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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Microsoft Teams wants me to interact with "Copilot". Confluence wants me to "Ask Rovo". Microsoft Outlook wants me to interact with "Copilot". Amazon Web Services wants me to interact with "Q". Datadog (logging and reporting tools) wants me to interact with "Bits". Excel wants me to interact with "Copilot". A grocery shopping app on my phone wants me to "Ask AI". Microsoft Notepad -- yes, fricking *Notepad* -- wants me to interact with "Copilot". None of this was here 2 years ago. Most if not all of this was missing a year ago. I didn't feel a sudden urge to have a cliche-ridden dialogue with my grocery store app or my logging tools 10-15 months ago, so it's not at all difficult for me to turn them down now.

@hosford42@techhub.social Is it worth naming and shaming the instance in question? At the very least, I'd like to check whether or not they're stinky enough on other grounds to go straight into the block bin.

@SRLevine@neuromatch.social

“For its age, this pump looks remarkably clean”

This is one of two introductions to a #Chemistry anecdote where you can guess pretty well what will happen next.

The other is: “So, someone in my group found some old ethyl (or any other-yl) mercaptan in the back of the lab…”

@alice > Autism: "What kind of train is that?" Three adults in my house. I am the #ActuallyAutistic one. It's one of the other two who's the exuberantly enthusiastic train fan. (All 3 of us are some flavor of neurodivergent, but the train fan has never seriously considered autism as an explanation for their particular flavor, and it doesn't strike me as super probable given other info.) Now, if you make it something like "Autism: try to describe your three favorite activities in under 30 seconds and *can't*" ... that'd work pretty well.

@david I wanted to make a post here that had a CW of “Spoiler Alert!” and consisting entirely of the text “^L”, but I had a suspicion not enough people would recognize it as a joke.

@janeishly@beige.party That sounds like oldish Millennial at the oldest. I’m about 10 years older than “oldest Millennial”, and the first modem I used whose speed I know for certain was 1200 bps, but the one attached to the thermal-printer terminal my dad brought home once, when I was 9 or 10, was much slower, probably 300 bps tops. I’m still at least 10 years away from a “typical” white-collar-worker retirement. I’m pretty sure you can find people 20 or even 30 years older, whose memories of early computers were “I plugged in patch cables and wired up literal magnetic core memory in my day.”

@hosford42@techhub.social @gregly@retro.pizza Yeah, I'm more into the "instablock user and move on" case ("r" slur is an automatic instablock; I don't care what the circumstances are) when it's a big instance like mastodon.social. Sooooo damn tired of nominally leftist/progressive people thinking that that shit is cool. Not surprised, mind you, but still damn tired of it.

@Artemis201@mstdn.social I’m surprised nobody has posted the obvious case in the other direction: Cations are just cats that have lost electrons.

@hosford42@techhub.social Congratulations! I’m glad something worked out.