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2026-05-11 03:25:04 UTC

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don't you all have a train stop at Gilette Stadium yet?

2026-05-11 03:06:09 UTC

https://save.glump.net/share/6a0146ea4c7f47.65501782
World Cup football game outside Newark, NJ, this summer: "Don't even think about driving your own car to it. There will be no parking. Trains will be available for $150 round trip from New York Penn Station or Secaucus Station" both a few miles away.
What a great deal!

2026-05-07 14:54:59 UTC

I need a @npub10us…p5pu hot take on this…
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/06/2014204/microsoft-edge-stores-passwords-in-plaintext-in-ram
> Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM
Once you have access to a particular system user account, and its memory, isn't it pretty much game over? I'm fine with Edge holding "SAVED" web site passwords in process memory forever. I don't want to be prompted for a fingerprint or eye scan every time I open a new tab and my 15 minute BOFH session cookie has expired on that site.

2026-05-02 05:46:35 UTC

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This book has some family tree diagrams in two different forms:
1. names and words written free-form on a page by typewriter, with some lines drawn in with pen.
2. some ancient MS-DOS family tree database program, printed out to fixed-width font 132 characters-per-line.
Anyone reading this have experience with reading and writing family tree diagram notation? Want to help me turns these pages into new clean diagrams using Mermaid or some task-specific software?

2026-05-02 05:23:07 UTC

I've got a double memoir book from my father's mother and father, one story each, as one book. I'm converting it to modern formats and I'll probably release it as a new edition on archive.org for the family to read.
I've noticed a lot of "I think this is written by AI --- you can tell because it's full of em dashes" going around the Internet lately. That feels weird to me.
From my grandmother's second chapter, here's a 1917 letter to a newspaper full of em dashes:
https://paste.sr.ht/~bkidwell/2d5fa4d9fc69c964cb87402b741dbdd0e7b22faf

2026-04-21 16:39:26 UTC

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I can't keep track of all the crazy people.
When did Arch become a project that deletes a resource for CoC violations that are completely non-obvious, and delete all threads and cancelling people for the crime of asking for explanations?
This behavior is a clear signal to all: don't join Arch. Don't contribute to Arch. You will be punished if you do.

2026-04-21 16:33:33 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_DPxE4YPc8
Arch Linux deletes Arch Wiki page about XLibre, citing "code of conduct".
I suppose the CoC violation is that Lunduke loves XLibre, and therefore it must be cancelled.

2026-04-17 21:11:52 UTC

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since you pointed me to this thread…
That sounds nice, and I''m not sure what APNative is. But something that Substack has is "free" audio/video hosting with machine-learning-powered auto-captions (for those publishers that won't provide the captions via some more expensive process).
Hard to argue with 'free'… until the service implodes because it wasn't cost-free.
If you want to publish text, you don't need substack; you can do it on a leftover computer at home.

2026-04-17 20:27:36 UTC

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I actually read this OP, skipped over "wallabag", saved it in MY Wallabag instance, and then noticed wallabag is mentioned. :^)

2026-04-11 18:54:18 UTC

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is there any hard evidence that this is a true photo?

2026-03-31 21:19:30 UTC

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They should write up the current censorship rules, explicitly, so everyone understands the contract. It shouldn't be based on how the algo feels today.

2026-03-31 21:18:00 UTC

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And, I hate YouTube for other reasons; I don't trust them and I find the overall YouTube system morally reprehensible. And I keep watching videos there too.

2026-03-31 21:17:56 UTC

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Watched the intro. Gonna watch the rest later.
I don't agree with her use of the term "self-censorship" to for when YouTube uses financial punishment to make video producers conform. I'm lukewarm about whether YouTube's censorship is bad or okay in this case, since they're a "private company" with advertisers. But it's censorship, not self-censorship.

