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I suppose there are worse digs for after a nuclear apocolypse. #monsterdon
Sure, just let yourself in. #monsterdon
I thought this place was supposed to be remote. It kind of feels like Grand Central Station. #monsterdon
This whole "you can't stay" schtick is getting pretty old already. #monsterdon
"That meat's contaminated. If you ate it you would die."
Haven't we already established that the standard rules of radiation don't apply with this guy?
I love how it went from "you're not welcome here" to "don't go too far." This guy's giving me whiplash. #monsterdon
"We'll all be dead, or like Granger if we're unlucky."
I don't know. I'd rather end up like Granger than dead. It doesn't seem to bother him any.
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Okay... maybe he's bothered a little. #monsterdon
"A million years of evolution with one bomb."
I don't think you understand how evolution works.
"They should bear children as soon as possible."
Oh here we go... besides what about the food probem you already have? How is that going to help?
Oh good. He's going all cult leader. Nobody saw that coming from a mile away. #monsterdon
Oh, get off your freaking high horse. It's the end of the damn world. Let people have their coping mechanisms. #monsterdon
Listen, you're better off without this guy. Fuck Mickey. #monsterdon
...and not in the fun way. #monsterdon
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I want to know who's the genius who thought that it was a good idea to put the enter "key" on my on-screen keyboard so close to the make-keyboard-go-away button.
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Picked up a used #bicycle for @Katy Lamothe because the battery on her e-bike is not holding a charge any more. Our car is very small, but it wasn't terribly far so I had her drop me off for the pick-up and I just rode it home while she took the car back.
I am in much worse shape than I expected. We'll be working on that this summer though.
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@ricobeck Well tbf there is a lot of decoupling happening. It takes time but things are moving. I‘m currently also part of such a project.
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I feel like this whole Anthropic export ban thing should be a wakeup call to anyone outside the US that if you've been newly developing a dependency on a proprietary US cloud service the government could decide to restrict export access to at any moment, you've made a strategic error and should probably reconsider that.
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By that logic, that means the US could take out most open-source software by blocking GitHub and GitLab, since the majority of it is hosted there.
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@dfx4509b even the so called "sovereign" @nextcloud still ignore our call to remove github in the client side (meanin replacing app update and server update) forced call to github for critial update.
because if github close they lose any medium to update their client.
And since they completly ignore the problem that show their hypocrisy.
And it's not like Nextcloud can't move to Codeberg or host their own git repos either, or even individuals using it can't also host their own git repos.
@dfx4509b @nextcloud i don't even ask that much, i ask at the minimum, removing the hard dependency on github for client update / app install.
because they have backup of their source so be in github will not completly kill them if it stop.
Client update suddently broken with no other way to update than manual update is a ticking bomb waiting to explode.
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Isn't their client open-source though? Couldn't someone fork it with the GitHub hard dep removed?
@dfx4509b @nextcloud people could but i find highly hipocrit to them that they simply ignore the issue.
Because again i can understand CI/CD on github make it harder, but i find unacceptable to force the user server to connect to github for actual update / app install.
Even more when they host themselve a file to "check" if there is an update only the download come from github.
Meaning to make ridiculous small economy of server bandwidth, they prefer endanger the update integrity of their user (if github come to block them).
So even forking the client with that hard dep removed and allowance of self-hosted git servers for its update source added in the hard GitHub dep's place wouldn't work?
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So much for being decentralized and open-source then if even self-hostability and the ability to fork fails you.
This could extend to the entire Fediverse too as given A) a lot of the platforms are also hosted on Github or Gitlab and B) the large instances are hosted on Hetzner VPSes, the US could hypothetically block all three and it's byebye Fediverse.
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At the same time, NextCloud still lets you host your own cloud and doesn't lock your stuff behind a subscription ala Google Drive or OneDrive, either.
And one can still self-host Fediverse instances locally if they have the hardware to spare for it.
Surely there are other open-source, self-hosted cloud alternatives besides NextCloud, though.
Still don't help that the US could hypothetically drop a digital nuke on basically the entire open-source ecosystem, the Fediverse included, by blocking GitHub and GitLab if they ever actually get hostile enough to do that.
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I do, of course, recognize I'm a bit of a crank about not trusting these kinds of US cloud services. But circumstances are conspiring to prove me right, at least for today
being a crank seems to be obviously correct these days
@catalina Pretty much! It's funny catching myself in what feels like it should be paranoid thinking and then realizing "wait this is fairly rational right now”
I mean people saying "obviously America wouldn't make decisions against its clear economic interests and ties with the global economy" are not serious students of history or prognosticators of the future, that it has been orthodox to believe in Rational Stable USA certainly doesn't mean the "cranks" are wrong!
