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WhyNotZoidberg

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Husband, Geek, GenX, Gamer...
Old enough that things aren't "Retro", they're "from my youth ".
You have to pass from retro to vintage to get past that. 😉
Lover of most things vintage from cars to machinery and technology. And music.

Pixelfed:
https://metapixl.com/whynotzoidberg

Sorry, I do not know the artist who made the Karlach portrait I have for a profile picture.

#nobridge

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WrenArcher, to random
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Going to the restroom for a trans woman can be so anxiety inducing. I know for me it can be anyway. All I wanna do is get in and get out without any issues, hassles or problems.

But I had something happen while I was at lunch with my mother in-law that was rather affirming as a woman. It’s the opposite of what I’ve imagined could happen to me going to the women’s restroom.

I was washing my hands when a woman about my age came out of the other stall. She looked at me, straight in the face and asked if I could zip up the back of her dress. She didn’t even wait for a response. She just turned around and pulled up her hair. Then said, “It’s so hard to do this by yourself. So much easier when you have help. Thanks.”

She didn’t see me as a predator. Didn’t see me as someone who shouldn’t be in there. She saw me as another woman who simply would understand the need to have help zipping up the back of her dress.

I almost started crying.

I, a trans girl, went into the women’s restroom and nothing happened, except for another woman asked for my help.

yabellini, to random
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This research shows that aptitude for learning foreign languages is a stronger predictor of learning to program than basic maths knowledge.

"These results provide a novel framework for understanding programming aptitude, suggesting that the importance of numeracy may be overestimated in modern programming education environments."

Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages. Prat, et.al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60661-8

loresjoberg, to random
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What I get from the words “old-fashioned” and “newfangled” is that at some point in history we stopped fashioning things and started fangling them, and we as a culture never recovered.

selzero, to random
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Mrs Wainwright, secondary school Geography teacher used to always say "The answer is in the question".

40 years later I see things like this, and can hear Mrs Wainwright's voice clear as day.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Update: they have “temporarily” suspended my account for editing my own content.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112459550866031618

thomasfuchs,
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The fact is, their content license requires attribution.

I’m a citizen of the EU and can require personal data (like my name) to be deleted.

Therefore they need to delete my content if I request it, because they can’t leave it up without attribution.

They’re not doing this and so not only are they assholes, they’re also criminals.

thomasfuchs,
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This argument is basically, “why bother with laws, they’re useless anyway, murders still happen”.

It’s so incredibly disingenuous and dishonest, I’d rather have them say nothing; because they’re just adding insult to injury here and make me want to utterly destroy their shit service.

thomasfuchs,
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Do you hear this, volunteer Stack Overflow moderation team? You’re an accessory to a crime. And you don’t even get paid for this shit.

mekkaokereke, to random
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The most ridiculous thing about US notions of decorum, is that people are expected to be silent when Black women are attacked.đŸ€·đŸżâ€â™‚ïž

If a Black woman is attacked and no one says anything, it's allowed to slide. But if a Black woman is attacked and people say anything in response, either calmly and politely like AOC did, or with an in-kind response like Crockett did, then all the "neutral" parties come pouring out of the woodwork, worried about "decorum."

Deeply unserious.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/greene-called-bleach-blonde-bad-174434071.html

astrid, to random
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astrid,
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v2

thomasfuchs, to random
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Apple, please stop with this petty shit. Thank you.

/cc @Pschiller

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/17/apple_browser_eu/

ElleGray, to random
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    heyheymomo, to random
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    As an artist you wield a great power

    MattMerk, to random
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    This latest from @pluralistic is yet another great peek behind the curtain.

    "... this is exactly what the self-driving car bros did over the past decade to convince us all that the human driver was already obsolete. The playbook was nearly identical, right down to the shameless huckster insisting that 'full self-driving is one to two years away' every year for a decade ..."

    https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112457035116703740

    UKnoGum, to random
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    Tories collect more tax from us than any Government has done since the Second World War.

    Tories have also borrowed more money in 14 years than every Government combined has borrowed in history.

    Yet Tories have cut services, funding & investment.

    So where's the money gone...

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    Companies monetising all your cloud data for their own benefit

    indrora, to random
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    It's all about how you word it, I guess.

    shawnhooper, to opensource
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    Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

    https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code


    buermann, to random
    @buermann@mastodon.social avatar

    Great Scott there's a fourth Brent Bozell!?

    Why does anybody take the right's allegations about paid activists seriously when anyone on the right who is not a billionaire is on a billionaire's payroll? The Brents being obvious cases in point, along with at least half of the Supreme Court.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conservative-activists-son-sentenced-to-nearly-4-years-in-prison-for-relentless-attack-on-capitol/ar-BB1mAbPH

    buermann,
    @buermann@mastodon.social avatar

    The outside agitators at Columbia were a chat group of 100 right wing billionaires, executives, and Israeli officials organizing police riots through the board of trustees and mayor's office.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/
    https://archive.is/7JJzV

    angusm, to ai
    @angusm@mastodon.social avatar

    The folks in always promised us that one day we'd have computers that were more intelligent than people.

    Unfortunately, it turns out that making computers smarter is just too difficult, so they've decided to go the other route.

    reinesis, to random
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    ffs they installed new sirens around our house and these are THE EXACT same tone as that sampled siren that you hear at the start of Disturbed's Indestructible

    they just announced an air raid and I caught myself waiting for a sick riff to drop

    rebeccafinn, to random
    @rebeccafinn@topspicy.social avatar

    I was today years old when I had to ask a software architect and a devops engineer to follow the git branching model... Or pick a different one.
    https://xkcd.com/927/

    baratunde, to random
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    So Slack, the company whose entire mission is to replace email, wants you to EMAIL them to opt out of their mining of your data for their global AI models? I get that right?

    https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112453073300903901

    bees, to random
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    this is the platform for my new political campaign for mayor

    peejmaybe, to random
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    My head-on debate about AI with the prof went well yesterday. He could not give a straight answer to what the actual "huge benefits to humankind" were that he opened his case with. A bit like watching Rees-Mogg trying to extol the virtues of those brexit benefits that were just a bunch of snake oil. I don't think I won anyone over but I gave as good as I got and put a good case for imaginative creative artistic folk vs crappy automation that just steals from them while cooking the planet

    amy, to random
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    The lady next to me on this flight has 436,000 unread emails.

    Lady, I'm begging you. Delete them. Please.

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