You don't need to use weird spellings or algospeak for any topics on the Fediverse ("unalived", "seggs" etc). There is no automated moderation or algorithm on here, moderation happens entirely through human beings and posts are shown in chronological order.
In fact it's better that you use the correct spellings for difficult topics so that people with genuine traumas related to them can filter them more easily.
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My Firefox addon got approved! It ensures i.imgur.com, i.reddit.com and media.tumblr.com actually send you an image when visiting links instead of redirecting to a page with a bunch of proprietary javascript!
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Never ceases to amaze me how all the people who spend hours hand-wringing over who drew what porn of what kid show cartoon character end up being actual abusers in real life.
Their tantrums start making sense when you realize how hard they're all projecting.
No they aren't. That is terribly off the mark. The majority of Israelis are good people who have elected a monster and don't know how to get rid of him now. No elections in 'war-time'. NEVER lump them all together. That is dangerous ground and should be avoided all al times and especially now, in relation to the situation in Gaza.
Them: “Hey you seem a little unfocused today is something wrong?”
Me using 90% of my focus to not say random thoughts out loud or pace or make weird faces because everyone will think I’m insane: “yeah I’m fine, just a little tired is all”
I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...
I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.
Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.
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In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.
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Great to be having some good weather again and getting out in the garden some more.
#naturism #garden #nuderecreation
(very) quickly sketched "day in the life of a #topfree activist" #webcomic page inspired by a screenshot of a tweet by some dudebro, who you absolutely know would freak out at a topless woman at the beach despite being topless himself, making cruel jokes about a woman in a burkini (burka-bikini)
See more webcomic pages at: toplesstopics.org/webcomic
#feminism #intersectionalFeminism #misogyny #sexism #patriarchy #censorship #malePrivilege
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INDEED. it's the old "men find women's bodies sexually attractive, therefore the onus is on women to cover their bodies so they don't 'tempt' men" bs, aka "what was she wearing?" 🙃
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As open hardware with open source software, perhaps ideal for smaller applications, as an introduction to self-hosting or a home server: @freedomboxfndn on @olimex or @arduino
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Trapped in a storm for many days videos.trom.tf/w/jwu1LtBABCHGW…
Several storms hit Spain for almost a month. Raining, clouds, cold and wind. We decided to go to a motorhome parking in Alcaracejos and stay there for several days to wait for the storm to calm down. We put a lot of strain on our batteries and our patience 😄.
#travel #vanlife #motorhome #spain #camper #campervan #storm
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A quickly drawn "Day in the life of a Top free Activist" webcomic page, inspired by an actual conversation between my son and his female friend, both under ten years old, about why society only allows HIM to go in public without a shirt. 🙃
More pages at: toplesstopics.org/webcomic
#freeTheNipple #toplessEquality #feminism #patriarchy #intersectionalFeminism #topFreeEquality #equalityforall #doubleStandards #sexism #misogyny #womensEquality #malePrivilege
Kink is not inherently pornographic.
Kink gear is not inherently pornographic.
Kink expression is not inherently pornographic.
From suits to latex, gear can be just costumes.
Leather harnesses? Ah yes, of course, that spongebob screenshot with mr krabs in leather gear and harnessing, is that porn?
"But it is a mad max reference"
why yes, and it was explicitly kinky in mad max.
Michelle Pfeiffer wearing tight shiny latex and a whip in batman returns, and explicitly calling out materials, molded rubber in batman's suit
was that pornographic?
It was not meant to be just *neutral*, the movie is not subtle about creepy sexuality and hangups.
The pup hoods in the masked singer
Were those porn?
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the biggest thing holding me back from getting into kink was not realizing that it's more than just sex stuff.
and now i'm kobold puppy
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Yeah, that's the thing, using the trefoil for aesthetics dilutes it's effectiveness.
Like finding some medical stuff at the scrap yard with the cool logo on them and cracking them open to see inside, as somebody with great, nerdy taste stickered them when they had it.
I'm certain @funranium already has a blogpost or copypastable rant about the subject.
@funranium @ftg @Jencen Got me thinking about the history of the symbol - this site has some interesting nonstandard designs used before the symbol was universally adopted.
Makes me wonder if there are any others out there, I don’t know how much work was done in other countries that may have had their own standards or styles.
