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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

This one I've seen listed for $1500, so if you can get it for $250, that's a bargain, actually

RE: https://www.threads.com/@skip%5Ftheorist/post/DcE08c6knYf

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@treyhunner also I would be remiss if I did not point out that the distinction between Duck typing and Goose typing is that Duck typing exists purely at type-time and in terms of typed structures, whereas Goose typing requires values at runtime. in other words the Goose is valued

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

120 degree glass turd

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msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:

Yeah, yeah, Facebook, but this is brilliant: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MCCancxKy/

"My favorite thing about The Odyssey is that when you notice how the poem is structured, the whole thing starts looking like Odysseus is just making up an alibi after coming home from a 10-year Fuckboy Tour of the Mediterranean.

See, the parts of The Odyssey that Homer narrates directly are surprisingly grounded. At the beginning we see Ithaca, Telemachus travels around looking for news of his father, and so on. At the end Odysseus returns, kills the suitors, and everyone is happy (except for the suitors). The gods interfere constantly because this is ancient Greece, but mostly it's a story about people doing people shit just like The Iliad.

But in the middle section, the narration very conspicuously shifts from Homer to Odysseus himself. He's explaining to the Phaeacians why it took him ten years to sail home from Troy, and suddenly we're dealing with one-eyed giants, cannibal armies, a witch who turns men into pigs, magic bags full of wind, six-headed sea monsters, and a trip to the Underworld.

Odysseus tells his story to the Phaeacians while he is stranded, broke, and in desperate need of a ship home. And remember that Odysseus is not merely capable of lying – lying is basically his superpower. He routinely invents elaborate fake biographies for himself at the drop of a hat, to the point that even Athena is impressed with his capacity for deception. He is canonically the original male manipulator.

And it makes sense why Homer depicts Odysseus telling all of this to the Phaeacians instead of the much-less-gullible Penelope, since you can imagine how his story would have gone over with her:

"Odysseus, the Trojan War ended 10 years ago. Where have you been all this time?"

"See what had happened was, we were gonna come straight home – but then when we were in sight of Ithaca, my men opened this magic bag of wind while I was asleep and it blew us to the other side of the ocean."

"Why did they open the bag after you told them not to?"

"Ah, well, see, I sort of forgot."

"Your men all died because you had a magic bag of wind that you forgot to tell them not to open and then took a nap?"

"No, they were all fine! But see, then a cyclops and some giant cannibals killed most of the men, and a witch turned the rest into pigs. But don't worry, they got better."

"They got better?"

"Well sure, the witch changed them back after I slept with her."

"...I see. Well, I suppose you had to save your men."

"Exactly! And so after a year with her-"

"You slept with her for A YEAR?"

"Hermes told me to, baby!"

"The god Hermes told you to fuck another woman. For a year."

"Penelope, who am I to question the will of the gods? So then we went to the Underworld, and after a quick detour back to see Circe again-"

"YOU WENT BACK?"

"It was important, babe! She had to tell us how to avoid all the sea monsters!"

"The sea monsters."

"Oh, sure – loads of sea monsters out there. The sea is lousy with monsters these days."

"Uh huh. And did you sleep with her again?"

"I mean, it would have been rude not to..."

"ODYSSEUS."

"Will of the gods, baby, will of the gods! So anyway we're headed home for real this time, but the men ignored my extremely excellent advice and ate one of Helios' sacred cattle while I was asleep, and Zeus killed them all. Damndest thing. So I wash up naked on this beach with a beautiful nymph, and well, one thing kinda led to another..."

"Did you sleep with her for a year too?"

"Of course not!"

"Well, that's a relief."

"It was seven."

"SEVEN?"

"She bewitched me! I was bewitched! Can't fault a guy for what he does when he's bewitched, can you?"

"And did you meet any other women on this epic journey of yours?"

"Well, there was this teenage princess..."

"ODYSSEUS!"

"Nothing happened, babe, I swear! I just washed up naked on the beach right in front of her. Nice girl, you'd like her."

"Odysseus, this is the second time you've just happened to wash up naked on a beach right in front of a beautiful woman."

"I know! Crazy, right? Anyway, when I told her parents everything that had happened, they were so amazed that they gave me all this gold and a ride straight home so I could be with my beloved."

"After 10 years."

"Well yeah, straight home after 10 years. Don't forget the sea monsters, babe!"

"The sea monsters that you are conveniently the only person left alive to have witnessed."

"I don't love where you're going with that..."

"Odysseus, do you know what I did while you were gone?"

"...Waited faithfully for me?"

"I raised your son, ran your kingdom, kept a hundred men from taking your throne, and spent three years weaving and unweaving the same fucking burial shroud every night to keep them off my back."

"That's... actually very clever."

"Thank you."

"You know, between the two of us, that's really more my–"

"Finish that sentence and I'm sending you back to the Cyclops."

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

When we started Project Fugu, an obvious gap was IoT. Why should anyone download privacy-invasive native app to configure a new talking puck or "smart toy"?

