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kbal

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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • crates.io: an update to the malicious crate notification policy

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  • Reported: December 9, 2025Issued: February 12, 2026

    Does this mean it took two full months from the time some obvious "typosquat" packages got added and immediately reported before they were removed? That's for the "finch" ones, looks like they got the others right away. Maybe they were not so obvious?

  • FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?

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  • As you seem to appreciate, 95% of the time matrix is exactly what's needed. People seem to hate it because it's slightly different than discord, but anything that isn't discord is going to have that problem. It also has other problems, but at least it's not as bad as fucking discord.

  • Is there is an up to date instance of Pleroma in English that have registrations open?

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  • I don't know, you're probably more likely to find Akkoma instances these days. It's pretty similar.

  • Where do people search for used cars?

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  • At the side of the road with a FOR SALE sign that's got a hand-written phone number on it.

  • Odds of Jesus Christ returning this year double overnight in bizarre turn of events

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  • If God wills it the real odds were 100%, so double that can only mean we get two Jesus at once! Hallelujah!

  • What do you think about AI?

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  • Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

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  • Okay fine, guess I really do need to learn (the rest of) Rust now.

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  • Not here. It's probably more suited to mastodon or whatever.

  • xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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  • I had emergency surgery and as a result it looks like I will be zonked out on oxys for the next week. Never had these, what are some good movies to watch in this condition?

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  • Knowing absolutely nothing about you or your taste in movies other than that you're on drugs, my recommendation is Lifeforce (1985).

  • What low-key ominous sign have you experienced and what low-key uplifting signs have you experienced?

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  • One time there was an empty grassy field which was not a city park, and to make that clear — without engendering the local hostility that "no trespassing" would — it's owners put up a sign reading: NO ACTIVITIES OF ANY KIND ALLOWED.

    Most ominous sign I ever saw.

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    TIL: The Median Age for FOX, CNN & MSNBC Viewers is Around 70 Years Old

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    TIL: The Median Age for FOX, CNN & MSNBC Viewers is Around 70 Years Old

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  • I wonder what's the average age of cable TV subscribers overall.

  • Why Is It Harder To Move People To Open Source - Decentralized Options?

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  • I was watching a livestream the other day by someone who appears intelligent and knowledgeable enough to know that she should probably give up Windows and use Linux instead. So far as I could tell there isn't really any reason why she shouldn't. It was the kind of stream where she had plenty of time to just talk freely about whatever was on her mind, and usually that's nothing to do with computers or their operating systems. But she was thinking of doing it. She worries about this and that. She wonders if OBS will work as well, she imagines it would be a lot of work, she seems unsure that her tech skills would be good enough, she worries that it might go wrong, that it might not be worth it, that she might pick the wrong distro, that her webcam wouldn't work, that it might be a colossal waste of time for very little benefit.

    People unaccustomed to software freedom find it hard to understand how it would benefit them. People are afraid of change.

  • Is the role of a government to do the will of the people, or to do whats right for the country?

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  • The role of a government is to do what's best for the government. That usually involves keeping the people from getting too unhappy with them.

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    what is some good life advice for common problems?

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  • Maybe what's needed is a "this is what I'd write on my blog if I had one" community to redirect people to when they try to wedge things in here by forcing their thought into the form of a question.

  • Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client?

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  • It is not, so far as I know, an "extra network." It's one of many types of instance on the fediverse. Many of them have features that do not perfectly interoperate with others. The more popular ones eventually get to be widely supported as things evolve. Mastodon is not the standard, it's just one among many.

    Also, you're a lemmy user. It's one of the worst when it comes to interoperating smoothly with the rest of the network.

  • Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)

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  • Where's the "4chan" one?

  • How do I peel a hard boiled egg?

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  • Somebody once told me that it's easier if you bring the water to a boil first before you put the eggs in to cook, as well as putting them in cold water afterwards. It seems to work for me.