Ariel Millennium Thornton

LB: oldbytes.space/@flexion/117392

Those SGI workstations are on wheeled dollies. Let me assure you, as an owner of an Octane just like that green one in the photo, SGI workstations are so heavy that they practically NEED to be on dollies!

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/usr/people/flexion

Today: Troubleshooting linux kernel 7.3.0 on Tezro

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Luna Fox Winters

musing on AI and metaphors 

@nina_kali_nina This is pretty much the exact thought process that inspired my short story that did the rounds a year ago blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre

I made it about "blue food coloring", and it was interesting how many people didn't realise it was about AI (and all manufactured consent stuff, really), and instead thought it was about being vegan, or gluten intolerant or something.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

@dyke_du_jour Oof!

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doctorambient

Restrooms at a new local cocktail bar.

#restrooms #bathrooms #cocktailbars #gender #DnD #funny

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Discord (-) 

Discord is such high quality software that:

If you join a voice chat and watch another user's stream in a Web browser barely 100 days old, then not only does the other user's video fail to load for you, but:

THE VIDEO SUDDENLY CUTS OUT FOR LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE WATCHING THE OTHER USER'S STREAM AS WELL!

Oh, the quality gets better!

The instant you give up trying to watch the other user's stream, literally that very instant, EVERYONE ELSE CAN SEE THE OTHER USER'S VIDEO AGAIN!

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@dyke_du_jour What a wonderfully well thought out and thoroughly tested website flow.
💔​

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CW boost: AI news entirely predictable to everyone but AI bros 

RE: mastodon.me.uk/@CatherineFlick

RE RE: mastodon.social/@404mediaco/11

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What an interesting code of ethics the ACM has.

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Maddy 🏳️‍⚧️ :neofox_floof:

All this to say, physical ownership doesn't mean shit if you're facing DRM and anti-features like the above.

The only way to guarantee access for the foreseeable future to the film/show you bought on disc is to dump and decrypt it, and back up the decrypted dump somewhere. If you like wasting money, you could even burn a decrypted copy of the disc to BD-R/BD-R DL!

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@maddy I heard somewhere that tokens of friendship also cost less than chatbot tokens.

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Taylor - Romanceable NPC

New on Ramen Science:

Somewhat disappointing noodles leading into unexpected absolution and the virtues of hungover leftovers.

ramen.science/blog/ko-lee-go-n

#ramen #blog #blogging #rss

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Zhenyi Tan

Catsup is a reusable grocery list. The whole point of the app is that you don’t want bought items to disappear. You want to slide a knob, go buy bread, then slide the knob back.

All the toggles, buttons, and even the separators are crappily hand-drawn. The font is my handwriting.

andadinosaur.com/launch-catsup

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Jer 🚲

@catsalad
"I've got a bead on the end table vase."
Take the shot.
"Won't we get in trouble?"
Take the shot!
"What's that sound?"
TAKE THE SHOT!
"It's the can opener!"
Stand down, abort, abort!

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

*mew mew mew*

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I'm so glad it's possible to google an image and find its source instantly.

(I found the source at pixiv.net/en/artworks/88986272 **without** Google.)

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dj chicken trouble

dj hat feedback

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Internet piracy 

Internet piracy is frankly unlike other forms of piracy. Before corporations convinced governments to call it a form of Internet-borne larceny by giving it that name, it was simply called copying & sharing.

Copying: the thing computer file systems are designed to do well.

Sharing: the thing computer network systems are designed to do well.

But working as designed without content policing crippling it is somehow a threat to civilization just because it's a threat to capitalism.

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I don't remember where I heard it or who from, but I've heard it said:

If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing.

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Ginny :inhaler:

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO PIRATE EVERYTHING. BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU CAN'T FUCKING OWN ANYTHING. I GIVE MONEY, YOU GIVE BOOK. NOT "ACCESS" TO BOOK. BOOK!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

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