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  Computers have ruined everything they touched, and made much more difficult everything they were supposed to facilitate. I miss the old days of bureaucracy where dumbfuck web pages and stupid apps weren't part of the picture. I'd rather go from office to office papers in hand than fight fucked up web pages at home with nobody to talk to when shit goes wrong. Fuck computers. Fuck internet. This shit was meant to be a communication convenience, not a ridiculously bullshit replace...

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  Now I am your average landlubber but I hear there are these things called waves at sea, which means spinning disks are out of question, all cables need to be specially made or picked to allow for bolting down, you need to make sure ram sticks or graphics cards don't come flying off the servers when they may do so even while transporting a PC on the highway, and the only reliable way to bring in a sysadmin or engineer quickly is via some rope dangling from an helicopter Definitely an idea o...

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  *Tinfoil hat on* I doubt it's a coincidence that the last 10, 15 years things like cryptocurrencies, "metaverse", "AI" are becoming popular, just as "lines" in the computing industry flatten: as the computer has been perfected, an _economy of waste_ is created to sustain appetite for growth. Computers (phones, tablets &c are computers) have become longer term investments; even if you have abundant money, the latest devices aren't necessarily upgrades t...

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  Damn, this is a first, Brill won't let me have the book I want if I try to get it from its page with institutional login, but if I get to it with Ebsco of my uni then I can get the PDF? Whaaat??

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  If I was more of a bitter nerd I'd be insisting on calling my phone a PDA or pocket computer instead.

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  ⏰ When I see lists like this, 🤔 I think to myself 💩 Wow, this must be "AI" generated... 🚭 ...I won't read it 🖔 🖔 Just FYI

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  Bring back background filling for icon labels I CAN'T READ THIS SHITE IDIOT COMPUTER SHAGGERS YOU DIMWITS YOU DESERVE THE FUCKING GUILLOTINES

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  «Aro/Ace Online Talk Series» «The Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network is excited to announce its Aro/Ace Talk Series running throughout the summer. Every week on Friday at 3 pm (UK time, exception noted in schedule), we will be joined by researchers, activists and academics who will give us insight into their projects and current topics in aro/ace research from asexual geographies to aromantic belonging, online fandoms, activism, disability and the erotics of editing.» https://n...

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  Everyone: fake it till you make it Google, lately: make it till you fake it

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  2000-2009 -- Noughties 2010-2019 -- Naughties 2020-2029 -- Ouchies

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  Any recommendations for an introductory textbook on social theory? I am preparing a syllabus for myself to catch up on social theory, chiefly from Marx up to post-colonial/structuralist stuff, as relates to history in particular and humanities an social sciences in general, as it's an area I'm sorely lacking in. I've some particular interests like Marxism, feminism, and Bourdieu, but I am thinking perhaps following a textbook would be more productive and would be less...

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  We should get building web directories again. Curated, collaborative, intentional. The age of the search engine is gone by.

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  https://discuss.kde.org/t/framework-becomes-a-kde-patron/45701/10 This is incredible. Basically KDE is telling us some 150 dorks decide everything and "community" doesn't matter, ofc because "community" is a fiction Well, I'm done with KDE forever