Although depending on your configuration, it might be a battle against spammers.

I wish it wouldn’t be that complicated just to sit. I’m a short man (5’6") and it’s impossible to sit correctly in most office chairs, as the seats are simply too big. My knees can’t bend if my back is against the backrest.

Also they are often too tall and my feet don’t touch the ground, so I need a foot stool.

Even fucking desks are too high.

So I have a chair that’s too big and too high, and a desk that’s also too high when I’m sitting.

I hate that the world is standardized around an average. Finding an appropriate desk or chair for smaller people, at an affordable price, is a pretty good challenge.

Billionaires should NOT exist.

I still have an IRC server but the eggdrop’s usefulness has pretty much been reduced to fetching YouTube titles and the URL of images on tenor. Its main use was to fetch titles for all URLs pasted on channels where it is, but because me and most of the users are now using TheLounge as a client, there is no need for that anymore, except for a few exceptions. At one point it was also displaying all the things my friends upvoted on reddit, but since reddit closed its API and I came here…

IRC with TheLounge is still very useful though.

That’s me with TCL.

I’ve had an eggdrop for years (obviously) and I’m very bad with TCL, so any new script that I want to add is a bash script executed by the TCL script.

Yes. It’s always strange when some people want to ban an app because of potential espionage, data gathering, and national security, when most of the computers in governments and the corporate world are using Windows. Even if there are corporate versions that won’t gather as much telemetry, and even if Microsoft has not shown sings of bending the knee to the new fascist administration in the US, it’s also a matter of security, in addition to a boycott.

Yes, we’re seeing that right now in the US. Armed minorities are rising up against the emerging fascist government.

In fact, this government is showing clear signs of wanting to repeal gay marriage and rights for LGBTQ people, and I’m sure them being armed will prevent all of this.

And then you will be disappeared for being against genocide.

EDIT: Sorry I meant for being pro Hamas.

Those headlines always make it seem like a big deal, but I’ll only allow myself some joy when I’ll know for sure Elon Musk will be homeless. Times and times again I’ve seen headlines like this, where billionaires are losing billions, the stock market is crashing, it’s never been this bad!!! But in the end, they eventually get those billion back and nothing changes.

They said such an app could be used for espionage and tracking down locations of federal employees and contractors.

But an operating system by an American corporation, and its office software, and authentication services, used by governments, business and citizens, is just fine.

I understand Twitter is used as a propaganda tool, but if we are also talking about espionage and tracking, then we should also pay attention to how many people and organizations are using companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google.

Might? Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years

However, he’s obviously destroying the US government and bureaucracy right now, but I don’t think he’s destroying his own businesses on purpose. He’s just dumb.

Sadly it’s more difficult to turn computers, websites, tech services, and operating systems upside down.

It’s a nice idea for small physical products but it would also be nice to have a movement to boycott and give alternatives to American tech services.

I agree with the sentiment but I work in IT and yearn for when we will get rid of Microsoft, Amazon, and the tech giants.

My mother won’t buy anything American at the grocery store but uses Amazon and Facebook every day.

My coworkers won’t buy American products but use Windows, Teams, and Office every day.

I may be using Linux, open source software, and avoid American tech when possible, but I still use Google and Gmail.

At some point we may want to (or should) also extend that boycott to software and tech services. Have our governments, institutions and people not dependent on American corporations. It can only be good for our sovereignty anyway.

In a way it’s a good thing that other countries are boycotting US products, they’ll avoid getting sick by eating American food.

“You may test that assumption at your convenience.”

Honestly, I wouldn’t have thought that something with that title could have been an Onion article. And to me that’s what “Not The Onion” is all about.

It doesn’t suffice that it’s simply a real article, it must make people wonder if it’s satire or not.

In your case, maybe if it was worded differently, but the way it is, it doesn’t make me think it could be something I confused for an Onion headline.

We have a good chunk of the technology. We should eventually build our own. After all, India built their nuclear weapons from Canadian tech.

On May 18, 1974, India shocked the world by conducting a test A-Bomb explosion it called 'Smiling Buddha. ’ The nuclear explosive was plutonium, obtained from a ‘peaceful’ research reactor – a gift from the Canadian government in 1956.

For some reason, January made me think a lot about Londo’s inauguration.

I can understand why an individual would want to move in another country. But it’s also ironic given the fact that every American I talk to, even the most progressives, are usually telling me that we, people in other countries, need guns to protect ourselves in case our government turns tyrannical.

Sure, tell me how having armed people in your society is making your government fear you. I’m sure all those precious guns to protect your citizens against the abuse of your own government are working well.

Any day now we should see those gun owning liberty defenders do something against their fascist government. Or, they will try to move somewhere else and bring their guns, because liberty!!1! You know, just in case the government turns to fascism and tyranny.

This looks more like paranoia than tips about privacy. Everyone has a fucking giant TV inside their home. Everyone has hobbies.

Unless you are actively targeted by some psycho… or the police. This just makes everyone thinks everyone else around them is out to rob and steal from them. But being from the US and from the police, it’s not very surprising. You also need a gun to protect yourself and your family from potential home invaders, you never know because the country is full of robbers and violent people! Don’t trust anyone! Just get your kids from school in your giant bulletproof SUV and drive straight to your McMansion where you can barricade yourself with all your precious stuff. In fact you should also take care to hide your McMansion behind a fake facade of poor people’s houses to avoid having less fortunate people target it as a potential place to rob.

Every poor person is plotting to rob you! So if you show clues and get robbed, it’s gonna be your fault and the police will let you know you were stupid for putting a dirt bike sticker on your expensive SUV.

Anyway, this is all just ridiculous in the first place. If someone wants to know you’re not home and steal crap from you, stickers or not, you’re already sitting in your fucking car, while not being home. It’s already a pretty big clue. Otherwise, are home invaders that diligent in the first place? Are they going to stalk people before robbing their home? Really, the stickers on my expensive SUV parked in front of my big house and the big garage is indicating that there might be expensive crap in my house and in my garage? I’m shocked to see how revealing those stickers can be!

In fact, this being from the police just shows how much they profile and judge the shit out of people before even speaking to them.