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Toorkit··on Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
I'd love to have some first hand experience.
Toorkit··on The happiest I've ever been
My happiness peaked sometime around 10-11 years old, it's been downhill ever since
Toorkit··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
My CPU can run Windows 11 fine, but what I don't tolerate is full-screen ad pop-ups on my desktop.

When Win10 popped up an ad for Win11, I moved fully to Linux the next day.

Toorkit··on AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools
99% of students had cafeteria lunch and I was one of a couple with a lunch box. Teachers in the hallway would see it and get mad until I showed them my sandwich lol.
Toorkit··on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?
Not just the US, my village in Germany has a limit of 30 kph, people drive through with 60.
Toorkit··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
My bank replaced it's banktown.com url with b-twn.com, I thought I was on a phishing site, but it's legitimate.
Toorkit··on LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users
DOMINATE
Toorkit··on Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]
I asked some really stupid questions on IRC when I first heard of this "Linux" thing as a kid. Good times!
Toorkit··on What does it mean to be thirsty?
Cold Clear Vater
Toorkit··on The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month
Any app/website/program/whatever where one might typically use an emoji usually has a button next to the input for selecting one.

So, yeah, I've never needed a dedicated emoji picker myself, even though I've had Rofimoji installed for a while.

Toorkit··on Why English doesn't use accents
Fritteuse.
Toorkit··on Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity
Ha, I actually had to do this last year while setting up Arch Linux on my desktop.

I have to use this wifi dongle, but using IWD to connect somehow only gave me an ipv6 IP.

Most of the big sites worked, but trying to click links from a search engine was a 50/50 chance.

Thankfully, the Arch wiki was accessible, so I got it sorted out pretty quickly.

Toorkit··on You Don't Own the Word "Freedom"
Not what I said either. That's like saying we're segregating the Linux Mint from the Ubuntu users.
Toorkit··on You Don't Own the Word "Freedom"
Linux is just a base that people stack other software on top of. Audio crash? Pulse or Pipe wire?

Then the dozens of desktop environments, each doing things differently, split between X11 and Wayland.

I feel like blind devs should get together and make a distro that, out of the box, has as many accessibility features as possible, because it seems a lost cause to wait for some other distro to pick the right combination of tools.

Toorkit··on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app
It's about time they added AI features to paperclips.
Toorkit··on MinC Is Not Cygwin
Playing fine for me, also Firefox on Android.
Toorkit··on You Commit Three Felonies a Day (2013)
Absolutely. I have a flawless record.
Toorkit··on What if we made advertising illegal?
I can still remember ads on TV from when I was a kid. Mind worms, embedded deep. And it makes me angry.
Toorkit··on I spent 18 years in the Linux console
They also popped open a full screen Windows 11 ad after I closed a game last year. That's when I went back to Linux.
Toorkit··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
"Hey guys, it's time to talk about our sponsor, Surf shark VPN"
Toorkit··on Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds
Then you say "it's a handheld gaming device" and the matter is settled.
Toorkit··on I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)
Those are called Vans.
Toorkit··on Looking for a Job Is Tough
Oh, if you give it the old "pretty please" then of course no one is going to use AI.
Toorkit··on Programmer in Berlin: Culture
>Germany is the only country in europe where patriotism is considered right-wing and not seen well

Unless it's soccer time, then they're clad in flags and screaming "'SCHLAAAND!"

Toorkit··on Unix core utilities implemented in Haskell
Hear, hear.

I totally understand why developers love python, but as an end user I dread seeing the .py extension.

Toorkit··on Security flaws found in all Nvidia GeForce GPUs. Update drivers ASAP
On Windows you have to either download the driver updates manually, or install that GeForce Experience thing that keeps them up to date for you.
Toorkit··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration
Hah, I blame my job. Different shift every few days, always tired.

I'd love to try a fixed sleep schedule, but sometimes I don't get home until 2am, other times I have to get up at 7:30am.

Toorkit··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration
On my days off, I can sleep 12 hours if I don't set an alarm. And I could easily do more, if I didn't force myself out of bed.
Toorkit··on We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
How can they be low? Here it's nearly 3 euros for a thimble of ice cream lol
Toorkit··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
I got my license in 2014, in Germany, and was taught to turn on the turn signal > check mirrors > turn your head to look over your shoulder and only then, when you're clear, do you merge.
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