every year, someone really close to where i live attempts a shitty rendition of the national anthem on their electric guitar before starting an 'unauthorized' firework show. the police usually show up pretty quick. this time, i counted about 4 explosions before they were forced to stop.
encrypt your drives and set a password on your bios/uefi settings, especially if you use a laptop that you take with you
whenever someone leaves a public computer unattended, you can either really help them or be a complete asshole by signing them out for them
By The Wasted Onion: Cities Burn As LGBTQ+ Community Celebrate Wrath Month
PARIS, FRANCE—As the world bid farewell to yet another Pride Month, cities began to burn Wednesday as LGBTQ+ people across the globe began the yearly celebrations of the follow-up festivities known as Wrath Month.
Full article: https://wastedonion.seanjw.com/posts/news/cities-burn-as-lgbtq-community-celebrate-wrath-month/
This stories headline was written and suggested by @juniperrr, thank you!
every implementation of age verification i've seen either requires you to trust a provider with really personal information or your biometrics, and that alone freaks me out
this whole push for age verification is also going to potentially break smaller platforms and federated networks, and i don't doubt there's some involved in these pushes interested in centralizing internet activity onto big platforms that are easier to manipulate.
making pseudonymous users hand over PII and connecting a real person to a thing that's only supposed to exist online is a problem for people who just like having their actions disconnected from themselves, whistleblowers or people that could be in actual danger if their identities were known.
i could list more but character limits are beating my ass, apologies for all the rewrites lmao
i now have so many feeds in my freshrss setup that my server is hitting it's own ratelimits. currently going through and muting all the inactive/rarely updating feeds. i probably should have done this months ago but ehhhhh
i could crush the new deltarune chapter in one night, like i did it with the last two, but i also have to eat and i have a job and
i used camelcase in a python script and the project lead is now trying to exorcise me
praying to every single known deity that my current pc lasts as long as the old one did because i'm completely priced out
WHY THE FUCK DOES IT KEEP PUTTING RADIOHEAD IN MY STEREOLAB PLAYLISTS FUCKING CLANKERS
i think that it really must suck from a creator's perspective when their hard work goes for absolute truckloads of money but is hoarded and not enjoyed by people
despite everything, this is still my favorite place on the whole internet and the community is why it's special to me. keep at it :)
hi everyone, guess what today is??? after half a decade of existence, wasteof.money has officially turned five years old!! this achievement wouldn’t have been possible without our lovely user base, so thank you all, and here’s to another five 