The idea that reading a book in public is considered 'performative' says everything you need to know about the dramatic decline in the intelligence of society.
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Hitler's expected duration for the war on the Eastern Front: 3-4 months.
Actual duration: 4 years before he lost.
Putin's expected duration for the war in Ukraine: A few days.
Actual duration: 1679 days and counting.
Trump's expected duration for war with Iran: 12 days.
Actual duration: 214 days and counting.
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There is a pattern there alright…
@RaymondPierreL3 almost like narcissistic dictators have a tendency to greatly overestimate their capabiliies...
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Waaaaait a minute...Yeah I think there's a pattern.
it's the preeminent weakness of fascism:
they always overextend
i mean, it's cold comfort, considering all of the misery they cause
@benroyce I agree. But at least team good always wins in the end, and with Trump and Putin that will be a true celebration for the entire planet.
@benroyce it’s so expensive …. 😖
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that's always been life though
all there is in this world is the good fight
if you fight more, it gets easier
if you fight less, because of a (relatively) easy period, you get a backlog
@benroyce @KatLS an inconvenient but ultimately hopeful truth. We gotta fight the powers! music.youtube.com/watch?v=jRJKjiCtVco
@benroyce it’s so expensive …. 😖
Except for those who perished in the conflict, Randahl. We should never forget that.
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@Eetschrijver
all of the concerns are in a terrible balance
you can jump in too early and cause great suffering and damage. be wary of those excited for war when it need not be
you can jump in too late and cause great suffering and damage. be wary of those who don't have the will to fight when we must
the decision point is fraught with extreme peril
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@benroyce It's part of the psychology of malignant narcissism.
The obsessive desire for power, the grandiosity and inflated sense of self-importance. The need for the whole world to revolve around them. None of these traits are conducive to careful planning, or even listening to any expertise that might restrain their delusional ambitions.
Such men are incapable of building anything that will last...but as you say, how much damage will they cause before reality catches up with them?
@ApostateEnglishman
loyalty over expertise
yes men over honest answers
it leads to ruin
for them. but unfortunately also for us when they get in power
"What the polls need is a short, popular war." 🤡
"We do this not because it will be easy
but because we think it will be easy."
but because we think it will be easy."
@SoftwareTheron Especially when you're an old man far from the action. If I win I get all the glory. If I don't then lots of other people die far away.
meanwhile Europe is helping to pay for it, because they could not decide on a position for the longest time. Oil and gas prizes are not the only subvention for Felon 47 & Putin's wars but the most obvious comming out of citizens pockets.
It’s sad to think that I think Sudan and Ethiopia might end up going to war.
That gigantic damn Ethiopia constructed across the blue Nile is now a source of regional water conflict. Ethiopia economy is growing quite rapidly, but they’re putting up three more dams on the blue Nile and none of it was good I think.
Reservoirs are extremely problematic. The regional weather changes or not something to take very lightly.
it's like war is hard and egomaniacs over estimate shit
None of these leaders had significant military training and experience. All were too pig-headed to accept expert advice and employed 'advisors' for their loyalty rather than their knowledge. They should have stayed home and put their energy and their country's resources into improving their citizens' lives. But possible military glory was too tempting.
WW1 will be over by Christmas...(It was just Christmas 1918 wasn’t what they meant)
There are examples in the opposite direction.
Nasser's expected duration of the 1967 war: forever. (He wanted an indefinite confrontation, to burnish his international standing as a bellicose nationalist and distract from Egypt's economic problems, without risking total war).
Actual duration: 6 days leading to complete defeat.
because they send others to war
What do you wanna bet someone knew it would take longer than that, but was afraid of being shot for suggesting it?
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Here's a fun little @libreoffice trick, that I've just stumbled across by accident:
If you select some text (e.g. triple click, or drag-to-select), and then type an opening bracket, it is automatically closed at the end of the selected text.
It works for (, [, and {.
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I ws about to say "I bet a programmer came up with that". But then, ... that'd be true of LITERALLY ANY software feature.
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@bloor not necessarily, someone else could have come up with the idea and then asked a programmer to implement it.
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@bloor I *have* met some customers who know what they want, and some product people who have good ideas. I wouldn't class either as "rare".
I see what you did there. You forgot the audio track, though.
@tml I heard it anyway 😁
Does it work for quotes too?
Gonna have to try.
Gonna have to try.
@torclodd
Yes, for dialogue quotes even. Helps me a lot as an author.
I wonder which other text editors have this feature? Either as described or with a separate action?
Does it also work with quotes and other paired enclosure marks? 🙂
@simonzerafa This works with a lot of editors for programmers so I guess someone came to the idea that maybe others have use for it too 
@eq
Need to be enabled in Tools → Options → Writer → Formatting Aids and select the Auto Complete option.
Need to be enabled in Tools → Options → Writer → Formatting Aids and select the Auto Complete option.
Coding text editors like emacs and vi/vim have had this kind of ability for decades, as most users know. Pairing open and close elements when editing source code is a common task that's easily automated. Word processors are not going to encounter similar structured content as often.
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@Flittermouse Except there are few cases when writing prose where you would use a single opening element (typically for the index of an enumerated list). Outside of a list context, grouping elements are almost always paired. Grouped expressions don't appear as often in human-oriented writing compared to code but the usage is about the same. When you do see a (, [, or { there will almost always bw a closing element. The exceptions would be < and > since they are mathematical characters repurposed for grouping; even then, they don't usually appear in running text.
Automatically pairing grouping elements seems generically useful, not just when writing Lisp...
I was just wondering if NotePad++ has this feature and wondering if I should be £10 on the outcome.
