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purple is technically employed

@purple@tech.lgbt
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A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition

Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter.

Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm.

Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

36 Followers
33 Following
50 Posts
Joined January 09, 2023
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Jun 27, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @MissGayle@urbanists.social

@MissGayle@urbanists.social @HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social oh wow please no

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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Jun 23, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @ret@furry.engineer
@ret@furry.engineer can't beleive he won't defend Corsica, I just hope this doesn't have massive consequences. Announcer: Napoleon has spawned
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Jun 07, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @sjjh@hachyderm.io
@sjjh@hachyderm.io @bransonturner@mastodon.social @Laurenlookslost@ohai.social perhaps I should finally watch any of that 😅
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Jun 07, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @sjjh@hachyderm.io
@sjjh@hachyderm.io @bransonturner@mastodon.social @Laurenlookslost@ohai.social Make America Gay Again, now there's a slogan I can get behind.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Jun 05, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @bransonturner@mastodon.social
@bransonturner@mastodon.social @Laurenlookslost@ohai.social ah, MAGA fans then 🫣
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Jun 05, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @elebertus@eigenmagic.net
@elebertus@eigenmagic.net @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems yeah that last bit? I keep coming back to that lately. Like okay, ‘you’ have finally found a case or two where an LLM does some passably useful work, maybe even plausibly exceeding other tools. Great. Was that 2% better actually worth setting a lake on fire though? Sure the python script or whatever it replaces had costs as well, but probably only like 2% of the LLM, if that, does that cost-benefit really make the slightest sense?
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Jun 01, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @drwho@masto.hackers.town
@drwho@masto.hackers.town @josephcox@infosec.exchange like, how does it even have access? LLMs don't just do that, they aren't magic, nor hackers. Someone at Meta has to have wired up some privileged API or other to explicitly put it in the LLM's sandbox, all I guess with no attempt to validate anything. Someone, an actual person, probably several, made obviously bad choices here. Can't even really blame this one on the model, it's plain 'ol bad engineering, putting it on the model just lets people deflect.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · May 27, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at
@dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at @bvibber@wikis.world when they repeatedly tell you the disadvantages of the union (vs non…) contract, join a union harder.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · May 27, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @redsad@ohai.social
@redsad@ohai.social
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · May 12, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @ketan@climatejustice.social
@ketan@climatejustice.social also: how can anyone claim it's not a bubble when in those few sentences Anthropic managed to mention partnerships with pretty much every major player in the space? They are so blatantly moving money in a circle, or at least ‘committing’ to moving money in a circle, at a later date, and so justifying a higher valuation now.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · May 08, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @thomholwerda@exquisite.social
@thomholwerda@exquisite.social they always said america is exceptional 🤷‍♀️
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · May 01, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft it's almost like organisations that unironically declare their business plans to be done variation on ‘build the thinking machine and then ask it’ don't seem entirely sensible
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · May 01, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @ymasumac@mstdn.social
@ymasumac @c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza @DeliaChristina okay but not to like step on a rake or anything but y'all know how that played out right?
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · May 01, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social
@drgroftehauge @Natasha_Jay what sort of job do you do?
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 30, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @paavi@mastodontti.fi
@paavi@mastodontti.fi @rooster@beige.party failing to hide? Was he trying?
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 28, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @farbel@mas.to
@farbel@mas.to @ichbindabomb@nerdculture.de let me direct you to: That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 27, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @drj@typo.social
@drj @aparrish it's like serverless, except there's actually no tokens
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 27, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @spiegelmama@infosec.exchange
@spiegelmama @jasperb @futurebird @sbourne somehow this has got me thinking ‘put it over here with the rest of the fire’ except y'know it's weeds, and substantially lower stakes
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 26, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @snagburz@techhub.social
@snagburz @nixCraft no it totally is, and the video is training data now Best case scenario the jobs real but they used the video to profile you › rejected.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 24, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @jukkan@mstdn.social
@jukkan @davidgerard something like three levels of ‘not the point’ but like ‘founder mindset’? Dude you're literally an employee at the software company, you ain't founding anything, and if this ‘work’ produced anything of value it'd belong to MS, not you. LARPing as a start-up CEO
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 24, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
@GossiTheDog just as well the void has no token accounting, I'd be destitute
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 21, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt
@diffrentcolours even then I can't say I noticed them being particularly radical in any meaningful sense, and they've spent the whole time since ‘correcting’ for it… As I said, it should be a surprise, there are people acting as if it is a surprise, but idk, rather foreseeable wasn't it?
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 21, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt

Stonewall capitulates?

One of those things that should surprise me, and yet somehow just doesn't.

#UKPol #TransRights

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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 20, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt

Murder, on the Dancefloor, in this economy?

