I've read a lot online about how "Y2K was overblown". As an engineer who worked like crazy in 1999 to correct our systems this drives me crazy.
Today I read about games going offline, watches getting frozen and airline tickets showing the wrong date.
Because of a leap year. Which happens every FOUR years (give or take).
Yeah Y2K was a one time thing. (Well at least until year 10000)
Isn't 2038 going to be fun.
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Something I’m always disappointed by in apps is them not gracefully dealing with intermittent internet.
So many feel like they’ve never been tested on slow/patchy connections.
Why not let me:
🔹press like, cache it, and send it when I get internet?
🔹press send on a message, cache it, and send it when I get internet? (WhatsApp handles this one well IMO.)
🔹open the message notification and see as much text as the notif held, & load the rest on reconnect?
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A friendly reminder that God kills fertilized embryos at an astounding rate. If abortion is run of the mill murder, let me tell you, friends, God's doing it on a Pol Pot scale.
60 to 70 percent of fertilized eggs do not make it to birth, and thankfully most women don't know they miscarry.
The cosmic joke is that if you wanted to stop the death of babies, #Alabama style, the only ethical way to do so would be to stop all sex, especially the kind that aims for reproduction.
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If you want to know what East Germany was really like just take a holiday in England.😎
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We have 'freedom of expression' as long as we're not too radical.
We have 'freedom of movement' when we can afford it.
We have 'freedom of association' - we can join an emasculated Trades Union.
We are free to stand for election and vote as we choose (not that it seems to make any difference).
Good Innit?
UK to deny re-entry to radicalised extremist Liz Truss
Notorious extremist Liz Truss has been banned from returning to the United Kingdom, and may have her citizenship revoked, after appearing onstage with enemies of the state at the Conservative Polit…NewsThump
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Neurotypicals, what do autistic people look like to you?
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I'm not normal, but I don't think I have autism. I might be prejudiced based on what I think autism looks like and there could be many people who don't fit this description. I find people pleasers who go out of their way to try to smooth over every little issue to be very challenging to deal with. They create pressure to reassure them under the threat of emotional self harm in blaming themselves.
A lot of autistic people tend to stand out in ways that aren't always easy to describe, but they'll often have problems like hair that's too long or not maintained. A "neckbeard" that's never trimmed or trimmed short using a guide. They also wear dirty or damaged clothes.
I had a white autistic employee who got bullied for being a virgin and eventually got fired for attendance after calling out repeatedly because of it. Then he went on a rant and started blatantly calling the other employees the n-word without actually saying it. It created a bad association.
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To the person that reported me: *You poor summer child*. > Semitic people or Semites is [a] … term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. ([Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people)) The fact that *anti*-*semitism* has historically not been applied to Arabs, Jews, and others shows the systemic and abject racism that exists within Zionism and Colonialism.
I think #Threads coming into the #Fediverse, and #Bluesky taking off as its own network, might create the pressure and motivation we need to fix what's missing in ActivityPub.
A lot of people are doing super important work right now, creating proposals and extensions, case studies, and doing research on how we can extend the protocol. That's great!
I think we need our feet held to the fire in order to come together, and try to solve a bunch of problems like Identity, Data Portability, Privacy Controls, and Discovery. It might be enough to push for #ActivityPub 2.0.
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This might come across as a controversial or even hostile opinion, but: I believe that as the dominant player, #Mastodon has been dragging its feet on moving the network forward, and consequently holds the network back.
For all of the incredible developments and concepts newer platforms have made, Mastodon largely just does its own thing. Which would be fine on its own, but its position in the network as one of the largest players has made it the defacto standard.
This is unsustainable.
Let's see, how can I effectively express my thoughts on this matter:
Fuck Mastodon.
The mods have a record though of who sent that report I guarantee you, and bullshit reports are just as much SPAM as anything else on the fediverse and waste everyone's time. At the very least they should be against every instance's rules and terms of service.
Patriarchy despises sex work and sex workers for the same reason it despises abortion and trans rights.
Because like all forms of personal autonomy, it removes the locus of social control over sex, sexuality, etc. from cis-het men and gives people agency over their own lives.
The puritanical nonsense about sex work is largely a distraction from cis-het men's rage over not being able to own and commoditize women's sexuality (and others) for themselves.
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This weekend we had one of the best nudist events in Guadalajara, Nudist Talent Show! It ended up being a night of karaoke and dancing, we had an amazing time! 🎤💃
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