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So you come into my replies on my instance and then block me.
This is what you think happens:
“Haha, everyone will see my reply and he can’t respond.”
Here’s what actually happens:
- You piss me off
- I suspend your account and delete your data from my server so it no longer distributes your reply
- I post a screenshot of your reply so everyone can see the mental gymnastics you have to employ to defend Israel
- You learn something new
#israel [#eurovision](https://masto … ⌘ Read more
Folks, if your strategy is to vote multiple times (at ~€1/pop) to try and influence the Eurovision Song Contest outcome against Israel: please don’t.
Financially rewarding the EBU will only make them look successful. You don’t buy all the beer at the fascist bar to teach them a lesson.
#eurovision #ESC #eurovision2024 #ESC2024 [#BoycottEurovision2024](https: … ⌘ Read more
Calling all over-80s in Ireland!
(When you enter Ireland a leprechaun greets all under 80s at the border and gives you a lucky charm with immunity to COVID so we only offer the booster to over 80s.)
#covid #ireland #booster #vaccine #headInArseAsPublicHealthPolicy [https://mstdn.science/@JoePajak/11241830 … ⌘ Read more
How about: you shred the UN charter, you get booted from the UN. Sound fair?
#UN #UnitedNations #Israel #pariahState #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide [https://newsie.social/@LALegault/112417832509462850](https://newsie.social/@LAL … ⌘ Read more
You don’t have a cost of living crisis, you have capitalism. ⌘ Read more
If you want to understand how startups and venture capital work, go to 26:24 on the recording of my talk “Excuse Me, Your Unicorn Keeps Shitting In My Back Yard, Can He Please Not?” from 2016:
https://ar.al/talks/#excuse-me-your-unicorn-keeps-shitting-in-my-back-yard-can-he-please-not
#startups #ventureCapital [#VC](https://mastodon.ar.al … ⌘ Read more
A startup cannot enshittify if you don’t allow it to start up.
Once it starts up, gains traction, and the network effects kick in, you lose the power to do anything about it.
The only time you can kill a venture-capital funded startup is at the very beginning.
The way you kill a startup is by not using its free services at the start.
The correct answer to a venture-capital funded startup is always “no, thank you!”
#startups [#ventureCapital](https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ventu … ⌘ Read more
Hello, I am a new startup!
I’m funded by venture capital and free to use.
Please come and make me valuable by using me. Make my numbers go up!
Once you do, I’ll have everything I need and I can do whatever I want with the time and effort you’ve put into making me successful.
Not happy? Fuck you, I don’t need you anymore (network effects FTW, amirite?)… I’m laughing all the way to the bank.
Goodbye!
…
Hello, I am a new startup…
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When are we going to learn to say “no” at the start? ⌘ Read more
Lots to do yet but the new Kitten¹ settings section (that’s common to all Kitten apps / Small Web places) is coming along nicely. (With the general style/layout borrowed from Domain².)
(It’s currently a single page and I’m breaking it up into multiple ones because it’s time.)
Once I’m done with this I should really record a screencast of Kitten’s new backup and restore feature/data portability.
¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
² [https://codeberg.org/domain/app](https://codeberg. … ⌘ Read more
Capitalism is an economic theory that posits that a relative handful of greedy fucks gorging themselves is how we provide adequate nutrition to the population at large. ⌘ Read more
Not sure I put them on as elegantly as possible but I do love my new rainbow laces :)
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
“For Biden, the only good Jews are Zionists – those who support Israel and its settler colonial project. But what about the rest of us? We Jews who reject a conflation of Judaism and Zionism? We Jews who say never again and mean never again for everyone? We Jews who are calling for a free Palestine and an end to Israel’s occupation?”
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/dont-be-fooled-biden-is-the-real-antisemite/
[#Biden](https://mastodon.ar.al … ⌘ Read more
Dear @EU_Commission,
Wild idea: how about you don’t poison us for profit?
