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re: CW: uk politics & racism
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@zleap @vfrmedia @bearsong

So we had period where kids could spell as they wanted, etc, result was people leaving school illiterate.

I don’t know about this but apparently in the 1960s there was an experiment where children were taught an alternate alphabet, and that did result in people leaving school unable to spell.

You still didn’t argue or answer back to authority.

I don’t consider that to be a good thing. Authority should be questioned, and by teaching people that you should unconditionally accept authority for fear of retribution you end up teaching people to accept tyranny.

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re: CW: uk politics & racism
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@zleap @bearsong The ability to attend a protest doesn't necessarily imply the ability to work. You can't get a job as a professional rioter. (And PIP in particular is independent of the ability to work - you can have a job and still receive PIP.)
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@mitsunee @alexia @carbonatedcaffeine Maybe a postmarketOS device that can run mainline Linux? Something with SDM845 is probably the best choice currently (or a PinePhone, but the hardware sucks).

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@evan no, they do provide an email service but you have to pay for it separately and I don't
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a little present for the reader this weekend

websocat wss://certstream.calidog.io/ | jq '.data.leaf_cert.subject.CN'

hours of fun for the whole polycule

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@mitsunee @alexia @carbonatedcaffeine It's much easier to do that with PCs than with phones, since they're more repairable, don't require a battery, will run upstream kernels and so can be kept up to date without support from the vendor, and are generally more powerful than phones. I still regularly use a laptop from 2008 and it's perfectly usable, but a phone from that period would be almost unusable (especially without a new battery) and might not even be able to connect to the mobile network in some countries.
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@alexia @sneexy if it's 64-bit it'll be armv8, armv7 and earlier were 32-bit-only
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re: queerphobia, Ubuntu mod team takes anti-queer "Don't say gay" stance.
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@gimmechocolate @memdmp They're an admin of what appears to be a 2-user instance, so a report probably won't do anything.
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Friends and enemies, I would like to show you the best blue screen of death I've ever seen. I pulled over with two hyperactive dogs in the car just to take the picture.

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This flight will be boarded via slide. Passengers are required to say "weeeee" for the duration of the slide.

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man, safety is through the roof this release. memory space too

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Otters - a mother with her new cub, about to spend some time grooming on the shore of a tidal loch.

She was very attentive, grooming its fur and keeping it warm and dry, and allowing it to suckle from her too.

A treat to see.

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TIL that twice a year Hawaii looks badly rendered for astrophysical reasons.

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@libreleah @developing_agent My optiplex 5050's internal and external dumps did differ. There's a log that's used for stuff like intrusion detection and I suspect it's writing to that.
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@libreleah @developing_agent the libreboot installation documentation says:

the factory firmware write might EFI variables to flash during shutdown sequence, so you should pull the plug to shut it down (remove the power by pulling the plug) after flashprog says VERIFIED.

So I expect the dumps will be different, but not in a significant way.

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@ariadne @mcc Only between computers of the same endianness unfortunately. I consider this to be a major flaw (although apparently Xorg disallows byte-swapped clients by default now too, but at least there's still an option), even though it doesn't personally affect me as I have no big endian computers.
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