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Its like a coordinated DDOS PR attack from these existential risk people and they're succeeding in making me constantly talk about them.

Uptime of Theseus: if you individually restart all components of a high availability cluster, is the cluster really up since the beginning?

Remember, there’s nothing wrong with saying “Have the day you deserve.”

I had a very interesting convo with an older non-tech person about centralized vs. decentralized social media because I told them one of my interests was independent social media when they asked.

They brought up BlueSky and asked my opinion, which I gave, and then they asked me specifically about the challenge of moderation and safety in the decentralized space.

From there, we had an extended convo about those issues, with me using my history with PV, the lessons I learned, and how I'm applying them to my projects.

It's the first time in a while someone interrogated my thoughts who wasn't involved in the tech industry, so I used it as an opportunity to practice explaining with as little tech speak as possible.

In the end, they were impressed with my context of the challenges of decentralized social media because I made it easy to understand, so they felt like they could make a contribution to the convo despite not having my technical background.

We didn't agree on everything but found common ground because we understood the core of the problem.

It was very encouraging.

I kind of wonder who writes Lidl's manuals, because they're really quite good, and sometimes straight-up include several pages of theory behind how and why a certain tool works

also I would like to once again praise the concept of Bad Gamer Jail

if some heuristic thinks you're likely to give other people a shitty experience if they play with you, you are placed into sessions with other shitty experience causing players

if the heuristic is correct, people who aren't ruining the fun get matched with other people who aren't ruining the fun

and if it's wrong, the worst thing that can happen is exactly what would happen if the system wasn't in place

new update from nintendo: they responded to kotaku's reach out for comment on them C&Ding dolphin from steam

they said, and i quote: "This emulator illegally circumvents Nintendo’s protection measures and runs illegal copies of games. Using illegal emulators or illegal copies of games harms development and ultimately stifles innovation"

anyways nintendo continues to think all emulators are illegal, keep pirating their shit

tech people grumble 

Another day, another person thoughtlessly using JS as a punching bag in a conversation where it was completely unnecessary and irrelevant

ableism 

I wish more people would realize that the whole "nobody has any attention span anymore, just look at Tiktok" thing is ableist rhetoric. It's extremely closely related to the (false) claims of "overdiagnosis" and "epidemic" of ADHD.

It's also something that has been claimed for generation after generation, every time something more visual and/or accessible came into existence.

mastodon meta 

is there good documentation anywhere about what mastodon's privacy and blocking options actually do, both as a user and as a admin? like, the interactions between AUTHORIZED_FETCH and domain blocking is kinda complicated, and i don't even know how user-level domain blocking differs from admin-level defederation of a domain, if at all. thinking about trying to write this if it doesn't already exist.

When the joke isn't worth the time someone put into making it, yet here I am sharing it, so maybe it was ...

Wie du in 30 Tagen deinen Summer Body bekommst:

Du wartest 30 Tage. Es ist Sommer. Jetzt ist dein Body ein Summer Body.

this notbird.site honeypot is so fucking shady. and not just "scammer" shady

honeypot in january before the incredibly fake "scammer" ad: https://web.archive.org/web/20230129064638/https://notbird.site/

honeypot today with the ad: https://web.archive.org/web/20230529131515/https://notbird.site/

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Also, other artists (and especially those who hyperfocus) will hopefully know the horror of realising that, after 3 hours of work, only now I press save, and THEN REALISE I'VE BEEN WORKING WITHOUT HAVING SAVED A SINGLE THING.

It's all fine now. I've saved.

However!

Übergriffiges Verhalten bzgl. Dating 

Als sie das im Freundeskreis erzählt hat, fanden das alle super süß und romantisch und der Typ tat ihnen Leid.

Ich war die Einzige, die sein Verhalten übergriffig und scheiße fand. Er hat ihr "Nein" an keinem Punkt akzeptiert. Er hat übrigens erst dann aufgegeben, ja, ratet mal... Genau, als sie gesagt hat, dass sie bereits einen Freund hat (Was nicht stimmt).

Können wir bitte aufhören so einen Kackmist zu romantisieren?

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Übergriffiges Verhalten bzgl. Dating 

Freundin von mir arbeitet in einer Bar und ein Gast hat deutliches Interesse an ihr ausgedrückt und ihr seine Nummer gegeben. Sie hat ihm sofort gesagt, dass sie kein Interesse hat.

Die Woche danach kommt der Typ wieder und fragt sie, wieso sie ihn nicht angerufen hat. Sie sagt ihm erneut, dass sie kein Interesse hat.

Die Woche danach hat sie frei und der Typ war wieder da und hat nach ihr gefragt. Er hatte sogar ein Geschenk für sie dabei.

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