Notices by Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world), page 2
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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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@0461fcbecc4c3374439932d6b8f11269ccdb7cc973ad7a50ae362db135a474dd
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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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 07:53:46 JST
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https://www.the-sun.com/news/13957239/spies-covid-lab-leak-wuhan-secret-probe/
According to recently released documents, US intelligence agencies concluded three months into the pandemic that it was likely an escaped, bioengineered virus.
CC: @jeffcliff -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 02:56:15 JST
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@arcana @BasedLunatic
LINK: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/13885342/spare-human-bodies-bodyoid-meat-grow-lab/
The headline is way beyond their current capabilities, though the source article ( https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1113611/ethically-sourced-spare-human-bodies-could-revolutionize-medicine/ ) does advocate for proceeding in that direction instead of waiting for ethics rules to catch up. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 13:17:31 JST
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@ins0mniak @pernia @p @sysrq @Leyonhjelm
Sounds like staying in SoCal for uni instead of moving to Laredo was a good choice. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 09:07:58 JST
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https://ak.parcero.casa/objects/bfedf750-f8bd-4722-892b-c4ce9303404a
"Falling Down" (bottom left) wasn't. It was about someone who _lost_ his stable job with benefits. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 00:43:34 JST
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@hfaust @sun 17:30 US-Pacific (currently PDT) is 16:30 US-Mountain | 15:30 US-Central | 14:30 US-Eastern | and assuming DST, 00:30 UTC -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Apr-2025 00:32:05 JST
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@NonPlayableClown @StaleDonut @sun
Wasn't this sometime after the 1994 movie? -
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mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 23:20:17 JST 
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In case this is useful to somebody:
Because of corporate collusion with law enforcement dating back to the 80s, all colour printers put tracking information on their printouts, whether you're printing a colour document or not, encoding information that ties printouts back to the specific printer used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
In 2018, scholars at TU Dresden created a tool to re-anonymize color-printed documents by obscuring that data:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3206004.3206019
The tool: https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
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