ZachIR @zachir@librem.one
Joined May 2019
Welcome To The Black Parade in the style of Queen. Didn't think it would sound so awesome.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=8gvu2sItHmk
Well, September 20th has just about passed at Area 51, and we still don't have pet aliens or hand sanitizer that kills 100% of bacteria. I'm gonna say we took an L on this one, bois, but it was worth it for the memes
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It's gonna be a weird day.
I can feel it.
The Earth deserves better than humanity
I need someone I can talk to and have random discussions about silly things at odd times. Like how weird it is that the word palindrome isn't a palindrome, when I'd think it should be. Or how onomatopoeia isn't an example of onomatopoeia. Or how you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. The English language is pretty funny if you think about it
One.
Two.
Me,
You.
Three?
Nah.
Tomorrow
One day.
Any day?
Today.
Some day,
Sunday.
Friday
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Why is it that the best minds in our industry seem unable to improve security without creating products that coincidentally give their employer more control over people and their data? Vendor lock-in is preventing real innovation in infosec.
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Look what arrived! Excited to read this book. While today fascism and the far right is the existential threat that justifies any means to eradicate, it wasn't always this way. 18 yrs ago today it was radical (and non-radical) Islam and in the 1950s it was communism and the far left. This book documents CIA studies into mind control to counter the communist threat that resulted in torture of US citizens, death, and countless other atrocities.
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Check out my new pocket computer! Ok not exactly new, it's a Tasco Pocket Arithometer from the '40s. #vintagecomputers
Life, at times, is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea
I think instead of having a "smart home," I'm going to get a "dumb home" where the only things connected to the internet are my laptop and phone
@lunduke "Maybe the internet wasn't such a good idea"
You have my view, just let me get on the internet real quick to see it :P
I wouldn't know what not having internet technologies would be like, being a relative whippersnapper
I'm feeling so freaking satisfied right now. I'm finally ending a day having fixed a whole bunch of bugs in my main project and somehow not creating any that I couldn't quickly fix. What a night!
@lunduke @lunduke I thought you might be interested in checking out my website, also built entirely with html and css (although sadly it is using html5 and whatever the latest version of css is). Check it out:
I also have a gopher hole where I'm making a (WIP) text based adventure game entirely with text files and links.
And yes, gopher is definitely still alive. You should totally set up a gopher frontend for your video archive, that would be rad as heck.
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@lunduke #linuxthursday With the end of Linux Journal do you think there's any hope for real journalism to succeed in the future, or are we doomed to a profit motivated politically charged ad infested dystopia of clickbait headlines? #lessyelling #morehugging
Life moves in circles,
In cycles, and swings
Like planets round the sun
Or like similar spacey things.
Round and round
In circles we go
When will we stop
No one knows
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"Users who decline to share footage through the app may have police showing up at their door asking them to share in person if online requests don't work out. Law enforcement can also go to Amazon directly with a valid legal demand and bypass the user's consent to access the footage entirely." #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/dont-call-our-surveillance-products-surveillance-ring-tells-police/
I made some awesome banana pudding for $6 last night, but for some reason Librem Social won't let me post a picture. How sad. But I assure you, it was delicious
Joined May 2019
