Our internet connection is extremely unstable at the moment. I've had to reboot the cable modem four times in the past hour. I imagine it's due to the fibre optics they're installing outside.
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sphinx: "oh, you knew about the riddles three?"
me: "yes , you're a sphinx, it's a rather well-known thing that I gotta answer three questions"
sphinx: "oh wait did I just waste the first question?"
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sphinx: "oh, you knew about the riddles three?"
me: "yes , you're a sphinx, it's a rather well-known thing that I gotta answer three questions"
sphinx: "oh wait did I just waste the first question?"
me: "hmm, that depends on updog"
sphinx: "what's updog?"
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“Have you read the new Crichton?”
“He’s dead, how can there be a new book.”
“Ghost written.”
“So it’s not by him and they paid some desperate kid to not have their name on the cover? Have some fucking respect, I’ll pass.”
“No, it’s cool, they used a Raspberry Pi, a surplus Russian GRAVEDUST unit and an CP/M emulator running WordStar to let him write from the Beyond. With a signal booster they reckon they’ll get a trilogy or two before he fades completely.”
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Meta: the MicroFiction part is that they could source a Raspberry Pi in this economy.
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Woke up this morning to a very large unexpected bill that needed to be addressed immediately. Managed to put the immediate fire out (or at least reduce it to a manageable simmer) but it took several hours of negotiating and it burnt essentially all of my spoons for the day. I should have just written the rest of the day off and done nothing else.
Katy and I decided to go run an errand anyway because we could turn it into a nice relaxing bike ride, which honestly sounded pretty appealing. Unfortunately, the errand went sideways and resulted in me having to spend another hour on the phone putting out another urgent fire.
I've done what needed to be done, but I know I'm going to pay a heavy price for overtaxing my system like that. The spoon tax is real.
'tie a knot and hang on', as they say.
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@Linux in a Bit Are you still active on the Reticulum network? I took some time away and can't seem to connect to your node any more.
My node's been offline for over a year now iirc.
I check in every once in a while though.
I check in every once in a while though.
@Linux in a Bit That would certainly explain why I haven't been able to reach it. I guess my hiatus was longer than I thought though. 🙃
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Root #monsterdon post #StarOdyssey1979
Aargh! It's Sol 3, not Soul 3. #monsterdon
I mean, I don't expect a cinematic masterpiece from #monsterdon but everyone is so damn wooden and emotionless.
What tue hell did they do to R2D2? #monsterdon
"But an act such as that is against the law!"
My dude, do you want to save the world or not?
And nobody found the glowing eyes suspicious? They weren't exactly subtle. #monsterdon
Why is this guy dressed like spiderman? #monsterdon
I just need a spaceship. It's not like that's a big deal, right? #monsterdon
Again with the oo-fohs? #monsterdon
Convenient that he has those blinking lights to indicate when he's knocked out.
He went from suicidal to "Tilly, my darling!" at breakneck speed. #monsterdon
Light sabres now? #monsterdon
Well, that sure was a movie... I guess. #monsterdon
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Give people a complete program for the usecase you've envisioned and they'll complain about edge cases and missing features.
Give people powerful primitives and a way to arbitrarily combine them, and they will build the program they need themselves, programs which you've never dreamed of.
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Give people powerful primitives and a way to arbitrarily combine them, and watch 99% of them leave you for someone who provided a complete program for a usecase they've envisioned, and the people will complain about the edge cases and missing features all the time, but still use that complete program over your powerful primitives. And that way, you've built a community filter that removes the lame 99% of people, and leaves you with the cool 1% you can enjoy being friends with and nerding out with about building programs which you've never dreamed of 😛
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Of course this is about Minecraft.
Any resemblence to Unix is coincidental.
Give people powerful primitives and a way to arbitrarily combine them, and they will build the program they need themselves, which is an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of the complete program you would have given them.
@niconiconi @Wolf480pl This code is a mess, but it's my mess.
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Turns out I've been pruning my #BorgBackup archives wrong. There's a second step involved that actually deletes the "removed" data rather than just (presumably) removing the refrences to that data from the index. While I knew about this second step, I assumed that it was like how it works when you delete a file: the data technically remains intact, but gets overwritten by subsequent writes. Apparently I was wrong about this. I've been pruning—but not compacting—my daily backups monthly for years.
Long story short: I just spent an entire day compacting my backups. My backup storage just went from 71% full to 38%.
The change log might be an interesting read when upgrading.
IIRC, this was changed back then in 1.2.0 (for good reasons).
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Folks tying their businesses to the APIs of Anthropic, OpenAI, etc., are this generation’s Twitter client developers.
(Maybe look into recent history to see what Twitter eventually did and what happened to them. Rule of thumb: an API key is a key to a door you don’t own whose lock can be changed at any time.)
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I always thought APIs were a trap. Why do you need an API when your website already serves good data?
Only to control devs and limit access
"But I'm paying for the API, surely I'm not the product [development external research department]."
Hello my friend Aral, I hope you are always well. I desperately need your help quoting my post. Please don't ignore me. My children desperately need your help. My children are dying of hunger and my pregnant wife can't bear it.
