sake of inclusivity towards Black people, *every single time*, the comments grow a bunch of concern trolls that are like "Everything's fine (for me)! Let them go make their own thing!"

And that's why Black people don't fuck with this place.

Black person on Fedi: *breathes*

White person on Fedi: Now this is just my opinion and I know people are gonna jump down my throat for this but if you just breathed a little differently maybe you wouldn't get so much hate...

You could put "BLM" in your profile...
OR
... you could actually boost and support some Black people 😇😇😇

anytime you hear "no politics", you're hearing the oppressor

I struggle to get to the core of this idea, and I've been trying to for weeks or months, but the fascist/oppressor can change their philosophy like you change your shoes. Whatever fits best for the current situation.

A reality built on lies will eventually buckle under the gravity of the truth, such that the more obvious the truth becomes, the more outrageous the lies become to balance with the truth.

It feels like the ruling classes of the world (and the wide swaths of people they keep under the illusion of being their peers) are coming dangerously close to not having any more lies to tell.

The most racist, fascist people in the world are starting to sound like people I know as freedom fighters and revolutionaries. They *insist* that someone is out to get them, they insist that their rights are being threatened. They step on our necks and cry out that they can't breathe. They burn our cities down and cry out that their homes are in danger.

It is difficult to find hope these days, when the news seems so hopeless—but this bold-faced, upside-down relationship that the fascists have with the truth comes from a place of desperation. Not strength.

The whole world is watching. And you can fool some of the people some of the time...

I wish we lived in a kinder world.

How do you feel about social media going into 2024?

Just a reminder that the enslaved people of Haiti kicked their French masters' assess in war and the French forced them to pay reparations *to France* for loss of property (the slaves) and continued to receive reparations for 100 years if you're wondering about their moral fiber.

As a Black person with a profile picture that shows my Black face, I can get attacked online without even saying anything, so when you run up in here kicking the hornet's nest and cry when you get stung, not only do I have no sympathy for you, I resent you for the time it took me to block you.

Any belief system, whether political or religious or racial, that leads its adherents to believe they are superior to and better than other people will necessarily lead to inhumane and barbaric behavior by those adherents towards outside groups. It is a lesson history teaches us over and over again.

Anybody ever set up open source firmware on their router? Any tips, cautions?