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sophia but also sophie

me & them

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If the tag wears out, if you change your mind, or if you want to move the tag to a new drive, pull the free ends of the string and pull the tag back through the loop. It might be quicker than going to get your scissors.

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Got a bunch of USB thumbdrives, and you can't remember what's on them or what you got them for? 

Get a small box of string label tags from a stationery or office supply store. (Avery calls them "strung" label tags.) For each thumbdrive:

* thread the string loop knot through the keychain hole,

* thread the tag through the loop anywhere behind the knot,

* pull the label out to close the loop and knot at the thumbdrive, and

* write the thumbdrive's contents or purpose on the label.

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Juice that toots other Juice

Juice that makes you thermodynamic

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kasran, fourier transfemme

im sure im not the first person to make this joke but it came to me in a dream so i was compelled

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My most popular post is now a stupid throwaway computing pun using a random stock photo.

The only redeeming characteristic of that post is that I gave the photo a description so good you can see it in your mind even if the photo completely fails to load.

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Roz :verifiedtransfem:

@arielmt Not often I have an excuse to show my uncropped pfp! This is a patch of 555s from a few years back

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Anatoly Shashkin💾

A message in the executable of the PC port of Trolls (1992):
#DOSGaming

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random color contrasts

Purple Heart #2F19B5
Golden Fizz #E8EE28

(Contrast ratio: 8.7:1 | AAA)

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random color contrasts

Sundown #FEAFB8
Jacarta #3E2868

(Contrast ratio: 7.0:1 | AAA)

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random color contrasts

Bizarre #ECE0DC
Biscay #062D5E

(Contrast ratio: 10.5:1 | AAA)

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One of the apps on my 10 workstation was last updated 738,953 days ago. Should I be worried?

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fraggle

A reminder to everyone to stay safe and only use basic text editors this month. Beware the IDEs of March

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Brendan Halpin

Just saw a bottle of water bearing the brand "Oregon Trail." Wondering what marketing genius decided that a phrase an entire generation associates with dysentery would be a good brand name for water

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mavica ebooks

gotta have a paper receipt

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While not perfect, growing your own tiny server farm can be rewarding.

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If the answer you get to a software or coding problem is any variation of "just throw more computing power at it," including using "the cloud" (someone else's computers) instead of your own tiny server farm, the odds are pretty good you're either asking the wrong question or listening to a techbro.

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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱

"A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence"

AI is going to kill us, just not the way the AI hype-mongers tell us.

(Hint: the *real* problems are never what the tech enthusiasts point to)

washingtonpost.com/business/20

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The Luddite

Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.

theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-e

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Kate Temkin

don't identify with the concept of gender? sorry, but you need at least one gender in your account

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