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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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Monday is a holiday here in the US, meaning that today is one of the best days of the year to push your untested vibe code to production. Just remember, if the code would have worked when tested, it would work in production, so there's basically no risk.

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Thanks! You're a real IT pro!

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robotgirl who used to be a combat bot and is now at peace and trying to heal. it’s made more complicated by her chassis having chaff/flare launchers designed to protect her from incoming missiles, but it’s hard wired to her fight or flight response, so they go off whenever she’s startled or overwhelmed

she caused a small fire the first time her partner said that they loved her, when she instinctively launched flares inside her apartment.

after that she took the flares themselves out, but couldn’t take our the launchers or the hardwired connection to her main cpu, so now whenever she’s startled or overwhelmed, the launcher doors on her back open and emit a bunch of clicking sounds as it tries to launch flares that are no longer there because they’re no longer needed.

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aki-nyan

How you know you found the good shit:tm:

when the IEEE paper starts invoking faux 3D sigils made of logic symbols

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Misty

Great response here from Quakers in Britain when they received an anti-trans letter about their trans-inclusive bathroom policy: quaker.org.uk/documents/re-sta

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David Gerard

my current thinking is that if any of your upstream dependencies has a .cursor folder, they're frickin' morons and you need to remove that dependency pronto

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Rob Ricci

Hey cis folks in the US: there is a high probability that things are going to get even darker here for your trans family, friends, neighbors, and strangers. Now is the time to show them that you will stand up for them.

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Spreadsheets peaked 36 years ago with Lotus Improv, and it didn't need huge, water-hungry artificial cities of building-sized space heaters pretending to be intelligent to work.

youtube.com/watch?v=rgGmKD87U3

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Microsoft added AI-BS to Excel while warning it's BS. Amazing.

PC Gamer, "Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'": pcgamer.com/software/ai/micros

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Microsoft also advises against using the feature for "financial reporting, legal documents, or other high-stakes scenarios," so basically most of the things people turn to Excel for.

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You make a grown man cry.

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My first computer didn't run a Microsoft OS (but it did have a customized dialect of Microsoft Basic in ROM).

My first Windows PC was a Toshiba T4600C, designed for Windows 3.1, but upgraded with an 8 MB RAM card, an 800 MB HDD, and Windows 95 from a 13-floppy set.

Happy 30th anniversary to the version of Windows that gave the world the Start Button and adopted a Rolling Stones hit as its theme song.

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

happy windows 95mas

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paulrickards

TIL the Kensington Turbo Mouse can use a billiard ball.

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #VintageAP

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Remember Microsoft's malware-like "Get Windows 10" (GWX) campaign of 2016? It force-upgraded a budget Windows 7 PC to Windows 10, and this is the result.

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I now know from first-hand experience how well Windows 10 runs with only 2.6 GB usable RAM.

Answer: Not well enough to remove the preinstalled McAfee trialware, and just barely well enough to remove it with the McAfee removal tool inside two hours.

Everything else is an equal test of absurdly extreme patience. More frustratingly, it struggles so much to recognize mouse clicks that the only way to tell a click was acknowledged is the window suddenly freezing for many seconds.

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Éris Serène :determination:
"Windows Recall"? Yeah, it should be recalled
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miss ana vee :vheart_fuck_yes:

trans rights are human rights because what we are fighting for is the fundamental right to be able to define who we are, and the government is fighting so hard to take this away from us because once they do then they've taken it away from everyone

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JP

It occurs to me that commands with a '--dry-run' option have the safety interlock backwards. The dangerous or destructive operation should default to a dry run unless you specifically crank the "yes I'm sure" lever.

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