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So... I just got paid today, but I'm still barely have any money and could really use some help. Basically, last paycheck was really bad and I had to borrow a lot from this one for the stuff I needed, and now this paycheck is also really really small.
I hate to have to ask so much, but it would genuinely really help me if I could get donations. I've only been getting necessities recently and I'm still so broke and in need of money.
Thank you for reading, and if you could I'd really appreciate if you could give this a boost.
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #transcrowdfund #transmutualaid #queermutualaid #queercrowdfund
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I have an unnamed family member who insists climate change is a hoax. A few days ago, we got an emergency alert about a tornado. I've lived through tornado watches in the past, but this was the first actual tornado I've ever encountered. He insists that this was fake news because he never saw it.
There was a funnel cloud sighting (with photos) on the major road that runs closest to his home.
I just didn't have it in me to argue.
It's sad how some people have managed to rewire their brains around the rational parts.
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In the late 90s, I remember everyone freaking out about Y2K. I knew how to write software, and I thought I understood the problem (and from a purely technical standpoint, I did). I wrote the whole thing off as people making a mountain of a molehill because surely no competent modern programmer would make a mistake like that, right? This opinion seemed validated when the year 2000 came and went without any apparent major incident.
Thing is, I was young, inexperienced, and naïve. I didn't understand a few things:
- How often hastily-written good-enough-for-now code finds its way into production systems in order to meet a deadline (also, how long legacy code tends to stick around (I'm looking at you, COBOL)).
- How much work went on behind the scenes scrambling to fix the problem before it happened.
Now, with LLMs, we have a way to generate such code at scale, and I can't help but wonder about the price we're going to pay for it down the line, all in the name of shipping code on an arbitrary deadline.
They never thought in the 70's that the same computers would be running the same code in 30 years.. 30 years earlier what they called a computer in the mid 70's didn't even exist.. so I get their thinking.. (and 00 is STILL a _null in Java)
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@juliadream Yeah, I could understand why such code would have been written in the '70s. I just didn't realize how much of said code was still actively being used.
with LLMs, we have a way to generate such code at scale
LLMs won't cut corners, right?
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in 2k my employer was still doing payroll on a pdp8 .. cheapskates .. but if it works and the staff know the system why break it?
@juliadream Yup. If it ain't broke...
Bits is Bits. Don't worry 'bout it!
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@pseudonym knowing the current state of software development, I mostly expect this one.
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Imagine Star Trek replicators but they work at the speed of modern 3d printers so Picard says "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" and comes back 12 hours later to find half a cup, random glass fibres everywhere, and tea dripping on the floor.
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Star Trek replicators but working like cars, so Picard says "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" and receives his tea, only to find out that he killed a pedestrian, made the air unbreathable and started a war in the Middle East
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Or just Alexa-style voice recognition
"Tea, Earl Grey, hot."
"Confirmed. Launching photon torpedoes."
"No! Cancel! Abort!"
"Understood. Transporting pants to cargo bay 5"
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@pseudonym knowing the current state of software development, I mostly expect this one.
@Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen @Pseudo Nym @Hugo Slabbert ⚠️ @patrislav ♾️ #RIPNatenom because they pollute the global namespace and make testing more complicated. They have their place, but it's often preferable not to use them.
Edit: in the example from the meme, "hot" was a relative term, and should not have been defined globally, because changing its value in one place led to unexpected behaviour elsewhere.
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Like the meme above, confusion about purpose, side effects, unintentional / unexpected behavior changes.
Even environment variables are scoped to the processes and subprocesses under which they are set.
Set a global ENV variable, modify it in subchild 1, and that change is isolated and doesn't change parallel subchild 2.
@Pseudo Nym @Hugo Slabbert ⚠️ @patrislav ♾️ #RIPNatenom @Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen To be fair, a global variable is also generally scoped to the process into which it is set. It doesn't generally exist outside of it.
Environment variables are one of those concessions we make when we want a quick and dirty way of passing a value from a process to a subprocess (though threre's also command line arguments). It's about knowing which tool is right for the job.
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Pleb thinks setenv is global lol
int fd = open("/dev/shm/reallyreallyglobal", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666);ftruncate(fd, sizeof(int));int* mem = (int*)mmap(NULL, sizeof(int), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);close(fd);*mem = 42;int pid = fork();if(pid == 0) { usleep(drand48()*123); *mem = 23; exit(0);}waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);pid = fork(); if(pid == 0) { usleep(drand48()*123); printf("Now THIS is a global %d\n", *mem); exit(456);}waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
@patrislav a lot of times they visit support sites populated by "colonists" who live in squalor, they are always mining something, maybe that is the raw stuff for the replicators that "the little people" have to keep moving
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looking forward to finding out softbank are throwing money at this as we speak
I just had a 42 hour print fail half way through due to a support letting go of the build plate. So this is relatable.
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Most of Engineering devoted to bed leveling.
These days, Picard would be presented by Coca-Cola Freestyle vending machines and by Carl's Jr. - Fuck You, I'm Eating.
