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molly0xfff, 11 days ago to random

i may have picked a bad time to hit "publish" on that newsletter 😬

evacide, 1 month ago to random

Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

molly0xfff, 1 month ago to web

If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

evacide, 1 month ago to random

It is now the time after my company-wide retreat when I come home and mentally review every single thing I said to my co-workers that was awkward or weird.

skinnylatte, 2 months ago to random

I don’t understand the immigrants who are like i had a hard time with immigration so no immigrants should be more welcome, let’s close all the borders and put everyone on the streets in the cold

danilo, 2 months ago to random

This is from a C-suite person at a company you’ve heard of. They’re responsible for product.

And THIS is why I have spent the last year developing proficiency in using LLMs as part of my development workflow:

It’s great to be able to detect a crock of shit.

There’s no universe where AI makes features “functionally free.”

The complexity of a software product cannot be handwaved away through magic tensor beans. Features are more than just code. Features are a social contract with the user.

thomasfuchs, 5 months ago to random

lol at people trying to retcon history and pretend the Y2K bug wasn't real.

I literally worked for like a year from late 1998 to the end of 1999 to fix databases of utility companies and health systems to not, you know, completely and utterly fail come January 1st, 2000.

SrRochardBunson, 5 months ago to random

Toxic masculinity is the gateway drug to fascism.

film_girl, 6 months ago to random

Holy fucking shit https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

gsuberland, 7 months ago to random

just checked a major review site and not a single smart TV was released in the past two years without integrated ads that you can't opt out from or disable. that's depressing.

evacide, 7 months ago to random

I have often wondered why, when stores close, landlords leave the spaces empty for years at a time instead of lowering rents. The answer, apparently, is banks often won't let them:

https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-financing-urban-planning-pandemic-retail-apocalypse-vacant-storefront-2023-10

davidho, 7 months ago to random

This bonkers story about how a former DJ sold thousands of airplane engine components with bogus documentation that are installed in airplanes worldwide might be a good inspiration to fly less. 😬

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-11/fake-parts-found-on-boeing-airbus-jets-plague-airlines

grammargirl, 8 months ago to random

I swear sometime the news about X/Twitter gives me "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" vibes.

What more does he need to do to journalists to make them leave? He keeps giving it his best try.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23903859/x-elon-musk-headlines-links-image-twitter

ZachWeinersmith, 8 months ago to random

Offhand thought - I wonder if part of why sci fi and fantasy are so huge now is that a lot of the genres that would've scratched the same escapist itch are now hard to do inoffensively. Like a lot of 19th century adventure literature is oriented around white adventurers visiting strange cultures, romancing hot locals, stealing stuff, and getting away. Setting it among aliens or elves or whatever allows the same story, theoretically minus the dehumanizing.

mcc, 8 months ago to random

The owners of Neopets were trying to indoctrinate us in Scientology and NFTs but it backfired and instead what it taught us was "everyone is entitled to one free omelette per day" and that's why now all millennials are socialists

fasterthanlime, 8 months ago to random

Today in “product managers that need to chill”

dannotdaniel, 8 months ago to random

In a world of Eric Claptons, be a C̶a̶r̶l̶o̶s̶ ̶S̶a̶n̶t̶a̶n̶a̶
R̶o̶g̶e̶r̶ ̶W̶a̶t̶e̶r̶s̶
Taylor Swift ✅

mcc, 9 months ago to random

Neopets implies the existence of paleopets

flexghost, 9 months ago to random

** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON #MastodonMusic **

Tonight’s theme:

☮️ OK BOOMER 🌈

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🎵 Music from before your time that you dig. Post an oldie but goodie along and you’re drinking 🎶
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Thanks @TootOfBob for tonight’s theme

I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on

🍷 The Beatles A Day in the Life * Grapefruit Radler🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

animefeminist, 9 months ago to tearsofthekingdom

On Nintendo’s reluctance to make Princess Zelda playable

Despite its multi-decade history, the franchise's actual titular character has almost exclusively been allowed to do cool things if they're off-screen or in a spinoff.

#TearsOfTheKingdom #BOTW

https://www.animefeminist.com/on-nintendos-reluctance-to-make-princess-zelda-playable/

TechConnectify, 9 months ago to random

lololol, a comment on the video says something like "see, here's why plug-and-charge is so great. You don't always have your phone or wallet with you, but -" and I'm gonna need to stop you right there, bud.

Yes. Yes I do.

I do the ol' pocket pat every time I grab my car keys.

ESPECIALLY when I'm leaving on a road trip.

frameworkcomputer, 10 months ago to random

We asked visitors to the Framework booth at
LTXexpo what we should build next. This is what they had to say. What do you think?

garius, 10 months ago to technology

For those of you who wanted the full history of how Musk lost control of X during the X/Confinity merger, @every were kind enough to commission me to write it.

Come for the Microsoft vs Linux internal war. Stay for the boardroom coup launched during the Sydney Olympics... #technology #history https://every.to/p/twitter-s-future-is-a-return-to-elon-musk-s-past

seachanger, 10 months ago to random

for the fediverse to live up to its potential, you do have to report accts that violate rules. when you hit block you have the option of sending a report to the user’s admins, which is what it takes to remove abusive accts.

if someone is invoking systems of oppression in their posts or replies, it’s not just words, it’s harm that causes real stress, anxiety, ptsd etc, all of which are physically unhealthy and/or change a person’s ability to express themselves or seek and find community here