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danjac

@danjac@masto.ai

Software developer/professional Jira ticket puncher.

Originally British, naturalized Finn. Interested in #scifi #fantasy #movies #opensource #python #django #javascript #running #nature #art #podcasts #languages #history

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Header pic: Pascal Blanche https://pascalblanche.artstation.com/projects/r9ZEKL

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Sheesh. Even Musk & Chait are having to tell the Queen of TERF Island to tone it down a bit.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/j-k-rowling-trans-twitter-elon-musk-1235019620/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17156681670553

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The US government should legalize cocaine in Hollywood to get some creativity back in the place.

danjac,
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Micro-dosing LSD or taking ayahuasca trips don't cut it. You end up with ideas like everything should be an NFT

danjac, to random
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YouTube is basically the Torment Nexus for people who produced mediocre sci-fi shows in the late 20th century

That low-budget evening entertainment you did for a credit on your CV will forever be discussed in the future by weird nerds on a video channel with too many children's toys displayed on shelves in their bedrooms

danjac, to random
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You get the impression from today's Tories (Sunak, Truss et al) that they don't really like Britain or its people very much. They regard the British people as lazy, "woke", workshy and ungrateful.

Hence all their talk about doing away with doctors' sick notes, discouraging work-from-home, "Singapore on the Thames" etc. They would much rather be governing an imaginary authoritarian country somewhere in Asia with zero workers rights.

danjac,
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I have no idea how the Tories would turn around their catastrophic polling or recover post-election but coming across that they actually like ordinary people would be a good start.

danjac,
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@peteriskrisjanis thinking in particular of the "Britannia Unchained" lunatics like Truss. The problem these geniuses don't face is that they have to win elections and even right-of-center voters genuinely don't want to live in their weird dystopia.

danjac,
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@forthy42 which (from their point of view) would be fine if you ruled an authoritarian state, but it's hard to oppress and enslave people while at the same time expecting them to vote for you.

danjac,
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@fishidwardrobe Thatcher most definitely. But she was able to paint the unions as the "enemy within" that held the British people back. The current lot view the problem as the British people themselves (aided of course by the nebulous "deep state").

danjac,
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@kim_harding "Hard Brexit", or as the North Koreans call it, "Juche".

danjac,
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@selzero if you vote Tory you're either a moron or a millionaire (check your bank account if you're not sure which category you belong to).

But....even the most self-interested narcissistic NIMBY home-owner would not like to live under a Trussite Neo-Singaporean regime.

danjac,
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@fishidwardrobe arguably the Deep State conspiracy goes back to the British comedy show "Yes Minister", which was a favourite of Thatcher's.

danjac, (edited ) to random
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Netflix execs to Zack Snyder: "Roger Corman made Rebel Moon in a cave! From a box of scraps!"

danjac, to random
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Ryans Gosling and Reynolds to star in a movie about parachutists called Free Fall Guy

danjac, to random
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When Americans talk about "small government" I think they mean something like a New England village council of elders in the 1600s

https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-shredded-register-women/

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Natalie Elphick is definitely a Conservative Party op. They got rid of a useless and scandal-ridden MP who was on the way out anyway and Starmer took the bait

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lol no what shite

ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity | John Naughton | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/11/chatgpt-ai-will-co-pilot-coders-to-new-heights-of-creativity

danjac,
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chatgpt is probably the most frustrating waste of time

danjac, to random
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Watching latest Mission Impossible and realising Tom Cruise is same age as Angela Lansbury in the early seasons of Murder She Wrote and the only physical stunt she did was cycling around Cabot Cove

danjac,
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@bazkie yeah that show had higher body count than the Sopranos

danjac, to random
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It's downright criminal how universities and other courses encourage or force students to set up private AWS accounts.

AWS is for companies, period. It should never be used by a private individual. If it were designed for private individuals, they would have implemented hard limits on the free tier rather than their laughable billing alerts.

You should never use it for coursework or side projects: the danger is too high.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qgr9jh/was_billed_60k_with_a_free_tier/

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#htmx tip: if using "htmx.ajax()" API call to trigger an HTMX request, and you need to push the URL to your history, return response with "HX-Push-URL". (django-htmx has a handy "push_url()" function for this).

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A company run by a braindead fail-upward twat like Zaslav means 100+ seasons of Young Sheldon while Scavengers Reign gets cancelled.

https://gizmodo.com/scavengers-reign-cancelled-max-but-netflix-s2-hope-1851470217

danjac, to random
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I don't think I can remember a single time when renting that we have ever got our full deposit back.

In fact I've lost my deposit so many times I'm thinking of changing my name to Lawrence Fox

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I suspect that the only people still planning to vote Tory at the GE are either very rich, very stupid, or still believe in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy. Same applies to those planning to vote for Trump in November of course.

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@kennethb Tories would never believe in characters who give away free things to children.

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