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SynAck

@SynAck@corteximplant.com

Currently unemployed software engineer corpo drone by day, cyberpunk edgerunner by night, and opinionated armchair quarterback 24/7. I love the Oxford comma and believe that you should also. I tend to post a lot when I've got a bee under my bonnet. There are a lot of bees and I have a pretty big bonnet.

Other interests include everything #technology, #martialarts, #formula1, #books, #movies, #music, #grafitti, #streetart, #gigposters, #GraphicNovels, #boardgames, #cyberpunk, and witty repartee.

Akkoma: @SynAck
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Totentanz: Syn-Ack
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Matrix: @synack_ci:matrix.org

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It's awesome that most financial transactions really, really, really want you to pay via credit card (by making it a lot more onerous to pay with any other method) and then charge a 1-3% "convenience fee" for doing so.

How did we let them get away with this and make this the norm, people? How did we not push back on this the first time one of these profiteers tried to foist this upon us?

:facepalm:​

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@x00001 "forced convenience" because we made it so "overly inconvenient" to do it any other way...

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@peterbutler I'm not sure that I can use Zelle to pay my COBRA insurance premiums. My only experiences with Zelle so far has been that it requires a phone number or email address, and I don't know how that would work for a business.

I guess I could set up my bank to make payments from my account, but then there's other fees associated with that (as they actually send a paper check rather than a wire transfer).

Like I said, it's onerous to pay any way other than cards.

revengeday, (edited ) to random
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Pineapple on pizza?

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@revengeday Is there supposed to be options or are they just blank because this is a straw-man, throw-away poll? I can't tell what I'm voting for. :gnah:​

SynAck,
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@revengeday fair enough. :smart:

kaiserkiwi, to random
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That's satire right?
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/112509065545491509

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi I can't believe that corpos are still doing stuff like this in 2024. Just goes to show how out of touch with society they are, and yet they just keep doing it.

I also can't believe that at one point, thankfully very early on in my career, I would have thought this was "fun" and showed how "not stuffy" my company was. Then again, very early on in my career, this sort of thing would have been Wired instead of so, so Tired. It would have been new-ish back then because I'm old. :kekw:​

Corpo culture is so bad. This kind of thing makes me never want to work for a corpo again (amongst all the other things).

revengeday, to random
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Hey @fabi since we both made fourth place at the we have to make a track together now :neocat_cool:

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@revengeday @fabi I believe that this is now a moral imperative.

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It never ceases to amaze me how blindingly painful a tiny little cut in the center of one's index finger can be. And woe unto them who happen to get some sort of citric acid in there.

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi I will keep that in my back pocket. Thanks for the tip!

and...um.... OWWWWIE!

revengeday, (edited ) to random
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Whoa, thanks chooms! Fourth place for the cyberpunks !https://fedi.vision/@vote/posts/317906415744724312/

By the way, you can download the song for free on Bandcamp https://revengeday.bandcamp.com/album/synthetic-synchronicity-fedivision-2024-single or Ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/s/ca2ad72575

SynAck,
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@dalfuss @revengeday yeah! And since they mentioned CYBE first in the announcement, it's a solid fourth! W00t! Congratulations, choom!

SynAck,
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@revengeday @dalfuss FTW! (sorta)

SynAck, to random
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@pluralistic spreading some truth in The Bezzle:

America will never make life better for the millions of souls it has imprisoned. Never. It is not in our character. To be an American is to live with the festering background knowledge that you are in a land that imprisons more of its people than any country in the history of the world—a land with more prisoners than Stalin’s USSR or Hu Jintao’s China or P. W. Botha’s Apartheid South Africa.

With so many in prison, either you have to believe that you are living in the midst of a great many secret criminals, or you have to confront the fact that you live in a place where the only thing standing between you and decades in a prison (running at two or three times its nominal capacity) is luck … and connections.

revengeday, to random
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Goodbye ICQ, you were the best messenger (back then)

SynAck,
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@revengeday I Seek You forever!!!

SynAck, to random
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And just what is this fresh privacy nightmare hell? Sure, Google - I'll believe you when you say that "they will not be visible to Google or used for other purposes." At least, not now. Not while they need people to stay opted in to the process to build the location database. What happens in a year or three, Google?

How much money or which government agency is going to make you change your tune, eh?

revengeday, to random
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I saw this in a cute little café in Berlin Lichtenberg.

SynAck,
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@revengeday That's a good mantra for a café because when, pray tell, is it NOT a good time for coffee and cake? :thinkaboutit:​

And did you sample any of their coffee and/or cake?

revengeday, to random
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I went to the computer games museum yesterday :pixelheart: https://www.computerspielemuseum.de

Neon sign reading "Arcade" in orange, with a blue "Open" sign visible below.
Retro computer setup in a small wooden room. Includes a vintage desktop computer with a CRT monitor, keyboard, and disk drives. A light bulb stands above on a shelf with an old radio. Notes and sketches are pinned to the wall. A round stool
A vintage Commodore PET 2001 computer displayed in a brightly lit, lime-green museum exhibit case.

SynAck,
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@revengeday Max!!! :maxheadroom:

SynAck,
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@revengeday I remember seeing my cousin's copy of this when I was a kid. I wonder if he still has it? :neofox_thinking:

kaiserkiwi, to random
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Wish me luck. 🌶️🌶️🌶️

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi well, shoot. Sorry it was underwhelming for you. But I guess at least now you know! I guess me and my lightweight taste buds are just gonna go sit in the corner. :blob_sweat: :holdthepain:

You are truly a person that can hold their spice! :awwwblob:

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi I guess you could always watch old episodes of "The Hot Ones" on YT to get some ideas. :holdthepain:

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi yeah, they're basically just advertisers for other people's sauces, although they do have some of their own.

kaiserkiwi, to gaming
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I could play a thousands of games I've never played.
I could games I've already started.

But I choose to play for the third time. This time with mods like "Plenty 'O' Exploration" and holy cow this is awesome!

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi Hey, go with what you know and what brings you joy, friendo! I still play Cyberpunk2077 fairly often, even after multiple playthroughs and no new content because I love the world so much.

Enjoy the Fallout!

kaiserkiwi, to random
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This is the exact thing I want AI to be used for. This is just beautiful and doesn't hurt anyone. 💚

(Video. Length 3:28)
https://youtu.be/Zq710AKC1gg

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi Yes! I so agree! This is a really great picture of a personal AI assistant that is solely for the benefit of one person to help fill in the gaps for a missing sense and to allow them to experience life more fully.

I've always thought that AI works best when simply used to "fill in the gaps" of the human experience rather than trying to replace or outshine us.

Thanks for sharing this hopeful video!

kaiserkiwi, to random
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My wife started a new hobby and I love it already. 🦐

Macro-Shot of a blue shirmp hanging down from the moss.

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi Wow, that's some really clear and sharp video there as well!

Man, those things are just constantly moving, aren't they?

kaiserkiwi, to random
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Waffles make everything better.

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi 💯

revengeday, to random
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Help, I have an earworm from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFlhlZbeKgE

SynAck,
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@revengeday @x00001 this is probably how the designers of the Snowpiercer thought things would be like.

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