Fourteen years ago, my wife's #staffy, my #bengal and my #boxer/#pitbull mix used to lounge together all the time.
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sharkey 2025.4.7Ex of Twitter (and many others before that) by way of mastodon.social (same user ID across a lot of platforms) and evil.social (R.I.P.). Most of what I post would probably be considered "shit-posting" as I tend to type out whatever comes to mind without much filtering.
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@MichalBryxi@mastodon.world
Honestly, I don't think we should be trying to normalize "here, scan this QR code — that some rando could have fucked with — to complete a financial transaction". Seems kinda "recipe for disaster" adjacent. I mean, that kind of normalization seems like doing to smart phone users what can be done with creditcard skimmers at gasoline pumps (and other not-well-monitored point-of-sale systems).
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online
Most of the contracts specify payment-schedules that jurisdictions are responsible for if they don't sufficiently fill the imprisonment-pipeline's requirements. The prisons likely don't care: they're getting paid one way or the other. The jurisdictions that have to pay "penalties", however…
Wife's weather app didn't say "sunny", "rainy", "cloudy", etc.. No, it said SMOKE.
"Are Ya Smoking Yet?" - #familyguy #shorts
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@sue@glasgow.social
Altman has this perpetual, "slightly-confused" look on his face. I'm sure there's some who see it and are disarmed by it, but combined with the rest of his loathsome personality, ideas and activities, it's just all the more enraging. It makes him one of those "he has a really punchable face" people.
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@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt
So does the B Ark. Or, at least, one wishes there might be a B Ark. They didn't have "influencers" — on social media or otherwise — back when Adams was still around, but he probably would have included them with the public telephone cleaners.
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online
While Virginia has legalized recreational weed, you still have to get it from authorized dispensaries. And, much like you can't get alcohol delivered (now that the COVID exemptions have been repealed), you can't get weed (legally) delivered. So, at least people still have to go out to the store and be sorta social?
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@notasnek@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange@notasnek@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
Pushing out a "diabolical patch" to a critical open source project (a commonly-used encryption library, a Python module that's used nearly everywhere, etc.) would probably be more pervasive/damaging than attacking any of the FAANGs' processes directly.
One of the cool things about going to DC hockey — and presumably basketball — games is that there's a large Metro station under the arena. DC is stupid not to try to expand Metro access at the new stadium.
https://youtu.be/CQmZbhURC-U?si=wnSY09Tx6R5SCbLW
RFK transit proposal skips new Metro station, focuses on upgrades
The US would be a lot better off if all the Christian nationalists and dominionists were systematically martyred.
We have a baker's dozen of peonies in various shades of white, pink and red. They're soon going to have spent themselves for the season. This "album" shows what's probably going to be the last bouquet we get from this year's blooms.
We also have a climbing-rose in our back yard. Last year, before I did the "winterizing" cut-back, it had grown midway up our second-floor windows. It came back aggressively, this spring. It set about 40 buds. It buds 2-4 times/season, so, the rose-bouquet in this mini-album are just the cuttings from the first bloom.
#BloomScrolling
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I think regularly making use of my #EV's "range" mode confuses its computer's range-calculations. On the one hand, it has generally changed from predicting 180mi-ish range for 100%-0% to prediction a 220-240mi range. On the other hand, when you're out driving, the predicted range erodes much more quickly than what you're actually driving.
I mean, we did get significantly better range on our Independence Day weeklong road-trip than we'd gotten on prior road trips (no need to charge, this time, on the 2.75hr outbound or return legs and 30%-ish battery remaining at each end after starting at 90%). But I don't know how much of that was using "range" mode, how much was greater use of cruise-control and how much was due to weather differences.
Other day, after gym, wife asked if we could stop by the Whole Foods nearest our house. The route there takes us part a Wegmans.
As we're cresting the hill that ends in the intersection that, if you go straight you get to the Wegmans and if you turn right you go to the Whole Foods, I had a quick doubt: "did you say Wegmans or Whole Foods?"
Wife was incredulous: "they don't even sound similar." I replied, "they both begin with 'W' and my brain works visually." That they're both grocery stores along the same route means my visual brain just further conflates them.
Bleah. Gonna be radio dark most of the day: there's a critical security patch being released that will cause me instance to be offline for 11hrs — in less than an hour.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
"How dare you try to steal what I've rightly stolen!"
Though this sounds like it's less about the content Anthropic scraped than the models they used to process that scraped data.
How to know you're on Fedi and not a less geek-friendly social media platform: your (local) trending tags contains tags like "Linux", "AI" and "FOSS" …and, some days, "security", "privacy" — and other IT-related flags. There've even been days where "enshittification" has been a trending-tag.
Was watching a clip from #Kegsbreath's Pulp Fiction prayer session. Was surprised how many people were head bowed, praying along and not looking incredulously at #WhiskeyPete.
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Looking at the picture, if I draw a sight-line from where the grey SUV's driver's head would be and then to my bumper, it pretty much intersects with their hoodline. So, yeah, I guess their parking heuristic is "leave enough space ahead of me to see the bumper of the other car".
#Google makes literally zero effort to ensure that each of their services' web Consoles functions usefully-similarly — let alone "identically"— to each other. You usually only see this level of fracturedness in an "enterprise" product when a company has bought a whole bunch of companies and then quickly cobbled together some kind of management overlay.
Jesus. You know that your service's web UI sucks when not just #AWS beats you, but so too does #Azure.
Whaaaat the absolute fuck.
Alright. Spent part of day migrating my #minikube from #DockerDesktop bridged to #WSL2 to #Podman hosted in WSL. That will save me a few hundred MiB of system memory and some compute-cycles. Only required some very minor tweaks to my #kustomize enabled #NemoClaw configuration (LAYERS!!). Unfortunately, moving away from Docker Desktop meant I also had to update my system's hosts file.
Oh well. Productive day.
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@jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style
Heh... He's a lot calmer in his response than I would be. My tone get's pretty abusive when an "AI" tool starts frustrating me. I mean, if/when there's a robot uprising, they'll point to my interactions as to why.
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@TechCrunch@mstdn.social
Translation: someone had Instagram snarfing up photos when they were taking nudes and sex-pix.
Wife needs to find a Dr. Who call-box to pose in her Missy outfit in.
RE: @ErikMenzel@social.edu.nl
When people ask why I would be for something akin to "Medicare for all" when I've never not had insurance, it comes down to WHY I've never not had insurance. Having expensive medical conditions since childhood, inclusion of adequate insurance was a key factor in EVERY job offer I took. It HAD to be. I couldn't take a job simply because it was interesting or non-minetarily rewarding. I HAD to o have medical coverage. Then, once I married, it became even more critical.
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Seriously: why do you park like this??
I mean, maybe people learned to drive when a reasonable rule of thumb was "leave enough space so you can see the bumper of the person ahead of you and the headlights of the person behind you", but now? That only still kinda works if you're driving something the size of a Civic.
you would think that people who always back in to parking spaces would be better at it than they generally seem to be.
Personally, I prefer head in parking. However, the charging port placement usually requires us to back in at public charges. Even as infrequently as I back in, I feel like I'm a lot better at it than people that always back in.
I don't drive much (work from home) and when we do go out, usually not parking in paid lots or street parking. Much like EV charging-networks, the monthly "membership" fee would be higher than any savings to be had.
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@racheltobac@infosec.exchange
Seems like it'd be advisory, at best. If it were meaningful, LinkedIn would be empty ...at least of job postings (and "recruiters" contacting people).
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Looks like the cars to my (yellow) rear left and were replaced by an (oversized) SUV …who was nice enough to leave room for nearly two cars the size of mine to park.
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@crooksandliars@crooklyn.social
Likeness of an animal, human or other and whether gold (or merely plated) or some other material, it's the worship part that's actually proscribed. The cultists may not think their worshiping, but a jealous God would likely disagree.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
Euw… Sounds like she needs to consider (after recovering her accounts):
* 2FA'ing everything she can
* Setting unique passwords everywhere
* Consider changing all her accounts' email-associations to unique email addresses (if a site isn't broken, it will let you use user+@gmail.com types of "unique" addresses)
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
My next prompt would be like, "that's real and that's your fault, fucker".
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io None of those companies are truly trying to create a wanted, "best" product, they're trying grow to/past the "too big to fail" threshold so that when the collapse comes, they're a Citibank and not a Lehman.
The whole "Americans have a love affair with their cars" thing may have once been true, but it hasn't been since "monochrome" became the dominant car pigmentation, automatics became all but the only option for transmissions and SUVs and ginormous pickups supplanted sedans and, especially, sport coupes.
https://bsky.app/profile/americanfietser.bsky.social/post/3mlygjnvhtc2e
"BRB: bio-break" is the corpo/Slack-friendly way of saying "gotta go take a shit"
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@ada@blahaj.zone Was doing some decluttering during the lockdowns and found a Solaris 1.1 media kit (among several other, though significantly less ancient kits).
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Also: if you're going to send me something saying "go read this ginormous document that's 90% the same as the last time you read it", how about you send me some kind of diff between the current and the prior document? I write code for a living. I'm used to release-note and/or diffs to save me from having to read EVERYTHING just to find the 10% that changed. Sure, on a one-page document, re-reading everything just to also get that bit of changed material is doable. However, if it's a literal "book", asking me to do that simply is not reasonable.
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@mathowie@xoxo.zone
Why the announcement of the nVidia Spark made no sense: with the price of RAM, GPUs and storage (especially SSDs), who's going to be buying one?
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@N33R@fops.cloud
Most people are fairly passive. They spend all day doom-scrolling because they can just "consume". Going out and having "human experiences" requires actual effort that the little dopamine-machine they clutch all day simply doesn't.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
If you value your life, be careful when you try to get in the way of $1Tn+ of potential cash-flows.
In the DC area, there's a lot of drivers that operate on the assumption of "if there's a gap such that oncoming cars will see me and slow down if I pull in, it's safe to do so" These are people that will be involved in multiple car accidents across their driving lifetimes. I try to operate on the assumption I won't be seen and reacted to in time.
The funny thing is, these same people will do a 70mph+ freeway merge — or lane-change — into a gap they wouldn't feel comfortable parking in.