Tickled pink to discover that not only is @homeassistant continuing to lean on the open web, even tasks like firmware flashing use the safer, open APIs we built into the browser:

https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/25800241218717-Reinstalling-the-firmware-on-Home-Assistant-Voice-Preview-Edition

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

moi

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

This would make a sick album cover (me at 16).

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Defund the police.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

chatGPT son booktok daughter

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

well this doesn't look like it speaks modbus, but okay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC5xOs3l9Bc

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Help this is funny am I a boomer 😭

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

The thing is, *if we can create community structures that allow AI haters to find each other, join together and collaborate without distraction*, we will be able to defeat the slop-infection community every time. Because once you allow AI users into your decisionmaking pipeline, you wind up doing shit like this https://www.theverge.com/tech/979583/this-is-instagrams-new-logo

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

fun additional bug: Mail will also incorrectly display the recipient as the original sender rather than the forwarder as it should, but the profile picture will be of the original sender

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

today's bug preventing me from completing basic administrative tasks without doing backflips and wasting hours:

1. someone receives a message from iCloud Hide My Email
2. they forward it to you.
3. you receive it in Apple Mail, with the banner "This message was forwarded to you by Hide My Email" presumably because of the still-intact X-Icloud-Hme
4. you forward it elsewhere, carefully selecting the correct outbound address
5. Apple Mail ignores that address and just forwards it via iCloud

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

several evenings of playing on hard mode and grrrrr

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

oh ffs. i thought i beat a game without using a gun once, but apparently i must have done once without noticing so i don't get the achievement.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@glyph @wronglang Yeah, at that point you're very much guessing which way the cops are most likely to fuck with you and protect against that.

And it's not just the cops! At the most dangerous protest I went to, the most dangerous party were the fascists not the cops (but admittedly, the cops really did not help....).

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@glyph @wronglang The one I struggle with is passkeys; I understand what the purpose is in theory, but in practice, between "the pop ups are annoying" and "don't forget to add account lock-out due to lost devices to the threat model", I haven't felt them easy to adopt

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

The obvious corollary is that privatisation shrinks provision and creates pervasive inequality of access. That is, firms marketing privacy by telling you they think it's "a human right" (which you can access by purchasing their product) are cynically *reducing* net privacy.

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

Working on an already too long pice about the unbridled cynicism of Big Tech re: privacy (very much including Apple), but the (unoriginal) core idea fits on a postcard:

Privacy is a public good. Anyone trying to sell it to you is looking to privatize gains and socialise losses.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's not adulthood, I fear. It's capitalism that's inherently lonely. Our economic system takes an overworked, isolated population to thrive.

I'd imagine adulthood would be pretty dope if we had a community-based society instead of rugged individualism.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like from all these allusions I gather that _something_ happened in El Paso or some other border community that made a bunch of people mad and motivated even the latino population to shift right a bunch but:

A) I still literally don't know what it was despite being informed to an unhealthy level, and
B) it really seems like a lot of the electoral consequences of this landed in places like Idaho and Montana which does call into question its material immediacy

was it just noise-machine bullshit?

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 15th 2026 (Hard), in less than 19 minutes
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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

once again I am begging moderate libs who immediately concede the "chaos at the border" during biden's presidency explain what the fuck you are talking about. I don't even mean that as an open-borders advocate I am ideologically opposed to acknowledging some problems with lax immigration procedures, sometimes mass movements of humans create big logistical problems. but I literally don't know what events you are even referring to beyond a bunch of fake news stories about imagined "caravans"

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

"How did I not know about it!?"

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

Just blew my kid's mind with the knowledge that our local libraries have what they call "maker spaces" where they have 3d printers and laser cutters and other stuff. Now I see a half day trip to a library in my near future....

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

How might things have been different if so many of us weren't convinced that devaluing our own labor was essential to our careers, let alone betraying labor solidarity!

AI is only possible, I'll posit, because so fucking many of us never saw ourselves as laborers in the first place, and actively resisted any kind of identification with labor (to wit, "uber but for" is antagonistic towards labor, not a cutesy way of marketing an app).

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SamP20@chaos.social wrote:

Realtime London Underground tube tracker API integration into buttplug.io. You feel a rumble whenever a tube train passes underneath you.

Riding the tube? Nope the tube is riding you now until you get off or get off, whichever comes first.

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alexia@app.wafrn.net ("Alexia ΘΔ") wrote:

Remember: the term "AAA game" or "Triple-A game" came from investors, as A, Double-A, Triple-A etc is used to describe how 'safe' an investment is

It doesn't say anything about the quality of the game at all, and was coined by people which don't care about that, just about money.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

there are a lot of actually extremely well-meaning people working on these technologies, I know some of them personally, I have plenty of anecdotal evidence that what is going on is not _just_ a corporate land-grab at the expense of users. but _some_ of it is a corporate land-grab. and if we had independent, popular infosec public intellectuals who were not beholden to these interests, it would be possible for the public to disentangle these two truths and get to the nuances involved.