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"It does not appear that he (Edgar Allan Poe) ever wrote or spoke of it, nor is there any evidence that he even noticed it. And yet that house, to the two persons in possession of certain information, equals or outranks in horror the wildest phantasy of the genius who so often passed it unknowingly, and stands starkly leering as a symbol of all that is unutterably hideous."

โ€” H.P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon, p. 233

This is just Lovecraft's not-so-subtle way of saying "I'm a better horror writer than Edar Allan Poe".

What a pompous ass.

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Why I stopped ordering food delivery:

Modest Meal..... $14.99
Drink.... $3.43

"I will enjoy the Modest Meal and a drink." ๐Ÿ˜‡

Bill:

Modest Meal $14.99
Drink. $3.43
Tax $2.80
Service Fee $5.35
Fee ... $2.80
Area Charge ... $6.90
Delivery ... $4.80
Just Go With It Fee $3.04
Movement Charge? ...$2.94
Delivery Fee... $2.80
Snakes ..$2.34
Vendor Notion $2.80
Just Because Fee $4.81
Ghost Removal $6.03
Vibes ... $1.03
Fee Tax $6.30

Total: 65.56
Tax Again For Some Reason: 11.62

True Total: 77.19 ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

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LLMs are not intelligent but they ARE good for spouting extruded text that mimics the zeitgeist of their training data and if that training data includes the overflowing sewer that is the unfiltered internet you're going to get gaslighting, lies, conspiracy theories, and malice. Guardrails only prevent some of it from spilling over.

Humans base their norms on their peers' opinions, so LLMs potentially normalize all sorts of horrors in discourseโ€”probably including ones we haven't glimpsed yet.

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โ„น๏ธโค๏ธ๐Ÿ–ฅ aka Compy-chan

@Armavica also crazy that our air is full of nitrogen, but plants canโ€™t use it. It has to get fixed nitrogen from the soil, which either we artificially provide or some bacteria fixed it commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Filโ€ฆ

File:Nitrogen Cycle.svg - Wikimedia Commons

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-dsr- (not a dog)

It's any unnamed vegetable oil that you would use to make a salad dressing; the key characteristic is that it doesn't have much flavor. It's often sold as a mix of whatever's reasonably cheap: soybean, canola, peanut, and in some cases, cottonseed.

You can substitute whatever you like, especially if you think the recipe would improve with avocado or olive oil.

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ec: selfie

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๐Ÿ“ I live next door to 18 chickens now. Therefore, be aware that a Chicken Report could happen at any time during Dubious Goals Committee. ๐Ÿ”

Also simf. Simf can happen at any time during DGC. ๐ŸŽน ๐ŸŽต

Dubious Goals Committee airs EVERY single day at 19:30 UTC! ๐Ÿ•ข That's:

3:30 pm Eastern (North America)
2:30 pm Central
12:30 pm Pacific
21:30 St. Pauli (Hamburg) โ˜ ๏ธ
16:30 Tierra del Fuego (ARG)

#radio, #anonradio, #sdf, #synth, #tob, #livestream,

Listen here: anonradio.net/

// aNONradio // โ€“ [LIVE]: World News Report with thenews

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#Radio #synth #sdf #anonradio #livestream #tob

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I need to request that *all* programmers remember that some of us are visually impaired and need to be able to edit the actual tar out of the font sizes for your menus, main bodies of your programs, etc. We need font resizing options, bolding options, color options, and font type options. For everything. If it's text, it needs to be able to be redone by the user. Also, that needs to be on a "global" and then a "per pane" basis, including the main area a person is working in.

Complaint trigger: All these M'Fkn' "Media Players" that are written for dinky little smart phones that no one over the age of 45 or 50 can even read hardly at all. I don't care that most of the people who download these things are around 12 to 25 years old. Some of us need to use these things in order to start or operate businesses and are *real grown ups.* We need these things but when we can't read them, they're useless to us.

Please fix this in every application on this planet. Thanks.

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Benoรฎt Rรฉgent-Kloeckner

@arbres @Barbramon1 @bike_ofen @keet @adelinej @pathfinder @Mepurfield Not perfect, but would it be possible to have in the display system a software that creates a magnifying glass around the mouse pointer? One could choose the size, shape and magnifying coefficient and be able to see what is needed, as well as click on it.
@Barbara Monaco @keet @AudhdDespiteNoisyAbleism ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @Kevin Davy @Not my full name, my fun name @B K O F
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Public service announcement.

(Created by bsky.app/profile/campfireharveโ€ฆ )

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begpost, urgent, homeless in 2 days

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#fediverse #help #homeless #mutualaid #kofi #aid #urgent #BegPost #beg #soonhomeless
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@Shae Erisson It's a thing my doctor's been keeping an eye on for a while now. My heart rate will occasionally just spike for no apparent reason. I'm told it's "an electrical issue, not a plumbing issue" which is apparently far less serious.

