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@catsalad@infosec.exchange My dad's cat Peppone (RIP) looked a bit like that
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mastodon 4.7.2Dutch Italian living in Ireland. Ignostic (no typo) atheist. Epicureanism and equality for all. Code monkey but I'm not just doing it for the peanuts. Science nerd. If you're a bit weird we'll get on just fine.
See also @rozeboosje@fedi.at for my longer posts (5000 character limit) and @rozeboosje
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @vicgrinberg@mastodon.social
Well said. The cynic sees only pointless optimism. They think people who try to be positive just sit on their arses claiming that just "thinking positive thoughts" would make the world better. Of course it won't. But what cynics don't get is that there are people who realise that being positive not just involves thoughts but also actions. The world can become a better place if we put the effort in and don't let disappointments along the way stop us from trying.
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@Sanderde@mstdn.ca @McWabbit@tenforward.social @randahl@mastodon.social The chance to rebuild trust came in 2020 and was thrown away in 2024. We will, indeed, never fucking trust them again. Or, at least, probably not in my lifetime. In fact I never thought I'd see the end of the USSR, but I did. Now I'm wondering whether the next "superpower" I will survive is the USA.
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social iT's So DiFfiCuLt To iNsTrUcT a mAcHiNe To wRiTe My BoOk ThAt i MiGhT As WeLL wRitE iT MySeLf
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@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social @ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I am an old programmer and I hate AI with the searing heat of a thousand Suns
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@jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz @apenkop@mstdn.social @RandamuMaki@mstdn.social @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
He certainly would not be able to single-handedly destroy England, the UK or the world from his lonely Clacton parliament seat. Only Farage. If Farage lost against him, Farage would be over, and good riddance.
Clacton? What has Farage ever done for Clacton? Even Clacton itself couldn't possibly be worse off if they elected Binface.
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@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social @ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Yeah, and down and dirty learning. Trying out different things until they no longer break. By the time I get to that stage I have learnt what to do and, even more importantly, what NOT to do.
Whoa
#Wordle 1,875 2/6** for 7 August, 2026 (Left Wordle)
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Wordle 1,875 4/6*
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @VogueLaGalere@mastodon.online @lydialurch@mastodon.social It depends. Someone's granddad dies. He did something stupid when he was young. The family are mourning him. You don't mention "the stupid thing" and you focus on the happy memories.
Someone's granddad dies. He spent his life seeking power. He got the power and he abused it. People suffered. Fuck him.
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@cmsdengl@mas.to Hm I think they meant to say "Behold! Nigel Farage is attacked by a man with a bin on his head." but they misspelled "homine"
Apto, ergo sedeo.
#catsofmastodon
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@frequencyfault@mastodon.social @Sanderde@mstdn.ca @McWabbit@tenforward.social @randahl@mastodon.social Yup. I would wish CA (California, right?) the best of luck if it went its own way but be prepared for a long and nasty fight with DC. May be a good idea to make friends with other like minded states first.
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@JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch eeeEEEEeeeeeeeeIIIIIiiiiiiiIiiiIiIIiIiIIIIIiiiiiiiEeeeEeeeEeeEeeeeeIiiiiIiIiIIIiiiiiiiiiOOOOOoooooOOOOooo
#Wordle 1,839 4/6*
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Funnily enough left-wordle didn't like the starting word I went for today so I had to start with a slightly different but similar word. So the two games don't use an identical dictionary of "allowed" words.
#Wordle 1,839 5/6* (Left Wordle)
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@deirdrebeth@mas.to @Sanderde@mstdn.ca @McWabbit@tenforward.social @randahl@mastodon.social Exactly. Not even that leader. 2 years, max. Even if they vote in a fairly decent administration at the time of their presidential elections they inevitably vote to sabotage it 2 years later in their midterms.
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@splitbrain@fedi.splitbrain.org Agree about the "helpful guessing". Don't present anything as "the answer" unless you're sure.
The internet *is* a very large place though and there is a pretty good chance that a question might get lost in the noise.
Boosting is of course a great way of helping a person's question get exposure.
You could also ask questions. The dialogue may help a person see their own question from a different angle, "explain it to the teddybear" or "rubber duck debugging" style.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social even though I didn't see anything why do I feel like I saw something that cannot be unseen?
I love my kitteh but dang she can be thick sometimes.
I just went out to hang out some washing and I discovered Thebe had just caught a shrew. It was still completely unharmed and alert.
Took me an attempt or two but I managed to pick it up. Shrew in hand I walk out of the garden, over to the wall, and give it its freedom and it happily scarpers away to do whatever it is shrews do.
Thebe?
She's still sniffing around the same spot. "Now you see it, now you don't" 🤣
Caught another word that left-wordle doesn't like.
