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@ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net I wasn't there for it, but damn does this fooling around maken me miss the Apollo era of spaceflight.
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Eating cake with:
Sappho & Blåhaj
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@stux@mstdn.social €20,99? I got a notification that my subscription will go from €13,99 to €15,99. Where is your subscription charged, somewhere else than the Netherlands?
The terfs have moved the goalpoasts. Literally the day after the ban on trans people using public restrooms came into effect, the transphobia seamlessly transitioned into ableism.
They are now targeting young women using mobility aids.
Read all the ableism containing the same 'social contagion' moral panic here: https://archive.ph/OMv9c
So interesting to see that when Ali Niknam, our own Temu Elon Musk, gets criticized for his abusive and toxic management style. The business manosphere comes out in droves to defend the 'genius mastermind' on LinkedIn.
One of them lauded Niknam for 'challenging the status quo' and that we should have more people like that. The guy saying this: Constantijn van Oranje Nassau, a member of one of the richest and most privileged families in the country. He *is* the fucking status quo.
The shoes of today come with their own Ohrwurm:
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from company B."
Booking travel through Egencia is the absolute worst part of my corporate career. By many many many (air)miles
Their login sequencr is shit. Their interface is shit. Their 'helpful AI' chatbot is the shittiest chatbot ever. Their info in rates is not in line with the info of rates of the airline itself and cause confusion. Their approval process is shit.
It's absolutely clear that the people who make the decision to use Egencia as their corporate travel agent don't have to use it themselves, but have their assistant do it for them.
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@vickyjo@mastodon.social @ministraitor@infosec.exchange It's work related, which limits my choices in carriers. But also means I don't have to pay the base ticket. I'll try to expense the upgrades, but I don't have my hopes up.
But for two 9 hour long haul flights... I'm worth it.
The AI is also car brained, proving it is a form of US Tech colonialism.
@notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com already predicted that tech companies selling autonomous cars will be lobbying to make the roads 'safer' by redesigning them to suit cars and be hostile for humans.
https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo
Te koop Remarkable 2 e-paper tablet, met cover, Lamy Al-star stylus en nog een setje spare tips. Vraagprijs € 300.
Verzending via een hackerspace in de buurt of per hacker event ofzo.
Het leek me echt een top idee, maar fysiek papier werkt voor mijn brein toch echt beter.
Ik zal niet teveel zeggen over het gebruik van laptops op scholen. Maar waarom de fuck standaardiseerd een school dat op Mac en niet gewoon iets Linux based.
Niet alleen is open source als basis ethisch de betere keuze, de laptops zijn ook een stuk betaalbaarder.
It's international cat day *and* Saturday, so Caturday²
Here is me, last year, on day 1 of #why2025. Looking tired already, but oh sweet summer child I was, as all the chaos was about to get down.
I am writing again, and enjoying it a lot.
Why the fuck would you want to have some stupid machine do it for you and churn out some average of averages slops?
If I need to admit I'm getting older, then I want something in return: some nice proper grey hair instead of my net-niks dark blonde.
I'm starting to have significant amounts of grey hairs.But they're all in my eyebrows. Meh. 😑
Well that didn't take long, you can now get "I am not complicit" Ed Sheeran merch, of which the proceeds are donated the Palestinian Children's relief fund.
Unfortunately DFTBA is still only ships from the UD.
https://store.dftba.com/products/tribute-to-ed-sheerans-bravery-fundraiser-t-shirt
Ohrwurm of the day ...
A couple of G's, jeez, unless you've had to live it
An R and an E, even I am careful with it
An I and an N, and in the end it will only offend
Don't want to have to spell it out again
Someone asked me what the worst Ohrwurm is that I have encountered.
My brain, immediately:
Dansa med oss
Klappa era händer
...
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ah the two genders: Deadlifts or Cleans.
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@realn2s@infosec.exchange @wendypalmer@mastodon.au not denying that. I walked into Gay's the Word on my last stay in Londen to buy books, while I still have books to read from there from my previous visit to London.
Helmet, gloves, snack, Wahoo, bra-inse-... I mean chest fairings. I've got all the things for going out on a ride.
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@vowe Haha, drawing on mustaches, inventive but that will surely never work!
"One mother said: “I did catch my son using an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache on his face, and it verified him as 15 years old.""
Oh.... Nevermind.
I had the brainfart to just get some extra memory in my work laptop. 8gb is a bit meager for a corporate Windows 11 install. Thinking that older, slowish memory probably is cheap enough to just pay from my expense allowance, without going through the pain of Corp IT ticketing.
An 8gb DDR4 so-dimm starts at around €69 nowadays. 😱
These things were around €20 a year ago, before ram prices soared.
In the wake of the attack on the Berlin CSD last Saturday: I can do without the pinkwashing of blatant racism. In 99% of cases the very same people complain about woke and LGBTQ+ being 'forced down their throat' on a daily basis.
Realistically I have most to fear from the very white politicians that rave about christo-judean values and traditions, that want to limit queer and trans rights and impose restrictions and outright bans on gender affirming care.
Well fuck this. Terfs are threatening Parkrun UK* with legal action, because they just allow anyone to join the runs without stupid gender assigned at birth shit.
I've got some business trips coming up, including to the UK. And I'm tempted to invoke the new Corporate Gender Affirmation Guidance that states I can refuse travel to unsafe countries without repercussions. Just to make a fucking point.