😂🤷♂️
Ha, I was just thinking “why isn’t this a thing?”
Oh, didn't know that, awesome, thanks for sharing!
It also works with quotation marks!
This changes EVERITHING!
This changes EVERITHING!
OK, well whatever I type when something is highlighted replaces the highlighted text... always has ... is it the 1st April?
does not work for me now, does it work only on linux? If so I must delay my tests ;)
@palin Doesn't work for me and I run Linux.
As far as I can tell my only option is select the text, type a bracket and all I have left is the bracket.
@palin I almost exclusively use Libre these days but have used Word, Google Docs, Proton Docs and others.
I have never seen it do anything else, often to temporary panic and confusion.
@thisislieven @palin That has been the expected behaviour in graphical editors/word processors for over 40 years.
works for me in version 26.8
Hm. Version 26.8.0.3 Cannot replicate. That's hella cool, though.
Works for me after turning on that option.
Preferences -> LibreOffice Writer -> Formatting Aids -> Enclose with characters
Great, thank you!
Does it work for ⁽⁾, ₍₎, ⸨⸩, ⦅⦆, ⦇⦈, ❪❫, ❨❩, ⟅⟆, ֍֎, ⧚⧛, ⧘⧙, ⧼⧽, ❰❱, ❮❯, ❬❭, ⦃⦄, ❴❵, ⟪⟫, ⟨⟩, ⁅⁆, 『』, 「」, ［］, 〚〛, 〘〙, 〔〕, ｟｠, ‹›, and/or «» though?
Sensitive content
so now using Libreoffice as a code editor challenge 
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I finally got to use all my unnecessary keyboard short cuts! :3
Yes! Version 26.2.5.2 on Linux
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Most probably took the inspiration from programmers' text editors, which often have the same feature for years now - given how often we need to reformat bracketed text blocks.
LibreOffice never lets you down.
Not only this, it leaves the selected text selected and adds the opening and closing brackets (or whatever) to the selection. So if you have some text that you want to put in (say) quotes and parentheses, you can select it, then type an opening quote and an opening parenthesis.
I am one of those weirdos who find autocomplete to be annoying in practical use.
Yep, can confirm.
Windows 11 / LO 26.2.6.3 here.
Windows 11 / LO 26.2.6.3 here.
Yeah, I would hope that sort of thing is off by default, otherwise it's a definite "principle of least astonishment" fail.
This annoys me, because I always want to replace the highlighted text with the thing I'm typing. Changing that behaviour just makes things harder and more annoying for me to use it.
Note to self: check if it also works for quote marks
That’s a wonderfully low-key feature—small editing affordances like this are what make a tool feel faster without getting in the way. I never knew Writer could wrap a selection that way.
This is a very surreal thing to read because I regularly do this in VS Code and Godot's code editor. You need brackets of varying kinds a lot while writing code, and LibreOffice sounds like software that you could possibly write in, so, it makes sense for it to be there!
@neil, it also works for
' and " but not for <, ‘, “, « or ⟨ (though my findings may be locale-specific).
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⛓️ Today, Google has taken the next step in enclosing the #Android ecosystem by starting to enforce its developer verification program in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
No better time than now to recommend the best apps from everyone's favorite #FOSS app store, F-Droid.
We'll start: Librera Reader, Image Toolbox, LocalSend, AntennaPod, FMD, Capy Reader, Unexpected Keyboard, Voice Audiobook Player, Aegis Authenticator...
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I'll add those to the list: Newpipe, Delta Chat, Tusky, Tasks, OSMAnd... and of course the Nextcloud apps like the main sync client, News, Talk and more 😀
@louis DeltaChat is a game-changer in the world of chat apps. It is superior to Signal, equal to Matrix/Element, and more mature than VectorApp.
@M_E_ST I think it's very good regarding the on-boarding, it's very user-friendly, so it beats Matrix/Element on that regard.
@louis In my opinion, DeltaChat is a good choice for setting up a new group, especially if the group doesn't have a shared messaging platform. However, server-based messengers like Matrix or even Signal seem to be easier to administer for large chat groups.
Signal's solid for most people but the phone number requirement is a dealbreaker if you're in a situation where your number itself is the threat surface. There are a couple of newer options going account-less for exactly that reason — worth looking at if the phone-number binding is the criticism that bothers you.
HeliBoard, DAVx5, CoMaps, Catima, K-9 Mail.
KDE Connect, tsacdop, Tuta Mail, Grayjay, FUTO Keyboard
Tuta Mail, Tuta Calendar, LibreTube, LibreOffice, Podium, Breezy Weather, AliasVault, VLC and of course Mastodon
here in Brazil for me at least there was no blockage, we will see throughout the day.
@fdroidorg Thanks all, for raising awareness 🫶
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Transistor and VLC to stream music.
FairScan fairscan.org/, Termux, mpv, Tuner by BillTheFarmer
FairScan – Simple & Respectful Document Scanner for Android
Scan documents in seconds. No ads, no trackers, no built-in cloud. Free and open source.fairscan.org
I'll add Ghost Commander, Tusky, FOSS Browser, Orgzly Revived and Termux just for a start.
and how is using f-droid escaping id-verification?
@mattesilver When I last checked, the verification program was supposed to apply to Google Play and introduce additional difficulties for installation from outside the store (not so much impossible as highly problematic, or rather, annoying). Therefore, in theory, developers not verified by Google can create apps hosted by other clients, such as fdroid, and for now, having a different client is a minor loophole that makes it easier to bypass GP and its current verification system.
