LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@social.cleverlibre.org

People around the world use sites that rely on proprietary JavaScript - often without realizing it. Nonfree JavaScript subjugates users in the same way as any piece of proprietary software. We should reject it. https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/freejs

Companies won't stop if the public continues to not care about slave labor in the supply chain. Learn more here https://youtu.be/4sosw26Qq1I

Me at my local department store: Hello good sir, can you please direct me to your in-store horologist, I would like to buy a chronometer.

Clerk: Ummm, I think you have the wrong store.

Me: Oh never mind there they are ::walks towards the watch display case::

#democracy #republic #USA
#ignorant #banal #parrots

If I hear another person ignorantly parrot the phrase, "We're not a democracy, we're a republic!", I think I'll puke.

Democracy has many forms. The form of democracy we have in the US is a representative democracy. Because it is not a monarchy, it is also a republic. (A republic is a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who is accountable to the public.)

**** "Democracy" and "republic" are not mutually exclusive. ****

Here's Merriam-Webster's current definition of democracy:

"a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections"

Here's an image of the definition from Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1785, at the time when our country was formed:

#windows

So you know you are disconcerting and strange.

For those of you using youtube-dl, Google is being scummy and it's throttling the connection to their servers to those using it.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326

For now, the workaround to make it work is to switch to yt-dlp, which is a fork of youtube-dl.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Interesting fact of the day: The term "patching" software originates from the fact that you would literally patch holes in early hole punch input in order to fix an issue. Attached is a picture with such patches on it from the Harvard Mark I computer.

Museums are finding it nearly impossible to post imagery containing artistic nudity on social media because their posts keep getting deleted and accounts suspended or banned, so Vienna's museums opened a page on OnlyFans.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/16/vienna-museums-open-adult-only-onlyfans-account-to-display-nudes

TikTok closed the Alberta museum account for showing an obscured woman's breast.

Facebook ruled the 25,000 year old Venus of Willendorf figurine as pornographic and removed the post.

Beware of social media attacks

I decided not to censor the user names.

"4 months into my first sof-dev job and getting serious impostor syndrome"

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#animeirl

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+21 in the last week

tumb.ly

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It takes 2 seconds to pick up a penny. That's technically $18 an hour. More
than I make at work.
-gohamstergo, Jan 2015