The wave seems to finally be breaking, thank fuck!
Repeatedly, the trajectory of anti-trans politics is an immediate spike in panic / support, followed by a sharp decline.As "parents' rights" panic collapses in the US, Canadian conservatives are setting themselves up for a losing battle. #cdnpoli
Anti-trans platforms lose elections - LGBTQ Nation
lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/anti-t…Anti-trans platforms lose elections - LGBTQ Nation
Tuesday’s elections in Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania showed the limits of anti-trans messaging.Abby Vesoulis (LGBTQ Nation)
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@mercedesallen I’m sort of hoping this - the whole counterrevolution against any process made since the 60s - is all an extinction spike, like the anti abortion referendum in Ireland in the 1980s.
Not confident, but hopeful.
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I appear to be developing a TP-Link Jetstream Switch habit.
They’re good switches though.
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Increasingly getting the impression that MacOS Sonoma is a lemon, and best avoided.
Interestingly, when it bricked my M1 Pro MBP, and I had to recover from the recovery partition, it reinstalled Ventura.
And the new Macs ship with Ventura, with no Sonoma upgrade available.
Now seeing that the 14.1 update has screwed a load of webcam stuff used by remote workers.
I think I'm gonna keep my MBP on Ventura for now. My Mac mini server is on Sonoma, but all that's doing is hosting Linux VMs.
@Miguel Arroz That sounds profoundly buggered indeed.
Touchwood I’m ok. The 6 days uptime is because of a power outage 6 days ago.
Every so often I encounter someone who is very stridently advocating for understanding and sympathy for narcissists, to the point of sacrificing yourself to give them what they crave: supply.
And every time I smile, nod, and then instantly file them in the same mental drawer as “psychotic tiger in a bad mood”.
Never believe their bullshit, ever.
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@Llwynog yeah. Once you’re wise to their shit, you can defend yourself.
But if you don’t understand, and they’re in a position of power over you, that’s when they can do profound damage. A lot of us who were raised by them evolve coping strategies, but when you’re a kid having to defend yourself against the person who is supposed to be nurturing you, it causes life long damage.
We also tend to be on high alert for them, constantly. If someone behaves in a way that triggers my narcissist response, it’s instant fight or flight, with a heavy dose of grey rocking.
This has actually served me quite well, but it’s a fucked up superpower to have.
the endless guilt-tripping is their most powerful tool. Covert Ns are really insidious because they present themselves as shy, introverted, morally superior and even sweet, initially. They're masters at mental gymnastics.
Playing the victim, endlessly talking about themselves and constantly complaining are my three N red flags.
Do you have any advice on how to detect (covert) Ns before they can do much harm? Any specific behaviours to watch out for?
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Person in front of me in the pharmacy: Have you got something for a deep, persistent cough?
So how’s your day going?
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I am in Britain!
It’s a lot like in an ink jet printer were a country.
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Looks like a BBC News intro from a decade or two ago mastodon.social/@flameReactor/…
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I like the idea of a "Car Trap". Perhaps we should have more of them elsewhere.
Seriously though, why are they there?
We should have more guided busways and light railways on Beeching's closed railway lines. Hertford to Luton. Buntingford to Broxbourne.
Curious how they cope with single track sections.
@Normal for '23 😷🇪🇺🍸 They’re there to stop cars going further on the busway, presumably so that they can be retrieved more easily than half way down a guided section. (This section is an anomaly because it’s not guided except at the entrances; the proper guided sections are narrow trenches.)
Wouldn’t recommend guided bus as a transport solution even if reusing closed railway alignments for transport is a good idea.
Single track sections are controlled by traffic lights.
So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of “leaders” involved in “crypto” ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if you’ve forgotten about those, they were briefly bigger than COVID 19 and about as beneficial to humanity) held a party in Hong Kong last night.
The organisers thought they were lighting the stage with black lights (like they have at LaserQuest to make your clothes glow).
They were not.
They were lighting the stage with UV-C sterilisation lights.
Apparently everyone involved is now in accident and emergency with extensive sunburn and BURNS TO THEIR RETINAS!!
In 18 months there are going to be a bunch of people wearing dark sunglasses and refusing to meet outdoors trying to sell you something expensive to do with “AI”. You probably shouldn’t buy it.