You're not a crank. I live in the US and I don't trust them. At several places I worked we used Hetzner and Local AI for that reason.
what really blows my mind is, they've already ·had· that wakeup call via e.g. Microsoft Office 365 Online; and yet… 🤷
@eigen this one is infuriating because we've had good alternatives for ages and governments have the power to force third parties to comply and not spam block them but everyone is fucking addicted to never having to learn any new technology ever. Except for every time you change jobs then it's fine for some reason. Or when randomly they decide to switch to a cheaper provider that's also fine
THIS. There's a reason I'm using a French inference provider.
@aredridel I've had conversations with people where they thought "Claude" was French because of the name.
@fishter_uk @aredridel luckily there is Mistral if you want a French alternative
@Offbeatmammal @fishter_uk Mistral is such an also-ran. But whose model vs whose inference is actually an important distinction.
the entire thing is sort of a sham, not worth the attention
This has always occurred in the sphere of import and export trade, in every country regardless of its political system. It is only recently that it has been observed in the technology sector.
yup, it's not actually about AI, it's about power
I raised this matter back in January at our annual company council's symposium. I was told by the head of IT that it would be too difficult to migrate an entire company. People were quite willing to heed my warning and switch to European software themselves, but on a company, level, nothing has been done. If push comes to shove, I'll be the only person able to do any work - if we can somehow get assignments with our e-mail not working. Guess we'll have to go back to sending letters =/
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@VerenaRupp when they said it would be too difficult to migrate you should asked a follow-up. “Do you mean if this system goes dark our entire company closes overnight?” Because if you can’t even plan for a migration in advance there is no way you’re making it through one when it gets dropped in your lap.
@VerenaRupp virtually nobody really took "proprietary lock-in" seriously. And now it's come to roost. The #linux geeks could have told everyone all along. They were dismissed as paranoid.
Any service instead of software, really.
But it is only the cutting-edge model isn't it ?
@ledeuns Today. Tomorrow, who knows. Could be anything at any time in the land of the Mad King and his corrupt cronies.
This applies even if you are in the US.
You should avoid any cloud dependency.
I honestly have never cared for the cloud. But I've been recently hired by a French cloud provider and this definitely is a factor in making be believe my work there is important and matters.
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Yes, it is 100% risk, but the same risk exist with any in-the-cloud service no matter the geography.
Gov't overreach, or corporate decision/malfeasance can remove/restrict access.
"anyone outside the US"? Ummm what about in the US too. At any moment you could be cut off. Best spool up some local models or not build on Frontier Lab technology.
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@ricobeck Well tbf there is a lot of decoupling happening. It takes time but things are moving. I‘m currently also part of such a project.
I've been yelling this about AWS, google, meta and microsoft for over 15 years now. I doubt anything will change now.
Possibly, or even moving to a fully self-hosted git repo would help too.
Self host, its not that hard to put linux on that old computer and run your own services from your home. #TakeTheInternetBack
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One thing I can't shake is how hierarchical the LLM sales pitch is.
"I'm bad at X, so I just let the LLM do it" is implicitly saying, "X is not worth my time to learn or know about". You aren't ever going to get any better at X if the LLM does it, and your lack of skill means YOU ARE BY DEFINITION not qualified to judge if it's generated code meets your needs.
So on the one hand it further denigrates the knowledge you don't have as not important, AND introduces opaque complexity
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I love it when people decide to just light every single one of my spoons on fire first thing in the morning, especially when they're probably oblivious to the fact that they've just done so.
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I got three identical pitchers from the dollar store for making cold brew coffee. Recently one of them broke, so I picked up a replacement from the dollar store yesterday. This morning I noticed that the new one is slightly different.
This does not bother me at all.
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Broke the #bicycle out for the first time this summer. I got this thing second-hand from Facebook marketplace a couple years back and never really had it serviced. I know I probably should.
Anyhow, the brakes were feeling kind of off, so I decided to have a look at them to see if it was a simple enough problem that I could fix myself. I don't know the first thing about bike repair, but after a few moments of following cables and using my eyes and brain, I was able to determine that whoever last did the brakes on this thing knew even less about what they were doing than I did.
Long story short, my rear brakes actually work now—though I should probably have someone who knows what they're doing have a look at it. I just lack the funds to do so at present.
Also, bike repair is less scary than I originally thought.
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Park Tools videos on YouTube are really excellent instructions for everything.
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@Eat This Podcast Yeah, I had to consult a few, though I do wish that some of them did a better job of showing what they were doing up close. 😅
Edit: I misread your post and didn't realize you were recommending a specific channel. I'll have to give it a look.
Mine was built from parts found on a day out scavenging around.. it works and has never cost me a penny.. build them from what you find
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@juliadream I'm not skilled/knowledgable enough to do that (yet).
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Had to do a purge of the stuff in my bag. I was in denial about it, but it was starting to throw my shoulder out. Nothing in it was that heavy, but the cumulative weight was getting excessive.
Hard decisions had to be made.
Purging *any* possesions needs to be done on a regular basis for a myriad of reasons. It is a cleansing process.
