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A few days ago, I made a tongue-in-cheek comment in the forum on LQ about the behaviour of some regulars being suspiciously similar to that of Jia Tan towards the xz maintainer. Some people took it seriously and I had to clear out the misunderstanding.

But, to be honest, I was only half-joking. The people I was referring to were pushy and dismissive of others' ideas and opinions. They still are.

The thing is, I was reading the forum today and saw them gatekeeping like they owned the place (“If you don't like Slackware as it is, you don't have to use it.” Dude, you never liked it as it was. You've been pushing for your own agenda for years), and I thought that maybe I was on to something.

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Direct action is the logical, consistent method of anarchism.
-- Emma Goldman

#anarchism #quote #bot

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"Hertfordshire sweet shop owner Phyllis Arrandale originally bought a computer to help out with her accounts, but was so impressed with it that she began programming software of her own. Now, she is attempting to make a printed circuit board, with the ultimate aim of making her own computer from scratch."

☝️ From the 1983 BBC bit "Meet the computer addicts"

Can't help but think this lady would've kicked ass in tech! 💖

youtu.be/jbu0kmCeLSI?si=0U-x1_

#retrocomputing

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Dear @freemo, meet my friend @Computer:

Friend Computer  
Patch Note 14234.34: The popular board game Monopoly will no longer provide free money for passing go. Universal Basic Income is dangerous Commie p...
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Would people from fedi be down to play on an F-Zero 99 lobby? Maybe there's enough players here to actually fill a decent chunk of it?
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My company has just announced that there will be a round of layoffs soon. They just laid off a bunch of C-levels. They're giving us the opportunity to "opt in" to "workforce reduction" with a promise of three months severance.

It's been pretty tumultuous here, lately, to be honest, and I'm considering it.

But, I've got a wife and four kids to take care of, and I've never willingly left a job when I didn't have another one already lined up. And we've got good benefits (healthcare and dental) right now, so I really don't want to give that up.

Maybe if I had something lined up with similar pay and benefits, I could do it.

So, I'm looking for any recommendations. I'm a #PHP developer (of roughly twenty years), who has been doing a lot of #golang for the past year, and I've gotten very proficient at that as well.

I'm looking for a US-based company, and a Principal/Staff/Senior Developer role.

Anybody have any good leads? My website is at https://danielrayjones.com, and I can be emailed at dan@danielrayjones.com.

#FediHire #FullStack #Programming #WebDevelopment #BoostsWelcome #PleaseBoost

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👣THE PHILOSOPHER'S BLOSSOMS🌸

The Path of Philosophy runs between Nanzen-ji and Ginkaku-ji.
It came to prominence after the philosophers and Kyōto University professors Nishida Kitarō (西田幾多郎 1870-1945) and Tanabe Hajime (田辺元 1885-1962) used the trail as an exercise route.

#PhilosophersPath #PhilosophersWalk #Kyoto #Japan #sakura #cherryblossoms # #京都 #哲学の道

I can't seem to follow (or even find) accounts on shitposter.world, so, if we were mutuals while you were on SPC, please follow me and I'll follow back if I'm able.

Sorry and thanks.

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So, openssh backdoor through a path applied by some to make it work with systemd, which is vulnerable because of a compromise of the LZMA / xz code.

Quick test on a #Slackware 15 machine:

$ xz --version
xz (XZ Utils) 5.2.5
liblzma 5.2.5

$ sudo /usr/bin/ldd /usr/sbin/sshd | grep -ic lzma
0

And of course no systemd to be found.

I am having a bit of fun trying to (ahem) 'improve' the test script posted on some mailing lists, but I think Slackware is not vulnerable.

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if anyone's got a good place for an alt where writing primarily takes place, i would love to know and ALSO if anyone has recommendations on a good site to post original written works, that would be cool

@privacybrowser Does Privacy Browser PC support connecting through a proxy?

Quería recomendarle espacios en Madrid, pero todos los que encuentro parecen de ínfima calidad o están abandonados. Si tenéis sugerencias, poneos en contacto con él (y mencionadme a mí para que me entere yo también). Gracias.

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Is it bad form to reply to followers-only posts? I ask because I usually don't get any response from the other person, be it a reply or an acknowledgement of any kind.

Does anyone know how to make Mutt work with Org mode (or vice versa)? I looked it up and I found a few old blog posts, but the code in them is incomplete. I'm an Org newbie. I only started using it last week, but I appreciate any guidance you could give me.

I hate the _Fire Emblem_ series with a passion! In all their games there's always one battle where difficulty takes a huge exponential leap and I'm sick of it. “Oh, so you've managed to keep your whole party alive up until now? Let''s try this new approach where you have to fight several bosses so powerful that, in sheer desperation, you'll have to sacrifice your friends if you want to move on.” “Oh, you managed to beat that with only a few losses? And you thought you could go back to base and regroup somehow? Why don't we take your powers away and have you fight another battle just for the thrill of it? But this time with dragons!”

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