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• Post #4241709

  RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/117006488074722424 Ah come on, $3T in debt and no profit, how is that a problem? 😂

• Post #3077247

  My Editorial Assistant is NOT HELPING! #writing #editing #WritingCommunity #CatsOfMastodon

• Post #3077246

  When the marketing says "SAVE [tiny print] UP TO [/tiny print] $4,000!" I just assume that whatever it is, I can't afford it and move on. Doubly so if I wouldn't even pay $4,000 for whatever it is they're pushing.

• Post #3077245

  An update to my spam filters to kill the latest wave of particularly irritating spam killed 55 messages over the past week, with three false positives. All of the false positives were from the SpamAssassin mailing list that was discussing how to kill this particular form of spam, which I found amusing. I've adjusted the rule to compensate for that particular quirk.

• Post #3077244

  Man, you do not want to be 45 minutes late for a CSFFA AGM. [Zooms into an empty room] 😂

• Post #3077243

  "This is a follow-up message regarding the abuse report that you submitted to AWS. The content or activity you reported has been mitigated." Or in other words, if you use AWS to launch an attack against my sites, I will get your ass banned off of AWS. Next player, please.

• Post #3077242

  In other words, in the online space, fuck with my stuff and I will do my best to hunt you down and kill you, digitally speaking.

• Post #3077241

  Meta-Quote of the Day: "it looks like a vibecoding bot broke {app} while hallucinating a bugfix."

• Post #3077240

  I just had an installer say "in order to install {app}, you must install {app}" Gosh, this must have been why I started the installer for {app}! Duh.

• Post #1664441

  Looking at two e-books I'd like to buy. Both with DRM. Nope, sorry, I don't want a "revocable license to read on a surveillance device," I want a fucking copy of the e-book that I can read with the application of my choice, in the OS of my choice. NO SALE.

• Post #1653063

  Australian mining company, world's fourth-largest iron ore miner, plans to have mine 100% powered by renewables by 2028, further leaving the US behind. #green #energy https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/australias-fortescue-fast-track-diesel-elimination-plans-pilbara-2026-04-09/

• Post #1544641

  I just shake my head when the US media describes Yet another mass shooting, especially one of the "dude can't handle rejection, kills family then himself" variant as "shocking" How can something that happens [looks it up] about ONCE A DAY be shocking? Horrific I get, yes. But shocking? Give me a break. I'll tell you what's fucking shocking: that there's no way for anyone to do anything about it because of shitty politics. That...

• Post #1544640

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116431441690899655 For anyone looking for a practical definition of community and why it's the most valuable thing ever, this thread is it.

• Post #1544639

  Man if you have a new book/essay/post on anything AI related and capitalize it as "Ai", I am so not reading your work, on the assumption that it's a poorly edited piece of crap.

• Post #1544637

  Her: I had a double-yoker for breakfast this morning. Me: who was the other guy? #dadjoke

• Post #1544636

  Contents of marketing email (from a vendor I like) Interesting subject [image] [image] [image] Sender/unsubscribe block. You truly failed to deliver on that interesting subject, folks. With no alt text, I'm not bothering to load those images.

• Post #1544635

  I just saw a bird with wearable tech. It was a technopheasant. [brain is in dad joke mode today] #dadjoke

• Post #1030209

  A local butter company is running into a legislative barrier. There's a two-tier system in Ontario. Small producers can sell direct to consumers, but not through retail or wholesale channels. the next step up requires a full industrial facility costing millions of dollars, and is only suited to large volume operations. The Lofty Butter Company (https://loftybutter.ca/) is within 100km of me, makes wonderful butter, but if I want some, I have to drive for the better part of an hour round...

• Post #834346

  I have to say that what I love about this platform, and what is a strong echo of the Internet I first came to love, is that when you post something here that others take issue with, most of the time what you get in response is well-reasoned replies and counterarguments, instead of a stream of rage-farming crap. Thank-you, Mastodon.

• Post #637391

  I think my new favourite colour will be darkle (even though it's not really a colour.)

• Post #577282

  I just discovered that some time ago my newsletter mail provider added a step to the sign-up process without letting me know, which means that sign-ups were silently failing. Gutted that this has possibly cost me between zero and zero new subscribers! At the same time they updated their API, which lets me bypass the issue, but now I'm logging successes as well as failures, just in case they "update" things without notice again.

• Post #368548

  @kalsdavian@mastodon.social Welcome. You will probably find this to be a much nicer place.

• Post #368489

  @Dianora@ottawa.place Cellophane tape, obviously.

• Post #197154

  There's something special about having my weather app say that today will be "much warmer" than yesterday, while there's still an extreme cold weather warning across the header. Maybe "today will be less extreme" would be better...