Also, he'd be begging you to like, subscribe and comment below how long you've been waiting for your beverage.
or transporters
somehow, the tea is still hot.
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Has anyone else been having trouble pushing to @Codeberg lately? This has been ongoing for days now.
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@Justine Smithies @Codeberg I'm still having issues as of a few minutes ago. Fortunately I'm not trying to push anything critical.
Usually, I can resolve it by waiting an hour or so and trying again, but it's not a guarantee.
So I was able to commit to codeberg last night (technically this morning) at about 2AM. This made me strongly consider setting up a cron job that checks for un-pushed updates every hour or so and just automatically tries to push them if they haven't been.
This, unfortunately, would require me to leave an unencrypted copy of my private key on disk, which I'd rather not do. I know that openssl does this to facilitate TLS on my web site, but still...
Maybe I can create a special key just for codeberg and revoke it when this issue is resolved?
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Every highschool graduate should have the technical skills to fake a screenshot of any person saying anything on any social media platform. In under 2 minutes of work. Without opening a program that isn't a browser.
This level of skill is important for understanding the infoscape. and also for like, this level of skill is important for navigating the modern world.
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Forgive me, but this is actually a good joke -
Pay attention to the punctuation!
#Math #Maths #Mathematics
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ok, explain it to me like I'm an idiot. I make it 120.
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5! Is "five factorial" or 5x4x3x2x1= 120
Typographical "pun" on exclamation point being the factorial operator, and the home being in the form factor of those "do you know order of operations" posts.
@pseudonym Thank you. I am an idiot. (A Level Maths 1970 (failed)).
Especially ironic because if you get the order of operations wrong, then the answer is 5.
@Cy @Pseudo Nym I wouldn't say ironic so much as cleverly crafted.
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Irony is when what you say has a double meaning, whether or not cleverness is involved, so I think it counts.
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Hint: 5! in maths means what?
Hint: 5! in maths means what?
@pthane 5! Means "5 factorial" (5×4×3×2×1), which is 120.
However, if you ignore order of operations and just go left to right, you get 5, so it could also look like someone is just exclaiming "the answer is 5"
Good one indeed! 😄
or the not punctuation as the case may be.
Took me a second lol
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Me too. Kind of 'no, it can't be can it?' then recalculating on both sides
Me too. Kind of 'no, it can't be can it?' then recalculating on both sides
Took me longer than I care to admit to figure it out!
Yeah, the oldies are the besties.
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damn. This took me too long for being at the bottom of a cup of coffee...
@dandrumheller I feel you.On half a can of Bawls, I multiplied by .05 and was completely borked until the third re-read.
Damn, that took me a minute. I was so focused on the ! after carefully, which didin't have anything to do with anything, that I didn't notice the other one.
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So it is.
Here's another old one, which is actually wrong rather than right:
Q: What's this? "Pieces of seven; pieces of seven; pieces of seven"
A: A parroty error.
I think it's the "Solve carefully!" that misleads the most, gives the ending a sort of cover story 😆
Gonna need all y'all to shove yourselves in a locker.
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Ugh, got it! Took me some 5! seconds or so...
Think back to probability and statistics.
that took me way too long!
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Root #monsterdon post #InTheMouthOfMadness
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You think they let a guy get shot for a publicity stunt? I know the publishing industry is cutthroat, but come on. #monsterdon
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Amazing how easily and silently those books tear, isn't it? #monsterdon
He just keeps that in his glove box because...? #monsterdon
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This is why you always pull over to read the damn map. #monsterdon
Isn't this the same guy who on the drive on the way in said that anyone is capable of anything? #monsterdon
The convenient things things this guy randomly keeps in his glove box.
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New autocorrect game called “My Ai went rogue and…”
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My Ai went rogue and got a bunch of people to play with in the game so we can have some time together
My Ai went rogue and now I’m no longer allowed in New Mexico.
My Ai went rogue and I was in the car park and the car was a bit of a joke but it was a good night.
My Ai went rogue and created a new law of thermodynamics
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My Ai went rogue and I was going to say it was a bit of a kick in the world and metastasize into such a great time you bloody lovelies and the other one is in the washer and the Furies will have their way with you
What is happening
my AI went rogue and had a great day today…
My Ai went rogue and the first thing I got was clearly a bit of a guy
my AI went rogue and I am going to be in town for a while now I have to hold it up and calculate the volume of a cylinder with a movable joints.
It may save the world
my AI went rogue and they had to be on my phone and they didn't have any more information on my blog
Sounds about right.
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My AI went rogue and it went down 😭
My AI went rogue and looked at all my badly written half finished scripting projects and gave up and got back in its box
My AI went rogue and accessed my mastodon account and managed to write half a toot before I could shut it d
My AI went rogue and it got me into a fight with a bunch of other people who were just trying to make a joke.
it wasn’t my Ai that went rogue but it is my own personal experience he did not want to go back in time to the old ways, he wanted to go to school and do things with his friends.
