Stuck Here

I'm still amazed and loving the bookmark feature in Mastodon. I finally have a chance to go back and look at some things and to clear out some bookmarks. Often I'll look at things on my phone and for one reason or another I can't play a video or download a file as of yet. Maybe it's something I want to examine more closely on my laptop and not my phone or tablet. The bookmark is such a no brainer, I'm surprised that it's not built into other social media.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange About the time routers began to give parental rights in the 00s The Onion did a joke piece about all of the high school kids using an obscure plumbing website thread to share URLs, pictures, meetup times, and general shenanigans. They'd taken it from real life and had made the story more insane. But yes, the whole internet lock down with age verification is not for the kids. Kids will find a way to get what they want to see and do.

@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social @Harlander@writing.exchange There will always be these people. Good lord. You reminded me of the early days of Twitter. An American traveler in GB, or possibly he was on the continent, had an emergency in their hotel room. Geesh. I can't remember the particulars. Anyway he's on Twitter asking for the police and an ambulance. He never once picked up the phone to call the front desk. It went on for hours until someone else on Twitter called for him.

@cstross I was an early adopter of Chrome. Sad to see it become such garbage. I bailed on it sometime last year and went with Vivaldi.

@NatureMC @netzhexe @SteveRudolfi Ahem, I'd claim that something similar to this has been ongoing for years. With the enshitification of search engines my top results would always have as the first few choices the most god awful, ad laden, poorly written sites you could imagine. This slop has been ongoing for some time. Here they just want to cut out those sites and make their own trash on the fly.

@madduci@mastodon.social I now know how long to hold out at minimum for my next phone upgrade.

@Elizafox @kirakira @fadedoasis Oh man, they even brag on Facebook about shoplifting.

@ruud @NoOnesRival @Mastodon I'm in the USA but was happy to discover that my choice to be my instance was based in Europe. Serendipity. I like the idea of having more laws in place for my privacy.

@moira Oh my! Those four helicopter flights that occur each week to the children's hospital is too onerous of a crime for the community club/HOA. Some old effers just need to get a life and be human beings for once.

@r_aherin @SteveRudolfi When something is intrinsically broken there's always someone wanting to sell a product or service to the end user to make them feel they're the ones in the know & are gaming the system. There's money to be made here! We're disruptors!

@overholt Is this one of those password management systems that won't let you substitute your secret desire instead? Asking for a troubled friend with aspirations.

Last time I saw such positive discussion around disagreements was on hobby subreddits. Even at that, most of what comes across my curated feed is an affirmation of my beliefs. Have I supplanted an algorithm with my own biased follows? Or have I just made a calm spot that's not aggravating me with fake emotions? Could I have made my own echo chamber that doesn't challenge my beliefs? 2/2

@celesteh It's crazy how effective altruism gave us groups teaching doctors in remote communities how to fix cleft pallets instead of funding foreign doctors in traveling all over. (Actually a good thing.) To it morphing into the bull crap of not investing in saving the planet (because in their mind it's doomed) and pouring money into what they believe will help humanity after the downfall, such as AI. Crazy thinking.

@aesthr We need to teach our children better than this. Women don't need that constant drone of harrassment that happens in their lives. Telling someone that they look good is not the compliment you think it is. Just favorite something or give a thumbs up and move on.

@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @pedroleitao@masto.pt @Xeniax@mastodon.ml You reminded me that someone could begin to tag some of the posts around other retail/capitalist things such as clothing lines, retail spaces, cleaning products, etc. Just to mix it up.

@xinicit@beige.party @LoganFive@beige.party Would I be in trouble if I asked to date your ex from ten years ago? LOL

@xgranade@wandering.shop I'm fighting this every time with my volunteer groups. There are free or low cost ways to get your message out there on top of Facebook. Oh, and Facebook is dead with many demographics. Wonder why you aren't seeing twenty somethings to your events? First they aren't on Facebook. Second the FB crappy algorithm hides your stuff. Advertisers know you don't put one ad into one newspaper. Getting the message out there doesn't work that way.

@luis_in_brief@social.coop @jonobie@social.coop @maj@cosocial.ca I know that you're asking about getting public domain mysteries, but I've got to recommend a Willa Cather book or two. I finally read her a few years back and found her descriptions to be wonderful. It was a good way to relax when I had the time.

@bleeptrack@vis.social @ronanmcd@mastodon.green I'm likely wrong but a short thread I followed on Mastodon talked about the mechanics of LLMs making code. My take away was that it made code, quickly tested it, and if it worked would hand it over. If it didn't work, the LLM made new code until it passed the unseen test. It was LLMs version of brute forcing the password to an online account. No thought was ever involved. And yes, what's handed over appears to work, for now.

@commonst Yep. Those programs are cheaper for insurance. Part of me wonders about poisoning the data. I've done it in Facebook and LinkedIn and for Google. Start a few months of therapy revealing more about the wrong doings of your company and the extraordinary lengths you have to take to protect yourself. Then get into a lawsuit with the company? At the very least the LLM trained on the data will talk poorly about your company.

@bibliothekarin Georgie!

@stargrace Happy birthday! Fun gifts🎉🎁🎂

@Zumbador It's good to know if you fit a classification. Identifying where you fall on the spectrum is stress relieving. It gives you information that can help. I have a freind who states, "Brains will be brains." It takes away the stigma of issues. It gives a do-over if one is needed. It allows you to move on. Not to dwell but to learn. Her saying it shows she sees the problem. It diffuses the negative feelings over something. It's best said to someone else when they stress over something.

@RobeeShepherd @stavvers Yes. I'm sure it was a highly edited version shown on the regular as a Saturday matinee TV program a few times a year when I was growing up. And yes, the airplanes and the spaceship had that Thunderbirds esthetic.

