Me: โWell you see, guv, you for Charybdis on your rudder. Gonna be expensive. Need a liftโ
The wife: Is that worse than Scylla? Same problem but with a Liverpool accent.
Me: Hereโs our Graham to explain how fucked your propeller is!
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In which the EFF attempt to safe face by showing themselves to be complete muppets mastodon.social/@eff/113794035โฆ
Update: After this blog post was written, we learned Meta revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address.
If you are trans, you have just been designated โthe entertainmentโ on all Zuckerbergโs platforms.
Others based in the US will likely follow suit. Plan and act accordingly.
Iโm having a bit of a cry
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One of the reasons I left FB was because they kept undoing my privacy settings. I don't know if they still do that but I have zero trust in them.
People whoโve read the Silo books know what the thing is that kills them when they go outside (words chosen carefully).
Now, hear me out. What if that, but for mosquitos and bed bugs?
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Health food woo people: Our hydrogen water bottle infuses your system with hydrogen for the โฆ hydrogen benefits like โฆ oh, you know, hydrogen.
My IBS gut, making hydrogen by the litre: Hold my Hindenburg
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@Becky Water != hydrogen though.
This is a separate issue over whether H2 has any metabolic benefit (probably not)
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@The All-New 2025 Nick (technique)
And itโs not about you joggers who go round and round and round.
Easyjet: Confirm that you have travel insurance before booking.
Me: Missed the point where THAT WAS ANY OF YOUR GODDAM BUSINESS
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If you played Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum as a kid youโll be aware of the notorious Attic Bug. It meant that if you entered the Attic in a game, various rooms became instakills.
Today I read an explanation of the bug: bits of non-screen memory are being written to when one of the monsters in the Attic is โdrawnโ.
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Today is a special day. As the Earth passes the closest to the sun in its orbit, itโs moving as fast as it ever gets. Thus today, the 4th of January, is SPEED DAY!!!!
Itโs also the 18th anniversary of me having sex reassignment surgery. That was a weird time.
Ok, so we now know the point of this Quinn character who wasnโt in the books (neither was Sims. I think heโs going to be the one to do the deed Sheriff Billings did in Wool; his character arc has been building up to that for ages).
Anyway, they have Quinn being the one who worked out that they need to forget.
Which, in the books, was Troy/Donald in Shift.
Suddenly it looks like the reason theyโre taking forever to get through Wool is that they arenโt going to bring Shift into the story.
Which makes me wonder how the hell theyโre going to explain why theyโre down there, and why 8+ billion people died.
Zoe: Someone here is asking if you can make a true software random number generator using generative AI thatโs been trained on enough entropy to escape the quantum analysis constraints.
Me: Maths doesnโt stop being maths just because you donโt understand it.
Zoe: I was just gonna say โParklife!โ
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The ultimate irony here is that thereโs one easily available drug he can take that would help immensely.
And I would put a lot of money on saying heโd never take it.
If you know, you know.
Been meaning to climb up on the hill overlooking the Arade bridge at sunset for some time. Needed the right tide and light and a round tuit.
Got all of them. Two of these are from the Fuji XE4, one is from the iPhone 16 pro
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I am a fan of British sci fi author, Peter Hamilton.
One trope he consistently returns to in his universes is the group of humans who buggered off somewhere to try to build a post scarcity society of some kind.
And each new iteration, it feels like the seed group gets closer and closer to a transsexual polycule.
And Iโm utterly here for it.
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Trans? Leaving the UK?
Useful to know which countries are on Rowlingโs radar and which ones she doesnโt think about.
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@Zฬoรฉ โต @Christine Burns MBE ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐โง @Katie Fenn โhold the trim button until the force goes away then follow the runaway stabiliser checklistโ.
So few words to not kill 300 people ๐
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Bluesky: say what you like about it, but itโs nuclear block combined with the zero tolerance blocking culture thatโs developed there has made it far less combative than most social media platforms.
And I think itโs superb. Honestly, Iโm gonna get a lot less fussy about blocking at the slightest provocation.
Gonna start with the Reddit wankers who downvote every comment you make while ostensibly trying to have a conversation with you. Thatโs just rude and they can fuck right off.
Sadly confirmed, lemmy suffers from being beset by tedious playground bully wankers just as much as Reddit.
โWhy is there so little content here?โ Maybe itโs because you treat posts as an opportunity to exhibit your superior dixkhead prowess?
In US law they pronounce the โv.โ in case names as โversusโ or โveeโ. So we get the famous case of Roe v. Wade. But in English law for civil cases like this we pronounce the โv.โ as โandโ, thus rendering the case name as โrow and wadeโ.
Or so I thought. It occurred to me just now that if the case had happened here, itโd be a judicial review. So would be called something like R (Roe) v. Wade, pronounced โthe Crown (on behalf of Roe) and Wadeโ.
But! It was in 1973 when we wrote judicial review case names differently. It would probably have been something more like R v. Wade ex parte Roe.
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Asked a simple question on a Lemmy ADHD forum. Plenty of people answering questions I didnโt ask. Nobody answering the one I did ask.
So thatโs a thing, I guess ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Seeing Orion always makes me remember the years I spent on the road in the early '90s, cold winter nights driving on the interstate highways of the Western United States.
An interesting mix of feelings: cold and lonely but peaceful and reassured. If I can see Orion I can find my way home.
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