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aki-nyan

How you know you found the good shit:tm:

when the IEEE paper starts invoking faux 3D sigils made of logic symbols

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Admiral Wonderboat
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Misty

Great response here from Quakers in Britain when they received an anti-trans letter about their trans-inclusive bathroom policy: quaker.org.uk/documents/re-sta

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David Gerard

my current thinking is that if any of your upstream dependencies has a .cursor folder, they're frickin' morons and you need to remove that dependency pronto

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Rob Ricci

Hey cis folks in the US: there is a high probability that things are going to get even darker here for your trans family, friends, neighbors, and strangers. Now is the time to show them that you will stand up for them.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Spreadsheets peaked 36 years ago with Lotus Improv, and it didn't need huge, water-hungry artificial cities of building-sized space heaters pretending to be intelligent to work.

youtube.com/watch?v=rgGmKD87U3

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Microsoft added AI-BS to Excel while warning it's BS. Amazing.

PC Gamer, "Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'": pcgamer.com/software/ai/micros

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Microsoft also advises against using the feature for "financial reporting, legal documents, or other high-stakes scenarios," so basically most of the things people turn to Excel for.

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You make a grown man cry.

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My first computer didn't run a Microsoft OS (but it did have a customized dialect of Microsoft Basic in ROM).

My first Windows PC was a Toshiba T4600C, designed for Windows 3.1, but upgraded with an 8 MB RAM card, an 800 MB HDD, and Windows 95 from a 13-floppy set.

Happy 30th anniversary to the version of Windows that gave the world the Start Button and adopted a Rolling Stones hit as its theme song.

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

happy windows 95mas

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@dyke_du_jour Yikes, I'm sorry.

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paulrickards

TIL the Kensington Turbo Mouse can use a billiard ball.

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #VintageAP

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Remember Microsoft's malware-like "Get Windows 10" (GWX) campaign of 2016? It force-upgraded a budget Windows 7 PC to Windows 10, and this is the result.

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I now know from first-hand experience how well Windows 10 runs with only 2.6 GB usable RAM.

Answer: Not well enough to remove the preinstalled McAfee trialware, and just barely well enough to remove it with the McAfee removal tool inside two hours.

Everything else is an equal test of absurdly extreme patience. More frustratingly, it struggles so much to recognize mouse clicks that the only way to tell a click was acknowledged is the window suddenly freezing for many seconds.

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Éris Serène :determination:
"Windows Recall"? Yeah, it should be recalled
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miss ana vee :vheart_fuck_yes:

trans rights are human rights because what we are fighting for is the fundamental right to be able to define who we are, and the government is fighting so hard to take this away from us because once they do then they've taken it away from everyone

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JP

It occurs to me that commands with a '--dry-run' option have the safety interlock backwards. The dangerous or destructive operation should default to a dry run unless you specifically crank the "yes I'm sure" lever.

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GNU's Not Unix, And It Shows! 

$ man mail

SEE ALSO

The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

info mailutils

should give you access to the complete manual.

$ info mailutils

-bash: info: command not found

$ uname -mor

6.12.20+rpt-rpi-v8 aarch64 GNU/Linux

$ wget download.freebsd.org/releases/

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jcoglan

part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"

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