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Cuando sea presidente de la Comisión Europea, prohibiré el DM*
* El DM o MDF es un material fabricado a partir de fibras de maderas, cartón y resinas sintéticas comprimidas; una puta mierda que pagas como si fuera bueno
The boat, loaded with medical supplies, food, children’s equipment and medicine, is expected to make a stop at Gallipoli in southeastern Italy before heading to Gaza. It will sail for about a week across the Mediterranean in the hope of reaching Gaza’s coast…
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla sets sail once more, only weeks after Israel intercepted the previous vessel, Madleen. Now, the Gaza-bound Handala, carrying over a...
Masar Badil: On the First Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Commander Mohammad al-Deif, “Abu Khaled”
As long as there is a heartbeat of resistance and life in our people, he remains alive within us. On the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Commander Mohammad al-Deif, “Abu Khaled”
On this date one year ago, July 13, 2024, Commander Mohammad al-Deif (Abu Khaled), the General Commander of the General Staff of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, rose to the highest heavens after a long journey of resistance and sacrifice. He was a symbol of steadfastness and concealment, and a figure that haunted the Zionist army and its leaders for decades. His name, and his noble legacy, continue to grow and strengthen in Gaza and throughout Palestine.
As we mark the first anniversary of the martyrdom of our brother and leader Abu Khaled al-Deif, the hearts of our people and our nation still beat with his name. They remember him as a silent fighter, a brilliant strategist, and a steadfast leader. He left us with an eternal legacy of struggle, and a military school rooted in resistance, secrecy, and patience. He instilled in our consciousness that liberation comes only through the rifle, unwavering will, and the correct revolutionary stance. He taught us that the only true and steadfast compass is the one that points to Jerusalem — for its liberation from the Zionist invaders.
On this glorious anniversary, we renew our pledge to our great martyr and to all the martyrs of the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and every land where martyrs have fallen for the liberation of Palestine, that we will remain on the path, we will neither deviate nor compromise, and that the flag of revolution shall remain raised and continue until the liberation of all of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
Our pledge to the martyred leader Abu Khaled is to confront Zionism and imperialism everywhere, and to work tirelessly to defeat all liquidation projects and the forces of surrender and normalization.
Peace be upon the living commander within us. Peace upon his spirit that soars over the skies of Gaza, Jerusalem, Jenin, Haifa, Bethlehem, and above the capitals of resistance from Beirut to Sana’a, and across every inch of our great Arab homeland.
Glory to the martyrs. Eternal glory to the great historic commander, Mohammad al-Deif. The resistance continues… until liberation and return.
The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) July 13, 2025
As long as there is a heartbeat of resistance and life in our people, he remains alive within us. On the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Commander Mohammad al-Deif, 'Abu Khaled' On this date one year ago, July 13, 2024, Commander Mohammad al-De…
"Also, BY DEFINITION, a minor cannot consent to sex and such, and this is statutory rape."
that is not by definition, and you don't need to capitalize as if I wouldn't get it. It's by governmnent lie. The government simply lies and says children cannot LEGALLY CONSENT.
"but about the general truth that there are organisations trafficking in children for the purpose of sexual "
yes we know that this is going on but it cannot be unravelled and stopped by lying
Too many reports talk about grooming of young girls, put into situations where they should never have been (parent alert: how on earth did they allow their daughters to go on such trips?).
"Too many reports talk about grooming of young girls, put into situations where they should never have been (parent alert: how on earth did they allow their daughters to go on such trips?)."
where are these "reports"? from the same garbage bin that almost everything on the internet comes from?
Masar Badil: On the First Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Commander Mohammad al-Deif, “Abu Khaled” abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/203…
"As long as there is a heartbeat of resistance and life in our people, he remains alive within us. On the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Commander Mohammad al-Deif,…"
Israel releases footage of it striking Syrian T-72 Tanks
Syrian army forces have joined a tribal force attack on the Druze majority city of Sweida (Suwayda).
Although the Syrian forces claim they were trying to deescalate, they have joined forces against the Druze. Israel is taking advantage of the situation for its own territory ambitions
The Syrian Ministry of Defense expands security in the towns of (Al-Thalaa and Walga) after the expulsion of the Hijri militias from them to become on the outskirts of the city center of Sweida.
