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nf3xn, to random
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At Abbey Wood tomorrow - oh joy. Shatts to talk to the House in the arvo.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68966497

Time for πŸ’€

nf3xn, to random
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Stackoverflow AI

https://stackoverflow.co/teams/ai/

hahahaha like never gonna happen didn't last very long Jeff did it?

I've always hated StackOverflow mainly because I hate the founders (fuck you Jeff Asshole) but also because the recommended was usually the dumbest solution. I had a Twitter bio for a long time which said "I am the second answer on Stackoverflow".

But also check my mad witchy pwrz

nf3xn, to random
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/27/2237661/-A-Dog-Named-Cricket-A-Metaphor-For-MAGAs-Everywhere

#MAGA #Trump #Scum

nf3xn,
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Animals are euthanized from time to time on farms when it is a mercy for the animal. You do not euthanize a healthy animal EVER. Certainly not because it has become an inconvenience to you and especially not because you are too incompetent or lazy to deal with your responsibilities.

nf3xn, to random
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Apparently Barron Trump is Greg from Succession.

nyquildotorg, to random
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Of course the Pentagon is lying about UFOs. But that doesn't mean it's little green men.

nf3xn,
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@nyquildotorg The article like every ergo propter hoc draws a single least likely conclusion. Instrument failure is contra-indicative. Clearly readings cannot be trusted. I am not surprised instruments with wacky readings fail immediately thereafter. And where are these "still images"? Iphone out the cockpit window? Do we draw from what we see in the radar what we think we see (a balloon). I think lying is a bit strong here. Just not interested in the pedo distraction bullshit.

dangillmor, to random
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The top editor of the New York Times makes clear that his newsroom won't take a stand on the increasingly likely end of democracy in America.

I'm sick to my stomach as I read this, but I think everyone should see what cowards we have running our most important media organizations.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/joe-kahn-the-newsroom-is-not-a-safe-space

nf3xn,
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@dangillmor JFC What absolute horseshit - we don't want to be Pravda??? Nobody was asking them for bias towards Biden - call him out if you can! We're asking them to hand Trump's ass to him for all the shit he does. It's not about Biden! It's about their reporting on Trump. If you are on the morning newsdesk and you rank your zillionth 'Biden is old' story more newsworthy than the daily torrent of shit from that asshole you are showing supplicant bias for Trump.

benb, to random
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Peace for Ukraine Is Real! First Peace Summit in Switzerland to Prepare Ground for Peace Talks: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/peace-for-ukraine.html

nf3xn,
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@benb It should be in a neutral country.

ai6yr, to Software

πŸ˜…BBC: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs😭
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

nf3xn,
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@ai6yr Look this is what the people at the council were told by their parasite^H^H^H^H SaaS provider, this is literally them saying APOSTROPHES ARE EVIL WHO KNEW - almost everything they do is above their pay grade because have you seen their pay grades.🀣

nf3xn, to random
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The Land Before Google

The Dot com boom. Gold rush! Microsoft is king of the Desktop but AWOL on the web. Downloads are sooo slow. In NZ 28k was typical if you had it at all (today it's 50000k). People still buy print but mainly for the CD. Search was terrible, their home pages were ad-ridden chaotic mess. Some people used Copernic Agent to do multiple searches on Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Altavista, Compuserve (link if you miss the old internet https://www.compuserve.com/), /1

nf3xn,
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NKOTB - the late 90's

I forget that there were only two years of Google in the 90s. I was probably one of the first users.

Clean design, "ads but reasonable".

We learned about 20% time projects and developer culture.

We heard Monkeyboy Steve Ballmer chant "developers, developers, developers" at Microsoft's 25th Anniversary event.

Windows had a thing called Active Desktop. Your desktop was your browser. Unfortunately it was IE. Then that anti-trust thing happened. /2

nf3xn,
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Naughties - Don't Be Evil

Yes anti-trust. Total market dominance is having your name in the Oxford English Dictionary because your company name is synonymous with the action of searching for something on the internet. Microsoft had eaten Netscape but from the flames came the Firefox and eventually we got Chrome. Millions of hours lost trying to make IE work was about to end. By 2008 I had been on linux ten
years lol. /3

nf3xn,
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"Ok Now Be Evil"

I feel it began to change after Snowden - vividly recall the Google "Fuck these guys". Privacy finally came into sharp relief. All the while Google were building the appengine and pioneering machine learning for search. I remember the Head of Search in a room with 30 developers sitting around the walls as the core search term bikeshedded the Seven Search Terms, thinking Steve Jobs would have a head fit. The game was up and 'Killed by Google' started to become a thing. /4

nf3xn,
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Full circle: Advent of AI

Ads by Google replaced their results. I never thought that they would be supplanted in my lifetime yet here we are and ironically at the hand of technology developed by them. Now we have Duckduckgo and an ever burgeoning raft of AI search companies.

Check the Perplexity AI clones https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica, https://github.com/searxng/searxng

Gotta search them all and then use an AI agent to give you the best results. Copernic Agent lives again. /5

nf3xn, (edited )
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Conclusion

That was a stream of thought that could be an article but needs far more time and effort than I am willing to invest right now. I guess upvote if you want the full deal, maybe I'll think about it.

https://uk.pcmag.com/browsers/69373/copernic-agent-basic

benb, to random
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Russia to hold tactical nuclear weapons drills amid 'threats by certain Western officials': https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/russia-to-hold.html

nf3xn,
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@benb Never fear: Solar maximum and the Jewish Space Laser is armed and ready to neutralize any threat as they leave their silos/subs.

nf3xn, to random
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The RMS army of micro-editors lol

nf3xn, to random
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Mike Lindell sounds like a raging crackhead.

nf3xn, to random
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iFeliz Cinco de Mayo, compas!

osric, to random

get a professional cable-runner

stolen from reddit

nf3xn,
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@osric PLEASE DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS

nf3xn,
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@sasha92 @osric Multiple ethical and safety concerns. For instance one obvious thing: they didn't loop it through the collar so they can't release it if she walks around a support and it snags. Best case: she is stuck and they have to take up the boards to get her out - traumatising her, worst case: she freaks out and hangs herself before they can get her out.

nf3xn,
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@Shadedlady @sasha92 @osric I don't find animal cruelty a topic for amusement.

jomo, to random
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#BOFH: configure DHCP to add static routes for 128.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1 to your gateway.

This effectively prevents traffic from being routed through a VPN (which usually changes only your default route).

nf3xn,
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@jomo IANAL but I think a wireguard default route could win.

nf3xn,
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@jomo Sorry I thought it's not going to work with wireguard due to the way it sets up the default route and it being outside -the follow up range 0.0.0.0 is everything. My only option is to cast 'Disable DHCP Route Acceptance' πŸ§™β€β™€οΈ or wrench πŸ”§

nf3xn,
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@jomo https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose

I just spotted this

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