How the fuck is banning people in certain countries for something they don't have control over from contributing to small projects like this doing anything but shooting the FOSS ecosystem, which already has a severe shortage of developers, in the foot?

now it's back, nothing suspicious going on here

Federated Github? That’s… git.

Github is a forge with features like issues, pull requests, project planning, documentation, project sites, and automation, so not really.

the comments in that thread is such a reddit moment

For me the main use case for LibreWolf isn't so much being anonymous as it is wanting a browser that doesn't have ads and data mining stuff going on and has some additional privacy protections but that also doesn't get in the way too much in terms of usability. Zen Browser might be a better fit for this use case now since it improves the UI while claiming to not have telemetry, but I haven't tried it yet. I'm not really concerned about fingerprinting since most sites I use already know who I am since I'm logged into them. If I wanted to be really private though I'd use Tor or Mullvad, but not as a daily driver since I value UX more as long as it's not invasive.

There's Vanadium and Cromite which have ad-blocking and strong security and none of the problems Brave has barring Chromium monopoly

As someone who is extremely hands on and learns basically nothing from lectures, this actually sounds like a decent idea if it is executed well, especially the Khan Academy integration. I'd rather just sit down and read a textbook and do practice problems and be graded on them than be stuck in a lecture for 7 hours only to have to relearn everything anyways because I lose track of what's being said in like 5 seconds of the lecture starting.

The Democrats need to drop out and let an actually serious party take over

$20 = $140

-$20 -$20

0 = $120

/120 /120

$ = 0

I watched the presidential debate between Harris and Trump, and one of Harris's main talking points was that the Republicans weren't doing enough at the border.

My $7000/mo medication has a bunch of "cost relief" programs so they can pretend that they give a shit about affordability, then when you actually try to use them they make you do like 20 phone calls over the span of several months until they finally let you enroll and when you do it only lasts for a short amount of time before they kick you off and you have to start the process all over again. I've had to miss multiple doses of the medication which is dangerous for my physical health because I don't have the money to pay for it and this process takes so fucking long.

Recently, they signed me up for some super shady thing where I pay for the medication upfront and then they pay me back after showing me the receipt. What they didn't tell me is that it has a limit for how much it will pay for, so I pay for the medication, and what a surprise, they rejected my claim and now I lost $5000 to the medication, which could have paid for a car or a semester of community college. Our healthcare system does a great job at making dying sound like a decent alternative to healthcare.

But there's also situations like Israel genociding Palestine where if there wasn't a social media platform for footage to spread on a lot more people would probably be pro-Israel (right now Israel is extremely unpopular at my university because of the genocide and this is even one in Texas). Regarding social connections in real life though those have definitely taken a toll.