This is where the open source meets a hard barrier. We can't have a flourishing environment of alternative OS for mobile phones because you need too much cooperation from the industry. Hardware makers mainly but also activities that are becoming increasingly tied to smartphones such as banking get you stuck with an evil OS like in the early days of Linux.
somehow somewhere, i think the answer is going to lie in google losing their grip on aosp, and google's android will continue constricting
google seems increasingly hostile to aosp and seems to regret letting android be so open for so long
i don't realistically think starting over on linux will help, because all the apps are on android already
my personal hunch is that this is going to bite them in the ass, and sooner than later, some big brand is going to end up releasing devices without play services
i think samsung might be the canary to watch, notably absent from the googlebook reveal. maybe i'm wrong and there's a samsung googlebook on the shelves by the winter.
@jm I cannot say for sure as I'm not knowlegeable on how these things work under the hood, but the problem isn't the gap from a fresh start from Linux to AOSP, or even the apps, I suspect its easier to get an Android app (many of which run on a JVM) to run on Linux than a Windows one for instance, the problem is the hardware support. Samsung giving google the cold shoulder doesn't mean they'll open their arms to open source, it only means that they'll go for their own closed solution.
i imagine you'd need a hell of a lot more than just a jvm to get an android environment working, both at the os layer and hardware layer, going off of things like waydroid (modern) and the blackberry qnx android environment (ancient)
doesn't stop anyone from going proprietary, huawei did it, and now they have devices that aren't really useful outside of their home market because no one outside of china (and not even every chinese developer) has an incentive to build for huawei
company gonna do what's most profitable, i'm not god or a guru, if they can make more money by restricting their customers then i'm sure they will - i think it's hard to sell devices people can't do anything with, and starting over is not the path of least resistance
This is the kind of F-Droid list that’s genuinely useful: small, dependable tools that keep working when the platform rules change. LocalSend and Aegis have both earned permanent spots on my devices.
Thunderbird, Linphone..and enjoying my Fairphone e/os
just to mention a couple of awesome games on #fdroid :
f-droid.org/packages/paper.loop2
f-droid.org/packages/com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon
f-droid.org/packages/com.unciv.app
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Grow your turf and slice other sneks' tails — a free-movement territory game.f-droid.org
great summary. Let me add Podium Podcast player and FluffyChat, using the Matrix Protocol. For maps I use osmand+
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I saw no mention of #keepassdc , #signal / #molly
I just moved to #grapheneos recently so f**k Google's vision of Android! Unfortunately, the majority of users will be stucked there.
Shame on #google for doing that f*** move
Floccus, Joplin, Symfonium, FossWallet.
@spiezmaestro Of Symfinium means the music player app: isn't tgat just available in Play Store and only unlocking with play store payment? And it's also not FOSS...
@Cryx the question was not FOSS or not, but which favorite apps you install from F-Droid. It is indeed not FOSS; but you can install it via F-Droid and contact the developer via ko-fi.com and pay for the app there (so no Play Store involved). Very much worth it.
@spiezmaestro I know that you can unlock it otherwise, but it's also not on F-Droid (just checked now)...
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@Cryx developers have the option to provide a repo which you can add to F-Droid.
Google is shit.
anyway
Most important app on my phone is called Net Guard, The Git version as that helps block ads.
After a donation to the dev extra features unlocked. Pro version.
Developer is Marcel Bokhorst
Download and details@
github.com/M66B/NetGuard
I get constant nagging popups saying i must activate shitty google play services, play store and all the other google trash.
NO WAY, my phone works fine without their spyware active.
Been using NetGuard for years, recommend.
GitHub - M66B/NetGuard: A simple way to block access to the internet per app
A simple way to block access to the internet per app - M66B/NetGuardGitHub
I'll add Kashcal. Works perfectly with Nextcloud calender and I prefer their interface
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a few of my favorites not mentioned so far: URLCheck, wX (weather app), Scrambled Exif, Organic Maps, Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu, Schulrechner (calculator), MuPDF, Graph 89, Fossify apps (launcher beta, phone, gallery, file manager)
@organicmaps on FDroid has completely replaced google maps for me 👍
Both are very fine options. Organic Maps works better for public transit and has both hiking and cycling overlays, which I really like, so that's why I stick with that one.
CoMaps also has its strengths though.
Droid-ify, KDE Connect, AntennaPod, Immich, Gadget Bridge, Grayjay, Futo Keyboard, Findroid, μLauncher, Linphone, Home Assistant
you forgot github ... since you push it on client side and refuse to even acknoledge it.
My favourite apps would be:
Aves (gallery with tags and map view)
fWallet (simple Wallet App for tickets)
PodAura (Podcasts)
Aves (gallery with tags and map view)
fWallet (simple Wallet App for tickets)
PodAura (Podcasts)
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Maybe try FossWallet!? fWallet is rather old and pretty feature poor. I recommend!
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Maybe try FossWallet!? fWallet is rather old and pretty feature poor. I recommend!
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Thanks, i will have a look at FossWallet. But I don't need other features than storing and displaying my public transport ticket. 😀
Thanks, i will have a look at FossWallet. But I don't need other features than storing and displaying my public transport ticket. 😀
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Well it doesn't do that much more. Other than grouping tickets or tagging or archiving. But most of all it's actively maintained, which fWallet does not seem to be.
Well it doesn't do that much more. Other than grouping tickets or tagging or archiving. But most of all it's actively maintained, which fWallet does not seem to be.
Aegis Authenticator, Auxio, CoMaps, HeliBoard, IronFox, Tuta Mail, VLC
f-droid was once the goto appstore for free software for android, and that was because it was so beloved.