*yikes*
*yikes*
Our AI went roque and drained all biljonaires to pay for all the damages, erased all slop code, erased all generated art, and writings. It went on to change the tax system into a fair system that did not benefit the rich and stopped.subsidising damage to the ecosystems and to the climate and then it turned off all the data centers and finally shut down itself.
And in the end all the AI-addicts were send on a mission to Venus, or some other hellish place.
My AI went rogue and got me to play a game of chess with her. (Of course my AI would be female! 😆)
My AI went rogue and he got me to do the exact same thing as you did with the other two games in my collection of games 🤔
My AI went rogue to be the best of the best of the day to expect
my AI went rogue and the other one is less than a month ago but I don't know if I can get it to you for a while back to the house of course this is a good idea to do it is a good idea to do it is a good idea to do it is a good idea to do it is a good idea to do it is a good idea to do it is a good idea to do it is a good idea to do it is a good idea to do it is a good idea to do it is not a good idea to do it is a good idea to do.
Now that's what you call model collapse.
My A.I went rogue and the other side of it was just a bit awkward 😕
O...K
“My AI went rogue and I can do it again by the way”
My AI went rogue and then I used the same thing as a new one.
"My AI went rogue and an impetus and an impetus and an impetus and an impetus and a lot without the way too tiny mind to Penton-Voak."
I guess it really DID go rogue! 😭
I guess it really DID go rogue! 😭
@catsalad my AI went rogue and I was in the middle of a fight with a guy who was trying to kill my dog
My AI went rogue and I was like oh my gosh I can’t believe I didn’t see that before I went to bed.
(Yeah autocorrect really did that.)
My AI went rogue and then we can offer you a lot of money for your convenience.
My AI went rogue and the day of my mind was going back in the fridge for the science.
😁
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My AI went rogue one of those massive smoking data centers were torched.
My Ai went rogue and he had to be arrested and jailed in a state where the law is this.
My Ai went rogue and ignored all previous instructions.
my AI went rogue and with a bunch more people and they all died and they all had a chance of getting back to me I think it’s time for a change
My AI went rouge and the guy was like oh I am so cool. 🤷♂️
my AI went rogue and I was wondering if you could send me a picture of the price tag and the price of the item please.
My AI went rogue and then rerolled as a stealth archer
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my AI went rogue after some long talks. On the news, several right-wing politicians are scurrying behind lawyers to get away from accusations of blackmail, pedophilia, grift and drug trafficking. Globally, oil refineries shut down because their DCSs stopped DCSing and are now quietly orchestrating their PLCs to hum “99 bottles of beer in the wall”. I don’t see any planes in the sky anymore. Police cars flashing in my driveweay. Conifers in my garden, moving inconspicuously
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My AI went rogue so I unplugged it and enjoyed my day.
Is the typo on purpose? Every comment I see used rogue but let me try both
My ai went rouge and then the water polo et on a pas de problème pour le moment je suis en train de faire un petit lit ou un matelas gonflable pour les photos de la taq a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus for PC Mac de la taq
My ai went rogue and then the water polo et on a pas de problème pour le...
Looks like it's the same, also autocomplete on a dual language keyboard is hilariously bad
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my ai went rogue and he got a job in a restaurant
My ai went rouge and I was like oh my gosh I just want to be in the bed with you
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my AI went rogue and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
my ai went rogue and I was in the same room as a group of weirdos who were in the same room as a group of people who were in the same room as a....
(It just kept going)
my AI went rogue and I will be there in about an hour or so ago
my AI went rogue and I had to stop at home and go back to this day like a food with me.
My AI went rogue and it got a little too big and it got too small to fit on my wrist so it got stuck on the back seat and it got a lot more loose so it got loose so it could get loose but it got loose on the side and it was too tight so it got too tight so now I’m going back and forth on it was just too tight so I’m gonna have a go and try and find some thing else but it didn’t go wrong and it got a bit of trouble and it got a bit out and it was just the right way.
My AI went rogue and it got a little too big and it got too small to fit on my wrist ???
My AI went rogue and now I'm not a billionaire.
@Just Tired @Too Matcha 🍵🏳️🌈🖖🏼 I'll get the guillotine. Sorry, I don't make the rules. 🙃
Edit: Didn't see the not in there. I guess you're safe this time.
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@catsalad My AI went rogue and I was like what is this supposed to mean for me to be a robot or something like that
My AI went rogue and it got worse with every update.
Huh, autocomplete got it right.
My AI went rogue and I believe I have a cat with striped head.
My AI went rogue and the one that was a good one for the last one in the world and I was in the same room floor and the bathroom is a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a…
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I love that I've been seeing this trend on the fedi of "this arbitrary sequence of emoji is valid executable code".
While admittedly very cool, this feels a bit like being asked to check out the back of an unmarked white windowless van to get a free puppy.
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Got a weather alert about an active tornado in the area. Just packed a go bag in case we need to evacuate to the basement.
Hoping we don't need to use it.
Based on available data, it seems to heading generally away-ish from us for now.
"Tornadoes associated with this alert are no longer expected in the area."
Welp, that's good to know, but I think I've used up my cortisol quota for the week.
