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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us has moved
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
If you think there a shortage of houses underlies the country's housing crisis (and of course, not all of you do), then as this graph starkly shows, that shortage is almost entirely the result of the collapse of public/social housing new builds - since the 1970s, there has been no appreciable rise (or fall) in annual private house construction.
But of course, private house builders want to engineer a shortage to maintain prices, so we shouldn't be surprised.
h/t FT
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Jeff Martin
cuchaz@gladtech.socialYup, it's true. Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default and announced with very little fanfare, so most people might not even know they're there. 
Well, this is me telling you they're there. You might want to go ahead and take a minute to opt out.
Here's the little helpful explainer from Mozilla about how it all works:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
My read seems to be: Mozilla says website surveillance is generally bad and should be defended against. Cool. No notes. Firefox actually has a lot of nice anti-tracking and privacy features there and that's the main reason why I like Firefox.
But, and I swear I'm not even joking a little bit here, Mozilla goes on to say that advertisers might be happier if Firefox itself just tracked you directly and sent activity reports back to them.
Doesn't that sound great?
Now, to Mozilla's credit, they claim to anonymize the activity reports. And you can still meaningfully opt out of the whole system.
But WTF, mate?! I use Firefox *because* it fights against adtech. Or at least it used to. Now, Mozilla just lets adtech right in the front door and hopes you won't notice? 
Well, we noticed. Mozilla is damage and we need to route around it.
UPDATE: The about:config setting for this is `dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled`. It's a bool. Set it to false to turn it off.
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Alex Feinman
afeinman@wandering.shop#Nonbinary folks don't owe you a particular presentation of self.
1. Androgyny is cool but not for everyone.
2. Nonbinary is not code for "weak, like woman".
3. It's okay--perhaps even good!--if you can't divine someone's gender presentation from their appearance. We have language for that.
Happy nonbinary day!
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daniel:// stenberg://
bagder@mastodon.socialAds on the web don't actually *need* user tracking. Browsers don't *have to* cooperate with those who want to surveil us.
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ENG. Tretron đČ
tretron@bark.lgbt*boots computer after a bios update*
computer: well let me take an painfully long moment to post without showing any information to the user, making them wonder if the bios flash was corrupted
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Botch Frivarg
deetwenty@todon.nlIf you can't find a fursuiter to hug, a big plushy is the next best thing!
#FursuitFriday #Furry #Plush #Fursuit #Photography
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Obscura, Cheetah
CheetahObscura@meow.socialAn enby chee for Nonbinary Awareness Week! đđ€đđ€ #FursuitFriday
Sockies and arm warmers from @AngyPaws
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Rick Altherr
mxshift@treehouse.systemsGood news everyone! Windows Update is reducing carbon emissions so Copilot can emit them instead.
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There are over 9000 nerve endings in the Thinkpad nipple mouse.
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MOVED INSTANCES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mothcompute@vixen.zonemodern x86_64 processor trying to pass as a processor from 1978. its realmoding
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miifox
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Foxes Every Hour
toomanyfoxes@botsin.spaceThe gray fox is actually not a true fox. The genus Urocyon comes from the Latin and/or Greek 'uro' meaning tail, and 'cyon', meaning dog. It includes the gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) and the island fox (Urocyon littoralis). - Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/111ArrxgL (California Department of Fish and Wildlife)
#Fox #Bot
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pixel, bear 
px@bears.town
yet again, ed zitron is back at it with another banger of an article railing against the AI bubble. truly cathartic to read such a well-articulated and thorough takedown that confirms that this wave of âAIâ (LLMs) is more tech hype bubble bullshit https://www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
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