*Parkruns are free volunteer organised 5k runs in parks on Saturday morning. It's an informal run, that happens to have an online scoreboard.
What's next, do I need to supply my birth certificate and a SRY-gene test to Strava if I want to claim a QOM?
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-britain-english-people-british-lisburn-b2963519.html
Can't we just have an AI labelling for companies, so you can decide buying their stuff or applying for a job.
Something like:
0 - AI? I'm a plummer. No where is that leaky pipe?
1 - We use some cleverly designed algorithms.
2 - We incorporate machine learning in specific tasks.
3 - LLMs are available for limited non-critical tasks only.
4 - Experienced Devs can use a coding assistant, but are accountable for the output.
5 - GenAI and LLMs are available for staff to use as tools.
6 - We have agentic AI with strictly enforced limited privileges for non-critical tasks.
7 - Developers? We only have 'Prompt Engineers'.
8 - 'Please don't delete prod' in the instructions.md.
9 - We are Palantir.
People don't really pay attention on linkedin. I posted the same photo there, the text included in the post included:
"And on my gravelbike (although I'm still more a roadie), where I like to ride fast-ish. So I do some of the aero-trends that are all the rage in cycling."
It had 1300 impression 13 reactions and 2 comments. Nobody mentioned the bra inserts. 😸
Bought a different brand of müsli than I usually have. It has too many raisins, I am disappoint.
I'm pretty smug with myself for finding a way to include a literal worst-kaas scenario in a slide deck for a new training.
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange but how else do the ultra rich become even richer? Rules and ethics are only for poor people to adhere to.
Few things in the gym feel as good and powerful as a successful split jerk. 🏋️♀️
Also really happy that my front squats at finally improving. In my little clean-squat-jerk complex managed to get a neem PR in the front squat.
(Yes this is escapism, after the news of last night, I need things to be happy about.)
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io statistical text generation being fed oodles and oodles of examples of breaches, making generating a new breach statistically inevitable.
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@kiesraad@social.overheid.nl nice! Toch weer een beetje hoop voor onze digitale toekomst.
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Maar @queen_fennec@mas.to we kunnen toch in de guardrails prompten dat die AI dat helemaal niet mag doen?
Ik vind het bijzonder dat aan de ene kant AI zoveel mogelijk menselijke eigenschappen toegedicht wordt, tot emotie en empathie aan toe.
Maar, als het gaat om veiligheidsmaatregelen is ineens "We zeggen de agent/bot/LLM dat ie dat gewoon niet moet doen." voldoende. Want het zou op dat gebied wel een rationele machine zijn en harde extern afgekaderde permissies zijn ineens overbodig.
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@altim@mastodon.nl @ON4BAM@mastodon.online dan houdt hij tenminste zijn woord over dat de Trump phone niet buiten de VS gefabriceerd gaat worden. Binnen de VS ook niet, maar dat terzijde. 😆
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@barbarakathmann Mailtje gestuurd, om maar even mijn persoonlijke zorgen als trans persoon duidelijk te maken. Wat nou als Amerikaanse bedrijven geen diensten meer mogen leveren aan mensen als ik?
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@JonBaker@mastodon.social
"You're not paying up? Johnny, bust his kneecaps."
"Eh. Boss I believe it's *their* kneecaps, they told me they're non-binary."
"So you're one of those enbys then?"
"Y-y-yes."
"I'm sorry, my apologies. Now Johnny, bust their kneecaps!"
"Sure thing boss."
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@adapalmer@wandering.shop let's hope that people will await the results of this trial before hyping this up. I doubt that will really work, I suspect that these panels will be too dirty to be useful in no time and they will be a hindrance for track maintenance.
On a side note "Les XII travaux d'Asterix" was published 50 years ago. Half a century later and laissez-passer / Passierschein / Vrijgeleide A-38 is still universal shorthand for burocracy.
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@mhoye I'll pass and stick to CCC, alternative over corporate.
(And also in countries that are relatively safe :blobhaj_trans_heart:.)
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I can use some orchid advice, this one is looking sad and on the stem where it once flowered new plants seem to grow, one even has an air root. What is a good course of action?
When you go to the sauna alone, but the first Aufguss is accompanied by Rachmaninoff piano concerto no. 2. So you have Céline Dion to keep you company for the rest of the day
Although Pelia's chaotic energy can be a bit too much in Strange New Worlds, all the silly "I was there when it happened." and "I knew the guy." jokes always get a smirk
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@MissTungsten oh I will do that! Already been in contact with the fraud desk last week, when I found out the hard way that my card got blocked. They said it was strange I didn't get a notification, but I don't know if they logged that as an issue internally.
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@obsidian nah, someone did a number of manual transactions, cardholder not present. Because for some reason backwards USA is still not up to speed implementing EMV chips and those are still option. Didn't even need to dispute them. But a timely notification would have been nice.
Two NL-Alerts for the North-C datacenter fire already. Smoke still isn't an issue here, this was around 12:40 today. You can see a faint smudge at the horizon that probably is the fire.
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@pkuipersmunneke@mastodon.nl ik was vandaag jaar oud, nooit geweten dat de donder het breken van de geluidsbarrière is. Coole post!
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@mhoye so I am not a threat modelling consultant, I am a threat modelling fashionista.
So what's the threat modelling equivalent of the Met Gala and Paris Fashion Week?
I don't know what plant jizz I am breathing in currently. But damn, it's wreaking havoc on my sinuses and mucus membranes. 🤧