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☆ Dmitri ☭
the big sneeze
calligraffiti
The RAPEpublican party seem to have made it abundantly clear what they think of anybody not rich, white, straight and male. You do not matter. You should be happy to fight their dogs for the scraps they throw out.
Don't think. Wave your new baseball cap and do what you are told. Daddy needs more jets for his heirs.
Ya favorite tho(ugh)t
People often tell me that most white people are decent and are doing the work behind the scenes.
My response is where is the proof of this? Because what I see is white Americans joining together to put a racist sex offender into the presidency. What I see is white people fighting to put another prejudiced and sexist white guy on the bench in highest court in the land. What I see is white people making murderous cops rich.
If most white people are 'decent', where are they?
Anarkingu Gidora
(dark humour..)
Dikkus
Oh, christ. The upcoming reCAPTCHA v3 is even more cancerous than reCAPTCHA v2. Just die already, Google. Please.
calligraffiti
@atomjack
Weeeeee! Looks fun, but my testicles object very much.
Prof. Dr. Ginny McQueen, Esq
- boost women
- give money to women
- sit quietly and listen
- read something women wrote
- give more women money
- punch other men who won't shut up
- sshhhhhhhh just shhhhhhhh
JP
Facebook's long game with Oculus is to gain the same kind of leverage over the Augmented/Mixed Reality world that they currently have over the conventional web, in all their democracy-corroding, Royhinga-genocide-enabling incompetence and naivete so don't buy or support that shit.
calligraffiti
Gimp 2.10 has just been installed on my Mac. I'm so excited I could explode!
calligraffiti
calligraffiti
@therealpennyfortheguy
Yeah, agreed. But if nobody supports artistic content creation; all we will be left with is propaganda and pornography. #choice #responsibility
calligraffiti
@therealpennyfortheguy
That link you gave is just an argument for DRM. We shouldn't be promoting pirated materials. That just destroys the case that folks are capable of being responsible for themselves without some nanny device like DRM.
Pirated materials and people who responsibly buy and enjoy DRM free digial assets are very different things.
@thestevebiggs
CB Webb
Playing with ink.
calligraffiti
@netkitty
This is a whole new twist on Schrödingers box. Watch out for the occasional zombie cat claw!
calligraffiti
@thestevebiggs
But thank you for bringing up DRM. There really should be more resistance to it. In my experience it causes more problems than it solves. Digital products shouldn't be treated any different than physical ones. It's a matter of education and an understanding of how important it is to support creators. DRM only benefits the gate keepers.
Don't buy DRM. 😉
calligraffiti
@thestevebiggs
The [Defective by Design](https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks) maintains a great list of resources as well.
miramarco
Gmail's upcoming self-destructing emails will require the recipients to click on a link and log in with their #Google accounts to see the content, if they are accessing via IMAP/SMTP.
Don't be fooled: Google's purpose is not to give us more confidentiality. They want all of their users to access their mailboxes via the Gmail app or their web interface, so they are creating a burden to the recipients and calling it “security” to convince people to adopt it.
calligraffiti
@thestevebiggs
[Smashwords](https://www.smashwords.com/) & [Lulu](http://www.lulu.com/) are good ones. If you use Calibre there are suggestions for DRM free sources.
Steve Biggs
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