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@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social There are lots of theories as to why, and no firm support of any of them.
I am drawn to the most depressing explanation: It's the same reason dance clubs and pubs are struggling, there are reporters warning of a 'loneliness epidemic' and shopping centers are dying. People aren't going out doors for fun any more. If you're not out there meeting your future gang members and getting drunk, you're not going to be out doing crimes either.
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@hawthornbunny@equestria.social The new switch is actually switching a 1mA control signal, and the job could be done by the tiniest of switches. I used one greatly oversized because 1. vintage switches look cool 2. It's big enough to flick in the dark without looking at it.
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@rubixhelix@kolektiva.social @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social Maybe the whole thing is a stunt to distract from the Epstein files? It's working, too.
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@arcturax@chitter.xyz There are still pockets of Old Internet around, but without a promotional engine to make people aware of them you really need to search or be invited in.
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@captpackrat@pawb.fun "Yes, the immediate cause of death was trying to ride a wild bear 'for the lulz.' But TEL is a slow and subtle poison."
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@katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org I wonder what Microsoft's response will be. Easy enough for them to add an age flag to every Microsoft account, as they make those accounts mandatory already, but business users may be a problem.
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@robertcarlson@mastodon.gamedev.place I would actually be surprised if it isn't just named Windows Copilot at this point.
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The Demanding Teacher is now going to complain to the principle because I revised his laptop request from 'super expensive portable workstation laptop' to just the regular teacher laptop.
DT believes that his needs are greater than all the other teachers because he is a faculty head.
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Work-school had a TV in one of the atriums that shows BBC News 24, with sound off and subtitles on. The intent of this TV is to keep students engaged with and informed on current events, so that they will watch and discuss together during their break and lunch periods.
This week, management decided to turn this TV off, as teachers report it is contributing to anxiety among the students. Being constantly informed about ongoing and escalating violence keeps the students from focusing on school.
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@captpackrat@pawb.fun I do, but it's a fair amount of trouble. I get a lot of spam because I can't be bothered to maintain proper spam filtering, and I never did get around to sorting out DMARC.
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@ghouston@mamot.fr @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social I think they get to be white so long as they never speak Spanish and take part in the obligatory displays of patriotism.
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@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social Historically racists within the US have been very hostile towards people who were considered the wrong type of white as well.
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@nazgul@infosec.exchange The product name does state they are smaller than the expected size.
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@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social It's not a war. Only Congress can declare war. This is just a special policing operation. With bombs. Lots of bombs.
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@kupac@functional.cafe @IngridHbn@mastodon.online The apparent high production cost of the image makes it appear trustworthy. Good illustrations, professional seeming graphic design. But I see other commenters pointing out it is likely AI generated based on the origin. It's often impossible to tell these days. Even the slop-slingers have access to models good enough pass a close inspection.
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@IngridHbn@mastodon.online @synfinatic@infosec.exchange I did once capture a snail and imprison in inside an electric cage. I wanted to know how much voltage is required to make a line they will not cross but won't actually kill them.
Its three volts. That's all. Surprisingly low. Once I had that, easy enough to put some strips of copper tape around my lettuce and build the world's tiniest electric fence.
(Then the bloody leaf-miners ruined half of it instead.)
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I’ve been thinking about this for days. Incredible stochastic algorithm, gets more reliable the larger your input, incredibly fast, trivial to implement and deterministic on its inputs. It really has
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca @jonathankoren@sfba.social The best part is that the apparent errors are just an artifact of the test methodology. The stricter you make your test, the more accurate the algorithm measures.
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@DrCampbell@mastodon.social But viewed from their perspective, their anger is understandable.
"I'm the new factory owner, and I just ruined your business. But here, you can work at my factory! With these tools you can make ten times as much. Oh, you won't be paid as much - it's my factory, so all the profits are mine. But you can still earn a living if you just work, oh, fourteen hours a day, six and a half days a week. You can have half a day off on Sunday to go to church. Work purifies the soul, after all."
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Modern #CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace. https://modern-css.com/ "Stop writing CSS like it's 2015." #webdev #frontend
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@davidbisset@phpc.social *Shakes walking stick*
Rich text was a mistake from the start! Write everything in gemtext!
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@seventhhorn@dragon.style Quite inviting.
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@captpackrat@pawb.fun Yet it does not specify if this is chicken in the singular, or a mass noun.
