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fun fact with these magnetic USB charging cables:
if you have two of them, they will naturally attach to each other, creating a forbidden USB A-A cable, but better yet: they actually cross-connect because MAGNETS, so ground is wired to +5 and vice versa!

@Texan_Reverend I'm seeing people boosting posts about instances muting or blocking the new BBC instance because of their transphobic reporting.

As a trans person I'd like to request that you *don't* do that.

They're generally a respected news source and having them throwing their weight into Mastodon would be a huge boon.

I'd also rather get my transphobic news stories from the source than second-hand posts linking to them.

I think the positives of their presence outweigh the negatives.

Today I worked some more on my blog generator

I had to replace characters with html escape sequences, and then I had to escape that again to be able to put that string as a replacement in a sed substitution command

That took a while and in the end it's like two lines of code but it's two important lines

I feel like I've learned a lot about sed

@rysiek poast got hacked a while back, somebody looked up all the emails and matched them to their linkedin accounts: maia.crimew.gay/posts/meet-the

"when a gem is made, it's for a reason. they burst out of the ground already knowing what they're supposed to be, and that's what they are. forever. but you? you're *supposed* to change. you're never the same, even moment to moment! you're allowed and expected to invent who you are. what an incredible power, the ability to grow up..."

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A friend recommended unplugging everything from the wall, turning the power switch off entirely, pressing the power-on button a few times then plugging everything back in and turning it back on. It turned on, which is very good, but slightly scarier than if it were simply broken

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web apps stop turning domain-shaped strings into clickable links challenge 2023 [HARD]

If I wanted a link I'd have prefixed with http[s]://

"i think you have a serious problem with pizza."
"i don't have a problem with pizza!"
"I DUNNO KIKI. I THINK YOU DO."

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the mods of /r/welding gradually ramped it up over a few years and the current logo is *really* unsubtle

Went to a radar museum today and frankly, more systems should have dedicated buttons called "pigeons"

"only showing the first 100 errors, of 50392 total"

good morning to you too, java.

Back in Feb, when Grammarly said they were going to think about incorporating AI, I immediately canceled my account and uninstalled. And now they've actually done it.

I'm sharing because with everything going on, writers might not realize this is happening.

#AI #writing

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