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dangillmor, 1 day ago to random

A reminder that less than two weeks ago, it was revealed that Trump solicited a $1 billion bribe from the energy industry, offering in return the gutting of environmental regulations.

A week ago, Big Journalism had already consigned this epic scandal to the memory bin.

Had Biden done anything remotely like that, I guarantee that it would still be among the top stories of the day -- and Congress, including Democrats, would be moving toward impeachment.

rysiek, 1 day ago to random

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as PC, is in fact, a Windows laptop, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Copilot plus PC.

stevo399, 2 days ago to random

And because I'm still bored, if we ever colonize other planets, there should totally be an interplanetary food delivery service called RocketLuncher.

stevo399, 2 days ago to random

In the US, you can get 5 cans of pork brains for $28.

xinicit, 3 days ago to random

Me: Here it is. My magnum opus. The post that will define me as a poster.

1 Boost 2 Likes

Also Me: I’m feeling manic, so here’s some stupid shit I just thought.

5000 Boosts 9999999 Likes 7 Marriage Proposals

18+ quanin, 3 days ago to random

Question someone asked me a couple days ago: "So I heard your instance isn't blocking Threads... are you concerned?"
Uh. About... what, exactly? The 169 accounts on Threads that my instance is aware of pretty much have 0 interaction with my instance. There's a time and a place for domain blocking. 99% of problems can be solved at the user level. If you wouldn't block mastodon.social because of a few spammers, you shouldn't block threads.net.
Follow-up: "But Meta has no business on the fediverse!"
And Google has no business doing email, but you're a Gmail user. If you don't want to use Threads, don't make an account on Threads. But not allowing someone to talk to you because they want to be on Threads is a terrible reason to not allow someone to talk to you.
#mastoadmin

jcsteh, 3 days ago to random

Oh cool. Just got the "We've got an update for you" dialog from Windows... with three unlabelled buttons and no ability to close with alt+f4. Good to see that continued commitment to accessibility right there in a highly visible part of the OS. They must all be busy with that pivot to AI.
The buttons don't appear to have any text on them or at least none that OCR can pick up. I thought I'd check the UIA AutomationId just in case that revealed anything useful. The buttons do have different AutomationIds... of "Button2", "Button1" and "Button0", in that order.

Bryce01, 3 days ago to random

Today Mark's 16 years since Thunderbirds101 started his YouTube channel, posting everything with Text to Speech, including videos of Microsoft Sam reads funny windows errors, stupid and weird signs, blue screen of death, the great final war, the war in the Republic of my, the war in the Rofl island chain, the Christmas specials and other fun content. I've been watching him alongside other creators, but he still continues to stand out as he keeps on making stuff like this even in 2024. He still continues to post new videos to this day. In fact, he just posted a 16 years special of Microsoft Sam reads funny Windows errors. With that being said, happy 16 years to Thunderbirds101. https://youtu.be/g2shaJYw_iY?si=msrEzdoIqAlrNr-m

itspomf, 5 days ago to random

Tablets are so weird because you really can't make meaningful use of them without a keyboard, at which point it's just a really awkward laptop.

Caoimhe, 5 days ago to random

People who meet their online friends in person: Do you eventually start calling them by their real names or usernames if they have one that they use everywhere? I met one of my friends in person yesterday for the first time, and she ended up calling me Caoimhe (my online name) because that's just something we're extremely used to. Still, no matter how convenient that is, it feels kinda weird lol.

WearsHats, 7 days ago to random

I finally did it. I used an LLM. A couple of months ago, MS added its Copilot to Windows. I turned it off. But the latest update shoved it back in my face and tried to get me to let it use my data. So I asked it a question: How do I get rid of Copilot? It suggested I uninstall it like any other program, but MS removed that option. But Copilot went on to tell me the exact registry key to change to block it from loading, and now it's gone.

JenMsft, 7 days ago to random

You look a bit cold this morning - would you like help with that?

Lana, 8 days ago to random

"After taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist.

