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@nixCraft@mastodon.social @neatnik@social.lol
Just deleted my account and purged all data.
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Kevin Ashworth
@kevinashworth@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Front-end developer and acting teacher in Los Angeles. 👋
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@samloonie@mstdn.ca
Most of us want to be friends with Canada!
But, yes, I do feel sorry for us, too. We are in a bad place right now.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
You see hypocritical change.
I see an unending constancy. Of hate.
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@dansup@mastodon.social
They say that bots outnumber real people browsing online now, and as CTO it galls me that the non-bots are slowing things down for everybotty else.
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@tusk81@mastodon.social
For-profit prisons are immoral even when the people doing time are held for moral reasons, so this stuff with immoral ICE is deeply evil. Glad Montclair has taken this action.
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
The government people pushing this have been bamboozled or bought. Scary stuff.
Also: will not protect children.
Also, and worse: will make it easier to target young people right at the age of 16. As far as I can tell, that is its primary purpose. Very scary stuff.
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@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca
Yes. The people who receive the biggest payments are the ones who merit any scrutiny. For every dollar a fixed-income person gets there’s thousands and thousands of dollars going to Musk or Tom Steyer or many others. All basic social services are affordable and super cheap in comparison.
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@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social
Guardrails are not a good answer, though. Only abolishment.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Somebody who worked at Lucent told me in late 90s that he called it their “flaming red asshole” logo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent_Technologies
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
Yes. But I want securities laws as they currently exist to be enforced rigorously now, and not wait for a collapse.
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@chartier@toot.cafe
The number of people who are actively making a profit off of poisoning us is on the rise.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
Totally agree we need to warn about a literal skulls crisis!
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@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
Hard to say if his current insanity is better or worse than all his previous insane lies, like this one from 2016: “within two years, you'll be able to summon your car from across the country.”
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social @spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie
No, no, the whistleblower was not killed by Sam Altman, he killed himself.
Oh. Wait.
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@leswarden@mastodon.world @SeanCasten@mastodon.social
Yes.
Also maybe some punishment parity with Julius and Ethel would be good.
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@slightlyoff@toot.cafe
What a nice photo there of Lisa, a nice woman who has power to put an end to all sorts of very bad things, yet is a nice person of inaction.
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@augieray@mastodon.social
Grrr. Wish they were forced to air a commercial about this immediately after every time they run a commercial that tells us how very human their product is.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
I am thinking of running this list of commands to shore up my devices that run macOS.
First, I'm searching around to make sure there are no problems with this script, and also to see if there are maybe better things to do.
https://github.com/nFluDev/Disable-Google-Updates
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social
This a crime against humanity and therefore the punishment should be capital.
Of course, some will say I am overreacting. Okay, fine, let's lower the bar: Any direct and punitive consequence of any kind to even one of the individuals behind this criminal and unethical act.
If not, there is no rule of law. If there is no rule of law, and if the powerful can simply wield power against us and our home, if they are allowed to poison us for profit, our days remaining are few.
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@vcallinan@mastodon.social
Sorry, I’m an American.
Sorry I’m an American, too.
Commas matter.
Down with Zuck.
Yes to all this. Being able to say It’s on me without thinking twice is great. I want to go to there.
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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
We want (we need) a mix of tasks to work on. Some hard things that we finally figure out. Some easy wins. The fist pumps! The rabbit holes! The process!
I remember when the big concerns in life were unintended consequences. An unseen hand. These were the legitimate worries of all sorts of smart people.
Anyway, this crazy world now of intended consequences, it doth royally suck.
I moved to Massachusetts on a Patriots Day back in the early 2000s. A different time of my life, a different part of the country -- and a very different country, alas. But today I miss the Old Bean, its history, its art, its goodies that it gave me. Oh Boston, I tip my (tricorn) hat to you!
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
If I want this, I can simply use websites that offer this, so it seems silly to cram it into Mozilla.
“Private”? Well I guess a lot of GPT users have no idea if they’re having a fresh chat or if the LLM has access to their past interactions. Clarity and clear user options around that are a step up, I’ll grant them that. Reluctantly.
Proposed Dumb and Dumber sequel:
Dumb and Really Frickin’ Kennedumb, Jr.
Predators
This is a common trait among them. Thiel, Trump, Epstein, Noem, MTG, Zuckerberg, Raniere, Bakker, Mike Lee, Hannity, Bezos, Andreessen, that one guy at your office, Musk, the 62 million clicks, and the list goes on ad infinitum. All they want is you to do what they say. All they want is utter control over other people’s bodies, actions, money.
They prey. That’s what they have in common.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Any updates on how rides were improved? Or how drivers love the new changes? Anyone? Bueller?
Found this lovely thistle whilst hiking in Runyon Canyon today.
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@courtcan
All good points you make about this shocking lack of knowledge, but a reminder that cults and cult-like organizations are full of quite intelligent and well educated people. Unhelpful ivory towers are full of such people, too. That said, it’s also quite true that right wingers are attacking education as part of their endlessly avaricious draw to power.
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@beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange
The circular funding, and more particularly the way they are talking about it or shall I say not talking about it in their quarterly reports as public companies, is fraud. We really need these massive white-collar crimes to be prosecuted.
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@neatnik@social.lol
The name means nothing to me at first, but I see now I am using software associated with him.
I have dropped 1Password. Is it as bad as that? Time to drop Overcast too?
Suggestion for next big AI tool: Rate podcasts by how frequently the people, like, say like. Or kind of use kind of multiple times in a kind of sentence. Like a podcast like rating system that kind of makes like a difference kind of.
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social
Something even easier to do for most users is to stop using Google search. I am using Kagi now but DuckDcukGo and several others are good too.
Switch away from Google search!
NASA, having just pulled off the most incredible transportation event in recent history, is now poised to help you with your daily transportation needs. Stay tuned! From a walk around the neighborhood, to a drive into the office, has NAS-AI solved transportation for you? Next on CNBC.
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@thomasfuchs I'm a happy user of Kagi search. For so many people, getting away from the G monster's search is an easy and effective first step.
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@gknauss@mastodon.social
I agree … but I also don’t want to blame the Hobbits for the actions of Smaug.
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social
Let’s call them ferries.
Functionally
Equivalent to a
Racist, that is, a FERrie. Definitely not the word fairies, that might upset them. They are ferries.
Real words that I said to a tech lead today: “So after the software is developed, that’s when you’re going to hire full-time software developers?”
Ah, st𝐀rtup fund𝐈ng.
I was watching another episode of Happy’s Place (NBC/Peacock), and I thought, This is funny, and it has traditional joke structures and character archetypes, and it makes me laugh, and the actors are good, and goshdarnit I like it.
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@mhoye
It would be interesting to know how much of the growth in code is unit tests or e2e tests or updating old dependencies etc.
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