OK, many years away from #FreeBSD has evidently made me forget a lot. I couldn't figure out why my bash config script was not working. There is no bash by default. #oosp.
Also, it's annoying as hell that `freebsd-update fetch` can't be forced into non-interactive mode. (No, `--not-running-from-cron` doesn't actually do that.) Setting PAGER=cat fixed the problem.
✨ CONGRATULATIONS ✨
this post isn't directed at anyone
but if you're reading this, you can imagine it's for you
i wanted to make a shitpost but something ominous happened
enter password to release bees
octacore 64-bit computer with three gigs of ram versus three hundred bees trapped in a browser
Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.
No matter which social network you're on, following a diverse group of people helps you taking a peek at the other side of your personal filter bubble.
You don't have to agree with everything and everyone, but please, at least try to listen to people and their opinions.
It will help you appreciate your own life, and may just make you a little wiser.
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
I’ll say this much for the novelization of “The Phantom Menace”: It is better than the film.
There are some really good public domain #eBooks out there, so I've done a simple little search page for finding them:
https://switching.social/public-domain-ebooks-search/
Give it a go if you're a fan of classic #literature or #historical #texts.
Feedback welcome.
You can see the list of sources on the search results page, let me know if there's a source you think should be added.
I've tried to focus on books, especially literature, rather than academic papers or general archives.
Egypt has done more than censor the internet. Egypt was found to have hijacked unencrypted HTTP connections for advertising and cryptomining 💰
A groundbreaking new report by OONI and AFTE details these anomalies and more: https://blog.torproject.org/egypt-internet-censorship
Hey @PixelOccult, I notice the Neon Moon deck is sold out right now. Will there be another printing?
Learn the lyrics to a song you love.
Barrett Brown's Pursuance Project has a Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/85883596/barrett-browns-pursuance-project
They're working on a collaboration tool for activists. Check it out.
All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.
We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?
This is one of the worst deals in history.
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glad we solved that one...
https://archive.org/stream/softalkv3n04dec1982#page/n67/mode/2up
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