Tuuktuuk

“It’s wasn’t me that picked your butt, it was this hand of mine here!”

I’d imagine one could make plenty of art from that many metres of blue plastic cord. No idea how to find a suitable artist, but someone sure would have artistic use for your waste!

And the original Italian so that you don’t need to click the post open:

Buongiorno. Ho un problema: ho un notebook con Linux Ufficiozero, e ho un database access (non convertibile in un file per LibreOffice Base).Come faccio per usarlo? Devo ricostruire da zero tutto il database in LibreOffice?
Oppure mi tocca installare in qualche modo, forse con wine o un altro programma, Office su Linux?
Per me è di capitale importanza questo database perché mi serve per gestire un ente del terzo settore, praticamente devo gestire benefattori, offerte e progetti sostenuti

A machine translation of the Italian-language Mastodon post, by DeepL:

Good morning. I have a problem: I have a notebook with Linux Ufficiozero, and I have an Access database (which cannot be converted into a file for LibreOffice Base). How can I use it? Do I have to rebuild the entire database from scratch in LibreOffice? Or do I have to install Office on Linux somehow, perhaps with Wine or another programme?
This database is of paramount importance to me because I need it to manage a third sector organisation. Basically, I have to manage benefactors, donations and supported projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Đorđe_Martinović_incident tells: “The collapse of this taboo in the coverage of the Martinović case heralded the growth of nationalism that was to lead to the country’s collapse in 1991.”

It strikes me odd that Heroic doesn’t want to be available with apt, though! It’s even advertising that it is intentionally packaged in a way that duplicates pre-existing libraries – apparently to just take some extra place from my hard drive for fun?!

Doesn’t really wake much trust in them caring about how to use a computer’s resources. Whether one wants to be afraid of two applications sharing a library file or not should be left for the user to decide… And it’s not very nice that there an increasing number of ways applications can be installed, and these clever people are supporting that development… How am I supposed to have any overlook over what’s installed on my computer? This is starting to feel like Windows :(

I don’t really believe it’s very good for computer security that applications are installed without anything in the OS keeping track of whether they need security updates or not!

I tried that some time ago, and at least at that point it needed configuration to get up and running. It was a hassle. I have family that needs a lot of my time at the moment. Between August and December I could find less than 10 days where I was able to decide by myself what I do after workdays or on weekends.

I’m not going to spend those precious minutes configuring any damn thing. Steam works out of the box. Now someone was just mentioning something called Heroic launcer. Sounds good. Wonder why Gog is not linking to it very visibly on its site if it works?

Okay, in other words: I won’t be buying any more Steam games 🐳

Got enough stuff in my library to last until GoG starts working nicely enough on Linux 🐧

And “ukset” is (archaic) Finnish for “doors”!

This news article has a video showcasing very well what kind of tear gas the police uses in Finland. The gas is used on the video from 1:10 until 1:40.

That’s why you pay attention when choosing what instance to be on.

Not in US politics. If you have 51% of votes of whoever is The Party at the moment, you can make decisions without others impeding on them.

If one party got 51 % of votes, then that means 26,01 % of all votes is enough to decide about the all of the country’s things alone.

At least I don’t want to spend much of my brain power deciding what individuals to block. I prefer there’s a moderator who thinks roughly the same way about things things as I do. It’s better not to be overzealous with the moderation: I am okay with a little bit of manual curating of my feed, but the things most obviously unacceptable to me should be banned by the instance.

Also: If a lot of people see the messages of ICE, I am not really likely to ban them either, because I want to know what is going on in the world around me. But if I know they are being banned by a lot of people because whole largish instances are banning them, they no longer are goin on in my part of the world. At that point it becomes more of a choice to want to hear them.

If it’s connected to the rest of BlueSky, all of its data to any other servers goes through that of BlueSky’s. Even if user on private server A communicates with a used on private server B, the message is routed so that BlueSky’s main moderation team can always affect it – they can block it or they could technically even add to it if they wanted to.

No other servers on BlueSky have that right. Except servers that are completely detached from all servers connected to that of BlueSky. And their separate network has their own central server, then.

I did understand that :)

But still: Verifying means you officially acknowledge their existence. And they are horrible pieces of shit; thereby acknowledging their existence should automatically include making the facts visible. There’s no reason not to call evil evil.

EDIT: Also, your comment was well-written and I have no need to actually argue against you. So, do not worry. I do not completely agree with you, but my disagreement is not terribly strong either :)

Verify it, then put a warning along the lines of
“This is the official profile of a fascistic terrorist organization. Beware.”

Yeah, that makes sense. But why just verify? What non-evil is there that you achieve with that?