2026-09-28 12:58 UTC
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@StumpyTheMutt@social.linux.pizza 2026-09-28 13:08
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Very nice. I'm sure you will call them as soon as you actually start selling coffee.
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@bpl@snac.bsd.cafe 2026-09-28 13:06
Tip your Barista here - https://ko-fi.com/bsdcafe - who would not need a latte after reading such e-mail?
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@linear@nya.social 2026-09-28 13:12
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe in my experience, if you've got some free time, the best way to deal with these types is to set up the appointment and let them dig the hole deeper
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@santi@gone.lema.org 2026-09-28 13:18
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Personalized coffee ☕️! That’s good 😂 About 25 years ago we received directly from a meat-based human a business plan for a website which included mentions to storing web banner ads in a physical building and calculated the time to travel through the information highway (about 2:30 hours from Lausanne to Zurich apparently). Back in the days the same kind of people would use the AI of the day known as search and replace in Word to produce nonsense.
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@dsl@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-09-28 13:20
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe It isn't spam! It's a metaphor! Just replace "coffee" with "*BSD" and everything will become clear.
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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange 2026-09-28 13:24
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe 🤪
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@raven@mastodon.fediblue.de 2026-09-28 13:28
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe I had a similar email in my inbox for the FediBlue instance where someone has seen the massive potential of FediBlue. It is enough when I know the potential but thanks 😄
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@ltning@pleroma.anduin.net 2026-09-28 13:30
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe You should set up that call with them and place the camera in front of a fish tank or chicken coop or something. Just to waste their time.
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2026-09-28 13:42
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe That's a pretty good one but I think I still have to go with linkedin trying to claw back my attention with spam about all the business owner positions that have opened up recently.
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@andy@friendica.hubup.pro 2026-09-28 13:43
No surprise here. Unintelligent Artificiality consistently underwhelms.
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@UrbanDjent@metalhead.club 2026-09-28 13:59
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe So, there's no chance of a decent Flat White then? Why am I still queuing? 🤷♂️🤣
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@peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-09-28 14:24
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe That's hilarious. I wish I received emails like this for my domains.
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@angel@triptico.com 2026-09-28 14:32
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Spam / phishing is getting to levels never seen before. Last week I've received a bunch of emails from fake literary agents trying to contact me (yeah, sure, as if literary agents unsolicitedly contacted authors, and not the reverse). For example, the following one: it's in English, supposedly signed by an existent, real USA-based literary agent, about one my novels, written in Spanish, already published by spanish publisher. It's disquieting, because it gives a shallow analysis of the text, written for sure by an AI (so, yes, somehow my novel has been fed to these infernal machines): Dear Ángel, I hope you're doing well. I wanted to reach out because La atalaya recortada contra el cielo caught my attention for the way it seems to make horror feel deeply connected to memory, loss, and the weight of family history. What particularly interested me about Bran is that she doesn't simply inherit a house she seems to inherit a history she has spent much of her life trying to distance herself from. The scar, the losses within her family, and her withdrawn nature give the house a significance beyond being a frightening setting. As she moves deeper into it, the physical darkness appears to become intertwined with something much more personal. I also found the atmosphere of the story intriguing. The decay, isolation, confined spaces, tunnels, and strange imagery create a form of horror that relies as much on unease and anticipation as on the supernatural itself. There’s also something interesting about setting such a psychologically dark story within a distinctly Spanish environment while exploring experiences that feel much more universal grief, inheritance, family secrets, isolation, and confronting the past. I'd be interested to hear where your writing is taking you now. What is the current project you're working on, how is it going so far, and what are you most looking forward to as it develops? And do you currently have an active literary agent representing you? There’s no need to send a manuscript or proposal at this stage. I’d simply enjoy hearing about what you're working on and what you're looking forward to next. Best regards, XXXXX
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@openfreenet@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-09-28 14:54
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe > - Dynamic pricing and personalized coffee recommendations Let inform the AI that it is *BSD* Cafe, not Windows :-)
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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-09-28 14:54
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe what an impressive understanding of your coffee business! Sounds like a product you can't afford to miss. With this kind of future technology, we could put Java on billions more devices.
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@chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-09-28 14:59
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe I mean, this AI bot clearly got a point. I've been there for how many years now and all I got is amazing pizza shots instead of coffee.
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@laylo@social.laylo.nl 2026-09-28 16:05
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe We receive this nonsense on a daily basis. "I recently came across the LAYLO website and [...]". Bro, are you hallucinating or do we have an imposter? We haven't had a website online for ages. The one good thing that comes from these mails is that we use it to train rspamd, directly allowing us to protect our clients from this absurd horror. Just like the former "we have recorded you doing nasty things, pay bitcoin or else" - sent to our general contact address. We have replied once that it was incredible that they have managed to film us without cams and that it would mean that they have an OpenBSD RCE exploit. Bad commerce to extort a company for 250 bucks while it could land them millions. Never received a reply so just fed those mails to rspamd too.
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@pertho@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-09-28 16:14
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe "We don't serve coffee." "I'm sorry, you're absolutely right -- You don't serve coffee and that's awesome."
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@paul@notnull.space 2026-09-28 19:08
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe "our AI is constantly tracking every visitor to your website forever and ever and all it will cost you is a few thousand tokens every hour (cost of token is variable only in the increasing direction)"
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@hallen@tweesecake.social 2026-09-28 13:26
@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe My favorite is when the AI tries to pretend it’s my own website and tells me I need to respond to the site admin.