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@shaknais@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Author | Aussie | Written all kinds of tales over the years - romance, murder mystery, science fiction and fantasy and more.
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Replying to
@afeinman@wandering.shop
Facebook knowingly targeted kids with addictive behaviours.
So instead of telling them to knock it off, we're telling kids they're not allowed to do something. And punishing all the adults, whether or not they engage with Facebook.
So... We're punishing everyone, except Facebook. (Who actually asked for these laws...)
"AI companies will be barred from using Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the consent and control of the author."
Sorry, PM, I do not see how you can enforce this _when they already have_. Past tense.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-15/federal-politics-live-blog-tobacco-july-5/106916356#live-blog-post-319145
#Australia #AI
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@bennomatic@appdot.net
Tell 'em they're wrong.
Whilst "oodles" and "oodle" are probably unrelated, the second is still an archaic noun for money, in ANZ English.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/oodle_n
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@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space
ND. And... Sometimes? Gamifying chore reminders can help if I get stuck in a rut. But I'd go looking for one that is a game, on purpose.
99% of the time? I want things that get out of the way ASAP. A decent search is what I want from a shopping app, not achievements.
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@freddy@social.security.plumbing
Cancelling a decade of tech debt, is comparable to cancelling a gym membership.
Its a rough road, with all sorts of people being friendly and telling you to go away, and that no one wants to help you.
Doable, sure. But a slog through hell.
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@glyph@mastodon.social
I went through the nocode crazy of software generators in the 90s. It was... Similar. Everything had to be done that way. Managers could finally build products from scratch.
Everybody had to be a wizard. And today, everyone has to vibe. Until the costs come in, and then back to things as usual.
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@TheoEsc@mastodon.social
"got passed the allowlist" still means it had access to arbitrarily execute code. And arbitrary code execution leads to... Arbitrary code execution.
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@six_grandfathers_mountain@mastodon.social
Their current argument:
Meta has argued that "social media addiction" is not an established psychiatric diagnosis and therefore its statements denying its platforms are addictive could not have been false.
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@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social
Yup. No driver, I'm afraid. It'll be one of the odd Realtek ones.
Out now for ereader: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1979189
Launching physically around 2nd April, and whenever the hell it gets through the queue at your local library.
Dad: I can't stand this pain.
Me: You've spent the last decade telling me to suck up mine. You're not really going to get sympathy, here. Advice, sure.
Dad: ... Oh. I guess I did.
Fuck. Unforeseen consequence of last night's Android update: All my alarms were disabled.
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@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social
Could you try running this command in a terminal, and whilst it is running, pull out the usb wifi and put it back in a couple times:
watch -n 1 lsusb
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@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social
Well, I can tell you what's wrong. Not necessarily how to fix it.
You need a driver to use this WiFi.
Which probably means working out the model of the wifi, finding the driver, downloading it somehow, and then installing it.
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@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social
One more thing we could try, just in case...
This sort of kicks the kernel to make it restart network things, just in case:
sudo bash -c 'rfkill list ; iwconfig ; mokutil --sb-state'
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@tilton
My work announced a competition, for people proposing new ideas of how to use the tool.
Less than 24 hours later we had a not-subtle country-wide meeting, about how people who work for the company need to "get on board" with the mission of the company.
Everyone is tired of this bullshit.
My puppy thinks people in rabbit outfits are to be hunted. (Growled and chased) 🤣
Part-poodle puppy: Stop eating my chips and gravy!
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town
I think a lot of the jokes come out of cultural frustrations, rather than linguistic differences.
I ask what needs to be done. My coworker asks me to to do the needful.
They haven't explained what needs to be done. Usually, because their culture prevents them from saying "I don't know." or from instructing someone they see above themselves in the hierarchy.
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town
It can sometimes be a dog whistle, but to be honest, most of what I see is just frustration. Someone who doesn't know your culture, who doesn't know saving face, isn't going to comprehend why they have so many issues, until someone tells them. And usually, a society with saving-face, cannot actually tell you about it.
Racism tends to rise, when those misunderstandings are left to fester, that when it is finally made clear, it is no longer good enough
#WritersCoffeeClub 3/4: Have you studied writing?
I studied history. It plays a little into writing, because telling a story is something we've been doing for a very long time. Sure, genres change and grow, our understanding of impacts on audiences change, and how people react changes.
But at its heart, writing is still communication, and communication is the skill we all love to suck at.
Admiror, O paries, te non cecidisse, qui tot scriptorium taedia sustineas.
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@kumarvibe@mastodon.social
Well, as WSDL was invented in 2000, no...
Wizards. There's a reason half the icons in older Microsoft programs have a wand.
In 2001, Microsoft was bragging about using wizards to transform computing forever, for a decade.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160312214754/https://news.microsoft.com/2001/10/15/for-10-years-microsoft-publisher-helps-small-business-users-do-more-than-they-thought-they-could/
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@markwyner
That one is a Visa/Mastercard requirement. If paste is allowed, then copy can be re-enabled, and they've had a lot of issues with malicious extensions trying.
They could always shift to any of the other actually secure things, like TOTP, hardware tokens, etc. and then be accessible. But nah. Gotta keep things looking the same.
Oh cool. One of the new Android messaging features is the ability for someone to violate your muting of a chat...
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@TheEddieShow
My dog just turned one, and I remember when she was only handful size. These early shots, she cried for a whole day. Bonnie seems a braver girl.
I kinda want a metal cover of "Baby's building a tower into space".
Any takers?
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@Edent@mastodon.social
Might be good at workplaces and private carparks. No cables, less things to damage.
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@edri@eupolicy.social Most cookie banners aren't legally compliant. Why would changing the law, make them more likely to comply...? Noncompliant nagware is the point.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.ca @robpike@hachyderm.io @ElleGray@mstdn.social
But outliers are... Statistical outliers. Which means preserving that brilliance into the end product is beyond difficult. You have to bring intentional bias if you want that - which means greater hallucination rates.
Stochastic calculus is not forgiving enough for that to work.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social If someone could translate this to alda, it would make me so happy.
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@drewph@ieji.de
"Starting July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"
https://allaboutcookies.org/eu-mandatory-distracted-driver-system
Microslop will use AI to force push an update to Windows 11 25H2.
Boosted by @cstross@wandering.shop
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@oddhack@mstdn.social @cstross@wandering.shop
Don't worry, your bank will do it for you.
https://www.macquarie.com.au/digital-banking/q-ai-agent.html