ragingHungryPanda

I’m a masochist, so I’m self hosting gitea. What’s nice is I can have private repositories for free!

edit: keyboard corrected masochist to man man 🤣

yeah, that makes sense. one thing to remember though, is that if you move somewhere and don’t like it, you can leave. This decision isn’t permanent.

One thing about the US is that living arrangements are more isolating. I have friends that made local friends in Japan. I wouldn’t pick the US, but I’d say pick where you think you’ll be happy and have good friendships. But it’s hard to say as well because you don’t say where in any country good live, ie big or small cities, etc

my Chinese friends use a VPN to access blocked sites. some VPNs are blocked, but it’s totally possible

on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog

good selection! 🤌

I’ve seen people on news and other places saying that they can’t send texts with the word “Epstein,” there was also censorship around Israel and ICE videos as well

followed! mine is @ragingHungryPanda@mastodon.keyboardvagabond.com

yay! another write freely instance! I’ll follow you on mastodon 😁

I have a travel and tech themed one at https://blog.keyboardvagabond.com

this reminds me of the famous quote in the grapes of wrath

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

it influences the hot sorting

ah, I’m using interstellar and piefed, which aggregate the cross posts

the complaints in these comments is an illustration of why the left doesn’t accomplish jack squat

they often use browser fingerprinting and getting various device settings. it turns out that just by looking at various configurations and such, you can actually track individuals

this was a fun read! I haven’t done much web UI in years, so it was nice to learn about some of the new, nice things that are available. i don’t think I’d remember some of the more advanced stuff though.

I think it’s worth a shot. If it doesn’t work out, you can go back

oh that’s a shame :(

there is the fb Lite app, which is mainly for places without good Internet. That one is supposed to not do the same kind of tracking as the main app, at least when it’s closed. I can’t say the same for messenger though