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neilgall

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Emptier of drip trays, filler of beans.

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nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Remembering Alan Turing, died on 7 June 1954, victim of prejudice and ignorance 💔 He was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist and is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artiticial intelligence. He was also homosexual in a time when homosexuality was illegal. After his conviction he was given a choice between chemical castration and prison. He chose chemical castration, and later chose to kill himself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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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.

purplepadma, to random
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I like immigration. I like not to have serious skills gaps in our services. I like mixing with people who grew up in other countries. I like being enriched by other cultures. I would like the feeling that my country opened its arms to people fleeing terrible situations elsewhere. I don’t understand why other people don’t think like this

ElleGray, to random
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ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

pete, to MTB
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Back on the bike after a needing a few days to recover after last week’s efforts. Still a little tender but couldn’t resist a quick out and back/up and down.

matthewskelton, to ai
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AI as a religious cult. "The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism."

By Emily Gorcenski

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/

#ai

Navodar, to random
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The decline of the user interface
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715333/the-decline-of-the-user-interface.html

aburtch, to random
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. @pluralistic is essential reading these days. No one else explains why we are where we are today and how we got here better than he does.

For example, check out this recent essay: https://locusmag.com/2024/05/cory-doctorow-no-one-is-the-enshittifier-of-their-own-story/
or listen to it here: https://pca.st/episode/3079b9c2-3178-48a8-b699-08eb5a802ba4

Q: Why is everything so bad these days? People get worse service at higher prices while those supposedly giving them to us also make less as the digital platforms suck up all the profit.

GeriAQuin, to Dog
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codfather, to random
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aworkinglibrary, to random
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Wrote about optimization vs resilience (with an assist from @debcha): https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/against-optimization

shauncuff, to running
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Summertime🏃🏻‍♂️ 🌧️

#IsleOfWight #SunniestPlaceInBritain #Running #Exercise #SlowMotion

Running through puddles

thomasfuchs, to random
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Wonder how long it will take for “to google something” to disappear from the language…

…or maybe it will take up a meaning of “utterly destroying a useful thing for sheer greed”.

Garwboy, to random
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Horrible when those in charge make decisions that make your life much harder for purely selfish reasons without giving a crap about your situation, isn't it. Just awful.

foone, to random
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FUN FACT:
if you build electronic devices which contain a raspberry pi in them, consider what will happen if one of them gets thrown out.
someone might open them up, stick the microSD card in them into a reader, and open up that tantalizing "apps.json" file which has YOUR GOD DAMN AWS KEYS? IN UNENCRYPTED PLAIN TEXT?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Can we turn the tech industry off and on again

ifixcoinops, to random
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Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

ifixcoinops,
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Linux is a bit shit sometimes,

There's your headline. I don't care whether you use linux or not; ten years ago that might have mattered, I might be trying to get more people to use it so that adobe or whoever would put more effort into supporting it, but that doesn't really matter anymore, these days everything either Just Works or there's a native equivalent that's better and I've no selfish reason to recommend linux anymore, so if you're happy with windows stick with windows.

If you're not happy with windows, here's the other half of that sentence at the top of this post:

Linux is a bit shit sometimes - but when it's a bit shit, it's a bit shit in the way of a cat who watches the mouse run across the living room floor, not in the way of a cat who suddenly decides to bite you for no reason. It's not actively malicious, it's just a bit shit sometimes, which these days is tbh pretty damn good compared with a lot of stuff.

Like, it's not bad because it's being hollowed out for investors, it's not bad because it's spying on you to make more money, it's not bad because its makers know you've gotta take it anyway, it's not bad because it knows it can get a lot worse before you look elsewhere, it's just... bad. But bad in like a normal way, like a bike with a wonky gear shifter and tyres that keep going soft, not like a bike that shows you adverts.

There's my linux recommendation.

LINUX: It's A Bit Shit Sometimes™

chrisgervais, to LEGO
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Let’s make this happen! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/de0eda3f-84aa-4cfa-9fab-c9eb155ada80

noondlyt, to random
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I know everyone has probably seen this but this creature, Beary Poppins, is my spirit animal.

Video of a brown bear walking casually, but with purpise, down a road. The bear heads directly to an overturned orange traffic cone on the side of the road. The bear stops, rights the cone, and then continues on its way.

Long_live_rock_n_roll, to music
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"If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are."
Lemmy Kilmister ♠️

video/mp4

riggs7sct, to martialartsmemes
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davidr, to Finance
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I'm no #finance or #stockmarket genius, but.

As an #engineer, if I had any other #data series that was pretty smooth for several years and then started getting very spiky month to month, I'd look for some underlying malfunction.

elaterite, to motorcycles
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Lol--after 15 years I finally resurrected my 1978 Kawasaki KZ400 "Reloaded"! I put nearly 50 miles on it today but for some reason the battery wasn't charging so I had to park it and put it on charge. I wonder what's wrong with it? ;)

JonnElledge, to random
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There is such a thing as society - and to fix this country after 14 years of Tory ruin, we’re going to need to start saying as much. My latest

https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/05/there-is-such-a-thing-as-society-austerity-state-cameron-thatcher

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