Today while I was out, I saw a guy at a busy intersection holding a handwritten sign. Obviously, I assumed he was panhandling, because people frequently do that there.
As I approached, I saw that his sign only had a URL on it. Out of curiosity, I visited it. Turns out it was some bitcoin mining scam.
While this was definitely a novel marketing approach, I wonder how they figured this particular tactic would instill confidence in anyone...
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There is a concept that some of you might find helpful - "subjective units of distress".
Many years ago, I was struggling badly with my life, going through one mental breakdown after another. I asked my psychiatrist: "How can I live my life if my anxiety goes from 0 to 60 in the matter of seconds?". The psychiatrist said: "But Nina, no one, including you, goes from 0 to 60 instantly. It just feels this way."
So, he explained, human brain is silly and usually cannot tell the difference between not being distressed (SUDS 1) and quite distressed (SUDS 7). As long as we keep functioning, our internal brain state and suffering in it seems to be almost invisible for us.
If I am at SUDS 2, and accidentally spill morning coffee on my blouse, it will probably raise my distress to SUDS 4 or 5, but I will change to a new blouse and go to work.
If I am at SUDS 7 after a doctor's call, and spill coffee on myself, I'll go from being calm to a sobbing mess faster than you can say "therapy".
Keep track of your SUDS!
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Let me find a way to critique without being acerbic. I don't like how people popup to tell me they disagree about how to define the fediverse. But that's not important
What I do think is important is how hard people work to gatekeep and squeeze down the actual promise and potential of the fediverse. It's exactly the kind of pedantic myopia that reminds us that the nerds will not lead us to the future we want. That's not what they do.
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You know what feature I find conspicuously absent from the #LambdaMOO programming language?
Lambdas.
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I love to see news outlets and organizations move from Twitter to the Fediverse and join my instance for example
But I would recommend for such parties to setup their own dedicated instance for a few reasons
- Easier verification aside from the link in the description, if one uses a subdomain for examle (social.news.tld)
- Manage the instance according to the orgs needs
- Easier for people to block whole news parts, because let's be honest. We all need a break sometimes
Just think about it 😉
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Content warning: ph, mention of blood, math/chemistry (possibly incorrect)
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Seems to have been inspired by this: https://archive.ph/G4ai1
Reporting in the Washington Post that the CDC says one day of isolation is enough for COVID cases.
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(taken from the passenger seat)
#Amazon
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I'm working on building a sushi bar in #LambdaMOO. Katy and I had the following conversation regarding the waitress I'm currently programming:
Katy: I'm surprised you didn't make her a robot.
Me: I thought about it, but a lot of the other shops are basically run by vending machines. I wanted to give mine a more human touch... though, right now she crashes when anyone talks to her. Humans don't do that.
Katy: Well, some do.
Me: Okay, fair point.
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Sitting in a waiting room in a medical imaging place and they have an ad for their app to get your results on a mobile device. Among other things, it reads:
"Permanently store them with bank level encryption" (emphasis theirs)
In my experience, if banks are their gold standard of #infosec, I really don't want my medical data anywhere near this system. Just sayin'.
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#AnimalCrossing #ACNH #StarTrek #TWOK
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Today I learned that GNU means GNU is not Ubuntu. The more you know
I don't understand it but I guess it makes sense because GNU is not Linux and Ubuntu is
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Flanders And Swann - The Gnu Song
Great little song from an extremely talented pair..Although I've seen a few versions of this on here (including a Muppets one I didn't know existed!), I thou...YouTube
#lambdaMOO #lifestyle #show #bilingual #chinese #english #MOO #MUD #VR
1400UTC Fri https://anonradio.net/ https://www.moo.mud.org/
Okay in about 5 hours a half hour episode (still) of #ZhenHouseZhenBonkwave will air, #Bonkwave a la @keefmarshall . I am planning to be in the explored location at that time, and phase of the moon willing, UNK will be in @SDF commode chat.
I will add it to the emergency archive location when I have a chance on the 24th (aka the 23rd).
https://gopher.tildeverse.org/tilde.institute/1/~screwtape/zhen-house/
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Should I dive down the rabbit hole of learning #Godot while I already have so many other projects on the go? Probably not.
Am I? Of course.
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@ryan2one3 the creation of the universe is widely regarded as a bad move.
It's boring and it becomes more boring in future. It will become a cold energy soup.
This is now the second time that Katy has tried to FaceTime her mother from the contact on her phone, which she's used a thousand times before, and gotten a random stranger.
Is there a problem with FaceTime's routing or something?
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"your computer looks weird, what is it?"
"it's trenchcoat os - it uses an amoeba microkernel and a port of qemu with GEM as a display environment. It's running on those small spider-like robots that are crawling up the wall."
"I'm calling the cops."
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