@cstross @stavvers ... Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission...We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical... You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.

@RobeeShepherd @stavvers Ha! I remember that movie. I thought the espionage bit with the camera eyeball and the spy spinning the eyeball in different fluids to develop the film was the coolest. Even better was the airplane that unloaded the passenger compartment completely into the airport. No need to rush the aisle way.

@Heliograph@mastodon.au He looks like he may have once teleported to a Waffle House and isn't sure why.

@Heliograph@mastodon.au Some of the sweetest people I've ever met were at a Waffle House. The smell of bad coffee, sticky sweet syrup, and the lingering third hand smoke on the patron next to you at the counter will always make me smile. Just remember to leave before the bars close for the night.

@dramypsyd@ohai.social Ahem, hasn’t it been proven that a woman can do more in 23 hours than a man can accomplish in 24? But don't worry. Us guys won't have our feelings hurt if you do. We'll just sit on the couch and ask if you need any help about the time you're finished.

@digichelle I have the T530 from an eBay seller. Got it around 2016. It runs like a race horse on Linux. I try to convince everyone to find older machines and to make them work too.

@tanquist@masto.ai @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange My daily computer is a used business Thinkpad I bought from ebay 10 years ago. It was already at least 4 years old when it was sold. I upped the memory and added a SSD one year after buying it. It's still going strong. It came with Linux Mint but for this machine I'm doing Pop Os. There's lots of companies up cycling business electronics on ebay. And so much cheaper than buying new. I paid $250 with shipping included some 10 yrs ago.

@tanquist@masto.ai @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange As to the upgrades I spent maybe an extra $150 for the time.

@hub @poulet_benoit @nixCraft The same McKinsey consulting firm whose first response to helping any company is to fire people. They use and abuse their own new hires like crazy, and take any $$ they can for their shit services. It's not about value added work but sucking as much profit margin as possible from dry stones.

@Catvalente@wandering.shop I absolutely loved Terry Pratchett's version of Death in HOGFATHER. And one must mention Susan as well... The line that resonates the most is "Don't get scared. Get angry."

@Steve12L@mamot.fr The image should be taking place in the bathroom, bedroom, hospital surgery, etc.

@MattPCart@mas.to @fesshole@mastodon.social Not a totally bad idea but for your own health and that of your offspring you need to let them know your full medical history. A friend's father-in-law had a heart attack and they told the doctor it was the first time. Turns out he'd had one a decade earlier and told no one. His kids were upset in that they never knew the family had a history of heart disease. Their doctors never had it on their radar as something to prevent.

@JamesWNeal Let's not also forget that Iran has successful hacker groups just like N. Korea does. I wonder what they will be up to doing soon. One positive is that Russia likely won't be getting anymore drones from Iran to use against Ukraine. The whole thing is a mess.

@grumpyoldtechie @ennopark @ShredderFeeder Maybe he's thinking of the so called hierarchy of angels? Seriously, not all Christians have the same viewpoint of Heaven. All have tainted beliefs based on how their Sunday School taught them and what brand of preaching took place before them. I could see some sects believing in a hierarchy of the souls in heaven. There's some who believe that all souls must linger in purgatory until the 2nd coming to be judged only then.

@whybird @DrPen @Seetee Back in the day Word and its competitors were collectively known as word processors. In fact, before PCs were affordable to most and as a stop gap between typewriters and the PC there were computers in the 80s that were collectively known as word processors. Glorified typewriters with little memory and with spell checking capabilities they wrote many a term paper back when.

@caten@mathstodon.xyz It just worked for me. I have a series of buttons now within settings to change how https mode works or to turn it off completely.

@cargot_robbie@urbanists.social @cube_drone@mastodon.social So true. With algorithms and the plethora of media choices to consume no one is getting a shared experience. For the longest time we would have the same news, the same TV channels, the same movies... All of it allowed for Monday morning discussions around the break room. Now everyone thinks their social media consumption is the same as everyone else's but it's not as you say. We have placed a higher barrier on shared experience.

@dioneira@mastodon.social Love all of the stuff you have at your site!

@503bartley @cstross I did my part and downloaded the free ebook copy! Melania, Devourer of Men is my next read. Now to go see what more than 1K reviewers have to say before I add my input.

@caten@mathstodon.xyz I took a look and I don't see a quick way to turn it off inside of settings. There is a whole page about creating overrides. Maybe a script there can help. Within about:config you can search for https and look for dom.security.https_only_mode_ever_enabled. Try turning the value to false. Restart. It should give you the options in settings to turn it off and on as you wish.

@folix@firefish.fedibikes.de @tante@tldr.nettime.org After Monday's The Daily Show and an interview with a guy who wrote A.I. Is Good, my wife and I had a full discussion. There's already many people who've turned their emotional energies into the generative LLM relationships. There is no risk in them and no emotional growth. What's sad is that the way it's planned for many businesses the humans will be one among countless AI agents. The chance for social interaction will greatly drop.

@whybird @DrPen @Seetee I agree with this. I only want add that we got here because of the time when only a proprietary program could open certain file extensions. At least this is my reasoning. Adobe had pdf locked down and M$ Word had word file extensions locked in, etc. Breaking this habit will be hard.

@hackaday@hackaday.social Back in 1999 I had a list of local dial up phone numbers for my service, Mindspring. When I'd hit a town I'd check to see what number was local. Hardest part was to put in the hotel's number to press to dial out and then to put in enough time for the dial tone to then appear before dialing. Some hotels required a lot of fiddling to get dialup in the room to work.

@bearthatcodes@toot.wales Could you imagine combing the fur out of that bed? You'd need a fur rake.