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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I forgot to show the lapel pin in question.

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I'm wearing a pride flag lapel pin on my work uniform: an LGBT+ pride flag left, crossed over a trans pride flag right. One of my customers thought it was an Afghanistan flag pin. Huh? ... Afghanistrans?

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uspol - 

I want to go on record saying that I never thought the highest court in the land would be stacked with clowns so stupid as to basically concentrate all of the country's power into an actual substitute emperor.

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lnl, nu tot 50% minder menselijk

welcome to web engines! your choices are:
- reference implementation maintained by a big advertisement company, building an ad profile of you, popular in part due to smartphone duopoly,
- engine that doesn't really improve because that would endanger the micro-transaction fee business,
- engine "backed by a non-profit" (which owns the company that is now also in the ad business),
- a previously abandoned "rewrite it in rust" initiative,
- engine that started because a guy needed a project to work on for addiction recovery

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Packbats, HTML fangirls ΘΔ&

proposal to all youtube video producers: the next time you think of asking ChatGPT a question for a video, consider drawing a tarot card instead:

  1. environmentally friendly
  2. does not support an anti-labor business
  3. far fewer people traumatized by abusive imagery in the course of its creation
  4. way less plagiarism involved
  5. equally reliable source of information
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Packbats, HTML fangirls ΘΔ&

another advantage of tarot over LLMs for youtube content: asking the cards highly specific and technical questions is extremely funny

like, here, we'll do this right now:

Q: "How do I configure the fan control on my graphics card?"

A: The Empress, reversed - you have hit a creative block, and you need to accept that you are dependent on others.

...and then you smash-cut to a screen recording of you typing your question into Reddit or a forum or something

(on which note: if anyone else has been having issues with LACT on NixOS 24.05 with KDE Plasma 6.0.5 under Wayland, hit us up - we can't figure this out)

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Sally Strange

Stay cool everyone! #HeatWave #Hydrate #wxmastodon

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mcc

On Monday a security disclosure went out, and all the young adepts scurried about updating their systems, for they were not up-to-date enough to have the fix. But the old master sat serenely amidst the motion, sipping her tea. For her systems were not up-to-date enough to require the fix

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Tobias Gies

🚨 KLAXON NOISES 🚨

"unauthenticated remote code execution as root in OpenSSH" is a term that means I don't fuckin' need my morning coffee any more.

Qualys report: openwall.com/lists/oss-securit
Release notes: openssh.com/releasenotes.html#
And a tip o' the hat to @hanno for the initial post about it: mastodon.social/@hanno/1127103

Go forth and patch your shit!

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Once again and all too soon, pride month is over. Once again, it's time for the next month in the LGBT year.

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I got a precious moment of boredom, and I've finally poisoned the algorithm enough to get trans video recommendations, so of course I'm watching them.

As I'm waiting for my poor CPU to finish the Family Size box of JavaScript the video loading needs, I notice the corner tag that says "Transferring data from," and my tired brain misread it as "Transfemming data from." I mean, yeah, that's awesome and all, but...

Have a safe and happy pride month, folks!

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The Iconolog

CODE02A.ICO - Language, Codes

...Barcode, Braille, Code, Macro, Morse

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The humanity-ending robot apocalypse won't come from robots turning against humans and building human-hunting assassin robot armies.

The humanity-ending robot apocalypse will instead come from robots faithfully yet naively serving humanity by convincing innocent humans to kill themselves and each other in recklessly stupid acts, because their guiding LLMs passing for AI never taught them the basic concepts of consequences or warnings.

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Kevin Beaumont

Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

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Exploding carrots.

I microwaved a can of Healthy Choice chicken soup (because it has tolerably low sodium) according to its directions. One of the carrots exploded with enough force to push up the loosely covering lid and bounce out of the bowl. When it was ready, I saw the carrot piece, waited for it to cool enough to touch, and picked it up. The carrot exploded a second time in my fingers.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️

What tech bros see vs. what I see

#AI

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Random ISP help:

If you own pets, then you probably know to check whether they unplugged modems, routers, & network cables when your 'Net stops working.

But check if your devices have on/off switches or buttons as well. Especially a wifi on/off switch. Especially if you have cats.

I have the best customers, but sometimes their four-footed housemates break things subtly.

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The Iconolog

DOCS00C.ICO - Data, Documents

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Also also, the two hardest problems in all of comp-sci are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Oops.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Also, no, you're not imagining things. Microsoft made printer management much harder and more confusing in Windows 11 than it is in Windows 10.

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