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trisweb

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General nerd; work = UX manager at an infosec co, artsy/musicy, house full of: dogs, plants, vintage tube gear, various things that run Linux. He/him, trans rights, Black Lives Matter, genuinely delighted to meet you. KC1ULJ on #amateurradio

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universalhub, (edited ) to boston
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Aurorinspiring: Some #aurora photos from across the #Boston area

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/aurorinspiring

#Massachusetts

trisweb,
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@universalhub here’s some views from Melrose https://m.trisweb.com/@trisweb/112420381525225495

trisweb, to random
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Absolutely loving all the shots tonight! Keep em coming! Here are a couple random snaps from me, I’m just amazed that it’s real and in Boston!

Aurora borealis over a tree-lined landscape at night with ground illumination.
Aurora borealis over a residential area with power lines and trees in the foreground.
Aurora borealis (Northern Lights) visible in a night sky over a silhouette of trees, with streetlights illuminating the foreground.

trisweb, to random
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Byeeeee stackoverflow

trisweb,
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lol, going to need to try a different method

trisweb,
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This is what you get when you try to delete your content from : they treat you like a criminal defacing their site, rather than as a human being with privacy rights.

Will be saving this conversation and sharing publicly. Your move, Stack Overflow…

Extensive deletions take a lot of effort to repair; please read "I've thought better of my question; can I delete it?" for possible alternatives. Because of the amount of disruption these incidents can cause, we have placed your account on hold for 7 days while we reach out to you to avoid any further misunderstandings. Once this matter has been resolved, your reputation score will be restored and your account will resume as normal. We sincerely hope this is just a misunderstand-ing, but we understand that you may have an exceptional reason to remove this content. If so, let us know by replying to this message. Regards, Stack Overflow Moderation Team My reply: Hello, This is fully intentional and within my legal rights and privileges, and l'd like to delete all content l've contributed to the site and close all of my Stack Overflow accounts down, removing all data associated with my usage, contribution, and identity from your service. Can you please help me do this?

trisweb,
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Follow up: it is not within my rights to remove my content, apparently. Upon submitting it conveniently becomes Creative Commons licensed. Huh.

trisweb,
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@engarneering that’s a fantastic point.

trisweb,
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@engarneering oh this is just rich. What I assume is some random high level moderator on a power trip suggests that the CC license is only a suggestion and it would be infeasible to follow.

trisweb, to random
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I finally have #Mosstodon and #LichenSubscribe content! An old dogwood tree just blooming with moss and lichen on the trunk.

A tree branch covered in bright green moss and pale lichen.
Two white dogwood blossoms just opening, with a blurry tree branch covered in bright green moss and pale lichen.
A tree branch covered in bright green moss and pale lichen.

trisweb, to random
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I dare you to finish a bag of potatoes without growing them.

What am I doing wrong? Do they just go in the fridge despite everything I’ve been taught?

exchgr, to random
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there’s a whole new trail in prospect park?? https://www.bkmag.com/2023/10/26/fallkill-trail-in-prospect-park-reopens-after-nearly-three-decades/

trisweb,
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@exchgr the real gut punch here is that 1995 was 30 years ago.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.

bitter snickering

trisweb,
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@TofuTheSquirrel @millerdl @futurebird more and more, excluding AI from spaces with no exceptions is going to be a high value selling point.

infobeautiful, to random
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Beautiful alternative to the periodic table created in 1975 by James Franklin Hyde.

A diagram which shows an alternative view of the periodic table of the elements. This version puts the element silicon at the centre and organises other elements in a kind of eight-shaped form around it.

trisweb,
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@infobeautiful Fascinating and beautiful. Random question: does anyone know why Silicon is in the center and somewhat unique in this visualization? And what the dashed lines from it mean?

gwensnyder, to random
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Excuse me, but in what WORLD does this disinformatic crank's harmful opinion merit a top-of-page banner headline?

Journalistic malpractice by CNN

trisweb,
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@gwensnyder he got to talk on air for like 40 minutes last night on CNN. Which is, I’m not sure how anyone could willingly let that man talk for 40 minutes, even the sound of his voice isn’t okay to listen to for 40 minutes let alone what he’s saying. CNN is business, not journalism.

dansup, to random
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I'm honestly considering a paid verification program in Pixelfed to help sustain the project long term.

It would be a centralized list, and would be present in clients, regardless of server.

A blue checkmark would not only help our project financially, but would also provide a trusted visual mark of verification.

Thoughts?

#boostsAppreciated

trisweb,
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@dansup you can have supporters and give them an indication but for Pete’s sake don’t touch the blue check symbol with a fifty foot pole.

nixCraft, to random
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This is going to help scammers a lot. Imagine getting a call from your loved ones, and they explain they are in trouble and need immediate financial assistance. This is going to affect so many elderly and innocent people. OpenAI is developing these tools again from publicly scrapping of your voice samples.

trisweb,
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@nixCraft have they ever considered maybe not building the machine that destroys the world?

mathowie, to random
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Yesterday in 2024 I had to login to ESPN+ using my “Go.com account from the Disney family of companies” which I created in 1998.

trisweb,
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@mathowie honestly, I respect that so much.

trisweb, to mastodon
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Is there a way to tell to manually pull a thread from its home server? Like a big sync button or something?

I see far too many posts without their replies and with incorrect star & repost counts… maybe there’s something up with my federation queues? 🤔

trisweb,
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@trendless Thank you! This is basically exactly what I want.

exchgr, to random
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youtube on tvOS 17.4 still has a bug where if you pause it and leave it for a bit, then try to resume, it’ll just spin a loading spinner. even if you quit and relaunch. it takes a full system reboot to bring it back

trisweb,
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@exchgr could you force quit the app? That’s a thing I didn’t know was possible on tvOS but it is.

trisweb, to random
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I just looked up the elevation of Boston Logan airport—an airport built on fill in Boston Harbor—and then did one of those sighs when I found out.

(It was a turbulent approach, I was in an aisle seat, and I just wanted to have a reference for when we would land to compare with the altitude on the flight tracker. We landed safely.)

evacide, to random
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The problem with traveling across Europe and looking at hundreds' of years of art until my head was brimming with it is that now I have Art Thoughts and people do not come to me for Art Thoughts.

trisweb,
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@evacide what is one of your thoughts on art?

pluralistic, to random
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According to "the greater internet fuckwad theory," the ills of the internet can be traced to anonymity:

> Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/greater-internet-fuckwad-theory

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/04/greater-corporate-fuckward-theory/#counterintuit-ive

1/

trisweb,
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@pluralistic Corporations whole schtick is kind of avoidance of individual liability, so yeah.

exchgr, to random
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leave substack, if only because of the fricken subscribe modal. and, you know, all that other shit

trisweb,
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@exchgr they're really making it such a difficult decision on us.

lumecolca, to random
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Imagine if the AI goons got what they wanted and had some kind of super AI that could solve complex problems for humanity.

Now try to imagine how they'd react when the answer inevitably boiled down to "just use the resources currently hoarded by an extreme minority to help everybody, idiot."

trisweb,
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@lumecolca would they trust it if an AI said it? I’m fine with that.

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