The D Quuuuuill

great operating system, terrible roll out, horrible delusional pricing schedule

yeah i was hype about it until MS basically big timed everyone and was like “everyone will switch when they see how good the OS is, and then people will HAVE to make apps for it”

all while charging a fee

i dislike how those of us who aren’t okay with this are just supposed to get on board because “big tent.” nazis operate by getting their foot in the door and acting respectable. then after a little bit, suddenly they’ve taken the whole place over. it’s what they do with bars, it’s what they do with music scenes, it’s what they’ve done with past open source projects, it’s what they did with the Reform Party in the united states. i need people to stop making room for nazis as long as they behave themselves

you can configure muBlock to do everything NoScript does at a lower computational cost on your local machine

It’s my favorite. Interacting with it is just a thought and then you’re in your app. There’s no browsing trying to remember where in the list the app is, forgetting on the way which app you were looking for, opening one of the 3 apps you’re addicted to. It’s great

Niagara and KISS are IMO the best launchers out. Niagara is more polished, KISS is open source, requires few permissions, and has an almost pathological dedication to supporting low power hardware

if that

for anyone interested in picking a lane:

• rap: here, specifically, is how america is fucked
• punk: I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE
• funk: they want to see us sad, but i refuse to be
• bluegrass:

in 1872 my pappy was born on the coal fields of eastern kentucky. his mother loved him even though he didn’t look a thing like his daddy. his daddy loved him too. he looked just like the mine boss. you see back then the only way to make ends meet was for the woman of the family to supplement the income of her husband with sex work. but they loved him for being their son regardless of what he looked like. but i swear to fucking god, if i ever meet that sumbitch James Donald Bowman i’m going to break this goddamn banjo over his fucking head for reperpetuating my suffering by pretending to speak for me. because i love jesus, and that’s what jesus would have done. he whipped bankers, afterall

hotel. these adhoc ICE protests are outside of the major chain hotels DHS books reservations for their agents at

go open youtube in a private tab and see how long it takes for an innocuous video to get a recommended video from the manosphere, rightwingtube, or magaworld. youtube pushes nazi shit hard. if they’re not pushing it on you, it usually means their mathematical model for determining who right wing propaganda works best on indicates you’re not a good target, in which case they’ll mostly push meaningless drivel.

youtube and youtube culture have been dying a right wing nazi death for a decade now. all the best things people were doing are on patreon and nebula now

when consistent branding supersedes accessibility in priorities

they’ve been addicted to copying apple’s homework since 2018, even back when usability studies were showing android had the more accessible ux. but under capitalism, the market will always lead competitors to copy each other until all choice is washed away leaving de-personalization

Wait Kotatsu is shut down? Shit…

it’s a multipart series. i was able to find the title but not a feed or a link. it’s titled The Butterfly Effect

i’ll have to find it, but there’s a fascinating journalistic podcast about how pornhub’s position as the tech giant of the porn industry happened effectively the same as every tech giant: not as a labor of love to advance something, but as a cold blooded disruption of a market to establish a new oligarchic overlord of a market sector. pornhub’s position as an invasive species in the sex work ecosystem has made sex work far less humane than it was before. moreover, sex workers, given their complete lack of societal protection given our legal criminalization of their profession, are more vulnerable to the whims of a modern robber baron

Google killing inbox was what radicalized me to that the entire business model of big tech is bullshit

managers have insane priorities

time to go ham sandwich

And as we’re crossing border after border we realize the difference is none

bender turning a sign into a boat dot gif