2026-03-31 21:01:09 UTC

Someone around me recently asked about Youtubism words that maybe prevent a video from being demonetized even when we're talking about advertiser-unfriendly stuff.
Amy Shira Teitel takes a look at current words trends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iskCvr7_1ck

2026-03-29 19:06:02 UTC

> Google is Now Changing News Headlines – Without Permission
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/03/28/0345249
I hate Google, but you know the alternative to Google's action is "[no details] … and you won't believe what happened next!" and of course headlines that say something the story doesn't say.

2026-03-29 18:34:13 UTC

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Love Target or hate it, but I'll say this: Unlike the existing stores, you can walk around the food items in this Target location with a hand cart without crashing into other customers and bullshit impulse buy displays.

2026-03-29 18:34:00 UTC

My 15-minute neighborhood (in Jersey City) has a medium-sized Target now in the ground floor of a new luxury apartment tower. And we're getting medium-sized Whole Foods in a storefront where a Rite-Aid died.
The newspaper says "residents are clamoring for good grocery stores in ____ Square, before these two additions." What? I count 2 existing supermarkets and 2 or 3 small grocery stores within 10 minutes walk of ____ Square. I don't get it.

2026-03-26 23:03:46 UTC

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I remember you said in a presentation somewhere "The Internet Archived hired me and my job description was to be Jason Scott."

2026-03-19 05:55:51 UTC

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GODDAMMIT YOU FUCKERS! It installed McAfee garbage too without my consent.

2026-03-19 05:40:30 UTC

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JFC it's STILL installing!

2026-03-19 05:38:11 UTC

Trying to debug accessibility issues with a PDF. I installed NVDA in a Windows VM, and Fox-it and Chrome aren't playing nice with NVDA with a PDF…
Now I'm trying Adobe Reader. It's been installing for several minutes now. What is it with Adobe tools being bigger than a reasonable sized desktop OS?
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/116/254/224/366/068/007/original/95b39507cbd8c617.webp

2026-03-16 01:13:15 UTC

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if you can't figure out from visually reading the QR code who sent it and why, then it's a trap.

2026-03-16 01:12:28 UTC

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For me, I use GrapheneOS on my main phone and when you use the camera app to scan a QR code / bar code, it shows the text in the camera app and asks what you want to do with it.

2026-03-16 00:03:07 UTC

https://supercarblondie.com/tech/mystery-packages-showing-american-doorsteps-with-qr-codes/
> How scanning the QR codes could empty your bank account
> The boxes don’t come with a return address. … [Recipient] scans the QR code, … taken to a fraudulent phishing website where they’ll be asked to input sensitive information, like credit card details or banking information.
I wanna say "lol just don't do that" but I got half phished once via email.
Anyway now you've seen it. Don't fall for it. Parcels without a return address are a trap.

2026-03-10 16:36:26 UTC

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Not offering help -- I haven't done bitmaps in the terminal yet myself.
I'm curious: What framework and protocols you're using? How do you ask the terminal how many pixels are in a character cell? Is the ratio of bitmap pixels to cells fixed by the protocol, or depends on the physical display's specs?

2026-02-28 02:22:52 UTC

https://m.slashdot.org/story/452896
Futurama brain in jar plays Doom.
I know this isn't exactly what it sounds like even if you read the original headline... But could they have like ... not used Doom?

2026-02-24 17:17:07 UTC

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it's like AI has resurrected "Gates will give you money if you forward this email."

2026-02-24 15:44:16 UTC

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I think it's an AI hallucination thing.

2026-02-24 15:41:48 UTC

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does this even quote Gates? It doesn't in the first few seconds. "Gates is deeply involved in Microsoft" has become a new Youtube headline meme meaning this video is full of shit. Why?

2026-02-10 15:14:46 UTC

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that's it. Half the country has BPD.
What exactly is the meaning of the label "BPD"? The patient barely has a personality?

2026-01-28 17:36:27 UTC

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is this a Force thing?

2026-01-27 18:31:58 UTC

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do I remember correctly that you use FastMail?
Have a "random number" widget on your phone. Copy random number. Go to FastMail Settings → Aliases. Add new: "user-$n@$domain", with a private label naming the retail vendor.
Takes only a few seconds.
And have a filter that sorts "to:user-*@$domain" into "retail" folder.