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In case anyone reading this has been at an Ape Event in Hong Kong recently, here's a version of all the images with alt text.Bluesky Social
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@Mona app notifications from a friendica server seem to confuse Mona on iOS. They all appear as this.
You received a new message.
Error: error: The data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format.
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Like, there’s frequency components that should be there, even if distorted, but they’re just … missing.
60 seconds of that would give me a migraine.
I heard part of it and it just felt flat and empty anyways.
If someone (good) makes a cover I’ll listen again. Just to see how it is. Don’t expect it to exactly blow me away. I get it if a massive Beatles fan find it exciting, but for the rest of us it’s just a song amongst songs.
Ah, the glorious denizens of Reddit have definitively informed me that Tailscale, which implements a virtual network, privately, is “not a VPN”.
Apparently there is an entire generation of users who think a VPN is a personal porn tunnel.
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Had a look at the Reddit crypto forums last night because who doesn't love a bit of schadenscrolling. They're still neck deep in Kool Aid, all going, "buy the dip! buy the dip!"
Guys, the people you are "buying" from keep going to prison for doing a runner to the Caribbean with the money. The only thing you are buying is new yachts for scammers.
READ THE ROOM. You have been conned. It's not nice to be conned, I get it. A guy once conned me out of 10 quid in front of Kings Cross Station in the 90s and I felt shit about that.
But you have been. Right now, you are throwing good money after bad. You aren't starting from where you were before you threw all your savings at these crooks. You are starting from now, and you are falling for the sunk cost fallacy.
You aren't getting your money back. Quit while you're behind. I'm sorry.
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yeah putting in the channel would have helped....
youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?si=rCrQbg…
This one. It's *bonkers*
This is Financial Advice
Clickbait Title: if the price is zero then you can buy all the sharesI tell you what, when you try and tell this story you either sum it up in ten minutes wi...YouTube
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I have something to say to those who said to us, when we told you that cryptocurrency was a tulip mania style bubble built on bluster, bullshit and suckers, that we didn’t understand and were just bitter about missing out. It is as follows:
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA SILLY FUCKERS TOLD YOU SO.
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There is one good use for cryptocurrencies - crime.
Which is the only reason I can conceive of that Bitcoin has risen all this year. After we destroy most of our ecosystem, Bitcoin will be seen by the survivors as one of the many signs of the collective mental illness of our society.
If someone's paycheck depends on them not getting something,
Those folks are going to go out of their way not to understand it.
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Dark arts mastery: Created a Linux x86 VM on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro
Within that Linux VM, created a docker container of Ubuntu with some personalised stuff.
On that container, built another one with the OpenWRT builder for RPi 4
Used that docker container to build a new OpenWRT image
Booted it on a spare RPi 4 and restored the backup of my OpenWRT config to it.
Took my actual OpenWRT router down, inserted the flash card I'd just created, and powered it back up.
Everything. Worked.
If you roll your own router, it's useful to know that you can recreate it were it to go tits-up, and I can!
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OpenWRT is useful (using it on two APs currently), but boy can networking and setting it up be an endless circle of confusion:(
Good luck!
Got a box for a router now, so it’s going to be pfSense or OpnSense for now. Hoping they will give me lots of good features.
But swapping over will be a bit of a nervous thing. But also why I need APs 😀
Also running on open software, because I don’t trust networking stuff anymore. Especially not the terrible ISPs:(
@Becky I'll also note that you can't bridge VMs on 2 different VLANs to the same physical ethernet port on UTM and if you try, neither will work.
I discovered this in the traditional manner.
(UTM on a different VLAN to the one the Mac is using natively is fine, this only applies to VMs)
Which is why my Mac Mini has TWO ethernet ports both connected now.
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Ugh, so offensive and totally stupid. Presumably, it came from that redundant, failed binary ideology.
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“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”
“I’m sorry, Dave; I can’t find anything like that in your Apple Music library.”
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Every single time this stone is turned over, the Catholic Church is up to the same kiddie fiddling shit. Every time.
Spanish clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children: Report
Spanish clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children, commission finds
Report finds 0.6 percent of Spain’s adult population said they were abused by members of clergy when they were children.Al Jazeera
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At first I thought fracking, but almost all fracking in Poland is east or north of there. ...Maybe something top secret blew up underground?