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Bizarre #ECE0DC
Biscay #062D5E

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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 🌱(she/her)

"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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Kate Temkin

oh my gods; this form just keeps giving

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Screamin' Green #72ED4B
Deep Koamaru #110D7A

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malevolent dictator for life
one of the libraries underpinning the Linux graphics ecosystem is called the GNU is Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit. Its primary competitor was created by a company called Trolltech, and it is the primary library of the Kool Desktop Environment, primary competitor to the GNU is Not Unix Network Object Model Environment.

All of these bind to the X window system, which is named that way because it's the successor to the W window system, which was the window system of the V operating system. It is currently being succeeded by a window system named after a town in Massachusetts.
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TIL the `which` command is one of those commands everyone (including me) thinks is standard simply because it's everywhere in the Unix & unixlike worlds, but which really isn't, & is nowhere in POSIX.

LWN, "Debian's which hunt," 2021-10-28: lwn.net/Articles/874049/

TIL the POSIX-conformant "which" is `command -v`: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/

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fully spec compliant implementation of the daytime protocol (port 13) that just prints the word "today"

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endrift

Learn to count with the USB-IF!

  • 1.0
  • 1.1
  • 2.0
  • 3.0
  • 3.1 Gen 1
  • 3.1 Gen 2
  • 3.2 Gen 1x1
  • 3.2 Gen 2x1
  • 3.2 Gen 1x2 (not the same)
  • 3.2 Gen 2x2
  • USB4
  • USB4 2.0
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Benno

It does not get any more USB than this.

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Both image sources lack image descriptions. Description added here.
Web source: goodtechthings.com/pile-of-com
Twitter source: twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/sta
Did someone say "AIOps"?

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/a2R8ki
Credit: Julie

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/4RgrAP
Credit: Pargon

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