@a.k.a. low-profile It's not that I'm getting rid of anything—apart from the dried out disposable lens wipes I found in the bottom of tje bag. It's about not carrying them on my person at all times.
I don't get rid of things easily, but on the flip side, I don't acquire things easily either.
Another way of looking at every day carry (EDC)
The two things that hurt the most to remove: my soroban and pen roll.
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So, is there a free or very inexpensive alternative to Let's Encrypt? It's one of the last US-based services I'm dependent on.
The mere service of creating certificates isn't an issue - you can do that yourself. I did before Let's Encrypt existed.
The problem is that you need to use a service that is authorized by an authority trusted by major browsers - and all of the major browsers have strong US ties. So even if you could replace Let's Encrypt as such with a service that, in itself, isn't US-based, it wouldn't really solve the problem of being dependent on US-based entities.
@Matthew Skala Fair enough. This is the reason I hate SSL.
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Had to replace my glucose monitor because it turns out that they expire (who knew?)
Anyhow, I officially hate the new one. It's clunkier, has a worse interface (everything is pictographs instead of text), requires more blood, is slower, and the first reading I got from it was very decidedly wrong (presumably because I hadn't applied enough blood). It said 3.2 mmol/L. I'm pretty sure I'd be, if not dead, at least feeling a little off at that reading. Did a second test (with more blood) and got a more reasonable result.
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Life pro tip: when charging your devices, it is helpful to ensure that both ends of the charge cable are connected.
In other news: I guess I'm using my spare earbuds today.
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moral of the movie: AI in education is going great #monsterdon
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Damn it!
I heard my alarm, silenced it, acknowkedged what it was for, and then proceeded to not take my pills. 🤬
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#Monsterdon In every lawless zone, there's always one gang member who decides to wear a top hat.
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#Monsterdon If only teachers had a predictable schedule, this could have been avoided.
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#Monsterdon Is he trying to do a "tough" voice?
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#Monsterdon She's a small wonder!
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#Monsterdon The other robots had a machine gun and a rocket launcher, this guy gets he claw from a claw machine.
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#Monsterdon You know, schools are just buildings.
If there's a lawless zone surrounding the school building, you could just hold school somewhere else.
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#Monsterdon But ... humans have skulls too. Why can you see the robot's entire skull when he opens his mouth?
#Monsterdon I wonder how compulsory education works in a LAWLESS FREE-FIRE ZONE.
You'd think that the only people who showed up would be people who want to learn.
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#Monsterdon In every lawless zone, there's always one gang member who decides to wear a top hat.
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#Monsterdon This is such an old-man premise for a movie.
The kids these days. They're out of control! Not respectful like we were back in the olden days.
If this continues we'll need to use institutional violence to keep the kids in line!
Who is this movie for?
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#Monsterdon This movie is like a right wing teacher's fantasy come to life.
Just watching it I can feel myself getting older.
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#Monsterdon If only teachers had a predictable schedule, this could have been avoided.
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#Monsterdon Is he trying to do a "tough" voice?
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#Monsterdon She's a small wonder!
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#Monsterdon If I was in charge of converting war robots to teachers, I'd probably have removed the ammo from their rocket launchers.
To prevent damage to the facilities if nothing else.
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#Monsterdon "It's ok, It's ok."
It's really not, though.
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#Monsterdon The other robots had a machine gun and a rocket launcher, this guy gets he claw from a claw machine.
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#Monsterdon It's weird how military robots always keep their brains in their heads.
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#Monsterdon If I ran a high school in the LAWLESS FREE-FIRE ZONES I wouldn't leave the fire axe on the wall.
That's just asking for trouble.
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#Monsterdon Is this supposed to be parody?
Or are we not supposed to notice this scene is a Terminator rip-off?
#Monsterdon Well, the second half was better than the first half.
I mean, it was still very stupid, but at least it wasn't a conservative old man's fantasy about how kids today don't have any respect.
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#Monsterdon This movie does raise an interesting philosophical question though.
How many gang members can die to save a single preppy girl and still be considered a happy ending?
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You are supposed to notice...in current fandom, it is recognized as an "homage"
(Hollywood stealing)
In the 90s, terminator ripoff characters were de rigueur!
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Still better than Steve Guttenberg doing Batman voice in 2 Lava 2 Lantula
I'm thinking more cyborg..?
Seriously, though. They could have waited a bit longer for the gangs to thin themselves out.
@Ben Ramsey @Andy L. Yeah, that made zero sense to me too. I mean, it's not exactly as though there was a whole lot about this movie thay made sense to begin with.
Now that we've set them at each other's throats, rather than letting the problem resolve itself, let's just kill them all.So, what was the point of this whole ruse then? I take it all back.
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How do you miss—let alone that badly—when you're literally aiming with your eyes? #monsterdon (pre-show)
Lots of practice I imagine
Maybe I'm just uninitiated, but since when can #Ultraman shoot weird laser things from his hands? #monsterdon
Remember when one million megabytes was impressive?
