Notices by Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt), page 3

just, like, fuck this guy. Imagine being this fucking proud of goddamn VIOLENCE to the people he's elected to ... FUCK. this guy. Look at the goddamn violence of the state he's happy to personally engage in. He's disgusting. This is disgusting. It shouldn't happen, and he should feel shame. Like I can't imagine being the type of person who just digs their hands into the life of the most vulnerable people, ripping their shit apart, causing untold harm, and being so proud and thinking it's such a good thing you want a picture of you taken doing it. Fuck this asshole, he needs to get his stupid ass recalled.

RE: https://union.place/users/inquiline/statuses/112936098309024794

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Fair enough. I wonder if Sharkey will let me know if I'm having problems with those instances, in that case...

I'm a single user instance, so ideally it doesn't fall under "excessive" : )

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #FediDevs #FediAdmins #FediAdmin

Anyone knowledgeable about fedi stuff have time to answer a question? Let's say I need to take my server down for a bit; is there a certain timepoint at which the servers I'm federated with will just stop trying to communicate with my downed instance? And if so, are we talking hours, days, weeks, or never? If I needed to relocate it, for example, and am not sure how long that might take.

@vantablack@cyberpunk.lol this kind of mod message is the type that just makes me want to go register on their server and post incredibly vile things so that at least they have to suffer while they have their little power trip.

like what the fuck, Biden is better than Trump but that doesn't mean he's not a fucking fascist

US politics are so goddamn fucked. Fucking people so in love with the idea of the "land of the free", which it has literally never been, I just uggghhhhh. When was it free? When my ancestors murdered indigenous people and stole their land and then used huge swaths of it as bombing ranges? When we interned Japanese people? trail of tears? Tuskegee Syphilis experiment? SLAVERY? Jim fucking crow?! Gated communities, redlining, glass ceiling, 3/5ths compromise, ACTIVE PRISON SLAVERY WITH NO RESOURCE AGAINST FALSE CHARGES, goddamn trump like uggghhhhhh democracy my fucking ass

It's one fucking struggle like it or not and if you think Biden, with his 90 billion in goddamn genocide money, increased cop funding, etc, while historically Black areas lack clean drinking water yet have millions for more police. Nevermind the complete lack of a social safety net and dependence on the good will of employers who routinely target anyone who isn't a cishet white male.

The US is a fucking fascist surveillance prison state with a goddamn metric ton of slavery.

I dunno, man, like, we don’t have to be polite or accept the obvious bullshit bad faith explanation from the latest tech bro hucksters

They tried to pull some bullshit, they got caught, they can fuck off. It’s not their birthday, you don’t owe them politeness or the benefit of any doubt.

@hannu_ikonen@zeroes.ca I kinda realized the other day why "rule of law" types always threw me for a loop, because if you looked outside the narrow confines of cishet white society you could pretty easily see how untrue the idea of "rule of law" was

So it's like, okay, yes, this is definitely the rule of law failing for sure. But the fact that you ever thought it was worth a damn means you some of you didn't listen (and some of you were put into places where you never could, because they knew you'd figure it out if only you were exposed).

So I guess I finally have that answered, I guess, for all the good it does.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse @jalcine@todon.eu plus the extra fun part: since the US basically has no actual labor enforcement, what's to stop companies who currently pay for labor that could be done in a prison from just laying off everyone, then opening a contract with a prison contractor? Given that most people are one paycheck away from being homeless, there might even be some familiar faces.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al I am not surprised that the screen reader is broken but I honestly didn't know it was until you brought this up. I'm disappointed, and now I'm also annoyed at the people wasting everyone's time and energy to tone police you.

Fuck IBM, IBM sold machines to goddamn Nazis, the least they can do is fork over some fucking cash to sponsor accessibility. I hate this "if we're not nice to corporations they may not give us a tiny drop of care". Fuck them, throw a brick at them, SHAME THEM. I assure you that is the only thing that will ever work. IBM: DO FUCKING BETTER.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Yeah, watching people jump in to say

1. It's not actually Red Hat/IBM being ableist because either A, they're not involved or responsible for Fedora or B. haven't prioritized it, OR
2. How fucking DARE you word things this way, if ONLY you had asked NICELY instead of being CAPTAIN DICKFACE

I dunno random reply guys, maybe fucking consider that being nice hasn't worked and that maybe we SHOULD be angry about it, yeah? Maybe people who don't have the same accessibility needs should stop politely suggesting it and say "fuck you for shipping a broken screen reader for 8 years despite being aware of the issue". Maybe that's how things actually happen and by being Reply Guys who are Critical Of The Way Things Are Being Said you're just making yourself part of the problem, which is that you're wasting Aral's time and the time of people who need screen readers by arguing about the way he said it and that you're more in the way of progress than Aral is? maybe?

It happens every single time something is brought up. Go direct your reply guy energy to Fedora if you must. Don't fucking criticize someone being upset that a basic feature has been ignored and has consequences for people.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al (if you do end up trying KDE Plasma I’m very curious how well it works!)

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social "Yes. You can change the OCR database and change the screenshots as the logged in user or as software running as the local user. There is no audit log of changes."

One of the very first tasks I had to do at Microsoft was implement an audit log for a service that was used by maybe 200 different people (or groups). It was considered important!

Good thing Windows isn't used by more than 200 people, or

@sps@historians.social @lmorchard@hackers.town "Distilling the above results, the four-stroke Ryobi leaf blower kicked out 6.8 times more NOx, 13.5 times more CO and more than 36 times more NMHC than the Raptor.

The two-stroke leaf blower was worse still, generating 23 times the CO and nearly 300 times more NMHC than the crew cab pickup. Let's put that in perspective. To equal the hydrocarbon emissions of about a half-hour of yard work with this two-stroke leaf blower, you'd have to drive a Raptor for 3,887 miles, or the distance from Northern Texas to Anchorage, Alaska."

just to goddamn blow some fucking leaves into your neighbor's yard.

@lmorchard@hackers.town noisy and highly polluting! Nothing says "enjoying the great outdoors" like a deafening blast of unfiltered & partially combusted gasoline.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse I can’t believe I was laid off by this fucking dipshit of a company.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse and are they going to require people to re-auth every time they want to use this feature, or is every unlocked windows PC basically a sneak peek into what someone has been doing for months?

Oh, keyword searchable, so you can even just hit whatever keyboard shortcut it’ll be and look for specific things! Brilliant, love it. Horsefucking copsuckers.

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse it eats up 10% of your fucking hard drive space to create a literal goddamn golden target for anyone to try and steal

I just

“Do you want to lose 10% of your hard drive space? We’ll fill it with incriminating, confidential, embarrassing, and black-mailable information we’ve made your computer keep of you!”

I cannot, under any circumstance, overemphasize what a phenomenally bad horsefuckingly awful idea this is. Like. Just. Wow. This is literally the kind of shit people actively work to keep out of operating systems.

There is no fucking encryption in existence that I would trust to keep 3 months of my PC usage secret. And I’m not even doing shit that would get me targeted by a goddamn hostile nation state or anything.

@babe@glitterkitten.co.uk my money is on slight protein denaturation or a gel. Or a foam. I suspect it would act like an egg white in this context.

@chloe@chadthundercock.com they straight up tell you it's forbidden to divide by zero and yet

@babe@glitterkitten.co.uk death by podcast is no laughing matter. you of all people should know this