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@ArdainianRight @hachi If you are too disabled to work, you shouldn't be living alone. I shouldn't have to have my hard earned money stolen and given to disabled strangers.

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@genmaicha @thomholwerda Lunduke likes to dig into open source finances. He did a nice piece on the Linux Foundation a couple of years ago. Seems like he released a piece on Mozilla finances today, hence the knee jerk reaction here.

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla

No idea why anyone would call him a nazi. He’s just a nerd with slight old tech nostalgia obsession from the looks of it.

@jhclouse @KryptoBlok Sure, but I feel like there is a reason why the government is afraid of private or even personal space travel, even if it's just exploring near-Earth objects like the moon (SpaceX doesn't count; it's government funded). Space agencies DO fake a lot of shit (it's the reason why people who point out NASA fakes are lumped in with flat-earthers). Seriously, anyone who launches anything to the moon is asked by the US government not to go anywhere near the alleged moon landing sites.

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@xianc78 @KryptoBlok What they really fear is something much simpler: that ordinary people will stop trusting them en masse. That’s the true source of their power. No need for alien spacecraft or advanced technologies. Just plain old faith in the legitimacy of institutions and a lack of curiosity about the character of those who control them.

@BronzeAgeHogCranker @RMIV You can grow your own rice in the US, but you have to start indoors.

@Indigo @Tadano Honestly, I didn't think anything of the two screens. I was more blown away by the polygonal 3D graphics running on a handheld. Honestly, it was the only system that blew me away in terms of power. I wasn't even born yet when the leap to 3D happened on home consoles.

I was also shocked that Nintendo released a new handheld that wasn't a GameBoy. I thought that every console they will release will have the GameBoy brand.

The concept of two screen wasn't anything new. Some Game&Watch models had two screens and it's where the design of the DS came from. You also had the Dreamcast with the VMU and the GameCube with the GBA-Link Cable. A few arcade games also utilized two screens. Granted, I didn't own or played any of those, but for whatever reason, the whole two screens concept didn't wow me. I guess I was used to seeing fictional game consoles on TV where the controllers had screens.

@Tadano Reminder that the Nintendo DS turns 20 years old next year.

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@xianc78 Of course, if the gov has a monopoly on this tech, then literally God help us all...
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@xianc78 This reminds me of an interesting leak-type thing about ufo tech I found a while ago. In a nutshell, it claimed that the reason the us gov is hiding the tech is because it would basically make anarcho-frontierism a reality - but at the expense of encryption, which would be rendered useless. The average schmoe could just weld together their own ufo and become Han Solo, never paying taxes again. (There was also something about immensely-powerful WMDs being made possible....)

@KryptoBlok @ArdainianRight It's a sequel to Ender's Game and Speaker for The Dead. Make sure to read those first.

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Bram Moolenaar, the open-source developer and the original author, maintainer, release manager for Vim, a programmer's text editor, passed away. #RIP
groups.google.com/g/vim_announ #linux #unix #macos #vim

@galena @ceo_of_monoeye_dating It would be easier to name a Youtuber that hasn't been address doxed at this point. Though mostly, it's from people recognizing local landmarks from their videos.

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating A lot of e-celebs have them and do unboxing of stuff people sent them.

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