User interface challenge (level: impossible):
Opt-in questions that understand consent and respect the user should be “Yes, for now” and “No”.
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mastodon 4.7.3Computational linguist, ontologist, artificer, λ(data). Syntactician with semanticist delusions. Theatre artist. Anti-Taylorist. Continuous everywhere, differentiable nowhere. Boosts are multivalent.
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Joined April 14, 2026
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117312738864217683
“Purcell? Never heard of her.”
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The weirdest aspect of today’s 8th Circuit rulingis that they have ordered a change in the district lines even though the election has already begun. Moreover, they stayed their ruling for a week so that opponents of the gerrymandered map have a chance to appeal to the Roberts Court. So people will be voting for a full week under the map the 8th Circuit says is wrong. https://missouriindependent.com/2026/09/21/appeals-court-backs-missouris-gerrymandered-map-but-decision-is-put-on-hold/ 3/3
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@oldguycrusty@mastodon.world @GeePawHill@mastodon.social Even with the flawed finale, BSG is on the very short list.
“33” — the first episode after the miniseries — is a masterpiece right out of the gate (and resonates far more now).
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange FreeBSD on an SGI Indigo in an abandoned factory* in a mountain cave
*for the cool automation hardware
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange This was a tough call. (I actually liked AIX!)
And don’t think I didn’t notice HP-UX was omitted. It’s the right call, of course; people who would choose it aren’t surviving the apocalypse anyway.
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net If it’s got a 740 vector display!
More people need to understand that “enterprise-grade” mostly has the same valence as “military-grade”.
People without military experience think “military-grade” means built for the most demanding conditions. People with military experience think “meets a possibly-not-relevant spec as cheaply as possible.”
The dogs are not loving this new game of “is it thunder or is it military jets?”
RE: @allanfriedman@infosec.exchange
Preach. You absolutely do not want shingles.
I was a year from being eligible and got shingles in my facial nerves. That was 2020, and I am still managing the residual neuralgia.
It also tripped me over into long COVID, which you also don’t want.
To be clear, I am incredibly lucky to have had excellent and accurate care, and I’m much less impacted than many folks.
But don’t take medical advice from people who want you dead. Get the damn shots.
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@Bongolian @dxzdb @mathowie @mekkaokereke Yep, and this is key: Fidelity Charitable is itself a charity, and you aren’t in *control* of the money you give it. That’s why donating to it can give you a tax break.
It’s “donor-advised” so you can *request* how you’d like your giving to be allocated, but legally it’s FC and not you making the grant, so they can apply their own rules.
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@mdhughes@appdot.net @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange Now you’re making me want to set up my Indigo2 SOLID again.
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@mattblaze@federate.social I had not realized that the whole thing tomorrow is a Soviet-style air parade running for HOURS, and they are closing DCA from noon to midnight.
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@mattblaze It really is fascinating! I went down this rabbit hole learning about my large suburban FD (Montgomery County MD) and the pre-planning and training is *very* detailed. For each apparatus, once they’re told “you’re the second due” each person (defined by seat) already knows exactly what their initial assignment will be on arrival.
Obviously, very dynamic thereafter. But as they say, plans are useless, but planning is essential.
Nerdsniped. :)
Looks like I picked the wrong bubble to need to replace some NAS drives during.
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That said, boost phase is a much easier target than on-orbit.
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange I mean, the whole thing is fairly transparently a securities fraud long con, but just in case they go through with it one wants to be prepared.
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange It’s laughable.
Though it must be said, the Vatican has managed the underground church/CCPA situation quite deftly over the past few decades. They actually understand diplomacy, having had a couple millennia of practice.
Thiel once again proves that the single most important factor in whether someone develops into a human capable of living in society with others is being told no, often, and immovably.
home electrical shenanigans
RE: https://mastodon.social/@EricAlper/116850642316541652
We used to be a real country.
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@arclight@oldbytes.space Not a joke: I installed WordStar 7 in DOSBox-X today.
Zero JavaScript. It doesn’t download anything. Doesn’t connect to anything. It *can’t* connect to anything.
It’s gonna take a while for the muscle memory to come back, though.
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@sanityinc @leah Yeah, agreed. That said, registrar is not high on my threat model list. (And I do have some domains forced to be in EU registrars.) @jack
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@mattblaze@federate.social I think it was in Federalist 70 that Hamilton wrote “this being established, why shouldn’t the Executive wet his beak?”
@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange
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@wec I have to wonder how much better my internet experience would be with a “Type 5 Processor Installed.”
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca I fear that the big enterprise takeaway from this story will be “our controls and guardrails are much better than that”.
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@alex@dair-community.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH *frantically lobbing my scheduled meetings into the air to see what I can juggle*
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@jrconlin Also worth mentioning that Pacific Grove was acquired via some very sketchy land deals to establish a religious enclave where “[w]indow shades could not be pulled entirely down, and officials had the right to enter and search a dwelling at any time.”
https://mchsmuseum.com/local-history/historic-places/pacific-grove/
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@stoneymonster@stoney.monster The 4:00 wall hit me at 10:37 this morning.
It was likely a DNS glitch (it’s always DNS).
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@GeePawHill Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of them are continuing to put it on record. Which, if the Roberts Supremacist Six had any self-awareness or ethics, would be a reason to change course. But then again, if they had those we wouldn’t be here.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jalefkowit/116851914438413543
Also ignoring that at that density, the smoke is likely going to obscure all but the first 5 minutes of the fireworks anyway.
Turns out there’s a reason people don’t do shows that dense, and it’s not because of woke.
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Donald Trump wants to have the largest fireworks display in history for July 4th, so the people of D.C. and Northern Virginia are going to get to breathe air with enough fireworks-related pollution in it that experts advise staying indoors and wearing an N95 mask if you have to go out
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/07/01/july-fourth-fireworks-likely-cause-hazardous-air-pollution-documents-show/
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