Thanks for the tax write-off “gift,” Chris, some of which comes back to your crypto company in the form of rent. Must be nice to be able to steer how government is run at no cost to you.

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We know. Just downvote and move on.

Please don’t tarnish your quality comments with ableist slurs so I won’t have to regret needing to remove them.

Are those people actually leftists? Because they sound like liberals, not socialists.

German philosophy professor: Guilt Pride: A German Vanity Project Conquering the World

In terms of “why?” it’s not causal on its own, but in terms “why now?” I believe it is. It’s the two-by-four that broke the camel’s back.

Yes, I use Podman for personal projects for that reason (and for FOSS reasons).

No idea. But you may be able to restrict its file access at the OS level just to be safe, or run it in container(s), which it appears to support: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Docker-apps

Can I open what? I can only get my own email address through the API: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_site

curl -s -w "\n" -H "authorization: Bearer ${JWT}" https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site \
    | jq -r '.my_user.local_user_view.local_user.email'

Yes, I just checked the API and I don’t see it exposed anywhere except to the user.

I assume it’s removed from your user record in the Postgres database. Presumably there are database backups that will retain it. I haven’t worked on the Lemmy codebase nor do I sysadmin the server, so that’s all I can speculate from my past past experience designing & managing services of this kind.

Maybe call it your gaming console and don’t use it for anything else, so Microsoft can’t see anything that matters to you.

🙏🍆👄 No Zionazis.

I mean we can generally agree that China is worse.

We cannot agree, “comrade.”

They’re not only identifying immigrants, though. And they may be using biometrics from Real ID, which everyone needs to drive or enter many government buildings or receive many government services.

My visa application got rejected for posting a watermelon emoji on Myspace in nineteen dickety two.

Some eat up pro-AI drivel, some others anti-AI drivel. Tech bubbles are a wild ride. At least it’s not a bullshit bubble like crypto or web3/nft/metaverse.

It’s as if some people will believe any grammatically & semantically intelligible text put in front of their faces.

🙄, but I’ll only address:

the US justification for using nukes in Japan was that forcing a surrender via attack against civilian targets prevented a years-long slog and invasion.

That was the US’s public-facing narrative, not its actual justifications. Japan was already ready to surrender at that point, but the US was worried that Japan might surrender to the USSR instead, and the US wanted an unconditional surrender, not one with conditions. It also wanted to scare the living shit out of the USSR, to discourage it from further spreading its influence. And it wanted to test the bomb on a city that had been left intentionally undamaged during the war, namely Hiroshima, for its own nuclear weapons research & development.

But for you to say Iran isn’t authoritarian is ignorant of the facts.

We are not ignorant of the facts, but you are ignorant of your carrying water for Western imperialism. Which is understandable thanks to a lifetime of propaganda, but it’s never too late to stop.

It’s amazing how Russiagate malarkey and the Ukraine war has people thinking Putin is some cartoon evil mastermind. There is no greater “max evil potential” in the world than the US empire itself, of which Palantir & Clearview are constituent parts.

For keeping cookies in bento boxes:

• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• Temporary Containers

No way that’s happening short of an imminent, credible threat of socialist revolution.

Logseq can be run locally (without any “cloud”) and is free & open source.

Virtually all of crypto is a scam as far as I’m concerned, but Privacy Guides seems to endorse RetoSwap: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/cryptocurrency/#buying-monero

The location of our nuclear wessels.

OP, you’ve made this into your personality? 🙄

There are a few others, like 12ft.io, but archive.today is the best.

Bypass Paywalls Clean is the best browser extension. The repo is hosted in Russia now, because the copyright cops keep hounding them.

The extension was originally released on GitLab before it was removed in April 2024, when a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice was filed against its source code repository. Subsequently, magnolia1234 migrated Bypass Paywalls Clean to GitHub, where it was targeted by another DMCA takedown notice submitted by the News Media Alliance, resulting in GitHub restricting downloads of the software and its 3,879 forks in August 2024.

It has not changed. The only reason I use Archive.today is to share soft paywall bypass links.

Their identity is hidden for good reason: If they were to reveal it, we would lose the best paywall bypass site that currently exists.

🍌

Obviously. But it wouldn’t have happened at all without him.

He’s old and cranky like me 🤷

Among many other things, the person who created Mozilla/Firefox.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#History