“The European Commission is planning to allow for wide-ranging exemptions from a proposed ban on substances known as PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals’, to protect key industries, German newspaper Welt reported on Wednesday.”
[https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-commission-eyeing-exemptions-forever-chemicals-ban-welt-reports-2024-05-08/](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-commission-eyeing … ⌘ Read more
That feeling when even a certified asshat like Piers Morgan has apparently had enough of Israel’s bullshit.
https://indymotion.fr/w/3hA1adbgj3T7RcAfvfBvZn
Via @vincib
#israel #palestine #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide ⌘ Read more
I don’t know what’s worse, that a worm ate part of R.F.K. Jr.’s brain or that it died after eating it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html ⌘ Read more
Meow! New Kitten just dropped:
• Uploads are now listed in the Small Web Place Settings (/💕/settings) of all Kitten apps.
#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #uploads #settings [#web](https://mastodon.ar … ⌘ Read more
Meanwhile in Ireland, you can get your first dose of the Covid vaccine at age 12 and, in just 68 years, you can get your first booster.
Because that’s cool and normal.
Hamzah Saadeh: How many Palestinians have you killed?
Israeli soldier: 20 … I don’t what is a “Palestinians”. I know Hamas. In Gaza there is not civilians. They’re all Hamas terrorists.
Hamzah Saadeh: So the 1 million kids in Gaza they’re all Hamas?
Israeli soldier: Yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C7hBkC8cqZM
I thought this was what The Hague was for.
#israel #palestine [#gaza](https:/ … ⌘ Read more
On this holy day of The #Apple Event, I find myself writing the following comment in my code after trying to run my app on a #Mac:
/**
Metadata about the database itself.
This is inlined here instead of being kept in its own Database.js file like all the other model classes so as not to leave our friends who have Appleⓡ Macⓡ devices that cannot differentiate between database.js (this file) and Database.js (that file).
Perhaps when Apple becom … ⌘ Read more
Israel insists it has a right to defend itself from ceasefire agreements
https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-insists-it-has-a-right-to
Prime satire. Read & weep.
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‘…Israel said no to the deal that would have freed the hostages because it wants to free the hostages. If you question this reasoning, it’s because you are Hamas.’
‘The US doesn’t mind supporting genocide, but it draws the line at being unable to plausibly deny genocide.’ … ⌘ Read more
… JSDB, by the way, is short for JavaScript Database, which is, umm, a JavaScript database.
It’s an in-process, in-memory database for Node.js for Small Web use that persists to an append-only JavaScript – not JSON, JavaScript – transaction log.
JSDB’s very easy to work with because you just use native JavaScript objects and they just automatically get persisted for you.
e.g., Here’s a quick 6-line Kitten app that persists a counter:
[https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#using-javascript-database-jsdb-a-not-so-scary-dat … ⌘ Read more
Just deployed a new version of Kitten.
It uses the latest version of JSDB (5.1.3) which fixes an issue where instances of `EventEmitter` subclasses persisted to the database were erroneously persisting their (by convention private) `_events` arrays containing `AsyncFunction` instances and thereby causing a crash on the database open attempt when the `AsyncFunction` class could not be found as it wasn’t provided to the `JSDB.open()` method.
If you’re tired of hearing about the genocide in Gaza, just imagine how tired the Palestinians are of dying from it.
#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #eurovision [#boycottEurovision](https://mastodon.ar.al/ta … ⌘ Read more
North Korea threatens “International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with ‘severe sanctions’… ‘Target Israel and we will target you … You have been warned.’”
Did I say North Korea? Silly me! I meant twelve republican US senators 🙊
[https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-you-have-been-warned-republican](https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-you-have-been-warned-repu … ⌘ Read more
Ooh, can’t wait to read the gushing praise from Mastodon GmbH for this on the Mastodon blog.
(Mastodon gGmbH and Meta are besties, you see. https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/)
Is it up yet?
#mastodon #meta #besties [#allTheBetterToSeeYouWith](https://m … ⌘ Read more