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im gay

arent hackers just punks who are also nerds?

the grade school kids who thought "he who smelt it, dealt it" was a rhetorical slam-dunk are now out here on the internet saying "talking about racism is the real racism"

legal names must have one capital letter, one lowercase letter, a number, a punctuation symbol, and be between eight and twelve characters. for security purposes, legal names are rotated every six months.

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Hey, so don't use Vero if you're part of a group vulnerable to harassment or being targeted by authorities. It does a lot of scuzzy stuff like collecting device info and shares contacts by default.

it seems like every single job listing platform is shifting away from showing listings for applicants and instead just having u make a profile for recruiters to look at which like most places don't do that and you can tell these sites were made by tech ppl who are only thinking about the tech world and are heavily geared towards pushing you to working for tech giants and they only pretend it's for other industries to grow market share

more like capitalisn't

cap'n we're givin it all the genders we've got

RT @Foone@twitter.com
You wanna see the coolest thing? Since e-ink displays don't require power except when they change, old parts bins full of used e-ink screens are little snapshots of history, as each display is still showing the last thing it ever showed.

meme studies lecture 6:

"tired/wired" is good when you want to make a subjective statement of preference, but "2018/2028" is good when you merely wish to imagine a strange future path, without implying a value judgement

can anyone help me find some *data* on developer burnout for a paper I am writing? the googles have given me plenty of anecdotes but I am trying to quantify damage caused to industry.

Especially for threatened groups, EFF recommends:

1) Using encryption as extensively as possible
2) Self-hosting

Slack allows convenient, real-time collaboration—but it doesn't allow either of these. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/revolution-and-slack

oh and making people pay to join your fledgling social media software pretty much guarantees your initial adoption will come from privileged white folks with disposable incomes which pretty much guarantees that that software is going nowhere because privileged white folks have literally zero loyalty to anything lmao

you can add "harry potter and the" to the beginning of any chapter in a math textbook and it sounds fucking amazing

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moar jpeg https://mastodon.xyz/media/BwXN0-lLjFUFDe7AnKk

heads up that there's a bot called @Birb that people can send to someone else's DMs without an explicit mention, so it just sort of appears in your mentions with a bird gif and the name of the person who sent it.

i get the idea and taken in a friendly way its kinda cute, but it could also be surprising / intrusive / unexpected, so just be aware of it

You don't need to classify being trans or gay as mentally ill if you can deny healthcare, name changes, gender changes, etc. to every trans person who has ever taken an antidepression medication

which is a LOOOOOT OF US

this is already the case de jure in many places. a lot of health insurances require the patient to not have any mental illness before approving SRS unless they've been in treatment for X amount of time