Druze militias are requesting negotiations with the Syrian government.
The Syrian state requires surrender with the surrender of all weapons without any conditions to all armed groups in Sweida to spare the battle on the city, and there is no negotiation without it.
So while in Syria the civil war continues with Alewites, Druze and other victims, and while at the same time there are signs that ISIS in Syria is reviving, European countries are repatriating Syrians considering Syria a safe country.
Join us for a special Huddle on Weather Modification. Dave and Melanie join me for a live weather update, and then Scott and Patriot AU join me for a classic segment on the history of weather modifica
Vous l'attendiez, le voici : vous pourrez désormais converser directement entre le Fédiverse et la messagerie instantanée XMPP ! Et ce depuis votre compte et votre application habituelle, sans rien changer.
Comment ça marche ? Très simple, deux comptes robots jumeaux vont se charger de passer vos messages dans l'autre monde.
Et donc depuis Mastodon : votre contact est @xmpp_bridge que vous pourrez suivre pour vous inscrire, puis envoyer et recevoir des messages depuis XMPP.
À chaque fois que vous envoyez un message, vous faites comme pour tout message privé : mention du compte robot depuis Mastodon ou envoi de message privé depuis une application comme Pixelfed ou Friendica, par exemple.
Adressez votre ou vos destinataires XMPP avec le préfixe xmpp: suivi de leur adresse (sans espace). Vous pourrez répondre directement à tout message reçu.
Vous pourrez également gérer vos listes de blocage, afin d'éviter tout spam, et vous pourrez rapporter tout abus à votre administrateur.
Ça ne vous intéresse pas ? Pas de panique, tant que vous n'êtes pas inscrit, vous ne recevrez rien.
Commencez ! Évidemment, ça n'a d'intérêt que si vous connaissez des interlocuteurs XMPP (et vice-versa). Mais c'est aussi l'occasion d'essayer et de promouvoir la messagerie instantanée.
Testez et rapportez-moi tout bug ou toute remarque utile, pour améliorer le service.
En espérant que vous appréciez ce nouveau service assez exclusif mais ouvert à tous !
🔄 Boostez svp pour répandre la bonne parole dans l'Univers.
You've been waiting for it, here it is: from now on you'll be able to chat directly between Fediverse and XMPP instant messaging! All from your usual account and application, without changing a thing.
So how does it work? Very simply, two twin robot accounts will be responsible for passing your messages to the other world.
So from Mastodon: your contact is @xmpp_bridge, who you can follow to sign up, then send and receive messages from XMPP.
Each time you send a message, you do as you would for any private message: mention the robot account from Mastodon or send a private message from an application such as Pixelfed or Friendica, for example.
Address your XMPP recipient(s) with the prefix xmpp: followed by their address (without spaces). You can reply directly to any message you receive.
You can also manage your block lists to prevent spam, and you can report any abuse to your administrator.
Not interested? Don't worry, you won't receive anything until you register.
Get started! Obviously, this is only of interest if you know XMPP contacts (and vice versa). But it's also an opportunity to try out and promote instant messaging.
Test it out and report any bugs or useful comments to me, so that I can improve the service.
I hope you enjoy this new service, which is fairly exclusive but open to everyone!
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Un pont XMPP - Fédiverse élémentaire donc (bien moins ambitieux que Libervia), fournissant un service de chat entre les deux mondes, les utilisateurs gardant leur application et leur compte habituels.
L'architecture est simple : deux comptes robots, un dans chaque monde (backend Python avec Slixmpp et API Mastodon) se chargeant de faire écho de chaque message pour l'envoyer dans l'autre monde. Avec un traitement des adresses, listes de blocages, etc.
Ça reste pour une utilisation simple et à échelle modérée (chaque compte robot étant soumis aux limitations imposées par les serveurs Mastodon et XMPP auxquels ils sont rattachés).
L'idée étant de permettre un déploiement simple et de jouer la scalabilité en rajoutant des bots jumeaux par chaque administrateur intéressé (le principe du Fédiverse, finalement).
Si ça intéresse quelqu'un, je mettrai le code source à disposition en AGPL cet été après quelques semaines de fonctionnement en béta. Ouvert à tous !
