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hdnclr

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  • Discord's IPO could happen in March

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  • Good riddance. I hate that so many communities moved from forums to using Discord. It's such a ratty little pigeon hole for communications to go and get lost in forever. It's a shitshow for anything other than instant, live messaging. And so many communities use it as their only real forum. The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord's IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.

  • Microsoft Will Be Ending Support For This Popular Software In October 2026 - SlashGear

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  • I had to make a newsletter for work for a while, and the template I was given was in Publisher. It was a little bit of a pain sometimes but actually fun to use once you figured out its quirks. And it had some quirks- like, you know how you move an image 1mm in Word sometimes and the entire document gets lanky? Well, Publisher is like if they kinda fixed that but the regular word processing was actually the janky part. It's a Microsoft office product through and through, and you can definitely tell.

  • What are your biggest annoyances with the Lemmy client you use?

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  • No real annoyances on either the desktop site or the mobile website tbh. I don't even need a client for my phone because the mobile site is that good - which I wish I could say the same about for other social media apps/websites who've intentionally kneecapped their mobile web UI to force users onto their app. Glad Lemmy is fully accessible and usable in a smartphone's web browser, I hope it stays that way.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    hdnclr @beehaw.org

    Anyone using a Linux Smarphone?

  • Unfortunately, Donald Trump is Not a Socialist

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  • I mean, I pretty regularly have to debunk the idea that Hitler was a leftist. My dad firmly believes it, because "he was anti-gun and hated freedom, and called himself a national Socialist!"

    I've explained, until I'm blue in the face, that restricting freedom is right-wing, yes even restricting gun rights can be right-wing, and that Hitler deliberately chose the name "National Socialist" to fool leftists into coming ti meetings - like he straight up admits that in Mein Kampf.My dad is not somebody who ever learns new information or changes his mind easily, though, so I'll probably never successfully convince him that nazism was a right wing movement and not even slightly leftist.

  • Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun

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  • And, like, what do you do on Linux about that key? Is there a way to just make it act as an additional Super key, or do anything at all without Logitech's program?

  • Should Lemmy.ca defederate from Maga Place?

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  • I get that's what they're saying right now. And I even get how one might be able to go along with labeling "violent" rhetoric from trans people (with the particular example being those who believe that opposition to their existence is a violent threat) as terrorist. But I also have studied history and understand very well that this is one of the more common ways that the path towards atrocities begins, and that it's not just coincidentally possible for these policy proposals to be abused, it's likely the intent.

    Why else would they also seek a blanket revocation of our right to bear arms?

    I would also suggest looking at some of the talking heads who cheerlead for this sort of thing: people like Nancy Mace who use the word "Tranny" to refer to us, makes no distinction when calling all of us a threat, and openly call for us all to be institutionalized. Two sitting members of Congress have called for that, by the way. They're going well past the Heritage Program's proposal, because those mouthpieces' purpose in the propaganda machine is to prime the public for the next steps on the ladder. First the targets are rhetorically marked with rhetoric that depicts us as a risk to others, then we are subtly pushed out of public life - through things like bathroom bans and the repeal of discrimination protections, making it more and more difficult to go out in public or hold down a job; Then, the rhetoric begins depicting us as not just a risk, but as violent and dangerous, and the laws proposed are things that a "moderate" could feasibly entertain - just arresting members of the target group who might have used violent language, or might be involved in resistance activities against the government. Simultaneously, the loudest mouths start ramping up rhetoric calling for the removal of all of the target group from society, either by putting them in prisons or institutions or "camps". <--- you are here.

    Not calling it what it is, is either a shameful act of cowardice or a pitiful display of ignorance. I just hope more people figure out what's going on before we start getting put in institutions.

    By the way, by admitting that what I see happening looks a lot like historical examples of the steps towards genocide, it is possible to paint me as a terrorist under the proposed TIVE categorization. Just because I have an interest in staying alive and use my first amendment rights to call out this shit.

  • Should Lemmy.ca defederate from Maga Place?

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  • I could certainly cite the Heritage Foundation, who are currently pushing for the FBI to define all transgender people as terrorists and lock us all up. That would definitely destroy any argument that anybody's trying to do a Genocide here, right?

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    Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?

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  • There’s people who think parts of my lifestyle are a mental disorder. That’s their problem, not mine tho.

    It must be nice that there's not a dedicated ideological movement hell-bent on making it your problem.

    Who did he want eradicated from public life?

    Transgender people.

    Honestly it seems like you're pretty dedicated to just defending this guy's ideas and ideology, so you know exactly what you're doing and why it's wrong, and it's a waste of time to talk to you.

  • Should Lemmy.ca defederate from Maga Place?

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  • I will just leave you with the fact that the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued a warning for the US, and alsp has issued a particular warning for trans people in the US. If you're familiar with the stages of genocide, that may also help you to see clearly what is going on.

