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It's Friday

do not forget that today is friday

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tiddy roOoOsevelt 👻🎃

Shadow boxing time!

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Danny Palmer

Thinking of this classic* @smbccomics during Cybersecurity Awareness Month

*From 2012 (!?)

smbc-comics.com/?id=2526

#cybersecurity

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

What's the big deal? A tie is just a business attire choker anyway.... >_>

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Taggart :donor:

Cloudflare is a parasitic vine that has coopted the nutrient flow of its host tree, the internet.

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(It's operator precedence that simple calculators are designed to ignore, which is why they answer my example with 35, while advanced calculators and machine-free math both answer with 23.)

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Related, if you did never learn math because calculators exist, then you don't know that your simple calculator lies to you with problems like "3 + 4 x 5", let alone how or why.

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Newsroom (NZ), "When students' brains go quiet": newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/02/when

The lede is spot-on: "Students starting to learn with AI is the difference between using a calculator after understanding math versus never learning math because calculators exist"

Even with a bias in favor of (the LLMs pretending to be) AI being effective tools when in expertly knowledgeable hands, the conclusion of it being harmful in general is inescapable.

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1.3.6.1.4.1.61513

hi, security team, I keep getting fishing emails.

security team: you mean phishing?

no. fishing. I'm pretty certain.

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I love clicking on one button, then the page scrolling on its own with an update, and then the page deciding that I actually clicked on an entirely different button.

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@maddy You're welcome, and best of luck!

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@maddy At that point, I'd see if the Windows Update Troubleshooter could nuke the update cache as a troubleshooting step, then find out how to do it myself if it won't or can't.

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pokémon touching georg

i thibk I'd be a really good inkjet printer. I have years of experience in making mysterious sounds and complaining while achieving nothing at all

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comes configured to install updates automatically in the night hours after you go to bed.

Windows also comes configured to go into sleep mode only a half hour after you do for the night.

Windows comes configured to promise to install updates when you're not using it and then utterly fail to fulfill that promise.

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leo vriska :light2:

last day of aol service was tuesday. eternal september ended after 11,353 days....

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Tekniquelly correct

JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.

Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.

blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/0

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Laura Manach :bongoCat:

comic by Huffy-Penguin

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sjvn

So, this is what you meant, Arch Linux, right?

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James Thomson

Computers didn’t pass the Turing Test, humans failed it.

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she hacked you

"AI Billionaire's advice to teens: Master 'vibe coding' - here's 5 prompts to get started

AI Coding is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds"

I don't know we even have reporters/journalists or even researchers

We should only be listening to the billionaires, how could they have financial incentives to be bias? They have all the money already

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