If you want a nice tartar sauce to go with it, make it as would any but add finely ground dried rosemary. And a whiff of basil. Some malt vinegar to taste. Few big ol' mustard seeds.
Help Declassified expose the powerful by joining us: https://www.declassifieduk.org/join/How complicit is Britain in the Gaza genocide? Could British ministe...
Why is this great news? Well, it serves as a clear reminder that federal agents can be arrested when they break the law. If they assault people—or kidnap them—or commit any crimes at all, they can and should end up in handcuffs. “No one is above the law, regardless of their position or badge,” LA County DA Nathan Hochman said. He’s right, but it shouldn’t take this level of carnage for them to end up behind bars. - Scott Dworkin
"I have been on Truth Social to cover Trump since the first day it became active, and have read every post. The people on that platform are hardcore MAGA cultists who are typically intensely loyal. But his dismissive post on Epstein drew a tidal wave of angry responses like I have never seen before. So far, Trump has received over 45,000 replies, over 90% negative."
"For the first time ever, Trump got ratioed on his own platform, meaning that there were more comments on his post than likes or shares, showing disapproval of his message. According to Jordan King of Newsweek, by 10:45 this morning (Eastern Time) it had more than 36,000 replies but only 11,000 reposts and 32,000 likes."
We should be beating MAGA over the head with a simple fact: if Epstein's list was a Democrat conspiracy, Biden would have released it when he was in office.
The fact Biden refused to release it means prominent Democrats are on it.
The fact Trump refused to release it means prominent Republicans are on it.
يا ضيفنا لو زرتنا لوجدتنا نحن الضيوف وأنت رب المنزل “O our guest, if you were to visit us, you would find That we are the guests, and you are the master of the house.”
Mohammad Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Abu Khaled), or most commonly known as Mohammed Deif — The Guest: A man who led the resistance from the shadows, his name chanted by millions, though little was known about him. But that didn’t matter. What mattered was that he was the shadow of the resistance, dedicating his life to the fight for freedom. And the people knew that.
Born in Gaza in 1965, Deif studied science at the Islamic University of Gaza. During his time there, he was active in religious, student, and humanitarian work—along with a passion for theater. In 1989, the occupation forces arrested him, detaining him without trial for 16 months on charges of working with Hamas’ military wing.
His release coincided with the rise of the Qassam Brigades, which had begun executing operations deep within the zionist entity. Deif moved to the West Bank alongside several Qassam leaders from Gaza, overseeing the formation of a West Bank branch. He rose to prominence after the assassination of Imad Aqel in 1993, and oversaw several successful operations against the occupation, including the capture of zionist soldier Nachshon Wachsman in 1994.
In the year 2000, he was arrested once again by the Palestinian Authority but managed to escape detention following the outbreak of the Second Intifada. This marked a significant turning point in the development of Hamas’ military capabilities.
Mohammed Deif was appointed as the commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades in 2002. Upon taking leadership, he established a military training and development academy, later revealed after the occupation’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
Deif is credited with numerous strategic successes for Al-Qassam, most notably in the field of missile development. Under his command, the Qassam Brigades transformed their arsenal—from primitive rockets with a few kilometers’ range to missiles capable of reaching every occupied Palestinian city, from the far south to the north.
Mohammed Deif rarely appeared on media, the last being on the morning of October 7, 2023, when he announced Al-Aqsa Flood. He survived seven assassination attempts by the occupation, in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2014, and twice in 2021. He suffered burns, lost an eye, and, according to occupation claims, lost a leg and sustained arm injuries in another.
In 2014, another attempt on his life killed his wife, Widad Mustafa Harb Deif, and children including a his three-year-old daughter and his seven-month-old son, Ali. Yet, Deif remained committed to resistance.
Despite never revealing his face to the public, Deif became one of the most beloved and respected figures in the resistance. People from different countries and backgrounds pledged allegiance to him, for what he represented.
“Put the sword before the sword—we are the people of Mohammed Deif!”
He was nicknamed “the guest” because for decades, he slept in a different house every night, avoiding detection and assassination. The occupation threatened to kill him. The people answered: “Our homes are yours.”
Mohammed Deif was the resistance as it is: from the people, for the people.
