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SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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kkeller,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat typical they'd see this issue in black and white

Alice, to random
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I’m celebrating Memorial Day by practicing my mnemonic devices.

kkeller,
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@Alice that's my attorney general!

Alice, to random
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My pee is so clear that I’m pretty sure I just beat the final boss in Scientology.

kkeller,
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@Alice there are always more levels

dalfen, to random
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If you change an apple into an orange, it’s way beyond a “rebrand”

(just sayin)

kkeller,
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@dalfen he turned an orange into a rotted orange, and wants to call that an apple!

lauren, (edited ) to random
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***** The Meeting *****

It was an unprecedented meeting. SPECTRE, THRUSH, KAOS, Soylent, Tyrell, Omni, and at least a hundred more -- the list of organizations and firms in attendance seemed nearly endless.

There was but one topic on the agenda. A proposal by their newest member -- Microsoft -- to embed a super power spy system into every Windows users' PC.

"We call it Windows Recall. We enable it by default, and every five seconds it takes a screenshot of what the user is doing, and keeps it for months or years!"

"Won't people use that to copy movies?"

"Oh no, that we'll block!"

"Very wise."

The discussions went on for hours, reviewing the many ways that such a system could be used for evil by various authorities, governments, politicians, ransomware criminals, and many more.

The time came for the vote.

To the shock of Microsoft's representative, their plan was voted down unanimously.

"But why?" he protested. "We thought you of all people would embrace this system!"

In unison they shook their heads.

"Sorry, Satya. You're just too evil for us."

kkeller,
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@lauren "zis is KAOS, we don't do AI AI AI AI hier!"

ernie, to random
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I don't get Threads.

I don't get why it's popular.

I don't know why it exists.

kkeller,
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@ernie we know why it exists: FB wanted to take Twit users who wanted to leave but were too confused by Mastodon.

I don't think they've succeeded, but Musk could always do something to make Twit even worse.

elfin, to random
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Light Weights.

LA Field Trip Disrupted After Students Get High on Edibles - Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2024/05/16/eight-high-school-students-hospitalized-after-cannabis-edibles-on-la-field-trip.html

kkeller,
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@elfin dude, where's my tar?

nixCraft, to random
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The best coding language, without a doubt, is _______.

kkeller,
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@nixCraft definitely blank!

lauren, to Youtube
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There are MANY videos on explaining the so-called "Monty Hall" paradox, some diving deeply into fairly complicated probability math.

The paradox is traced back to the very long-running "Let's Make a Deal" game show, hosted for many, many years by Monty Hall.

The paradox involves the prospect of staying with your choice of one of three doors that might contain the grand prize, or switching to another of the three doors once you're shown that one of the doors you didn't choose doesn't contain the prize.

While most people assume that staying with their current pick is a reasonable choice, the math says that you should actually (for best results in the long run) switch to the other available door. It's really quite a non-intuitive probability puzzle.

The irony is that Monty when asked about the paradox consistently insisted that the show never actually offered contestants the choice to switch doors, and that the paradox was actually based on a "what if" postulation not the actual procedure on the show!

kkeller,
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@lauren when my kid was younger I told him the Monty Hall problem, with the car and two goats.

He says, "but what if I want a goat?"

kkeller,
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@lauren @jmorris of course it's on Wikipedia (so it must be true!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Make_a_Deal

"Though usually considered joke prizes, traders legally win the zonks.[21] However, after the taping of the show, any trader who had been zonked is offered a consolation prize (currently $100) instead of having to take home the actual zonk."

ernie, to random
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Stop everything you're doing right now and share your home screen.

Is it chaos or elegance?

I'll start:

kkeller,
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@ernie

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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Okay, I wrote the blog post I said I'd write: A more thoughtful explanation of why I refused to answer a few questions this week.

It's here: https://terikanefield.com/beware-the-lawyers/

This blog post could have been called “Why you don’t need a lawyer to answer your questions about legal issues in the news.”

Mostly it’s about former TV pundit Peter Arenella’s piece that I posted earlier.

If you get the error message, this is why:
https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

Just wait a minute and try again.

kkeller,
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@Teri_Kanefield not directly related to your topic, but I have been sort of following the Manhattan case. and I still feel like they have a looooooong way to go to prove a felony. And if they are planning on wrapping up in a week or so, I don't see how they will make it.