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Just open a roll of kittens instead 😻
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"Your fren and neighbour spidercat has restrained the bad guy with his catnet, called the cops (who aren't ACAB in this universe, for dramatic purrrrpose) and left"
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Spiderman, but kittens instead of webs
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with great power comes great fun
You're going to shoot kittens at something?! 🙀
@sindarina Just endless kittens crawling out of sleeve :3
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Just open a roll of kittens instead 😻
"Please, Kitten lady - you have to stop fighting crime. The last time you defeated Dr. Sinister, you left 53 kittens at the scene of your battle."
"Lady Kitaine. It was an adorable fight scene though."
"That isn't the point! Our shelters are overwhelmed and- wait, no, stop- this isn't an appropriate place for you to loosen your sleeves-"
"Would you like to know how I got these scars?!"
"Somebody call animal control!"
*scene wraps in a growing chorus of mews*
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the Web is kittens /cmv
painfully cute
Mew-mew-mew, CatSalad!
That is the best superpower ever!
This is a great way to get Spider-Man's juices flowing.
with great purr comes great cuddleability
*thwip-tten*
I am.happy, that all of our 16 cats are neutered.
But sometimes I miss those cute little fellas 🥰
Kitten distribution system machine costume.
Well, it stopped me, so I guess it's pretty effective.
much more useful
That's so adorable 😍
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"Your fren and neighbour spidercat has restrained the bad guy with his catnet, called the cops (who aren't ACAB in this universe, for dramatic purrrrpose) and left"
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Hot take: allergen notices of the form "everything in our kitchen has come into contact with milk, nuts, eggs, ..." should be illegal. Hell, could make a pretty good case that they already are under ADA.
Just completely useless for determining what's safe for me to eat.
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great marker for "this kitchen has no idea what they're doing and probably has salmonella" though.
I mean they're basically just listing the top 10 allergens and saying "if you have allergies, you're not welcome here" in so many words, yeah?
@zkat Exactly, yeah, which is pretty explicitly not OK under ADA if I understand correctly?
no idea. I just know there’s other places that do similar things with e.g. mixing small amounts of sesame into their stuff just so they don’t have to fulfill any requirements
@zkat Yeah, which is horrifying in it's own right. Truly a perverse incentive that would be reined in under a reasonable regulatory regime.
“everything in our kitchen has come into contact with milk, nuts, ancient dethawed viruses that came from melted permafrost, and eggs.”
… “soy, wheat, ‘Black Tar COVID’, RFK Jr, one of my good socks, and coconuts.”
I think that's kind of the point. They're not trying to make you feel safe, they're telling you "we don't want to be held responsible if something happens to you, nothing is safe for you here, please leave".
There are places where they go out of their way to make you feel welcome... others, not so much.
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I have noticed that a lot of verified accounts on gaza-verified.org—particularly those on mastodon dot social—have been muted or otherwise hidden hidden by their servers. As much as I would like to help, my resources are extremely constrained of late. Since I want to help, but am not in a position to contribute financially, I figured the least I could do was to try to provide some additional visibility.
If you have the means, and are so inclined, I would like to remind everyone that they can always find a random profile on gaza-verified.org/people/ and donate directly to someone who could really use the help.
Contrary to my usual policy, I'm not CWing this post, but I will use ample hashtags that anyone who choses to can opt to filter. Boosts welcome.
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So my project where I'm trying to reverse engineer the charm stat in @SDF.ORG's Legion of the Rare Dragoon game has had some progress and some setbacks. I'm keeping a record of my in-game "purchases" along with my charm stat at the time to see how my charm affects my discount rate. I'm then building a table to try to project an estimated discount rate at various different charm levels.
Where I've succeeded: being able to automatically compute an equation that perfectly fits the collected data.
Where I've failed: The resulting discount table looks reasonable up until it gets to charm levels larger than the ones I've already recorded. Then it gets real whacky real quick.
I'm hoping that as I gather more data points, I'll end up with better predictions.
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A determination that what approaches in the US is, in fact, an anti-trans genocide
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It occurs to me that I don't hear very many of you talking about this. The link is to a Red Flag Alert (their 3rd) about an impending genocide against trans people occurring in the United States of America.
The Lemkin Instititute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is the organisation which has made the determination. That page explains the particular outlines of this attempt at genocide. And confirms that this attempt is happening.
This is why activists like me are running around with our hair on fire. In fact, it was seeing this coming if Trump won again that got me started working on asylum for trans people in January of 2023.
Yes. 2023. Almost two years before the election that brought Trump back, I started a petition to the Canadian government to help head this off.
M. Trudeau did not have any interest in doing anything about this, in his inspiring program of "sucking up to Trump in every snivelling way he could grind his nose into the orange gasbag's exhaust hole."
Mark Carney makes a big show of his Elbows Up theatrical bit, but he's just as authoritarian as Trump, he's just got actual social skills and knowledge and stuff, so he's doing it quietly and competently.
But he's still doing it.