...though I guess this is supposed to be 1999. I guess it's historically accurate after all.
Or is it 1998? I forget. #monsterdon
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Is corporal punishment still even legal?
Does it matter when nobody's enforcing the law in the first place?
Apparently killing is a sign of intelligence now? #Monsterdon
I see this movie predicted AI psychosis though. #monsterdon
We'll discuss this later? Later!? #monsterdon
Well that was surprisingly easy... #monsterdon
Okay, it turns out they are waterproof, I guess. #monsterdon
Did they just start a gang war? That's a surprisingly complex strategy for these things. #monsterdon
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Now that we've set them at each other's throats, rather than letting the problem resolve itself, let's just kill them all.
So, what was the point of this whole ruse then? I take it all back.
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"You're making me very angry."
You've already told me you're going to kill me. What are you going to extra kill me now?
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She's surprisingly unbothered by all this. Is all that leaking fluid just for show? #monsterdon
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Why are they just standing there not shooting? #monsterdon
There's literally one damn place in this whole classroom they could possibly be hiding, but let's search in the opposite direction, because reasons. #monsterdon
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Do these things even have value as military weapons if they can't determine who they're supposed to kill? #monsterdon
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Hey fedi,
I want to do some experimentation with #sixels. What's the simplest graphics format that I can export from #krita that I can then write a tool to convert into the sixel format?
My naïve guess would be bitmap, but knowing the formats of that era, I'm willing to bet there are at least a half dozen different incompatible .bmp formats.
So yeah, I was right about the technical debt present in .bmp, but all is not yet lost. I have a solution.
It turns out that GIMP supports exporting to the QOI format, which is actually pretty reasonable. It's an extra step, but hey, whatever works.
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"You know that #ADHD meds are addictive, right? They're basically speed!" 🤡
Listen... if I were in danger of getting addicted, I wouldn't need daily reminders to keep me from forgetting to take them. 🤦♂️
#ADHD
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Previous person I dated didn't believe ADHD was a real thing. I hope she got the ADHD diagnosis and medication she obviously needed.
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@Shae Erisson I've been dealing with that nonsense since my diagnosis in the '90s. It's exhausting.
Has literally anyone at literally any point ever offered a logically-sound rationale for said nonsense?
Because I am f***ing baffled as to how it became popular to say “your disorder in particular is fake” about ADHD of all things.
I don't have it myself, but as far as I can tell, it's a neurological disorder like any other, and I don't see anybody sounding off about epilepsy or Parkinson's being fake.
@argv_minus_one I suspect people are uninformed about most things that don't affect them, and many things that do. That's my best explanation. They once heard someone say something and that's all they know about that thing.
@argv_minus_one another part is that some neurological disorders aren't obvious and people don't believe what they don't perceive.
@ARGVMI~1.PIF @Shae Erisson I think it just stems from neurotypicals not being able to comprehend the notion that other people's minds work differently from their own. I don't have this issue so much because I've spent my life surrounded by neurotypicals, so I see this fact first hand every day.
Because they fail to grasp this concept, they're led to the conclusion that we're lazy and/or simply lack willpower, and it's our fault for not just "buckling down". Sadly, they end up inadvertently gaslighting us as a result. I've had to work very hard to try to reverse this conditioning.
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Just had a (very brief) power outage, but despite the modem rebooting, all my TCP connections seem to have remained intact. Wireguard is kind of cool.
when teaching I describe TCP as a shared dream between two computers.
I also teach how to keep coffee shop Wi-Fi fair when one person is trying to steal all the bandwidth.
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This was kind of the antithesis of what we were going for, but hey, I get to eat pizza. Thus, I'm going to call it a win.
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BBOARD and the read new posts command is now scanning the REQUESTS board. Time to make a coffee, I guess.
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"a quick google search would have answered your question" mfs when i arrived at the reddit post from a google search
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Glad to see that my country has decided on a soverign snake oil policy. We can't be dependent on foreign nations for our snake oil supply!
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@Jonathan Lamothe fuckfuckfuckfuck this is catestrophic! This is really bad. This holy fuck. Holy fuck. This press release is a doomsday scenario.
what the fuck
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I got no stones to throw in this glass house. 😂
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Now that we've replaced our (long overdue) mattress, it's only served to reinforce what trash our pillows are.
Damn it. 🤬
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Reading up on Sixels.
My god, some of the stuff hardware/software engineers came up with in the 80s was elegant AF.
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My terminal doesn't support them. 😢
My terminal doesn't support them. 😢
you could try foot if you're on Wayland.
@fedops 💙💛 The intended use case was for being able to use graphics over an SSH connection from my mobile (Android) devices. I'm currently using Termux. The options there are... sparse.