Children were not being sexualized. She could find no examples of critical race theory. She examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children how to be a good friend and a good human."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/

18+ talon, 8 days ago to random

Go here. Add this to your cart. Remove this. apply this discount code. Give us all your details. Click the link in the email. On that page, enter this specific coupon code. Visit your cart and create your account there (don't create it on the create account link on our website). Next, load our special software portal. Log in using a password we provide to you. In the app, click calendar view, find the date from last week. Make sure to click on the full moon button and perform three two-steps in front of your webcam. Sing the US national anthem into your microphone with a peak at exactly -3.254 DB on the word "Free". Next, visit an animal shelter and adopt a grey-black cat named George. Wave George in front of your computer's CPU fan exhaust three times, wait for 2 meows, then reload the first page and click proceed to checkout. After checking out, please go to the second link. Your product will have appeared in your cart. Apply the first + second coupon code once more. At this point, it should show a 99 percent reduction in price. Next, call this number, speak these magic words, wait for 5 seconds exactly and then hang up. Ask your Google assistant (Note: can only be Google Home Max) for the meaning of life, the universe and everything. Do this until it mistakenly says 43. Press "Buy" on the second page. Return George to the animal shelter with the reason that you'd rather have a guinea pig. Wait 3 days, check your spam folder. There will be an email about a penis enlargement pill. Click the second, hidden link in the email which will redirect you to sendspace. This will download a 7zipped tarball which contains a base64 encoded text file which you encode back into binary. This binary opens an electron app which will finally let you click on every single sound one after another to download them from this sample pack of 5000 sounds. Enjoy!

inthehands, 8 days ago to random

Who called it “code review” instead of “objection-oriented programming”

saagar, 9 days ago to random

I am amused that Frankfurt has a separate check-in line for Americans which, as far as I can tell, is completely identical except someone put up a sign reminding people of the rules regarding taking firearms on planes

alexhall, 13 days ago to random

I'm asking ChatGPT how to use a class-level method to replace sys.excepthook, but still let the method access class instance properties. So far, its first three solutions have been very obviously wrong. I am yet again feeling pretty secure in my job just now. No, ChatGPT, adding a fourth parameter to the method won't work. Python won't add a value for it. Yep, AI isn't replacing me quite yet.

MissingThePt, 13 days ago to random

The official drink of Trump’s criminal case is the Dark ‘n’ Stormy.

lauren, 14 days ago to random

Questions for presidential candidates and VP hopefuls:

1. Have you ever shot a puppy?
2. Have you ever had sex with a porn star behind your wife's back?
3. Have you ever had worms in your brain?

GryphonSK, 14 days ago to random

#privilege

treyhunner, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to python

Python 3.13 beta 1 just landed.

My favorite new feature is the new #Python REPL.

Honestly, this may be my favorite feature since f-strings.

My write up on the differences between old and new REPLs:
https://treyhunner.com/2024/05/my-favorite-python-3-dot-13-feature/

jeffowski, 14 days ago to random

hungry_joe, 16 days ago to random

Professional request:

I'm looking for a kinky cellist/violinist willing to play background music in full fetish gear for 100 people at a corporate event in Berlin on May 30. Paid, naturally.

Pleas share :)

baethyn, 16 days ago to random

So I regularly order drink mixes from True Citrus. Not long ago I received a promotional email that was nothing but a bunch of graphics and the stock text of address, and what not at the bottom. I really wanted to take advantage of the offer. Unfortunately I couldn't because the promo code was in one of those graphics and as much as I tried I couldn't even get it to OCR properly.

I contacted customer support about it and purely by coincidence left an item ion my cart on the website. Before an email response could be sent back to me I received a text message triggered by the fact that there was something in my cart I guess. When they asked, "Is there anything I can help you with?" I took a chance and responded to the text message. It turns out that was a good decision. She asked me to send a screen shot of the email and after explaining the whole deal about not being able to see the images except as the text tag of "graphic" she sent me back an apology, the promo code in text and promised to look into it.

I didn't think too much about it since I had that support email in and well... I'm a cynic. Except when I checked my email the next day I had a response that asked for the emails to be forwarded so they could cross reference or whatever. I had to dig them out of my trash, but it was worth it.

Today I received a mother's day promotional email. I didn't expect much, see above description of me. I was however happily surprised when as I read through the email that every picture had alt text. I can even use speech history to get the code. It isn't perfect and they should probably use text instead of pictures of text, but given the turn around I am very impressed by TrueCitrus and will continue to give them my money for wonderful drinks.

18+ BrailleScreen, 16 days ago to random

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\pwilson\Dropbox\Qhronic Lespbianism\it.py", line 2, in <module>
it()
TypeError: 'callable_iterator' object is not callable