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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 18, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @seabass@social.seabass.systems
@seabass @GreenSkyOverMe HSTs still run with ScotRail, and I beleive some ended up exported.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 17, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @xssfox@cloudisland.nz
@xssfox @NanoRaptor this is upsetting, I am upset
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 10, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @ArborealTechie@mas.to
@ArborealTechie @MichaelTBacon @LilahTovMoon yeah, and it's also a clear solid question unlike 2016 — silly as it was ‘brexit means brexit’ didn't just spring up from nowhere, there was absolutely no clarity as to what ‘leave’ actually means. Somehow, via divining rods or something I suppose, we ended up with obsessions about things like ‘must leave ECJ’, despite those not being in the question. I highly doubt even the more committed leave voters intended us to leave Euratom (if they'd even heard of it…) which isn't even part of the EU, and yet we did, even whilst the vote could just as easily have been interpreted in a way that kept us in both Euratom and the Common Market.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 10, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @ArborealTechie@mas.to
@ArborealTechie @MichaelTBacon @LilahTovMoon the timing matters to some extent certainly, but support did drop away fairly quickly (and as you allude to, in many cases didn't actually exist to begin with). I think the most reasonable model would have been a ‘confirmatory’ vote along the lines of ‘the government has spent two years negotiating, should we leave on these terms or remain?’ (most likely worded differently of course)
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 10, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @purple@tech.lgbt
@MichaelTBacon @LilahTovMoon it's just a weird political culture we've got into now, where people generally seem to have generally forgotten that politics can politic, governments can govern, and legislatures should legislate.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 10, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @MichaelTBacon@social.coop
@MichaelTBacon @LilahTovMoon it is frustrating that after the Scotland referendum the SNP and others immediately wanted another one, and we just sorta begrudgingly accepted that some ‘debates’ will never end and they ‘have that right’, yet with Brexit we somehow went hard on this notion of ‘the people have spoken and it stands for all time’ and any suggestion otherwise was practically treason or something. Especially annoying when you consider this was already the second Europe referendum. I've been similarly aggrieved with how various parties have responded to the FWS ruling, this manta of ‘we must respect the outcome’ — do we? It's pretty legally dubious, but okay, lets say the court accurately interpreted law as it stands …did we all forget that Parliament writes the law? and can change it? When I say ‘we should do something about the ruling’ I am in fact not suggesting an overthrow of rule-of-law, not matter what the political/media class seem to have decided.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 10, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @MichaelTBacon@social.coop
@MichaelTBacon @LilahTovMoon of course to some extent the elephant in the room is it's not exactly clear he was in opposition on Brexit, and all else stems from there really.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 08, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange it really is wild how often ‘no, the fundamental right is wrong’ comes up lately
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 05, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @gimulnautti@mastodon.green
@gimulnautti @golgaloth depends if he's got a civilian population in there with him
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 04, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
@Chancerubbage@mastodon.social @stevelieber@mastodon.social yeah IPP is somewhat of a success story there, it's local and open. Doesn't stop HP or whoever doing nonsense with ink and such, but that aside we can print without being tied to some online service that'll disappear any second. Also makes something like Open Printer possible. It's a shame other devices didn't go in a similar direction, but I suppose plotters/cutters just weren't widespread enough to encourage it.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 04, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
@Chancerubbage@mastodon.social @stevelieber@mastodon.social yeah, and to be fair they still kinda can be for some complicated do everything machines, but for regular printing it's remarkably close to a solved problem (y'know, as much as printing ever can be). OS X was the big motivator really, the break from classic MacOS: Apple didn't want to make/port their own drivers for things, and manufacturers found themselves with this userbase they couldn't entirely ignore that they didn't particularly want to spend money on, and so CUPS and IPP kinda worked out for everyone, especially when CUPS was already used on UNIX workstations (and of course Linux). Initially it was a matter of translation layers, then printers just did IPP directly. That's also why your average printer switched to connecting over ethernet or WiFi: it's all TCP/IP traffic anyway, why get USB involved.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 04, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
@Chancerubbage@mastodon.social @stevelieber@mastodon.social as you might expect for being based on a Pi, it states it's hosting a CUPS server, so you don't really need drivers. Internet Printing Protocol is already the ‘native’ print language of macOS and Linux, and Windows has had support since at least XP (I think is now the ‘preferred’ system even?). If your system can print it can probably already print to it driverlessly.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 04, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @stevelieber@mastodon.social
@stevelieber@mastodon.social could have sworn I heard about this years ago
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Apr 04, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @rysiek@mstdn.social
@rysiek wow, they are so casual about authentication just not existing, I mean wow
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Mar 28, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @danirabbit@mastodon.online
@danirabbit see also: basically every customer service scenario ever. the person you are talking to almost certainly isn't responsible for whatever happened, is quite possibly also having a bad day because of whatever happened, and no amount of ‘I spent a lot of money’ gives you the right to mistreat them. if they start playing silly games, well that's different, but otherwise hows about we turn it down a notch and not bite people's ears off as an opening salvo.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Mar 27, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @zkat@toot.cat
@zkat @indutny @bengl also, and to be clear I'm not involved in npm spaces and haven't read that thread, this is a general comment, a lot of people making that argument seem to also be of the opinion that there's no point even thinking about avoiding things like GitHub and their policies re training because ