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alda, to random
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I caught myself pronouncing "nothing" as "nuffin". I need to stop this before I'm stuck in a working class Northern accent.

alda,
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I've never been felt like a woman stuck in a man's body, but I'm not sure if being stuck with a pseudo-Scottish accent that nobody takes seriously is a good thing.

alda,
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How much time have I spent in the UK in total?

Four days, I guess?

mattgrayyes, to random
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For @emf, I’m making Mastodot, which in theory prints toots that are hashtagged for the event!

alda,
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@mattgrayyes That gave me an idea: The same but baudot shortwave broadcast.

guffo, to random
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OH CUNT I THOUGHT IT WAS FRIDAY

alda,
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@guffo Oh that was scary.

vyr, to ruby
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the logo looks like a tentacle to everyone, right? not just me?

alda,
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@vyr I've always assumed it to be a ballistic rocket trajectory.

olafurw, to random
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It's estimated that at 16:00 CET, the OPS-SAT satellite will re-enter the atmosphere.

Thank you for all the hard work. At least you had some fun playing DOOM.

Here's a live feed and simulation based on the telemetry. It's very pretty to watch.

https://live.opssat.esa.int/

alda,
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@olafurw HOW DID THEY BRING A CAMERA UP THERE?!

A_C_McGregor, to random
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Hey UK folks: you might want to look at the TV at 5pm. Rumours running wild that the Tories might be about to call a General Election

alda,
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@A_C_McGregor @nikki I know the feeling.

baldur, to random
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Unless you have experience teaching or training a variety of web tech (HTML, JS, CSS, SVG, etc), you likely don't fully understand their relative learning difficulty

Basing your assessment of which is harder on your attempts to teach yourself is esp unreliable

It's hard for you to know if a tech is hard or if you were just unlucky in stumbling into a bad entry point. Getting into something with the wrong mental model means you have to first unlearn a bunch of crap before you can actually learn

alda,
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@baldur don't forget that many of us have been learning those as web standards have grown in complexity.

We have two decades of institutional knowledge that people just breaking into the industry don't have and management types rarely value.

ephemeromorph, to random
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Random thought: if we lived in a society with multiple peopleoid species besides humans, interspecies fucking would probably be seen as good safe sex practice, because nobody could get pregnant from it.

Disadvantage: human has sex with human man for first time after practicing on cat men, is disappointed to find that human penis is not spiky.

alda,
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@ephemeromorph this happened with the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthals.

javi, (edited ) to random

What's more insane about the new windows built-in spyware (apart from the very basic fact that... Well, they have actually done it) is that... They are selling it as an AI feature?¿

As they have explained it, what it basically does is to store a screencap every few seconds in a folder that tents makes 10% of your disk where the fuck does ai is used there? What's next? Ai-powered mouse pointers?

alda,
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WhyNotZoidberg, (edited ) to microsoft
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Having an AI ("Windows Recall" is enabled by default) that tracks every move you do on your computer and of course has no filter (Microsoft's own FAQ clearly states it will remember every password you type) is idiotic. But Tech bros are frothing at the mouth for anything AI so here we are.

alda,
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@WhyNotZoidberg I used to work for a US based tech company and the lawyers hardly even knew what the EU/EEA is.

alda,
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@ddlyh @WhyNotZoidberg they simply did it again.

baldur, to random
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We really don’t make enough of the fact that you don’t need JS to make a nice website. Just HTML and CSS

And, whatever most programmers say about them, HTML and CSS are absolutely much more accessible to learn than JS ever has been or will be

alda,
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@baldur I just can't see how either of those isn't programming.

alda,
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@baldur I don't think the dudebros have even seen how CSS animations work.

guffo, to random
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At this point, you’re less likely to be catastrophically owned by downloading a cracked copy of Windows Vista from a Russian torrent site than buying a new copy of Windows 11.

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391

alda,
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@guffo It's what Windows 11 Pro could have been. All the bullshit is turned off.

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