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@captpackrat@pawb.fun I feel this tunnel implies the existence of a three lane wide, trapezoidal heavy goods vehicle.
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@captpackrat@pawb.fun I know what I need to know.
"That one kills you. That one kills you. That one is edible, but it looks exactly the same as the Satan's Agonising Death Agaric, so make sure to check for the small difference in gill structure that lets you tell them apart. Oh, that one won't kill you, but you'll wish it had."
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I do not care at all about the American Handegg contest, except for one small part.
I support the Seahawks in this game. Purely because of the mascotts.
The Seahawks have three mascotts, one of which is an actual hawk that does falconry displays. Thats awesome.
The Patriot mascott is a half-assed excuse for a mascott. It's an old white man, and the costume looks shoddy and uninspired. Their mascot sucks, and Blitz would absolutely kick Pats ass.
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New to my shitlist: The Asus CB1400FKA.
Had one with a worn video cable. Common problem. But the cable is routed under the screen, which is held in by adhesive and screws. The screws are then covered up by the glass panel on top, which is held in by more adhesive. The very thin glass. One assembled, the lid is utterly impossible to get apart without destroying it.
Worn cable? Microphone or camera not working? Panel damaged? Asus says fuck you, you have to buy a whole new chromebook.
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I do not generally post news stories on here, as I have no special insight to add. But satisfaction is just to great, to see one of the mighty tech bros has finally angered a force so powerful that even his trillion-dollar wall of money can offer only partial protection.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
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@captpackrat@pawb.fun From a time when John Deere were not so villainous. I guess a 2020s edition would feature bigger tractors along with bags of money and a photo of the CEOs raised middle finger.
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I now commence the slow process of making a Gemini capsule counterpart to my mostly-boring website.
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What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are? Surely the FCC w
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Elon realises there is no country on Earth that will let him run his CSAM-generating Grok program. He sees a way around this.
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@samloonie@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social That isn't a Dyson sphere, it's a quarantine bubble to protect the rest of the galaxy.
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@jacel@m.prettyshiny.org *sprawl*
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I am amused by crypto-scam firm Coinbase, who had a somewhat clever advertising idea. They made a musical spectacular TV advert, a rather biting jab at modern Britain. It is funny, I will give them th
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And I think that was the plan. Coinbase never intended for it to pass muster. Because now it is "The advert so damning the government had to ban it." Websites are posting stories of the forbidden adve
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As for the advert itself: The message is delivered through comedy, but reduces to "The economy is shit and you have no money, so you should invest what you do have in crypto with us and get rich."
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And I think that was the plan. Coinbase never intended for it to pass muster.
Because now it is "The advert so damning the government had to ban it." Websites are posting stories of the forbidden advert. YouTube channels are showing it. It's gone viral in some circles. Even mainstream media like the big papers and the BBC are reporting the story.
Coinbase made an advert which was too deceptive for the ASA to allow on TV, because being 'banned' just makes people want to see it.
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I am amused by crypto-scam firm Coinbase, who had a somewhat clever advertising idea.
They made a musical spectacular TV advert, a rather biting jab at modern Britain. It is funny, I will give them that. But there is also no way that advert would ever have been allowed on TV. It is an advert for a financial service that says nothing at all about the service, and is missing legally required warnings for any investment product.
So the ASA took one look, said this advert may not be shown on TV.
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@captpackrat@pawb.fun Maybe, but I have a more likely theory: I remember this was a common problem around 2024, and eventually traced to an aggressive ad-blocker-blocker. Rather than show a 'you are using an ad blocker, no vid for you' message that could be easily identified youtube was resorting to spinning while waiting for ads to load, or something like that. It might be something like that again, as google escalates the endless battle against ad blockers.
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@electron_greg@oldbytes.space - Install on old junk phone.
- leave old junk phone near the window so it can see the GPS sats.
- Now you aren't driving anywhere.
- No premium rise next renewal.
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@captpackrat@pawb.fun Instructions for beans:
Serve with pretty much anything.
Fish, potato jacket or mash, sausages, vegetables, on toast, with eggs, or any combination. There isnt much the Brits wouldnt serve up with baked beans.
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We got a town/county hearing for an AI data center that wants to get built around here What should I ask them
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online You can easily tear down anything they say about job creation. It takes a lot of people to build a data center, but very few to run one. Even the largest employ maybe fifty people, and half of those are admin and security staff rather than the high paid tech jobs.
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