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My two Twitter/X precepts: 1. Anonymous low-follow accounts will not be taken seriously. 2. Abusers & haters will be ignored, blocked & forgotten. Have a nice day 🙏

Just downed a whole pot of sencha note to self: don't ever down a pot of sencha ever again

@usgraphics > using your phone is illegal > but here's an entire ultrawide screen designed to distract you built directly into your dashboard

Accumulated small changes over the years shows the horror of consistently making bad decisions. However you slice it, may be they're targetting a different market now and their priorities have changed; the ethos of the company was eroded in small indiscernible steps.

@PatrickChristys There's going to be a flashpoint of no return soon. Everything will suddenly boil over and there will be no going back.

I just don’t think I can take much more of this

@ArschEsser23 @LundukeJournal I didn't say it was. However, your assertion that everyone hates this equally is demonstratably false. You can find plenty of examples of people aligned with the "left" supporting OSA, age gating & similar legislations. Same cannot be said for the "right".

@rickyhewitt_dev @LundukeJournal mate this isn't about left or right, everybody hates this equally because the only people that benefit from it are big corps and the governments

The Arch Linux Core Dev Team is asking r/ArchLinux sub-reddit mods to censor people unhappy with Age Verification in Arch. It appears that Arch Linux considers criticism of Age Verification to be a "Code of Conduct" violation. From an r/ArchLinux moderator responding to a censored user: "I got a DM from much higher up the chain asking me to remove it. Whilst I technically don't answer to them, I do respect their wishes. They don't like someone they consider as part of the core dev teams being called out like that. What you did broke the Arch Linux CoC."

We *do* know who did it. An IRGC terror group has already come forward admitting it. The fact you published nonsense about "stopping the far-right" is a prime example of how people like yourself only seek to capitalise on division for political gain. If this had any political orientation then it is more accurate to say far-left. You can't admit that though, because if you did you yourself would then be putting your life and your career at risk from your own base.

We don’t know who did it, but guys, it doesn’t have to be perpetrated by the far right to be a good reminder of the need for us all, from all communities to stand together against racist hate that seeks to divide us - more than anything by seeking to pit Muslims against Jews.

Horrifying to hear of another antisemitic attack on ambulances in Golders Green last night We are being dangerously divided against one another like no time I can remember. Saturday there’ll be a huge march against hate, for the country we need where we stand TOGETHER #r4today

The jewish community have literally been labelled as "far-right" themselves. If you had any intention of promoting unity, you would drop the one-sided labels and call out the groups that occupy over 90% of MI5 watchlists (islamists, far-left radicals). Nobody buys the idea that there's only a "far-right" and no far-left. The most dangerous threat in this country is the far-left, hence why people like yourself are TERRIFIED of even mentioning it. You KNOW that if you even dared to do so you would be risking your life, your career, everything. Thankfully more and more people are realising this reality, and there is absolutely no amount of smear, propaganda, or denial that is going to change this direction. People see you and those like you for what they really are.

@probonopd Fedora will be first. Anyone that refuses to do so will eventually be labelled a fascist, thus others will blindly follow.

Who is surprised that #systemd and #xdg Portals are among the first open source systems to eagerly implement hostile policies that work against, not for, the user? Which #Linux distributions will employ them first? My be is that it'll be a tough race between #Fedora and #Ubuntu

Wouldn't it be amazing if Apple did an A18 Pro Mac mini, cut down in size, Linux / homelab friendly, and at a sub-$200 price? Unlikely I know... but one can dream!

I completed 21 days on a primal-style diet yesterday. Blew out with junk food, pizza, brownie, and chicken goujons for one day to see how I would react. 8.3 mmol blood sugar 4 hours after eating. Anxiety increased. Brain fogginess increased. Time to start again I guess!

Refreshing to see these anon disinfo accounts being put in their place. All they care about is framing things in a way that pleases their followers for maximum likes. Conveniently omitting inconvenient truths. Hiding behind retarded emotive masks because they know nobody would value their words in real life.

