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Seems there was an old Star Trek episode that talked about this, that became a movie? Weird.

Since it's that time of the year, if you live in the Northeast, saying: "I don't need winter tires. I just drive slow." Is logically equivalently to saying: "I don't need winter boots. I just walk slow." There's a reason all season tires are called no season tires.

Filed under "I was so fed up with men telling me what they thought I wanted to hear that I had dinner with a chatbot literally programmed to tell me what I want to hear."

A reminder that no matter what the Trumpers tell you, the only reason to vote for the overt white supremacist running on a Nazi platform was because he's a white supremacist running on a Nazi platform. Never forget these people, and never forgive them.

Looking at all the steps and restrictions on setting up family sharing on Steam for me and my wife, and maybe I just go on eBay and see if I can buy an old Arari and some old games instead.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

Me: Uh, Amazon, I have absolutely no idea where this picture was taken, but it is not my house. Amazon: Did you search around your neighborhood for the package? Maybe it's somewhere on your street? Me: How about you just go back to wherever this is, collect it, and do your job?

To give you an idea of how "AI" has fucked up the holiday season, their insane demand for RAM chips that's barely even being used has caused a production drought for every other application. Meaning right now you can buy a cheap PC, yank the RAM, and sell it on eBay for twice what the PC costs.

Saving this post cos the dunks are great reading & will give me life when we have to endure yet another instance of AI boosterism/cheerleading at work

I just want to thank the people using AI to cheat during remote interviews for making in-person technical interviews a requirement now. Great job on making remote interviews useless now. Hope you have traveling on site for interviews in your budget! Great job!

One of my favorite things about Teams is how the little dots will go back and forth for five minutes as someone types in a response like they're writing a book, and then the response will be: "Yes."

This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

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For those looking to de-Copilot their Windows 11.

Good words.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Update: I reordered the item, it arrived at the local shipment center, and after several delays it still couldn't make it the last 10 miles to my house. So I canceled it again and ordered it from a competitor. This is an item Amazon makes and sells, that I had to go elsewhere to get. Epic fail.

I was walking in to work today from the parking garage and witnessed two guys across the street almost come to blows, and I don't think it can be overstated just how triggering that kind of public violence is.

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What we consider serious must be redefined. 'Women's issues', like sexual abuse, are not actually considered serious. If they were, the world would be unrecognizable. Even though 'women's issues' are often the subtext of war, economies, politics and other subjects that are treated with gravity.

I've been dealing with Amazon over a shipment issue, and it really is something how customer service, especially with companies that pride themselves as being tech based, has become purely transactional. /2

This right here. I register as a Dem in NY but vote WFP. If I register as WFP then I can't vote in the Dem primary.

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Before John Wick there was Ghost Dog. Just sayin'

Amazon, if you were a seller on eBay, I'd be giving you 3 stars for reliable delivery these days. You used to be pretty good, but over the last year it has gotten to the point where I am now questioning what I'm actually paying for with Prime. I mostly go elsewhere now. Untrustworthy. Epic fail.

Is it me, or has Amazon shipping gotten markedly worse? It used to be that they were pretty good at meeting their estimated delivery date, and now it's basically hit or miss. Absolutely no level of trust in the estimated delivery day anymore. Enshittification is a demonstrable thing :-(

Any app or device that has any of these is an automatic uninstall/pass* --A requirement to use AI. --A requirement to create an account or log in to use. --A requirement to access the Internet to use. --Subscription without option to purchase outright. *There are exceptions, of course. /2

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Happy marathon day, NYC! Perfect weather to set a PR, and good luck for the first timers! Run strong!

link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.

It occurs to me that one of the horrors of being stranded on a remote island would be not having a toothpick if you needed one.

And the laptop battery will last longer :-) About a third or so longer in my experience.

When a system is put under intense stress, it is difficult to foresee where and when it will break, but I'm pretty sure the Feds arriving in NYC in force is going to be one of those break points. NYrs are a fierce bunch and they will fuck shit up if the Feds come at them.

Having installed Linux Mint on three laptops now, my back-of-the-envelope analysis so far is about a third or more extra battery life over Windows 11. And that's with no tweaking of power management other than just using the basic power saving mode. #linux #windows

The thing to understand about Microsoft is that it didn't suddenly become shady with the Copilot bs. Microsoft has been shady literally from its inception. Bill Gates tricking IBM over DOS for the IBM PC is legend. Windows became ascendant due to shady licensing agreements. #linux #microsoft /2

I finally got around to installing Linux Mint on my travel laptop, a 2019 vintage Huawei Matebook, and my battery life went from about 6 hours on Windows 11 to 10+ on Mint. The hardest part of the install was convincing the bios to boot from a usb. Otherwise flawless. #linux #windows

Feeling the need to resurface this post I made a few months ago. I've said the most dangerous point in the Trump regime will be when he understands he can do whatever he wants without restraint, and it is quite possible that this is where we are now. This is the end game if so.

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Maybe remind Mr. Roy who it was that pulled the trigger.

Noting that paying for an insurance plan that will never be used is the most capitalist plan possible.

Ok, here's the thing with Microsoft Windows vs. Linux. I have been in the Microsoft world for a very long time, going all the way back to the beginning, before Windows, before even DOS 2.0. And in all that time I have had one immutable rule; My machine, my data. /2 #windows #linux

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One thing I do not like about new cars is the lack of an actual handbrake. Instead it's like this little button we're expected to somehow modulate like fingering the car's clitoris while simultaneously trying to avoid crashing or running off the road. Why, just why?

Senator Wyden says local officials can best protect their constituents from Flock abuses by removing the cameras entirely www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...

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If the civil authorities are saying they have no power when ICE shows up, then what they are saying is that no one is safe, and if no one is safe then what the fuck are they even doing? Why the fuck are they even here?