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The most beautiful code I have ever see. It modifies itself to spin a world globe: aem1k.com/world/

@thomas That's a shame, it works well on old-skool xorg. Obviously native support would be better but I was hoping it would be an effective stopgap.

@thomas Have you tried changing layout.css.devPixelsPerPx in about:config on firefox? I found setting it to 1.25 on my HiDPI laptop at home worked well.

@AnchorSchnitzel Tommy is no innocent victim, he broke the law and jeopardised the case he was attempting to 'expose'. Please read thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05 for some facts about the case.

Someone tell every marketing guy that if you make a played-straight "MAGA" joke you will alienate about 75% of your audience

@thomas I used them on Debian for a few weeks before I got bored of it.

@remi IIRC Gogs is the original project, but people got frustrated with how it was managed so forked it as Gitea.

@forteller Yup, and yet some people are more upset about a soap company raising awareness of this than they are about this blatant abuse of power...

Country closest to #Bitcoin in terms of electricity consumption: Czech Republic

Electricity consumed per transaction (KWh): 981

Number of U.S. households that could be powered by Bitcoin: 6,398,945

Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption: 0.31%

Carbon footprint per transaction (kg of CO2): 480.57

Source: digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energ

Bitcoin will soon surpass Chile, Austria and the Philippines. Holy fucking shit. We have to stop this.

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@kensanata I always get excited about stuff like this, then I start using it and realise I have no idea what I'm doing, and at best end up ripping off some other tune :(

Whenever I read that people quit Mastodon because they couldn't "say whatever I want" I'm like

@trwnh I hate it when sites do stuff like this, it just makes me less likely to click on a link to their site in future.

Are you an EU citizen? If so then surely this sort of tracking is illegal under the GDPR now.

@starbreaker Not yet, but I will be at some point over the weekend, possibly even this evening.

@CobaltVelvet Nope, you're not the only one. I'm a fan of it as well.