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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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futurebird, to random
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There is nothing a single person has ever ever ever ever done or will ever ever ever ever do in all of time and space that merits paying them 56 billion dollars—

Madness. Obscenity. Ludicracy

alda, to Germany
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One country, two nations.

#Germany

A bar graph showing the exit polls in East Germany at 21:39, with CDU at 20%, AfD at whopping 28.5% and Sahra Wagenknecht's Party at 13,9%.

garius, to gaming
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STREAM TIME!

The Holy Land is a long way from Burgundy. Yet that is what Queen Hedwig now rules.

Can she hold together the fragile crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, when surrounded by enemies on all sides?

Join me for Crusader Kings and history natter! https://twitch.tv/gariusthebrit

rooster, to random
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I don’t know if anyone needs to hear it, but I also know June is a time when a lot of feelings rise to the surface.

You could be someone completely different. You could stop pretending to be someone you aren’t. It’s just a matter of taking a million little steps, but the first is absolutely the hardest.

It may take years but guess what? That time will pass anyway.

Happy Pride.

thomasfuchs, to random
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“Since when are you an expert in the Geneva Convention?”

Since I can read, thank you for asking.

dansup, to random
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I had a pretty rough day and contemplated just giving up on @pixelfed because it seems like I can’t catch a break

But after calming down, I started to remember all the big milestones and the people who believe in our platform and in me

I’m not ready to give up, in fact this was the kick in the ass I needed to get my priorities straight and focus on shipping the app ASAP and also Groups

I’m a few months behind on my NLnet Groups milestone and need the money so that’s my focus after the app

❤️

evacide, to random
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Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

lain, to random
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Brunch time

glassbottommeg, to random
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Oh shit the Sumer Game Festival just had a historic reveal

cstross, to random
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Welp, that misfeature didn't last long before they began walking it back!
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/112576388963417270

rooster, to random
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cishet folks who call out transphobia should get a float at pride

GossiTheDog, to random
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I strongly believe we're within 5 years of the generative AI boom collapsing almost completely, and it will have a profound economic impact, as the use cases for the products being sold almost entirely suck arse.

Miriamm, to random
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These are the type of statues we should be putting up. Danuta Danielsson hitting a neo Nazi (1985).

jeffowski, to ai
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SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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alda, to random
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Just ordered some black-out contact lenses. Some of them get bad ratings on Amazon because — and I kid you not — they block out your vision.

Like black-out lenses are supposed to do.

Skepticat, to random
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BREAKING: Senate Republicans just voted to block the Right to Contraception Act, which would enshrine the right to contraceptive access nationally.

When people say, "They'll never take that away," They're WRONG!!!

No Rights are Safe with Republicans in Office.

stephaniewalter, to random
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Another episode in the life of having a é in my name, when people don't accept "non English letters" whatever that means?. Would you tell Beyoncé she can't use her name on your site?

I got a whole talk on the topic, by the way: https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/hello-my-name-is-stephanie-talk-encoding-special-characters-issues-poor-user-experience/

alda, to random
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Would you rather fly on a brand new Boeing 737 in 2024 or a Boeing 737 made in 1994, in 2024?

thomasfuchs, to random
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So a while ago eBay introduced AI-generated descriptions, which works exactly as well as you’d expect: not at all.

The main effect has been that descriptions on eBay from private sellers are now largely useless as they don’t bother to write anything themselves but let AI write empty paragraphs of absolute midness that don’t tell you anything.

GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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If you are British, I, as a dispassionate Midwestern American, would just like to assure you that anything hilarious you do or say to Nigel Farage is fine.

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

GossiTheDog,
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As @tiraniddo rightly points out, anybody can programmatically reach the Recall database without admin rights. https://infosec.exchange/@tiraniddo/112566044174482506

GossiTheDog,
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Microsoft President Brad Smith is going to be grilled by US gov next week. https://therecord.media/microsoft-reverses-course-recall-opt-in

GossiTheDog,
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Obviously, I recommend you do not enable Recall, and you tell your family not to enable it too.

It’s still labelled Preview, and I’ll believe it is encrypted when I see it.

There are obviously serious governance and security failures at Microsoft around how this played out that need to be investigated, and suggests they are not serious about AI safety.

GossiTheDog,
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I know somebody at a retailer in Europe that is selling Copilot+ PCs. They’ve had fewer than a thousand preorders through to customers.

In relative terms, for them it’s about as successful as Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League.

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