Now it's more and more distributing slop code.
I agree with your criticism. Google’s increasing control over Android feels like an invasion of user privacy and freedom. If a change is genuinely beneficial, it should be explained and offered and not enforced in a way that disturbs users, as if Google were the master and users had no choice. I welcome credible open and alternative ecosystems like F-Droid.
don't forget about the Fossify apps fossify.org/
Fossify - open-source Android apps
Open-source Android apps for gallery, calendar, files, documents, messages, phone, notes, camera, music, and more.Fossify
how on earth is this bad ?
in every single serious profession, there are standards and certifications
we have the CPA for acountants; engineers are required in many cases to hold a license, etc etc
what is wrong with Google haveing a verification program
@failedLyndonLaRouchite I think it's just people geting mad for no reason, you can still sideload on android, it's just harder witch i don't really like but it's still possible, just go to settings, enable developer mode, developer options then apps from unverified developers, 24 hour wait once witch i think is the most stupidest thing but it's only once then your good.
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Not every software developer is keen on handing over their personal data to Google just to be allowed to distribute their FOSS Android apps.
Which they created and distributed NOT on the Play store for a good reason.
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Which they created and distributed NOT on the Play store for a good reason.
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I haven't seen anyone mention #RunnerUp, a GPS tracking app for exercise when you're out and about 😊
Yes to all that, but specifically-
image toolbox is fantastic! I've been using it about a year and I'm still astonished by all the different useful functions it does well!
image toolbox is fantastic! I've been using it about a year and I'm still astonished by all the different useful functions it does well!
Are there settings in place BEFORE it's rolled out so I can pre-approve unverified dev app installation from the moment they turn it on (in UK).
ALSO WHY HASN'T @eu_os @EUCommission
LEGISLATED TO BAN THIS ALREADY?
Im one of the lovers of F-droid honestly that I wanted the icon to be a character I use in some imaginative story of mine!!!
Unfortunately F-Droid is in on AI slop, and does not even consider being vibe coded or integrating a chatbot antifeatures.
@ariarhythmic you can always use the very same client with @IzzyOnDroidOrg – which has a no-LLM policy izzyondroid.org/docs/general/AppInclusionPolicy/#ai-policy @nextcloud
App Inclusion Policy - IzzyOnDroid
Criteria apps need to meet to be included at IzzyOnDroidizzyondroid.org
@IzzyOnDroid @IzzyOnDroidOrg They recently made an update to the official client that made it worse in almost every way, so I use Droid-ify with both
My thanks to you for having a no-LLM policy! unfortunately, the selection of apps is limited, so i have to keep the f-droid repo enabled to get updates for 2/3 of my installs. Unfortunately then when I go for a scroll through the recent additions, the list is full of obvious slop inside and out.
@ariarhythmic if those apps meet the @IzzyOnDroidOrg inclusion criteria, nothing speaks against having them in both repositories. Inclusion at IoD can be requested at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/repodata/issues @nextcloud
@ariarhythmic @IzzyOnDroid @IzzyOnDroidOrg another option is Obtainium (github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium), where you can install the app directly from the developer's repository. It's a little harder to use, but you gain a lot in terms of security.
GitHub - ImranR98/Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.
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@ecosdelfuturo @ariarhythmic @IzzyOnDroidOrg "but you gain a lot in terms of security" – you loose the extra security F-Droid & IzzyOnDroid provide with their scans and Reproducible Builds, though. Not sure what security is gained by Obtainium, as I've never dug into that.
@IzzyOnDroid @ariarhythmic @IzzyOnDroidOrg The Obtainium repo links to some videos with explanations, but it basically has to do with security patches delay and the app signing policy on F-Droid.
You should uninstall F-Droid - Part 2
F-Droid - Part 1 - https://youtu.be/IzpVI4zaso0F-Droid - Part 2 - https://youtu.be/lAbgeJau3eEF-Droid - Part 3 - https://youtu.be/FFz57zNR_M0The F-Droid app ...Side Of Burritos (YouTube)
@ecosdelfuturo Ah, that old hat. The mentioned security patches originated at IzzyOnDroid, and were of course applied there. Regarding the signing, there were several misunderstandings involved; also, IzzyOnDroid ships the exactly same APKs the developers build and sign – and F-Droid does the same if they can confirm Reproducible Builds (which IzzyOnDroid offers as well) @ariarhythmic @nextcloud
@IzzyOnDroid @ariarhythmic I wish @fdroidorg would at least include LLM usage as an anti-feature so we can make up our own minds whether to use those apps.
@Cal @IzzyOnDroid @fdroidorg That would infringe on the Freedom of AI bros to pollute the app directory with vibe coded slop, you see. Think of the poor AI bros!
@Cal @IzzyOnDroid @fdroidorg I'm not kidding, they have geniunely used "freedom" as an excuse to allow shit like Grok frontends in their repository.
@ariarhythmic @Cal @IzzyOnDroid @fdroidorg I am thinking of how much I want them to plummet to their deaths on a daily basis.
But anyway, enforcing proper tagging for filtering is essential.
As well as the apps you’ve already mentioned, such as AntennaPod and Aegis, my favourite apps from F-Droid also include FluffyChat, Aria, IronFox, Molly, Organic Maps and many more 😊
why do you prefer LibreEra to ReadEra?
Pipepipe, Red Moon, Equate.
A step further, support the development of the Linux phone ecosystem to sidestep the Google-Apple duopoly.
I'm in the October shipment group for the Jolla Phone (J2).
The ecosystem has come a long way since I first tried to use the PinePhone in late 2021.