Haven seems to support it but lsix doesn't really display much. 🤷
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Interesting article on the whole phenomonon of AI replacing human workers:
cbc.ca/news/world/ai-agents-te…
I loved the marketing spin from an AI company that said:
She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise
What this really means:
We don't have to ask for a raise. We'll just wait 'till you're dependent on our product and then jack up the price because you won't be able to do anything about it at that point.
If it weren't for all the people who are going to lose thir jobs over this nonsense, it'd be amusing to watch.
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Facebook et al are *saying* they're replaing people with AI, but what's really happening is they're scrambling, saying "Oh shit! We spent all this money on AI but we need to make our quarter. We're absolutely screwed. I guess we can lay off 30% of our staff..."
And Wall Street is all like "they are clearly very smart."
@Darcy Casselman Yup. That's more or less it. I'm just waiting for the inevitable massive price hike when these AI companies decide that maybe they should stop just lighting so much money on fire.
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So, I've struggled with restless leg syndrome for years. It always happens when I'm getting tired, and, frustratingly, makes it difficult to sleep. I thought it was something I'd just have to live with. It turns out, sleeping with a weighted blanket makes a huge difference.
Maybe that can help soneone else.
Also, it turns out I just really like the feeling of sleeping under a weighted blanket.
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I experienced restless leg for #LongCovid and can imagine, so I'm glad you found something that makes a huge difference! I'll keep it in mind if RLS comes back or if other friends mention it.
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Everything's getting sloppified. It's kind of making me want to just throw my computer into the ocean.
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The first thing I want to do be able to have an accessible version that strips out ASCII art and replaces it with alt text so that I'm not assaulting the ears of people using screen readers.
Acessibility never seems to be a priority in most gopher holes, which is a shame, because it could be such an accessible protocol.
Oh, I thought where theat paragraph was going was "& then I'll build a CL in Awk."
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@Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647 Oh God no. That'd be too much work. The functionality I need will be pretty minimal. I don't need Turing-completeness.
Neeeeed? Or want‽ You know you want it. Write a Lisp.
@Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647 I'd love to write a Lisp... but not in awk. 🫠
@Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647 I do plan on doing a total re-do of my personal web site though. I want to build a server in Common Lisp that takes a markdown-esque source and simultaneously serves it up as web, gopher, and gemini.
That one's been on my to-do list forever, though.
What CL were you trying to run? CLISP is small enough, I rarely had problems running it in CGI environments. If it's still too big, you could always try islisp, where the main implementation is <500kb
(not to discourage you from awk if you're enjoying it)
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"If you dress sexy, you invite objectification and harassment."
"If you dress cute, you invite infantilization and pedos."
Your dick's poor boundaries shouldn't be our problem.
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maybe getting misgendered actually isn't that bad 💀
I wonder if wearing a baseball bat would help
this gets kinda funny when cis men complain that girls “objectify” a queer boything like me…
I've seen a ton of this. And I've seen it used *against* feminism, too. It's actually a very weird concept bc if you talk about the male gaze *the way it was originally perceived* (like she discussed in this video), you'll get shouted at for being a "puritan" as well.
So it's a frustrating lose-lose where purity culture has been rebranded to attack feminism, while actual purity culture is the stuff she's talking about in this video and is extremely wide-spread right now.
You are at the office. There is a cake, sliced, plates next to it, and it's your favorite type of cake!
But, you do not know what the cake is for. No one else is around, no sign, nor card.
So do you take a slice, knowing you maybe shouldn't? Or do you hang around until you can kinda nudge-nudge permission for a slice? Even if it becomes kind of awkward as they maybe didn't intend or plan to share a slice with you?
Or do you realize it is not yours to decide, nor take a slice *until you are invited to* ?
And just because you were invited to take a slice, does not mean you can take a second slice.
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This is about consent.
Purely because something or someone is on "display" does not mean it is for you. Ever.
Hands. To. Yourselves.
"But they were dressed like..."
Clothing, or lack thereof, does not constitute consent. See cake being sliced and plates as per example.
Also, wow. "Don't dress like this because X might happen"
Victim blaming? Really?
ALL OF US MEN; WE NEED TO DO BETTER!
- Call out any sexist behavior at all times
- Do not accept "just a joke" as an excuse
- Do not whataboutism victims
Also, anyone thinking they should reply "but not all men"?
- Over 90% of assault is committed by men
- Over 80% are known by the victim
@Aprazeth also something that applies both to the metaphorical cake and actual cake:
If you really want a slice and don't want to hope the other side guesses correctly that you want some - ask. But don't touch the cake until they said yes.
If men are so weak and unable to control themselves, they really shouldn’t have positions of authority.
@michaelgemar We should do to men what we do to other animals that 'cant control' themselves around humans. Restrain or put down.
If you can't control yourself you're a danger to the rest of us and should be removed
If you can't control yourself you're a danger to the rest of us and should be removed
was literally watching this now 😅
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Slowly trying to catch up on her back catalogue!
@RinaVolpina I've caught a few of her videos and I like the no nonsense consistency of them. She's mostly like: I don't give a shit about what you do personally, just don't be shitty to others.
