Tip for well-meaning people doing diversity monitoring: if your form expects trans women to, at any point, tick anything that says “male”, then that is profoundly offensive and most of us will just lie to you.
Please stop doing this.
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“The following programme contains strong and frequent language”
So, like, swearing really fast?
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There will come a time when the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not require a super secret mythical combination of USB C power supply and cable that is only dubiously complainant and can only be obtained on the third Thursday of the months with no R in them.
That time is not now.
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Given how they were told of by the AUTHOR of the power delivery portion of the spec because of what they did to the 4, you'd think they'd have made *some* effort on the 5.
But hey, this version has AI in it, so yay?
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Today’s lesson. Most of the time when you ask “how do I do this?” and get the answer “don’t do this, do that” you’re talking to an irritating fuckwit. The lesson is that this is not all of the time.
The practical application of this was learning that digit is a very cool tool for editing Debian packages.
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Phrases that don’t mean what I thought they meant, part 33. The Global South.
Australia is in the Global North.
Me: installs a new Debian
Also me: nslookup something.or.other
Me again: "fucksake!"
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I now ask interview questions about frustrating replaced commands to anyone who says they have a history with Linux.
"Which netstat flags have been replaced with other commands?" tells on a person
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Gold loos: not only are they tacky as fuck; they would be really cold on your arse.
Maybe that’s why Trump is such a miserable fucker.
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At first I thought fracking, but almost all fracking in Poland is east or north of there. ...Maybe something top secret blew up underground?
The wave seems to finally be breaking, thank fuck!
Repeatedly, the trajectory of anti-trans politics is an immediate spike in panic / support, followed by a sharp decline.As "parents' rights" panic collapses in the US, Canadian conservatives are setting themselves up for a losing battle. #cdnpoli
Anti-trans platforms lose elections - LGBTQ Nation
lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/anti-t…Anti-trans platforms lose elections - LGBTQ Nation
Tuesday’s elections in Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania showed the limits of anti-trans messaging.Abby Vesoulis (LGBTQ Nation)
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@mercedesallen I’m sort of hoping this - the whole counterrevolution against any process made since the 60s - is all an extinction spike, like the anti abortion referendum in Ireland in the 1980s.
Not confident, but hopeful.
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I appear to be developing a TP-Link Jetstream Switch habit.
They’re good switches though.
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Increasingly getting the impression that MacOS Sonoma is a lemon, and best avoided.
Interestingly, when it bricked my M1 Pro MBP, and I had to recover from the recovery partition, it reinstalled Ventura.
And the new Macs ship with Ventura, with no Sonoma upgrade available.
Now seeing that the 14.1 update has screwed a load of webcam stuff used by remote workers.
I think I'm gonna keep my MBP on Ventura for now. My Mac mini server is on Sonoma, but all that's doing is hosting Linux VMs.
@Miguel Arroz That sounds profoundly buggered indeed.
Touchwood I’m ok. The 6 days uptime is because of a power outage 6 days ago.
Every so often I encounter someone who is very stridently advocating for understanding and sympathy for narcissists, to the point of sacrificing yourself to give them what they crave: supply.
And every time I smile, nod, and then instantly file them in the same mental drawer as “psychotic tiger in a bad mood”.
Never believe their bullshit, ever.
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@Llwynog yeah. Once you’re wise to their shit, you can defend yourself.
But if you don’t understand, and they’re in a position of power over you, that’s when they can do profound damage. A lot of us who were raised by them evolve coping strategies, but when you’re a kid having to defend yourself against the person who is supposed to be nurturing you, it causes life long damage.
We also tend to be on high alert for them, constantly. If someone behaves in a way that triggers my narcissist response, it’s instant fight or flight, with a heavy dose of grey rocking.
This has actually served me quite well, but it’s a fucked up superpower to have.
the endless guilt-tripping is their most powerful tool. Covert Ns are really insidious because they present themselves as shy, introverted, morally superior and even sweet, initially. They're masters at mental gymnastics.
Playing the victim, endlessly talking about themselves and constantly complaining are my three N red flags.
Do you have any advice on how to detect (covert) Ns before they can do much harm? Any specific behaviours to watch out for?
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Person in front of me in the pharmacy: Have you got something for a deep, persistent cough?
So how’s your day going?
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I am in Britain!
It’s a lot like in an ink jet printer were a country.
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Looks like a BBC News intro from a decade or two ago mastodon.social/@flameReactor/…
Winnitz wiggles.If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#artBot
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I like the idea of a "Car Trap". Perhaps we should have more of them elsewhere.
Seriously though, why are they there?
We should have more guided busways and light railways on Beeching's closed railway lines. Hertford to Luton. Buntingford to Broxbourne.
Curious how they cope with single track sections.
@Normal for '23 😷🇪🇺🍸 They’re there to stop cars going further on the busway, presumably so that they can be retrieved more easily than half way down a guided section. (This section is an anomaly because it’s not guided except at the entrances; the proper guided sections are narrow trenches.)
Wouldn’t recommend guided bus as a transport solution even if reusing closed railway alignments for transport is a good idea.
Single track sections are controlled by traffic lights.
So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of “leaders” involved in “crypto” ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if you’ve forgotten about those, they were briefly bigger than COVID 19 and about as beneficial to humanity) held a party in Hong Kong last night.
The organisers thought they were lighting the stage with black lights (like they have at LaserQuest to make your clothes glow).
They were not.
They were lighting the stage with UV-C sterilisation lights.
Apparently everyone involved is now in accident and emergency with extensive sunburn and BURNS TO THEIR RETINAS!!
In 18 months there are going to be a bunch of people wearing dark sunglasses and refusing to meet outdoors trying to sell you something expensive to do with “AI”. You probably shouldn’t buy it.
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In case anyone reading this has been at an Ape Event in Hong Kong recently, here's a version of all the images with alt text.Bluesky Social
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@Mona app notifications from a friendica server seem to confuse Mona on iOS. They all appear as this.
You received a new message.
Error: error: The data couldn't be read because it isn't in the correct format.
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Like, there’s frequency components that should be there, even if distorted, but they’re just … missing.
60 seconds of that would give me a migraine.
I heard part of it and it just felt flat and empty anyways.
If someone (good) makes a cover I’ll listen again. Just to see how it is. Don’t expect it to exactly blow me away. I get it if a massive Beatles fan find it exciting, but for the rest of us it’s just a song amongst songs.
Ah, the glorious denizens of Reddit have definitively informed me that Tailscale, which implements a virtual network, privately, is “not a VPN”.
Apparently there is an entire generation of users who think a VPN is a personal porn tunnel.
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