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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Science agrees that I should stop using Zoom. Will do, Science, thanks for the input.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/25/the-problem-with-zoomconfirmed/

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teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Friend’s Facebook account was hijacked. She’s locked out and FB’s support isn’t responsive. Any tips? #facebook #askingforafriend

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

I am exceedingly fond of Web Scale, where Web Scale is defined as "manage your entire infrastructure from a Raspberry Pi, with the only issue being that you haven't been able to physically locate your Pi for six months but all the services work and you can log in no problem."

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I should take a moment to save off The Smoke Room takes that I've been putting on discord:

Murdoch's route really captures that feeling of being in your 20s and kind of at loose ends: stumbling into a job from someone you hooked up with, getting semi-publicly high out at the lake with a couple of guys who have Opinions on the nature of reality, going to someone's house and finding yourself in a minefield of someone else's strained family relationships, etc

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Men will literally go to therapy instead of go and see great clown Pagliacci who is in town tonight.

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

All your AI existential threat to humanity fears are legitimate except that it's just corporations and billionaires who are mis-aligned with continued human existence and apparently can't be stopped

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I saw a video recommending denture brushes as a tool for cleaning hair brushes, but I'm not sure I'm prepared for what ordering anything remotely related to dentures would do to my recommended items on amazon

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Deep roots make for great strength.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/25/toughness/

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• Prairie plant root systems (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

BTW if you find yourself in a situation where you don't know where your DNS server moved to:

sudo nmap --script broadcast-dhcp-discover

Can be helpful. I have needed to use that more frequently than seems reasonable, (assuming a well functioning environment).

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Well, my mother's in the hospital and not doing at all well. I may be making a sudden trip to Seattle soon.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(I get it. They're used to just dealing with businesses that run Windows exclusively, and they assume everybody can just reboot their machines and it'll be fine. 🙄)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

"During this routine server upgrade over Thanksgiving weekend, we'll change the well established IP address of the DNS server while we're at it without telling anybody. It'll be fine. What could go wrong?"
-- My company's outsourced IT service probably *sigh*

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nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan") wrote:

OK I take it back, Safari might be the new IE: https://github.com/nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element/pull/379

The WebKit team has been doing amazing work recently, but it doesn't help users stuck on old versions of the OS.

E.g. Safari 16.4 was a massive release from back in March, but about a third of Safari users are still on <=16.3. This accounts for 6.5% of *all* browsers! https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_elementinternals

I know the solution is "just buy a new iPhone," but how much e-waste is that going to generate? And how many people can afford it?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The Dear Hunter - The Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNd-7gO6B0w

#nowplaying #np

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starchy@infosec.exchange wrote:

Unbelievable Black Friday sale at my local library, any of the books I’ve been wanting to read for free and I can take it back for a new book when I’m done

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Not one but two great #MarketingSpeak finds at the grocery store today:

- "organic alcohol"
- "naturally seedless lemons"

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alenacpp@hachyderm.io ("Elena Sagalaeva") wrote:

Scratch is amazing. My daughter can develop simple games, learn programming, and have a lot of fun there. Unfortunately, Scratch lacks debugging tools, so she calls Mom to debug. 🙂
https://scratch.mit.edu/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Loading up 120 film is a lot more tricky than 35mm, and the winder on the Pentax 6x7 has a lot more resistance than I anticipated. Took a while to figure out while the shutter wouldn’t fire. I think it works, but only one way to find out.

#BelieveInFilm

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zompus@phire.place wrote:

Today is your 1,777 pound #TURKEY THAW WARNING. If you have a frozen turkey up to 1,777 pounds TODAY is the day to move it from the freezer to the refrigerator for safe thawing by Thanksgiving 2024. Remember 2024 is a leap year so there's an extra day for defrosting.

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EvilCartyen@mstdn.dk ("Carsten") wrote:

Black Friday is the perfect day to unsubscribe from newsletters! They all helpfully email you today, use it for good.

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simevidas ("Šime Vidas") wrote:

The current state of installing PWAs in all browsers across all platforms should be documented on MDN.

Not only would be be useful to have such an overview of different UI patterns, but we could refer regular users to this page if they don’t know how to install PWAs.

edit: The Session has something like this: https://thesession.org/app

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

Circle is a C++ bare metal environment for Raspberry Pi

https://github.com/rsta2/circle

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Binance gets hit with crypto’s worst possible fate: compliance

by Amy Castor and David Gerard

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/11/22/binance-gets-hit-with-cryptos-worst-possible-fate-compliance/

The compliance will be much more painful than the fines.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

After being spoiled by the tool changers on a Prusa XL, returning to a Bambu Lab with an AMS or a Prusa with MMU feels like going back to dial-up internet.

Welp, I'm becoming a #3dprinting snob.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Fashion Dreamer was kinda like this too! You can get away with very minimal narrative design in games and Fashion Dreamer didn't even do that.

The previous Style Savvy games had a kind of minimal Stardew Valley-style plot about inheriting your own boutique. Fashion Dreamer gives you a pseudo-online space with random characters standing around. If you talk to them you can add copies of their clothes to your inventory and suggest a new outfit for them. That's it.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Knuckle Sandwich came out a couple days ago! It's pretty visually stylish but the writing isn't living up to it. It's kinda like they came up with a bunch of cool minigames/setpieces but couldn't figure out a great way to fit them all together

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abstractcode@eigenmagic.net ("Colin") wrote:

To everyone who is asking if we will stop seeking vengeance after you replaced “No” with “Maybe Later” in UIs:

Maybe Later

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is the second dumbest way to get fired (after expense report fiddling):

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/23/23973673/valeo-nvidia-autonomous-driving-software-ip-theft-lawsuit

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i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Feels very much like watching a movie that was apparently great for its era but that really doesn't stand the test of time.