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Bigshellevent

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I suggest you mute this account.

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Remember: They're not AI PCs, they're Surveillance PCs https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc entirely sincere. Every time I use google search, which is more frequently than I'd like, the tracking all turned themselves back on again. I think the option to turn it off is entirely a false button.

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Me: There is a "minimal house" show on Thursday

My wife: Baby, that's called an apartment

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc i drink shitty tea in bars, which is triple insulting because people expect me to have no tolerance for shitty tea. (Which is untrue, my cultural heritage comes with the shittiest tea possible within the Asian continent)

mcc, to random
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Trying to imagine what kind of harm Duke Classics might be alluding to here

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc given it's Dracula, I suspect the lack of warning about bloodborne viruses. Either that or carcinogens in California

mcc, to random
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I feel like very recently— like, the last month— Google has gotten massively worse about aggressively correcting acronyms to unrelated, similarly-spelled words. Like look at this search where I search for the wiki for the C# game library FNA, and Google simply decides, without even offering a "Did you mean…", that it would be more interesting if I had instead been looking for "FNAF"

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@mcc I would love to see a collective recognition on at what point each search engines got worse for different people. I'd say Google fell off the usefulness for me around 2022, caveat being I don't allow personalised searches and Google searching in Chinese is always like googling each individual letters rather than words. But I also noted a new, more malicious thing where it will intentionally change terms. Like looking for "dairy-free" and it will give you all the promoted dairy products.

mcc, to random
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Google why do you make me watch videos this way

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc Vine was robbed

mcc, to random
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Me, 1 day after spending Herculean effort to keep my WordPress website running I should shut down my WordPress website

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc I'm permanently torn between "I lik me WordPress for the freedom" and "dear god this shit is worse than trying to do a cosplay community approved from-scratch cosplay"

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc this is literally my biggest hatred about tech in general. Lots of changes/compatibility issues are changes for the sake of it, they improve nothing, and break perfectly usable things made for a version before them.

This is mostly regarding to pointless changing of UI, but also WordPress.

mcc, to random
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Today I saw both a sunrise and a sunset.

I wonder if my life would be happier if I just lived in a place with more windows

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc bill gates just entered the chat

mcc, (edited ) to random
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There's a trilogy by Alastair Reynolds with the slightly clunky name of "The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies". The books are named Aurora Rising, Elysium Fire, & Machine Vendetta. Oddly, the Toronto public library has only the second two, not the first, in its ebook app.

I think I've managed to convince myself this is because there's an unrelated book from a decade later named "Aurora Rising". I think some person or program convinced themselves they were the same book, so they didn't need both.

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc like the opposite of isekai light novel genre where every series is called Help I Was An Under-rostered Cleaner And Now I'm In Another World Reincarnated As Emperor's New Robe's Second Button And My Harem Buttonholes Won't Let Me Save The World*.

*It probably exists

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc

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From this post https://www.abandonedamerica.us/lee-plaza-hotel by @AbandonedAmerica about the Lee Plaza Hotel in Detroit

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc abandoned buildings are legit my Most Aesthetic among all my Aesthetics. I wish I could explore them without worrying about being arrested/fall through a rotten board/asbestos

mcc, to random
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Hey, here's a tip. Frequently make extremely specific, completely random predictions in situations which will be interpreted as a joke, but which leaves a durable digital artifact. If you do this enough times over a long enough period, one of your joke predictions will be spot on, you'll look like a genius, and nobody will notice that although you have a tweet accurately predicting the date of Joe Biden's death you also had 7 other tweets inaccurately predicting it.

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112187910643605856

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc tbh i think if he hasn't died, there'd be more conversations. Considering.

