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dancast

@dancast@wandering.shop

Bostonian, language lover, writer, nerd. Pro-union, pro-LGBTQIA+, Trans Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter. Palestinian Lives Matter. Pro-DEI. Have courage, and be kind.

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GossiTheDog, to random
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Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

dancast,
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@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig The best part is when they say “Data will not leak across workspaces” as though that makes it better. It just means I’ll get company-specific autocomplete if I type “the layoffs will be on …”

Quinnypig, to random
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I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.

dancast,
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@Viss @gsuberland @Quinnypig The number of Slack instances in which credentials have been shared is all of them

polotek, to random
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Questions for software engineers about estimates. Feel free to answer any of these in any order.

Have you ever had an explicit conversation about how to estimate projects? How did you learn?

If you feel that you were never taught the skill in any real sense, what do you feel you're doing at work when you're asked for estimates? Are you making it up? Have you developed your own personal guidelines?

On average, how confident are you in your own estimates? How do you measure success?

dancast,
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@janl @polotek digression: hard to overestimate McConnell’s impact on software engineering process in the 90’s and 00’s, and even today. Rapid Development and Code Complete were the bibles back then, and still form a significant part of the vocabulary of people who came of age in that era

xgranade, to random
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That feeling when you're weird, but not the right kind of weird.

dancast,
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@xgranade All my life...

StillIRise1963, to random
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I’m fed the fuck up with the legal shenanigans. I don’t want to even hear about any of it anymore.

dancast,
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@StillIRise1963 I simultaneously just want to know how it ends, and can’t tear myself away from @GottaLaff ’s live-tooting

dancast, to random
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Ngl, I find search on mastodon pretty much unusable

GottaLaff, to random
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😢 “Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.

Gossett’s nephew told The Associated Press that the actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death was revealed.”

https://apnews.com/article/louis-gossett-jr-dies-1e86e1441ec8b614a282f3de22490a07?taid=6606bb32f963d30001514cc1&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

dancast,
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@GottaLaff my dad once told me — in a chastened voice — that he went to school with Louis Gossett Jr, and told him that he should go into business because there wasn’t any money in acting. 🤣

GottaLaff, to random
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administration will impose a fresh slate of sanctions on more than 500 targets on Friday in response to the death of opposition figure Alexey and on the eve of Russia’s two-year war in Ukraine, according to a Treasury official.

https://cnn.it/3UQIi5k

dancast,
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@GottaLaff what are the odds that the US will seize assets which will then be handed over to Ukraine? That would be a nice touch.

GottaLaff, to journalism
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“Does U.S. want a "well-meaning elderly man," or one who means ill? Would rather have a POTUS who briefly confused Egypt for Mexico, or one who'd start a war on the border?

On the slow train wreck of democracy - it doesn't have to be this way.”

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I 🧵 it. 1/… #Biden #Trump #media

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/biden-memory-trump-supreme-court-20240211.html

dancast,
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@tdwllms1 @GottaLaff @willbunch

I always think of the David Sedaris article. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/27/undecided

“To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”

To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.”

vlrny, to random
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Thing I just said to myself:

That's Future Valerie's problem. And Future Valerie will have coffee in her.

dancast,
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@vlrny looking forward to hearing what future caffeinated Valerie thinks about this.

: eating popcorn meme :

cstross, to random
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So, does anyone have any insights about how Apple vIsion
Pro™ compares with that Meta™-branded apple
Vision pro VR headseat?

Asking for a friend^Wtrademark lawyer

dancast,
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@wordshaper @cstross there’s a bit of the old Apple ][+ “what is this even good for, let’s play” to the AVP than I can remember feeling for a while.

No, not plonking down $3500+tax to play, just saying. Lots of green field.

dancast, to random
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Looking for more accounts to follow like @lisamelton , @carnage4life , and @mekkaokereke

RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever been so in your own head that when you start talking about what you've been thinking about, it doesn't make sense to other people, because they haven't been down your mental rabbit hole for hours?

dancast,
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@RickiTarr this is my constant state.

dancast, to random
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Pro-tip: don’t use the immersion blender until the soup is off the heat and has cooled down a little.

Also: ouch ouch ouch ouch

dancast, to random
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There’s a person in my feed with a boppy video on the science behind pickling, and I can’t help but think that there are some people who devote their whole selves to making life difficult and painful and impossible for other people, and some people who just want to share their love of pickling.

We need more picklers.

dancast, to random
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Honestly a little disappointed that @MarkRuffalo hasn't been participating in

dancast,
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@Saltssaltgirl @MarkRuffalo it seems like the kind of thing he’d enjoy

dancast, to random
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My trans nephew is applying to colleges. He got a great offer to Case Western Reserve, scholarship and everything.

But it’s in Ohio, so now it’s off the list.

It isn’t just states that aren’t safe today, it’s states that could be unsafe tomorrow.

A year from now, the US could be that state.

dancast, to random
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Looking at old people, I frequently think about how they were young once. They weren’t frail, and careful, and slow.

And I wonder, when will be the last time I’ll be able to physically run up a flight of stairs?

dancast, to random
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I complain about 3 Body Problem being slow, but here I am, 22 episodes in.

nutjob4life, to random
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It's only a murder of crows if there's probable caws

dancast,
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@nutjob4life I have to figure out how to say this out loud in a way that it will be clear what I'm saying.

Which is to say, my family is already angry at you.

dancast, to random
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Every time you get infected, roll 1D6 and permanently subtract from constitution.

dancast, to random
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As everyone is repeatedly infected, and as we become sicker as a species, it’s hard not to imagine our life expectancy continuing to decline, and that we will never again attain the heights of physical performance of yesteryear’s athletes.

If we still care about such things 50 years from now, I can imagine humans looking back on world records from this era as insurmountable, inconceivable achievements.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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A lot of people that claim that MLK jr was somehow loved by all and better than today's civil rights leaders, are just lying.

A lot of people claiming that "Black Lives Matter" or "Defund the Police" are bad marketing, and that they would support these movements if they were named something better like "Non-violent march," are just lying. It's not the phrase that these people object to. It's the underlying principle. They do not accept that current US policing is a negative on reducing crime.

dancast,
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@continuity0 @JizzelEtBass @mekkaokereke

We always just kind of "ran out of time" before we got to the Civil Rights era, Vietnam War, 60s social upheaval, etc.

History class was like, WW2, Korean War, Eisenhower, whoops! then there was Reagan!

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It will be interesting to see how they adapt The Three Body Problem to film.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/netflixs-biggest-new-show-of-2024-just-got-a-full-trailer-you-need-to-watch-this-mind-bending-sci-fi-thriller

dancast,
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@Thoreau I'm about a third of the way through, and it is slooooowww...

So many long emotionless stares into space and extended silences.

It's just like the book.

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