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dko

@dko@infosec.exchange

He/him.

Lapsed craftsperson
No spoons, only knives
Too-earnest chronic illness fuckup

Header image is a church sign that reads:
THOSE PREVENTING HISTORY
FROM BEING TAUGHT
INTEND TO REPEAT IT

Profile image by @heyheymomo.
A smiling amorphous cartoon blob gleefully riding a bicycle.
It has swept back handlebars and the back tire is kicking up a modest cloud of dust.

if you suspect i'm flirting with you, please know that i unequivocally think you're cute, but am almost certainly being open and effusive rather than amorous.

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This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

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Substitoot is a free open source add-on for web browsers which automatically fetches complete Mastodon threads from the original server. This is useful if you think some replies are missing due to federation issues.

➡️ Substitoot for Firefox (also works on Firefox for Android): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/substitoot/

➡️ Substitoot for Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/substitoot-%E2%80%94-improved-mas/oedncfcpfcmehalbpdnekgaaldefpaef

➡️ Substitoot's source code: https://github.com/virtulis/substitoot?tab=readme-ov-file

Would be nice to know people's opinions and experiences about this add-on 🤔

(via @manu)

dko ,
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@FediTips @manu i've been using this since i saw this toot and it works great!

«however», it seems to basically disable user blocking. looking at the notes, this is a known issue. i was very confused that i was seeing multiple accounts i thought i'd blocked some time ago in replies and shrugged it off until I thought of disabling the extension and saw a return to expected behavior.

this makes it unusable for me and, i suspect, others.

once this is fixed, i'd love to reinstall the extension as well as fund it. this fixes many of the significant problems with the fedi and my time with it has been really easy and i've found it helpful.

thank you for mentioning it and making it, even if it never goes any further.

ElleGray , to random
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don't get me wrong, the rap battle is fun, but a fight between men named Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Aubrey Drake Graham should really involve dueling with swords at dawn

dko ,
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@ElleGray
Less Emcee
More Épée

dko , to random
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today marks the first time i've had to block a page element in mastodon

fuck. i don't want to have to move somewhere else again.

between the significant criticisms of Eugen's actions, the eagerness with which people want to introduce genocidists from meta (both the company and its users) into the fedi, and more and more "features" being added, this feels a lot like the early years of every one of the social networks i've had to leave

» the devs make compromises
» the devs make engagement a KPI
» the core features don't improve
» monetization

if ya'll aren't a fossil like me, you might not have seen this happen with friendster, reddit, myspace, facebook, and on and on.

† please don't explain federation and forks to me. if you aren't concerned about seeing things like this pop up every few months, i have no interest in explaining why it's an issue

Still image. Screenshot of ublock origin Block Element dialog showing the element mentioned in the first image.

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stealing memes is a fake idea in the first place

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P.S. if you repost and write good alt text, the meme is yours forever

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/ fade in to someone cute writing a list of pros about their crush /

'gives good alt' is underlined and circled and has a little heart over it

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Still image. Screen Capture from Maurice Sendak's Little Bear, a person in a broad sunhat, wearing a long light blue dress with a square neck and lighter blue sleeves. They and a small bear are sitting on a picnic basket about to eat sandwiches. Top text reads: Girls with the bear they found in the woods 🐻
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    Still image. Ricky from Trailer Park Boys, a person wearing a houndstooth pattern graphic shirt, neck chain, thin goatee, carefully trimmed sideburns down to the jawline, and medium pompadour, standing in front of a mobile home and fence. Text reads: Albert Camels said the only way to deal with a fucked up world is to become sooo fucked up that your entire existence is acting like a felon
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    just now learning that the 'Lea' in Lea & Perrins, whose most famous work is Worcestershire Sauce

    • died of dyspepsia
    • was the mayor of Worcester
    Tumblr post from doctor-roman I think whoever named worcestershire sauce that should have the worst tummy hurty ever replyfrom nyxwoven, screenshot from wikipedia i have great news "Lea was elected Mayor of Worcester in 1835. He served again from 1849 to 1850.[4] He served only three months in office.[citation needed] He died of acute dyspepsia (a fatal stomach disorder where the stomach cannot function properly) on 23 March 1874 at Stanfield House, Upper Wick, Worcestershire, and was buried in the family tomb at St Peter's, Powick. " reply from doctor-roman MR. LEA I AM SO FUCKING SORRY
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    Video. Kitty face superimposed in the classic Fallout dialog interface. A cathode ray tube with no bezel, four lit vacuum tubes, ribbon cables, transformer, and paper cone speaker are arrayed in a field-expedient / jury rigged way. The spoken words are displayed on screen "Welcome to Camp Navarro. So, you're the new replacement... You are out of uniform, soldier! Where is your power armor? Don't have any? You expect me to believe that, maggot? The truth is you lost an expensive piece of army-issue equipment. That suit is going to come out of your pay, and you will remain in this mans army until you are five hundred and ten years old, which is the number of years it will take for you to pay for a Mark II Powered Combat Armor you have lost! Report to the armory and have a new suit issued to you, then report back to me, private! Dismissed!"