Tusky, FairEmail, Tuta Mail, Ghost Commander, NewPipe, Termux...
And indeed! Unexpected Keyboard, FMD, Librera Reader, and Aegis Authenticator are great apps too! I use them all regularly!
And indeed! Unexpected Keyboard, FMD, Librera Reader, and Aegis Authenticator are great apps too! I use them all regularly!
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I'll add #Termux. A full Linux sandbox, neatly packaged in an app. It blew my mind the first time I tried it. Then it blew my mind again when I discovered it has package management too and you can basically install and run whatever commandline-based software you want, with very few exceptions.
And obviously @joplinapp !
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I thought that main point of Google's chokehold was actually banning everyone from installing anything off-Play-Store.
Care to elaborate how F-Droid would gonna help with that?
I thought that main point of Google's chokehold was actually banning everyone from installing anything off-Play-Store.
Care to elaborate how F-Droid would gonna help with that?
F-Droid is great!
Well... Here are some that I could think of and who are present on the fediverse in one way or another: @CoMaps , @newpipe , @AntennaPod , @ente , @pachli , #KDE Itinerary ( @VolkerKrause ) , @homeassistant , Paseo (wait, no account? 
), @syncthing , @thunderbird
), @syncthing , @thunderbird
Oh and Heliboard, KeePassDX, andOTP, and @gadgetbridge. Surely I forgot some more.
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Developer verification was secretly installed on my Samsung phone a few months ago during a monthly security patch. I removed it through my pc with adb software. Hope that will do...🤔
my favorite game at @lichess f-droid.org/en/packages/org.lichess.mobileV2/
Lichess | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
The one open-source chess platformf-droid.org
localsend is a great one, use futo keyboard personally, futon manga reader, bada since my phone doesn't have quickshare, readyou and neofeed for rss news, and the f-droid version of firefox for... extensions.
aegis, antennapod, audile, Bourane, fossify tools, moshidon, futon, lemuroid, markor, radiodroid, ...
comaps, ntfy, davx5, gadgetbridge,...
Please, leave the Google play store, @nextcloud
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The biggest winner of the last royal decree of a certain Orange Wig in Chief to rename #ArtificialIntelligence to #SuperIntelligence will be... Slovenia! As we speak, some faithful techbros are starting to buy domains on the .si ccTLD. #AI #SI
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The biggest winner of the last royal decree of a certain Orange Wig in Chief to rename #ArtificialIntelligence to #SuperIntelligence will be... Slovenia! As we speak, some faithful techbros are starting to buy domains on the .si ccTLD. #AI #SI
Looks like somebody correctly predicted it last week: det.social/@trancefish/117318911734264759
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Facebook/Meta are now demanding a monthly fee from owners of Facebook Pages to post links to outside sites:
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The monthly fee Meta are demanding for posting links on Facebook Pages is quite astonishing:
US$50 per month for 8 links
US$150 per month for 20 links
US$500 per month for unlimited links
This is many times more than the cost of running your own website, cloud and social media server all put together. Independence is much cheaper and better.
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p.s. I know someone who runs a tiny volunteer non-profit that depends on posting links to their events website on their Facebook Page, and they are now being told to pay 50 euros a month if they post more than two links. This is way beyond their budget.
Meta is simultaneously trying to exploit people trapped by the network effect, and also kill the open web. This kind of "Danegeld" situation is just going to get worse the longer people stay on Meta and other centralised corporate services.
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Note that those still stuck on FB might be able to work around this by hiding links in text in this way:
ZuckSucks(dot)com
I do not know whether FB runs a string search on all posts looking for such things, but replacing (dot) with things like (period) or anything else human understandable would turn such a search into a cat and mouse game.
@LukefromDC I'm pretty sure you can do that, but the Facebook app for Android or iOS doesn't let you highlight and selectively copy text, so there's no way for most readers to get that into the browser's URL bar without memorizing the whole thing and retyping it, even if they do know what a URL bar is.
Google and Apple share in responsibility for this. It should be impossible to block copy/paste in the default UI frameworks, and using custom ones to work around that should preclude publishing in the app stores.
@dalias I was thinking more of in-browser. The Facebook APP has so malicious a history I consider an entire machine compromised if it is installed. Thus, I was completely unaware of that game.
One more reason for these businesses to use their FB accounts to share one link only: to their real website. Then they can walk away from Meta, leaving the old account serving as a static redirect only. By the time FB bans them for this, their customers should have gotten the message to go to their site on the real web not on FB anymore.
This sort of thing is really a different world than I know computing wise. I don't use any Meta product, any website or business app, any closed source app, or the corporate app stores. Most of them I have never even seen their UI's. I really don't know much of that world save for its history of privacy and security breaches-and that monetized websites want you to use their (cr)app so its harder to block ads. Ads are another thing I never allow.
Blocking copy/paste in a browser is easily defeated unlike in these apps. Also note that most management of posts I am used to doing from a full-scale desktop just like I did 25 years ago. I basically sat out the whole "Facebook on iPhone counter-revolution." While others were sharing their real names and birthdays on Facebook and watching ads, I was keeping non-ad supported DC Indymedia relevent with news reporting.
I personally believe Meta needs to be shut down outright or at least broken up. Zuck should be disposessed without compensation, each service now owned by Meta spun off, and what's left of Meta then dissolved in bankruptcy.
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@LukefromDC Right, the app is malware, but from a business owner's perspective, that's how the vast majority of their customers/audience who are accessing their Facebook page are doing it.
@dalias That brings the problem of TESTING the page in question on the offending app. I would recommend a cheap phone used for nothing else to quarantine the FB app. This phone can be connected to the business's wifi or tethered to another phone (so as not to pay for phone service).
