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@Stoori@polyglot.city if only it were true, and also if it was a good idea to paint concrete.

Omar and his family have been kicked out of their only home and will now have to live on the street because village elders, and Hamas, have decided they should leave and also pay $5000 for someone else's medical care. Omar's brothers are in prison and need money to get out. Hamas will not let them have lawyers. the situation with food is ongoing, his family needs constant donations to be able to eat. please send as much as you can, even if it's $5. ‼️ Omar's family needs $5000 in two days. ‼️ it is now more than two weeks past deadline. please help however you can. [$793 / $5000] https://chuffed.org/project/164090-help-omar-and-his-family #GazaVerified #GazaGenocide #Gaza #SaveGaza #Gaza_Help #Palestine #FreePalestine #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive2026 #UrgentAppeal #HelpGaza #Humanity #EmergencySupport #Hope #Charity #HumanitarianAid #SaveALife #SupportNeeded #TogetherWeCan #ShareToHelp #PrayForGaza @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @freepalestine@hear-me.social @gazaverified@mastodon.ar.al

@srtcd424@mas.to @mark@tacobelllabs.net @evacide@hachyderm.io i miss the idea of those things, but tbh most of the time i ever spent in those places was either toxic af or no one was talking. i miss seeing my friends all the time a lot more.

@30p87@chaos.social @ret@furry.engineer @anselmschueler@ieji.de @davidgerard@circumstances.run nope. systemd has an age field for users now. that was established months ago, when a law was only just proposed. nobody made the systemd devs do it. they decided your agency was less important than them complying with a law that wasn't even official yet. that is deeply disturbing.

@mynameistillian@plush.city probably not a whole lot different from Churchill worship in England, or the whole "we defeated the nazis" narrative about D-Day. *looks inside* oops, they all made pacts with nazis until the war hit their borders, then hired nazis when the war was over but claimed "de-nazification" ever happened.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @weyoun6@kolektiva.social lawl, kolektiva stopped being the anarchist instance ages ago. now it's an open cesspit of bullshit and racism.

@30p87@chaos.social @ret@furry.engineer @anselmschueler@ieji.de @davidgerard@circumstances.run responsible admins leave those fields blank on public-facing systems, or fill them with nonsense. also, there is no law requiring those fields be filled with accurate info or anything at all. the laws being proposed for "age verification" surveillance are designed to take agency away from the user and make it nearly impossible to use the internet without an age field being built into every OS and somehow have that field be verifiable, which will mean you'll need government ID proving age of majority just to boot your own computer. shady fake ID makers will have pockets full of cash if that happens. if every OS is required to have an age field, it's not a stretch to believe the lawmakers will come for the rest of the user info next. do you want your personal info leaking all over the internet, in plaintext no less, by law? i know i don't. i think i can safely assume that someone who has a trans flag in their profile pic would also not want that.

@caroline@chaosfem.tw Simple Ways To Understand Object-Oriented Compilers a new book by O'Reilly

@jonny@neuromatch.social two cups of salt, wow. my kidneys hate this. what is even going on?

@Primavera@void.lgbt @Stoori@polyglot.city concrete needs a certain amount of moisture to prevent it from drying out and crumbling. if you paint it, it can cause the concrete to crumble.

@weyoun6@kolektiva.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run age restrictions built into the basic functioning of any OS is a bad idea.

@ret@furry.engineer @30p87@chaos.social @anselmschueler@ieji.de @davidgerard@circumstances.run it's important to note that nobody runs fingerd anymore, because its entire purpose is putting private info in a very public space. there was a time when this was not the worst idea ever, if you used your .finger profile carefully, but those times are long over. fingerd became a big security problem and the best solution was to never run that service again, for the same reason very few people run plaintext httpd or telnetd anymore, and ftpd is only ever used for anonymous file transfer. we also don't get a phone book from the phone company anymore. it was always a bit of a privacy problem, but now it would be a massive privacy problem. everyone hates getting scam calls, so imagine just how much worse that problem would be if a public phone book were still mailed to everyone with a phone. "some people do a thing that's a bad idea so why not make the bad idea the default" has never been a good idea.

i'm looking for an Android app or website that uses OpenStreetMap and will not only give me a bike route with elevation, but tell me where the peaks and valleys are, and has an option for routing with the flattest land. does such a thing exist? i swear i saw something like that at some point but now i can't find it. #OpenStreetMap #OttBike #Cycling

@moss@kind.social revolution is every day. surviving capitalism is struggle. i'd like to do more than survive. this world will kill me, people like me, and those with far less privilege still, if something doesn't change.