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On this occasion left-wordle came back with the exact same outcome as wordle on my first guess, so I tried the same second word. Wordle accepted it as a guess but left-wordle didn't
Wordle 1,841 6/6* (Left Wordle)
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@apenkop@mstdn.social
Trouwens.... dit gebeurde nadat ik uit Nederland vertrok maar ik ben het nog steeds niet eens met die rare grammaticale regel die "apekop" in "apenkop" heeft verandert..... het is toch de kop van één aap? 🤪
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@apenkop@mstdn.social @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk They're both clowns. Count Binface is a clown who might invite you to sniff his flower and squirt you with water. Farage? He is the demented product of a love triangle involving John Wayne Gacy, IT, and Ronald McDonald.
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space It is possible to hold the position that murder is wrong, and that every murderer must be held to account, and simultaneously be of the opinion that, to put it sarcastically, "it couldn't have happened to a nicer gal"...
This case being a perfect example. Murdering Ann Widdecombe was wrong. Her murderer must face the law, but don't ask me to feel sad for the excretable witch.
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@FlanFlinger@mastodon.social Not me. I remember it well. There was "Die Hitparade" in Germany, with presenter "Euer Ilya". Toppop in the Netherlands with "Ad Visser" and, of course, #TOTP 😁
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@frequencyfault@mastodon.social @Sanderde@mstdn.ca @McWabbit@tenforward.social @randahl@mastodon.social a dying wasp can still sting
After reading what happened in Berlin I've come to the conclusion that we need to stop tolerating queerness.
WHAT?
Yes, I'm serious. Hear me out.
"Tolerate"? Fuck off with your "tolerating". Tolerating is what you do with something that is iffy. Tolerating means you don't like it, but you allow it to happen anyway.
To hell with that. Start ACCEPTING that queerness is an inextricable part of humanity and start celebrating it, or get lost.
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@josh0@babka.social @cstross@wandering.shop yeah I feel ya but I'm happy to make an exception on this occasion 😁
Ann Widdecombe is dead
That's all. Thought you might like to know. 😐
This day last week we were travelling back home to #Ireland from #Vancouver
One of our party was carrying medicine that needs to be kept cool and the flight was going to be 8 1/2 hours.
Hot tip: in the airport they sell salmon. In the bottom of the fridge that contains the pre packed salmon they store ice packs.
If you ask nicely they will let you have one.
It's alright to say things can only get better
You haven't lost your brand new sweater
-Sultans of Ping F.C. "Where's me jumper"
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@sarah@sosial.link [Syndrome] "And if everyone's unique .... mwahahahha .... then no one is" [/Syndrome]
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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social
Gummy Bear: "Today's a good day to die!"
"GERONIMOOOOOOOOOO"
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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to
"We successfully removed the tumour from the patient's brain"
"Oh? Really? So how come they're dead?"
"We wanted to be sure we got all of it so we cut off the entire head".
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@veronica@explains.social I spent today finding out how to create an elastic job to pull data from a complex database into a simplified "reporting" database without clobbering the live data to death during business hours and then writing several stored procedures to make this maintainable. I can't see how any "AI" could have applied the 18 years of intimate knowledge I have of that DB schema and its quirks and produced something one of my colleagues could follow and maintain.
Well I spent a short while in my garden and I've already seen 3 species of butterfly. Yay for No Mow May.
Long thread but please read.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space 1/2 By far the biggest problem with LLMs is how they were presented as "knowledge bases" rather than what they actually are: data churners. A "knowledge base" ought to have a way to determine the quality of the data from which produces answers. It should be able to distinguish fact from fiction, truth from falsehood. LLMs can't do anything like that. They churn all the data in their possession, good, bad or bat shit insane, and regurgitate it in response to a prompt. .
:ablobwobroll:
Nice to live in a country where the weather is still tolerable and the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) marches in the Pride parade
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2026/0627/1580608-dublin-pride/
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@hn100@social.lansky.name That was my assessment from the start of the hype. Like every tool I've seen that promised it would let you develop things "10x faster", they always tend to speed up routine tasks at first, but then you have to hack around their limitations to such an extent that not only do you lose all the gains you appeared to make at the start, but you get so bogged down that ultimately it costs you money. Always been like that, no sign of it changing with AI either.
"Ann Widdecomb was a great debater"
Which is a great illustration of the fact that debating is no way to get to truth. You can win a debate and be utterly wrong.
"People liked her"
How do you separate a person from the points of view they publicly embrace? She had been called "charming" and "great fun to be around". The only way I can imagine seeing her like that is to treat her politics as "just a game" and ignore how they affect the people targeted by them.
#BBCNews keeps breathlessly reporting on the imminent nuptials of one "Taylor Swift".
To be sure I hope the day is a happy one for the two of them but, BBC, this is hardly the Event Of The Decade. A singer is getting married and a bunch of celebs are invited. Meh. It's nice to see "good news" stories but there surely are more interesting nice things happening to more interesting nice people.