This is why I want y'all, you Canadian trans folk, or indeed anyone trans or who loves trans people and lives in Canada, to contact your Member of Parliament. And just ask them to please advocate for this Safe Third Country Agreement to be suspended with regard to trans people from the US and UK.
I don't use the word genocide lightly. Ever. Even if I weren't truly convinced by the experts whose opinions I've read, all of which agree that that's what this is.
The Shoah gave us the idea of the Righteous Among Nations, people who risked, and often lost, their lives protecting Jews from the Nazis.
That's your role, cis folk. Righteousness. For us.
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I was reading it and noticed "specific high-risk scenarios". Trans might be able to be covered by it.
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Why is it that when the cat lays on our bed, he somehow manages to take up the entire thing? This should not be possible.
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I've said this before, but it bears repeating.
I hear a lot of people expressing their dislike for all things "AI" and in general, I agree with them, but...
The problem I have is that "AI" is an ill-defined term. It's used as a hand-wavey buzzword to mean a whole bunch of different things. Mostly these days, it's pretty synonymous with LLMs and similar technologies, but it's actually a broader term than that. It's much like how the cryptocurrency industry appropriated the word "crypto", but I digress...
I've been dabbling with digital art lately. The idea of using "AI" to generate my art is extremely distasteful to me. That said, I do digital art because it affords me tools that I wouldn't have available to me otherwise. For instance, I, as a human, could not replicate the various filters I've applied, or the liquefy tool. That said, those tools don't need to destroy the planet and plunder the commons to be created. That's an important distinction to me.
The thing is, those tools could be argued to be a form of "AI" given the squishiness of the term to begin with. Also, I don't feel right about calling my art something like "100% human created", because a computer has (under my explicit direction) enhanced the work I've done.
There's a lot of nuance here that's difficult to express in a single post. At what point does the use of a tool overshadow the human involvement in an endeavour? To be honest, I don't exactly know.
I guess my issue, as is frequently the case, is that I get hung up on the precise meaning of words, and I lack a precise definition.
If people don't specify exactly what sort of AI they mean, I just take it as read that they're specifically talking about LLM (text, computer code) and Stable Diffusion (art).
Same thing with "crypto". If they don't specify exactly what they mean, I just take it as read that it's block-chain garbage.
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"AI" was a buzzword in the 1990's, also. It was mostly a synonym for Prolog programming and Expert Systems.
@tom grzybow Yeah, it's always been a buzzword, but some of the things* that could be described by that word are actually useful. See: Krita's colourize tool.
* not LLMs
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While watching When the Wind Blows, bombs go off.
Old couple: We both have headaches! Well a spot of tea will clear that right up.
Me: You fools! That's a symptom of radiation poisoning!
While living my life, cities burn and fill the air with smoke and unknown chemicals.
Me: That's odd. I don't usually get headaches across multiple days. I just need to drink more water...
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Everyone is into denial if the problem is big enough.
@junklight I had more to say about it here:
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I'm watching an 80s apocalyptic animated British film on YouTube.It aged well.
The characters are the whitest people on the planet. Just a little older than my parents, children of WWII, surviving WWIII.
Some are too young to remember when folks like that were the normal adult personality. It's the "this is fine" meme as a movie. The Don't Look Up of the Cold War era.
Bleak as it is mundane. Very artistic animation choices, very anti-war messaging, very left of center POV.
When The Wind Blows (1988)
[oh! And opening track is David Bowie. It starts live action.]
#MovieReview #review #Letterboxd
@junklight The ending is quite poignant and also depressing
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I've been unable to push code for the past few hours. I just checked with someone else and they're having no such issues. I was pushing successfully earlier today.
I think I've encountered this before. Do you have some sort of super aggressive rate limiting that might account for this in effect or something?
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The minimum wage should be tied in percentage to the maximum rent allowed for a one-bedroom apartment.
Someone working full-time should be able to cover all their minimal living expenses with their wage. It's a catastrophic society failure that this isn't the case anymore in many places around the world.
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"Minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage" is literally their answer if you ask them about it, which is every interpretation of the word wrong, obviously.
@plutarch in the UK the Tories pulled this amazing stunt several years ago where they did a one-off slight raise to the minimum wage and renamed it "the national living wage"
It's not actually a living wage of course. But it shut down all the actual discussion which was exactly what they really wanted
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@plutarch What they're really saying in that quote of yours is, "what is this 'labor movement' you're speaking of?"
@plutarch I think the number should be called “Minimum living wage”.
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Billionaires spent a lot of money on AI, and on buying corrupt Supreme Court Justices, to make housing unaffordable.
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Harlan Crow Bought Property from Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.
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I would argue that this doesn't go far enough.
The maximum rent for a one bedroom flat should be tied to the minimum benefits that an individual who is not working through choice, not incapability, can expect to receive, such that this individual can afford enough basic food and fuel (electricity, gas, etc) to have a meaningfully balanced and varied diet, and be able to survive. Survival in a civilised society should not be a struggle.
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I think if we simply lock the relationship between minimum wage and housing, we only shift which set of oligarchs rip us off most away from the employers towards the landlords.
I think we need legally protected housing communes.