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    Sill image. "Trade offer" meme. A person in a suit with steepled fingers, head superimposed with Advanced Riot Gear helmet, an insectine-looking dark bucket helmet melding into a full-face respirator that has glowing red aviator-shaped lenses. Behind this person is a vintage scifi looking robot with a broad smile across it's cathode ray tube face. Top Text: ⚠️TRADE OFFER⚠️ i receive: hoover dam you receive: getting thrown off of hoover dam
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    Still image. The unwrapped foil of a popular brand chocolate egg was covering - SURPRISE! - the demon core, a 14lb sphere of plutonium involved in two fatal radiation incidents. Two hollowed-out spheres of machined silvery metal, with the eponymous pit in the middle. Send not to know, for whom the core claps, It Claps For Thee.
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    • dko , to random
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    remember how Naomi fucking told us this a YEAR AGO and no one wanted to believe it until the government knocked on her door and she can't post anymore?

    https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/24/1091740/chinese-keyboard-app-security-encryption/

    LRRRonEarth , to random
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    PETER JACKSON IS, DISTRESSINGLY, THE RIGHT PERSON TO DIRECT A MUPPET LORD OF THE RINGS.

    dko ,
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    @LRRRonEarth i was going to make a joke about Meet the Feebles, and discovered Peter Jackson already did

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spmjvbT8Ef4

    waitworry , to random
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    saw some lady on here saying that it is not her big ass truck that is the problem it is that people don't teach their kids to get out of the way

    dko ,
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    @waitworry

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    My therapist had to cancel this afternoon so I’ve picked three relatable mental health memes to share with y’all instead.

    dko ,
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    @renegadejade

    dko , to random
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    reader friends, any recommendations for epub sources? my last device was quite some time ago (👇), but i assume Proj. Guttenberg and Internet Archive are still a good place to start?

    i was planning to get a kobo clara 2e and just sideload and/or borrow from my extremely awesome library.

    are there somewhat ethical places i can buy epubs and support authors of current books?

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    @ehurtley @pluralistic Cheers, much appreciated!

    dko , to random
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    wearing my 20-year-old nedroid shirt to a first appointment with a doctor i have to desperately plead with for meds

    luckytran , to random
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    Millions have died and developed chronic illness from COVID. Millions have died and developed chronic illness from air pollution. Making sure our buildings have clean air isn't only a COVID issue. It's a climate justice issue too.

    dko ,
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    @luckytran Air quality should be a much bigger concern for everyone. No other intervention / improvement so positively affects disease spread, intellectual performance, incidence of cardiovascular & metabolic diseases, and on and on.

    As far as return on investment in public health goes, improving air quality is probably only rivaled by indoor plumbing and obstetrics/pediatrics.

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    Pittsburgh: a polluting coke plant is suddenly closed. Emergency visits for cardiovascular disease decreased 42% immediately, continued over 3 yrs

    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5309/ace4ea

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    At 1000ppm CO2, decision making is measurably impaired. At 2500ppm that impairment becomes substantial. Those are numbers I wouldn't be surprised to see in a home even with a modern HVAC system or in a meeting room after half an hour of people sharing the same space.

    https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2016-welcome-to-there/your-brain-carbon-dioxide-research-finds-even-low/

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    High PM2.5 levels and air pollution correlate with increased incidence of dementia

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27049-2#Sec2

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    Road proximity (< 50 m from a major road or < 150 m from a highway) was associated with non-Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and multiple sclerosis.

    https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-020-0565-4

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    PM2.5 now also has a well-researched link to Type 2 diabetes. Both in multiple studies with "WEIRD" subjects as well as south-east Asian populations exposed to higher levels of PM2.5.

    https://drc.bmj.com/content/bmjdrc/11/5/e003333.full.pdf

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