Pride Moth has been UPGRADED!!!

Nice! I've been using Qwant (with AI disabled) as my default for a while. I try DuckDuckGo next and only fall to Google when I need to search deep into forums and that sort of thing. Here's the URL to add to your search engine list for Qwant without AI: www.qwant.com?q=%s&t=web&l...

There are no words to describe the joy this brings. A Condor back in Oregon skies. Just a lot of gratitude for all the work from the Yurok Tribe, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's on the Northern California Condor Restoration Program. www.oregonlive.com/environment/...

These protests were relatively benign and peaceful for days and days until they started getting national attention and now the cops show up and it's just fucking violence and chaos. It's pretty clear who the instigators are here and it's not the protestors.

Again, if you let any state get away with doing something against anyone, eventually they'll do it against you. Israel has gotten away with war crimes in Gaza, and they are allowed to continue doing so - and now it's here, too.

Hey dudes. If your partner suggests therapy, and insurance covers it, just do it. The worst that happens is you learn more about your own emotional needs, and your partner brags to their friends that you're willing to go to therapy and makes all their friends jealous (and they will be jealous).

If you have a Git Hub account, go share your thoughts about this here. Be civil, but strong in our convictions. Let make our voices heard.

I set all the adult content filters to show, stupid bluesky.

people having to gamble now since every post is a game of "is this a text post about the weather today, or am i about to see a huge dick in my face". Actual labels completely nullified. Real amateur hours

I detest Musk but objectively the falcon rocket is the safest and cheapest rocket to ever fly. Go ahead and hate on SpaceX, but resulting safety (as measured by lost payloads or launchpad explosions) and cost are actually not legitimate things to attack them on, especially if we compare to ULA.

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I finally figured out how to do letsencrypt DNS validation with nearlyfreespeech as my DNS provider. I really didn't want to switch providers, but I started limiting access to my server to only via VPN. I found "lego" but couldn't get it to work. github.com/nfsn/easy-le... worked though.

There is no math that has a Dem win the presidential election without massive turnout from and support from, Black voters. Buttigieg will not get that. For the same reason that Biden's second attempt couldn't get that. It's a self-defeating strategy to try to run people with this record.

gizmodo.com/occupy-wall-... "I thought it might be interesting to have a look at the data, but despite all manner of grep-ing and rummaging through both my user library and the computer’s main library, I couldn’t find the file in question." I think author has no idea at all how an LLM works. 1/6

One friend described Farscape as “a psychedelic romp through Australia’s BDSM underground, with muppets.”

This also reminds me of the "okay help" line that is already structurally harder for women to identify. In college men would try and do my female friends' homework for them, and they constantly had to push back. Some ended up accepting almost no help, making the college experience like 3x harder.

Putting AI aside, this is why when I used to do interviews I avoided using names or gendered pronouns when writing my notes and final feedback, to help keep ethnicity and gender out of my brain entirely to reduce application of my own implicit biases (we all have them).

I've run into this as well. I don't talk about it very often though. The only thing we can do (besides voting/activism) is to minimize plastic use. Angie and I try with things like buying milk in glass jugs and avoiding plastic clothing, but we need change from the other side.

itsfoss.com/news/hp-supp... HP has joined Lenovo and Dell as a Premier level sponsor, pledging $100K a year to LVFS #HP #Lenovo #Dell #LVFS #OpenSource #Linux

Spending your tax dollars to terrorize our own citizens. Making it hard and dangerous to report on it.

I have trouble with the "buying software" part. I've heard rumors that people still buy software, but I'm not sure I believe it. (He's lying anyway. This is his failed attempt to sound like a pleb, but he's too out of touch to make it believable)

Man the kernels have been coming fast! Every couple days another 2.18.x comes out. Glancing through the change log it looks like a good idea to upgrade again. The LKML announcement also uses "must". I just made some improvements to my automation for kernel builds because I'm doing it so much.

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final. And it needs all of your data to do it. In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

I keep thinking it feels a lot like the first couple of weeks of COVID right now, where people are like "I can't be inside for a whole MONTH" and I'm sitting there thinking 18 is the fastest a vaccine had ever been made. We have a dozen crisis all hitting or about to hit. We'll wish for $6 gas.

