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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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usgov, taxes 

Today is tax day in the US, the deadline for individuals to:

1. take numbers the gov gave us,
2. perform arithmetic the gov already performed,
3. give the gov other numbers it already knows,
4. pray our arithmetic matched its, and
5. pray it made our employers withhold too much money from our paychecks so the gov owes us the refund it knows it does.

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leah & flutters & nose, oh my!

ten minutes.

futurism.com/artificial-intell

ten minutes is all it takes to lose substantive cognitive function.

AI: not even once.

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Shrig 🐌

You don't have to apologise for being white, it's tangibly completely useless and still centring your experience and feelings. Just be *actively* anti-racist. It's not difficult 🙄

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Asterisk Sounds

"This voice path is insecure - do not discuss classified information or use project codewords."

*️⃣ Asterisk sound 'channel-insecure-warn.wav'
📦 From package 'asterisk-extra-sounds'
🇬🇧 Spoken in British English

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Rob Ricci

Oh look, someone paid the bribe

theverge.com/tech/911888/netge

discuss.systems/@ricci/1162812

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Rob Ricci

RE: assortedflotsam.com/@technewsb

I suspect the actual reason for this is in the second half of the sentence:

"... or receive an exemption from the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department."

We've seen this administration use approval processes to extract all kinds of concessions out of companies; see its use of approval over mergers to get media companies to do its bidding.

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Tech News Bot

The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Router Models Made Outside US pcmag.com/news/fcc-just-banned #news

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

skeuomorphism is, if not good UI design, at least fun

we need skeuomorphism now more than ever

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I can't tell you how many phone support calls were needlessly 15-30 minutes longer than they should've been because Microsoft, Apple, Google, & the GTK team all made the auto-hiding scrollbars so completely hidden from my customers that none of them knew their windows had any scrollbars at all.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

bring back depth into computer graphical interfaces. make things intuitive and accessible again. i promise you nobody who actually uses computers ever complained the scroll bar was taking up too much space on the screen

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forest :therian:

bluebells

#art #furry

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Lisa Melton

Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™.

Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea.

Folks, all of us here ARE the algorithm. Personal curation is a feature, not a bug.

We make Mastodon awesome by following people and boosting what we find meaningful, significant or just cool. That's how it works.

Let's keep making friends. Let's keep sharing. Let's keep Mastodon alive. Together. 💖

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resistance gardener

hypercard is an example of making programming easier. it made systematic, predictable interactivity *more accessible* to folks, by making it possible for people to *do programming* in a different way. blocks-based programming is a similar deal. its still programming. you still have to work through the logic and tune your approach to get the desired outcome. you are still crafting. just not with lines-of-code as the interface. AI IS NONE OF THIS.

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FadedOasis 🌈

Be gay.
Do crimes.
Post about being gay.
DO NOT POST ABOUT DOING CRIMES.

It's quite simple.

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HTTPS Where It Needs To Be

mathstodon.xyz/@robinhouston/1 (edit: forgot post link)

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i am so glad that someone much smarter than me is speaking out against https everywhere

RT: mathstodon.xyz/@robinhouston/1

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robinhouston

Unfortunately there is no way I can persuade you to watch this by quoting a particularly amusing moment, because there are so many particularly amusing moments that I can’t possibly choose one.

youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk

Here’s the paper, in case you’re more of a reader than a viewer: tom7.org/httpv/httpv.pdf

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Owashii :corgi:🐾:therian:

Sometimes I think back to the time in middle school that a classmate wrote the word "gullible" on a piece of tape and used a broom handle to stick it onto the ceiling

That was fun :3

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dj chicken trouble

dj card statement

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David Cohen

@FreakyFwoof I once got a call pretending to be Microsoft, had detected a problem on my computer and needed to remote fix (I was all in on Mac but never mind that!).

I played along until they wanted me to go to a web site and provide some credentials. I asked “Should I disconnect from the reactor first?”. He was puzzled, and I explained that I was in the control room of Heysham Nuclear Power Station and the PC ran Reactor Control software.

Click.

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