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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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Cal Q Alaera :HeartNonbinary:

Photo of the Milky Way as seen from the surface of Mars

#BadPun #SorryNotSorry

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Street Art Utopia

Bella Ciao 🎶🎵 🎶🎵 🎶

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Flux

Not gonna lie, I burst out laughing reading the last bit.

Credit to KDE and the source of the photo: kde.org/anniversaries/30/

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Your weary 'net denizen

An approach to maintaining legacy code 

Everything will be wrong about it. It is architected and implemented in confusing ways under conflicting demands you will likely not have insight into and, of course, too little time.

To reduce your frustration, you must accept these things. The prior developers did their best just as you will now do your best. Be at peace with that.

You will be tempted to throw up your hands and rewrite everything! That is folly. Despite all the apparent (to you) imperfections, the code or device now works as intended. Any changes must be done cautiously with an eye to only making necessary improvements or fixing bugs.

After all, if things stop working after one of your "improvements", it will now be *your* problem and it will reflect on you, not the people you inherited the project from.

There will be opportunity for new development, but you must choose your moments.

Add tests as you can! Automate builds! Document! Leave it better!

You are doing your best!

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Neotheta

Bugs & Booties 🍑 Hot linux devs in midnight action!! 🐉 🦊

#linux #kde #konqi #xenia #furryart

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Mershark Calyo Lucere-Delphi

I wish every cis person in this world could understand that it is genuinely safe and okay to experiment a little with queering your gender, even if the end result is "Yep, I'm still comfortable as what I already am."

You've let yourself into the playground of identity liberation, and decided you're comfy watching the queer kids play while you walk laps around the edge.

There's nothing wrong with that!

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Dean Kirkman

'Caffeine and Coping.' I need that mug.

(Credit: facebook.com/photo/?fbid=12211 )

#audhd #autism #autistic #adhd #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

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Marcus Hutchins :verified:

Listening to cybersecurity people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.

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raeaw

AI psychosis thing 

I keep seeing ppl say that AI psychosis only affects people predisposed to psychosis, (whatever they actually mean by that cuz it's vague af) but if this article is to be trusted, then a majority of the victims actually have no prior history of mental illness

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

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strflr
Yote is Smart #13

~2025

#art #illustration #comic #webcomic #sheyote #coyote #peafowl #peahen
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RedPandaLiz

llm stands for little loser machine. Because just using it even a little makes us all losers.

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dj chicken trouble

dj solid trash

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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

the 555 timer is 55 years old, so if we celebrate on the 5th of May it can be the 555's 55th on 5/5.

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Mia Rose 🖋️ Second Draft [82%]

I always love finding good trans humor

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The Last Psion | Alex

One of the best AGENTS.md files I've seen so far.

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Consensus Tullyality

my toxic trait is being unable to ever part with tumblr

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Max Leibman

“Behold,” declares the AI bro, “we have created a new mind!”

“Behold,” I declare as I a hold a seashell up to his ear, “I have created a new ocean!”

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lina :p

new blog post! lina.sh/blog/ddos-honeypot

i stumbled across a secret fake DDoS-as-a-Service website ran by the dutch police, and when i started digging into it, they panicked and shut it down
really funny story, if anyone is interested how such a fake website looks like, take a read ^^

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KDE

KDE will be 30 years old this year and Katie updates her look!

KDE is all about innovating and moving forward, but Katie hadn't changed her apparel in more than 10 years.

Now, sporting an orange hoodie and leggings, she's ready to spring into action and stomp on all those pesky bugs!

kde.org/anniversaries/30/

#katie #dragon #women #anniversary #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #kdeAt30

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Related: The only thing Microsoft Edge seems to be useful for is letting random websites use Windows notifications to spam the user with dire warning messages about viruses and errors that desperately need to be cleaned up if you'll just click here, only to land on full-screen tech support scams urging you to call Windows at 1-800-FLEECE-ME right away.

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