So I found a tactic that's working in my YouTube comments- thought I'd share.
If someone complains that a software I recommended is "woke", I ask them "what does that mean? Can you say more about that?"
They never say more. They delete their comment instead.
My tactic is to make them say what they mean. They won't.
Because they're cowards.
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I think the convention is "prep time" for a recipe is before heat is applied "cook time" is after heat is applied and "total time" is the sum of both, plus any required rest time between or after cook.
But, I do agree that can be annoying, because it's not the same as my expectations.
Upgraded my Gitea* server this morning and had a moment of panic when I thought I'd lost admin access. Turns out they just changed where the admin interface lives.
* I meant to switch to Forgejo, but never got around to it and then they went hard fork, so it's more complicated now.
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So for some reason two of my apps are suddenly switched to French. It wasn't a big deal as I can read it, but it was annoying.
I had my system languages set as follows:
I assume it was because these apps didn't have localisations for my first choice, but I don't know why they instead jumped to the third option, skipping the second.
Just heard someone unironically use the term "real AI".
Real artificial intelligence? What the hell does that even mean?
@Matthew Skala I guess, but that wasn't the context in this case.
@Judy Anderson Fair, but this guy talking about how Zork "faked AI" instead of having the "real AI" we have now.Edit: context
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5 months after escaping my abuser, I'm finally getting started w a lawyer who can help protect me & my toddler. The sliding scale fee is $200/hr, which will add up to thousands each month. We also need a car & housing support.
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The spoonie assistant I had lined up fell through. So looking again to hire someone with executive function and a driver's license to help me:
• Move - pack, organize and decide set up new place.
• Grocery shop, food prep, life management at home.
• Accompanying on appts so I don't get lost and confused when mentally spent.
• Life admin - filling out forms, phone calls (visual/auditory processing issues)
$20/hr 5-10hr/wk #Guelph
Boosts appreciated.
Need help asap.
#fediHire
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Amazon has invented a new kind of labor travesty: the chickenized reverse centaur. That's a worker who has to foot the bill to outfit a work environment where they nevertheless have no autonomy (chickenization) and whose body is conscripted to act as a peripheral for a digital system (reverse centaur):
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So Katy got a scam text claiming to be Canada Post with an underliverable package. I'm in the process of gathering information to send a report to their registrar's abuse department, but they're doing something clever to cover their tracks that I haven't fully been able to unravel.
For context, here is the link (with spaces added to prevent it from turning into an actual link and being accidentally clicked):
https:// canadapost-postecanadadeliverylivraison .com/canadapost/index.php
When opened from Safari on her phone, it loads a realistic looking phishing site, but when opened from any other browser, it returns an empty (0 bytes) page. I assume this is to hamper attempts to investigate abuse claims (though the domain name is already pretty incriminating).
Since there doesn't appear to be any kind of unique identifier, I assumed this to be some kind of spear phishing attack that was based on her browser's User-Agent string, but when I tell curl to mimic it, I still don't get a result.
Any ideas about how they're doing this?
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relevant, too...
VERY energy efficient.
In a world where an algorithm is working on programming **you**, right now, to accept complacency, it feels real good to assert control over something minor like "dumping your own ROM" or "ripping your own media".
If someone's pumped about that, don't harsh their buzz by telling them they can get it from a piracy website.
Your snark might make you feel good but if it's diminishing someone else's light, knock that shit off.
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Also learning how to dump your own ROMs or rip your own media is a useful skill to acquire in the event that you have a physical copy of something that can't be found on the places you'd go to yar har.
You might just become the source of preservation of a piece of media, or maybe having that physical copy is now more convenient than trying to yar har online.
I just got an email today from my doctor that there will be a charge of $25 for prescription renewals when requested by the pharmacy effective... at the beginning of this month (retroactively?).
Katy and I just renewed five prescriptions this way yesterday.
It's been a morning of interesting and stressful phone calls.
@e bored Sure, but up until this point that was the way he specifically told us to do it.
The thing that's changed is that he can no longer bill OHIP* for these renewals.
* Ontario Health Insurance Plan
I keep saying it, but I think there needs to be a much more robust cultural conversation about tech and consent where it concerns custodianship over other peoples' data.
If I know details about you such as your contact information, or hold work of yours in trust, how does my own relationship with tech affect and respect that trust?
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I don't know of or have any answers here. More I intend this as a kind of consciousness-raising? If you're writing a privacy guide, please consider broadening past the individual reader; if you're in a peer group, try to find ways to model raising these questions.
