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Them: post a block of LLM output
Them: other readers, please poke holes in the above
Dude, if you can't be arsed to write it, why do you expect me to be arsed to read it?
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mastodon 4.7.3I make chunks of the internet, and I like some stuff. Rest assured I'm not famous in any meaningful way.
I don't need your money, but I love the idea of someone buying me a coffee at random: https://ko-fi.com/offby1
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It feels like I have this complaint every time I travel, but… if you are actively sniffling and coughing constantly while traveling, and you don’t wear a mask, I hope mosquitoes find your eyeballs delicious.
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems IIRC it is one of the slides from the set of documents leaked by Snowden.
I wish there was a single word for the feeling of high hopes, thrilling anticipation, and eventual disappointed resignation that you get when a story carries you along, makes you dream... and then utterly fails to stick the landing.
Anyway, the first couple seasons of BSG were pretty great, huh?
Seeing how sensitive some sports fans get about the word "Sportsball" makes it really tempting to use it more.
While reading https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html by @andrewnez@mastodon.social, I spent half my time laughing at the plausibility of it all, and half my time wincing at the same.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822264297340100
I am no longer using or paying for #tailscale's Mullvad integration; while the exit nodes are handy sometimes, they are not important enough to fund the causes that Mullvad's CEO will fund using my money.
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@rysiek@mstdn.social
Mullvad is a political company fighting for free speech, free information and privacy, with two equal co-founders, co-owners and co-CEOs who fundamentally disagree on many issues. Daniel's donation to a political party is private and not part of Mullvad's mission. We protect the right to express and access views we disagree with. We welcome anyone sharing these core values, whatever their other opinions. We are happy to refund others who don't, where we can.
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If you try to tell a trans fedizen that they need to cw their reponse to today's awful SCOTUS ruling, you maybe need to sit this one out.
I'm engaged in my annual interaction with Robert's Rules of Order right now, and the chairperson of the meeting posted this article, reinforcing yet again just how good at this @artzfreak.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy is.
https://medium.com/@mmouritsen/parliamentarians-must-become-enemies-of-nonsense-a19ed7a258c4
It's worth a read, *especially* if you consider RRO a punchline.
So, uh, I might end up in the market for a new movie tracker, with the collapse of TorrentLeech. What do people in the #bittorrent world like for private movie trackers, and can we talk about how one might get invited? I've been a member in good standing of BTN and PTP for ages and ages)
(if you wanna chat about the ethics of this I'm happy to talk about all the paid streaming subscriptions that imo justify my maintaining a durable home archive of movies)
When you have the chance to see a friend you see if you’re lucky once every 3-4 years… you take it.
Good drinks, good company, an unfortunate number of miles between us.
"I'm here from AT&T to try sell you extra service while our techs figure out why we can't provide you with the internet you already have" would be the boldest sales cold open I've ever heard, except it then was followed up with "I used to work for T-Mobile but they fired me because I refused the COVID-19 vaccine"
For fuck’s sake, if you use LLMs, don’t fob off comprehension of your LLM-generated text on your readers. It’s fucking rude. If you ever find yourself writing “THIS IS AI OUTPUT. Treat it as such. This all needs to be verified!” you are being fucking lazy.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space I just had one done by Vegas Veccio from Studio Arcanum; they're the artist who drew the Seattle Kraken pride logo from this year as well, and their work is bangin’; https://www.ruledbyvenusink.com/portfolio is their portfolio, my piece is this:
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@cstross@wandering.shop @MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art It is, uh, not good. I bought the book *despite* the cover, not because of it.
It’s kind of weird to realize that, despite “we’ve set foot on the moon” being a part of my worldview as long as I’ve lived, tomorrow may be the first time anyone’s set off to even *orbit the moon* as long as I’ve been alive.
“the worst thing ever for me as a developer is having the urge to code and not being able to access my remote”
I ... just don't know how to wrap my head around this worldview. The developer in question is bemoaning Codeberg's uptime, but seems not to understand that they already have their source fully accessible. Several respondents in that HN thread, too, seem to think that they're working with SVN or something.
It's really weird.
