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Nobody likes a sucker, especially the kind that fall for fruit tarts like you. I knew there was trouble. I could smell it on the hot evening breeze. Fortunately for me, trouble is my favorite thing… Because I’m Joe Milkshake. I kicked down the door with one swift, decisive motion.

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Too bad we were ignorant enough not too have a Norwegian translator in our ranks, though the next civilised settlement is fully Norwegian. I don’t need to know Norwegian though to tell this guy is disrespecting us!

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Yeah, its just common sense to smell if your toilet paper is poopy before you eat it.

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This repository has been archived by the owner on May 14, 2024. It is now read-only.

:(

I am actually using this for quite a while but since its not developed anymore I also need to prep for the inevitable. Posted on this actually but only got one good suggestion, web based server side only though, OliveTin.

See my post discuss.tchncs.de/post/17822391

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Puff is brothel in German. You know, by the way.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Tell me about those rules. I want to learn!

RootBeerGuy , (edited )
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Thankfully?

Edit: woah, what a novel below me. I don’t want him dead either. But the headline would have worked perfectly without this one word. Including it makes it just weird.

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Happy birthday, what a coincidence!!!

RootBeerGuy ,
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Do I seriously need to sign up on discord to get this?

RootBeerGuy , (edited )
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Haven’t run it but the contents look legit, just in case anyone wonders if they should risk downloading a random file from a stranger online, thanks Jack Sparrow!

It’s windows, so an exe, I will need to check if it runs later in Linux, not sure when I get to that.

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I disagree. Discord asked for my phone number when I tried to sign up, probably because I used a throwaway mail address and it detected that. No thanks.

RootBeerGuy ,
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That’s what I wondered, thanks!

RootBeerGuy ,
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Thanks for posting the next version as well! I do appreciate it.

Calls for J.D. Vance to resign after he admits that he created pet-eating story about immigrants (www.nj.com)

Just about every time J.D. Vance — the most unpopular vice presidential nominee in American history — opens his mouth, he ignites a firestorm of criticism and likely shaves another point off the Republican presidential ticket’s polling numbers....

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Some stories just sound more believable than others.

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Fuck me, I never thought I would live to see the day. And all of it so much on point. Please be successful.

RootBeerGuy ,
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If you have that many dangerous allergies I am not sure why you would go to any restaurant anymore.

Still, healthcare there is obviously fucked.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Right, this is a total binary question, there is obviously no nuance in how sick or disabled someone is so just kill them all and be done with it… /s in case someone misses the obvious sarcasm.

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Would be nice if you could elaborate what exactly you did different than all the others?

Edit: jeez, guys. It was just a question since they said “none of the others met their needs” so I was interested in that? Did that sound that rude? I am not a native English speaker, so I am not sure now. They are completely OK to ignore my question. But cool, will not ask that again and ignore such posts in the future.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Thank you! Also thanks for not getting discouraged to answer by all this comment mess.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Yeah and that’s actually exactly the problem that they are trying to solve. No one is taking any phone calls in class, they are browsing tiktok and diss each other on YouTube and whatever.

RootBeerGuy ,
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Its cool. Just go back to one the bazillion previous threads on nuclear waste disposal. There was a dude who said they’d gladly put all nuclear waste under their house since its so safe in modern times. Just contact that one, all good then.

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Maybe it’s a time traveller and the baby is the next Hitler.

OK, that was tasteless, I’ll see myself out…

RootBeerGuy ,
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Quadruple dipping because they publish both open access journals that authors pay extra for, plus the standard subscription journals where universities need to pay for access too. Subscription obviously never got cheaper, no matter if the amount of open access journals increased (didn’t check that though, but fits well into the scheme)

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Yeah, we don’t call them that anymore! Get with the times!

Someone dumped her, soaking wet, in the lobby of a restaurant today

Someone just walked into the restaurant i work at, dumped this soaking wet kitten in the lobby, and left without saying a word. I just got a kitten this month, so i took her home with me since i have kitten supplies and everyone else at work has too many pets....

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Oh man, I totally forgot about the Naomi Wu drama. I remember it kind of resolved in some way with some explanations of Linus maybe making some sense if you were generous. But under the light of everything that came after, eh, maybe it was serious after all.

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Well, at least he didn’t talk about a final solution… Or did he?

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I’m not American and I disagree with everything you wrote.

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Question, is buying games on Steam “owning”?

RootBeerGuy ,
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But then, how do you keep the game for later, like reinstalling it on a system that does not run steam, that won’t work right?

RootBeerGuy ,
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Yeah, that’s what I thought. Not trying to be a smart ass, I just keep seeing things like this for Ubisoft and other companies and people just crap on them, but then Steam is almost never criticised for the same issue (or I am not seeing those memes). I guess Valve makes enough other things right so people are more happy to overlook this?

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Yeah, promises change over time. Hope they can keep their promise on that but not sure how that would even be feasible with a catalogue that large.

RootBeerGuy ,
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It is easy to make if you have the know how and some equipment, also if it is already known what you need to make. For example, aspirin is known structurally (unless I am mistaken), so if you have the chemistry know-how and equipment, you can make your own.

However the tricky part is to get it as a safe medicine to take, that you do not have impurities that could be dangerous, toxic. You will need to be able to make quality and safety checks like that. Which I am not sure how easy that really is.

cybersecurity , (edited ) to fediverse

Welcome to Kagi, the paid search engine full of surprises, which today opened an account in the Fediverse!

@fediverse

@kagihq is the very interesting project for a paid search engine, without tracers and with an accuracy in identifying results such as to exclude all Google spam.

Those who believe that 's costs are too high, should reflect on a small detail: if Google lets all those searches be done "for free", who pays those costs? The answer might seem simple: "advertisers".

Yet this would be an incomplete answer: like saying that rain is caused by clouds!

In reality, those costs are paid by users, by being milked and letting Google extract their "value", a bit like in the human farm in Matrix...

We first heard about Kagi on the @lealternative website (unfortunately, since then the prices have increased a lot, raising many doubts about the sustainability of the project) and recently Cory Doctorow also talked about it on @pluralistic

In any case, we are really happy that a service like Kagi's, effective and respectful of users' privacy, has landed here in the .

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Aaah, now I get it. You guys made an account to post on. I saw the headline and I was busting my head how in the world a search engine would federate within the fediverse…

We went to see Squeeze and the guy in front of me was playing games on his phone the whole time. He came alone and barely paid attention. Why did he buy a ticket?

Picture of Difford and Tilbrook playing Hourglass since I didn’t take a picture of the guy who paid an admission fee to sit in a loud room and do crosswords on his phone....

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And he will never really watch those videos more than one time. Which means it would have been better not filming and enjoying the performance right there, in better quality.

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Not trying to have any gotcha moment or be deceptive but I am genuinely interested what made you go there and possible come back even to work more? Nothing else available and you needed the money maybe? Its OK if this is too personal a question to answer.

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Thanks for your reply! Glad to hear you actually quit that job.

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