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LLS, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to twitter

Twitter: geek joy, fail whales, new voices, communities forming, breaking news … & doxxing, bigot brigades, fake news networks, gaslighting pols + celebs, the fash…

Last yr I posted a farewell & deleted the app. But was that enough? “X” [#twitter] keeps setting new lows of scary awfulness.

Poll: What did you do to (or are you doing with) your account?

If you’re willing, share why. (And plz, everyone be kind, no need to shame other ppl’s choices here. We each live our own lives.)

arstechnica, 6 days ago to random

Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

LLS, 8 months ago to mecfs

? for other disabled folks (esp w ME/CFS): How do you estimate spoons available for the day? Or do you?

I need a better way than “Do things until PEM, then one thing less.” Timeboxing stuff pomodoro style kinda helps but doesn’t factor how much I must:

• move my arms
• sit up
• stand up
• walk
• climb stairs
• lift >5 lbs
• focus mentally
• do emotional work
• travel
• be in crowds
…or combinations of above

ANY resource links, tips, recommendations?

#MECFS @mecfs

LLS, 11 months ago to random

The Sears case cuts to bone

With its massive catalog, >100y experience w production/inventory/fulfillment & millions of devoted customers, Sears was ideally positioned to move online as THE dominant online retailer

Instead, investors gutted the golden goose

And that’s just one example in @pluralistic’s rundown of the long history of heists like this being pulled by private equity

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#

vga256, 4 days ago to retrocomputing

just discovered this Wordperfect 6.0 ad from 1994 and it's making me wonder if i ever really lived

#retroComputing #1990s #design

LLS, 1 month ago to fediverse

Has anyone built a tool that maps which #fediverse instances* federate with which —something to visualize who’s federating (or not federating) with whom?

bc that would be an awesomely useful resource when picking a new community to join/migrate to

—

• above a given membership threshold obvs bc there are a gazillion fedi instances

LLS, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

You don’t see such blunt commentary on tv, not even from Rachel. #Maddow on the organized subversion of US democracy and the press

https://youtu.be/CqassXP6HAU

mttaggart, 3 days ago to random

My wife tells me that she is observing conversations on X where regular, non-tech users are beginning to consider Linux because of Recall.

That's how bad an idea this is.

LLS, 2 months ago to mecfs

#MECFS, the Board Game

via elo on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/elohopea.bsky.social/post/3knl6dh6e4k24

@mecfs #LongCovid

LLS, 2 months ago to disabled

4y ago, when #covid was spreading across the world, I got sick. 4d of severe illness

Then I “recovered” except for low fever, fatigue, body aches…

I worked—& crashed, barely able to get out of bed, rested days/weeks, felt better, went back to work—crashed. That’s the cycle

I set activity limits, cut them back & back…

Today if I walk >400 steps, stand >2 min, sit up >2h, or have >10 min heart rate >85bpm … I crash

Hard lessons. Took a long time to accept I’m #disabled w #LongCovid #MECFS

andybaio, 12 days ago to random

me: “I wish people would stop calling individual blog posts ‘a blog.’”
monkey’s paw curls
https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112439941615950550

LLS, 6 days ago to random

“Recall records everything users do on their PC, including activities in apps, communications in live meetings, and websites visited for research.”

But don’t worry, it’s encrypted, Microsoft says.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

epidiah, 5 days ago to random

What gives you a Star Trek vibe without being Star Trek?

Could be from any medium, not just TV and movies. Like if you've got a board game or a role-playing game or a video game or a card game or a ball game or a tracing game or a tangerine game or a book game or a laser game, any of those would work, too.

And there's no need to mention Galaxy Quest or Orville as I am already aware of those.

LLS, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to accessibility

#AltText #Accessibility (currently #iOS 15 only)

LLS, 13 days ago to random

Forget Skynet.

Slopnet will be the end of us — not with nukes and cyborgs but with slop, injecting AI slop into every service, operation, utility, everything we rely on. Nobody will notice until municipal grids fail, planes fall from the sky, food supplies dwindle, summers extend year-round, and billions die.

Then the slop-meister trillionaires will gather in their mountain bunker retreat, pop the last bottles of champagne, and toast to their victory over human diversity and compassion.

LLS, 9 days ago to random

During a 36h migraine, I drafted a short story with monsters and killing. The muse was with me. If these headaches persist, I’ll have a themed anthology in no time, though if these headaches persist, no time will feel like a million years and shit’s gonna get dark.

LLS, 6 months ago to random

No, I will not flip it
Or tap your tiny url
Or click to see your bitly
Or blithely go through tco
Or even view your apple news

Links that hide their destination
Are moist gray blobs of mystery meat
I’m not gonna eat.

tante, 3 days ago to random

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LLS, 12 days ago to random

this had me in stitches

a what to call this? a celebration? a tease? a loving tribute? a shitpost chock full of brainworms from Gideon the Ninth (with maybe some very small spoilers, though you wouldn’t know it if you haven’t read it)

https://youtu.be/f315N619OKY

LLS, 2 days ago to random

“Google yourself” takes on a whole new meaning https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/112496475718227188

LLS, 3 days ago to random

the verbification meaning of “google” has shifted from “searching” to “shitposting”

LLS, 3 days ago to random

Because this doesn’t seem to be getting through to people who really should know better:

Folks actually know how much pay they take home, what bills they got, and how much (if anything) is left in their bank accounts. Telling them they’re wrong, they “just don’t understand the economy” isn’t the smart political messaging you seem to think it is.

LLS, 3 days ago to random

Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?

(found, reposting with alt text)

LLS, 3 days ago to HashtagGames

On hold, no one can hear you scream.

#ChangeCatchPhrasesAndMovieLines #HashTagGames https://mastodon.social/@LinuxAndYarn/112493606233094287