Addition/correction: the wording that this was the first smallpox inoculation is incorrect. Read this article to get a wider scope: www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

⚠️ Costco and Walmart reportedly are expecting motor oil inventory shortages in the coming weeks. This guy owns a commercial lube franchise:

Inside of me are three dogs: 1. A Great Pyrenees who thinks you're okay but would rather be with sheep, or at least trees 2. A border collie who's noticing your couch is not sorted into separate piles of wood and fluff, can I fix it? 3. A shiba inu who... wow that's a cool leaf, I will eat it

Planted a little orchard today. 2 red haven peach, 2 canadian harmony peach, 2 lapin cherry, 2 black chokeberry, and 2 hazelnut trees. 6 fruit trees "the orchard" are together in the lower field. We don't expect to harvest the hazelnut, those are for native diversity, and hopefully specimen trees.

This is pretty much ethics as depicted by most mass media. It's almost like modern story lines have to appease bad guys to get made... almost. They'll kill a hundred henchman, then save the bad guy who's killed thousands because otherwise "they'd be the same as them". :sigh:.

I tracked down the bug in pimsync that was causing it to fail to sync with my nextcloud. It was driving me nuts because khal (a terminal calendar app I use) broke. I patched a checkout of pimsync and filed a ticket (they don't seem to have an option for pull requests).

I should learn to not talk about education on here because every time I defend the intellectual value of college someone explains to me that most people see it as job prep (without knowing that I work primarily with students who see it as job prep but who also, at every moment, reach for more)

If successful it could create a pipeline from low to high information/engagement voters. Short term, winning a policy by a landslide with strong defenders is not the same as just winning it. Long term, those successes seem likely to increase engagement. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Damnit @matrix.org, >10 years and still no message lifetimes. I can't run a mautrix-signal bridge because matrix can't do the deletion I need. I know, "what if it's federated and someone logs". What if it's not? You can take video of signal as well. All deletion is like that, yet we delete stuff.

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

May 1 is International Workers’ Day and in the U.S. there's a national day of actions aimed at abolishing ICE, ending war, taxing the rich, and protecting voters’ rights.

I just discovered my Gentoo system was missing a *critical* kernel option. Everything worked for years, but a new udev version came out and suddenly weird things stopped working. dhcpcd kept complaining of buffer overflows. dracut wouldn't build a proper initramfs. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSGLIB

But! And hear me out here... The hat is also a whistle.

Reminder: Ubuntu is a corporate distro designed by a corporation for corporations - using Debian's community work intended for users. It's only available to you as part of the business model. Corporate distro doing corporate things, or the Windows11 of Linux Land. www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-...

The pipeline designed for the state to take money from minorities by force is back in full swing again.

I was going out to pick up concrete and distilled water (for solar mounting and the tractor, respectively, a stick caught the radiator hose). Anyway, I took the Tacoma and this happened just as I hit the main high-speed road. It was folded worse and pressing against the tire and brake hose.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/claude-des... The end of this article reminds me of first realizing that the day you can finish all of your work is the day you should quit your job because your company is going under. Stop, and go home, secure in the knowledge that you have more to work do tomorrow.

Law enforcement has told them to go the fuck home. Weijia Jiang, the president of White House Correspondents’ Association, announced to room trump fine. They all clapped. She told the he’s having a press conference in :30. They laughed. She told them he demands a redo within 30 days. They cheered.

Israel alone killed over 75 journalists in 2025, something many of the people I'm currently reading breathless posts from have still said nothing about.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

“Somehow during the drunken banter the concept of gay chicken arises. The tea drinkers were floored that we took our gay chicken seriously, and after some old fashioned shit talking we agreed to an old fashioned gay off.” Planter 2018

Happy 4/20 to all you potheads! Lots of people genuinely thought that mass incarceration would disappear overnight with the decriminalization of weed. I told y'all it wouldn't. People believed it would go away because they thought that Black people smoke more weed. But... white people smoke more🤷🏿‍♂️

Spent yesterday washing and undercoating my cars. I do it in the spring to get the salt off. I'm now very sore. I also tried to fix a power steering leak at the return hose junction which went very poorly. I did get the Tacoma drivable again but man what a pain.

Another reminder to get off as many Google services as possible. Check out my guide to get off US tech more widely: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?