2026-01-20 19:36:24 UTC

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> Working with so much artificial intelligence can be dehumanising. Why not combat that tendency with a little, simple courtesy?
-- Sonia Gomez, Star Trek TNG
And yeah I could have learned Bash. Never got around to it.

2026-01-20 14:26:24 UTC

Has anyone else avoided really learning Bash scripting for years because its syntax and idioms are so weird? And have you just stopped thinking about learning Bash since the super mega LLM free chatbots arrived?
I've lost count of how many computer languages I know, but I still only know how to order a sandwich and ask where the restroom is in Bash.
I program Bash in English with ChatGPT now.
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/927/880/262/156/582/original/7aef7af90232a050.webp
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/927/880/802/528/221/original/ed008f0e695633ac.webp

2026-01-16 21:11:20 UTC

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perfect. Sorry, didn't mean to be a pain.

2026-01-16 21:07:55 UTC

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I just meant one-line pitch to get people to watch the video and click the link, if they've never heard of you.

2026-01-16 21:05:12 UTC

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Can you rephrase that in the form of an ad post that makes sense to strangers when I boost it?

2026-01-14 17:12:13 UTC

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what's the down side? If I buy a phone from the supported list and install GrapheneOS on it, and then Google Play Services in a sandbox, and Google Play Store… is there anything I can't do on this phone that I could do on a mainstream build of Android?
(I have a GrapheneOS phone. I'm sorta asking for everyone.)

2026-01-13 20:09:11 UTC

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that's page 1 of 2.

2026-01-12 19:00:27 UTC

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do any kids make their own clothing and accessories for dolls today?

2026-01-05 15:34:38 UTC

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"Apple bravely only included 250GB of storage on this machine."
LOL! Excellent callback to Apple's "BRAVE" removal of the 3.5mm analog audio jack that no one asked to be removed.

2025-12-24 20:52:06 UTC

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it's a combination of rules from an underlying system and bean-counter rules. It's within the US Government of course.

2025-12-24 20:35:03 UTC

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If you're going to make all these rules at least fucking add a "generate random password" button to the page, like WordPress.

2025-12-24 20:34:03 UTC

What is the point of all this nonsense if it can't handle a password longer than 8 characters?
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/776/448/770/464/570/original/a658ff1f5d39877b.webp

2025-12-19 16:43:35 UTC

Has anyone ever told you not to learn Emacs?
Twice now for me. First time was an old hacker in an IRC chat room who said she uses Emacs every day.
Now, this guy on YouTube (not personally known to me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FupJOKR3WeA

2025-12-16 17:58:17 UTC

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can new Mozilla adopt the Gemini project and then sue Google for clobbering a brand name without a simple Google search for a name collision?

2025-12-15 15:43:24 UTC

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Not sure how obvious this is:
Buy a Roku or similar bare-bones TV-driver computer. They're cheap, and if they go bad on the cloud side, you can buy something else without replacing your big display.

2025-12-15 15:38:06 UTC

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Ars Technica has a well written story about how to buy not-a-smart-TV.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/

2025-12-15 15:36:47 UTC

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Smart TV ownership:

2025-12-15 15:36:01 UTC

When your "daily user" numbers aren't as high as you wished…
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/12/15/1430224/lgs-software-update-forces-microsoft-copilot-onto-smart-tvs
LG's Software Update Forces Microsoft Copilot Onto Smart TVs
Raise your hand if you don't have a smart TV and never will have one. (A TV that works forever offline if you cut the Wifi counts as a not-smart-capable TV.)
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/724/311/787/081/781/original/d571e85ba8cb33ad.webp

2025-12-02 21:13:08 UTC

Forget "It's okay to be white." New hate speech hotness: "Everyone is welcome."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6irWbo10VDY
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/652/033/544/511/255/original/afa983fa081643f2.webp

