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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social the only safe way to see a polar bear. If you see one NOT from a distance, something's gone wrong, right?

@DJDarren his duet with Aretha Franklin is an absolute BANGER. You'd never guess that was an original track. For extra trivia points: co-written by Simon Climie from Climie Fisher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxzQJaA228

@workchronicles I once participated in a tender scoring for a public sector HR system. Everyone scored this one vendor really high, until I pointed out the difference between "possible" and "available"...

@revk @an0key @gamingonlinux a lot of healthcare runs on Windows with generic logins

@Jes@labyrinth.zone @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org how they're not blocked on the basis that their unreliability can seriously damage your credibility is already a surprise to me.

@pseudonym@mastodon.online also, when the senior retires, who replaces them?

As @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social well knows, this is already happening to UK users, thanks to the OSA. We've already lost access to simple services like Imgur. Giphy/Tenor can't be far from introducing some sort of checks either. To be honest, if we MUST have age verification, I'd rather verify once with my OS vendor (likely based on account age) than for every single app/service/API. It's the timing that baffles me...

@jtruk@mastodon.social yup, honestly thought that was a beard at first glance! 👍

@jk feels a bit harsh on all those geeks that worked so hard to emulate the mac look on linux and yet entirely fair...

@dgar@aus.social @geeknik@infosec.exchange I agree. It's patently not a secret. And even then It should be plainly obvious to anyone with a fraction of a brain. Never participated in the AR scanning - there's obvious privacy implications in taking photos/video in public and uploading them to a third party. In fact, I don't think the AR scanning is even enabled for kids, which in itself is a massive red flag privacy wise.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us to be honest, I don't think it matters who wins. Public opinion will absolutely tank within the first year when their lives don't magically improve and we'll be doing this again. That people think Farage will somehow be immune to this amuses me. Trump isn't, he's on his arse. How many candidates do Reform have for a leadership contest? They can barely form a cabinet. Labour looking exactly like the last Tory governments already: too obsessed with perception & getting nothing done.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/116125352774169273 Self-improvement is also about unlearning and I think that lies at the root of "anti-woke" culture. It's hard enough to learn what you need for life and apply it, never mind be told, after maybe decades, that's not right any more and you need to "unlearn" some behaviour. In the past, I definitely held beliefs that would now be considered racist, mysoginist, ableist. But I learned they were wrong. I don't mean someone told me they were wrong and I accepted it. I actually learned.

@ThePlant@mastodon.social should be obvious to anyone that has been on an AI generated site that @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social is not AI generated

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social excuse my ignorance and especially laziness... if that has 3Pis in it (presumably doing the compute) what's all that other board real-estate providing?

@hynek@mastodon.social "What needs to change" well, you should probably stop using "AI"...

@badtux it was exactly this thinking that led me to discover the Overton Window yesterday. Terrible time to be alive.

@mattburgess@infosec.exchange neither the first nor last, is it? This is going to be normal now.

@cstross@wandering.shop I didn't know it was called push-polling. When I responded to the consultation on Boris' plans to "reintroduce" imperial weights and measures, that was a push-poll. It didn't let you actively denounce or disagree with the plans.

@zbender@mastodon.cloud @ozzelot@mstdn.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I don't get this but it seems clever

@nixCraft@mastodon.social it seems like Valve REALLY did, right?

I think this is also at the root of why people don't like immigrants. They don't want to learn how to accomodate their beliefs and practices. And maybe that is a fair complaint EXCEPT it's coming from people who go abroad and expected to be served in English and eat egg and chips. You can't have it both ways. Of course, they also completely over-inflate the supposed expectations of them, hence all this bollocks about not mentioning bacon around Muslims.

@dgar@aus.social shot for shot remake with digitally de-aged original cast probably be more appealling to execs!

@dgar@aus.social yes, good work 👏

@DJDarren so, if I put it on repeat on Spotify (or w/e) and mute it, I just donate (a tiny amount of) money to Band Aid foundation? Was thinking I could co-opt the game into fundraising for Band Aid along the lines of "when you hear it send £x to Band Aid" but I can't find anywhere they take donations...

@DJDarren I did not know that

@MuseumShuffle@mastodon.social I can somewhat empathise as I used to have a hyphenated surname that was 16 characters and there was a 15 character limit in a lot of cases.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social yikes...

@european_alternatives hmm @Mojeek causes loads of 404s on our site crawling non-existent pages. That's not a strong recommendation in my view.

@wonderofscience@mastodon.social I knew the flat earthers were on to something!

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social intrigued me enough to click the video! Thanks for the push!

@SnoopJ I refuse these two options! The correct answer is "doing nothing". Miliions of people die everyday without my intervention and I don't feel guilty about it!

@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social TL;DR PoC are more likely to be felons so it would disproportionally affect them? (Just a guess)

@DJDarren doesn't seem very efficient, though... 😂

@fesshole@mastodon.social reminds me of when I went into a chip shop in Newcastle 20+ years ago. The kid behind the counter appeared to be of East Asian descent but turned out to have a thick Geordie accent. I chided myself all the way home for being surprised.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social it does? Why am I always the last to hear about these things.

@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer we definitely don't have space to lock anyone up on the pretext they might have committed a crime. But I agree with the sentiment.

@VeryBadLlama@mas.to or Mum. But I think she got it from her Dad.

@ExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global if Ted Kaczynski was still alive he'd be shrugging, like, "exactly".

@gamingonlinux more than happy for iOS to verify my age and share that verification in some basic form (i.e. some age "bucket" plus the verification method). Apple already has plenty of evidence of my age, I'm not giving them any extra information and it should mean I have to give less information to others. It's a massive net gain over where we're currently headed, where I'll have to share an ID with giphy so I can browse & send a gif with blood in. (Obvs I would not share an ID with giphy)