I don’t usually reply because you’re a troll who doesn’t pursue truth. But this hit a nerve. I literally bumped into the guy at an event. First time I’ve met him. If he’d somehow financed me, the last thing I’d do is put up a photo. You know this. Or is it just rage bait? Well, you win. As to your rather woke point, this may not fit your narrative but I was on minimum wage for years while struggling and working many jobs. I made an award winning documentary exposing an exorcist for what he did to girls, off my own back, learning to edit in between my various jobs and learning foreign languages. It took years. I had no contacts (yes, most Jews have no TV contacts - mind blown?) so found a way to find email addresses from LinkedIn pages. I sent about 50 emails a day for years to producers, commissioners and film festivals. I was rejected 50x a day (well, mostly ignored). After years, my film - which is damned good - was taken by the BBC. They basically didn’t pay me. I made a loss. So I continued on minimum wage jobs. They did put me in touch with their production companies - who all said they’d take my ideas but refused point blank to allow me to continue being on screen because I’m a white man. After years of this, I started speaking about it. No one believed me. I started my podcast then. I got just 4 listens the first month. I worked like crazy round the clock while continuing my other work. My wife watched me run myself into the ground for 2 years on this - eventually my YouTube channel about cults made it to a point where I could earn enough to quit my other jobs. I’ve never known a feeling quite like it. Relief. I used the revenue and contacts I’d slowly gained from this to start my new channel Heretics just over two years ago. The overwhelming majority of Heretics has been about ending woke culture and I sincerely believe I made an impact - however tiny - in convincing some people to move away from it. I also desperately try to make viewers realise how damaging immigration is. Unlike what you and your followers might imagine, I do very few videos about Israel and antisemitism. I’ve been unflinchingly patriotic and Britain first in hundreds of videos - even as trolls lined up the comments to hurl the most unimaginably cruel insults at me and my family about being Jewish. Despite this, I have tried to never play victim on my channel, and have always criticised the orthodox Jewish community even when it made me deeply unpopular with some Jews. On the record: I have never received a single penny of investment. I have never been told who to interview. I have never paid for views or subscribers (I doubt this even works). In just over two years, I have nearly 1 million subs precisely because my subs see me as fair. One time, in an interview with a man who literally wants to do blood tests on the entire citizenship to ascertain who should be deported, I said that I consider myself white and that we white people will end up mixing with all the other races. I was probably wrong. I’ve been wrong many times on my channel and will be again. I knew it wouldn’t look good but I left it in the video to be fair. Yet it was cut out of context to not include the part where I said I included myself in the white people - and that I really didn’t want that to happen. Which is pretty key, given millions then saw clips suggesting I was a subversive Jew who wanted whites to no longer exist. That, I can take. I won’t be able to convince you otherwise. But I take pride in my work. Even though you’re anonymous, so should you. And I won’t have you lying about the work I put in. If you take yourself and your work at all seriously, you should apologise and admit you got this particular take wildly wrong. If not, your followers should consider whether you’re what you say you are.

I never believed @AndrewGold_ok rise up the podcast rankings was organic and he’s just confirmed exactly who is behind his rise. Gold is the epitome of what a posh accent and deep pockets can get you in Britain. Not an ounce of talent, charisma, or intellect. An Israel plant.

@CryptoCyberia Linux users will like it in time. When the language around age gating is reframed for the sake of "preventing hate against x/y/z communities", the linux communities will openly adopt it. Anybody resisting will be labelled a fascist nazi, and suddenly everyone will fall in line.

wow, systemd is adding an age variable for future digital ID laws. Linux users are not going to like this.

@Ofcom Modern day British regime is remarkably similar to Soviet regime. Eventually it'll fall and history will view it for what it was.