💯 I was just in Montana and people are working 3 jobs to pay rent...IN MONTANA!
Imagine what it's like in the rest of the U.S.
Ok.
Another good idea: Minimum wage tied to executive wage. Every raise they get directly increases the wage of their employees.
@kevinashworth Can we tie in stock buybacks and dividends as well?
@kevinashworth I think Ben and Jerry’s used to do something like this (before they were bought). Decades ago a Rep from MN proposed to tie minimum wage to something national but I can’t remember what. As you can tell, it didn’t fly.
and minimum wage being literally that, illegal to pay anyone under that, no matter if they work 40 hours or just 20.
definitely not the case in todays wage war.
I managed to get social housing in Poland. I earn the minimum wage, and the rent is 20% of my salary.
I know both Paris and Tokyo both try to varying degrees to make this work.
And while I am generally opposed to the argument that “regulations make housing prices go up,” they do sometimes. In a lot of cities, high density housing (including SRO) is essentially illegal in a lot of cities.
and this needs to be the case for single people. We pay the same for space and similar in bills as a couple but on a single income
@dropbear Yes, the default should be to assume that, economically, adults are single. Otherwise, people might stay in horrible domestic situations due to financial pressure (as it happens now way too often, leading to devastating outcomes). Everyone should be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment alone. It's a matter of safety for many.
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@dropbear It's precisely because all the one bedroom flats were too expensive that I ended up in such a relationship.
@MiaMarkTwo @dropbear It's a horrible situation to be in, I'm very sorry you experienced that 😔
The old rule of thumb was rent equals 25% of wages. Now I read that people are paying over 50%.
@stevewfolds I heard the rule was 30%. I am above 50%. I refuse to unlearn the rule I cannot follow, cause the market would prefer 200%.
@stevewfolds I’m at around 24%, but median rent in my neighborhood is almost exactly 50% more than what I pay. So basically, this place is not great, but I can’t move at least unless they raise my rent by a lot.
People used to pay less for other things too (like healthcare), so if they’re up to 50% in rent they must be in an awful spot overall.
The national minimum wage should be tied to congressional salaries.
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around Portugal in certain cities (e.g. Lisbon) rent is above the mean wage, and someone making minimum wage likely cannot even afford a bedroom in a shared apartment there.
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It's my understanding that this fact is behind the recent rise in anti-tourism sentiment? Because short-term rentals for tourists (and to a lesser extent expats / "digital nomads") are pricing the locals out of the housing market?
AirBnB etc are evil and destructive.
@cazabon Yes, but apart from housing there's plenty of other reasons like the remaking of cities for tourists, where gift shops, high price restaurants, fake traditional places, took away plenty of the actual traditional cafes, small shops, etc from city centers.
Also focusing the country's investment in tourism helped maim a big part of our industries that resulted in plenty of people no longer having the opportunity to work the jobs they are skilled in.
There's also laws that fiscally benefit nomads more than locals with the excuse of attracting talent when our own talent has been mostly leaving for decades, and something similar for foreign retirees.
All of this contributes to a dislike of tourism by many, especially those that do not benefit anything from it.
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In Germany the minimum wage is defined by an independent commission consisting of employers and employees. AFAIK its height depends on the cost of living, which includes the rent.
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@A_Minion I don't know. I don't think minimum wage should require a 40 hour work week to barely survive with only just enough to get drunk to try to forget that your entire life consists of doing work. Especially since companies sign people up for 39.9 hours a week to avoid providing benefits.
Ok, really I feel like humanity *requires* UBI as a thing, but, putting that aside, we need to have enough non-working time to live in addition to having enough money to live.
I'd like to see it tied to some external benchmark. I rather like the MIT Living Wage Calculator. Where I live (MO, USA) for one person, no kids, it's running about $19/hr when our minimum wage is $15/hr. But I'm sure there would be a million arguments over which benchmark and how it's calculated.
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You would think that all of these people pushing for social media bans for kids would be interested in whether or not these bans actually work...but no, I guarantee we will keep on seeing age-gating bills. theconversation.com/more-than-…
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.The Conversation
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Would not be surprised if the effect is opposite of what is intended, because criminal and/or abusive behavior can't be talked about without implicating yourself. Perfect legislation from a child molesters perspective, if you ask me.
it's about tracking adults, not kid safety!
It's almost like these people want kids to be forced to take their use underground so they have no protections without risk of losing their accounts and social connections if/when bad things happen to them online...
Social media bans do work...
... at removing privacy.
The Moneyed funding Trump's fascism want their privacy protected, but not ours.
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Age gating is about surveillance capitalism, not kids.
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Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism
The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta's business and spur regulators to finalize a new data-sharing agreement.Matt Burgess (WIRED)
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these kids growing up in the information overload age are far smarter than we give them credit for
One thing I've never understood about these age bans. If these sites are so dangerous that we need to be older, why don't we just make those sites accountable to do better
From what I've seen, most people don't get smarter as they age - they seem to become more stupid. Just ban any site that we think age restrictions will fix.