Glory to Mohammed Deif, the shadow of the resistance who remains for as long as its light keeps shining.
Abu Khaled, the guest, master of every home and every heart.
The pulse of the resistance. المقاومة جدوى مستمرة. Backup Mirror: @RNN_Backup Prisoners Channel: @RNN_Prisoners RNN Archive: @RNN_Archive Contact/Feedback: @RNN_Messaging_Bot
Long-overdue multiplier incoming: DOJ’s Epstein video blows up again; Trump’s tariffs spook holdouts; Zelensky’s bill gets outsourced; MTG drops a killer tax cut; and TACO may be off the menu.
PKK’nin Kendisini Fesih Kararının Tarihsel Önemi Üzerine-I
Geçen yılın başında yazdığım “AKP-MHP Kavgası ve Muhalefet” adlı makalede, ABD’de Trump’ın başkan seçilmesi durumunda, Erdoğan ile AKP’nin İmralı’da bulunan Abdullah Öcalan aracılığıyla PKK ile yeni bir “Çözüm ya da Barış Süreci” başlatabileceğini yazmıştım. Bugün yaşananlar bu tespitleri büyük oranda doğrulamıştır. Bugün yaşanan olayların tarihsel nedenlerini, toplumda çok az bir kesim tam olarak bilince çıkarabilmiştir. Gerek görsel gerekse de yazılı basında sorun ya çok dar bir temelde (Erdoğan’ın tekrar seçilmesi) ya da yanlış bir bağlamda (Suriye’de rejim değişikliği) tartışılmakta ve temelde olayları hareket ettiren dinamik ya da dinamiklerin yapısı tam olarak kavranılmamaktadır. Olayların tarihsel arka planını inceleyen ve çözümleyen iki uzun yazı[1]ile bunu yapmış olduğumuz için burada artık sorunun bu yanı üzerinde durmayacağız.
"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Au milieu de massacres des Druzes de la région de Soueïda, les gangs djihadistes dirigés par le gouvernement de Damas attaquent les forces arabo-kurdes à Deir ez-zor, rapporte l’activiste Scharo Maroof. Scharo Maroof a écrit sur son compte X (ancien Twitter) : « Le gouvernement syrien profite du chaos provoqué par
One does not "negotiate" with Trump. He doesn't "negotiate," he lies/bullies. There are no "deals." Congress must approve actual deals. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6ruj…
"Author: Mack EvasionTitle: Getting CaughtSubtitle: When Bad Things Happen to Good Shoplifters, A MemoirDate: 1994Source: <evasionbook.com> & <amazonaws.com> Before Evasion, There was... Evasion, the zine, had its first print run of 10 copies in June of 1999. Like all my bad ideas, it was a refined version of an even worse idea — one that came 5 years before, when I was in high
When asked why the current Department of Justice might be investigating him, former CIA Director John Brennan answered, as was his wont, with a complete lie: “I am clueless about what it is exactly that they may be investigating me for.”
Clueless? Hardly. Brennan knows full well that his fingerprints are on some of the greatest scandals of the last decade. These machinations have threatened the very integrity of our institutions and elections.
When asked why the current Department of Justice might be investigating him, former CIA Director John Brennan answered, as was his wont, with a complete lie: “I…
He has a record of serially lying to Congress, the public, and the media, and doing so emphatically.
In 2011, as the government’s chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan absurdly insisted that the Obama administration’s drone strikes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border had not killed a single civilian noncombatant. Yet multiple sources proved the claim was clearly false. In truth, the number of innocents killed was likely somewhere between 50 and 70.
In 2014, as director of the CIA, Brennan lied again, doubling down by denying that CIA operatives were hacking into U.S. Senate staffers’ computers.
“As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. . . . We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.”
Here, too, he was caught lying and forced to apologize—but never charged with perjury.
@HaleakalacraterThere are less and less insects (thank you RoundUp) so have you tried hand-pollinating them with a soft pain brush? Some plants, like tomato plants are self pollinating but even then, sometimes you have to give them a hand by gently shaking the plant like if wind made them move a bit.
Some others, like bell peppers, if you pollinate them, can lose their flowers if they have too much water. I would look it up with search criteria being zucchini loses flowers or something similar.