2025-11-25 01:12:46 UTC

@npub1dml…x796 I'm passing this on to you since you mentioned "Maybe I'll write a Bash book in the style of 1980s BASIC manuals":
https://vole.wtf/doctype/
1980s-style paper magazine with type-in programs that use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
I found it here just now: https://boingboing.net/2025/11/24/doctype-magazine-type-in-apps-for-modern-computers.html

2025-11-14 03:00:51 UTC

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Here's my response:
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/545/816/907/626/234/original/8181e1536c36df04.webp

2025-11-14 02:46:58 UTC

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Weird. VS Code is not perfect, but I'm kinda drawing a blank on "what could make it better?"
Switch from Electron to something else? That's kinda fundamental and not on the table.

2025-11-14 02:43:23 UTC

VS Code satisfaction survey: There is no "professional" level of programmer beyond student where you are "coding" 20 hours or less per week.
I dunno about you but I spend most of my paid time not IN VS Code, but in:
- meetings
- documentation
- issue trackers
- server configuration
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/545/748/233/624/875/original/6740f165c54ea20d.webp

2025-11-11 18:48:42 UTC

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can I just get "autocomplete when writing ad hoc queries and storedprocs" for under 200MB?

2025-11-11 18:47:54 UTC

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yeah I figured it had something to do with "we added AI to your autocomplete". That might explain the massive program size too.

2025-11-11 18:43:53 UTC

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I chose to install it.
I learned it has a Power Save mode. Is that something a database admin/programming tool should need?
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/532/538/116/407/071/original/8003094252b28e74.webp

2025-11-11 18:26:07 UTC

I haven't played with JetBrains IDEs in a while. "DataGrip" (browse, edit, script databases) is freeware. Let's try that…
Holy crap the INSTALLER is 1GB. Should I even try this or just delete it? (Already downloaded.)

2025-11-06 18:20:12 UTC

Do you have a "home lab"? -- non-cloud services running within your home.
Are the SSDS/disks encrypted?

2025-10-31 03:23:47 UTC

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I have a project at work, with the federal government, where I have to use an Amazon Workspace and their VPN (client in the Workspace) to get some work done. My default search engine in a context where I don't feel like fetching my paid Kagi credentials is Brave.
Brave is blocked on this government VPN. Lolwut?! Why can't the bean counters just let us do our work?
@npub1gx2…4lmh

2025-10-29 15:31:54 UTC

Is your business running the web version of MS Office privately on machines you control?
In "an effort to modernize its productivity tools", all your data are belong to Microsoft now, if you want support and security updates. You may not run it on your own host anymore.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-office/no-escape-microsoft-flatlines-office-online-server-its-now-microsoft-365-cloud-or-nothing

2025-10-28 21:10:08 UTC

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and the "interpreter"/runtime or whatever it's called now hits a sweet spot between small size and fully featured with bells and whistles.
You can whip up a quick dirty desktop app (Tk or WebView), without having to muck around with smart pointers, malloc and free, or pointer borrowing. And then you can ship a standalone (bundled runtime) zero-dependencies "app" for most platforms that clocks in under 30MB!

2025-10-16 16:23:14 UTC

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"just … why?!"
Why should I care about the genetic makeup of the actor playing a historical character. We suspend disbelief for CGI in historical films. Also, the original screenplay for Amadeus took liberties with the actual characters and events.
I DON'T care if the actor isn't white.

2025-10-11 12:20:08 UTC

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I have a Logitech "smart radio" I inherited from my parents. The month before it became abandonware, Logitech installed a new firmware compatible with a free software backend server you can run on your desktop or home server, then endorsed that software.
This is not shit.

