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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Use tech and services outside the big tech. Just Fedi over standard social. Use Peertube instead of Youtube.

    Run Firefox.

    Set up your own servers for yourself or start a community. Matrix, Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.

    Run SearXNG as your search or help others by hosting.

    If you can work of free and open source code that helps decentralize and give the power back to the people or create something new. Even if you can code, learning a project and helping others with it or helping create docs, etc.

    Spread the word, but don’t be annoying. Help less technical folks get decentralized.

    It’s very difficult and can be disheartening, but you don’t have to cold turkey all of it. Each drip in the bucket helps until we’re all united and become a tidal wave.

    When all the power is centralized that’s when those central players think they can do whatever they want.



  • This is the part that caught my attention:

    Privacy features like user-agent reduction, IP reduction, preventing cross-site storage, and fingerprint randomization make it more difficult to distinguish or reidentify individual clients, which is great for privacy, but makes fighting fraud more difficult.

    And we do those things, not because we’re fraudsters, but because we’re trying to protect ourselves from the likez of YOU!

    YOU did this, change your model and maybe it’ll be better? Oh! But! Mooooooooney! I forgot. Stupid me.

    This is the fucking bully telling the nerd that if he doesn’t just HAND OVER his lunch money, that he’ll get beat. It’s YOUR fault! Not OURS!

    Edit: Formatting and added about bully

    Edit 2: fixing the formatting of the formatting edit. :-D lol







  • NO! No bugs! Be perfect!

    Seriously though, I’ve seen way dumber shit in “production” ready code.

    I won’t use Bluesky, but this happens all the time. I also don’t see the issue.

    I’ve told folks before, once and last time in front of developers (they didn’t find it funny) , that all code is shit. Not because they’re bad at it, but because it’s impossible to account for EVERY possible factor. They always make a better idiot. US: “Here’s this square.” Them: “I cut the corners off to fit it into the round hole and it no works!”



  • You know that all western countries aren’t the same right? Like how lots have universal healthcare, better social protections, GDPR, etc right?

    I feel awful for anyone in this situation that feels they have no other choice.

    I’m not a doctor, nor do I have any medical background, but sacrificing a healthy life for something that isn’t doesn’t make logical sense to me, but again I’m in the US, fighting in the US, and posting in the US NEWS. Not other western countries.

    I also find it suspect you lump in all western countries as if that’s easily defined and the laws are easily molded together as if they’re all under 1 law structure. Even in the States alone that’s not feasible.

    And did I say this was due to Roe overturned? If you don’t think we’ll see more more stories like this, then I wish I lived in your world.

    Should be a cautionary tale to protect your data. Especially when it comes to your health information thrown over channels you think are “private”.