At present, it's nothing more than a nuisance. I'm wearing the monitor for now to see of they can actually catch it happening to better diagnose, but in general, it doesn't affect my day-to-day.

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Not to rub it in, but Australia learned from America's poor choice of president and went further left, keeping the Labour party in for another term and eating into our equivalent of the Republicans. In the fall out the losing parties even broke up their coalition so they might even never win again (At least not in that form). Unfortunately as collateral damage, Labour also ate into the Greens votes. But overall everyone is pretty happy about it. Murdoch media was fuming of course.
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ConnectionWithWonder

This week a โ€œlife-changingโ€ breakthrough in gene therapy has given people born with genetic hearing loss potential for recovering some of their hearing.

Also Britainโ€™s Ash trees are becoming resistant to Ash die back.

Also Ireland has gone COAL FREE #goodNews

#goodnews
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Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview. Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.

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> But I *like* programming. I *like* writing. I like making things and then being able to sit back and look at them and think, holy fuck, I made that.

Yes, this, all of this. Too many quotes to pull. Thank you @eevee eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-risโ€ฆ

The rise ofย Whatever / fuzzy notepad

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Whenever I mention that boycotting is a privilege, I inevitably get people trying to explain how wrong I am.

How โ€œeasyโ€ it is to find alternatives.

How โ€œimportantโ€ it is not to support big businesses like Amazon.

How โ€œlazyโ€ it is not to shop local.

They talk over me, condescend and accuse me of not fighting for the cause.

Disabled people need your support and solidarity.

Weโ€™re all in this fight together.

When we tell you something is inaccessible, believe us.

Most of us already feel guilty we canโ€™t do more, but thereโ€™s many things that arenโ€™t โ€œeasyโ€ for us.

Survival is resistance. Itโ€™s not โ€œlazyโ€ to utilize a service that will keep you alive.

Fight the fascists. Not one another.

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#UI #Design Grumps' #Manifesto:

  • Scrollbars should be thick enough to grab easily with an ordinary mouse.
  • Scrollbars should be a part of the window decoration, NOT inside the content of the window.
  • Active titlebars and inactive titlebars should be completely different colors or brightnesses. Obvious at the quickest glance.
  • Client Side Decorations are stupid, I don't care how many people say otherwise, or how many times. They're just awful on so many levels.
  • All text should be of decently high contrast, and any text atop varying elements like videos should be outlined and/or shadowed for maximum visibility. No more stupid plain white text atop bright videos, you absolute station wagons.
  • Any program, whether gui or CLI, should be comfortable and usable in either light or dark mode, depending on the user's preference.
#ui #design #manifesto

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Here's all our scroll-related settings, if that's helpful.

Also our Firefox is a bit older than what's current. Hopefully that doesn't have an effect.

The scrollbars still aren't the widest, but they could be worse.

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Wednesday, it's Captain!
(No ยปAIยซ-Slop.)

[Edit] I would like to give credit to @Scmbradley for the original idea, published as a text-only-toot.

#noaislop #Kvadraat #wednesday #tintin #haddock

#wednesday #tintin #kvadraat #noaislop #haddock @scmbradley
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Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

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Mamlena

My ICQ nr. was 214402666, still remember it today ๐Ÿ˜„ I have to admit I experience problems with no status today quite often because I very rarely visit my Facebook profile, don't have Facebook nor Facebook Messenger app on my phone, only sometimes login from my PC to share some important news. And people don't understand why I reply after a week or two if they reach out there.
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Hey, #Lawyer Bsky. If I get given an "AI Summary" of a Contract as part of the agreement, and it gives me better terms than the rest of the contract... Am I right in thinking the "AI Summary" terms are the ones that apply, under Contract Misrepresentation case-law? So this is kinda dumb twice?
bsky.app/profile/kjcharleswritโ€ฆ
#lawyer

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Before bezos owned the papers he harassed their reporters if they tried to report anything about Amazon with accuracy. I've read several articles that noted no one wants to investigate Amazon because they cause so many problems when information gets published about them

So of course i think he has every incentive to lie and project his ego. Who's gonna check?

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I was shocked to see how few people know of #OpenTyrian for Linux, one of the best ports! It's free on the Ubuntu repos. After installation, run 'game-data-packager tyrian' on a terminal, and it will create a .deb file for you on your home folder. Install the deb, and you'll have all the game data available for the game to work properly. Very enjoyable game!

Running here on my Linux Mint.

#games #game #gaming #scifi #shootemup #linux #dosgames #opensource #foss #tyrian #linuxmint #mint

#foss #Linux #opensource #gaming #game #games #scifi #Linuxmint #Mint #DosGames #shootemup #tyrian #opentyrian

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