OMG I HAVE HOME INTERNET AGAIN
The enraging thing is, of course, that this was entirely fixable from Quantum's side without a home visit, so they basically just left me disconnected for a week.
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@waffles@masto.yttrx.com I may have missed it in the mobile view. Did you post code? I'm interested in that webhook handler 😁
OMG, I can’t believe this is real:
https://rubycentral.org/news/a-new-chapter-for-ruby-central/
So, after gargling at DHH’s teat, Ruby Central’s next move is… pivot to AI.
What the actual fuck.
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@ubernostrum@infosec.exchange Oh, I use “USian" all the time; very few things are funnier -- in person or online -- than USians who get salty at not being granted the entire pair of continents. It's a term that is a) accurate and b) causes a reaction that is funny to ~8 billion people.
(I've literally been put on a BlueSky block list for having used it; if I'd been on the fence before that, I sure wasn't any more!)
Gonna post a bit of smut on main here, but… I think it’s worth recognizing that one of the best long form porn webcomics I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading actually came to a narrative close a couple of days ago: https://buttsmithy.com/archives/comic/epilogue-1
Alfie started off as basically hobbit porn, and the artist has steadily written it and drawn it for 16 years. It’s incredibly well drawn, better written than you expect, and also pretty hot. Seeing them stick the landing is delightful.
RE: @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
Why is everything like this, damn it..
I feel like maybe I'm holding it wrong but .. I expect that having ElasticSearch connected to Mastodon should let me search posts that I've seen, not just ones I've made, right? #MastoAdmin
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@MedeaVanamonde@beige.party @cstross@wandering.shop @MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art I am nearly certain Charlie isn't dead. Or else someone hooked up the Mastodon Seance feature on my instance, and I am pretty sure I'd have noticed.
Watching Contact again, my god, Drumlin is an asshole.
My one and only #StanleyCupPlayoffs superstition is that I am terrified of trash talking my team's opponents until the series is over. Every time I give into the temptation to do it, I get my heart broken again.
With that in mind, I hope my team is ready to play a very impressive Ducks team and come out of the series victorious. #hockey
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@ryancheley@mastodon.social Oh shit, dude…
This jumped out at me: “I always thought my first tattoo would be of something way cooler 🤷🏻♂️”
My partner shares that about hers; she has two dots, forming a line through which radiation was directed at the tumor in her right breast. She says, and I agree, that those targeting dots are more badass than any fancy art tattoo you could ever get.
Own your ink, friend. I’ll root for the radiation.
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@ehashman@cloudisland.nz I am sincerely hoping there's a "deBIan" one out there somewhere too.
Currently experiencing a strong feeling of “yeah, you can get fucked” about someone.
Oh this is super nifty!
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@ahelwer@discuss.systems Yeah... the funny part is, if I'd noticed this 8 months ago, I know the person who could have spearheaded implementing it :D
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@MaggieFero @phildini You should do what I do: use jujutsu and then every change is by default force pushed. That way you leave no trail of embarrassing CI and manifest tweaks.
God damn, playoff hockey will kill me.
If I were really rich I'd simply own a car everywhere I might like to travel.
A doctor who specializes in gender-affirming care (adam’s apple removal) has done an AMA on Reddit that’s a great read: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1sn8jaw/i_am_dr_mendelsohn_i_developed_the_scarfree/
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@astraluma @mariatta @aurynn @agmlego I use Pelican as well, and I've been quite happy with it myself. YYMMV of course.
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@redsad@ohai.social We're car shopping today and I regret that this conversation never happened.
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@ahelwer@discuss.systems I've got an automation that uses GitHub public keys as an input and (attempts to) create an EC2 keypair resource for each one (public only, since that's the common case) before creating an EC2 instance with them. The EC2 keypair resource does not support this key type at all.
It's not a problem with your process per se, but sadly it means that despite my enthusiasm for the concept, I can't use it at all, not even for personal keys :(
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@ahelwer@discuss.systems I just ran into a very sad thing here, which is that if you have one of these public keys in your GitHub account, and you have automation somewhere that uses those keys to create EC2 instances and keypairs... you're gonna have a bad time. :(