Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

in the late 90s, steve ballmer snorted a line of cocaine, went on stage, and screamed about microsoft windows completely drenched in sweat, and every fortune 500 guy in the audience was like "my company needs this product". and that's why every computer on the planet right now is dogshit to use

We got a new microwave! The manual of this one seemingly decided, fuck it, teach the fundamentals and the rest shall follow? A+

Um. Someone just ported Audacity.

TO THE F**KING BROWSER.

https://wavacity.com/

the fediverse is a scam by icann to sell more TLDs

It's a little weird that you can go out and buy a computer, a Gameboy, a telephone, a camera, a light bulb, and a power strip.

And if you get home and open them up, they're all running ARM chips.

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"Why are websites embarrassing?" by Robin Rendle https://robinrendle.com/notes/why-are-websites-embarrassing/

Yeah, this one hits me in the feels.

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@ellenor2000 @foone in BeOS the is_computer_on() and is_computer_on_fire() were actually used to benchmark the syscall interface…

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take me down to parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly

apparently i passed a phishing awareness test last week by correctly ignoring a fake linkedin email

nobody tell my boss that i ignored it entirely on the assumption that it was a real linkedin email

https://mastodon.social/users/torproject/statuses/110906828593942566

@torproject announced they will participate in Gitcoin funding round and everyone immediately started attacking them, saying it's a scam, and telling them that they don't need the money (lol).

Well, Gitcoin is basically a crowdfunding platform. It's definitely not a scam, and I know many FOSS projects that used it. Also, Gitcoin is actually interesting because they use an innovative donation matching mechanism called Quadratic Funding (see https://www.wtfisqf.com).

There's nothing wrong with Tor Project using this platform to raise more money. Trying to prevent them from doing so is absolutely insane, and this is what brainwashing by "web3 is going just great" does to you. This account is slandering good projects while constantly promoting actual scams which no one would ever heard of otherwise.

Bad software enrages me so hard sometimes, especially when from some massive corporation.

It literally takes longer for MS Outlook to open a fucking plain-text message already stored on my hard drive than it takes for my browser to load a website that I'm hosting on a 15 EUR/month server.

And I sometimes hear the CPU fan wind up every time I open a mail. Sometimes it hangs for 5 seconds until it opens it.

How the fuck?

Mozilla Thunderbird is free/libre software, costs zero dollars, and works better.

This is interesting.

- 25% of Britons say they view trans people negatively. (Higher than I expected, to be honest.)

- But if you ask trans people how they perceive it, they think 56% of Britons view them negatively.

- Similarly, if you ask Britons how they perceive it, they think only 51% of Britons view trans people negatively.

There seems to exist more than twice as much *perceived* transphobia than what could be called *openly admitted* transphobia.

(Even with the openly admitted, I wonder how many were actually thinking of trans *activists* when asked about trans people, and answered in accordance to that. So the "real" transphobia could be even less.)

(It's similar with homophobia if you look at it as a ratio, though the absolute numbers are much smaller.)