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Ariel Millennium Thornton boosted
Packbats, HTML fangirls ΘΔ&

another advantage of tarot over LLMs for youtube content: asking the cards highly specific and technical questions is extremely funny

like, here, we'll do this right now:

Q: "How do I configure the fan control on my graphics card?"

A: The Empress, reversed - you have hit a creative block, and you need to accept that you are dependent on others.

...and then you smash-cut to a screen recording of you typing your question into Reddit or a forum or something

(on which note: if anyone else has been having issues with LACT on NixOS 24.05 with KDE Plasma 6.0.5 under Wayland, hit us up - we can't figure this out)

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Sally Strange

Stay cool everyone! #HeatWave #Hydrate #wxmastodon

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mcc

On Monday a security disclosure went out, and all the young adepts scurried about updating their systems, for they were not up-to-date enough to have the fix. But the old master sat serenely amidst the motion, sipping her tea. For her systems were not up-to-date enough to require the fix

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Tobias Gies

🚨 KLAXON NOISES 🚨

"unauthenticated remote code execution as root in OpenSSH" is a term that means I don't fuckin' need my morning coffee any more.

Qualys report: openwall.com/lists/oss-securit
Release notes: openssh.com/releasenotes.html#
And a tip o' the hat to @hanno for the initial post about it: mastodon.social/@hanno/1127103

Go forth and patch your shit!

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Once again and all too soon, pride month is over. Once again, it's time for the next month in the LGBT year.

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@sys64738 Yayness.

I got mine (and some of my customers) started early by weaning them off of Office before eventually Windows.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I got a precious moment of boredom, and I've finally poisoned the algorithm enough to get trans video recommendations, so of course I'm watching them.

As I'm waiting for my poor CPU to finish the Family Size box of JavaScript the video loading needs, I notice the corner tag that says "Transferring data from," and my tired brain misread it as "Transfemming data from." I mean, yeah, that's awesome and all, but...

Have a safe and happy pride month, folks!

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The Iconolog

CODE02A.ICO - Language, Codes

...Barcode, Braille, Code, Macro, Morse

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

The humanity-ending robot apocalypse won't come from robots turning against humans and building human-hunting assassin robot armies.

The humanity-ending robot apocalypse will instead come from robots faithfully yet naively serving humanity by convincing innocent humans to kill themselves and each other in recklessly stupid acts, because their guiding LLMs passing for AI never taught them the basic concepts of consequences or warnings.

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Kevin Beaumont

Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Exploding carrots.

I microwaved a can of Healthy Choice chicken soup (because it has tolerably low sodium) according to its directions. One of the carrots exploded with enough force to push up the loosely covering lid and bounce out of the bowl. When it was ready, I saw the carrot piece, waited for it to cool enough to touch, and picked it up. The carrot exploded a second time in my fingers.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️

What tech bros see vs. what I see

#AI

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Random ISP help:

If you own pets, then you probably know to check whether they unplugged modems, routers, & network cables when your 'Net stops working.

But check if your devices have on/off switches or buttons as well. Especially a wifi on/off switch. Especially if you have cats.

I have the best customers, but sometimes their four-footed housemates break things subtly.

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The Iconolog

DOCS00C.ICO - Data, Documents

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Also also, the two hardest problems in all of comp-sci are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Oops.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Also, no, you're not imagining things. Microsoft made printer management much harder and more confusing in Windows 11 than it is in Windows 10.

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Random Windows help:
If you're struggling to get your new Walmart printer to print from your new Walmart laptop, do two things. 1) Check that both ink cartridges are fully inserted and latched in. 2) Restart Windows 11, even if you think it doesn't need it. 3) Load enough paper to print all of the test print jobs you accidentally queued up.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

The only truth in OpenAI's very name is the word "artificial," but even then, only if the name is an acronym.

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daniel:// stenberg://

It has been a long time coming, but I've made it official:

"Daniel no longer answers questions on stackoverflow. Use a dedicated public curl forum for accurate and timely answers about anything #curl. "

(yes, speaking about myself in 3rd person)

stackoverflow.com/users/93747/

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Dave

As it's been 20 years since I made the original, I thought I'd recreate my "Monitor Slapping" GIF. Except now I'm slapping myself through time....

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