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Something I would say infrequently and irregularly on the only other social service I've ever used, and will translate to the #Fediverse:

All boosts, re-toots or re-posts (or whatever they're called) from this account are to be considered endorsements. If I don't endorse the post, I will either not boost, re-toot or re-post it, *or* I it will be clear in my comment accompanying the boost, re-toot or re-post.



I am getting thoroughly bored by the coverage about Philip Schofield.


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This vertically oriented logarithmic map spans nearly 20 orders of magnitude, taking us from planet Earth to the edge of the observable #Universe.

#astronomy #cosmos
https://www.pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/atlas-of-universe-is-linear-version-of_15.html

A logarithmic map of the universe.

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Today is 2023-06-04, the sun sets at 20:45:27 (21:45:27 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 39 mins and 44 secs. #SummerNightsJoyfullyBright

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the exact quote was "you cut that out now or you'll be going home in an ambulance"

happy pride

Zoey Tur places her hand over Ben Shapiro’s shoulders, leaning in to make what looks like intense eye contact. Ben Shapiro looking scared shitless but that’s ok because facts (and nobody else for that matter) don’t care about his feelings.
The photo is captioned: “Happy Pride history when a trans woman, Zoey Tur, told Ben Shapiro she would beat his ass if he kept misgendering her 🥰🥰🥰”

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"Sorry I don't make the rules" kinda sounds like you're enforcing them though?

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Remember, folks:

Keep supporting the WGA strike even when our favorite shows are delayed - especially then.

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Having worked as a journalist for nearly 20 years, I’ve watched as the industry declined on multiple fronts: local news, public trust, financial stability, and people employed in news #media. It’s difficult to blame one thing for this. I believe the causes are many, but much of it started from the greed of large corporate owners. Strangely, they began giving away our work online and then were perplexed that their bottom lines took a hit. What did they do next? Cut jobs and cut local #news.

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Today is 2023-06-02, the sun sets at 20:43:15 (21:43:15 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 37 mins and 32 secs. #SummerNightsJoyfullyBright

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Just a friendly reminder that if you store your government ID on your phone and find yourself in a situation where you have to show a cop your ID, you'll have to hand them your unlocked phone to do it.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23745168/google-wallet-state-id-drivers-license-custom-cards
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The precautions that tech companies put in place (because historically they're so very careful right?) are irrelevant when the people trying to bypass those precautions have the threat of state-sanctioned violence backing them up implicitly.

"Unlock your phone so I can make sure that isn't a lock screen wallpaper"

See how easy that was? They can say whatever the fuck they want.

You ever try to "show your ID" by leaving it in your wallet? They make you take it out. Why? Because fuck you.

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You know what you can't be doing if you hand your phone to a police officer, whether it remains locked on the ID or not?

You can't be recording the police officer on that phone.

So let me say it real loud for the people at the back who think that the convenience of not carrying a 10mm piece of plastic is worth putting folks who are disproportionately targeted by police in even greater risk:

DO NOT PUT YOUR FUCKING STATE ID ON YOUR FUCKING PHONE.

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why does everyone want to own the libs

as an open source developer i own multiple libs

i would happily pay people to take them from me

you do not want to own libs. its so much work



"Phillip Schofield says he has ‘lost everything’ in the wake of affair"

Dammit. I can't find my violin ... it's sooo small.


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Me: I won't discuss business in a room with an Alexa, because Amazon is my business competitor and they eavesdrop.

Various other folks: :flan_eyeroll:

Today: Amazon to pay fine for eavesdropping. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/01/1179381126/amazon-alexa-ring-settlement

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We're hiring someone to lead mozilla.social :mozlove:

Making this space safe and welcoming for all people is of utmost importance to us, and it starts with a product leader who is dedicated to driving positive change.

We're looking for people who are passionate about transforming online participation and enabling an engaging social experience that prioritizes health, safety and inclusivity. Please share with your networks and anyone who comes to mind!

#hiring #jobs
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/5082141/



Is that more billions than the billions being spent subsidising those tenants? or fewer billions?

"Buying homes of tenants whose rent is subsidised by State would cost ‘many billions’, Dáil committee told"


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Today is 2023-06-01, the sun sets at 20:42:06 (21:42:06 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 36 mins and 23 secs. #SummerNightsJoyfullyBright

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My current girlfriend doesn’t like my use of adjectives

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"Government to give 'deep consideration' to joining EU/Nato missions to protect undersea cables"

Can we give up, please, on this idea that Irish neutrality is defined?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41152948.html


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A Matt Bors classic from a decade ago.

I'm still sad that he quit doing political cartoons.

single frame cartoon.  a young and an old native american sit in lawn chairs in front of their mobile home on the rez.  

Radio: "Non-white babies now outnumber white babies in America for the first time."

Old Indian: "Second."

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How long away are we, do you think, from when Microsoft's social rating of each of us, based in part on the "civility" of the language we use in our text documents, will be used against us?


is your reader a landlord, because otherwise that warning is self-evidently erroneous, too


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Today is 2023-05-31, the sun sets at 20:40:54 (21:40:54 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 35 mins and 11 secs. #SummerNightsJoyfullyBright

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About ten years ago, the IT building for a local highschool burned to the ground.

My company donated a spare Juniper EX3200 switch to help get them back online. They had erected a small structure without any insulation, and left the switch inside unpowered for a day while the fiber splicers got them hooked back up.