Oh and for my cucumbers, I seem to notice they are male flowers and female flowers which bear the fruit. After a time, the male flowers fall...
Your zucchini plant is covered in lovely blossoms. Then one morning you walk out to your garden to find all those blossoms lying on the ground. Read this article to learn why zucchini blossoms fall off plants.
@HaleakalacraterExcellent. It's time-consuming if you have to hand pollinate but quite frankly, when I take care of my garden I really enjoy it, so much in fact. It's my way of being in touch with nature. And it's also that bulb moment over your head when you do something that helps your plants along. I might have to shut up, I'm starting to sound like a loony. 😂
@Haleakalacrater @Chronic-YonicYou can tell the male and female flowers pretty easily: male one are on a longer stalk, female ones have a tiny fruit behind them. The unopened ones at the bottom of this picture: right is male, left is female.
@HaleakalacraterI haaaate round up. Everyone around us treats the ever loving shit out of their lawns and we are the hand pulling up of weeds jerks. This probably explains why only my tomatoes seem to do well, even though we have multiple bumblebee hives in our neighborhood 🙁 And I had to beg our neighbors to not disturb them.
@astarsscreams I wonder if it’s better to reduce lawn and have just have garden everywhere if there’s adequate sunlight. Maybe planting beds with perennials instead of LAWN
@HebrideanHecate @HaleakalacraterBecause Americans are afraid of bees. I admit to being afraid of wasps and yellow jackets (they attack you for hot dogs here), but honey bees? Yeah they’re not scary. And I love bumblebees.
@astarsscreams @HebrideanHecate @HaleakalacraterThey're so bloody aggressive and sting, OMG. Contrary to bees, they don't die if they lose their stingers, so sting away they do!
@HebrideanHecate @astarsscreams I just got stung by a brown paper wasp this weekend he hit me once in each hand it hurt like hell! Went away in about an hour. Yellow jackets burn so bad though that is an awful sting!
@astarsscreams @HaleakalacraterI actually had to have 4 wasp nests destroyed last week, I don't like doing anything like that, but they were up under the eaves of the house and they were getting arsey around outside. Had they been elsewhere in garden, further from house would maybe have left them, but had trouble with them there before and couldn't go outside in peace.
@HebrideanHecate @Haleakalacrater @Chronic-YonicA couple of years ago some of these were spotted in Washington state and it literally became like a national news story about trying to prevent them from taking hold in the US because of the damage they could cause to native honey bees.
@HebrideanHecate @HaleakalacraterThey’re wonderful books. We live by Wisconsin and I’ve been up to the north woods where some of the books take place 😀
@HebrideanHecate @HaleakalacraterI haven’t seen that one. I need to add the little house books to our children’s collection. I read them at the library, but it’s nice to have classics in the house.
@astarsscreams @HebrideanHecate @HaleakalacraterThis is good, too: very heavily annotated (in the photo, one column her writing and three of footnotes!) version of her autobiography (which her daughter didn’t get her hands on, so it’s unbowdlerised).
"«La musique de Chat Pile c’est une fenêtre sur ce que l’on ressent quand on vit à Oklahoma». L’article Chat Pile, fenêtre sur l’Oklahoma est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque."
President Trump is expected to make a 'major' announcement Monday regarding Russia, and it will reportedly involve a new plan to arm Ukraine that includes of...
Today is Bastille Day, a French national holiday that commemorates the Storming of the Bastille prison in 1789.
The crowd busted down the doors of the prison fortress to free French guards they believed had been imprisoned for refusing to fire on the people, but instead only found seven prisoners - four counterfeiters, two mentally ill men and a sexual deviant imprisoned at the behest of his own family.
Aquest dimecres a Son Sardina i el dijous al Secar de la Real, des de la plataforma MALLORCA PER VIURE NO PER ESPECULAR convocam un taller de pancartes i cartells obert a tothom perquè els nostres carrers, places i façanes cridin ben fort contra la llei macrourbanitzadora del PP i VOX. Tendrem tot tipus de material, però animam a tothom que tengui llençols o teles blanques que en dugui.
In China, the minister is set to attend a meeting of the SCO Foreign Ministers Council. This is the first time Belarus will participate in the SCO ministerial meeting in the capacity of a full member of the organization.
