Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
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Americans: if you're thinking of leaving, beware before considering an asylum claim.
"Safe" countries have treaties recognising each other as safe, and do not recognise asylum claims from each other as valid. So if you as an American try to claim asylum there, at the moment you will be automatically rejected.
Instead, travel on a tourist visa. If things get bad for US trans people, this may eventually change.
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I hate websites where the only option to change an appointment is to... call them.
Yes, I'm looking at you, #KPN.
Sometimes, I hit like, get a 500, click like again, and it finally goes through.
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There are people who like to speculate over which character would beat another character, but because the One Punch Man's entire character is a gag, it kind of breaks that.
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/01/tv-big-brother-censor-watermelon-palestine/
"ITV, the broadcaster of the British version of the reality series “Big Brother,” edited an episode of the show to remove all shots of a shirt worn by one of the contestants which featured a watermelon — a symbol of Palestinian solidarity."
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A power the government gets is a power a future government might abuse.
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I've seen the EFF and the ACLU doing good work to defend free expression.
It might make this instance somewhat more usable for me, although I hope the instance doesn't go down for too long to do the update.
Apparently, the DOJ has an ongoing anti-trust lawsuit against Visa.
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My daughter's 9th birthday is coming up. Since we're both big K-ON! fans, I made her a mix CD. Been a while since I did that. ☺️
The complete soundtrack (on several CDs) is very hard to get and costs ~600 EUR on Ebay. Other CD releases are just weird: They contain lots of score and lack the theme tracks: A custom mix was needed!
So I had to dig out my old CD piracy and jewel case printing skills.
*ding* crafting level 2
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📣 Launch of Karaoke Mugen's map
With https://map.karaokes.moe, create and view upcoming #karaoke events! (open to all software)
You can create a page for your group/association and enter date, location, tags, description, etc. #anime
Apparently, some of the bugs on this instance (from the previous update) might be fixed soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(mythology) This is what countering authoritarianism feels like to me.
I've already looked at a dozen or so potential hosts (for self-hosting).
I put a maybe down about what kind it might be but I'm also not ruling anything out per se (unless it's somewhere like the U.K... even if it might work for this purpose, I don't think I want to buy services from businesses in a country* which hates the Internet).
* The government has historically been troublesome.
Maybe, not in a high profile way, but if you've been following things for a year or so, you might have seen them try.
This is response to speculation about what the U.S. will do.
The U.S. was already pushing the E.U. to stop bothering U.S. tech companies.
The U.S. was already pushing the E.U. to stop bothering U.S. tech companies.
Generally speaking, there isn't really a good reason to put age in a bio. There are reasons not to.
A power the government gets is a power a future government might abuse.
"An E.U. led NATO"
"It is time for a stronger, more capable, and fully independent Europe."
Meanwhile, Germany is so scared of the AfD Party that they're backing away from that idea.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
