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@mavica_again I'm gonna start doing this. The y is silent. (The "why" of it was always silent.)

i don't have any sort of analytics on my websites. i don't care about number go up. i care about hearing about people enjoying the things i built

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i wish one tenth of the thousands of people who posted and reblogged about especially during its viral phase when it launched had sent me the internet equivalent of a postcard

have i ever shared my accidental trans eevee who stood in wet paint

I am not boosting that keyboard photo account because it posts with absolutely zero sourcing, zero credit, zero indication it has anyone's blessing, and zero descriptions of any kind. It could be posting photoshoops for all we know.

It's kind of amazing how many veteran Linux greyhairs I've seen, downstream of the age-check-in-systemd decision, saying well I guess I need to get comfortable with a BSD now. Thirty plus year Debian/RedHat experience to a one, quietly tidying up and looking for the exits.

Naming your AI supercomputer “Colossus” is the science fiction version of naming your surveillance company “Palantir.”

WATCH THE MOVIE TO THE END, YOU MORONS.

I didn’t think I’d see something that simultaneously warrants the #aviation and #furry tag but… here we are.

(Let me know if anyone knows who the artist is.)

(Also don’t meow or bark on the ATC frequency.)

Forced to log into Instagram, and add the date of birth for pet bunny account(who has since passed away a few years ago)

With the date set to 1970, the dead bunny is now approved by the Australian government to be old enough to operate social media accounts.

#ageverificaton

You quit Microsoft Internet Explorer.
You can quit Google Chrome.

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A lot of trans girlies think that they need a mommy, when what they really need is an aunt who will smoke weed with them, but also tell them when they're being a dipshit.

“No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s ‘terms of use.’”
Yes, yes, yes!💯

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“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.”

The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”,
by @Wilto👏

wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-ap

For any software asking: No.

For any software I need asking: My birthday is December 31, 1969, at exactly 5:00 PM and 0 seconds US Mountain Standard Time.

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

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