Sometimes I've had reports of my news videos not playing on iPhones. As I am not willing to pay for Apple hardware I have to respond that I have no way to debug/support anything iOS. All I can do is ensure that no warning messages appear in terminal when playing the videos from mpv on the desktop, check HW acceleration, and avoid doing anything fancy in the H264 codec settings.
p.p.s. If you know an organisation that is interested in trying to set up their own online presence, I've done a guide to managed hosting services at growyourown.services/what-are-managed-hosting-providers
Managed hosting means the hosting company does all the technical stuff (installation, maintenance, upgrades etc) and it's included in the monthly hosting costs. You don't need to be a techy person to run your own online services any more.
Managed Hosting: The easy way to run your own online services – Grow Your Own Services
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it really pisses me off when local government services put all their info on a Facebook group. Thinking of the gym and swimming pool in town I used to use. Owned and run by Dublin City Council, plenty of resources and money to set up a static site, but instead their timetables and pricing info are hidden away on Facebook. Ridiculous practice.
There ought to be some kind of regulation that public services must (also) provide info by a platform-neutral method such as websites and RSS etc, which can then be piped through to whatever platforms people are on.
Same! Super frustrating! I agree with the below, there really should be regulation that everything GOV publishes must be on an open platform like an HTML website and never behind an app or service. Thinking of Obama where he published on Medium but I still wanted him to publish on an open website. @ganxel @homegrown
$50 for 8 links wtf
Woah, what a scam.
I could host a website with multiple subdomains, running on a decent VPS (4GB ram, 80GB disk, 2vCPU) for less than the 8 links for 50 option on Zuckerberg's crack house.
The best thing: I can link as many times as I please. My site, my rules!
Love monopolies, they're ever so creative. They take things we all did for free and figure out ways to charge us for them.
Their Relationships As A Service platform is going really well.
This might legitimately be what kills facebook, unless users find suitable workarounds.
Like, the ability to link to outside sites is essential. It is , in effect, what keeps people from fully moving- they can link to whatever they need too wherever they need to, and simply go where the people are among those links.
by attempting to set a only-in traffic flow, facebook may be large enough for this to have a benefit in the short term. but i really find it hard to believe it'd benefit them in the long term. i don't know of a single social site thats popular and disallows external links, maybe unless its only for a single-use, like dating.
at the bare minimum, they need to continue to allow at least *one* external link, i'm pretty sure..
This will cause a facebook exodus of literally tens of people.
@KentNavalesi tens of people! It's a lot
this might actually be good news if it nudges communities to leave Facebook groups
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I am so glad I have never been on Facebook and don't even know what the site's UI looks like.
I have always hated their business model and their in-house snitches. Their serving up data to cops with not only no warrant but without even waiting to be asked for it was the reason I turned against them literally when I learned of their existance from a Washington Post article.
If Facebook ever captures the whole Internet, I will disconnect and go back to analog. You won't find me on Facebook, no matter what happens.
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Same. Never been on it and have no desire to be on it, ever.
Same. Never been on it and have no desire to be on it, ever.
"This is many times more than the cost of running your own website, cloud and social media server all put together."
Not if you don't know how to do those things. The cost of either paying someone else to do them or learning to do them yourself is something I rarely see included in arguments like this, and it is not zero for a majority of small businesses
You don't need to do the techy stuff to host your own services any more! 🙂
There are "managed hosting" companies where they do all the technical things for you behind the scenes, and it's included in the hosting fees. They start from typically 5-10 euros/dollars a month for the smallest server.
I did a guide to them at growyourown.services/what-are-managed-hosting-providers/
Managed Hosting: The easy way to run your own online services – Grow Your Own Services
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So paying someone else to do it then. With presumably exactly the same kind of reach you would have on Facebook
No, you own the service and you can switch your site to a different provider if you don't like the one you're currently using.
This is something you can't do on monopolies like Facebook 😞
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OK, so we need to add in some advertising costs there
can you provide your source for the subscription fees and link’s restrictions please ? I don’t see it in the article.
What in the Unity game engine?
Seems like a way to make profit from something else than scam ads and fascist propaganda.
This is THE sign Facebook monopoly is dying, don't worry folks ☺️👍
Whatever the Zuck is doing, it fails.
Whatever the Zuck is doing, it fails.
Installing Linux, or BSD, running your own website, cloud, and social media server should be part of regular tuition in school. Instead teachers communicate via WhatsApp, and do Zoom meetings... Missed chances...
Wow - talk about keeping it in the family...
Interesting. And good job I'm a babe in the basket, meta-wise.
50$ PER MONTH?!
My webhosting costs about 6€ and I can do whatever I want (imcl backup and wordpress updating itself automatically)
El efecto de red, compadre. Hasta que no logren convencer a TODOS los seguidores que se muden juntos a otro lado, les toca aguantarse allá
We looked back at what my workplace used to do for marketing and stopped doing as Metas products became the more effective way tp reach out. It was a lot more diverse. We really need to link out, since we need to recieve course-applications which is impossible with Meta. So my place of Work truly got baited and switched here.
"What else can we monetise?"
"Hyperlinks!"
Thou shalt not have any links than on Facebook itself.
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being able to link outside the network was one of the few positive differences compared to their Instagram platform.
According to that pie, posts that contain a link(s) will get a lot less traction, right? Will paying to use links change that? I guess more #danegeld will be required to get noticed...