Definitely recommended viewing, imo.
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Would the most effective purely hypothetical such vandalism require a smoke screen first?
Or could something long range reliably cover the camera with, say, very sticky, paint?
Would the most effective purely hypothetical such vandalism require a smoke screen first?
Or could something long range reliably cover the camera with, say, very sticky, paint?
Women also victim blame other women. This is a problem among conservatives and not limited to dick-owners.
HOWEVER: Men are the most vocal about it.
Source: I've been raised by a conservative family and I've heard this shit all my life, whenever something related made it into news, or something happened at my school or so.
It's disgusting and I hate it.
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Been having some weird symptoms for like a week now. My casual resesrch reveals that it's in all likelihood nothing serious, but potentially not.
It's been going on for long enough that I should probably discuss it with my doctor, but I really don't want to because I know he'll use it as an excuse to take me off #ADHD meds again.
I'll probably wait until I've got my prescription refilled first.
#ADHD
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@meganL This is a good list of software projects with stances against AI, including a Linux distro section: noai.starlightnet.work/list.ht…
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i know alpine has a no ai policy for the things that are alpine-specific (apk and all that powers it). I think they concluded it would be impractical to ban all vibe-coded software from package repos because of how many existing packages that would leave unmaintained
gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/…
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pretty sure at least debian is still hard no lwn.net/Articles/1061544/ but i can't find much else via web search and am admittedly a little too lazy to go troll the mailing lists atm.
Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again) with the question o [...]LWN.net
bit hard for any given the Linux kernel is now all-in on slop. Gentoo is probably the closest one, see posts from @mgorny for example.
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as far as I can tell there are zero distros which have a policy against shipping packages that contain LLM-generated code; the best I have been able to find are policies around refusing LLM-generated contributions to distro-specific packaging code
I posted a thread with my findings here a few days ago: hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy/st…
Guix doesn't have a policy but is working on one.
What I find interesting that no anti AI distro has jumped in here: lore.kernel.org/lkml/e12330b9-… (I actually asked some of them to do so, but none have followed up on it.) Or nobody else, for that matter... #noai #linux #llm #slop
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antiX will do its best to avoid ai inclusions.
Discussions are ongoing on what might be acceptable, for example some usage in translations with human checks following. Deepl being one such translation engine that works well with a limited number of languages.
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dealing with this requires any new policies. I think it's a fairly
obvious point of Debian collaboration that no one should deluge their
fellow project members in low-quality garbage, and if that starts
happening, I think we have adequate mechanisms to complain and ask that it
stop without making new policy."
I think saying "we never allowed it in the first place so this is not a question" is ultimately a good point
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GNU Guix transactional package manager and distribution — GNU Guix
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since they all use the Linux kernel which has AI slop, none of them.
I can't believe that the linux kernel is allowing code in whose actual underlying license is completely unknowable and random.
sadly even i they do you will see code sneak in it obfuscated, because some ai tool even exist to try to hide AI "personality".
so, a "no tools" policy?
LLMs are a tool. And if people are NOT being responsible for their tools, then its a person problem.
Blaming a large vector array is pretty dumb, tbh.
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i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding
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I'm ready for "move slow and make sure things don't break" app development again
But then the boss would have fewer people to manage, and be unable to justify his job. Most software changes are about employment for engineers, not necessity. Grr.
As a software engineer I want computer languages and frameworks that stay stable for decades rather than have a new release every year that obsoletes old programs and requires a rewrite. But I don't get to have that 🙁.
@Badtux the Snarky Penguin @Eniko Fox I've written software that was "finished" only to have to update it because an underlying library introduced a breaking change. I hate that.
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@me And every fifteen minutes there is a new Java release that fixes a thousand security holes and adds a thousand new features to bloat up the runtime. Meanwhile my "C" programs from the early 1990s still compile and run just fine.
@Badtux the Snarky Penguin @Eniko Fox I actually had to re-write large chunks of a program I wrote for a client because Haskell's ncurses wrapper just kind of... stopped being a thing.
Fortunately, I never liked ncurses to begin with and had abstracted much of it away. The code I'd written was fairly easy to retrofit into brick instead.
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@Badtux the Snarky Penguin @Eniko Fox I'm so glad I don't typically work in Java.
@me Substitute any other language or framework in large scale use for Java. Go? Rust? JavaScript/TypeScript? Even where the language is stable the frameworks you have to use to get work done are as firm as gelatin.
15 years ago i started writing a game, i lost the git repo until i found it again on monday! i added some cmake files and it compiled and ran! C and LibSDL2 !
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I'm genuinely considering starting l collection of Android apps with the ethos off "The UI does! Not! Fucking! Change!"
Any feature additions are purely optional and of be default
No nag screens to promote the new stuff
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can we also get mobile operating systems that get more optimized and less resource hungry with every update so that devices can run for 10+ years before becoming obsolete?
