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Top 5 ways to stop illegal immigration:

- stop illegalising immigration
- stop illegalising immigration
- stop illegalising immigration
- stop illegalising immigration
- stop illegalising immigration

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PSA: if a user habitually boosts stuff you don't want to see, you can turn off boosts just for them without unfollowing them

view their profile in the regular masto UI and you'll see a "Hide boosts from X" in the hamburger menu

this can make the whole experience a lot less annoying, but it's not well-known!

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with all this hubhub about git in the news, I'm glad folks are looking at gitlab as an option.

however, it might be a good time to remind folks of alternate systems that learn from some of the mistakes of git: #pijul (pijul.org/) and #fossil (fossil-scm.org) the latter which is created by the brilliant author of SQLite.

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recently it has seemed to me that the main trick of computer programming is to learning how to break your problem down into a series of subproblems that turn out to be the subject of entire careers and yearly conferences of various computer scientists

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Lovely refurbished Apple ][ with new transparent case.

via Apple Museum Poland
twitter.com/applemuzeumpl

social.coop/media/oQwo0PNf3fyF

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hands down the best thing about GDPR is that it shows us that there are still places on this planet where humans can tell Our Machine Overlords to do something and they still have to listen

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couldn't resist ordering a couple of these teeny computers that fit in a USB port: crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi

should arrive around my birthday, so happy birthday, future me!

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listen prof my dog ate my gdpr stuff but i can still turn it in until midnight right

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Every time I see a GDPR email, I read “we take privacy and security seriously. But not seriously enough to have done this without being forced to, in order to keep making money.”

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cringe-worthy tech reporting Show more

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Webdesign (including fonts) got so bad that there's actually a "reader mode" in browsers now that makes sites look like they did 20 years ago
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Tired: corporations are people
Wired: corporations are malfunctioning toddler-gods, capable of wiping out populations with a single gesture but iffy on object permanence, theory of mind, and the difference between want and need

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I guess I forgot to mention... I sell these?

if you like soldering, typing, and/or things that look cool, maybe buy a kit: atreus.technomancy.us