2025-10-11 12:17:28 UTC

> Bose SoundTouch systems were introduced into the market in 2013. Technology has evolved since then, and we're no longer able to sustain the development and support of the cloud infrastructure that powers this older generation of products. We remain committed to creating new listening experiences for our customers built on modern technologies.
Committed to enshitification of expensive junk. Do the bits rot? Why can't they leave services running on autopilot?
https://m.slashdot.org/story/447730

2025-10-01 16:22:13 UTC

Check out hud.gov today.
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/299/826/177/416/459/original/8c19fbaf8269c7c9.webp

2025-09-12 20:32:19 UTC

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Interesting data point: I work for a government contractor and we've had our share of the political nonsense spilling into communication and behavioral standards for the last 10 years, but one thing we haven't had, in my company, is a thing about the word "master" in the context of IT.
Inherit or create a new repo, for work, and the primary branch is called "main" or "master" or whatever -- no one cares, no one complains, no one asks anyone to change it. Just needs to be an obvious name.

2025-09-12 20:26:47 UTC

People are actively trolling specifically for Lunduke coverage, now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpeqPRrHGW4

2025-09-11 19:37:31 UTC

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44 grams, 210 calories? That sounds about right for a Snickers. What's extreme? Did they put chili powder in the chocolate?
Would you like some EXTRA BIGASS FRIES with that?

2025-09-08 16:24:11 UTC

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there are carts/trolleys that can climb stairs.
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/115/169/600/567/844/308/original/0ed883aa95daf11c.webp

2025-08-29 15:41:09 UTC

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I thought it was all marinas, gambling, super-rich-people condos, and a few palaces.
"Manufacturing" doesn't even appear on the Wikipedia page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Monaco

2025-08-28 14:52:14 UTC

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> My [SMALL GROUP OF] friends did start posting things. And I did see SOME of those things on my feed. … And then I'm seeing "beach babes". Huh?

2025-08-28 14:50:22 UTC

Pinely: Facebook Doesn't Work Anymore
https://nebula.tv/videos/pinely-facebook-doesnt-work-anymore
(paywalled video; not yet released on YouTube)
Presenter created fresh new Facebook accounts for himself and a group of friends, and he told them to use it "socially" as one would when Facebook was new. No garbage, no commerce.
It didn't work.

2025-08-21 17:04:33 UTC

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probably a money mule operation.

2025-08-20 20:49:13 UTC

Update for Windows 11 may brick some SSDs, if you happen to write over 50GB in one operation.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/latest-windows-11-security-patch-might-be-breaking-ssds-under-heavy-workloads-users-report-disappearing-drives-following-file-transfers-including-some-that-cannot-be-recovered-after-a-reboot
Problem only exists if you have patch KB5063878 installed.
Bizarre. Developing story.

2025-08-19 00:07:04 UTC

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some pretty good emotional acting from the commander/captain guy who's got two pounds of rubber covering his face.
That's all I got.

2025-08-18 23:40:54 UTC

My wife is watching ALL OF THE STAR TREK.
Today I learned, on "Star Trek: Orange and Teal Edition", an emotional outburst from one humanoid organism destroyed almost all of the dilithium in the galaxy and made all warp cores explode at the same time.
The characters are pretty well written on this show, but the plots and the ships are high on mushrooms.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Burn#Cause_and_event

2025-08-18 22:13:01 UTC

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I'm just saying:
For most SaaS companies, they COULD migrate to another cloud provider if not moving was an existential threat.
These AI Agents are not going to migrate to another cloud provider.

2025-08-18 19:36:05 UTC

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Just in terms of longevity… how many of the big "Software as a Service" services out there -- like Notion and Jira -- would be a dead business if they had to migrate from Azure to Amazon or Amazon to Azure?
Will Microsoft AI agents be portable?

2025-08-18 19:34:17 UTC

Microsoft says: This thing that Microsoft is building, which no one understands, will replace Software as a Service in 5 years.
https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/18/181255/ai-business-agents-will-kill-saas-by-2030-says-microsoft

2025-08-12 20:53:05 UTC

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reminds me of the people claiming to make plastic chairs from air a few years ago.
This might be it: https://thisspaceshipearth.org/2016/08/plastic-chair-made-air-pollution/

2025-08-12 20:49:05 UTC

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I'll bet this is "we made plant butter but it's totally not plant butter".

