@saraislet@infosec.exchange2026-06-02 18:29:41
Unexpected oof.
"People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful. Your father had probably gotten his way for so long that he thought he was untouchable, and that is a dangerous way for a person to feel."
-Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
@peter_mcmahan@mas.to2026-07-01 23:17:58
Heavens help me, I'm asking for linux distribution advice on fedi. 🫣
It's becoming increasingly clear that I'll need to jump ship from Ubuntu very soon. I've been using linux as my only os for several years now, and I originally chose Ubuntu because I wanted web searches for "<error message> <distro name>" to generally just give me an answer. But every release has made things harder (like avoiding snap) and canonical seems dead set on driving their…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-06-02 01:12:55
Christmas presents come from Santa Claus. Easter baskets from the Easter Bunny. But where do birthday presents come from?
When I was little my brothers and I concluded that the answer was... The Birthday Moose.
One of the non-birthday brothers would be designated the Moose. The outfit of the day was a brown paper grocery bag with a pair of eyes drawn on it in black marker, a lunch bag taped on the front as a snout, and sometimes a pair of cardboard ears up top.
Notably, tra…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2026-09-01 10:00:01
Lets get it on <--> O, gentle tits
-- anagrama
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza2026-06-02 07:51:44
Weigh anchor and hoist the sails! ⚓️ Setting sail on the high seas today for some pirate gaming action on the Linux rig.
The Bazzite station is shipshape, the crew is ready, and there’s plunder to be found. Grab your grog and join the crew! 🐧🦜
🗺️ LIVE NOW: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-08-01 18:41:34
From Bill McKibben
"every politician worth her salt should at every opportunity at least mention the anti-renewables jihad that the Trump administration has launched—the number of Americans who support shutting down 90% finished windfarms is tiny, and the rest of us are truly annoyed.
"And in many ways this generation of politicians is the luckiest yet, because they have a tool to call on that make those pledges relatively easy to fulfill. With ever-cheaper power from t…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-08-27 16:12:07
@hippyjo@c.im2026-06-29 17:07:01
Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli: Ukraine hits above its weight class and Russia stumbles like drunken old bear with mange.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and poke Putin in the eye: https://
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-07-30 09:00:05
inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-29 14:09:31
Anthony Fauci, the former veteran director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid),
invoked the Fifth Amendment during a hearing before the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
During his long history in the government, he many times appeared before committee’s for hearings and respects the value of oversight.
“However, given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution,
his repeated slanderou…
