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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

This 404 interview with Meredith Whittaker is good. Watched it while doing my dishes. I like the things she says.

https://youtu.be/kconAXZgsxg?si=XsVCTnhej3IOBd7n

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"How many r's are there in the word `strawberry`?" https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTYBpa7AHSJ/

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eWalthert@typo.social ("Edgar Walthert") wrote:

We did some Sunday bookshop visit today, stacking up on #MustRead. One each.

Empire if AI by @karenhao
Enshitification by @pluralistic

5 year old we met after „I want to read the poop book!“

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Just successfully moved a group chat from iMessage to Signal.

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• gifv: GIF from the movie storm troopers: each soldier looks into the camera and says "I'm doing my part"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Also, shout out to Mela. What a fantastic recipe app. No tracking, no lock-in, pay once. I am a fanatic for these types of apps.

https://mela.recipes/

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

🎵 Tale as old as time,
Song as old as rhyme,
Techbro and the Slop.

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dzwiedziu ("Dźwiedziu") wrote:

@fromjason
* Other action than voting.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I wrote Hey You Horny Motherfuckers Here’s A Recipe For Shrimp Fried Rice during the height of lockdown. It’s crass, so forgive me.

Anyway, I’m making this today! Except, I’m substituting shrimp for skirt steak. I think it’ll turn out delicious. I’ll report back. https://medium.com/recipes-for-humans/hey-you-horny-motherfuckers-heres-a-recipe-for-shrimp-fried-rice-5514a98eabc5

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A couple of cocks in Suches GA.

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• video: Two black and white roosters with red things on its beaks. Pecking at the ground.

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knowattitude@m.ai6yr.org ("KnowAttitude") wrote:

@fromjason they probably thought you were someone else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENr62-oWyPs

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ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us ("Weird Socks") wrote:

@fromjason
Those are huge compared to the wild turkeys I see here on the West Coast. I'd be cautious too.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Okay, idk what this thread is anymore. I'm just posting animals.

This was on Wild Horse Island in northern Montana, fifty miles or so from Glacier National Park. It really was a spiritual experience. I don't know how else to describe it.

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• video: A yellow field with pine trees. Wild goats sit on the plain. In the background, mountains.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Punk-ass turkeys.

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• video: Three turkeys chasing me down the cul-de-sac. They are relentless. They will not stop. Ever.

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SherBeareth@mastodon.world wrote:

#CatFunnies #Treats #setting_fires #Cats

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Them: Apparently eggs are going back up again.

Me: That’s going to surprise a few chickens.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Okay, I wrecked my server in a way that I'll need the provider's help to restore it. Sorry for the downtime folks, but it might be a few days.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

This was in Georgia. Every year around Thanksgiving, turkeys show up in my dad's neighborhood. They are aggressive and mean. They want justice.

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• video: POV: Opening the fence door, greeted by three wild turkeys who are waiting for me.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Black vultures just before a thunderstorm

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

If you can't spot the LLM-powered bot account in your first half hour at a website, then you are the LLM-powered bot account.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Raven pair #iceland #bird #birds #raven

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Either there are many more bird species where I live than in previous locations, or I am, in fact, just bird-watching age and my midlife third eye has awakened.

Edit: Some birds I've seen on my walks…

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cheriecreationstruck@birds.town ("Cambirdsong") wrote:

Gray January days are no match for the scarlet-plumed.

#birds #birding #NorthernCardinal #winter #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness #TheWorldIsStillBeautiful

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Radical centrism is when a person maintains political apathy despite mounting evidence that action is necessary.

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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

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drfranksauer.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Frank Sauer") wrote:

What EU doing?

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raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reginald Braithwaite") wrote:

“Code is not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. Rather, it is a brittle machine that requires increasingly heroic measures to keep it in good working order, and which eventually does "wear out" (in the sense of needing a top-to-bottom refactoring).”

— @pluralistic, https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes

The myth that "old code doesn't rust" persists because it justifies moving fast, breaking things, and leaving it for someone else to clean up the mess.

👇🏽

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

must be fan issue ~£20 replacement 🤔

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeelinkOfficial/comments/1ibconw/eq12%5Floud%5Fnoise/

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

Friend of ours is showing a new person to the world in several days. @IamMrsGeek got some baby learning books for them. I tried to give my Thing Explainer book, but she said not for a few months.

But then I remembered this music. Had to play it.

#NowPlaying

Alaska Robotics — "Space Weird Thing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygrdAvmr-MA

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

my OPNsense router (mini PC) started quacking like a duck and died... 🦆

a reboot "fixed" the issue, do I ignore it, or buy order a new one ASAP?

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Linzington@kind.social wrote:

Friends, this is the coolest thing I have ever seen and you should see it too. A guitar amp labelled entirely in braille. #accessibility #blind #blindness #braille

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• video: A white blind man with his brown hair in a bun. He is unboxing and testing his new guitar amp