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RupertReynolds

@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io

Born at less than 320ppm CO₂.

Programmer and bus driver. It's a long story :-)

Based northern UK & Scotland

Europhile, especially since I worked 1½ years in north Holland.

Currently: C#, C, the language that shall not be named

#Assembly (for fun) on Intel PC and IBM #mainframe (emulated, these days. Download and unzip "TK4-" and you can play, as well).

#rexx #PL1 #SAS too.

Also other things, including a compiler for a new language. That should be ready in a decade. Or 2.

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mondoweiss , to israel group
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We stand alongside Princeton University students in demanding divestment, boycott, and an end to the university's silence over the genocide in Gaza.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/princeton-alumni-call-on-university-to-divest-and-end-complicity-in-genocide/


@palestine @israel

RupertReynolds ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel I want to see a war crimes trial over this. I mean key people in Israel, USA, my own UK and anyone else involved.

I don't pretend that Hamas and other resistance fighters in Palestine are innocent. But the world will only be able to judge them after the full truth comes out.

pluralistic , to random
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Pining for the fjords

RupertReynolds ,
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@pluralistic Slartibartfast would like & boost this, if he could.

pluralistic , to random
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Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/#the-algorithm-tm

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    @pluralistic I think of "felony contempt of business model" every time I install the CSS library (to read copy-protected DVDs) along with apps such as VLC to play DVDs on Linux :-)

    Apparently, doing that to watch DVDs (which I bought new) on the wrong sort of player is naughty. Oh well.

    RupertReynolds ,
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    @Darkbug @Feeee23 My FW13 is happy on 22.04 LTS, and 24 is too recent for me. After getting bitten by (what looks like) an optimisation bug with gcc -O3 in Fedora 40, I'm back on Ubuntu, and holding back with 22.04 LTS for a while longer :-)

    RupertReynolds ,
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    @OsrsNeedsF2P Again, in English please...

    RupertReynolds ,
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    @OsrsNeedsF2P Or French, or Dutch.

    rbreich , to random
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    Amazon squeezed sellers and jacked up prices.

    Google stamped out competitors in search.

    Facebook used buy-or-bury schemes to crush competition.

    Apple used its immense power to kill off challengers.

    All four face major antitrust cases from the US government.

    It's about time.

    RupertReynolds ,
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    @rbreich In the words of Cory Doctorow, commenting on the relaxing of anti-trust law around 40 years ago to ease up on monopolies:- "40 years later, we have a lot of monopolies."

    pluralistic , to random
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    The case for VPNs

    An NYC subway as for Mull bad VPN FREE THE INTERNET FROM ENDLESS DATA COLLECTION. FROM BIG TECH COMPANIES MAPPING YOUR LIFE. FROM INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS TREATING YOUR PERSONAL DATA AS A COMMODITY, FROM AUTHORITIES MONITORING FREE EVERY CLICK YOU MAKE. FROM DATA BROKERS HARVESTING YOUR EVERY SCROLL. FROM AI PRODUCING PERSONAL PROFILES BASED ON YOUR ONLINE BEHAVIOR, FROM AD NETWORKS TRACKING YOU FROM ONE SITE TO ANOTHER, FROM ALGORITHMS USING YOUR BROWSING HISTORY TO NARROW YOUR ONLINE EXPERIENCE. THE INTERNET FROM MICRO TARGETING TRYING TO CONTROL AND SHAPE YOUR FUTURE DECISIONS, FROM CENSORSHIP AND MASS SURVEILLANCE. FIGHT FOR PRIVACY.
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    RupertReynolds ,
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    @pluralistic I like Mullvad. I use it when I'm on public Wi-Fi, when I need to be in another country...

    RupertReynolds ,
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    @sarmale @mineapple

    Why is the US <Enter> so small? ;-)

    Several countries have <Enter> taller, and wider at the top.

    My UK keyboard is the same, and I'm probably too old to adapt to a smaller <Enter> and having the | \ @ ~ and # in (what I see as) the wrong places :-)

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