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actual jumpscare #caturday

they are gradually rotating

Day 1 of unemployment and I've had a productive afternoon making inserts out of foamcore board for the display cabinet above my home office desk

@TechConnectify@mas.to and this will blow _you_ away https://youtu.be/eZchOopvunQ?si=yes

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange my "no comments about the ethics, morality, practicality of LLMs" clause is raising a lot of comments specifically prohited by the clause

@fesshole@mastodon.social no, we're not

@arrjay@tacobelllabs.net @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange just three?

@fesshole@mastodon.social this must be a deleted verse from the Scroobius Pip song

@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange just one monitor, s'fine

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social I attended a remote workshop on unconscious bias (because I wanted to, it wasn't a mandatory thing or anything like that) but unfortunately was semi-conscious due to fatigue on the day and didn't fully take it in. Would be good to do another one.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Your appointment to FEMA will be finalized within the week. I have already discussssed the matter with the Senator.

@fesshole@mastodon.social lost me at "validating my car parking" at a UK supermarket. are we back in the 1990s. is there an attendant in a little fibreglass kiosk operating a barrier

@kerfuffle@mastodon.online @tastapod@mas.to it's fun on the support desk side too, where every ticket I work on I have to scroll past the futile attempt of the chatbot to provide a solution

@fesshole@mastodon.social excellent

god. it sprayed _inside_ the drawers and into my partner's old paperwork... but most of it went onto, into, and around the laminate flooring :/

@torproject@mastodon.social genuinely curious if there's any future for privacy-preserving on the Android platform if Google go ahead with locking us into the Play Store, where they can veto any truly useful privacy-preserving apps

@onepict@chaos.social it's got its claws into you then

@book@beige.party 3 out of 4 were specifically for niche flight sim purposes... one monitor is just a normal monitor. the other is a large-ish (24"?) 1920x1080, so low res, but this gave a competitive advantage in one multiplayer flight sim where enemy aircraft and vehicles would literally be a single pixel at most distances, and this screen has physically larger pixels... the smaller letterbox monitor, that was when I was briefly infatuated with an Airbus simulator, and it was cheap and at 1920x515 it's just about the right size for four Airbus screens. the larger letterbox monitor is 2560x720 and just about the right size for the slightly newer and larger displays in a Challenger 650 business jet - probably the best-modelled aircraft for desktop flight sims today and by good fortune they all happen to run simultaneously off a fairly middle-of-the-road (I think) graphics card, a GTX 3060 with three displayport and one hdmi outputs

@suearcher@toot.wales @teabynameteabynature@cupoftea.social @Whiskeyomega@cupoftea.social wow I was considering / being considered as a potential local authority councillor here in Scotland some years ago... they do get a salary, augmented if you join various committees, but it's low, well less than minimum wage if you actually take it seriously and put the hours in. and as I worked for the local authority I'd also need to quit my job

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Encountered another racist troll yesterday, handwringing about the non-binary Indian national elected to the Scottish Parliament this week, also with an aristocratic display name, pronouns "my liege" or similar, suspended not-quite-promptly by vivaldi.net... not nice to see this strain of Twitter-grade trolling on the moderated side of the fediverse

@scholar_farmer@zirk.us spend the rest of the day deep-cleaning the affected rooms? 😄

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot @petealexharris@mastodon.scot @sunnydeveloper@mastodon.social i.e. the Greens at every election up to now? We should do the opposite. Abolish FPTP, including the constituency seats.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Monitor stands

@reflex@retrogaming.social @glyph@mastodon.social 😬😬😬🙁

@aral@mastodon.ar.al transphobic use of the pronouns field to boot

@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social she won't see it, because (thank God) she's not on the fediverse, or at least not on any part of it permitted to federate with us

@futurebird@sauropods.win @StarkRG@myside-yourside.net have you read the various Adrian Tchaikovsky novels... e.g. Children of Time? talks a lot about this kind of stuff - most/all of his stories feature sentient insect hives and the challenges of recognising unfamiliar life

@xkcd@mastodon.com.br probably lasts longer than most modern cars too

@fesshole@mastodon.social Audis don't seem to be a problem any more - in my experience. (I don't think I've ever driven one.)

@pheya@mastodon.social @arrjay@tacobelllabs.net @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange I was a pilot... a glider pilot... but the seat limit is 110kg and I'd need to put in a fair bit of effort to remain comfortably under that while wearing a 7kg parachute... and I'm theoretically about to start powered flight training but my instructor is old enough he's struggling to get a valid medical... and tbh I'm a little bit ambivalent about burning expensive leaded petrol expensively in the lower atmosphere as a hobby

@TimWardCam@c.im @adhd_coffee@mastodon.social I have an inbox folder all the emails of that nature get funnel into and I was watching for it to exceed 500 unread messages, but it seems they autodelete after a few months

@teabynameteabynature@cupoftea.social @Whiskeyomega@cupoftea.social but yes you could... this is bleakly hilarious but I really want to see the sources here 😄 I thought English councillors are paid, just paid badly?

@tastapod@mas.to "Hey, you in the street! Yes, you! Would you like some coffee??"

@tastapod@mas.to @trishagee@mastodon.social SELL THEIR HOUSES TO WHO, BEN

@FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital My old manager, Ons of the Domino's branch in Bath, would 100% do this given the chance

@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org for £9million? for a government contract? that's pocket change... why are they giving it to Palantir rather than Literally Any UK Software Firm

@goosey@mastodon.sdf.org @FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital christ

@tastapod@mas.to these chatbot experiences greatly reduce the support desk workload experience by giving the customer experience enough of a frustration experience the customer experiences an uninstall/unsubscribe experience experience

@cmconseils@mastodon.social See where the beeees oughta be found, and rollin around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiysKaxVYEs

@tastapod@mas.to @trishagee@mastodon.social (if that made no sense... this is the millennial equivalent to The Shining when it comes to axes in theatrical performance: https://youtu.be/0-w-pdqwiBw )

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu heck yeah fine them like a billionaire

@tastapod@mas.to that's an interesting observation because I had the impression Azure was designed by a swarm of bees

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange corporations aren't humanity jeff @tante@tldr.nettime.org

@goedelchen@mastodontech.de @codinghorror@infosec.exchange @tante@tldr.nettime.org Better to act against the corporation itself if at all possible, rather than the people leading them - we can't all be Luigi

@Hammerwell@troet.cafe @Lignedescience@social.sciences.re on a complete tangent, I wonder at some of the modelmakers making exquisite WW2 tanks and aeroplanes and adding a hefty dose of wear and tear... how much rust (on tanks) and chipped/faded paint can possibly accumulate in the months between the vehicle being built and it being destroyed/written off/replaced as obsolete..?