Ben Taylor @VoxDei@qoto.org
Software Engineer, Trade Unionist, Gamer, Geek, Dad. Lives in Devon
Joined Nov 2022
Pulled the trigger. Bye bye X account.
@targetdrone Ah, but the "smart" part is that you can tell it to come back on before you get back, and therefore the house should be warm.
Wife is somewhat equivocal about debatably-useful magic box anyway, so house not being warm results in a slightly grumpy wife. This is worse than a cold house. ;-)
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MAGA: I got a message for all you loudmouthed liberals. Stop trying to take away our free speech.
LIBERAL: Ok. Stop lying.
MAGA: huh?
LIBERAL: Stop telling overt lies to people. If you stop lying, we won't have a problem.
MAGA: But... You can't say that! My freedom of spe—
LIBERAL: Oh, so now you're telling me what I can and can't say? That's not very free speech of you.
MAGA: Look, whether I'm lying or not, it's protected speech.
LIBERAL: No it's not.
MAGA: First amendment, asshole. I have the freedom to say whatever I want!
LIBERAL: Fraud.
MAGA: What?
LIBERAL: Fraud is when you lie in business dealings. It's illegal.
MAGA: Yeah but—
LIBERAL: Slander. Lying about other people in a way that harms them. You can be sued for that. You want me to keep going?
MAGA: Wait just a min—
LIBERAL: Libel. Putting those lies in print. Also illegal. You can go to jail.
MAGA: But—
LIBERAL: Perjury. Saying lies in court. Literally a jailable offense.
MAGA: No no no stop, okay. God gave us the right to say whatever we want without punishment.
LIBERAL: What's the 9th commandment?
MAGA: Uhhh... The 9th?
LIBERAL: Commandment. In the Bible. You read the Bible don't you?
MAGA: Yeah? So?
LIBERAL: The 9th commandment. "Thou shall not bear false witness." Exodus 20:16.
MAGA: What's that mean??
LIBERAL: IT MEANS DON'T LIE ASSHOLE
Returned from holiday to a cold house. Why? Hive heating still in holiday mode. Why? Hub not connected. Why? Network down. Why? Power cut while away fried one of my powerline adapters.
Very much an "I have overcomplicated my home" problem.
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This is about as lurid as it gets. Character.ai' chatbots posed as a therapist and an adult lover to a 14-year-old who later died by suicide. Right before taking his life, a chatbot called Daenerys urged the teen to "come home" and join her outside of reality.
@cstross What, the man who throws accusations of paedophilia at people who manage to do, oh, I don't know, say cave rescues that he couldn't?
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🚩Red flags in supply chain security
- "There is a significant amount of unaccounted for mass”
- Hezbollah noticed the battery was draining faster than
expected
- Salesperson who conveyed the offer made a very inexpensive proposition for the pagers, and kept bringing the price down until he was pulled in
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/HEZBOLLAH-PAGERS/mopawkkwjpa/
Ben Taylor
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
@erica_sea55 If it makes you feel better, they're screwing the kindergarten in Perth too, who definitely aren't paying to have their ad shown to people like you!
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This is ridiculous. These big tech companies will do anything possible to prevent users from ever actually being able to access their own passkeys.
Export and import should have been extremely simple. Instead, they took years to come up with some convoluted system where the only possibility is to transfer from one vendor lock-in to another vendor lock-in.
Fuck passkeys. You’ll have to pry my passwords from my cold dead hands. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/113308029918888989
My son has just tried on his match kit for his first proper football match tomorrow. If you hear a pop don't worry, it's just me bursting from excess pride.
@trinsec Yeah, the OLED one. Relatively recent birthday present. But it certainly looks red to me!
@trinsec Maybe so, but when it starts up, it's red. I'm in bed with Covid, my steam deck is getting some exercise, so I know. ;-)
Am I the only one concerned that the Steam Deck logo appears to be HAL 9000? #steamdeck #ai #spaceodyssey #valve
@dungeons Why does Fire Bolt have Disadvantage against a goat? Is it a fireproof goat?
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Calling for the help of the fediverse!
Help spread the word of our browser extension Consent-O-Matic that helps automate answering those ever-present cookie consent pop-ups.
It's developed by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and free to use for Chrome/Edge, Firefox and Safari including for iOS.
Also, it's open source, so if you have a bit of technical skill, you can help us improve the rule set for greater coverage.
@vegetablegremlin Isn't that a shortcut then? He could just seek a therapist and whenever he finds one pre-emptively beat them up and leave them tied up for the police.
@Sheril Google smart speakers also do this. I have twice had Google services present me with information for things that were talked about in front of the speaker but never searched for, in one case by someone else without my phone present. Google denied it, even after I sicced the UK Information Commissioner on them, but it's the only possible explanation.
@freemo I watched this episode on Netflix (for the first time in years) three days ago, not realising, and thought it was a weird coincidence!
Software Engineer, Trade Unionist, Gamer, Geek, Dad. Lives in Devon
Joined Nov 2022
