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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Call me old fashioned, but I firmly believe that two searches of the same website for:

* the exact same search terms
* in the exact same order and
* with the exact same formatting

in the same session of the same browser tab, separated only by a few seconds of time, should not produce:

* different sets of results or
* sets of results sorted in different, apparently random orders.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I haven't used or trusted Microsoft software for any serious work or entertainment since '02, and every year the list of reasons why gets longer.

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I thought the Windows "here, let me do something for you that you explicitly didn't want me to do, and oh BTW xbox controllers are on sale" thing was an exaggeration, but no!

The Windows 10 PC I keep exclusively for customer support just actually and literally advertised Xbox controllers on sale to me, unprompted, on startup, from the built-in unlisted app "Suggested."

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pikuma.com

"A big percentage of so-called experts today only know how to configure some kind of hype-tool, but they understand nothing about how things work at the deeper level. This is a real challenge and a problem for the future."

🔗unixsheikh.com/articles/we-hav

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Santa Sponge 12.xmas

"To participate first you must join our Discord."

Ah so you don't want me to participate. Gotcha.

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🖤 Gray 🧡

I am not calling Facebook "Meta" and I'm not going to call Twitter "X".

These companies cannot be forgiven for prioritizing profit over people. I will not indulge their attempts at public image cleansing.

Never forget the torment nexus they unleashed.

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/ax6VYf
Credit: Laura Lemay

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Oasus Plainsview :verified:

The company formerly known as Twitter is in deeper trouble than previously thought.

futurism.com/twitter-deeper-tr

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Moto :rainbowinfinity:

The “industry standard” modules used in digital braille displays are custom piezoelectric devices, costing around $100 per “letter,” making such displays impractically expensive for most applications.

I just learned about this hackaday prize winner, who has designed digital, refreshable #braille modules that cost less than $1 each, using teeny-tiny magnets and 3D printed parts.

youtu.be/BXi1tG78AW4
#OpenSource #accessibility technologies FTW!

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

One of these days, I'm going to search for a song by artist and title, and I'm going to find two radically different relevant results: each whose title is the other's artist name and whose artist is the other's title.

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Steve Hammond ⌨ 📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I get the impression that the definition of #AI isn't exactly fixed...

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/a9iV4h
Credit: brett jordan

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Irenes (many)

@dsalo the best way to protect data is not to have it

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

check out maple.pet/commissions if you want one of your own!

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

"It's a great day for golf, and there's no place like Pebble Beach!"

CGA portrait commission of Craig "The Walrus" Stadler for @wildweasel !

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Circuit Rearranger

​:blobcatmelt:​

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Microsoft Windows: an incompatible clone of Digital Equipment VAX/VMS that thinks it's an incompatible clone of Digital Research CP/M underneath an incompatible clone of Xerox Pilot and an incompatible clone of the Dynabook concept.

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starfall(8)

@erincandescent i did some digging for a higher quality version and found that this is the July/August '94 issue of Project X, you can see it archived here: projectxarchive.com/issue29_me

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

YouTube lament 

* Search YouTube for a video older than my parents.
* Find perfect match in a sea of irrelevant results.
* Watch & listen: It fits my playlist perfectly!
* Click "+Save" button.
* Toaster pop-up: "This action is turned off for content made for kids"

Quality design decision from the minds who think every video should have two ads every three minutes.

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LB is real.

The Verge, "Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine": theverge.com/23642073/best-pri

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