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I'm real ducks only. If I see a fake duck, I swing

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Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.

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>Their C-Suites and marketing teams form the autocratic clergy, and developers are the literate but subordinate monks. Most computer users are almost completely illiterate serfs with regard to the devices on which they depend both for social interaction and their livelihoods.

davelane.nz/current-digital-da

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There are so many fake quotes by me each week that I don't what to do about them. Someone just posted a medium article with another fake quote from me saying "Generative AI is not just about creating something new, but about capturing what was once impossible to express."

If you know anything about my work you know that I would never say something like this.

As @emilymbender said what so called Generative AI has done is basically the equivalent of an oil spill in our information ecosystem.

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QueerCoded Learn to Code Workshop

<p>QueerMunity, Saturday, May 3 at 01:00 PM CDT</p><ul><li><p>Learn to Code</p></li><li><p>Find Community</p></li><li><p>Get to Know your Computer</p></li><li><p>Build your own Website / Software<br><br></p></li></ul>

calendar.layerze.ro/event/quee

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being able to use your programs properly? that's insecure. have you tried making them unusable

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Cyberia Congress

<p>online, Sunday, April 27 at 12:00 PM CDT</p><p>Second Congress of Cyberia for 2025</p>

calendar.layerze.ro/event/cybe

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omfg the font used in this famous anti-piracy campaign used a pirated commercial font.

source: fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfu

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Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used nin the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (
web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

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It’s unsurprising that Bluesky caved to censorship demands from a government. They caved against a B-list transphobic “columnist” for crying out loud. You know who wouldn’t cave? The nerd running your Fedi instance who shitposts about robotfucking while zonked out of their gourd.

I would love to never have to see go templates again 😌

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@gabek what do you think about this library? Have you seen it before? I felt like this might be right up your alley 😄

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