Product: What's this ticket for, this one you're working on, it doesn't seen to be delivering any new feature? Why are we doing it?
Devs: It lets us delete a couple of thousand lines of no-longer-used code. Which will then no longer need to be maintained, tested, documented, ect ect.
Product: Great! That's what we like to hear!
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Hear hear! 👏
I'm pretty tired of downloading some 100 MB every week for Signal desktop for minor changes. And did you see how the changelog in /usr/share/doc looks like for Signal-desktop on Linux each time ? Yeah, whatever, Signal! 🤬 #signal
Currently, my favourite app is Out-Run, and I think it's basically been abandoned by the developer.
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(Yes, that's probably not great for security vulnerability reasons.. 😬)
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What you don’t add is genuinely more important than what you do.
@Meyerweb first place to start is avoiding tracking, because those are bigger, have more updates and have more code.
The challenging part is convincing your government and bank to do the same so you can still use their services.
can we also request the coders to have a nap time during the day? Rest is important, and I'm not kidding about that either.
don't forget to add doesn't require an always on Internet connection.
I want small chunks of well-specified code with machine supported proofs so I can be certain of my program's actual behavior across its whole domain.
I should probably just learn Ada/SPARK or Idris already.
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in many cases i’d be willing to pay *more* for this approach.
If you are asking for less you are asking too much 😉
and at the same time, companies hire people who prefer AI, f̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶agile; or as the saying goes, seniors with salary of a junior 🙂
The dream that we deserve!
I would like fewer apps, please. More websites that function as apps.
This applies specifically to mobile use. For desktop, let me download everything.
Preach. I want developers to be artisans and craftspeople who build for the ages.
I like small programs and I cannot lie.
I want coder teams to be teams again who go Kegeln at the end of the day...
So say we all. Or at least any of us with any sense.
can we also go back to calling them "programs" not "apps"? Or am I alone in that peeve?
isnt þe unix philosophy "every program should do one job and do it well"? can we just make þat law? i would love a world where every program solved / did one þing i wanted and nþn else.
This reminds me of one of the favorite apps on my phone: Animated Knots by Grog.
apps.apple.com/de/app/animated…
It has detailed explanations of almost 200 knots, and animations on how to tie all of them.
It hasn’t been updated for years, because it’s basically done. I bought it once for the price of a coffee, and now I just use it whenever I need something more than my 3 standard knots.
(I have dyslexia-but-for-ropes, and this is the only way I can learn new knots.)
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I can switch on a BBC micro and load View in less time than I can wake my Windows 11 laptop and load MS Word. Seems that the faster computers become; the longer it takes to do the same things with them.
I miss the days where getting an update was like christmas. Now I mumble to myself 'what did you mess up this time..'
And fewer applications. Today I learned that Ubuntu now has Snapshot, as well as screenshot but that Snapshot shows up as Camera, though it didn't when it was called Cheese. This happened 2 years ago.
Agreed! Updates are becoming an annoyance, like a swarm of gnats.
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looks like copying being the highest form of flattery is also possible in the fediverse donotsta.re/objects/67cb9b8d-f…
I want smaller programs with fewer features that take longer to write by people who are happier to do so and I’m not kidding
@pouncy_panda eh, that one's a bit different from mine so i wouldn't jump to conclusions
though even if someone copied it verbatim, in this case i'd probably just be happy to see this thought spreading further
lets see how long this takes to become a meme then
@pouncy_panda hopefully someone shops it into a video game character image
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@pouncy_panda i instantly knew the perfect image for this and knew it had to be done (i used deathgenerator.com)
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Hey, so, when they do tattoos of pixel art, do they use big square needles, or do i just ask the lady to make the squares manually?
Hey, so, when they do tattoos of pixel art, do they use big square needles, or do i just ask the lady to make the squares manually?
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Ooh this inspired me to meme it in this format:
I think the follow-up makes it clear: donotsta.re/objects/762c34a4-2…
It's a restatement.
the “paid more to work less” bit doesn’t fit in because who’s getting paid here lol
@me i'm glad i decided i wasn't going to self host >_>
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Skill issue, says I.
give them what they want and they’ll turn up..
I don't know how you do it - if I make a post that gets 10 likes all the notifications bug the crap out of me
the fun thing is that even the non-techies want that!
But instead some racers or people who only look at the competition decide we must deliver faster...
But instead some racers or people who only look at the competition decide we must deliver faster...
We really need to go back to programs and libraries written with the Unix philosophy in mind
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About ten years ago I was being cynical when I talked about going back to VT text terminals and a single time-sharing computer.
I still think like that but I'm no longer cynical.
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(Early on - like in alpha, when it's not even close to feature complete, then more feature updates is fine - but if at any point it hits a "Stable" release, I want that shit to be ACTUALLY stable - which means new features come slowly, and the priority is keeping it functional and reliable.)
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@miss_rodent You want ANATHEM. It’s okay. I would prefer ANATHEM over whatever hellscape this is.
