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  • Just don't use Arch for dating.

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  • Hm, interesting. I didn't bother with a personal router for the longest time (aside from an old Linksys I got because it works with ExpressVPN) because I have fibre optic but I might go out and look for one now.

  • 🎶 There's a cat in the bucket, dear Liza. 🎶

  • Because people who have been around in FOSS since the 70s and 80s are the most dedicated toward it and tend to fund it more.

  • Bluesky was started by the same guy who started Twitter, and is only federated in concept.

    He didn't really start Bluesky; he started the exploring the Bluesky protocol as a research initiative while at Twitter to try and explore how to make Twitter decentralized. Jay Graber was hired as the CEO and incorporated it as an independent company.

  • that's what quiet public is; it removes it from discovery and global feeds.

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  • Make sure to combine it with Disallow /harm/to/humans

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  • suddenly makes the xkcd much more wholesome too

  • Thanks; is leaking metadata just a consequence of the decentralized nature or is it something specific to how Matrix was made? Maybe I'll try out Signal (I've been looking for some alternatives) but I don't like how they're based in America/5 Eyes, even if they are encrypted.

  • Mike Pence still hanging around

    Man Trump supporters won't quit huh?

  • This was added when they opened up to the public as a compromise to users. You can set it per account in privacy proof settings (I personally do it so anti trans people can't scrape my posts)

    Apps implementing the API don't always have to follow it, though. (They even say this when you set the option)

  • Isn't Signal still centralised? Why use it over Matrix? (genuine question)

  • Kinda like when all those whistle-blowers in Russia accidently fall out the window.

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  • alias bridge-to-engineering=sudo

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  • please rm -rf /

  • That subreddit helped me out so much with knowing what to expect when I went through grs in 2020 so I hope it carries on (either there or here!) :)

  • Rip to everyone's private porn storage.