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I rant about how technology is killing us

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2026-07-30 05:42:43 GMT

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2026-07-29 00:11:17 GMT

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2026-07-28 18:47:23 GMT

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2026-07-26 21:15:18 GMT

The a in GNOME stands for awesome

2026-07-17 01:05:01 GMT

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2026-07-12 22:16:34 GMT

🖼
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2026-07-12 05:44:14 GMT

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2026-06-30 22:04:01 GMT

At least we have USB c on iphones!
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2026-06-29 15:26:05 GMT

So yesterday I was freezing my ass off cause the ac doesn't regulate the basement like it does the upstairs
Its like 80f outside and I bought a space heater

2026-06-19 04:38:56 GMT

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2026-06-19 00:43:25 GMT

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2026-06-17 07:23:51 GMT

After reading the wallpaper engine malware thing it reminded me why wallpaper engine was necessary in the first place
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2026-06-03 18:43:43 GMT

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2026-05-27 02:21:09 GMT

Reeeee computer prices are so high i can't afford 128gb ram and an rtx 5090 to play my video games
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2026-05-24 21:24:14 GMT

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@nprofile…d73q tits hips ass in the next week or I eat my shorts

2026-05-19 04:16:46 GMT

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@nprofile…g4vn sir it is good decentralized social media
Look inside
Aws-east-1

2026-05-13 18:06:12 GMT

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2026-05-12 03:12:59 GMT

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2026-05-03 17:39:15 GMT

Switch to streaming they said
Its the future they said
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2026-05-03 04:18:36 GMT

wow a security post from me what a shocker
so the fcc put out a ban on foreign routers. i've heard the arguments against it and i'm not convinced.
the first was that these router companies are in vietnam laos and taiwan. you'd think that'd be a gotcha but vietnam and laos are basically china's manufacturers. and let's not pretend they're all in-housing all their hardware. we're buying rebadged chinese goods.
you can weasel out of the china bad argument when you have open hardware and/or software like in the case of gl.inet and openwrt, sipeed, etc. but almost none of these routers are open source. and even if they were you would need to perform a deep security audit to ensure there's no jia tans in your supply chain, or just good old fashioned bad opsec.
you're always dependent on a foreign vendor to not be compromised with proprietary hardware and software.
you can regulate your own country's cybersecurity, but you cannot effectively regulate a foreign country's cybersecurity, especially when relations are at an all time low.
the argument about consumer choice is complete bunk as well. if i offered the average consumer 5 dollars a month to run a backdoor on their home internet, and i disclosed the backdoor to them at the time, they would start a reddit thread telling everyone how to min/max their payouts by running 10 different services. you have to save consumers from themselves sometimes.
the argument that the US isn't capable of regulating its own cybersecurity is also a moot point. even if they had horrible security, at that point they would only have themselves to blame for their failures, not a malicious foreign actor.
as such i think the only way forward is to nationalize their routers. it just makes no sense to depend on chinese goods for such critical infra as our internet traffic.
i think people that don't work in the industry also fail to realize we have strict regulations on having third party companies in africa that have chinese internet providers. i'm sure they'd be fine with that knowing it's a security risk. so why let the consumer get screwed by these proprietary black boxes?

2026-05-02 23:34:26 GMT

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@nprofile…lfeq I think that too but I prefer to think my followers like me for me xd

2026-05-02 23:02:10 GMT

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@nprofile…lfeq I took my followers with me but not who I followed I think
I lose follows every now and then and I think it's just people who are migrating insrances

2026-05-02 22:16:44 GMT

Kinda surprised mastodon doesnt know the difference between decentralized and federated but whatever
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2026-05-02 20:33:58 GMT

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2026-05-01 10:27:40 GMT

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2026-04-29 02:10:35 GMT

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2026-04-25 02:33:57 GMT

You don't lose followers on mastodon
People just migrate instances and forget to follow you again

2026-04-23 23:01:44 GMT

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@nprofile…d73q dependence on a single vendor is a security problem and also a freedom of choice problem

2026-04-23 22:58:49 GMT

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@nprofile…d73q I do hope uutils gets good enough that its a suitable replacement for gnutils
But I'm also the kind of person that wants to see the Linux kernel compiled with llvm musl

2026-03-31 20:36:18 GMT

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2026-03-29 09:33:11 GMT

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2026-03-28 13:52:23 GMT

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2026-02-25 05:02:56 GMT

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2026-02-21 05:20:39 GMT

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2026-02-19 19:15:11 GMT

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@nprofile…d73q I would make constant jokes every time the Linux cast uploaded a note taking video until he yelled at me
I just take my notes in neovim idk what people need note taking apps for

2026-02-18 22:07:31 GMT

He who says windows 10 was not that bad needs to go back in time to windows 10 at launch

2026-02-13 12:30:56 GMT

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2026-02-09 17:32:53 GMT

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@nprofile…d73q @nprofile…zswc
youtube: centralized
has tos related to using its api and site
offers ways for content creators to monetize
integrates with a google account
has an upvote downvote system
has algorithmic recommendations
makes deals with creators to promote their channel and build the youtube brand
has ads
what about that do you want peertube to do?

2026-01-29 22:10:57 GMT

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2026-01-22 16:51:10 GMT

Sometimes I regret that the German troll guy was kinda right. There's a subset of linux users that don't care about FOSS (see: the linux cast) and are really just poor apple fanboys that will switch as soon as they get a job
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2025-12-03 17:15:46 GMT

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@nprofile…scce u mind posting archive.is links instead of a headline with a subscribe button

2025-11-29 06:01:37 GMT

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2025-11-08 19:49:54 GMT

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@nprofile…7th7 it's manjaro

2025-11-08 19:47:58 GMT

U already know what's gonna happen
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2025-11-08 19:43:47 GMT

I built a computer
No it does not work
Yet
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2025-10-12 18:05:19 GMT

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2025-10-02 21:03:02 GMT

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2025-10-02 19:05:28 GMT

original OC donut ctrl+c
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2025-10-02 17:15:15 GMT

"Why does windows auto update"
This Is why
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2025-09-15 13:17:13 GMT

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2025-08-08 17:33:48 GMT

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@nprofile…5j7f
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2025-08-08 17:05:41 GMT

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2025-08-06 21:18:24 GMT

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@nprofile…5j7f u must accept my registration request!

2025-06-27 13:07:57 GMT

I Turned on flash for this photo
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