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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 01:15:38 JST 
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@jeffcliff @mangeurdenuage @hfaust
Reducing their code while the web standards continually inflate is only going to hasten their collapse. I'm old enough to remember when the JS scripts to launch Macromedia's Flash player didn't work in Netscape (because they were IE-only), which meant that certain sites continually asked you to upgrade your player if you weren't using MSIE. People took that to mean there was a problem with Netscape, not that Macromedia (later part of Adobe) were lazy or incompetent. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 01:00:10 JST
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> 87% fertilization rate
Wao! Quailman must be visiting in the night after Patty Mayonnaise turns him down. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:57:17 JST
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@noyoushutthefuckupdad But in real life, what's more likely is that some group would pay you to show the most blatant propaganda on Movie Night. Probably something almost at Captain Planet's level.
All the Poast-tards and NCD mcnuggets would be hypnotized into becoming living bots for that group's pet cause. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:45:56 JST
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/blue_shield_leaked_info_google/
I expect we'll get no federal-level prosecution. Hopefully, at least CA and / or NY will go after the insurer and the ad / analytics provider. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:31:18 JST
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@jeffcliff @hfaust From a financial perspective, the search deal is what allowed Mozilla to deem itself "guardian of the Web" instead of remaining a smallish team working on a browser and mail client. This means the past two decades of Moz history (and the internal myths they believe about their work), and their various corporate entities are all sourced from that deal providing incredible amounts of money from Google.
I even read on some Mozilla site that when people donate, it goes to a completely different entity than the for-profit entity that develops the browser. I don't know what sort of options they have (and not just them: LibreWolf / PaleMoon / Waterfox / and the various other downstream forks are probably not strong enough to survive without Mozilla actively producing code upstream). -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:22:29 JST
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> It's not necessarily a _lack_ of housing, because housing _exists_. But, we have an epidemic of companies intentionally creating manufactured scarcity.
https://mtl.jinxian.casa/objects/019691c5-5cda-d1d5-a3a8-a57ba90c3242
It is both, IMO. This country has around 330 million people in it, up from around 280 million in 2000. We haven't built enough housing units for an additional 50 million people in the past 25 years.
That said, the various banks and corporations are making the housing crisis far worse than it otherwise would be. If USDOJ was doing its job, there would have been dozens or even hundreds of bank / corporate executives paraded in front of the TV cameras in orange jumpsuits and leg irons and locked up in the fiercest non-country-club prisons in the nation.
The shock would change the actions of the rest of them ... and maybe even make them unwilling to keep bribing congresspeople and state legislators to allow their rapacious ways to continue. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 00:13:28 JST
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@vriska I feel like the "how will I survive the next hour" thing is health-related, and not just being temporarily overwhelmed by the work of living in a new place. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 08:03:47 JST
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I didn't pay attention to the Canadian election, mostly because I try not to pay attention to politics in general.
So the question for those Canadians who choose to answer is: Can you summarize the results, with a short commentary about what you expected versus what you got and whether you think the results are acceptable?
Don't feel obligated. I live in your southern neighbor and don't plan to emigrate. It's just idle curiosity and I'll likely forget in a month or two. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 04:36:23 JST
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@realcaseyrollins @meowski @grrlscientist No, not really. Like in Croatia, the Germans were seen as liberators, so they absorbed that symbolism to mean freedom from their chief oppressor. But in either case, they don't hold the same racial or political beliefs as real Nazis.
In Ukraine, the oppressor was the Russian-led USSR. In Croatia, it was Serbia. When Clinton intervened in Kosovo, the Serbians objected "Why are you supporting Nazis?" -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 11:44:04 JST
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@hfaust Their earnings. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 08:21:44 JST
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@Hyperhidrosis @sun @piggo Photoshop classes are because that is a horrendous beast to self-teach.
$FORMER_EMPLOYER bought Adobe licenses for certain people, who then came to IT (me, who had never even touched it) expecting a quick course in how to use it. They were very clear that IT was never going to get licenses.
They eventually brought someone that used it out from headquarters to give them some instruction. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 08:18:06 JST
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@sun Yes, you're 100% right. If you lay in bed all the time, you'll eventually lose the ability to stand and walk. If you consistently avoid any sort of mental effort, you'll lose the ability to use your brain to solve any kind of problem. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 23:59:05 JST
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I've heard the same about BTC mining. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 09:07:56 JST
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@a Somewhere in New Jersey, I spent the Summer of 2007 taking pictures of the setting sun. The security force of the office building nearby kept coming to make sure I wasn't taking photos of their generic-looking building. I blame the paranoia that came from the 2001 Sept 11 terror attacks. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 23:53:54 JST
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@yogthos @monkey @Hoss
> capitalists aren't interested in paying you a decent wage.
So you admit that the only reason factories are in China is because they don't have standards to protect workers? That's your idea of a "worker's paradise"?
> You don't own the means of production dummy, the means of production aren't even in your shithole country anymore. And they're not coming back.
In the postwar period, the US was ultra dominant in manufacturing. The US is still a big producer, but now other areas are also competitive. I don't expect we'll ever see 1950-style dominance again, but don't deceive yourself. Factories in East Asia are already concerned about local wage and cost increases and considering moves to lower-cost countries. Racing to the bottom only works for a while.
Face it, Yogthos, your old system was as exploitative as any other. Your leaders had vacation homes near the warm Black Sea while the workers had to trudge to the factory each day through the snow and wind. People numbed their minds with vodka because they had nothing else to look forward to, with zero possibility of anything they did improving their lives. And yet, you look back with longing for those days instead of grabbing the challenge before you.
You complain about "capitalism" and "capitalists", but at least you have the possibility of going somewhere that you think is more appropriate. Your grandparents didn't have that possibility. If you really want to live under a Communist system, try to relocate to a country that still has some form of that system, such as Cuba, Venezuela, or China. Stop whining on the Internet and take action to change your life. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 00:35:35 JST
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@mangeurdenuage It is an issue, because it shows he's a hypocrite. If Mr Secretly-a-pervert can't prevent himself from making claims that someone else is a pervert (and should be kicked out of the FOSS movement for it), he should be publicly shamed for his perversions as well as kicked out of the FOSS movement.
People should be telling projects to move off of sourcehut or be excluded, simply because being on sr.ht supports Drew DeVault. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 23:45:00 JST
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@stux There's a big supply of lumber and wood frame homes are much quicker to build. But also, brick / concrete structures need expensive reinforcement to withstand either hurricane winds or earthquakes, while wood's ability to flex makes it much more resistant. That means that building a standards-compliant home is much more expensive with masonry than it is with wood. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 23:39:27 JST
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@Wrest A friend had just got his first e-mail account and got something from mailer-daemon and thought it referred to him (his nickname was Damon). -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 23:34:39 JST
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@SilverDeth @p
> can't handle less than 100% agreement in all their stances
Back when I was in college & university, I noticed that in discussions with other Americans, we could agree on a sizable majority of any issue, but even minor differences in opinion would lead to "I hate you and I hope you die". So I spent more time with foreign students from Germany, Taiwan, and various African countries. We'd often have little that we agreed upon, but we remained friendly and often pooled our funds to buy pizza after a discussion.
It was a big disappointment when that formerly US-only characteristic spread across the world. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 12:42:49 JST
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@Nudhul @hfaust @Mitsu
Eyelash goop ==> mascara
Weird blue and green stuff put on eyelid ==> eye shadow
Black goop placed along edge of eyelid ==> eye liner
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