Community score being 36 makes me think this might be a well-known crack. Check the community tab there, see what the comments say.

Ah, yes, Palestinians and their dicksplosives. Do we really have this hallucinating fuckhead as a president? Is this what reality is?

When called out on it, they then doubled down on this dogshit take:

That makes it seem like Andy here just doubled down, but it’s way worse than that. The company released an official statement doubling down on Yen’s stance.

I am a bit worried by the apparent knowledge of the dev. Things like relying on the Firefox extension store to host a piracy tool and not understanding that you only need a hotlink to a file ending in .user.js to install with tampermonkey concern me.

Edit: Not saying it’s malicious, it’s actually a very simple script, it’s just that these things give me pause.

Looks super cool. Too bad they don’t have a way to add custom SearX instances other than modifying and building the extension yourself.

Gonna be real, microblogging is never gonna really work with decentralization. It barely works when centralized. It’s isolating by nature, and only really amplifies the voices that are already the loudest, and the introduction of separate servers and federation delays only make those problems worse.

Bluesky’s moderation team is shit. Recently, their “head of trust and safety” went full Elongated Muskrat and tried to permanently ban a user who was tracking his public data.

I’ve looked at SDF before, and one thing has never changed: I have no idea what I’m looking at or how it works, and the more I look the more esoteric it seems.

Edit: Ah, that’s right, I dropped looking at SDF before because of how condescending their FAQs are.

Visits in person? Are anime companies sending out the fucking Yakuza now?

Not so much self-hosting related (though I do run a Jellyfin server on this PC), but within the past week, I was sure I was gonna have to reinstall my os (and probably take the opportunity to jump distros) because audio just would not work. Everything seemed to think it was fine. Even OBS was picking up the audio, but there was no output. Persisted through reboots and everything.

I have no idea what happened to cause it or fix it.

It’s not actually a glitch, it’s Windows’s Fast Startup feature. It sort of hibernates the system rather than shutting it off. The running state of the system is partially retained and the drives aren’t cleanly unmounted. I don’t know anything about ntfsfix personally, but it probably cleans this up just fine. If you’re gonna be spending a large amount of time using Linux, however, you’re probably better off disabling fast startup altogether. If you only use Linux a little, though, I think holding shift while you shut down also forces a full shutdown.

Police say it appears to be a suicide. Probably true, honestly, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t driven to it.

I present: the reason we can’t have nice things.

A very short summary that may not be entirely accurate but is close enough:

WP Engine made a good amount of money off of WordPress without contributing back, and Automattic broke their own license to fight them, all the while the CEO became increasingly unhinged.

So it’s no longer “Pepe isn’t used by extremists on Steam,” it’s now “Pepe being used by extremists on Steam doesn’t matter,” huh?

Goalpost status: moved.

How does that saying go?

That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

I love it when people respond to exactly one line and ignore the rest of my comment. Totally not a bad faith argument at all. Totally not exactly the same shit Reddit bigots always did.

Uh huh, uh huh.

Meanwhile, here on earth, Matt Furie’s own lawyer brought up the fact that, on Steam, Pepe emotes were being used “in connection with hateful speech.”

Tell me something, has that changed, or is it possible, just maybe, that the Steam Community is one of those places I was referring to?

So now tell me this, when you claim that it’s ridiculous to treat Pepe use as a sign of hate on Steam Community, are you ignoring the active, proven and admitted use alongside hate speech, or are you trying to downplay it?

Just because the creator doesn’t want it used as a hate symbol doesn’t automatically mean it isn’t used as one, and next to chan-level garbage is the grand total of where I’ve seen Pepe.

Third-party apps like boost can do this, so I assume the frontend could if they wanted.

The concern isn’t so much them directly taking your money or info, but rather accepting money to enable someone else to.

Basically, they’ve been bundling ads with their installer for years, but several years back, whatever ad service they used without a care decided to start shipping spyware as well, in addition to the already existent deceptive patterns used in the installer.

You’d expect any good dev to be pissed if something like this got into their software, right? Well, they were pissed… at the users. The stupid, stupid users and cyber security researchers who dared to say this was a problem. They refused to acknowledge the problem, made excuses, removed discussions about it on their forums and tried to act like it wasn’t a big deal even if there was malware because they also offer a download without the malware, provided as a nice, tiny link on a separate page.