Not sure how to feel about the fact that running your own mail server is now considered so nuts that the AI's consider list serves to be a form of self-harm 😂

Suppose I wanted to donate cash to organizations who were _effectively_ countering or blunting the harmful policies the government is implementing - particularly for marginalized communities. What organizations should I prioritize giving money to?.

The most frustrating thing about cotton candy flavored Vapes to me is that occasionally people smoke them in areas where I could reasonably expect to buy cotton candy and then I get super disappointed when it turns out there isn't any.

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Remember UK, you didn't _just_ vote for age verification to access adult sites, you also voted to make yourself create an account on said sites that will individually track everything you read and watch there. Have fun with that, especially when that data is inevitably breached!.

Hey @duolingo do you care about paying users _at all_?Because I've been trying to get support for a week over why my "Super duolingo family plan" suddenly kicked us all out and can't be re-activated, and heard crickets. 5-year paying customer about to cancel over here. .

The national guard: . JOIN To serve your community in times of need. STAY to be pressed into service as a prison guard.

/r/preppers: "Paracord doesn't hold knots". My brother, you are not tying the correct knots or you are not tying them correctly.

According to my NextDNS analytics and blocklists, something in my home tries to send tracking info about me to the internet on average once every 21 seconds.

NextDNS has been a really great privacy decision. This is ONE day's traffic. Yeah, I could do all this with Unbound and pushing local DoH servers and maintaining them, but even as much as I love running infrastructure, for $2 a month it's just too easy a win.

This NextDNS blocking UX feels like a trap. It defaults to "on" and you have to either accept web censorship based on unknown third-party criteria OR essentially say "I DO want to see child abuse material". It's the "Yes or no: do you still beat your wife?" of UX settings.

Dear streaming customer, as of $very_soon your streaming bundle, $things_you_like will no longer include $main_thing_you_like. To see that you'll need $different_tier. We value your business, which is why we constantly renege on the deal we made with you. - Every streamer ever.

I was mulling over a principle of incident response today and wondered what others in my field might think. Yes or no: "To operate effectively, incident responders need to be able to obtain at least the same level of access to a system as the attacker has potentially obtained.".

Sadly I will not be filling out the National Survey on Children's Health questionnaire that the US Census Bureau sent me, because with all the crazy DOGE stuff going on I have no idea how the data will actually be used, and the privacy policy is meaningless garbage.

I know the world is going to hell and everything is terrible everywhere but tonight this entire multiracial, multinational block are blasting Bon Jovi and setting off fireworks that are definitely frowned upon by regulators, and everything feels ok for a little while.

My holiday hot take: . I'm glad people can send their AI note takers to meetings in their place, because anyone who wants to do that wasn't planning to contribute anything or isn't necessary to reach agreements, and would probably have slowed everyone down.

I just want to know how, as a species, we got here:

It's crazy how the Republicans finally figured out that it takes 60% of Congress to go to war, but only 51% of Congress to just not hold the president accountable for doing it illegally.

OK, hear me out: Reboot "I Love Lucy" but with Maya Rudolph and Jason Mantzoukas.

IOT: "This is great, the oven will tell me when it's preheated!". (Later). "Aw hell no, I do not like this."