Anna >/dev/null 2&>1 @not_on_pizza@weirder.earth

I've mentioned this but I'm gonna make a real post.

If you are setting up Windows 11, select "English (World)" as your language (English Europe also works), and you will have NONE of the third party bloatware installed.

No Candy Crush, no Netflix, just the first party apps

Please do share this info with anyone who may be setting up Windows soon

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/windows-ooberegion-bloatware.html

I am *SO* sick of joining #Discord Servers for everything and anything.

I do NOT want to join your server of 400+ people I *do not know* and have no desire to talk to because you wouldn't link me your GitHub or site directly or put necessary information in your README for a thing I just want to download and use.

Please, for the love of Celestia STOP doing this. IF your server gets deleted, that information is GONE. If Discord shuts down, that information is GONE. If someone doesn't want to join a 400+ person chat room, they're SCREWED. PLEASE STOP.

You people know that there are limits to the number of servers people can JOIN right?!

Sweet Luna's Moon! Seriously, just make an RSS Feed..! Put up an info page on GitHub Pages, it's FREE.

I miss forums you could browse without an account

Please... please... #StopDiscordCentralization

/rant

There comes a point where you just make the game you want to play and hope others want to play it too. If not, at least you had fun making a game.

#indiedev #gamedev

A note for #mastodon #admins. Apparently, a beta of mastodon is introducing #HCaptcha. If you aren't aware, this can present #accessibility issues for some #blind users. If their accessibility cookie works, it's fine. However it breaks on a pretty regular basis. I encourage you to either not activate this, or be prepared to disable it temporarily if a blind user tries to sign up and has problems.

I’m not being subtle about this. Anyone with the skills/time/experience to hard fork mastodon, I and multiple other admins will pay you money, regularly. Gargron is so far out of control now.

this kittn does not like an AI art very much. i have seen too many of my friends be upset that their arts were used to train them. just so you know, mew.

why are printers

"Just be positive."
No.
Fuck that.
The world is on fire.

My fellow ADHD / neurodivergent folks:

Any suggestions or techniques for being productive on days when your brain is super scattered and it's difficult to focus?

Been struggling today...all I've really been able to focus on has been Dave the Diver and YouTube.

Dave the Diver is great, though... 🤣

I’m just one little person, but feels to me like one way to show solidarity to all the negatively threatened artists across industries is to STOP playing with the current batch of generative models, stop putting it in your work, stop baking it into things, stop sharing the funny/cute/weird outputs. Stop giving it oxygen.

All the major models are built on extractive exploitation, with zero consideration of systemic harm. All designed absent the “should” and only caring about the “could”.

Still looking for anyone who has had a lipoma removed via local anaesthetic who can talk me through what it was like, anything they wished they'd known, etc. Any details are helpful.

I have serious anxiety (due to medical trauma) and my surgery is on the 13th. Please please help me out here if you can -- I don't know what to expect and I'm scared.

Boosts OK; if you're replying, please do keep it under a CN. Thank you!

Every day theres new trans people coming out and asking the quesiton, which is the best private clinic, who should i be seeing to get a Shared Care agreement or should i go with GenderGP etc.

Heres my take:

Trans people should stop recommending GenderCare. Lorimer and Seal and others in that team were both part of the group that pushed the case against GenderGP to try and get them shut down.

Without GGP a huge portion of trans peoplew ould not be able to afford or access medication, especially those in Northern Ireland. GenderCare are therefore not pro-trans as a clinic, they are all NHS GIC Psychologists and Endos who do not have the trans communities interests at heart. They are the "old boys club" that was referenced in the GGP Trial. Dr Seal is the lead Endocrinologist in the NHS for trans healthcare, sits on the board, and is stubbornly the blockage that continues to prevent transfeminine people from being prescribed progesterone as an option on the NHS. Their actions suggest they are continually trying to gain a monopoly on private care and to force it to stay in rigid alignment with the old GIC protocols.

⚠️ Hey #MastoAdmin FYI there is a Mastodon security update apparently coming 6 July.

EDIT: Interestingly, the same day #Facebook #Threads launches. Hmm... 🤔

The reason you probably didn't know about it, is because it was only announced* behind a proprietary centralized paywalled garden. (Not Twitter, but the same effect.)

Be ready.

* This is not a recommended way to run an #OpenSource community.

I think the only thing I wanna put out there for newbies landing on fedi is not only do you not have to censor words to evade bots, algorithms and searcher arguments; doing so actively harms the ability of people who want to set up mutes OR enhanced notifications to do so on that content.

Yeah some people might have muted the word 'commission' because they don't want to be exposed to opening ads for whatever reason.

Please don't do that. You don't have to here. We're big on individual agency to see or not see what we wanna.

if you're concerned that your instance is managed by a hobbyist administrator, take solace in the fact that your instance is not managed by elon musk

@sebsauvage challenge accepté.