Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@squirrel spooooooopy!

Knew we should have called in that exorcist

@squirrel also doesn't help that the only time anyone ever uses the word "sleigh" is in reference to santa's sleigh

For any other vehicle pulled by animals and carrying people and/or cargo over snow it's a sledge

@squirrel as a native English speaker, both of those words sound exactly the same

@astro @unascribed@cybre.space true, although on the upside this might stop them from buying the rest of the IoT garbage as well

@astro @unascribed@cybre.space it may not be worse than that stuff, but it's yet another surveillance tool

If they want to spy on you, they'll spy on you, but there's no sense in giving them more ways of doing that

I got around to turning on "autoplay .gifs" and now the coyote is rotating and the maple is blinking and blushing

I should have turned this on ages ago

@djsundog yeah, either way it's not nice to the customer

@djsundog might not necessarily be about the putting microphones in your house thing

They're probably expecting a lot of people to use the "Oi, 'lexa, order me some bog roll" feature which would make them a fair bit of money

Or they made too many of them and are just trying to get shot of them

The surveillance aspect might just be an added bonus for them

Probably not, but it might

@squirrel also robot and squirrel!

*hugs the robosquirbun*

...I need this

Great, now we're going to have to put up with passports that are a shitty blue colour

THE BURGUNDY WAS CLASSY AS FUCK

@Rubbaduxx@mastodon.social ...yes, yes it does

@squirrel hey, it didn't suck before, but now thanks to @InspectorCaracal it's more up to date and not sucking!

@icefox Invented the term "debugging" after removing an actual bug stuck in a relay that was causing a program to not function

Wrote the first compiler

Admiral Grace Hopper was a badass

@dogoken@cybre.space It's like the Inuit reputedly having a couple of hundred terms for "snow"

@dogoken@cybre.space ah no, it's an English term, we have more nuance to the degrees of feeling like shit

Is there an American equivalent to "the dreaded lurghi/lurgi/lurgy"?

It a term for an unspecified illness that makes you feel like complete shit for a few days to a week and then goes away

@squirrel sounds like the dreaded lurghi to me

hang on, that's a really england-centric reference

sounds like it might be a cold, hope you fight it off soon