If one’s house stops being conducive to reading, research, “heads down” type work and hobbies, where does one go?
Libraries are nice for some things, but have very limited hours. Coffee shops are nice for an hour or so, but get expensive and become loud unpredictably. Outdoor spaces are good in fine weather but where I live, most days are not conducive to reading or sketching or typing outdoors.
What other options are there?
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Ok pocket friends: give me your best trip-hop tracks, deep cuts, and adjacent sounds.
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Kid2: May LEGO manifest under your feet!
Kid1: holy shit, calm down satan
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I was putting together a little guide for a local community about hosting an onion site, and I had intended to link Tor's guide for setting them up. But the URL I have -- https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-onion-service -- now redirects to an FAQ that has no real information about setting up an onion
Firstly: wtf tor project? Why aren't you maintaining a good guide to hosting onions anymore?
Secondly: does someone know of a good guide someone else maintains that I could use/contribute to? I'm happy to write one, but it's faster if something already exists...
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Nerd mutual aid is using each other’s NAS for offsite backups
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Mein Toast BRENNT! heavy guitar
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The reality is that these vendors, if they don't want to screw over all the custom rules they wrote and all the features they rely on, only had a handful of ways to respond:
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Here's what #opengrep should have said, IMO:
"Semgrep has made the decision to move some previously-open-source features under a proprietary license for any future development. This left us with a problem to solve, as our customers -- and other users of semgrep-oss -- rely on those features.
We respect Semgrep's business decision. Nevertheless, our concern about this decision and the message that we can't rely on their "open core" to continue to provide popular features has led us to exercise our rights under the LGPL and create Opengrep. We're committed to changing our products to use this fork in order to preserve the features our customers rely on, and intend place governance of the project into the hands of a non-profit foundation to ensure that no single vendor can change licenses or remove features in the future.
We believe that there's a place for both opengrep and semgrep-oss, and are hopeful that good ideas can cross-polinate between the projects."
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Welp, #opengrep (https://www.opengrep.dev/) is a great example of something that seems like it was a reasonable thing to do, but put together by people who do not understand community relations or messaging.
It's pretty clear that what really happened is that Semgrep moved some features from their LGPL-licensed open-source core into their proprietary-licensed "pro" product (and there were some license changes around community rules, but those were never open-source anyway, so that's whatever).
A bunch of companies that compete with Semgrep at some level relied on those features. They had pretty limited choices to respond, and decided to fork semgrep-oss into opengrep, and commit to giving it to a foundation to defend against future license changes. This is the least-bad outcome for the community (more on that in 🧵 ).
However, the way they made the announcement tries to cast Semgrep as a "bad guy" and act like the opengrep cabal is somehow a champion of open-source -- which is precious because they contributed very little to the open core as it was.
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If anyone feels the desire to do something to honor my partner’s memory, the best possible ways to do this are:
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My partner died last night. It wasn’t pretty for us, but it was, thankfully, pretty peaceful for them. Their mom and daughter were there, as were all their partners, and that means a lot.
My kids are doing surprisingly ok at the moment, but I think it’s kind of not real for them yet. It’s barely real for me.
Fuck Cancer.
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Today I'm struggling with how to politely tell a senior engineer "this code doesn't need to be revised, it needs to be taken out and shot"
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Teenage Incel MAGA Turtles
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This house is innocent! It’s been framed!
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Your random reminder that it’s nearly impossible to mock a fool in a way that will even land. Mockery is a tool to let everyone else know that someone is a fool—it does not change the fool. At BEST they’ll vaguely feel insulted and get mad.
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99% of the anti-trans movement is just so unserious. “The twans scawy, won’t the cops pwease protec me?” :neocat_pleading:
For a movement that has so many “I’m a real manly manly man who is totally self-sufficient” weirdos, it sure has a lot of terrified little mice who will give up the fundamental contract of democracy in order to have Daddy State protect them from imagined harms.
It would be outright hilarious if it weren’t for that remaining 1% who are split between people who have a focused hatred and people who honestly don’t care but see an opportunity to gain power by oppressing trans folks.
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I took the day off to just bum around in the city. The “right after morning commute” crowd coming through the coffee shop is a hilarious shit show.
So far I’ve seen two people get mad for literally no reason and one person respond to me saying “hey! I like your plushie!” with “fuck off I have a boyfriend”. Hopefully the coffee will improve their moods :blobcatgooglycofecup:
I also saw someone get an extra cup of coffee, squat down next to the panhandler outside the door, give him the coffee, and say “cold one, George! You doin’ ok?” And a youngish queer couple with a decided morning-after glow play-fighting over who would buy coffee for whom.
I’m glad I’m doing this. I needed it!
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Seen: a person with a stocking cap, ultra-warm ski jacket with hood up, thick gloves and boots, and… capri-length leggings
Do… do your legs just not feel cold?!
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So while Tor is not automatically safe, using it routinely does make it more costly for power-abusers to de-anonymize you. And this layer of protection applies to Onions: Tor makes it possible for pretty much anyone to host a website from wherever they can get Internet access.
There’s an opportunity here to make a more resilient “small web”, and force those in power to have to spend a lot more resources if they want to take something down or identify someone to punish. Routine use of this for stuff that’s “safe” increases protection for stuff that helps undermine abusive power structures.
Start an onion this week, put up something silly or fun or useful on it, and keep it running as long as you can.
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Look, if we’re going to have a fascist pseudo-dictatorship, can we at least get the trains?
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