deathbird

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even for those, it won't, because those people are either:

  1. Actually making decisions. or B. Jobs on paper for nepos.
[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tbf, this is just declaration of intent to commit war crimes, not genocide.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 0 points 3 days ago

So first, even here we see foundation money and big tech, not government.

Facebook, Google, etc mostly love net neutrality, tolerate encryption, anf see utility in anonymous internet access, mostly because these things don't interfere with their core advertising businesses, and generally have helped them. I didn't see Comcast and others in the ISP oligopoly on that list, probably because they would not benefit from net neutrality, encryption, and privacy for obvious reasons.

The EFF advocates for particular civil libertarian policies, always has. That does attract certain donors, but not others. They have plenty of diverse and grassroots support too. One day they may have to choose between their corpo donors and their values, but I have yet to see them abandon principles.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)
[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

Further evidence that we're all just billions of microbes standing on top of each other in a trench coat.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 76 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Actually an interesting turn of events. Sounds like she'd been fighting hard to get it back, but they'd been fighting her on it.

Not sure what it all means, but there's something going on there. It's all very unusual.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Still called the creeper though.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 148 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Ah this is terrible.

The bee population is already struggling, and there's no way this one survived after getting stuck in dude's throat.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reportedly the dude was also a dick, and horrible to his ex-wife, but the bee didn't know that before it killed him.

This really shouldn't be news.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz -5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I suppose JK Rowling, regardless of her personal politics, made her actual money by writing the world's most popular children's book series. Likewise George Lucas I guess is probably a billionaire too. And Taylor Swift.

But these are examples of incredibly lucky creators of novel IPs. There's always been a handful of these people on the lower end of the upper end of economic power.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 0 points 6 days ago

Spread responsibility thinly across as many organizations and departments within those organizations and across as many legal thresholds as you can to minimize blowback when something inevitably has to be held to account.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

I would say "even busier" and "over-integrated" rather than "incomprehensible".

Not to start a fight or anything, but it almost reminds me of emacs, because it's like someone started with an idea for one kind of program, but they just kept adding and adding and adding to it. But emacs at least is free, flexible, long established, free, and quirky.

 

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I'm looking for a set with XDA profile and a darker color scheme (the base is black). Most XDA profile caps I've seen on AliExpress seem to be on the lighter side, and most darker caps aren't XDA profile.

And ideas?

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