They started the switch, and it immediately shutdown. They looked a gift horse in the mouth and bitched to us that our donation was garbage.

I was dispatched to assist. I connected to the serial console and powered the device up. It immediately indicated that the CPU temperature was 252 C, and shut itself down.

It was January, the outside temperature was -3 C. The Juniper device was storing temperature as an 8-bit unsigned integer value. It got so cold, it thought it was on fire.

Can't say I ever expected to use a heat gun to get a switch to start before that day. Got it warm enough to power on, and then it kept itself plenty warm to continue operating.

Data types matter, yo.

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Network and email security firm Barracuda today revealed that a recently patched zero-day vulnerability had been exploited for at least seven months to backdoor customers' Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances with custom malware and steal data.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/barracuda-zero-day-abused-since-2022-to-drop-new-malware-steal-data/

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Hello friends, today we’re launching https://cooperative.computer !

It’s like dGaaS (De-Googling as a Service). Nextcloud files storage, contacts and calendar syncing and a Matrix account all for £3 per month.

- No ads
- No data mining
- No BS

AND THAT’S NOT ALL! Don’t like it? Change it! Cooperative.computer will eventually be its own cooperative where the members decide how it’s run.

Come talk to us on Matrix today! Operators are standing-by. https://matrix.to/#/#general:cooperative.computer

alt text: an old timey cartoon of 2 kids holding hotdogs. The text has been modified so that one kid (who looks concerned) is saying, "aren't you worried about big tech snooping on your information???!!!" and the other kid (who is relaxed with eyes closed) is saying, "it's chill, my friends and I use cooperative.computer"
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Hello! This looks cool, and I'd love to boost it, but I couldn't see any contractual information, or any data protection / transparency information, or anything about storage location or security. Is this on a page I missed? If not, do you have plans to add it?

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@neil data protection / transparency here, will probably be added to the site: https://autonomic.zone/gdpr/

Data storage in Germany.

If you have specific questions about security, or anything else, let us know.

– 3wc

@neil and, replying from personal account because this is my own opinion — "£3/month + VAT for these services" is a contract, if a brief one.

CC @autonomic

@3wordchant
I wasn't looking to get into an argument over what is a contract or not, but rather to have a bit more comfort about what it was that I was boosting - whether there is a minimum term, what the cancellation period is, anything which might jump out as a red flag etc. :)

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Today is 2023-05-30, the sun sets at 20:39:40 (21:39:40 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 33 mins and 57 secs. #SummerNightsJoyfullyBright

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For those in the back who may not have heard it clearly: copying creative works is *not* stealing under any circumstance. Under some circumstances it can be considered infringement of rights, and illegal.

I don't know if #OpenAI slurping all written works for #ChatGPT is legal or not, but it's not stealing, and anyone who claims it is should not be taken seriously.


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Lol. Wait till they find out about climate change.
Headline from BBC News

Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn

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When I look up at Mars, shining brightly in the night sky, I find myself filled with hope that one day I will be able to point and say "See? That's where all the billionaires died."

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The country is suffering an enviroment emergency, a climate emergency, a refugee emergency and a housing crisis. These fuckers are fighting over who will give away to the most privileged in Ireland.

"Fine Gael TDs fear 'prudent Paschal' will cost them seats"

A pox on both their houses.
I wouldn't wish Bono on anyone 😜

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Today is 2023-05-28, the sun sets at 20:37:05 (21:37:05 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 31 mins and 22 secs. #SummerNightsJoyfullyBright

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We live in the dumbest timeline.

The people who won't get a vaccine because they think it contains digital trackers are cheering Elon Musk's brain implant.

The people who think we need government out of people's lives want government telling us what to read.

The folks who think every life is sacred before birth refuse to do anything about an epidemic of school shootings.

People who hate anything anti-American want pardons for the Jan6 insurrectionists who attacked the US Capitol.

🙄

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Today is 2023-05-27, the sun sets at 20:35:45 (21:35:45 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 30 mins and 02 secs. #SummerNightsJoyfullyBright

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Circular economy: raiding the communion money to cover the tooth fairy.

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me, researching: so whaddaya call the spyware the government implants on people's devices

Italians: trojan di Stato

me: ok

Germans: Bundestrojaner

me: fine

Finns: Trojan is "troijalainen"

me: ......that's actually not bad for you lot

Finns: thanks, we call Germany "Saksa"

me: that... actually makes sense

Finns: now try to guess how to say "German government Trojan," with the correct declensions

me: ...no

Google Translate: YOU SEE?! YOU SEE HOW HARD I WORK?!

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Kinda related-ish, and this one of those "I'm sure I read this somewhere..." things, but...

In the EU, when they have their big meetings, they have to provide translators from every language to every other. Allegedly the hardest to find by far is someone who is fluent in both Portuguese and Finnish.


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"2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood" on YouTube https://youtu.be/dWRCooFKk3c

2021 Remastered Edit: Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison & Prince pay tribute to George Harrison at the 2004 Induction Ceremony
I never really appreciated what we lost until I saw this for the first time about 3 years ago.

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Today is 2023-05-26, the sun sets at 20:34:23 (21:34:23 with DST!) and the grand auld stretch tonight was 4 hours, 28 mins and 40 secs. #SummerNightsJoyfullyBright

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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transport.”

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"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
— Albert Einstein

#science #quotes #bot

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