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  RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/117006488074722424 Ah come on, $3T in debt and no profit, how is that a problem? 😂

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  @jodmentum@apobangpo.space I once saw an obit that contained the sentence "She led a useful life." This applies to your MIL.

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  My Editorial Assistant is NOT HELPING! #writing #editing #WritingCommunity #CatsOfMastodon

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  When the marketing says "SAVE [tiny print] UP TO [/tiny print] $4,000!" I just assume that whatever it is, I can't afford it and move on. Doubly so if I wouldn't even pay $4,000 for whatever it is they're pushing.

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  An update to my spam filters to kill the latest wave of particularly irritating spam killed 55 messages over the past week, with three false positives. All of the false positives were from the SpamAssassin mailing list that was discussing how to kill this particular form of spam, which I found amusing. I've adjusted the rule to compensate for that particular quirk.

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  Man, you do not want to be 45 minutes late for a CSFFA AGM. [Zooms into an empty room] 😂

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  "This is a follow-up message regarding the abuse report that you submitted to AWS. The content or activity you reported has been mitigated." Or in other words, if you use AWS to launch an attack against my sites, I will get your ass banned off of AWS. Next player, please.

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  In other words, in the online space, fuck with my stuff and I will do my best to hunt you down and kill you, digitally speaking.

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  Meta-Quote of the Day: "it looks like a vibecoding bot broke {app} while hallucinating a bugfix."

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  I just had an installer say "in order to install {app}, you must install {app}" Gosh, this must have been why I started the installer for {app}! Duh.

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  @hetzner@mastodon.hetzner.social Imagine a fascist state having effective control over the DNS system. Long strings of numbers FTW. 😄

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  @georgetakei@universeodon.com I dunno. How about starting with where you found it? Then maybe hire an intern who knows what image descriptions are. After all you're supposed to be aligned with marginalized communities, right?

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  @Dany@hsnl.social Sloppy should be dark brown so that it more closely resembles the wet crap that comes out of their Gen-AI.

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  @catsalad Come on now, that's deep thought there: "Is that a spider? A Fly? Or just a speck of dirt? Better keep an eye on it."

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  @ZebKing I think my count is three, of those, one actually uses the platform, the others seem to be getting rage farming dopamine hits on Shitter still. I still have accounts on several platforms that are not Shitter, but wherever possible I mention that I use those platforms for broadcast; if you want to interact, this is the best place for it. if someone is cross-posting to multiple platforms including the fediverse, I share the fedi link outside this ecosystem, in hopes of suckering a few m...

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  Looking at two e-books I'd like to buy. Both with DRM. Nope, sorry, I don't want a "revocable license to read on a surveillance device," I want a fucking copy of the e-book that I can read with the application of my choice, in the OS of my choice. NO SALE.

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  Australian mining company, world's fourth-largest iron ore miner, plans to have mine 100% powered by renewables by 2028, further leaving the US behind. #green #energy https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/australias-fortescue-fast-track-diesel-elimination-plans-pilbara-2026-04-09/

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  @briankrebs Yeah. I looked at that precisely once when it came out. No friggin way. Now with AI it's like "verify we can use you as a deep fake." No. Nope. No no no no no.

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  @veronica "I'm not insane, I'm an author."

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  I just shake my head when the US media describes Yet another mass shooting, especially one of the "dude can't handle rejection, kills family then himself" variant as "shocking" How can something that happens [looks it up] about ONCE A DAY be shocking? Horrific I get, yes. But shocking? Give me a break. I'll tell you what's fucking shocking: that there's no way for anyone to do anything about it because of shitty politics. That...

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  RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116431441690899655 For anyone looking for a practical definition of community and why it's the most valuable thing ever, this thread is it.

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  Man if you have a new book/essay/post on anything AI related and capitalize it as "Ai", I am so not reading your work, on the assumption that it's a poorly edited piece of crap.

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  Her: I had a double-yoker for breakfast this morning. Me: who was the other guy? #dadjoke

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  Contents of marketing email (from a vendor I like) Interesting subject [image] [image] [image] Sender/unsubscribe block. You truly failed to deliver on that interesting subject, folks. With no alt text, I'm not bothering to load those images.

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  I just saw a bird with wearable tech. It was a technopheasant. [brain is in dad joke mode today] #dadjoke

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  A local butter company is running into a legislative barrier. There's a two-tier system in Ontario. Small producers can sell direct to consumers, but not through retail or wholesale channels. the next step up requires a full industrial facility costing millions of dollars, and is only suited to large volume operations. The Lofty Butter Company (https://loftybutter.ca/) is within 100km of me, makes wonderful butter, but if I want some, I have to drive for the better part of an hour round...

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  I have to say that what I love about this platform, and what is a strong echo of the Internet I first came to love, is that when you post something here that others take issue with, most of the time what you get in response is well-reasoned replies and counterarguments, instead of a stream of rage-farming crap. Thank-you, Mastodon.

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  I think my new favourite colour will be darkle (even though it's not really a colour.)

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  I just discovered that some time ago my newsletter mail provider added a step to the sign-up process without letting me know, which means that sign-ups were silently failing. Gutted that this has possibly cost me between zero and zero new subscribers! At the same time they updated their API, which lets me bypass the issue, but now I'm logging successes as well as failures, just in case they "update" things without notice again.

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  @kalsdavian@mastodon.social Welcome. You will probably find this to be a much nicer place.