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Our Pride flag was torn off the house and trashed while we were away. Again.

So, a new one has been ordered. PLUS some flashy, extremely gay coloured floodlights to shine brightly on said new flag.

Tear it down, it comes back three times more queer.

YOU SURE YOU WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME WITH ME, MOTHERFUCKERS?! 😂

#lgbtq #lgbt #pride #queer

Het is zo raar, ík slaap een keer slecht en de hele wereld wordt dom, irritant en zeikerig. Wat een verantwoordelijkheid eigenlijk.

(Also that's like 70% of the database schema I needed for this particular project!)

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It's a good day when I can hammer out 200 lines of database migrations before my EDM mix ends

ISBN 0070342490 is for the book "ISDN: Concepts, Facilities, and Services"

So it's the ISDN ISBN.

You know that part of game development where you make, say, the player model better, and now the backgrounds look bad, so you make them better and now the effects are bad, so you fix them and now the player model is bad again?

I'm doing that right now, but with low-level systems

help

my name is `adduser`
and my brother's `useradd`
one of us is good
and one of us is bad!

which of us is which?
there is no way to know
we change names sometimes
to keep you on your toes!

Imagine walking up to someone 15 years ago and going
:neocat: "Hey, in the future Google will just flat out make shit up sometimes"
:neofox: "What"
:neocat: "Yeah, like there will be a time where you can search for a movie that doesn't exist, and it'll show you trailers, articles discussing it, who's directing it, interviews from the actors, and all of it will just be completely fake and presented as real"
:neofox: "What the hell are you talking about"
:neocat_googly_woozy: "Yeah and it won't just be Google either, Microsoft and other big companies will be touting it as a revolution worth billions of dollars, as their products make shit up on the spot thousands of times a day"
:neofox: "Dude, are you high"
:neocat_googly_shocked: "Entire product lines will be rebranded around their lightning fast make-shit-up technology, and they'll even try to sell this making shit up as a creativity tool for writers and artists"
:neofox:​ "Get the fuck away from me, I'm calling the police"

Creating a new social network called Paternostr. The posts are constantly moving back and forth on the timeline and you just have to hop on an empty post as it goes by.

I do not need an app to give me more choice over treatment. I need an NHS that is properly funded so that the right treatment is accessible and my GP has enough time and headspace to advise me appropriately instead of using half our appointment time to read my medical record because they are the fifth GP I've seen in a year at the same practice...

200 years ago, a #Blind French teenager took six little dots and opened up the world of literacy for himself and generations to come. Merci Louis. Without the code that bears your name, I wouldn't have gotten through school or found success at work. I definitely wouldn't love to read as much as I do. #Braille is independence, dignity, resourcefulness, pride. #Braille is beautiful!! Happy #WorldBrailleDay

Kleine Warnung für alle mit #Rollstuhl , die in Hamburg Hbf vorbeikommen:

Das rolligerechte WC war gestern von Sanifair doppelt abgeschlossen. Ein Schloss ist mit dem Euroschlüssel zu öffnen, aber das andere kann nur jemand von Sanifair aufschließen. Da kommt aber z.T. stundenlang niemand, wenn mensch klingelt, und es lassen sich nirgendwo Mitarbeitende auftreiben.

Laut Touri-Info passiert das öfter. Heißt, das rolligerechte WC am Hbf ist gerade nicht sicher zugänglich. Die Bahn ruht sich natürlich drauf aus, dass sie nicht zuständig sind.

#Behinderung #Hamburg #Bahn

As a technical person, I usually critique generative AI from a technical perspective - its use of unsustainable amounts of electricity, its lack of world model meaning its output is never going to be correct, the business models not adding up, training material getting harder to find now that much text on the Internet is AI slop, how its purported connections to AGI are impossible sci-fi smoke screens, etc.

However, we forget the humanities at our own peril. I found this latest video by @acegikmo to be worth watching for a critique from a social and artistic perspective.

And also for a reminder of how much barely coherent AI slop is out there when you actually count it, instead of almost subconsciously discarding it out of hand. Finding information in a field you have no prior knowledge of must be a horrifying experience nowadays.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@acegikmo/113763950485888985

One of my most valuable life lessons has been that there is no such thing as 'multiple priorities'. It's in the nature of 'priorities' that they are ordered, and understanding that order lets you predict outcomes.

Sure, people or organizations can consider multiple things genuinely important, but what *really* drives the decisionmaking, is the answer to "if two of these important things ever directly conflict with each other, which one wins out?"

And in a commercial or business context, the answer is ultimately almost always "profit", regardless of the social or environmental virtues that a company sings about itself.

Heads up, Apple doing non-consensual things with photos

Of course, this user never requested that my on-device experiences be "enriched" by phoning home to Cupertino. This choice was made by Apple, silently, without my consent.

Source: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html

I think what's missing in a lot of communities is a culture of mutual improvement; the ability to trust that if someone calls you out on something, the intention is to make the place better for everyone, and not to kick you down or 'compete'.

(neuro)spicy take, bigotry 

"Making fun of people for caring about others" is bigotry, actually; specifically because a heightened sense of empathy is a neurospicy trait

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