Of course I am not on the jury (and not a lawyer!) so I could be way off base!

lauren, to random
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Probably Coming Soon: Trump tells rally crowd "Biden pushing solar energy has made the sun go crazy, and I'm going to throw both him and the sun in prison!"

kkeller,
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@lauren gonna build a wall and make the sun pay for it!

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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kkeller,
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@robz @SmudgeTheInsultCat web search "rfk worm"

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I am getting questions across a few soical media sites about the ongoing trials.

I gave some quick answers about the problems with this.

Maybe, for my next blog post, I should offer a more thoughtful and thorough answer about what a lawyer can actually say that is valuable as a trial progresses.

It will probably appeal to my geekiest readers and annoy everyone else.

Maybe I should call it: "Beware the Lawyers." (Like "beware the Ides of March" but worse.)

kkeller,
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@Teri_Kanefield this would be awesome! (yes, I am a geek)

lauren, to random
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At all future candidate debates, the first question should be, "Have you ever shot a puppy?"

kkeller,
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@lauren he sure doesn't care about the dog or the goat

dalfen, to random
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Okay, so that is at least the second threat the judge has made to jail Trump. Will they follow through?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-hush-money-trial-day-12-live-updates-rcna150792

kkeller,
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@dalfen I wonder if it's like disciplining a child. First warning was verbal, next was written, then dad will follow through. (I sure hope so!)

MissingThePt, to random
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You’re lost in the woods, would you rather meet a man or a boeing?

kkeller,
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@MissingThePt does a Boeing shit in the woods?

MissingThePt, to random
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Can we all agree that the worst thing to encounter in the woods is a man riding a bear.

kkeller,
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@MissingThePt not Noem riding a goat?

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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Hi, Fedipeeps: I have my weekend blog post ready:

https://terikanefield.com/the-ninth-amendment-and-law-and-politics-of-reproductive-rights/

This time it's fun with Constitutional Law.

As a few people pointed out, this is the reason some of you get error messages:
https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

kkeller,
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@Teri_Kanefield clearly JJ doesn't want to take a test!

lauren, (edited ) to random
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Vote for one:

kkeller,
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@lauren easy! Vader eventually reformed.

lauren, to Youtube
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What needs to be said about the uber-classic original film "Alien" (1979) that hasn't already been said a million times over the years. Oh, maybe this: It just popped up for free (probably U.S. only) on Movies & TV! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6vtScz6Fbc

ProTop: Don't look inside that egg thing.

kkeller,
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@lauren I wonder who is Leela's favorite character?

elfin, to sysadmin
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So, it's technically my typo, but it's in the zone file, so I still get to blame ... right?

kkeller,
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@elfin it's always DNS somewhere!

lauren, to random
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Back in the day, it was popular to use line printers to print out large (multiple sheets taped together) ASCII images to hang on walls and such. Some of these were very popular with us guys (keep in mind this was a heavily male-centric CS-era, even worse than now) and were NSFW -- but still ended up hanging in various places where they really shouldn't have been.

At the ARPANET site #1 lab at UCLA, we wanted some "Star Wars" posters. At the time, the only place I knew of with a potentially usable video digitizer (black and white, very low resolution by today's standards of course) was at the original Stanford AI Lab (SAIL / SU-AI).

So. A nationwide TV Star Wars special was coming up. This was my chance. I arranged with the gentleman who had the digitizer at SAIL to have it tuned to the appropriate local channel in Stanford at the correct time.

Then, from my bedroom here in L.A., over the ARPANET via my account on the SAIL / SU-AI system that controlled the digitizer, I grabbed various key images as I watched the same program locally.

Then, after the program was done, I FTP'd (file transferred) those files down to UCLA, where I had a UNIX program to create those ASCII posters.

Mission accomplished, thanks to the Defense Department's ARPANET!

Though this was fun stuff, a LOT was being learned about distributed systems and resources through these kinds of amusements.

kkeller,
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@joy @lauren have things improved since then? I want to believe yes, but I suspect the answer is "not really".

kkeller,
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@joy @lauren I'm actually going to take "uproar ensued" as a very small sign of progress. Would uproar have ensued 10 or 20 years ago? I'm dubious.

Of course why anyone would think it's a good idea to wear that shirt at all....

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