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stib

Use our cloud service instead of local copies of your documents they said, it will be more efficient, they said.

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Lennox

very proud fox

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Do you ever get the feeling a bot that basically rolls a die and picks from a catalog somehow reads your mind? I do. computerfairi.es/@iconolog/112

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The Iconolog

^PCMAG0A.ICO - Data, Library

...Books, Newspapers, Reference

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Lesley Carhart :unverified:

I don't want AI to make art or write terrible articles which destroy the middle class. I just want email applications to look for the string "Hello" "Dear" "Hi" at the top of the message and warn the sender if the name that follows doesn't match the name on the email they are replying to.

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Internet of Things 

I also saw the price: $650, according to this PC Magazine review in '21: pcmag.com/reviews/raven-pro-do - Ouch!

What's really sad is that scanning files *directly* to your cloud storage service^W^W^W someone-else's-computer of choice is a pretty nifty & handy feature.

But you're seriously asking for exactly this kind of trouble & disappointment when buying an overpriced can opener that needs to use one someone-else's-computer in order to talk to another someone-else's-computer.

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Internet of Things 

The has reached my customer service desk.

A poor unfortunate soul brought a Raven Pro Document Scanner to me for repair because, although it's in near-perfect shape, it quit working when Raven quit answering the phone.

The manual says you have to connect it to the Internet & log in to a Raven account during the setup. That's red flag #1.

From 5-star praise in '23 to 1-star scorn in '24, & no unbricking rumors, let alone a how-to.

Sorry, joe, it's a no-go.

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In technology news, CrowdStrike thought the most appropriate apology for their kernel-oops last Friday was a $10 coffee voucher. Rather appropriately, that didn't go right either, as those who accepted the gesture found out.

TechCrunch, "CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage": techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crow

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Dio9sys

When a new Big Vuln(TM) appears right at the end of the day:

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Mads the Mad

USpol, FRpol, good takeaway from French election results IMO 

mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/1

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mhoye

Anyway, we took _the word "accessibility"_ and made it incomprehensible to new community members, look like a different, real but unrelated word if you use the wrong font or have weak eyesight, and screw over anyone using a screen reader.

We've made it harder for people who rely on accessible tech to so much as participate in conversations about them and the tech they rely on, to save able-bodied people a few keystrokes.

This is bullshit. There's no better term for it. It's just lazy bullshit.

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mr_daemon

@thomasfuchs That "I always check" has the same energy as "It's open source so I can audit the code"

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mhoye

I joke but a note about language usage and open source _cultural_ accessibility: Numeronyms are bad, and there's no meaningful distinction between "a884a5f3609f2cca635fed56d4ec5795da56fb970y" and "a11y".

Neither one is recognizable as "accessibility" to anyone new to the field - great work nerds, we've managed to give the word "accessibility" its own accessibility problem - and I gotta tell you, "not typing out long words because they're long words" seems childish as hell to most people.

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ukpol - 

That said, the UK seems to be successfully importing the worst of my country's political beliefs. Although Reform won only five of the 13 seats exit polls said they'd get, Mister High Velocity Milkshake Target won his constituency and is now an MP, and their candidates got more combined votes than the third-place Liberal Democrats, 4,103,727 to 3,501,004 if I'm to believe the Financial Times: ig.ft.com/uk-general-election/

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ukpol 

I wish Sunak's constituency had voted to resign him as MP, sparing him the need to resign as PM and party leader.

During his resignation speech, which was sorry in more ways than he said, his wife stood behind him with an umbrella yet his suit still looked like it was thoroughly rained on.

I guess that's what trying to import a lack of food, water, and health care while trying to blame immigrants and deport them to a place already lacking them gets you.

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technomancy (turbonerd aspect)

Did You Know?

you can write your own #irc server in less time than it takes to read the discord privacy policy and terms of service

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ukpol - 

Did Clacton think they were voting for an MP or the man most deserving of high velocity milkshakes?

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myrmepropagandist

Have you ever gotten a crush on someone just by reading about something they did?

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ukpol 

When the vote was announced, Kier Starmer looked like he expected to lose to Elmo and was surprised to win.

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Veronica Explains

Anywho, the order of colors in the standard is hard for some folks to memorize, so I made a shirt with it. It's also nerdy and the most popular shirt in my merch store.

vkc.sh/product-tag/t568b-cheat

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