The default will always, *always* be what malicious actors make sure is the easiest choice — full submission and full subversion of community trust.
It has come to my attention that my favourite jacket is falling apart. I would like to repair it for two reasons:
I have no opposition to #VisibleMending.
Suggestions?
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but then who would referee the referee?
One of Cory's points is that greed was not invented in the 21st century - it will always be there, and we will always need checks and balances
Maybe the fact that people are forming emotional connections on genAI chatbots means we have an unmet need for social workers and therapists and in fact should invest more heavily into these fields as a society
Because given the scale of investments on genAI it’s pretty fucking clear we have the money
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Thought I had berry juice on my hand from the food I was eating so I licked it.
It was ink.
I love my #FountainPen but sometimes...
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Not that knowledgable about that ink/line. I have noted that stuff like walnut ink, tea ink, sumi ink, very much can have a distinct flavour. A fair amount of ball point ink I've noticed certainly has a flavour. But some of the potential fountain pen inks, I can see basically not having anything you'd note.
I'll have to look up that ink.
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My question would be how much someone would pay for me to eat one of these, because I certainly wouldn't do it for free.
theonion.com/hellmann-s-introd…
EAGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ—Describing it as a convenient all-in-one option for consumers in a hurry, Hellmann’s on Thursday unveiled a new meat-on-the-bottom mayo cup.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Huh. I appealed the speed camera ticket online. They sent an email saying that it was being reviewed but nothing else since. Suddenly this morning when I try to check the status of the ticket, it doesn't seem to exist any more.
I don't want to just assume they've waived it, but I don't know what else to make of this. It'd be nice to have some sort of confirmaion.
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I worked at a company years ago, & for some reason was left alone in the CEOs office. He had one of the fancy DEC terminals we all coveted, not even turned on. I unplugged the serial cable (this dates this anecdote) and left.
A month later I happened to be in there & noticed the terminal was still unplugged.
There are engaged, hard-working CEOs out there. There are also completely useless fuckwits who contribute nothing positive. Their companies run despite them, not because of them.
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I was always bothered by the scene in #StarTrek II when they used Reliant's prefix code. The input device they used made absolutely no sense from an electronics (or user interface) standpoint.
It just recently occurred to me though that it makes absolute sense from a quick and dirty movie prop standpoint.
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Had the car towed to the mechanic's and walked to my brother-in-law's to wait for the mechanic to call us with the damage.
That was a longer walk than I expected. We also took a "shortcut" along a walking trail that I found on OpenStreetMap.
I was sure we were going to spawn a true crime documentary: couple disappear into woods never to be seen again.
Had to power cycle my router and my sshfs mounts... persisted somehow?
I'm not complaining, but I am confused.
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We were driving home and suddenly heard a clunk and the battery light on the dash suddenly came on.
Fantastic. We've been driving Instacart to make ends meet. We can't afford a huge repair bill right now. Hopefully it's just the alternator belt that snapped.
This car is 20 years old. It's not like it owes us any favours, but it's still a problem. The one positive thing I can say about this car is that of the two major issues it's had, it's always had the courtesy to break down a couple blocks from home so that we can limp back there and figure out what to do next.
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Just saw lemons priced at .98¢
I wonder if Verizon's gotten into the grocery business.
@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) A question about security pins:
My understanding is that the said pins are the key pins, not the driver pins, so if I'm gentle enough to not over set them, the shape of the pin should be completely irrelevant, right? I mean, they'd only pose a problem if they were pushed beyond the shear line, wouldn't they?
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Me: "what does that even mean? What part of Debian are you referring to?"
Them: [self-destructs]
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Someone said I was censoring conservatives by [checks notes] asking what they mean.
So I asked them to describe how asking questions was censorship, and... they deleted the comment!
It's almost like they're afraid to say it.
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Veronica Explains via Mastodon
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •FWIW I do occasionally ban folks from commenting on the channel, mostly when they're using violent rhetoric or objectifying me (or others). For the most part those comments get sent to the "holding area" thanks to word matches, where I can then ban folks without anyone seeing the comment.
Zero tolerance for assholes.
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Kinene⭐🐻
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •My tactic (verbal) is to be my inner child and keep asking, "Why?"
If it drives parents crazy, it should work with fascist morons.
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Billy Smith
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Chris Silverman 🌻
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •yeah, stupid people have never been rare, but I think the contemporary firehose-of-soundbytes meme culture has engendered a vast pool of chronically overstimulated folks who honestly have *no idea* why they believe any of the things they believe, and have no tools to even begin addressing the question.