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Quite honestly, I'd generally be happy with a piece of software that gets bugfixes and nothing else. The number of time some arbitrary update changes the UI for no reason and throws my whole workflow off...
@BasiliskXVIII It seems like Remember The Milk might be in this state.
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Yes, please, still and forever. This is the phrasing I couldn't quite figure out.
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You know that short rant about “I want games with worse graphics and I’m not even kidding“? I want that except for all software.Anthony Sorace (pdx.social)
I think the best way to run a software product company is for the entire management team to work one day a week, or month.
so do i. what you're describing sounds a lot like the unix philosophy. (do one thing and do it well)
i'm in the same boat as a lot of windows users rn. i want to switch to BSD, but i need linux for video games
and none of this broken shit
I picked up Tinystart for the Mac by @nileane which is probably exactly the sort of thing you’re after. It’s as useful as Raycast but without all the VC and AI bollocks, and only costs a fiver.
bring back rating code by size.
The general rule of thumb seems to be: The further you go back in time, the better the products, be they online or offline.
All courtesy of the fucked-up neoliberal capitalism that's festering across the whole world.
I agree. Applications shouldn't be small small, but just have one topic around them.
I don't need to micro manage everything but I dont want wechat like mega apps
I also want the updates to spend more time in UAT/Staging instead of being pushed straight into production.
Jesus this went wooly
this sounds exactly like my kinda job 
(well except the paid part)
*Looks at my projects which have an update every few months with few features*
+9001%
I want smaller, auditable, reproduceable and simple systems!
I want smaller, auditable, reproduceable and simple systems!
the concept, way back, was The Subroutine, a compact self-contained and hopefully tested thing with inputs and outputs, as had happened in Electronics shortly before where an ocean of incompatible constructs became IC's with standard values, infinitely combine-able. This was the notion in Unix, a tinker-toy toolbox, programmable LEGO, but the tech for all this pipeworks was too much for the early home computers, so you got MSDOS instead, and MS lock-ins on "compatible components" (for your security of course)
Linux then brought the clunky unix mindset to the PC, but quickly fell into copying The Everything App like the Big Boys, trademark logos, t-shirts, booth-babes, their difference was at least they intended to be 'interoperable' between these apps, like the MS or IOS consoles, but it was still between monolithic EverythingBut Apps.
How nice it would be to have one (favourite) editor you know backwards and forwards and EVERY textbox you see uses it, not WordStar ☺️
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I should add that my android phone can do this, but only with a tiny list of not-devious options that are all worse than WordStar.
We were once taught in computer science to attempt to refine our code to tight, elegant, complete solutions. Very small chunks of software that were complete and conceptually clear. Early on, that was required because the memory and storage resources were strictly limited. When did we decide that just because the limits were off, our coding should be complex, nasty, unreadable, and should suck?
@WILLIAM B PECKHAM @Eniko Fox When we decided that meeting arbitrary deadlines was more important than writing good code.
I want to buy software on CD with nice packaging and printed manual.
I want to go back to an era where you buy one release of a piece of software and can use it forever, and updates are another boxset with new features released two years later.
I want software to be tested by an actual QA department, and manuals and CHM help files to be created by technical writers that get paid as much if not more than the developers.
there is a certain app I use that has daily updates, sometimes several a day. And yet, it works like shit, and in some cases will freeze at startup for 10-15 minutes. Oh and takes a ton of memory and CPU.
how about mine? 18 of 21 are small enough to fit on a floppy disk. gingerbeardman.com/apps/fits-o…
Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software
Many of my apps are small enough to fit on a 1.44 MB floppy diskwww.gingerbeardman.com
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Finally broke down and got a new mattress. Upon unboxing I noticed that the dessicant packs included did not say "do not eat". Does this mean they're edible?
Only one way to find out. 🙃
Sadly, per the instructions, we need to keep using our lumpy rock for three days... because reasons.
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"What's the matter, Jimmy? You've barely eaten your world."
"It just takes some time, okay?"
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"wooo!" *guitar solo*
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Root #monsterdon post
So my cat has decided that #Ultraman is very interesting. #monsterdon (pre-show)
Why does the sign on the hospital look like it was made by a middle schooler? #monsterdon
"She reads my mind, but I'll videotape her when she doesn't know it."
How does that work, exactly?
Because of course my first instinct would be to poke it with a stick...
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Step one of any investigation
#monsterdon
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Told you it was supper time. #monsterdon
Why is this guy dressed like he's going to a weird rave? #monsterdon
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Who runs a bed and breakfast, sleeps there, and leaves their bedroom door unlocked so that random guests can just walk in? #monsterdon
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This blurry footage proves everything! #monsterdon
Has no one ever heard of a breaker? #monsterdon
The writers of this movie do know that the sun produces UV light, right? #monsterdon
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So... why the ruse to pump him for information? Aren't they supposed to be able to read minds? #monsterdon
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