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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of fake versions, the real one is on Telegram (instaflowupdates channel)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing InstaFlow exists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is to damage their economy, not reject free contributions for non-critical but useful software projects

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proceeds to use open source tooling with numerous contributions from US-based software developers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How the fuck is banning people in certain countries from contributing to small projects like this doing anything but shooting the FOSS ecosystem, which already has a severe shortage of developers, in the foot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By your logic developers in the US shouldn’t be allowed to contribute to free software either, after all the US is committing genocides and threatening to invade other countries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I use a Guix template I made which downloads necessary libraries and the LSP and pins the software versions, and I use the Helix text editor for editing. Not sure what the more common methods are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a nerd, also check out Typst and LaTeX. Being able to format your documents with pure code is awesome, and you can also define functions for different things, import libraries to generate graphs, and write comments that don’t show up in the document.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it increases your chances of getting accidentally added to confidential group chats

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I getting gore on my racism app?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This happened to a bunch of people yesterday, I ended up being one of them and my feed turned into absolute insanity, now it’s back to shitposts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because it has an algorithm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you slam on the brakes it makes the ad extra large

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to figure out how to network with people where I live and so far it’s been very difficult, partly because I’m very busy constantly and don’t have a car, and also because I’m depressed and my social skills are absolute garbage. At this point almost all of my social life for the past few years has been Lemmy, Reddit, and Instagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sooner or later we’re gonna have to bypass the Great Firewall of America by VPNing into China

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a student there is no way I am skipping a day’s worth of classes and risking my grade for a single protest that’s probably not going to do shit similar to the other protests I’ve been to that didn’t do shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More like 2 days depending on where in the state you live

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  dihydrogen monoxide is also dangerous, we must ban it as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TikTok is popular because it’s addicting, not because it’s useful, so I don’t understand why anyone would use this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sympathy for their PTSD⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well in Idaho, just about everyone I know who lives there supports Israel. And in Texas there are a bunch of people criticizing Kamala and our state’s Democratic candidate for Senator for being radically pro-Hamas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So now we’re going to have AI training other AIs