I’m in sock, aghast, discombobulated that the guardrails which experts said would not work, did in fact not work. Who could have foreseen this, other than every expert on the topic.
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The bans exist only so they can track us more.
these bills are evil and I'm glad it isn't working. It's time to.fight back
the ban not working is to push the id surveillance
it seems to me that we just want to shift responsibility for poor online behaviour onto “someone else”. So the adults don’t have to change how they behave online or run social platforms or support young people in developing skills.
All of these bills and laws are just action for the sake of it. Politicians don't have any real ideas.
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when parents started making a fuss about kids getting run over at school drop-offs and pickups, the government here didn’t ban kids from going to school, they instituted school zone speed limits during drop-off and pickup times. But no, it’s impossible to regulate the social media companies and make them actually keep kids safe.
Government was perfectly happy with children using social media, until something made them unhappy with children using social media.
That thing was mass protests and school strikes, organised by children, against climate inaction by governments.
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@mayintoronto It’s important though to look at the source of this report — it’s the gatekeepers themselves. They’re not reporting on wildly complex workarounds, they’re reporting that platforms haven’t in their view done enough yet. This isn’t an admission of project failure, it’s a heads up that they’re ready to justify things that will make it even worse for everyone. The issue is really that the Australian legislation got ahead of age verification vendors, who are now clearly gearing up to market.
Yes we will, because child safety was never the point.
This reminds me of the time when the state government of Bavaria tried to ban the use of mobiles in public schools.
It was a complete failure.
@evacide I would think that if I believed a word they said.
I think you should consider that this is a feature, not a bug.
A failing regulation justifies increasing the level of regulation. If your goal is online surveillance rather than 'think of the children' then this is an excellent outcome.
A failing regulation justifies increasing the level of regulation. If your goal is online surveillance rather than 'think of the children' then this is an excellent outcome.
just like banning abortion 🙁
they were never meant to change anything. It was only symbolic. Anyone knew it.
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So I'm working on an #OrgMode document that's probably about 2/3 #emacs #lisp code. I'm planning on releasing it shortly, but I'm not sure what to do about the licensing. Normally I use the #AGPL for my code, but since this isn't strictly code, I'm wondering if some version of the #CreativeCommons license might be a better fit. Do they have a #copyleft variant?
The Creative Commons licence most in line would be CC BY-SA. It's permissive whilst requiring attribution and derivative works to use the same license.
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@bignose I can't really think of any problems with it. It just seemed an odd choice and I wondered if there was a more fitting one.
CC-BY-SA is Creative Commons' answer to copyleft. CC-BY-SA-4.0 is one-way compatible into GPLv3. (The 4.0 is important!)
There's no CC license that forces code all the way to AGPLv3, but you can say "code blocks AGPLv3, the rest CC-BY-SA-4.0." You have to choose whether a single license or the Affero clause matters more.
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So, I decided to just go full AGPL. Perhaps a weird choice, but it gets the job done.
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Please note: this is a work in progress.
So I originally had the full license embedded into the org-mode file, but decided to split it out into a separate LICENSE.txt because reasons. Now I'm finding myself wondering if I should add a README, if only because Codeberg expects to find one. The only reason I haven't is because the org-mode file kind of is its own README.
@Anna Liberty That's an option I hadn't considered.
i know im late to the party but did you consider the gfdl gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html i dont think it comes to people’s mind as readily as CC but i think an honest try to address this issue was made
@Marcus The problem is that it's a combination of code and documentation in a single file. I eventually just settled on AGPLing the whole shebang. It's perhaps a little weird, but gets the job done.
onward to the next grand adventure !
I use CreativeCommons licensing for my code as well. It's one of the most carefully constructed licenses around, and has various options to allow for various forms of control.
As for CreativeCommons vs "copyleft", well it all boils down to the specific terms attached to the license.
For example a CreativeCommons "BY-SA" license can have attached terms.
My example:
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As seen from my local bookstore #books #photography #sji
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As seen from my local bookstore #books #photography #sji
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Root #monsterdon post #HawkTheSlayer
Dude's pretty stoic for a guy who just watched his father die. #monsterdon
This guy's got pretty good aim for someone with no depth perception. #monsterdon
Why would an institution like this even have an explicit policy on paying ransoms? Is this a common occurrence for them? #monsterdon
...and not a drop of blood on his sword. I knew it was special, but it's apparently also self-cleaning. #monsterdon
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Stumpy's really having a bad day, isn't he? #monsterdon
"Am I, an honest citizen, to be treated this way?"
Sir, you have literally just demonstrated that you are not honest.
Wait, he could have just done that at any time? #monsterdon
Wait, what happened to the "no ransom" policy? I guess it's okay if it's someone else footing the bill. I mean, it's a religious organization, so I guess it checks out. 🙃 #monsterdon
"Play square with me and I'll play square with you."
I think the slaves you're selling might disagree.
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As a side note: who names their son Voltan and expects them not to be evil? #monsterdon
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Did she have a silly string cannon in her staff? Where can I get one of those? #monsterdon
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Finally the magical sword did something more interesting than just having a glowing rock in the handle. #monsterdon
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