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Come to Linux! We have...

Mascot: official Version

Mascot: Unofficial Transgender Furry Fox Version

More Desktop options than you can imagine

More Distribution options than you can Imagine.

More people willing to fight God for Half a Bagel over their preferred combination of Distribution and Desktop you can imagine.

The most uwu transfemmes and femboys you can imagine, all of them wearing Thigh Highs.

Mad Computer Scientists who could be dangerous if given access to a traffic light.

Everyone's favourite Fennoswedish Dad.

The Homeless guy who insists on using ONLY free software and defending Jeffery Epstein, and he's just done compiling the latest builds.

Pewdiepie for some fucking reason.

Arch Users.

Arch Users who insist on telling newbies to use Arch as their first Distro.

Sane people telling said newbies not to do that and just try Linux Mint first.

Men who look like the comic book guy.

People in developing countries doing absolutely great things with low spec tech.

People who skin their desktops to look like the OS they used when they were a child.

Tiling Window Manager users with anime wallpapers who post of /r/unixporn

Fans of Federated Social Media.

People who insist on using the Terminal for everything.

Ubuntu users who insist it's "still good".

Debian users will defend the release schedule with their dying breath.

People think the Cosmic Desktop is the Second Coming.

KDE Plasma Users.

Gnome Users.

People who think the government is watching them.

People who know the government is watching them.

The Majority of Webservers.

Literal Hackers.

People who really love conferences.

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i used to go and deselect all the cookies i could on any given website. not any more. theyve beated it out of me. just give me all the cookies i dont even care. i just wanna read about the biggest and smallest airports in the world

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"They already have your data, sure. But do they have your current data?"

Gentle reminder that the best time to start protecting your data and privacy was yesterday. The next best time is now.

i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i've seen people saying things like "well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it" and it's like, that's not the point. it's that companies /shouldn't/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i'm still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn't have to begin with though?

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The Silicon Valley "move fast and break things" mentality should have stayed there.

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not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

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I feel like the big push for AI is starting to flag. Even my relatively tech obsessed dad is kinda over it. What do you even use it for? Because you sure as hell dont want to use it for fact checking.

There's an advertisement featuring a woman surreptitiously asking her phone to provide her with discussion topics for her book club. And like... what. Is this the use case for commercial AI? This the best you could come up with? Lying to your friends about Moby Dick?

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It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize this was about character alignment in DnD and not programming.

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😭

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my grandma got a new router which means i finally get to share the old one's default password

HUNGRY UNIT IT'S A HUNGRY UNIT, A BIG HUNGRY BOY

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My mom got phished in an EXTREMELY refined scam that pretty much anyone could fall for-- basically her account was already pre-hacked and they spoofed the bank's number exactly, called her pretending there was fraud, and read back legitimate and fake transactions and personal info so she wouldn't suspect they weren't the bank. Then discouraged her from logging in claiming the account was locked so they could investigate the fraud-- all so she wouldnt catch them making massive purchases using her stolen info.

We have the same boss and when she told him what happened he recommended she call the bank directly, so she did and they managed to catch it in time before $20k of transactions went through. Very scary

I guess the lesson here is never ever answer your phone, I love that fraud is so rampant an entire form of mass communication is now useless

ANYONE can fall for phishing scams- my mom is extremely smart and we discuss common scams that target her age demographic and she still fell for this. If it happened to me I may have fallen for it too. Always be careful!

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Clean it up hiro….

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I am a product of the 1990s and as such I grew up on a steady diet of mecha anime and weird sci-fi/fantasy stuff.

One of my favorite—and I mean FAVORITE—things is what I have always referred to as "bulky 90s future tech."

It's all the super big, chunky, clunky, takes up all the space it can tech that mecha anime and 90s sci-fi depicted as being available in the distant future.

The tech from Cowboy Bebop and Akira are really good examples.

AND APPEARENTLY Y'ALL ARE CALLING CASSETTE FUTURISM OR SOMETHING?! LIKE, WHOMST THE FUCK WAS GONNA TELL ME I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE OVER HERE DROOLING OVER BULKY 90S FUTURE TECH?! THE GREEDY, GREEDY BARBARIANS KEEPING THIS FOR YOURSELVES!

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My favorite part about the phrase "net zero information" is that it implies

Information is a boolean (true or false)

Information can be subtracted from other information, and thus must be an integer

The positive or negative value of information is dependent on whether or not it is true.

Which means, information is, minimally, a 2-bit signed integer.

This, however, has implications of how to interpret the middle two states. Either we accept that some information could be useless, regardless of whether or not its true or false, or we assume all information has some value and ignore those two states.

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Instead of typing a clear command, just press Ctrl+L to clear your terminal or shell screen on macOS, Linux, or Unix-like systems.

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“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

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