Chris Were 🐧📰🌱☕

I was born at a very young age. Now I love #Linux and #FOSS. Profile picture and banner credit: [@LucyCorbett](https://toot.wales/@LucyCorbett ).

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2024-07-12 05:19:31

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I feel there could be much user-friendly defaults set for Delta, or at least a start-up wizard so people can select their use-case.
That being said, I do love it though.

2024-07-11 02:52:43

I think Jon Stewart nails pretty the concerns about Biden and the Blue-Maga push-back, really fucking funny too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LZXheHddI

2024-07-10 17:16:33

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Literally the cause of 99% of our problems.

2024-07-10 17:15:43

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You had me at: "If someone has over £651 million pounds I really think they should NOT"

2024-07-09 05:17:52

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I tried editing out the ads, I fucked it up too many times though,

2024-07-08 17:02:45

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I remember a few years ago when Spotify was accused of stuffing their playlist with cheaply licenced stock music, to save money.
So this AI thing kinda tracks with that, haha.

2024-07-08 09:24:03

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I don't really mind people being heterosexual, but do they have to shove it down our throats?

2024-07-06 21:38:43

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Debates are not an intellectual pursuit. It's the WWE of politics.
The 'they go low, we go high' rhetoric just rolls out the carpet for Trump.
And if Trump didn't win this debate, Biden's toast and the the Dems that did it, along with a side-helping of elder-abuse. They spend decades silencing the voices of third parties, and fending off any kind of electoral reform, only to then to screw up thing they justified it for.

2024-07-06 20:45:49

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That would have required political savvy and courage, but you're right.
Personally I feel the rules were intended to benefit Biden, but it didn't pan out that way. Trump is good at debates, unless you have a candidate who can go up against him, they're better off staying home.
Admittedly Biden was better against Trump last time around, but Trumps a bully, and that's hard to beat.

2024-07-06 16:25:54

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"the media pretends was so disastrous"
Nice gaslighting, but we all saw the debate. And it's not just one bad performance. Biden knows it and he feels awful about it, and my heart kinda breaks for him tbh.
You've lost the argument when you're telling people not to believe their eyes and ears. Stuff like this is why independent voters don't like Dems, because you treat them like idiots.
https://cdn.masto.host/tootwales/media_attachments/files/112/739/978/214/637/315/original/49f796afc9da7db8.mp4

2024-07-06 06:41:48

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The truth might be that the Dems have got themselves into a lose-lose situation. Which they seem to do rather a lot.
I sure as heck wouldn't want to make that call.

2024-07-06 06:40:18

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The trouble is, this isn't a values call. A moral argument isn't really addressing the issue.
The question is where or not Biden will lose the election when an alternative choice would win. I'm told switching to anyone but Harris would mean basically mean having to start fundraising from scratch.
So, do the Dems stick the course with Biden, or gamble with Harris? Who's most likely to win, Biden, Harris, or someone else?

2024-07-03 04:11:57

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Yeah, my French has just disappeared for the same reason.

2024-07-03 04:11:26

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The thing that gets me is that I can think of a single country that does it. I would have thought at least one would have given it a shot.

2024-07-03 03:58:05

Why don't they teach sign language at school? It would be such a useful skill, to have another way to communicate.
Not only would deaf people be less isolated from conversations, but there are countless other uses, like being able to communicate in a noisy crowded room, or quietly over substantial distances.
Could even work as an alternative to subtitles for films. Kinda blows my mind how countries don't seem to do this.

2024-07-02 08:10:11

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The coming week is going to be wild.

2024-07-02 04:30:58

Wow, could Macron win the 2024 award for the politician who fucked himself the hardest? I've never seen anyone (metaphorically) punch themself in the face so hard.
And there's some top tier competition for that spot.
Good on the left unity though. We could always use more left unity.

2024-06-28 05:32:55

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Fortunatly I don't have too much Threads pollution in my timeline, but some people - not naming any names - will retoot Threads takes because they don't have the guts to say it themselves.
Threads has a culture of posturing, which is amongst the worst parts of social media.

2024-06-28 04:03:35

Fuck it, I'm blocking threads.net. Can't stand the dumb shit people retoot from there.

2024-06-25 02:50:12

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I want to see a Cardi B #Linux. That would be cool as hell.

2024-06-24 05:00:02

I'm very impressed with x265 compression. It's encoded a 1:08:57 long show at 720p to a mere 268.3 MiB. The quality looks pretty crisp so far too.

2024-06-24 02:46:14

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I'm a happy #Linux user, but I want more operating systems, more choices, lots of interoperability, so people can find stuff that works for them.
I can get really uppity when people tell me what I should do, so it stands to reason I shouldn't do it to others. So important we make our own choices.

2024-06-21 03:01:41

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That sounds like a magic spell.

2024-06-21 02:59:39

I always go wild with the garlic when i cook. My hands reek of it, no matter how hard I scrub.

2024-06-19 04:25:33

Watching people get rage baited into arguing with ChatGPT Twitter bots is so fascinating to watch. They don't know they're doing it, but it's so clear form the outside, they're just in a bubble of their own rage.
I can't look away, I'm just up all hours of the night watching people have conversations with computers. This world has become so fucking weird to me.

2024-06-14 23:49:44

For this week's #FollowFriday #FF I'm choosing Linux-mom of the Fediverse Veronica Explains.
@npub1dml…x796
@npub16ae…7xpd
Also @npub1j24…4ner cos it's Drew and he's awesome as fuck.

2024-06-12 19:13:13

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Imagine if we taught kids how to extensively repair stuff in school.

2024-06-12 18:50:30

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It would be pretty cool to have a 'diagnostics' class in school, which would just focus on identifying problems, lol.

2024-06-11 05:16:12

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Oh god.
"AI, are you taking pictures of me?"
"I can't *pHisIcaLly* take pictures of you."

2024-06-07 16:21:55

I've never seen Space Balls, should i watch it? Is it good?

2024-06-06 21:32:46

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I love the fact that the Fedi isn't sanitised by advertising and algorithms. It feels so much more human than other places.

2024-05-31 04:20:23

Guess who's been playing with OwnCast?
@npub1len…tdnh

2024-04-27 22:51:45

Nothing to do with today's discourse but FYI, GNU Social is still alive and kicking.
https://gnusocial.network/