2025-08-12 20:48:29 UTC

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uhm yes, that's interesting. But what exactly did they invent? Are they making hydrocarbons from elemental carbon, oxygen and hydrogen?
What's the energy cost of their process, compared to plants or animals?

2025-08-11 18:34:08 UTC

It's official: anonymous access to read Wikipedia is no longer a right in UK.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/144202/wikipedia-operator-loses-court-challenge-to-uk-online-safety-act-regulations

2025-08-07 01:49:41 UTC

https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5630
Hm. Perhaps the next time I have to deal with ColdFusion at work, I should start with a circle of salt and a sacrificial offering.
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/114/984/966/443/321/088/original/3137d67d96b413e6.webp

2025-08-03 18:43:17 UTC

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now we have food delivery robots about the size of shopping carts. They're polite and they obey traffic laws.

2025-08-03 18:41:12 UTC

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btw I live in Jersey City across the Hudson River from New York City, and I don't think my whole city counts as "15 minutes" but my section of the city is definitely in the category. I can get almost anything I want except for decent furniture, by walking 15 minutes.
Just watch out for the fucking asshat delivery bikes with no lights speeding on sidewalks and running red lights, and the ever popular police cars and delivery trucks parked in crosswalks.

2025-08-03 17:22:52 UTC

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in that photo… that's not architecture. You don't put bandaids on everything and then say "it's a 15 minute city."

2025-08-01 15:22:30 UTC

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thanks for trying. Your menu doesn't look like my menu. I'm using Office365 in a browser (my only choice at work). There's no System section of Settings in Outlook for the web. Searching Settings for "AI" and "Copilot" yields nothing.

2025-08-01 13:59:20 UTC

I turn off Copilot in Outlook. It comes back. I turn it off. New hotness:
There's a toolbar I can't remove, with a button labeled "turn on Copilot". (Screenshot attached to this post.)
A remote Windows VM for work is nagging me to try Copilot, in the lock screen. Google and Microsoft are begging employees to use AI to get work done.
Ars Technica has a native ad about it.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/so-far-only-one-third-of-americans-have-ever-used-ai-for-work/
Is the bubble going to burst this year?
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/114/953/855/375/702/611/original/18b1778e40d8cf45.webp

2025-07-15 20:36:44 UTC

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she should print and frame the news story and proudly display it in her office for the rest of her life.

2025-07-15 00:56:13 UTC

Are these walls of text really any better than the infamous Hairy Legs monologue from Joe Biden?
Why can't he write paragraphs?
https://cdn.masto.host/boopcity/media_attachments/files/114/854/524/224/244/002/original/0087ad23169e8273.webp

2025-07-15 00:29:03 UTC

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ROFL! The marketing people's word for mind control: "choice engineering".

2025-07-15 00:26:49 UTC

Maybe you spent the last 20 years defensively preventing records being made about you. If all of your TV, films, and music comes from Pirate Bay, and (for now) your social media isn't recorded by The System, then the System doesn't know your interests.
If so, here's some vindication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MoTeoKaneU
Hossenfelder: AI’s Real Threat: Mass Manipulation
Media "piracy" is mental hygiene, protecting you from manipulation.

2025-04-09 02:33:54 UTC

UK Creating 'Murder Prediction' Tool To Identify People Most Likely To Kill
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/09/0028213/uk-creating-murder-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

2025-03-06 04:13:08 UTC

I tried to browse computers available for sale on the Framework web site and it played music at me. What is this? Are we back in the Flash era?

2025-02-24 16:25:24 UTC

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the people answering the poll are Internet randos.

2025-01-21 16:52:07 UTC

Prediction for Friday afternoon:
Trump orders the Treasury to buy Trump & Melania memecoins.

2025-01-21 02:32:04 UTC

Trump defines [ woman, girl, man, boy, female, male ] according to biology; orders re-segregation of prisoners and domestic violence shelters according to biological sex; and plans a bill to codify the definitions.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/