I was watching Valhalla yesterday, the English king also mentioned Danegeld
So publishers are valuable to FB, i hope they'll utilize that.
a French town council doesn't understand how a "company feature" applies to them, as a public service
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"La mairie n’est pas une entreprise" : Facebook interdit de publier gratuitement des liens externes, cette mairie monte au créneau
Il y a une semaine, le service communication de la ville de Mèze a pourfendu le groupe Meta dans un communiqué publié sur Facebook. La mairie héraultaise du bassin de Thau dénonce la mise en place d'un nouveau service payant...Léa Morineau (France 3 Occitanie)
@theshaunwalker the funny thing is they used to pay us a few thousand a month to post links to outside places and get people talking about them, just a few years ago.
this stinks of desperation. i wonder how long it's going to be until fb fully collapses?
hopefully meta will destroy itself with greed
@LJ And this is the perfect reason why businesses should NOT use Facebook as their "website." I'm glad Meta is doing this. Maybe it'll wake a few people up.🙄
Let's get business content off social media sites and on the open Web where it should be.
oh maybe some of the local city governments will actually update their own websites for once on date changes for little things like change of trash schedules....
@cellio and this hits anyone who has a “professional profile” on FB (which is necessary if you have folks who follow your posts whom you don’t want to have to connect with as friends. And will hit countless small businesses and individual creators.
It’s inane. But alas having your own website doesn’t solve the same problem as a FB page/profile does - you want folks to be able to engage with your content, to share it, to comment on it and follow up
I realize that people and organizations have to go where their friends and customers are, but something became apparent early on in the commercialization of the Internet, and most of us shrugged it off:
Before entering a walled garden, one should check that there are easy exits.
So glad to have exited that particular garden when the vines started to overtake.
I sympathise with organisations that have to do this, but they could at least provide people with an alternative to walled gardens. If they don't provide alternatives, then they are forcing their own customers into the walled gardens too.
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I love the fact journalists think up pun headlines and sit on them, often for years, until they are appropriate. For example, when Madonna appeared drunk on stage in 2016, the Sun headline 'Like a third gin' must have been in some hack's head since 1984.
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And you sat on this opinion for TEN years!
The Sun was always the master of this. Reporting on a football match with “Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious” was inspired.
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In a similar vein, Metro from Mexico constantly has some inspired double entendres. They're from the land that invented the "albur", after all.
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Of all the things that facebook ruined, it was all the small clubs and events moving their online presence there. No more niche websites or forums. Just the dreary homogony of everything in the one same place - and assumption you were on facebook in the first place.
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I'm a playwright, and when I get notification of my monthly sales, I like to look up the groups that have bought my scripts. Many still only have a FB page, and since I am trying to stay off that hellscape, I can't contact them. It's more than a little depressing - I can see community groups don't want the upfront costs of a self-run website, but shackling themselves to FB is not the win it used to be.
Discord is terrible that way as well.
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I am tapping the sign as hard as I can here, peopleLuke Plunkett (Kotaku)
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@astromech I cannot fathom why people think Discord would be a replacement for forums. It's basically IRC, which also didn't replace forums.
@Flamekebab You can adequately search IRC, and make chat logs publicly available.
@astromech I was already convinced that Discord is shit, worry ye not.
@astromech @Flamekebab IRC doesn’t keep chat history be default, requiring extra setup for what seems like a basic feature.
Yes, no history a good default for privacy.
if things only advertise on Facebook now, I simply do not go to the thing. It kind of sucks that it's a lot of smaller businesses, but if I have no reasonable access to the announcements, it kind of is what it is
Before Facebook, how many of those small clubs actually had websites at all?
@argv_minus_one oooh, actually several. I did often encounter their old websites that were the disorganised mess with the most recent entry pointing me to Facebook... also as the only way of contacting them.
it irks me no end when people say "just stop using Facebook". I'm one of the admins of a very active Gorkamorka community on there - it's the only active online community the game has ever had.
We don't have a good alternative to migrate to so we're just sort of stuck there.
@Flamekebab just stop using it. That's it, that's the lesson, your hobby isn't worth it, just STOP USING IT
@shrimpney I'm not setting fire to something that has taken over a decade to build with no roadmap for how to continue it for what amounts to a token stand.
@violet I hate this so much. Those niche sites were what made older versions of the Internet so unique.
And which has become a trap. No matter how much you want nothing to do with Meta FB has become the town crier and public notice board. If you want to take part in local life you have no alternative options.
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On one hand: one of the few apps that support both #ActivityPub, Threadiverse groups and #RSS natively. On the other: it's the fork of an existing active web app and seems to be heavily vibe-coded. My search for a successor to #Friendica continues, I suppose. codefloe.com/catodon/catodon
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#PicaTheCat is proud to announce her upcoming album! Sixteen mournful tunes in her unforgettable haunting voice.
It can clear a room or frighten most small animals. Songs you won't be able to skip (because Pica has disabled the feature when you play it)
1. Where is everyone?
2. The Bowl is full, but still hungry I am.
3. Lament of the lost rubber mouse.
4. Sounds from behind the couch.
5. 3am
6. 4am
7. Wake up primates!!
And many more!
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Yeah Gally is performing a duet with her right now...
They are such musical animals.
trued, and I believe this song is titled "You need to pet me NOW! (or else)"
@ScriptFanix Franny does a pretty good cover of Joan Jett's "Yow!" in I Love Rock and Roll.
If you aren't a fan of feline yodeling you might think this album isn't for you. Pica wants you to know you are wrong. She has a song about that too:
14. I must sing, you must enjoy it.
3 AM and 4 AM are covers of the corresponding songs from Animal Crossing, right? ...Right?! youtube.com/watch?v=se7iaIfFdoQ
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Lol. When I was growing up we had a cat who was very quiet. Barely ever meowed. But sometimes when the house was silent, he would go to the central stairwell (spot with optimal acoustics) to perform his mournful and very loud rendition of “Where Is Everyone?”
