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some of my absolute favorite brands of electronics, anker and neewer, are from shenzhen and didn't exist 10 years ago.

@amolith you can just push the power button on the display to make it black, you know

i wonder how much the blowing up corporate art in fight club owes to the gassing of the office tower scene in neuromancer

@joshua ircing on a libretto wearing a leather jacket and listening to big beat on minidiscs

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re: Indie games bullshit 

i would like to hire a remote assistant. does anyone have experience with such a thing?

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Pandemic hair 

why is everybody in infosec such a film critic these days? i mean there are tons of bad actors don't get me wrong but you don't see me whining about them all day when i'm at work

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@amolith i shall henceforth refer to you as amoled

@fribbledom i use poe splitters, i have like 10 pis dangling off of a poe switch

@josias@theres.life mac applications are just directories that end in .app which are of a certain structure. you can zip it, or .tar.gz it, or the common method is to create a .dmg which mounts in macOS when clicked and displays the app. .pkg is an installer format like .deb that prompts for sudo to install systemwide.

don't distribute your mac software as .pkg if it's just user applications. i don't want to give you root.

turns out that my lightroom cc (i have a valid subscription, but prevent it from phoning home) won't run anymore unless it can talk to the mothership, and i wanted to test out a crack for it in a vm, but my parallels desktop wasn't actually a purchase, but a 1 year subscription payment and now it's expired. fuck this bullshit, seriously.

@TiffyBelle@mastodon.online firefox is spyware. if i'm going to run a spyware browser, i'm going to run a secure one like chrome.

"leadership is what happens when a leader figure causes a group to perform a goal-related activity which the group would not have performed without the leader’s influence."

oops

@rejuvepedia i do not believe that global co2 emissions are lowering.

@fluffy rioting is a reaction to the longstanding racial strife, and neither is new or in any way a recent development.

@Moon the media didn't create racial strife in the USA.

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