Bigshellevent, to random
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As a Three Body Problem's kinda fan, as well as game dev's kinda peripherally-associated person, this whole Three Body Problem IP induced game dev murdering another game dev thing is definitely not a thing I thought would be a thing.

mcc, to random
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Fantasy world where they have been breeding dragons to be smaller and smaller until they have little toy dragons that can sit in your lap and are popular among noble ladies and if you leave them unattended in a home they will gather up all the low denomination change under dressers and such and push them into a corner to make a tiny $4.78 hoard to sit on

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc every house cat ever would like to discuss about this subtoot.

mcc, to random
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About once every two days for the last week GBoard has been spontaneously resetting my keyboard color scheme from dark to light and it's really irritating

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc come to think about it, are YOU the reason Clippy is becoming wittier?

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc happy birthday! Here is my ffxiii faux fan art

mcc, to random
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An unusual thing about the fediverse is the size and content is such that whenever there's a spammer, the entire mastoverse winds up talking about it. Not even always requiring, like, a spam campaign. Sometimes the entire feed is talking about a single piece of spam.

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc so this makes me think about .social. what I find is interesting about .social is that, if you go onto Local TL, the spams will be incredibly common, incredibly odd (a few pretty intense biochem faux journal articles that used lots of jargons but flatly made no sense), incredibly multilingual, and um incredibly allosexually urological.

Yet what stood out to me, is how wholesome they are. They are sort of spambots doing their own things, they never approached me, and it's not algorithmed.

mcc, to random
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What kind of album cover did I just create. Like what genre of music is this

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc A soundtrack for SWERY game

mcc, to random
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Naming my new AI startup DemiUrge™

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc is this timecube's new update

mcc, to random
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Been getting this sense lately that the fediverse may be thinning out a bit, and in parallel getting a sense people I know are finally jumping to "bluesky" in numbers.

Trying to figure out exactly at what point I decide I'm willing to create a feed over there. My position has been "I'll post there when I don't have to use their servers to do it", but I continue to suspect this will literally never happen because their protocol is designed to look like federation without being ever federatable

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc so this is how nier automata started

mcc, to random
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The taxi service in Toronto is called "Beck" and they have a ride-ordering app which every time I use it I am just amazed by how bad it is and how it has never got any better over the many years I've been living here (and in fact seems to have got a little worse)

I always of course have a lot of time to think about this as I stand for 10-20 minutes by the side of the road with the app from the moment I tap order showing the cab is "1 minute" away, unable to use my phone or the app will crash

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc so, I found that unusable apps in very large very wealthy corps seems to be the standard. Google Calendar don't allow easy port of calendars. Youtube/Netflix are trashfires. KFC is confused that people may want to eat something other than the three nuggets pack that's not available anyway. Amazon scrolling will result in accidental buying, and won't stop selling fridges to you for years if you bought a fridge.

I suspect there are lucrative reasons for these, but also ????

mcc, (edited ) to random
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Opinion: Ad networks, apps, and operating systems should have big switches that should let people fully opt out of ads for addictive substances/activities such as alcohol and gambling.

Twice in the last week opening DoorDash has resulted in this popup. I do not drink alcohol.

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@mcc because I'm not cynical , I'd like to suggest that these ads (gambling, alcohol, gaming, sexual etc etc) are absolutely not targeted based on if you have googled for how to address your addiction whatsoever

Bigshellevent, to random
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Do people still refer to diversity as "tolerance" or we have recognised that it's a pretty shitty way to refer to people who are of different backgrounds?

mcc, to random
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The new text for "Unlisted" in the Mastodon.social compose box is so bad that I'd ask if it would have been better to just remove the feature.

I saw some Github discussion about this redesign, most of which lead to a very large number of people objecting to the PR's original text of "Low-key public". Although I guess this feedback was listened to, it doesn't seem to have really helped.

Some changes in the new compose are, I think, on balance for the better, but this one is really distracting

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc huh i thought the selling point is NO algorithm at all? Like you can't even opt in algorithm?

Bigshellevent,
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@mcc turned out what I understood as 'public" is not what .social meant as "public", and what I understood as "no algorithm " is also not entirely true.

Anyway this is my last public post here.

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