@moss@kind.social i'm joining a tenant union. that's revolution. when we take back the land from the gamblers and thieves who make us pay to live, we'll all be a lot more free.

@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot voluntary?? [looks inside] [finds the BBC reports during the Troubles] yeah fuck that noise.

@durian@social.acab.fans @abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist twelve years ago was certainly a time for badly drawn memes.

@durian@social.acab.fans @abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist woop. here it is. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/247124-i-told-you-about-stairs

@abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist not that i have much love for Bakunin, cause he was pretty anti-Semitic, but i'm constantly reminded of this badly drawn meme of Marx falling down stairs and Bakunin yelling after him "states, bro!! i warned you about states!!"

@rupert@mastodon.nz @jonny@neuromatch.social i too can hit about 43km/h going down a hill. but that is indeed a gravity thing and one of the few ways to overcome my bike's limits, without hacking the thing. one of the reasons why i like disc brakes.

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@PuppyFromLosAndes@kolektiva.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run @weyoun6@kolektiva.social i didn't say they host racist stuff. their mods do racist things. there is not much searchable direct evidence of it, but there is evidence that it happened on thebad.space, and i did see the evidence at the time it happened, a few years ago. i was suspended for reporting a Zionist. a few Black people have complained about racist treatment by mods, who then posted lengthy excuses for why their actions weren't racist ackshually. ask the people involved in running that trash pile, you'll get excuses, stonewalling, and insults.

@weyoun6@kolektiva.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run you will not get increased privacy from an age verification law. that's a foolish way to think about what will happen. i don't think you understand the very serious problems with what you're proposing. if you want your computer to be a cop, that's your business. keep it that way. nobody needs that kind of bullshit in their life, period. "evil corporation made me verify my age so let them do it with as little friction as possible" is an extremely irresponsible position to take. why not invite the police to live in your bedroom then? do you need a cop to tell you when it's okay to piss so you won't be marked forever as a sexual predator? i'm not talking about only the California and Ohio laws. i think taking the FOSS requirement out of those specific laws renders them completely pointless. why do it at all then? why do Windows and MacOS users not need any agency but linux users can have theirs? it was never a good idea to put age verification in any OS. but i don't live in Calfornia, nor Ohio, nor anywhere in USA. i live in Canada, where our current prime sinister is all too happy to bow down to fascist nonsense. Mark Carney is doing a lot of the things Stephen Harper was stopped from doing and, in many cases, worse things still. we already have barely any time to stop a piece of federal legislation that which, if or when it becomes law, will be an enormous violation of everyone's privacy in a way that will make the Chinese and North Korean governments blush, and that's before we even get to the age verification law that will be coming through the legislative pipeline. this is a law that will require all encrypted communication be given back door access, along with a different law that will allow the cops to open our mail if they feel like it, without even a warrant. it's not even just Canada or USA. the UK government wants it, the Indian government wants it, there are several openly fascist governments that want age verification built into every OS. that is another privacy nightmare along with a massive loss of agency.

@ret@furry.engineer @anselmschueler@ieji.de @davidgerard@circumstances.run and before the law was actually passed! they put it in there when it had only been proposed! it seems like there is a real "mall security" rent-a-cop problem in FOSS. people who didn't get the memo or didn't care that it's supposed to be about bringing liberation and agency back to computing, not generating more code for more bosses to exploit, abuse, and enforce.

@silvermoon82@wandering.shop must see bug

@phocks@bne.social guess who owns the media.

@clew@ecoevo.social @srtcd424@mas.to @mark@tacobelllabs.net @evacide@hachyderm.io i definitely miss the coffeehouses. the places that hosted them in Ottawa are long gone.

@ruari@velocipederider.com they do have to, and do state in really small type, that the driver is on a cleared course and not in normal driving conditions. cars are a huge scam.

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@keira_reckons@aus.social @moss@kind.social socialism and hierarchy are incompatible. be very suspicious of anyone who says otherwise. there is no "after the revolution, when the state has withered away", because states don't wither and if ending the problems of capitalism and colonialism must wait till later, then they will continue.

