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bynkii

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I’m a writer, but don’t expect deep, personal shit. I’m a sysadmin who doesn’t like nerds, they’re every bit as willing to be the most vicious and petty of bullies as the people they claim they’re so very different from.

But as individuals, they’re all right.

A lefty who hunts, so not an NRA fan. Done martial arts for years, not one of the MMA clowns.

If I say “free software” I ONLY am speaking of the price.

Blog is now on ActivityPub: bynkiidotcom.wordpress.com@bynkiidotcom.wordpress.com

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bynkii, to random
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“I’ve been running email servers for 30 years, they’re trivial to manage for anyone with a pulse”

Fuck I hate people.

bynkii, to random
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Awwww, it’s an electric Le Car!
https://pleroma.pch.net/objects/7fb50c9a-bfd7-4a87-9196-dd89b439716a

bynkii,
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@flargh I love that it literally is an electric Le Car. Now it should be Le E-Car

bynkii,
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@lolopb oh yeah. I had one for years in the AF, it was great.

bynkii, to random
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20 years ago, sure. Nowadays? Oh god fuck no, you’ll spend all day every day dealing with attacks and security issues.

People who don’t know better will be in a world of pain they cannot imagine and anyone who does know better and still subscribes to this technolibertarian bullshit deserves all the pain they get.

Unless you absolutely have to, (and if you even ask if you need to, the answer is, again, FUCK NO), do. not. run. your. own. email. server.

JFC.
https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/112479237758624176

bynkii,
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@mwl from a purely technical point? Sure. I ran multiples for decades. The technical side is absolutely never the problem. It’s that email is the number one security attack vector, and so unless you are very experienced and understand certain things very well, you’re going to get pooched. Quickly.

I can teach a small child how to set up an email server. Which will be owned by various groups in an hour if you don’t do the constant work to stop them.

bynkii,
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@mwl dude, you have been doing this for like 30 years. You cannot, can. not. expect someone with no experience to follow a fucking howto and have the same experience.

But I forgot I was talking to a Linux admin who can’t comprehend that everyone isn’t just like him. So I am going to do me and yeet you out of my world.

Life is too short to deal with people actively avoiding empathy of any kind.

KingShawn, to random
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Not only is this yet another “Apple is doomed” story:

“Apple can save itself from irrelevance, but Tim Cook’s not going to like it”

But one of their solutions is….wait for it…

“Tim Cook should buy OpenAI and LoveFrom. Then resign and put Sam Altman and Jony Ive in control.”

The level of The Stupid in this article is hard to comprehend.

https://archive.ph/EUDfL

bynkii,
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@KingShawn it burns like hygiene

atlauren, to random
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@Cdespinosa I’ve been trying to remember … was it in the pre-Jobs2, pre-Copland era that Apple first discussing and demoing data detectors, and summarizing emails? Seems prescient in the current era.

bynkii,
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@atlauren @Cdespinosa oh yeah. The WWDC they reintroduced Stacks, during one of the last feedback forums, my obnoxious ass got up to the mic, and said to Scott Forestall “so with the reintroductions of Stacks to the Mac OS, I guess you can say that you finally shipped Copland.”

For a good ten seconds I thought that man was gonna come off the stage and murder me. Violently.

Still would have been worth it, the look on everyone’s face.

ferricoxide, to random

"Woke will kill the military"

Rewind a few years. "Letting gays (openly or otherwise) serve will kill the military"

Rewind a few years. "Letting women serve (as anything but nurses) will kill the military".

Why, when they ask about "military members'" opinions, it's prominently of the grey-haired dudes at the VFW or American Legion club (yeah, I know: giving an opinion to a reporter while you're still in uniform is how you get disciplined)?

bynkii,
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@ferricoxide @eschaton of late, I almost refuse to admit to being a vet, the entire culture is so fucking toxic, I almost wish I wasn’t one.

bynkii, to random
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Sharing with the class because I am awful. Movie idea. Necessary background, this is the trunk of a honey locust tree. Note the thorns will puncture a traffic tire:

bynkii,
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Movie idea:

https://www.tumblr.com/bynkii/715990681159630848/after-spending-the-day-chopping-down-20-honey

bynkii, to random
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I finally saw my first sybertruck in the wild. Holy fuck is it ugly and cheap-looking. Even better, it was wrapped for a real-estate company (Kansas City Real Estate) and if that company has 100K to waste, I wish nothing to do with a company making that level of bad decision.

bynkii, to random
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I did just think of a perfect use for AI: replacing the apple “press”. Even the worst AI drivel would not be noticeably different from what that lot puts out.

cfiesler, to random
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re: Scarlett Johansson I think it's interesting that Mira Murati told NPR that they didn't pattern the ChatGPT voice off of anyone and that she doesn't even know what Johansson's voice sounds like. Because that could totally be true.

Anyone else think Sam Altman might have just asked for input into voice casting, and (after Johansson turned them down) chose the actress whose voice sounded most like hers? Which, you know... illegal? No. Creepy? Yes.

bynkii,
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@cfiesler corporations are the dumbest liars

bynkii,
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@cfiesler libertarians gonna libertarian

bynkii, to random
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And this is why in a just world, Kara Swisher et al would be hounded out of journalism so hard they’d be lucky to have a gig doing signs at a Hardee’s.

The relentless & unthinking praise they lavished on VCs and VC culture solely because these men were rich beyond imagination, the unrelenting praise given to founders like Zuckerberg and musk and Dorsey and Kalalnick should be albatrosses about their necks until the end of days. Their names should never be asterisk-free.
https://hachyderm.io/@danilo/112460166267639585

bynkii, to random
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You know how so many people thought “the question isn’t if you’ll let me, the question is how you’ll stop me” was so fuckin’ cool?

YOU GOT WHAT YOU FUCKIN’ WANTED, ONLY IT KINDA BURNS ON THE WAY OUT, DON’t IT!!

Hope that SV choad tasted real good.
https://www.threads.net/@bobbyallyn/post/C7NOBury1H9

shayman, to random
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Had to apologize to everyone at the airport after an obnoxiously loud ringtone turned out to be coming from MY phone.

I suspect ringtones, once a great bastion of creativity, may have outlived their usefulness.

bynkii,
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@shayman so like the Iomega booth when they handed out clickers to launch the Click, just as the click of death was peaking.

rmondello, to random
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It’s pretty shitty what OpenAI did re:Scarlett Johansson.

bynkii,
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@rmondello it’s completely unsurprising that libertarians did that. It’s part of their motto.

bynkii, to random
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“I was made for loving you” by Kiss is hokey and cringe and an absolute fuckin’ bop.

bynkii, to random
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Oh cool, now you don’t need third party programs to track workers’ every move! And think of the benefits for stalkers and hackers!
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391

bynkii, to random
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It’s always because of VC vultures https://mastodon.online/@virtualbri/112474514532345454

bynkii, to random
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KC Street Art

Car doing donuts because…Kansas City

kevin, to random
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In the huge shakeout of big box retail to Internet sales, plus surviving Covid, I think the survival of Micro Center goes unremarked even though they switched from your basic big box store to effectively a giant RadioShack. That’s a business story I’d find interesting.

bynkii,
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@kevin it is an amazing store

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