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  For the past few years I've started taking short videos of peaceful scenes. Since what I vaguely plan to do with them is not happening yet, I might as well post them somewhere. These are usually less than one minute long, and I just enjoy the serenity. https://clip.place/w/2Z5V9W13PK8D4STeDtrFdz alt text: A sleepy pier in silhouette early in the morning, dark water in foreground and stretching to the right. Behind the pier a soft blaze of orange-red-yellow pre-sunrise glows. Behind the onl...

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  Security/privacy bullshit: I have Delta Dental insurance, mostly because that's the only option available to me. And it's decent (for the US). I haven't logged into their site in years. I logged in now. These things happened: When I put in my username & password it said I had to set up 2FA. OK, fine.It said my previous email was [something I do not recognize]@gmail.com... um"just enter a new email!" So I did that. Got the confirmation.Then it said I absolutely had to a...

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  NPR Music has an interview with Sylvan Esso. They pulled their catalog from Spotify last year because of the CEO's ties to an #AI weapons manufacturing company. They just reversed that decision and they're back on #spotify. If you are interested in my thoughts, they are below. The interview is a good (if not always happy) listen, too. The band talked a lot about how the return decision wasn't just about the money; it was about the exposure, getting their #music out to fans, etc. Unch...

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  I'm thinking of opening an account whose only purpose for me to correct all the missing or misused apostrophes on #mastodon. This is not a poll; I'm not committing to following the wisdom of any crowd on this, no matter how wise. #punctuation #petpeeve #apostrophes #GetOffMyLawn

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  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117334788025394526 Heck yes!

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  @hrbrmstr@mastodon.social @FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange OK, that's the direction I was going in. I think I figure out how to get codeberg to act as the, IDK, verifier or something, then I set a little script in a web-facing file on a website where I own the root domain. I think I can do this. And I have more and more understanding every day of why "regular people" don't just stop using those evil huge tech providers. Fewer than 1% of Americans would have the know-how to do t...

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  Shamelessly reposting because this is solid #humor. I can only assume y'all just didn't see this idea for an all-gnome party in D&D: - Gnome Ann, the warrior - Gnome Eight, the token Cockney - Gnome Adder, the laid-back one - Gnome Orr, always a bit on edge - Gnome Anchess, the Hispanic one - Gnome Ahss, the other Hispanic one - Gnome Sane, just a regular guy from the Holler Side note: this post is not possible for LLMs #sorrynotsorry #names #silly #DND #gnomes

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  Wisdom of the Crowd request: For some reason it's quite hard to find the source of quotations from Third Rock From The Sun online (besides those on wikiquote). Does anyone know what season/episode this is from? (Fuzzy memory coming up): When discussing love, attraction, etc. someone suggests to Dick that mere proximity might be an important factor. Dick says something like "That's ridiculous! If that were true, men would constantly be having affairs with their secretaries!" I...

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  In these-a-days of eh aye bots and vibe hacking and whatnot that all the kids are gettin' up to, are there extra recommendations for hardening security on a #Nextcloud AIO installation on my home network, accessible by me from the outside? I'm not a dev or sysadmin, but I can (slowly) work through guides, tutorials, etc. I've run Nextcloud for a few years from shared hosting (which is a pain in my whole entire bottom), so I know more or less how that process goes. #recommendations...

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  If US professors were paid for their time, the #highered system would collapse immediately. The entire thing runs on unpaid labor. Shown: an Email informing us that we must take and pass this four-week course if we want to teach online, ever, even a little. The course is quite fussy, with lots of little checks to see if your modules in the LMS fit their criteria, the assignments are sufficient in number and named properly, the media files and links all meet specifications, and a dozen other asp...

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  @punishmenthurts@autistics.life A grouchy, aggressive, violent honey badger, maybe. Nobody fucks with wolverines unless they're prepared and geared up and a tiny bit narcissistic.

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  I really like #LibreOffice, and I like supporting #foss software (and I really really don't like microsoft). Write is great. Calc gets it done. #impress, however, is half functional and half a dumpster fire of anti-usability. So many basic things require half a dozen clicks or just can't be done in bulk, which means they often require literally hundreds of clicks in a presentation, while digging into menus over and over. Impress is going to give me RSI all by itself. I sometimes find ref...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117270957605896631 After ~3 years of this, I will never be convinced that AI corporation CEOs do anything for any reason except the most intense personal greed. Explain this to me in those terms and I'll find it convincing.

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  RE: https://indieweb.social/@akamran/117270658407269844 piggyback: Stop writing "lead" when you mean "led" Stop writing "led" when you mean LED

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  Just heard "AI will solve climate change". The fuck? AI can, at best, generate knowledge. We have had the knowledge of what to do about climate change for 50+ years. We are ignoring that knowledge. Instead, we're building 10,000 new data centers that will make climate change worse. #ai #climatechange #datacenters

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  My daughter said the high school orchestra was given a choice for their non-classical song this semester: Something from the works of Tim Burton or something from Dolly Parton. She said the vote was unanimous.

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  Ruben James #InternationalSandwichASong #HashtagGames #NoEffort

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  Just Like Honey - The Jesus and Mary Chain #TuneTuesday #CondimentSongs

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  Watching Tron (1982) for the first time in many years. Realizing I don't love it because it's "camp" or "retro." I just love it. Also The filmmaking decision to use live action with costumes and IDK UV lights (?) to do what CGI would do 30 years later was fairly brilliant. It holds up, IMOThe Dude as a young guy... this is the trippiest thingVideo game environments with changeable, destroyable environments: kinda brilliant, and of course the plot doesn't work othe...

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  Replying to someone else's feed I found this: a short read on how Thomas Edison and his cronies were monopolistic assholes about motion pictures, leading independent film studios to create movie stars and Hollywood. #movies #history #monopolies https://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/edison_trust.htm

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  What fresh hell is this

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  My God. Mel Gibson thinks he is Jesus. @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/117053310019704069

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  @nev@status.nevillepark.ca this feels like a weird way to dress up right wing protectionism and abuse the increasingly stupid US immigration system.

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/117048316263407502 This could be harm reduction: Similar surveillance, anti-worker action, global anti-democracy funding, anticompetitive practices, etc. but at least you aren't also paying the company to do those things.

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  RE: https://fox.nexus/@ItsBiNotStraight/117047992979626255 "Heterotter" has a very particular sound to it.

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  RE: https://beige.party/@CheapPontoon/117048151087501508 It's as if choosing leadership from the pool of unhinged conspiracy theorists most loyal to the dictator has somehow reduced the CDC's effectiveness.

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  @8@kpop.social If this is serious: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1qjqgg4/offtiktok_alternative/

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  @AdaraAstin@supervolcano.angryshark.eu @bookstodon@fedigroups.social I hope I see this sometime. This is one of the reasons I love Arrival: Amy Adams' character is written and acted superpbly, on these dimensions.

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  There's a good bit of scientific evidence suggesting that men and white people are not specifically the driving element behind economic, political, social, humanitarian, and ecological problems in our western meta-society. It's plausible that power itself is the issue. If true, then marginalized groups like women, ethnic minorities, and sexual & gender minorities would be similarly brutal and destructive if they were in charge. As a scientist I say it's time for empiricism. Let&...

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  RE: https://muffin.industries/@PedanticMagick/117034793317477101 You might think this wizard is dispelling largesse. However, he's dispelling Largess, clearly a highly attractive and massive woman. He is afraid of love.