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@Tock@corteximplant.com

mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitch.cortex

Header image from Blender Artists. (https://blenderartists.org/t/cyberpunk-city/1383792), Profile image from Artstation (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xYoxDr). Not my work, and not AI from what I know. Want a bio? See my pinned post. Got 500 chars here, a little tight to type in. Formerly of Texas, relocated back to Cali last Spring.

I boost BIPOC accounts, women and 2SLGBTQIA voices. Some of them are CW adverse due to genocide, silencing and eradication efforts. If you don't like that, mute my boosts. I try to CW my political rants. And I don't boost spam posts.

I don't respond to any DMs unless they come from my Instance, re: Admin and Mod communiques. They're insecure, if you DM me it will be ignored. All of my posts auto-delete.

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Joined April 15, 2025

Age:

40-something

Field:

Vagabond, Traveller, and For Hire

Which lives matter?:

Black ones.

Women's rights?:

Always.

Trans Kids?:

Safe.

Follow?:

If you like. Do as you want.

AI?:

Don't use it. Don't trust it.

Is there a God?:

Probably not. If there is, it's something none of us can understand or even know. But probably not.

Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@alice In 1972, a grey commando unit was sent to prison by a kangaroo court for a crime they didn't commit. These people promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the cis-het underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive by being awesome people. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The Ace Team.

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· 5mo ago

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@aronkvh@mograph.social @lynndotpy @Blender "Shut up and accept fascism" is an odd hill to take, but go storm it. That's not us slowing you down, it's just mud and rainfall. The rest of us will do as we please without some blathering about inferiority complexes guiding our lives.

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· 5mo ago

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@tillybridges@mastodon.social Read the first, the second? Q. E. Fuckin' D. Had no idea about the influence and where it ultimately came from. Damn. Thanks for this. :blob_bongo:

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@maxleibman Similar cries of "the technology industry is over, this is now the AI industry. If you're not leading the charge, you're slowing us down." Any wonder why I want to leave IT?

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@dryak @geerlingguy Goes without saying, if you don't need, please save your money. But take care of your things! (Maybe replace your phone case if it already took a bad hit, or get a better bag for your laptop than a dinky little sleeve.)

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@mariafarrell@mastodon.social To me, this simplifies things: -- Build for accessibility, not SEO. (Since 98% of SEO rules are Google's demands.) -- Tell people that google.com now just searches Gemini, not the web. Use another search engine.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 4mo ago

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@meluzzy@woof.tech 2029 (when modern computing has collapsed) offline ICs and electrical engineering is good.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 4mo ago

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@hobbs@dobbs.town @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Why do I feel this way? (=SUM(A2:A40))

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange Ah, good point. I'd be trading mosquitoes for "insert local pest here", but because of Idaho, same MAGA neighbors, I'd take it?

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange I wish. I'd love to be in Oregon.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange I'll testify.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run No GOBLIN idea GOBLIN how GOBLIN this GOBLIN has GOBLIN come GOBLIN to GOBLIN pass.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space @farshidhakimy@chaos.social The Web Attestation stuff started off with "it's up to sites to determine what security" so the hardline "Android and iOS only" setting may not initially be default. But as people get used to these checks, not hard to guess Google will make new sites use harsher defaults before eventually making the hardnose option the only one in the future in the name of "security."

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@Blender@mastodon.social It is truly an era where a tool to help artists is being funded by a tool to steal art and both sides wants artists placated while keeping the money. It is like learning to paint with a specific brush only to learn that brush is sending my artwork to hundreds of other easels, while the brushmaker is telling me to shut up and keep painting. When put into those terms, the simplest answer is for the artists to walk away from all of it. Make new tools yourself, and to hell with everything else.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@tillybridges Excellent job. And sending this to some people not on Mastodon who don't know what "chaser" means and wear it like a badge of pride (AFAIK are not harassing women online but if they are, "Hey, you might wanna knock this off.")

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@mark @davidgerard Eugen is to Mastodon as Sam Adams is to Portlandia. (Except we know John Mastodon's first name, we had to wait through eight seasons for "The Mayor's" first name.)

