@Techaltar man, I have no great words of wisdom here, just want to express sympathy at being in that situation. I used to go with something along the lines of “have you seen these clowns, they could conspire to have a piss up in a brewery, never mind take over the world”. Given recent revelations that yes, they did in fact have a secret child trafficking ring kept covered up for decades, it’s gotten harder to do that with a straight face.
@dramypsyd there should be sites you can publish unsolicited embargoed press releases to on principle.
[touches ear] ahh, I’m being told this is in fact a cookie consent dialog. As you were.
“We and our 226 partners”… damn, these polycules are getting out of hand.
@fesshole fair. It would be awful if your neighbours knew you found joy in anything.
That time at Wimbledon Women's Doubles in 2017 when a spectator ran his mouth a little too much from the stands... then this happened:
#tennis #wimbledon #humor
@thomasfuchs @pikesley yes, but the social media companies would rather not pay people to do moderation, and the magical thinking machines aren’t very good at it, so really we’re all better off banning children from having interests other than football and drinking on park benches, and everyone else just being exposed to constant hate speech.
People: “The big social media networks could simply properly moderate their content and remove hate speech, disinformation and trolls.”
Politicians: “We heard you, we will require ID checks to use computers.”
@fesshole you’ll be fine. He’ll be in his 40s and put some tomato ketchup and mozzarella on toast when he’s had a bad day.
The @emf lineup has been published and everytime I look at it I favourite a bunch more stuff. I love that the range is so wide theres almost nothing beyond “that sounds interesting” that would be a common thread through them all https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026
I’ve just discovered Dockerfiles support copying/mounting a file from an entirely different image, sourced at build time. I now want to build a cursed frankenimage where every file in the final image has been taken from the `latest` revision of a different image and see how long it takes to break.
@CatherineFlick I’m on agile here in an all-electric flat, have neither solar or a battery, and end up paying significantly less anyway. Not sure how much of that is that I work from home so can easily time shift high usage things like running laundry to low cost times, and eat fairly late so I’m rarely using the oven/hob during peak periods.
@Canageek @gsuberland think of it as there being multiple competing TCP/IP stacks on the market for Windows. Maybe you get one from your ISP, or maybe you buy NordWinsock which includes Privacy Protection Plus, or GamerSock with proprietary latency reduction technology.
@CatherineFlick I’d say it’s almost certainly worth looking the agile + agile-like tariffs depending what your energy use patterns look like and/or your ability to load shift into a battery.
@brunogirin I wish ActivityPub had an option to subscribe to all replies to a post because this is very relevant to my interests.
@Thayer you don’t even need a fake ID, just a copy of any game with a photo mode and a vaguely over 18 looking protagonist.
@CatherineFlick not even mentioned in that article is the swarm of mosquitos.
I love how neatly sorted this selection of variously sized googly eyes is, I thought as I opened it upside down.
We appear to have reached the point in an EMF cycle where everytime I sit down to knock some items off my todo list I come away with more on it than I started with.