Getting through day 1 of jet lag is like being reborn. I feel less than human until I get my first big nap and then time gets weird and suddenly I’m on the right schedule.
🎶 Ma révolution Porte ton nom Ma révolution n'a qu'une seule façon De tourner le monde De le changer Pour toi je ne cesserai jamais de marcher Ma révolution porte ton nom 🎶
Best of Jenifer: https://goo.gl/di1F8vSubscribe here: https://goo.gl/yJXWBbMusic video by Jenifer performing Ma Révolution. (C) 2004 Mercury (France)#Jenifer...
Fuck me, the comcast shit is overriding the DNS settings. I was afraid of that....thing is I used opendns as a test and those are showing up along side comcast DNS.
@dcc @verita84 dnssec can definitely work to verify tampering (or lack thereof) across the wire, but it's not for everyone. introduces latency in the request-cycle, and if by chance you have clock-skew it can cause problems.
a nice alternative is running a local resolver (pick one) and tunneling the requests over wireguard to a vps endpoint. this way tcp/53 udp/53 are forced up the wire and xfinity/comcast/whoever can't fetch and rewrite/steer it.
@ins0mniak i've got a few set and forget setups if you want it (docker, k8s, metal) where you change a couple of values and run a command to set it all up. hit me up on deltachat if you need a hand.
yes, this is true. but i have multiple subnets and weird cluster setup(s). opnsense doesn't do much besides basic nat as i punch through it with my weird networking setups all the time. but for others a vpn at the edge works fine (just don't login to your bank on the stuff)
Μελέτη του εργαστηρίου διατήρησης της βιοποικιλότητας (τμήμα ΒΕΤ) από το Πανεπ.Ιωαννίνων για τις 98 ανεμογεννήτριες στην κεντρική Εύβοια efsyn.gr/periballon/478913_mel…
Jeet[5] is a criminal and a former bounty hunter who joined as a gladiator at the Corrida Colosseum to compete for the Mera Mera no Mi, along with his partner, Abdullah.[1] He is an ally of Luffy during the Dressrosa Arc.
In this jaw-dropping interview, Dr. Bryan Ardis rips the veil off the medical industry’s deceptive practices, drawing chilling parallels to his escape from t...
Κατά την διάρκεια των διαδηλώσεων υπέρ της οργάνωσης #PalestineAction
"Η αστυνομία πραγματοποίησε επίσης έφοδο στα σπίτια των συλληφθέντων, σπάζοντας τις εξώπορτες και κατάσχοντας αφίσες, βιβλία και τεχνολογία. Σύμφωνα με το Υπουργείο Δικαιοσύνης, δύο από τους 13 συλληφθέντες ήταν Κουάκεροι, ηλικίας 78 και 80 ετών. Ανέφεραν ότι τα ντουλάπια των τροφίμων τους ελέγχθηκαν για ραδιενεργά υλικά."
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Just saw a post hypothesising that Fedi is populated by the most privileged/wealthy people across social media; asking that people respond to a poll with how much money they have, so that this data can be passed to a marketing person.
I think, to really get the most out of a retro system, you need to at least be an interested amateur with programming. That was almost expected in the 80s -- that you would learn some programming language or another and make the software you wanted. The passive consumption model was much less important back then.
I mean, you can still have a good time just playing old and new games on these things. If that's your bag, then I support it fully. But if you think you might be interested in learning to program, you can do a lot worse than learning to code for a C64 or a Sinclar Speccy.
it helped that you could grab a book like ‘80 programs to manage your personal finance in the basic language’ etc. with a clear path of learning code to accomplish something personally useful instead of just coding for the sake of slogging through some incomprehensible corporate bullshit. a whole ecosystem of ‘computer as universal tool’ vs. subscribing to the least worst software package on the market etc.
The most fun I have with my XP era machines is building software with older tools. C# and .NET come to mind, mostly because it's the toolchain I used to use before I stopped caring about computers and software in about 2019...
Thats also why that generation is/was so successful in IT. I basically got into programming out of curiosity what all those things I need to type in to load game are. Also back then you could tweak those games. I remember reading I believe Pirates as it was game written in Basic and learning so much stuff.
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