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tantramar

@tantramar@nojack.easydns.ca

single, strait, boring, genX guy. pro: science/vaccines/abortion/LGBTQ+. liberal. COVID = airborne

When I got hooked: STAR WARS/John Williams (1977), Dire Straits (78), Blade Runner (82), Pink Floyd (84), email (86), Apple (90), Web (93).

masthead: Great Spruce Head Island, ME.

form is a diagram of forces • hydrogen, given time, becomes self-aware • cynicism is laziness that expects credit for critical thinking

powered by caffeine & maple syrup. mostly here for the cat memes.

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mathowie, to random
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classic rookie mistake: said "yes" to a iOS update in the middle of me making dinner which included the music playing on the HomePod and the timer on my potatoes in the oven.

now the question is: will it remember the cooking timer once it finally reboots?! Also, when you send music to a HomePod, doesn't it just play on its own, separate from your phone? Ugh.

tantramar,
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@mathowie I’ve been trying to decipher the rules around AirPlay handoff from devices to HomePods. Seems… inconsistent at best? 🤷‍♂️

RickiTarr, to random
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Avatar really did rip off Dune, and don't get me started on Star Wars.

tantramar,
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@thepoliticalcat @RickiTarr You mean Laurel & Hardy? ;)

Waitnwallflower, to random
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Typo

Typo

Typo

I appreciate you overlooking all my claws

tantramar,
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@Waitnwallflower I see what you dip there

tantramar, to random
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Spent a good chunk of my life anticipating Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C Clarke’s sleek vision of the future but ended up in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights & Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.

GrumpusNation, to random
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Slowly realizing that, when it all comes down, as it inevitably will, I will almost certainly be on the B Ark with the telephone sanitizers…

tantramar,
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@GrumpusNation Reference acknowledged.

tayfonay, to random
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Vegetables that don't pair well together: radishes and fennel

tantramar,
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@tayfonay fennel doesn’t pair well with my taste buds, either. 🤣

benroyce, to uk
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" Prime Minister Rishi set to call for general election"

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/uk-pm-rishi-sunak-calls-for-july-4-general-election-sky-news-reports.html

With the Party running way behind , this could finally mean, uh, escape and independence from the

july 4... independence... tories... uk...

Americans:

july 4... independence... uk...

tantramar,
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@benroyce … illustrated with a gif of an actor from Alberta, Canada. Chef’s kiss

tantramar,
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@benroyce Edmonton, I think, but don’t quote me on that. ;)

tantramar, to random
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I’ve had a favourite author for more than 20 years. I really didn’t like their second-last book — after loving everything else they’d ever written.

I’ve never reviewed or even named that book publicly (nor will I now). And I unhesitatingly bought their next book (which I still haven’t read).

Support artists if you want to see more of their art.

tantramar,
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@GrumpusNation 100%

tantramar, (edited ) to random
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this whole OpenAI/Scarlett Johansson thing really boils down to… a man who thought he could take what he wanted from a woman even after she clearly said no.

tantramar, to OpenAI
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An ad agency I was once associated with ran radio ads in the early 2000s that used a Donald Sutherland sound-alike — and he was really good. Some voice-over guy in Toronto or Vancouver who basically made a living doing this impersonation.

Not sure what made me think about that. 🧐

tantramar, to random
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Hans Zimmer’s score to Interstellar is so good.

tantramar, to random
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I feel like some of you could be posting more cat photos. 😇

tantramar,
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@puzzled well done!

tantramar,
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@TywyllSeren 😎👍

tantramar, to random
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The party of “fiscal responsibility”, my arse. https://mstdn.ca/@gemelliz/112482133543063939

tantramar,
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@npilon How many ways can you step on a rake all at once?

tantramar,
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@npilon Stop trying to give me hope 🙃

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

tantramar,
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@GossiTheDog @hannu_ikonen “Does not perform content moderation” unless you do something like checks notes watch a movie or TV show — which it won’t record because their partners’ DRM is more important than what their so-called customers want.

tantramar,
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@_L1vY_ @GossiTheDog @hannu_ikonen oh, I would expect it to record solid black where the Netflix content is — everything else would still get recorded.

I’d also expect them to take note of what you were watching in Netflix. You pervert. ;)

tantramar,
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@_L1vY_ @GossiTheDog @hannu_ikonen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34

tantramar,
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@_L1vY_ @GossiTheDog @hannu_ikonen For what it’s worth, macOS doesn’t let you screen-grab DRM’d content, either. This is all likely as a result of some ancient agreement between TV/Hollywood publishers and anyone selling DVD/Blu-Ray drives or running streaming service apps.

Not that this stops anyone.

tantramar,
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@_L1vY_ @GossiTheDog @hannu_ikonen About Netflix? See Rule 34.

On Netflix? Also see Rule 34.

You pervert. 🤣

tantramar,
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@_L1vY_ @GossiTheDog @hannu_ikonen Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ — none of them do adult content. It’s stated clearly on the Wikipedia entry, though: Rule 34 has no exceptions! 🙃

denschub, to random
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24159258/microsoft-recall-ai-explorer-windows-11-surface-event

There's of course no way a "tool" like this (and its resulting "hallucinations") would ever be abused by law enforcement, abusive relationships, ...

Tech bros really need to start using their brains.

tantramar,
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@denschub they think outsourcing harm onto others is using their brains.

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