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@mcc It is pretty sad. In 2015, Windows acknowledged a 30 Year Anniversary. After missteps with Windows 8, also announces Windows 10 being a free upgrade for all Windows Vista, 7 and 8 users. The question: right now nobody will celebrate a 50th anniversary of Windows (the 40th was last November, did anyone notice), but with Microsoft renaming everything as CoPilot, will Windows even exist by then?

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@geerlingguy Rehashing the same advice elsewhere... The best time to buy electronics was last year. The second best time is now. Take care of your things, because the upgrade cycles are all broken.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@stefan Also depressing that out of millions of BlueSky users, so few block the alt-right as well as AI.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@neurovagrant Hardened security, end to end encryption, and eliminating SPOFs kind of fell by the wayside to "yuck, yuck, of course AI is safe!"

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@CAman @fribbledom That is no longer the case. Affinity went freemium, requiring an online account to use. Version 2.X is no longer sold, since 3.0 is free and has a paid sub for AI features. (Affinity also discontinued 2.X, so no more updates are being made.) Source: https://www.affinity.studio/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/v2/

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@lproven "With 200 lines of code, turn your data silo into a God that your sociopathic coworkers will swear allegiance to and die for!" I love the comments from LLM acolytes stating the intelligence isn't the code but the data. Turning a golf club around doesn't make it into a pool cue.

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· 6mo ago

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social "Is there anything Microsoft is not doing these days?" What the users ask for, apparently. They're spinning that they are removing CoPilot from "unnecessary apps" as a user experience concession, but really, they're decreasing CoPilot's footprint in the RAMpocalypse era and walking back any recommendation of system RAM past the minimum. Nobody involved in AI cares about end user efficiency. Just their datacenter and pocket book.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 2d ago

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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange Usual Disclaimer: IANAP (Programming hobbyist at best, not a pro or an expert) 1.) Stands to reason that if the prior technique of "fuzzing" (another automated way of discovering bugs) has false positives, so will AI. In fact, I'd be surprised that it isn't a statistically significant number of false positives. 2.) Since Mozilla is all-in for AI and no longer interested in customers (except as cattle), Firefox's days are likely.longer behind it than ahead before it becomes an AI client for them. The brand is all they care about, not the users.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@diegomartinez @antimnguyen It's in there?

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@sue Dorthoreaux! Twin Dorthoreaux!

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@Rycochet Similar to IT Crowd. Love O'Dowd, Ayoade and Parkinson. Fielding and Berry are always a good time. But I'll be dammed if I hand Graham Linehan, or JK Rowling as a man, a free meal ticket by buying a DVD boxset or other paraphernalia from the series.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 1d ago

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@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org "Sure, it's that Microsoft Linux I keep hearing about that runs on Mac PCs. So those Apple Core 9 things have something to read the Internet with that isn't that terrible MacOS Windows." -- A grandparent somewhere who is responsible for maintaining a list like this.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@kaidenshi So not even script kiddies need apply... just an operator too dumb to trust Edge. Microsoft, handing the blue team on a silver platter.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 7mo ago

@fullfathomfive "Damn it, who typed whores on the teleprompter? For the last time, anything you put on that prompter, Burgundy will read!"

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange Has to mention crying. All of his opponents reveal their weaknesses to him while crying.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@hynek Coding by Braggadocio?

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@Viss@mastodon.social @cR0w@infosec.exchange OMG so much this. Sales people will claim a tech product will piss rainbows and make you immortal. Tech support wastes so many hours bringing customers back down to Earth, and yet this goes on cause "Make Cash Masheen Go BRRRRR."

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space This appears to be the web attestation format that was brought to light and shot down before Trump took office. Here it is again, challenging users not to only identify themselves, but "prove your device is worthy of accessing our data. Only authentic Android and iPhones may roam here." Same shit, different banner.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@jalefkowit Actually, trim some words off and that is the perfect Paramount/Skydance/Warner Bros. fodder to pander to their intended suckers. Harry Potter & the Jesus Christ. No further pitch needed.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 5mo ago

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@antimnguyen Extracting a Lego Minifig made of microplastics from your testicles does not count as male pregnancy.

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Tock @Tock@corteximplant.com

· 6mo ago

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@debread Hell yeah, Yoshi knows how to party!

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