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this is the most succinct response I've ever seen to the comment "but Android is Linux!!"

fake AI ethics: how can we stop the acausal robot god, who is real
real AI ethics: don't fucking make killer robots for your police department

Every year, the royal offspring chooses the tool they will focus on the next year - the needle, the pen, or the sword.
Prinx Van refused to choose. They learned magic and forged a tool capable of both sewing, writing, and cutting.
"You must still learn to use it," the Quing said.
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

Hive Social shenanigans 

Twitter doesn't let you edit one of your posts. You can buy an edit button that works for a few seconds, though.

Mastodon (or at least GlitchSoc) sort of lets you edit one of your posts, via a "delete and redraft" option.

lets you edit your posts. And anyone else's posts. Among other nasty things. zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en

While it'd be nice to dress up the bug & call it a feature :blobupsidedown:​, it's why they're unplugging the servers to fix it instead.

They're shutting down the #hivesocial servers for several days because the vulnerabilities are that bad 😬

why call it bird site when ‘the fowl place’ is right there and a much better pun

When shown the huge list of operating systems curl runs on, people often ask me which is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for. The answer is always, and will probably always remain: Windows.

No other operating system has so many custom, special, weird and quirky ways that require special-case solutions in the code.

ME: A rawhide book for dogs.

PETCO CEO: What's it about?

ME: It's sort of a chews your own adventure.

PETCO CEO: Get out of my office.

Announcement: Macstodon 0.3 is here! 🥳​

Macstodon is a Mastodon client for 68k Macintosh computers! With it, you can post plain-text toots, view your home and local timelines, and view your notifications!

System Requirements:
- A 68020/68030/68040 Macintosh
- System 7.1 through 8.1
- At least 1.5 MB of free memory
- 32-bit addressing enabled
- Internet Config installed
- an SSL-stripping proxy running on another machine

You can download the latest release from GitHub: github.com/smallsco/macstodon
(but please read the Read Me, I worked hard on it!)

And with that, I'm going to take a break from this project for a few days! But do let me know if you've successfully used it!

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac

"End Homophobic Terror / Transphobia Kills!! We Keep Us Safe"
Seen in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)

Quoting something I said in a Tumblr reply:

"the problem is that I'm allergic to overly smart devices, I break out in screwdrivers"

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Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!