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Notes by sam にゃん :kittysit: :verified_woem: :bunhdlur... | export

 >battle pass
>look inside
>no battles 
 they should make cute foxxos in my bed 
 nostr:npub1gf85e7vmvxzxlxv5hd9p0nrr3vvt436ty5wwj0nm0dh9zsdznetq7wwxva sam no 
 robot gf that’s running an obsolete computer architecture so you keep a 5 year old linux install around so you can still compile things for her 
 oh don’t worry, discord won’t shut down. it will just gradually enshittify more and more as it keeps trying to make more money as the vc funds dry up, eventually being bought by a large corporation looking to sell the user data for a nice profit.

then once it gets bad enough, another centralized, proprietary platform will pop up that promises to be slightly better than discord (at least, better than discord after its gradual decline), people will move to it in droves, and the cycle will start all over again

discord will continue to stick around for a couple more years after that, until the company that bought it decides it’s not worth running anymore and unceremoniously shuts it down, destroying over a decade worth of people’s memories in the process

:woem: 
 all software is open source if you’re good enough at social engineering :neofox_floof: 
 is that actually how gnu code is formatted. what the actual fuck 
 ok i don’t really like doing this but i’ve gotten two dms now in two days so:
we’ve gotten a couple dms now, all saying “hi” or “hello”, from new accounts that have links to a fundraiser for lgbtq people in the kakuma refugee camp. this camp is real, and i have no doubt that there are people there who need help, but we have serious doubts that these specific fundraisers will ever result in aid for the people there.

this cropped up on reddit last year, and mods from a couple large queer subreddits spoke up about it likely being a scam:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/101nf0p/some_thoughts_on_the_folks_in_the_kakuma_refugee/
https://old.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/wacwlw/regarding_kakuma_camp/

the account that DMed us a couple days is gone now (whether it was suspended or deleted, we don’t know), but the profile is still cached on our instance, and it links to the same fundraiser, organised by someone in… rome? which is all pretty suspicious and lines up with the behaviour of these accounts on reddit as well

to be clear: yes, mutual aid in general is a good thing! but this specific situation reeks of being a scam, from the fresh accounts to history on other websites.

please, be careful with fundraisers that are posted by people who aren’t established, real users 
 the :neocat_nom_fox: to :neofox_nom_cat: pipeline 
 skirt go spinny?
no. fox go spinny
:blobfox_lesbian_spin: 
 >critical zero-day exploit in firefox and thunderbird
>apt update && sudo apt upgrade
>no updates available

guess i'll just die then 
 i hate cloud providers
i hate that no new dev seems to bother learning any sort of server admin stuff 
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