    Whether you believe me or think I'm hysterical, i will still be preparing to leave this country at a moment's notice and be prepared to submit an asylum claim upon arrival in Canada. I don't think it gets more real than that.

  • Should Lemmy.ca defederate from Maga Place?

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  • Yeah, maybe you should open your eyes and see what trans people and immigrants in this country see: the clear escalation towards genocide both in their rhetoric, and in public policy aimed at separation and detention of the target groups.

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    Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?

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  • His videos where he called empathy a sickness, said homosexuality is a disease, or the ones where he said that People of Color were less capable than white people? Or maybe you haven't stumbled across him saying that Black people were better off under slavery. Idk, I might just be biased, as someone who he wanted to see eradicated from public life. Maybe if you have a friend who's black or gay or trans, they might help you out with being able to spot plain and open bigotry that is apparently going right over your head.

  • Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27

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    1. A shitton of people have lived economic realities that don't allow them to splurge on a phone at all, even if they'd really like digital freedom or privacy. See: half of the global smartphone market, where Android Go and KaiOS enabling cheap smartphones lead to millions of sales.

    2. People who can and want to don't even make the jump because the reality of owning a non-iOS/Android phone is that it requires sacrifices. I went to a concert last night that required me to have the Ticketmaster app to even get in. Everyone at that concert had to have either an iOS or Android phone, myself included. I'm testing Ubuntu Touch on a second phone, but if I make it my daily driver, I'm going to have to keep a second phone around for stuff like that. Ecosystems are too locked down now, and unfortunately you will have to either miss out on some things, or adapt hard-core.

    3. The devices and software have to be there. Right now there are only a handful of truly modern devices thar you can load Ubuntu Touch or another Linux distro on, and they're... not quite straightforward for non-techy people to get up and running. Which is, believe it or not, the vast majority of users.

    2025 being the year of the alternative smartphone OS seems just about as likely as any other year being the year of the Linux desktop.

  • Should Lemmy.ca defederate from Maga Place?

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  • Allowing a MAGA forum to coexist here isn't simply allowing "differing opinions" - their "opinion" is known, and it invariably moves us up the rungs on the ladder toward genocide. I say this as someone whose own parents are in the MAGA cult: defederate. Don't allow that ideology to fester in your community. Have individual discussions with the people in your own life to pull them back from the brink, if you feel safe doing so, but don't allow that growth in the petri dish that is your collective, or you will wake up with an infection. Set boundaries or get taken over.

  • what questions do you have but don't feel you can ask trans people?

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  • The comment alluded to Transracial identities as a (very cherry-picked and extreme) example. I do really, genuinely wonder whether we should uncritically accept the validity of people who identify as transracial, especially people who benefit from whiteness but self-identify as a member of a marginalized race. What is the instances stance on transracial identities? Another question- do you have racially marginalized mods, and how do they feel about the subject?

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • Oh Gods, I learned the hard way to never roll back a package unless you really know what you're doing. And I learned that lesson way back in 2013 or 2014, when I'd only been using Linux for a year or two full-time. Now I'm on a rolling distro and have everything as purely the latest version, and if I come across some weird thing that involves rolling back a package to an older version, I will simply not do that and will look for other solutions instead. Sometimes it's as simple as creating a symlink so that when a program looks for libWhatever2.1.5 it gets quietly redirected to libWhatever2.6.0

  • how can we make Lemmy as popular as Reddit

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  • Why not a fifth or even just an tenth as popular as reddit? I get wanting it to be more active, especially for the niche communities to feel more active, but the last thing I want is to go to the "All" tab here and see anything remotely like /r/all on Reddit.

  • The left really needs to get more proficient with using AI. The IQ benefits alone are staggering.

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  • Ah, yes, the IQ benefits of letting machines think for you and blindly trusting what they spit out, while you atrophy your own critical thinking skills and lose the ability to have independent critical thought or produce any kind of useful analysis without said machines, so you develop a need to consume gallons of water and burn square acres of forest every time you need to do any kind of analysis or write anything of substance... yeah, those IQ benefits. Sure.

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    hdnclr @beehaw.org

    Has anyone pirated their internet?

  • Firefox Forever

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  • While I do agree that their focus should absolutely be on the browser, I do actually really like that they offer a paid Wireguard-based VPN with endpoints in dozens of countries. I think that makes sense for them, given their mission and everything, and actually gives them a revenue source.

  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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  • They still sold user data without being upfront about it until caught, and are still running a shady-ass business. They're at the intersection of crypto, bigotry, and dishonesty.

    Not using or advocating for Brave is pretty simple.

  • Occult @lemmy.ml
    hdnclr @beehaw.org

    Broken Mirror!