xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@OrangeyIs@bae.st Ironically enough the main culprit isn't Lenovo but Intel (apparently).

At this rate my next laptop will most likely be a Panasonic Toughbook, lmao ​​

https://www.notebookcheck.net/ThinkPad-Thunderbolt-3-failure-What-s-happening-why-it-s-happening-and-how-to-fix-it.451207.0.html

@hj @coolboymew "ugh I hate this site, no I won't use fedi because this and that, why is musk fucking with me and why is bluesky dead interaction wise, how could this be happening to me"

One of the ways in which the web is like an ecosystem is that a synthetic text spill in one part of it can leak into others. Here, someone has posted ChatGPT output (unclear to what end) and the Google indexed it.

I learned of this particular #GoogleFail via BlueSky user aviendha69's post:

https://bsky.app/profile/aviendha69.bsky.social/post/3k4yxz2zz7f2v

... and verified that I could find the same results. (For now, anyway. Sometimes things things get patched.)

https://mastodon.social/users/torproject/statuses/110906828593942566

@torproject announced they will participate in Gitcoin funding round and everyone immediately started attacking them, saying it's a scam, and telling them that they don't need the money (lol).

Well, Gitcoin is basically a crowdfunding platform. It's definitely not a scam, and I know many FOSS projects that used it. Also, Gitcoin is actually interesting because they use an innovative donation matching mechanism called Quadratic Funding (see https://www.wtfisqf.com).

There's nothing wrong with Tor Project using this platform to raise more money. Trying to prevent them from doing so is absolutely insane, and this is what brainwashing by "web3 is going just great" does to you. This account is slandering good projects while constantly promoting actual scams which no one would ever heard of otherwise.

#RandomPic #TheTruthOfLife

1969, from the Vietnam war time. Should be shown to all those ukrainian-russian war freaks.

@djsumdog

🎶 Then last night I had that strange dream,
where everything was exactly how it seemed
and there was never any mystery
of who shot John F Kennedy, it was
Just a man with something to prove
Slightly bored and severely confused, he
steadied his rifle with the target at the center
and became famous on that day in November... 🎶

Our fossil CO2 reached Neptune
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2388146-all-of-neptunes-clouds-have-vanished-it-may-be-because-of-the-sun/

Its the time of year to dig this out again.

Major W for Soapbox. https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the-cost-of-building-twitter-at-twitter-scale-by-100x/

Turning Milk into...Clothing??

https://youtube.com/watch?v=O4pVny7NV8E
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@rasterman Useful skills that kids can learn but don't teach at schools (or only, optionally teach in high school at a basic level):
* Repairing stuff
* Woodcrafting
* Leathercrafting
* Welding
* Soldering
* Gardening and raising animals
* Hunting (or how to fire a gun)
* Fishing

These skills can be taught at a young age by parents or other mentors and if you are good enough, you can use them to start your own small business. Schools on the other hand either teach you useless shit like history, or stuff that you can easily learn on your own like your own native language or math. In fact, school probably conditions children to hate learning. Children are naturally curious they want to learn, but school makes learning feel like prison.

Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h

As more and more people check out of their system eventually we will start to build our own parallel structures. It will probably take quite a while and be full of many embarrassing fuck ups, but ultimately when no one likes or believes in these people it will get easier