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djfiander

@djfiander@code4lib.social

UX Web Services Librarian at a large Canadian university. Reader, cyclist, text-based lifeform.

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metin, to Quotes
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#post #quote #quotes #SciFi #ScienceFiction #COVID #COVID19 #corona #aliens #humor #humour #fun #funny #LOL

tek, to random
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A friend just pointed out:

"ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA."

Let’s do this.

timbray, to random
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Wow, there’s a rare burst of good news: Modi's ethnofascist election campaign fails to secure a majority government in India: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/modis-bjp-loses-majority-in-india-election-shock-needs-allies-for

dannotdaniel, to random
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England has a new Queen and her name is Victoria 🤩

cstross, (edited ) to random
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Business meetings exist to share information and coordinate activity: this shit enables you to be apparently present in all but actually not engaged with any. If your calendar is triple-booked then your organization is under-resourced and needs more people, not more AI. Or it's holding unnecessary meetings to make management feel better about being surrounded by minions, in which case it needs to fire the executives responsible.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/112553850995965423

jwz,
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@cstross Back in 1993, I talked to a team at SGI who were building one of the first multi-person video chat apps. Since they were building it, they used it constantly. And the FIRST TWO THINGS THEY DID were: 1) a plugin that played a 5 second loop of you looking like you were still there; and 2) a plugin that would detect lulls in conversation and say "Mmm hmmm" in your voice.

andymoose, to random
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"Thank you for your message. Because you may be using a Microsoft Recall enabled PC, I am unable to respond to you with any sensitive or confidential information. I apologize for the inconvenience."

And he was left alone, living happily, until the end of his days.

18+ mwl, to FreeBSD
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Mike Karels died on the way home from #BSDCan, at the age of 67.

https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels

This man spent 40 years working on BSD. His code appears in #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and everywhere.

If you have used the Internet, you have used code he wrote.

RIP, sir. You changed the world for the better.

What's probably his last talk: "I don't have much to say," followed by a spellbinding eighty minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSziyKlG1ws

[edited to remove echovita obit; apparently that's an AI scam site :flan_molotov: :flan_rage: :flan_hulk: ]

annika, to random
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mastodon servers have pretty good uptime considering the lack of cis admin

JMarkOckerbloom, to random
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The website for the Columbia Law Review, which last I checked hosted freely readable copies of all articles from 2008 onward, is now offline, displaying a "Website is under maintenance" message. Editors say it's because the review's board of directors took the site down after the editors refused to remove an article by a Palestinian legal scholar: https://theintercept.com/2024/06/03/columbia-law-review-palestine-board-website/

adapalmer, to random
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A new piloting approach has huge potential to cut cargo ship emissions. #ShareGoodNewsToo https://newatlas.com/marine/blue-visby-cargo-emissions/

uint8_t, to random
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Any app that interrupts my workflow to ask for a review, with “maybe later” being the only alternative, gets a review! ⭐️

MidniteLibrary, to random
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Just got over $1700 as backpay for a job I left over a year ago because the union signed a new retroactive collective agreement after I left.

kfogel, to random

So, is there a patterned fabric you can use to make a shirt that is anti-optimized for modern video stream compression, such that your meetings totally bog down for all participants because everyone’s client-side code is working so hard to encode/decode the wildly demanding images of your shirt every time you shift slightly in your seat?

Asking for a friend.

Also adding tags at the request of @femme_mal :

GottaLaff, to tesla
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to 125,227 vehicles over faulty seat belt warning system

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the vehicles failed to comply with the federal safety requirements as their seat belt warning light and audible chime may not get activated when the driver is unbelted
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/tesla-recall-125227-vehicles-faulty-seat-belt-warning-system-rcna154850

WeightlessBooks, to random
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Today we're adding Australian own-voices focused indie horror press Slashic Horror! Including titles by Mark Allan Gunnells, @fletcherhorror, Chloe Spencer, Stephanie Sander-Jacob and more: https://weightlessbooks.com/category/publisher/slashic-horror-press/?orderby=date&order=DESC&submit=Submit

Cover art for Vicarious by Chloe Spencer, featuring some teenagers in front of a school with their faces blotted out in red ink
Cover art for Pyramidia by Stephanie Sanders-Jacob, featuring a fancy teacup with blood in the saucer against a hot pink background
Cover art for Raven's Creek by David-Jack Fletcher, featuring a run-down neon hotel sign

baldur, to random
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“Apple silicon MacBook Pro batteries can't be replaced under warranty by third parties”

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/7.html

> Apple now requires that the MacBook Pro be mailed in to Apple for battery replacement!

This is important information if you live here in Iceland as there is no official Apple store in the country and we're an island in the middle of fucking nowhere.

DoctorsWithoutBorders, to random
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Doctors Without Borders forced to close primary care centre in Al Mawasi due to Israel’s offensive in #Rafah.

We had treated over 33,000 patients at the health centre since February.

This is the second health facility we have been forced to close this week. #Gaza

kbeninato, to random
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"Convicted felons don't get classified briefings." - Jen Psaki on convicted felon Donald Trump

nocontextb5, to Babylon5
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nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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mjg59, to random
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Fucking hell what will they DRM next

mathowie, to random
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hell yes

josephscrimshaw, to random
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The audio of news reporters saying the word “GUILTY” 34 times in a row should be added to the calm app

chartier, to privacy
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just started making everyone's accounts

*and purchases public by default

Opt out, not in. Likely because they company is run by sociopaths.

You might want to shut this off in your profile. If you know anyone who works in management at DoorDash, consider tossing them into your nearest black hole.

soweliniko, to random

The ticket gate that transes your gender

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