@mynameistillian@plush.city "go to the dentist" good luck with that if you can't access insurance. your options in Canada are: 1) be able to access insurance. you will be denied if you don't have insurance and can't pay out of pocket. we have a national dental plan but you won't be able to access that if you're unable to file taxes because you don't have a permanent address. 2) go to a hospital once things get really bad because you couldn't access insurance, and get teeth pulled.

@jonny@neuromatch.social idk the rest of the highway law in California, but the cut-off line for what requires a license and what doesn't in Ontario is the speed of the vehicle. if it can move faster than 45km/h then it requires a license. there are other factors, such as whether a vehicle is street legal at all, depending on certain physical features of the vehicle. my ebike's top speed is 32km/h. i don't mind it. i just wish i could hit the throttle and go 90km, instead of that being how far i might be able to go at power assist level 1, pedaling the whole way. it's like how they advertise cell phones: the battery will last for days if you only use it as a phone. if you do more, like txting or using apps, the hours your battery will last shorten considerably. it's getting better with 20,000mAh+ batteries but that is so much energy to put in a thing that goes in your pocket.

@rzeta0@mastodon.ie @HI_Greens@mastodon.scot i bet there's lots of money in serveillance, police, military, and bombing Gaza.

@rupert@mastodon.nz @jonny@neuromatch.social 73km/h is an illegal ebike speed in Ontario, without a license. my ebike's car top speed is 32km/h, period. i've found no way to make it any faster, and i've been told that even if i did, it could cause damage to the battery by putting more load on it than it was designed for. and i do not need a battery fire in my house. the rear hub is a 500W motor. in Ontario, 42km/h is just under the license requirement. it has been that way for decades, long before ebikes ever existed, perhaps as long as the age of the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, which sets that limit. most ebikes sold here are set at 32km/h which tbh is just fine. most residential streets in Ottawa have a speed limit of 30km/h now, so the car traffic isn't moving faster than my ebike most of the time, unless i accidentally get on the airport parkway. that happened once and it was a bit scary.

@abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist an unfortunate amount of Leninist stuff.

@Yuvalne@433.world i'm aware but i don't know if or when that will happen so i'll just block everything i can.

@futurebird@sauropods.win it's not even a thing. absolutely nothing new happened to make it anything it's being sold as. more computer per computer does not make whatever the hell "AI" is supposed to be. it's just fucking computers.

John A. MacDonald was extremely anti-Semitic, and his Indian Act policy that led to concentration camps for Indigenous people, and deaths camps called "residential school", where the RCMP abducted Indigenous children under threat of starvation if the parents wouldn't send them, inspired Hitler to do what he did in Europe. the unmarked graves of the children who died in MacDonald's death camps are still being found today. more than 2,500 graves have been found *so far*. William Lyon Mackenzie King, our 10th prime minister, thought Hitler was "a good patriot" and turned away thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing anti-Semitic terror in Europe. Canada did not accept any Jewish refugees until 1944, and only about 25 families, and only temporarily. are you proud of this? #HappyCanadaDay #Canada #CanadaDay #CanadaWasNeverGreat

@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot i hope it would mean i could somehow more easily visit the home of my ancestors at least once before i die. i have the Saltire in my window, given to me by a friend who did visit Scotland long before he died. he was buried in his kilt. he was a Brummel.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca something like this was always going to be the end result of the wage system.

@abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist anarchists specifically don't do political parties. we are not statists.

@30p87@chaos.social @ret@furry.engineer @anselmschueler@ieji.de @davidgerard@circumstances.run the fields were already there for a different purpose from a different time, when doxxing was not a thing. until recently, there has never been a law nor one proposed requiring those fields be filled with anything verifiable. the laws of many nation states are being changed to make it a lawful requirement. so, no, those fields were not put /etc/passwd for verification of anything, but for adding workplace contact info so your fellow workers could find your desk if they needed to. it was a way of creating a company directory, not a way of preventing usage without lawful verification.

@admin@kolektiva.social are you still suspending people for reporting Zionists?

@ellie@ellieayla.net @dadbod@pdx.social it looks like it's a Kobo Touch

@abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist what why are they fascists

@durian@social.acab.fans @abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist no, i don't have it. i could try to find it, but i promise nothing.