Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as
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#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.
I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.
Seattle, WA
Joined Feb 2021
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Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.
Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
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The internet wants to be fragmented https://slrpnk.net/post/204842
So I have some doubts about this suspect that's been arrested in the Idaho killings. The police have sent missed messages since the beginning, made virtually no progress, and are still withholding details on how they established this man as a suspect.
Now the suspect is waiving his extradition hearing and submitting to DNA testing, seeking swift exoneration, which isn't characteristic of a guilty suspect. I have a feeling the police might be full of shit here, I guess we'll soon find out.
Alt-text correction: Upon further review the "Two Dots" ad is in Chinese, not Korean, and it is an ad for a iOS app, not for music.
To be clear, I have nothing against sex work or sex workers, it's just funny that Facebook paid me $10 to help them decide the relevancy of an ad for handjobs, which I assume is not allowed by the TOS.
I couldn't decide if it was relevant though, because they seem to be ignoring the language preferences I already provided them.
Occasionally Facebook pays me to do little tasks via their "Viewpoints" program. Usually it's stuff like sentiment analysis, voice recognition training, or opinion surveys, but today they were just fucking with me.
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Haiku Is Such A Unique Operating System https://lemmy.ml/post/685299
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Get ready! The party is starting at 7PM GMT over on https://twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo
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@PeggyJoan I’ve already seen some of “them” deriding Mastodon as a leftist echo chamber. But, if by echo chamber, they mean that fascists, racists, homophobes, transphobes, et al running amok isn’t tolerated, then so be it.
I already do view Twitter as a home for the alt-right. That’s why I deactivated my account earlier this year.
Wife has work today, and I don't. I think I might take an extremely long walk today. #Seattle is such a great place to explore on foot.
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My kids are watching this classic scene from Sesame Street and are just as confused as the Yip Yips. They have absolutely no conception of what this thing is. The humor of the scene has truly come full circle.
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I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.
When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.
I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.
Theory: At any given point in time, there is at least one smartphone screen breaking.
I feel pretty upgraded today!
Got my new #System76 Lemur Pro laptop, a 9 year jump in hardware over my last laptop.
Figured out that I can switch my Pixel 7 Pro into high-DPI mode, which my eyes are still capable of enjoying.
Feels like the future!
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😄 finds a Cool Thing you've been following in the fediverse
😒 but it uses pleroma
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I was going to visit my parents for Christmas, but decided that I'd just go visit them the first weekend into the new year because "I have a bad feeling about holiday travel this year".
I love being right.
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if 6.5 million people had been eaten by tigers and there was suddenly a new wave of super-tigers that could evade all existing anti-tiger precautions, people would think you'd lost the plot if you declared that the tiger problem was basically over
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#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.
I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.
Seattle, WA
Joined Feb 2021