We've fined 4chan £450,000 for not having age checks in place to prevent children seeing porn on its site. The Online Safety Act is concerned with protecting people in the UK. It doesn't require platforms to restrict what people in other countries see. 🔗ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/…

Your periodic reminder: 1. The BSDs are rightly proud of being actual operating SYSTEMS, not “distros” cobbled together. 2. macOS is a certified UNIX™️ with a FreeBSD-based userspace.

I was using Linux in the 2000s and 2010s and have seen the same cycle of "year of the linux desktop" over and over again. Desktop Linux was at its strongest during the Unity and Compiz eras. Genuinely feel that in some ways it's fallen off since and just gotten (practically) worse. Any distro that resolves the issues for the mainstream will ironically result in them being excluded from the definition of Linux (Android, ChromeOS are perhaps examples of this). Sure, you'll have stuff like Linux Mint and PopOS which gain some traction, but the noise elsewhere and fundamental issues with the Linux community itself will prevent them from ever gaining double digit market share. One of those primary issues for example (IMO) is the forking culture. It's both a strength and weakness. People want to fork absolutely everything (often for menial reasons, or political reasons), and despite common opinion of it being beneficial, I think forking can actually be detrimental in some cases, especially when you're a commercial vendor preparing to take the risk on releasing on a new platform. Not sure how much of this you're allowed to even talk about without getting abuse though, so I'd imagine most people just stay silent.

For anybody saying "Just use Linux", you need to realise that Linux is worse than Windows. Windows has all the bloat, and while you can have Linux without any of that you still don't have tools like Remedybg, RAD Debugger and Super Luminal. Once you have such tools, then Linux is a suitable app development environment. But _it is still trash_ because of the whole Linux model of you needing to compile everything. The fact that you cannot run an app built using a newer version of glibc is an insane decision. I shouldn't have to upgrade my whole machine in order to run something built on a newer version. I shouldn't be worried that an upgrade will break my machine. I shouldn't be forced to compile things from scratch to work on my machine. I shouldn't be forced to install N packages, I just want self contained binaries I can just download and run. I shouldn't be forced to develop with an old distro to have "max glibc compatibility". I shouldn't have to worry about X11 / Wayland / Window Managers. I shouldn't have to worry about asking the user to select a folder, display a dialog or show notifications. Linux is such a huge waste of potential, if they got their shit together they would completely obliterate Windows. I first got into Linux in 2000, and even back then there was this "it will take over Windows any time now!". It's been _26 years_! The same way I'd pay quite a lot for Windows without any bloat, I'd be willing to pay for a distro that gives me all this.

@Prime_Asthetic A refurbished M1 is all you need. Still good for another 4 years at least.

Be honest, Is investing in a macbook worth it as a college student?

As soon as age gating is marketed as a way to tackle "hate" towards western ideologies, most modern Linux devs will fall in line. The Linux community of today is not the Linux community of the 2000s. Today it's the polar opposite - pro-censorship, big-government.

@PolitlcsUK > £500k AI centre In this climate, that'll barely cover a couple sticks of DDR5 and a few mid range Nvidia GPUs. Seems like USAID being dismantled really is hammering the ability of warmongering regimes to continue funding war.

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has announced a new defence agreement with Ukraine ahead of President Zelenskyy’s visit to No 10 later The UK will fund a £500k AI centre in Ukraine’s MoD to deliver a "battlefield advantage" through smarter use of AI and drones

@robertlufkinmd "take this SSRI, and if this one fails, try this other one. repeat until you find one that works"

If you could go back and undo one piece of health advice your doctor gave you, what would it be? I've been compiling a list from my own medical training — some of them still shock me.

@TailosiveTech Been saying the same thing for a long time - 8 GB is fine for many people, light users, etc. That said, marketing and pricing is everything. Asking for $1k for an 8GB Air would be pushing it for 2026. x.com/rickyhewitt_de…

Apple just convinced an entire community of content creators that 8GB of memory is acceptable for the right price. After a year of everyone praising Apple for making 16GB the default option.