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@NudelnAlDente the proper response to this nonsense is a decisive and not quiet
"I cannot order from your menu that won't stay still on the TV." or
"I do not use Instagram."
and walk out without looking back.
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Enshittification is EVERYWHERE, even when the product managers might not have meant to make it worse.
Vivaldi (Chromium) automatically starts OCRing a PDF with a missing text layer. It's eating my CPU time. How do I turn off the OCR?
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/119135/can-t-disable-automatic-text-extraction-from-pdf-s
You don't turn it off.
Remember when Obama was going to be the Most Transparent White House Ever? … and then he won a Nobel Peace Prize for killing people with drones.
Anyway, in case you missed it, Trump is working hard at being the Most Corrupt White House Ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9iZ10yIRwM
story from John Oliver
You can just pay Trump for whatever legal trouble you need to get out of.
As CoffeeZilla puts it, "crime is legal now."
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@ninapaley@spinster.xyz the message has a certain boomer verbosity. They never quite connected with the Internet and how to write here.
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I can't keep track of all the crazy people.
When did Arch become a project that deletes a resource for CoC violations that are completely non-obvious, and delete all threads and cancelling people for the crime of asking for explanations?
This behavior is a clear signal to all: don't join Arch. Don't contribute to Arch. You will be punished if you do.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/454582
The Audio Industry Is Grappling With the Rise of 'Podslop'
> Figuring out exactly which ones fall into that growing category is becoming more difficult
What about Google's old PageRank idea of analyzing links in and out? Shouldn't a podcast get a boost in notability if other notable podcasts mention it? If it worked that way I guess you'd have an arms race with the sloppers.
A certain person or two in my life are like the last panel here.
https://pizzacakecomic.com/post/814880509222076416
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New intentional security vulnerability in Ubuntu 26.04:
Password prompts in the TTY shell environment now show an "*" for every password symbol you enter.
If you record videos for publishing, turn this off.
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@NudelnAlDente this is the equivalent of a cocktail bar for everyone, speaking only Spanish in an English speaking neighborhood. Nope. Not for me. Bye.
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@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe thank you for providing this service to students.
In the footer of your site < boxedtux.com > "Docs → Getting Started" and "Docs → SSH Guide" result in a 404 error.
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Also you should probably mute your mic in post, while typing your password.
If you bet on events online, you have already lost, the moment you pay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0nsou-1Q2k
The winners are quantitative algorithms that know vastly more than you do and don't get emotional.
@magicalthinking@noauthority.social is that your story?
@MummaBear@noauthority.social is there any hard evidence that this is a true photo?
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@magicalthinking the IPO and the datacenters-in-space thing are a house of cards of lies, designed to covertly bail out a Musk failure in this company or one of the other ones.
Same shit with forcing Tesla shareholders to approve buying out the husk of Solar City, complete with a dog and pony show for "solar roof tiles" that didn't exist but "we're shipping these now".
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@magicalthinking if someone has these thoughts just looking at a sewing machine… they need to get laid or something.
Thinking about buying a MacBook Neo, but you're worried about whether or not you can run an old 16-bit x86 Windows program under Windows 11 for ARM under MacOS, on the MacBook Neo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptipTE0Gxws
Fear not. It actually works. (You just have to install winevdm < https://github.com/otya128/winevdm >, first.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIIWyoy4aF8
'Member when Paramount sold Star Trek NFTs and Sesame Street sold NFTs, long after it became clear that everything related to NFTs was a scam?
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I wonder if this is related to the "DigiCert was compromised" story that came out today.
(Looking now... Yes it is related.)
Mark Zuckerberg has become a caricature of himself.
> Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings… so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.
If you talk to your company founder and they're unaware of the conversation, how have you connected with them?
Would this behavior have helped the $88B Metaverse boondoggle?
@siina@social.criminallycute.fi since you're asking for real alternatives to NextCloud I'll namedrop https://alternativeto.net/software/xwiki/about/ . I have not seriously tried it but I've considered it a few times. It's a free software "enterprise" wiki like Notion or Confluence. Rich text and tables go in pages, preferably, instead of attachments. Might be worth checking out.
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I would probably use Edge if I could disable the fucking Copilot buttons everywhere.
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Just realized the pedistrian is obscuring the name on the car. To clarify: "Police", not "ICE."
Economically speaking, was Pokémon Go a fair trade?
CIA gets: you crawled public spaces and 3D scanned the spaces for them.
You get: a fun game that integrates physical exercise.
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@siina@social.criminallycute.fi try to read a textbook or scientific papers. That usually shuts me down.
Failing upward.
https://slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/0447236/ai-that-bankrupted-a-vending-machine-is-now-running-a-store-in-san-francisco
> AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco
https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/09/052205/social-media-sites-got-information-from-ad-trackers-on-us-state-health-insurance-sites
> Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites
And no one will be punished.
Coinbase decimates workforce, forces remaining 86% to take on extra responsibility, and annouces they are vibe coding the next Mt.Gox event.
@greenzeta@noauthority.social do they have anyone for whom the other side would vote?
Well, I gave GNOME a "serious try" for 5 minutes, after being handed a remote desktop VM in which to do a work task.
Can cross that off my todo list.
How is GNOME a thing, that people use?
I want to see the All Applications list. I had to click THREE UI elements to get there, and nothing afforded me a keyboard shortcut hint along the way.
No Dark Mode.
No "reduce motion" mode.
Basically, you don't configure GNOME.
Hiding the water and power externalities of AI data centers in suburban backyards.
Town and county governments: make sure you tax the residents who are hosting data centers accordingly.
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@ryan@bemrose.social
"alarm clock" -- you can't stop me
"I use my phone in bed" -- I know I shouldn't.
"notifications' -- omg NO. I only get notifications, visually, only if I'm looking at my phone.
Sam Tucker:
> Welcome to "What's Windows broken this time?"