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• Post #3943377

  According to the Financial Times, [author Dave] Eggers told the staff [of OpenAI]: “The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago. So, just let that settle in… If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them. They’ll never have the ability to say their truth and tell the...

• Post #918682

  @larsmb@mastodon.online @jwz@mastodon.social @luckytran@mastodon.social There should be no reconciliation. These people need to be ostracised and removed from any access to positions of responsibility. Many should be jailed. Personally, I’d prefer more permanent solutions. We made that mistake after the Civil War. We shouldn’t make it again.

• Post #912932

  @greene@wandering.shop Careful with the ammonia, as that can be a problem with some plastics.

• Post #912929

  @arstechnica@mastodon.social Fuck Trump. God damn, fuck Trump.

• Post #907118

  @crookedfootball.bsky.social Oh, fuck.

• Post #898341

  @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Memories! Mine had two floppy drives, so we could cheat at Wizardry. Wrote my first video game in BASIC on mine, storing the program on cassette tape (before I got the drives). Also wrote a program to project star maps as seen from any other nearby star. Fun times. I sold mine to buy my first Macintosh.

• Post #868411

  Apple have committed a number of self-owns lately, but most self-respecting developers still try their best to adhere to certain standards regarding the Mac user experience. @1Password, on the other hand, have taken it upon themselves to ignore the user's specified highlight colour and just make it blue. The stated reason for this is so that it provides 'a more consistent and polished experience across all platforms, ensuring that 1Password looks and feels the same whether you're us...

• Post #866106

  @paul@tapbots.social I've heard it can have very mild immediate symptoms. But what do I know? I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on TV. I hope your situation improves; good luck!

• Post #811721

  @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social So … now I know how to say ‘space’, but how then does one say ‘spice’ in Strain?

• Post #762749

  @daringfireball@mastodon.social Not *my* fucking Mac.

• Post #712309

  @cdarwin@c.im No loss whatsoever.

• Post #649742

  @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

• Post #586979

  @Edelruth@mastodon.online @mxchara@seattle.pink @atax1a@infosec.exchange I look upon it as a good excuse to spend some time in the dictionary.

• Post #574292

  @timbray@cosocial.ca I’m not interested in following new rules of language laid down by people who couldn’t be bothered to follow the old ones.

• Post #560856

  @antoniusmisfit@mstdn.social @georgetakei@universeodon.com If I were President, I'd fucking shut down the Heimatsicherheitsdienst that was created when this country collectively lost its shit. 'Homeland'? How Nazi can you get?

• Post #557575

  @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social An embarrassment.

• Post #557521

  @arstechnica@mastodon.social Can they aim it at Mar-a-Lago?

• Post #550897

  @gbargoud@masto.nyc @glynmoody@mastodon.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Sadly, software development is not a licensed occupation.

• Post #538551

  @crookedfootball.bsky.social Same shite, different day.

• Post #497184

  @chrisnelsonsdog@mstdn.social Easy weekend job, tops.

• Post #458809

  @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social There are other remedies.

• Post #458729

  @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social Looking forward to it.

• Post #458684

  @404mediaco@mastodon.social ‘Cause the human females were hawt, duh.

• Post #457889

  @arstechnica@mastodon.social No. No, it did not.

• Post #455941

  @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Probably my front door one of these days.

• Post #437147

• Post #427636

  @havvyhh2@mas.to @georgetakei@universeodon.com

• Post #427620

  @sysop408@sfba.social ‘Most English speakers are familiar with the phrase “Ni hao ma?"’ That, I think, is an astonishingly optimistic statement.

• Post #424515

  @SonOfManagement@beige.party Should be ‘I!’.

• Post #419349

  @sysop408@sfba.social Not sure that’s worse than the omnipresent and irritating ‘Got It!’.