About a year ago, my parents made the switch to Linux on their home machines because they really hated Win 10... Today I got a call from my mother to help her out with something, but I did not expect that "something" will be figuring out a sed pattern for a shell script she wrote to bulk rename files.
When I asked her why she didn't use some GUI program she said "I was an accountant in the DOS era, this makes more sense to me than a ribbon menu in Excel".
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vidir from moreutils is very useful for stuff like this. allows you to open files/directory paths as if they're a text file in your editor then rename them there.
Also you have a cool mom.
Go Boomers! 😂
Welp, FreeTube, Invidious, and Piped are down again; and probably others as well; so I hope that it gets fixed, but it's likely it may take a bit from what I can understand anyway.
I prefer content variety, PeerTube is kinda meh, and Odysee? Well let's just say: "Absolutely proprietary!" because it's using some OSS, and it's not entirely OSS. This is fine though, I'll just listen to music for the time being, and not fuck around with video content for the time being (which sucks because I was watching a series on it)—but, it happens.
I mean, I've been using FreeTube for the better part of...well, around 6 months already without major issues. But last couple of months have seriously been taking a nose dive, and I suspect this is normal.
Meh, everything will be good, xD
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radio is the future: "Radio is the ultimate internet circumvention tool because it is not the internet." #othernetworks #radio
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Why We Need “Shortwave 2.0”
Debate about the future of shortwave broadcasting focuses on the correct observation that shortwave listening is no longer a mainstream activity in most of the world.Kim Andrew Elliott (Radio World)
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I am loving that things are finally moving to make European countries less dependent on US software (especially cloud providers), but I am disappointed that there isn't more of a focus on open source software.
There are several government programs within EU counties to fund the development of open source software. We need WAY more of that, coordinated at the EU level.
The best way to avoid being beholden to big tech is to fund viable open source alternatives.
Now livestreaming on Joystick!
Putting some finishing touches on my Jessie Gender interview before it finally goes live this week!!! joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics
audiomo
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in reply to audiomo • • •@audiomo
Hey, sorry, did you want a shoutout for AudioMo?
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Orion Ussner kidder
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Yeah, the article totally misunderstands the situation if that's what they think is going on.
MostlyTato
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •People filter things for good reason and its not up to anyone else to determine what someone else should be seeing.
Also, good use of hashtags (accurate, descriptive, but not too many) is really valuable as it allows both follows and blocks so people can curate their timelines properly.
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in reply to MostlyTato • • •It's a good point but I don't think most people are doing it to fool human filters?
I think they've just picked up these habits from commercial platforms that use automated moderation that suppresses anything mentioning specific words.
MostlyTato
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Yeah, lots of YouTube videos weirdly fade out the sound or distort it if certain words ("murder", "drugs" etc) are used. They are trying to avoid being demoted by YouTube's algorithm.
Same goes for Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook etc etc.
Primo
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •For example "Gadse" instead of "Katze" (german for "cat") and I kinda took it for a much more widespread phenomenon than it probably was.
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in reply to Primo • • •@Primo
Ah yeah I didn't mean the weird spellings for fun 🙂 Just the ones on serious posts that want to avoid being suppressed.
stux⚡
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Catherine is not giving up.
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •100 years from now how we spoke in the 19th and 20th centuries will be viewed as quaint and antiquated.
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Slang does constantly change, definitely! 🙂
The post was meant to be about something a bit different through? It's not about slang but phrases that people don't really want to use, but feel forced to use just to avoid being suppressed by automated moderation.
TagHunt
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Essentially its just a word blacklist
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary • • •I think it's useful to treat technical vocab separately in general and technical contexts? Quite often technical terms migrate into a general use with a related but slightly different meaning.
When non-tech people say "algorithm" they almost always mean a manipulative opaque system that messes around with their timeline in unclear ways.
Another example is "computer", which almost always means a laptop or desktop but technically it could mean a phone, watch, microwave etc etc.
Admiral Memo
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It's a really bad idea to use non-standard characters for stylistic reasons, it does affect screen readers significantly.
I think patr€on would sound like "patr" "euro sign" "on".
June T. Michael
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •That's awful. (And really not necessary here, as posts containing the word are not shadowbanned or restricted or anything.)