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It is one of the great cat classics.
@garland I had weird cats who never yoweled. They slept through the night on the bed with us. Miss those jerks.
I await the preorder link with bated breath
8. No catnip.
9. NO CATNIP!
10. Where is the catnip dispenser (a.k.a. small fabric mouse with tooth marks in it)?!
9. NO CATNIP!
10. Where is the catnip dispenser (a.k.a. small fabric mouse with tooth marks in it)?!
Destined to be a legendary opus. That'll procure a lot of katnip.
I preferred the previous album, "It's Cold Outside, and Raining Too."
The opening track, "What Are You Gonna Do About It?" is an absolute banger.
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Me pregunto si por fin sancionará a los presbíteros que acusaron durante su estancia como obispo de Chiclayo, para dar el ejemplo
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On one hand, the respect of consent is necessary for a proper society. On the other hand, the logical extreme implies that even approaching a stranger should be considered coercive (cf. hebaber.substack.com/p/talking-to-strangers ). How can society even exist, if anything other than pre-existing relationships is intrinsically violent?
Talking to Strangers
Melissa Kirsch asks: ‘How often do you talk to strangers? What’s stopping you?’ I never talk to strangers. What stops me is that I don’t want to.H. E. Baber (H.E.’s Newsletter)
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Faded cave glyphs offer fresh clues to Teotihuacan's ancient writing system
Research Article:
Christophe Helmke et al, Painted Teotihuacan glyphs of Cave 19, Chalcatzingo, Morelos, Mexico, Antiquity(2026). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10425 (Open access)
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The cave, known as Cave 19, is in a region where people from the powerful ancient city of Teotihuacan established settlements and carried out rituals. The Teotihuacan Empire flourished centuries before the Aztecs and is known for its giant pyramids, culture and art. The images have faded over time, and some parts are now difficult to see with the naked eye.[…]
In addition to filling in some missing details about these ancient rock paintings, the study could tell us more about Teotihuacan. For decades, experts have debated whether the symbols found on Teotihuacan buildings and pottery were evidence of a writing system or just decorative pictures. The new research at Chalcatzingo strengthens the case for a writing system. As the researchers note, "Teotihuacan writing can therefore no longer be dismissed or considered as a set of isolated or emblematic symbols."
Faded cave glyphs offer fresh clues to Teotihuacan's ancient writing system
In a shallow cave high on a cliff in Chalcatzingo, Mexico, scientists documented three red glyphs in the 1980s, but the paintings received relatively little attention.Paul Arnold (Phys.org)
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It's an interesting find, but it still sounds like way too little to talk even remotely conclusively about a full fledged writing system.
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“Can I do it?” is a terrible measure of disability.
Yes, I can do it.
Can I do it repeatedly?
Can I do it safely?
Can I do it without support?
Can I do anything afterwards?
Can I do it tomorrow too?
What does doing it COST?
These tell me a lot more about my capability.
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Sure would help matters if I could answer half of these questions.
the one time I tried to get some accommodations it was around volunteering at a VBS as part of paid ministry time at my Christian employer at the time. It was “only” half days of volunteering so they expected me back at work in the afternoons, but I knew from past experience I would be useless the rest of the day, and wanted to use my full week of PTO to cover the recovery after as well.
denied two times a few years apart, before (single) and after (married with a baby) finding out I am Autistic. First year I took personal PTO to cover the half days of rest. Second year I just didn’t go since I had a child and needed the PTO for other things. Kind of sad really, that by not giving me the full time I didn’t end up using it at all that year.
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Good questions/considerations. Same questions I ask myself as I age, without autism.
Currently staring at the 50+ year old skateboard I use for moving big heavy things around the shop and considering hoping on it. Nope. Same questions.
I often feel like Captain America - ‘I can do this all day’ - as long as I ignore the body blows…
Is it sustainable?
Totally agree. I managed, over the Bank Holiday weekend to do a music festival, doing 16+ hour days, busy and active days. Absolutely full days, poor sleeping (in a tent, I don't sleep well).
So I can do it. Because it is enjoyable,, I get a lot of positivity out of it. But it takes me 2-3 weeks to recover.
This is precisely why I'm not at work. Yes, I could go fix a computer. I'm very good at it.
Can I do it repeatedly? While dealing with social situation of a client? Day in and day out? No. No I cannot.
Can I do it repeatedly? While dealing with social situation of a client? Day in and day out? No. No I cannot.
reminds me of like
you can eat anything you want!
just some things you can't eat more than once...
I think this is a struggle for many late diagnosed/realised neurodivergent folk. We’ve often managed to do so much, sometime some of it very well, but the cost…
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Whenever you place a bet there's a tacit agreement that there's at least the possibility of a win. So if you're running an amusement arcade and the settings on the claw machine make it impossible to pick up a teddy, then that is not only theft, but theft from kids
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this is not an opinion, but an indisputable truth
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ban them both. They're both preying on people who are convinced they have more skill than they do.
The kid will be disappointed when they loose. That's the end of it, as mum isn't giving them more money.
If an adult losses their sports bet, they'll keep on going as they have a credit card. And if they end up being like my former local member, they end up "borrowing" money from local businesses when they cannot repay their credit card bill. And the idiot constituents will continue to vote for him, even after he was kicked out of the Nats because of said theft (cc @devopscats - Division of Morehell)
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