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cerement, 11 months ago

be prepared for disappointment – Instagram RSS feeds were disabled several years ago – looking at the Threads page source, it’s all generated through Javascript with the bare minimum HTML placeholders …

cerement, 11 months ago

another aspect – DistroTube did a 10 minute video explaining workspaces were the killer feature of tiling window managers rather than the tiling itself …

cerement, 11 months ago

and sometimes it’s not about the answer …

cerement, 11 months ago

take the Pornhub approach and just block any Louisiana IP …

cerement, 11 months ago

step it up a notch, only host content aimed at Republicans and conservatives

cerement, 11 months ago

one of my old forum signatures was: “I’ll RTFM when you WTFM”

cerement, 11 months ago

older version of “pirate a movie” meme

cerement, 11 months ago

the only big shortcoming to DVDs was the region locking …

cerement, 11 months ago

Twitter is DDOSing itself

cerement, 11 months ago

• between malware, phishing, tracking, bloat, bandwidth hogging, and whatnot, an adblocker is as necessary as an antivirus – advertisers have had multiple opportunities over the decades to behave and consistently refuse to do so
• most of us are perfectly willing to pay content creators directly (subscription, coffee, Patreon, merch, etc.)
• publishers are not content creators – and publishers are perfectly happy to screw creators over just as much as they screw visitors/viewers/readers (as an example, WGA strike is already on day 51 and counting)

cerement, 1 year ago

• “it will reportedly be tightly integrated with Instagram”
• “given deep cuts to trust and safety teams at Meta”
• “the platform will work with Mastodon”
• r/whatcouldgowrong

cerement, 1 year ago

• “No tolerance for intolerance.”
• “Self defense is not violence.”

much of it is not aimed against those people personally, but rather voiced as a reminder to others of their ilk that many of us are getting sick and tired of their continued abuses of the system and the people – the difference between setting up a guillotine in front of a parliament building versus mailing death threats to a specific individual

as long as they continue to see themselves as above humanity by virtue of nothing more than inherited wealth, as long as they claim their wealth gives them the moral high ground, when they’re willing to spend millions of our money to search for five missing rich people but won’t spend a cent searching for 750 refugees, then they deserve no tolerance from the rest of us – quid pro quo …

cerement, 1 year ago

• it’s not continuous, it’s half a dozen different things intertwined – play for an hour in a game, add a paragraph to a book, get out into the garden for half an hour – cumulatively each individual item adds up (“a journey of a thousand miles”) but it’s an accumulation of a million steps …
• when it’s a form of escapism, your mind will come up with all sorts of justifications – “I just listened to that client for a couple hours, I deserve a few minutes of game play”