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dr_a @dr_a

Tomorrow there will be pie! i made a cooked filling of two cherry varieties and sone peach.

Bowl of cherry peach pie filling.
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Crissy Kuchisabishii Geco🇨🇦 @Crissy

If you (somehow) discover your partner has an Only Fans subscription they hide from you, it’s not just digital cheating that’s an issue. There could be others like gambling, etc. What would you do?

Kinsey post i read mention 61% of survey participants mention flirting with AI / chatbots are considered cheating. (Linking source in thread)

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lown @lown

I accidentally started listening to an audiobook of Wyrd Sisters a week ago and finished it last night on the Tube. It was, again, as ever, perfect. It is like a great exhale, a great hug, a great love letter to theater and panto and words and the palaver of having morals and the power of angry women who care deeply. I love that the witches are the kinds of friends who will be so angry at each other they will rescue them. I love that Pratchett doesn't try to soften or sweeten them, ever. I love how much Magrat reminds me of myself as a teenager (oh god oh god). I love that this time around, I picked up on many more references, which is what happens when you live in the UK for 10 years. I feel so lucky that, although Pratchett is gone, his words will only ever be a turn of the page away.

#discworld

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Helge @helge

Good morning Fediverse.

We need a legal.txt file for servers. It contains the list of jurisdictions, whose laws you are willing to follow.

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Arachnid Press @ArachnidPress

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image shows Lochmore Cottage on Loch More, in the remote heart of Caithness, with the River Thurso in the foreground. The cottage and loch both play significant roles in the story.

Find out more on our website:
arachnid.scot/book-ets/index.h

#Books #Bookstodon

This modern image shows a broad expanse of choppy grey water across the bottom half of the frame with a thin line of land beyond it then grey skies. Intruding into the bottom right of the frame is a grassy promontory which has a stone cottage with red trimmings placed on it. There are two vehicles next to the cottage. To the left of the cottage and extending down to the bottom left of the frame is a fish ladder comprising a wall with water cascading over it, and steps to its right. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
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MJ Turner @mjturner

@Gammitin I once owned the IBM equivalent, the Netfinity 7000 (Type 8651). Quad Pentium Pro 200, 2GiB RAM, 6x18GiB SCSI array, multiple NICs, etc and about the same size as that HP. IIRC I ran RHEL 3.0 on it.

Sadly I gave it away in ~2007, along with a few other single CPU Pentium Pro systems. Really annoyed as the Pentium Pro is probably my favourite Intel CPU and systems are quite pricey these days.

#retrocomputing

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Tom @pertho

Please 🛑 STOP 🛑 recommending the Brave browser. It is put out by a company run by a massive bigot. Don't support them.

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sammypanda @sammypanda

Would be neat to (nationally and legally) stop behaving that the greatest threat to our well-being is a poor person getting a dollar they don't "deserve".

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HP van Braam @hp

Protip! If you have a DVD rom drive that will read pressed DVDs but not burnt ones, you can adjust some pot meters and then it won't read pressed DVDs anymore either!

Follow me for more pro tips

#retrocomputing

A picture of a partially disassembled dvd rom drive
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MEActNOW @MEActNOW

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Denmark just made your face and voice your intellectual property

It became the 1st country in Europe where your face, voice, and body are now your property.

A new law gives citizens full control over their digital selves

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Matthew Sheffield @mattsheffield

Democrats spent almost 8 years refusing to admit this guy was correct. Even now, most of the Dem leadership and many leftist leaders won't admit the truth and act accordingly.

A tweet from the account “Werner Twertzog” (@WernerTwertzog) with a profile picture of an older man’s face. The tweet reads: “Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.” The tweet is dated August 23, 2017, at 11:41 AM.
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Kate Morley @katemorley

Listen, it’s very simple: In Britain we use the metric system, except for beer and milk, which come in pints. But not plant milk — that comes in litres.

Oh, and distances are in miles. But only if they’re too far to walk — if you can walk it it’s in metres. If you’re driving then your fuel efficiency is in miles-per-gallon, but petrol is sold in litres.

Oh, and your height is in feet and inches. If you don’t care much about your weight it’s in stone (but not pounds — no-one can remember how many pounds are in a stone and it’s hard to read the little tick marks on analogue scales). If you do care about your weight then your digital scales tell you it in kilograms.

Oh, and if there’s a heatwave then tabloids will forecast a “100°F scorcher”. But if it’s cold then it’s an “arctic blast” with “widespread temperatures below 0°C”.

I hope this clears things up.

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ꓤɔᴉʇɐʇS @StaticR

"sideloading" is a stupid made up term invented to delegitimize installing software.
Heres a bunch of other things I'm doing while "sidestepping" some supposed central authority:
- sideshopping (buying stuff from a store that isn't amazon)
- sidedining (eating or making food that isn't from mcdonalds)
- sidethinking (using my own brain instead of asking chatgpt)
- sidelistening (to my own music instead of on spotify)
- sidechatting (irl instead of online)

#android #sideloading #google #bullshit

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Drew Kadel @DrewKadel

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking
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Charles West @CharlesW

The Green Party has the same number MPs as Reform. The Green Party has policies that will benefit the country and make the world a better place.
The Green Party should get at least equal airtime and column inches as the vacuous, loud-mouthed divisive Farage.
Message to the media: stop promoting the fascists.
#GreenParty

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Mark Dominus @mjd

I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is bug-free. Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs is living in a fool's paradise. As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code.

The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be _hard to maintain_. The reviewer looks at the code and tries to understand what it is doing and how. If they can't, that means it will be hard to maintain in the future, and should be fixed now, while the original author is still familiar with it.

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Mehcta @Nocta_Senestra

Gold star lesbian

(as this is getting traction I feel the need to say it's not mine found it on a random lesbian discord server)

A gold star emoji, with the inscription in the center
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💉Josh Rubin, MD 🩺 @drsandman11.medsky.social

Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,

National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme