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@lanodan I only had an access to a desktop (with no administrative access) and a shitty netbook. I did learn PHP in high school, but that was through shared hosting.

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>That said I'm primarily a network dev, not like a multimedia dev where piles of math and hand-written parsers could apply.

It seems like I'm in the opposite situation as you. I mostly learned 2D graphic stuff because I never felt the need to write any network related stuff and I didn't have any access to servers or networking equipment, but I wish I did because it would've probably help me get a better job.

@lanodan Are these coding problems helpful at all? I kind of regret not doing that much programming during my teenage years.

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@bronze This wouldn't be the first time that a website went down due to a trending topic and certainly won't be the last.

Can people finally just stop giving a shit about Nick Fuentes, Destiny, Ethan Ralph, Matt Jarbo, Baked Alaska, and every other culture war grifter and move on with their lives?

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all the progressive had to do was be nice to people and they'd be more popular but they desperately fail at this basic task every time. they fail so badly in fact that religious christian fundies have gained a lot of ground they lost.

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How can we End the Fed…Without a government-licensed counterfeiter, would we be eating cat food? What would actually happen?
https://activistpost.com/2024/11/how-to-end-the-fed.html
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A small but growing number of private companies selling digital tools to hack smartphones and messaging apps, like WhatsApp and Signal, are likely to benefit financially from the incoming Trump administration.
https://activistpost.com/2024/11/meet-the-spyware-companies-preparing-to-unleash-their-tech-during-trumps-2nd-term.html
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Gold and silver futures speculators began selling contracts in anticipation of a Trump victory. Thus far, the selling continues after his win.
https://activistpost.com/2024/11/inflation-isnt-likely-to-go-away.html
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Umm, no, IPTV is NOT a crime. It's a protocol. An IPTV provider may be committing copyright infringement IF they're sourcing materials without permission from copyright holders. That's NOT the same thing as a protocol being illegal. The argument an application is illegal would be better reserved to applications connected to services and/or companies like Napster or LimeWire, but even in those cases it was NOT illegal for FrostWire (a fork of LimeWire) to be distributed even after the court found the LimeWire entity to be violating the law. The criminality was something along the logic that they advertised content early on that that they knew or should have known was not legally available through the system (assuming I'm thinking of the right case here). Napster was centrally controlled, LimeWire was not. LimeWire had an interesting bootstraping protocol that didn't rely on a central server (from what I recall) which is also why FrostWire (and possibly other clients) continued working after the LimeWire entity shut down.

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The real reason government wants to and now has banned under 16s from social media in Australia has to do with it being an authoritarian state. This new law will force everyone to ID on social media, not just "youth", and maybe not even just those in Australia. Talk about Orwellian. Just to let everyone know we will NOT be introducing ID checks for ANY ONE on our social.freetalklive.com Mastodon instance. F' Australia.

msn.com/en-in/news/other/big-t

@wowaname They rather spend that money on giving kindergartners iPads.

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Sometimes I wonder if people become hoarders because they have nosy parents who throw everything and anything out

Whoops we threw your shirt out and something you liked out ;^)

@wowaname Turkey and Ham are the weakest meats. Chicken and beef all the way.

Thanksgiving dinner is a fucking waste. Even an entire family is not going to eat it all in one sitting and I doubt that you are going to eat all the leftovers before they go bad. Reheated turkey tastes extremely dry anyway, and you might be cooking another Turkey in just a few weeks for Christmas.

I'm not one of those vegans who will tell you not to have Thanksgiving dinner or to eat Turkey on thanksgiving dinner, but maybe you could cut down on the sides. Turkey is like 3x bigger than chicken, which is why it's only eaten on special occasions outside of deli meat, so you really don't need that many sides.

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Pic attached is on the social media ban in Australia for 16 year olds and under. While I don't have a problem with that alone, it will necessitate the use of digital ID for any adult who wishes to use social media on the Internet, which is something everyone should have a problem with. It has passed the senate.

Labor and Liberal are our two main parties (analogous to democrats and republicans respectively). Every minor party of all political stripes voted against the bill. This is democracy manifest.
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Does anybody have strength/body building guides that aren't schizo and/or just trying to sell you something? Mainly I need advice on nutrition
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