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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Folks, if you have any computer-illiterate friends and relatives you're on good terms with, please educate them about fake invoice emails.

The owner of one of my tech support patients tried to reverse a (nonexistent) $400 support subscription charge by calling the 1-800 number on a (fake) Geek Squad invoice.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

netizen club has moved to @netizenclub

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sam is not here :neofox_flag_lesbian: にゃん :therian:

passwords when you don’t enforce changing them every 2 months: Viy$Ehi8sy3&2WQ
passwords when you enforce changing them regularly: password01!? password02!? password03!? password04!? password05!?

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/dbpsu8
Credit: Tracie Hall

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JP

part of my long-held "it's us or them" stance re: the online ad industry is that ultimately all speech will become, in the name of corporate comfort, as anodyne and contentless and unchallenging to power as advertising itself, if they continue to control the web.
404media.co/advertisers-dont-w

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RedstoneLP2
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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Every time I think I should give in and finally make a GitHub account, they do something that reminds me why they're either bullshit, batshit, or both.

Today, it's going all in on the computer pseudoscience quackery du jour, "AI" that's only artificial, not intelligent.

GitHub's blog, "Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform": github.blog/2023-11-08-univers

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🇸​🇭​🇮​🇳​🇲​🇦​🇮:verify: (not here right now)

Welp, if you were wondering when it was time to get the fuck out of GitHub, here's your sign ig 🤷‍♀️

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ENG. Tretron 🐲

silly meme

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Fixing parents' PC because after 20-odd years of virtually every HDD coming with SMART on board & virtually every BIOS coming SMART-enabled, Microsoft Windows still doesn't have a SMART monitor/notifier built in. That's right, it's time for slow & painful data rescue, racing against imminent hardware failure. :blobcatoh:

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Enriched Kira

silicon valley VCs' best ideas of the 2020s:
-put a drone on something
-wrongness generator 3000 (uses more energy than a small nation)
-fraud
-space pollution
-self-crashing cars
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in another country
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in this country
-fascism
-vrchat but it cost 20x to make and it fucking sucks
-layoffs

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

new release 4.2

1bpp atkinson dithering mode

have fun

maple.pet/webgbcam

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Metal Mutton 🤖🐏

You're telling me that we make LIGHTNING go through STONES so we can put DAEMONS in them so they'll perform tasks for us? Computers are actually magic

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Church of Jeff

#DnD #rpg #dungeonsAndDragons

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DocAtCDI

ENTER NEW PASSWORD: chicken

PASSWORD MUST CONTAIN A CAPITAL: chickenkiev

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allrite

The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.

It is a period of great productivity.

The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/a5dakW
Credit: yoppy

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Christopher Gibilisco
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eevee 🦊

just woke up and i've already seen a "releasing games on linux is too hard" take, a "why bother making my website work in firefox" take, and a story about someone filing a CVE that was hallucinated by an LLM.

i'm not really enjoying computers lately

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

How do I learn git without GitHub?

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