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  • Empress forgot to take her meds again

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  • I saw this tweet a while ago that was like "Piracy lore is crazy, there's only like 2 people who know how to crack Denuvo. One of them is a psychotic transphobe who speaks like a JRPG villain, and the other only cracks football games"

    I'm paraphrasing, but honestly it's so accurate...

    Edit: For anyone confused, here is a great writeup on the history of Denuvo cracking, and Empresses lunacy

  • YSK: If you work in the U.S. as a W-2 worker, you can check to see how much money you've paid into Social Security and learn when you'll become eligible to draw from it in retirement

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  • Bold of you to assume anyone on here will be able to claim social security before it goes kaput

  • Good friend

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  • Haha, now I feel dumb needing the joke explained to me

  • Good friend

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  • I actually want to try a LFS install, mostly to gain a deeper understanding of how Linux works. To anyone who's done an LFS install: good idea or waste of time?

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  • Gentoo is the final boss of Linux installs. (Linux From Scratch is the raid boss)

    I installed it last year. After watching it compile for half an hour, I decided that a source-based distro was something I have no interest in daily-driving.

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  • There are legitimate criticisms of Manjaro, and these days there are better options like Archinstall or EndeavorOS, but yeah it's mostly just become a popular distro to shit on.

    Canonical deserves way more hate than the Manjaro devs tbh.

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  • Mostly the admins. They've forgotten to renew their SSL certs multiple times, causing various issues, and they introduced a bug that briefly DDOSed the entire AUR.

    The distro itself seems fine. Although, I don't see why you wouldn't just use Arch with Archinstall or EndeavorOS if you really want that GUI installer. Both are much better managed imo.

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  • Please explain

  • What happened with that hacker group that was threatening to release sensitive Reddit data that they had stolen?

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  • I understand what you mean, but I believe Reddit themselves confirmed the breach. If Reddit didn't pay up, then the data has been/is being auctioned off on the dark web.

  • Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

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  • Oh no!

    Anyways ...

  • Mastodon's official stance on Threads

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  • That was a good read, totally changed my position. Thank you.

  • Threads passes 2 million downloads in 2 hours

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  • Zucc is a greedy asshole, but I think he knows when to sit back, and let the smarter people make decisions.

    Musk is an arrogant, insufferable fuck. Epitome of a know-it-all.

  • Threads passes 2 million downloads in 2 hours

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  • Pitting two piles of shit against each other does not make the winner any better.

  • Mastodon's official stance on Threads

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  • Can someone explain to me why people are so violently opposed to this?

    If Threads blows up, and ActivityPub is integrated, you'll have access to all of it through any federated instance. No need to let Meta sap all your data to view it or communicate with it's users. Meta can't kill ActivityPub or force us onto Threads, just abandon it and leave us back where we are today. If you don't like the Meta users, just make or join an instance that isn't federated.

    Anyone can scrape the metaverse data and use it for whatever, Meta included. Them implementing ActivityPub doesn't change anything about that.

    Look I don't like Meta as much as the next guy, but this all just seems like illogical gatekeeping

  • Best Distro for Laptops?

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  • In terms of optimization, Gentoo is the best you're gonna get, but the word "convenience" makes me hesitant to recommend it to you.

    Arch is minimal, and has many resources/guides on battery optimization (Especially for ThinkPads), but if you'd like to learn something else, Void is the way to go.

    If you're looking for a tiling WM, I can wholeheartedly recommend bspwm. Lots of control and customization, but pretty easy to configure when you understand it. Just know, it might be a hard change going from stacking to tiling.

  • Done with Twitter and Reddit

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  • I'd only heard of Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube until now. Pixelfed looks cool, Owncast and Misskey are too but I don't watch streamers or microblog so.

  • some might say we're early adopters

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  • I fully support you in running

  • Why all of a sudden tech companies are not being favorable to their users?

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  • Great explanation. The days of the "web 2.0" fantasy dream are officially over, investors needed their money back at a certain point and that point is now.

  • After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted

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  • Great read, and right on the nose. Louis Rossman has a good video discussing this issue, especially Reddit's role in all of it. Forgot the title, but its pretty recent.

    The "golden days" of internet social media platforms are gone. It was fun while it lasted, but these companies were BLEEDING venture capitalist money, and at some point they have to show a profit. That time is now, and it's ugly.