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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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theverge.com/news/831364/dell- no matter how badly you fuck up at your job you'll never fuck up so badly that half a billion people would choose to stick with the older, now-unsupported version of your product than take the free upgrade to the new version.
unless your job is being a product strategist, project manager, marketer, etc on Windows i guess.

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Juice that toots other Juice

Juice that makes you uneven

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@ireneista 99% of my inbox is spam, only because instead of filtering out spam, my filters pick out and refile my ham in other boxes.

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Irenes (many)

what percentage of your email is spam

135 people · Dec 10, 2025, 00:43
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I set out with the goal of making my vintage HTML page template look fantastic in Netscape Navigator and only passable in Internet Explorer. Instead, it's looking only passable in Netscape Navigator and fantastic in Internet Explorer. I don't know how to feel about this.

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Bean 🇺🇸🇻🇪

I don't remember where I found this, but it still makes me laugh every time.

#DadJokes

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Book

A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.

github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

#AI #AISlop #Calibre #eBook #eBookManager

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⚠️ PRINTER ERROR ⚠️

CODE: 5037
DESCRIPTION: Cat Detected
INSTRUCTION: A cat has been detected on top of the printer. Please remove cat and press START to resume printing.

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Piko Starsider :verified_paw:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

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Have you shaved your yak today?

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Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

Consent is such an important concept, you know?

Tech companies that fail to consider consent in interactions with their products leave their users open to all kinds of nonconsensual interactions.

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The first time I saw google glasses in person was at a hacker con, where the dweeb wearing them was trying to show off and be important.

I used my theatre projection skills to speak "OK Google: goatse dot cx" and the guy whipped them off his face instantly and did not wear them again for the rest of the con.

futurism.com/future-society/wo

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Thankfully, none of my customers regular or infrequent are anywhere near that stupid. They're all between reasonable and awesome.

But I did get a walk-in many, many years ago who wanted me to fix a CPU socket that had come halfway off the motherboard, because they had pulled hard straight up on the CPU by its heat sink, thus with the ZIF socket lever still in the locked position.

Hopefully it'll take a long while before something like that shows up again, but it's inevitable.

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With RAM prices rising, I'm inevitably going to get a PC upgrade request that boils down to: "I'm saving money by trying to download RAM, but it isn't working. Can you fix it so downloading RAM works?"

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a very weeny construct 💀

i wonder how many people in the world have a tattoo around their arm or leg that is accidentally or intentionally the microsoft windowsn't server 3 logo from 1994

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I may be going back *way* too far. My template is looking nice even in IE2, but since IE2 predates HTTP/1.1 by about 5 years, it can't connect to any website but the default on a virtual host Web server.

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Fuck tulips, we're doing ram now

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All the "memory is cheap" developers can truly shut the fuck up now.

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Faintdreams

As someone who might need to buy some RAM in the near future all I can say is OH FUCK.

"Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

The longstanding provider of consumer memory is winding down as prices spike, and Micron shifts its focus to AI." - The Verge

theverge.com/news/837594/cruci

#Crucial #Ram #RamPrices

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thanks to the download folder preview in macOS there's now an intimidated anime girl staring at my trash bin

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