When the only cases in your switch statement are "I agree" or "I'm mad", being asked to define yourself is probably one of those divide-by-zero things that just leads to a kernel panic.
Golden Bunny of Destiny 🕯
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Well actually, not all fools 🤪
(Trusting you recognize silly vs. obnoxious reply)
Gerard Cunningham ✒️
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •"Oh, you know the ones."
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Ed
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •I'm just going to leave this here. No reason.
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •It's the classic guy
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Cavyherd
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •I feel reasonably confident in guessing they want a reaction (preferably a fight), not a response.
I also have to wonder if this is of a piece with those folks who regard "asking for clarification" as aggressive. An especially tedious behavior in supervisors. (I've heard two unrelated reports of this nonsense lately, & I have to wonder if it is becoming a thing.)
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Raymond Russell
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •On most occasions when a person uses 'woke' to describe something, the wokeee will genuinely not really know what the person is specifically criticising. So to ask them to explain is quite honest but with a little side dish of a troll-ette which is a perfect combination.
Marty Heyman at COBOLworx
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •Sensitive content
Hmm.. 'them' has a point though. Ok, maybe this helps a little..
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •You don't need to buy it, or subscribe to it. You don't have to have an account or give permission to share your data with our few selected partners. You don't need to repurchase it every time it's updated and you don't need a new CPU for a latest update. You don't even need to buy a special computer to run it.
AND THATS WOKE!!!1!!one
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •David Peach
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •ive never understood why "woke" is supposed to be an insult. Its literally the opposite of asleep/oblivious.
People are idiots unfortunately.
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Unknown parent • •@Veronica Explains @Dev Albino People can be deprogrammed. It's not easy, but it can be done.* The best way to do it is to break the thought-stopping patterns that have generally been imposed on them. This seems like a really effective way to do it.
* I know this from first hand experience.
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •I decided recently that arbitrarily labelling people or things as "woke" is nothing more than a modern variation on lazily throwing about a "communist" label.
As in it's not enough to just say there's people or policies they don't agree with or having preferences, it needs to sound like an "insult" either by adopting an existing word or making one up.
Along with "libtard", "leftist" and a bunch of other words they can't articulate when challenged on explaining their reasoning.
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •...or they don't actually fucking KNOW what it's supposed to mean, they just hear it on MAGAnews...
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •I know the perfect meme 🌝
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •They won't say, because woke means being aware of and against systematic oppression. Someone who defended their client said that was what woke meant using lots of liberty to do so.
I doubt anyone wants to admit that is why.
AIPAC ur bags
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •tofugolem
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •We know EXACTLY what "woke" means.
In the name of "fighting wokeness," Republicans have been banning thousands of books all over the country, including several award-winning books famous for explaining to children why the Holocaust was a bad thing.
So when they say "woke" they mean "not a Nazi."
And just like that, you know both why it makes them so mad and why they don't want to explain it.
Billy Smith
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •This tactic was used successfully by teachers & librarians in Florida.
When parents were asking them about the teaching of Critical Race Theory, teachers would ask, "What part of the syllabus are you talking about?"
Most of the time, the parents didn't know what CRT was. They were just repeating talking-points & trigger-words that they had been told to ask about.
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in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •I can see why they would delete such comments: Fox "News" seems to use "woke" as a general insult devoid of meaning. Once they realize that (a) all they meant was "I don't like it", and (b) how much effort it would take to explain why they don't like it, they delete the comment rather than spending hours trying to critique some software that they couldn't figure out how to use.
Besides, maybe they don't want to admit to watching Fox News.
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Unknown parent • • •@codebuzz
They want to treat registered sex offenders as outcasts forever —Did a sex offender write that code? Ew, avoid that software. Is a sex offender giving a software talk? You are unsafe in that room.
More FUD from shills of Microsoft, which is in its death throes. Trying to smear FOSS contributors. (like RMS?)
People who can't stand a bit of controversy, who are led by media, by partial quotes taken out of context, shouldn't join any movement that goes against incumbent powers. 🐧
CakeMonster
in reply to Veronica Explains via Mastodon • • •but, but, don't you think being bigoted is cool? 🥺
Absolute fucking clowns, 🤡 when the real world strikes they can't face it.
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Unknown parent • • •I know I'm going to regret this question, but: What does that even mean?
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Unknown parent • • •@redti
okay, redti is clearly a bot or a troll. Buh-bye.
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Unknown parent • •@redti How are "cancel actions" supposed to "expose" this?
How are the people who are saying, for instance, that the LGBTQIA+ community should be allowed to exist the ones who are causing division, and not the group who are trying to exterminate them?
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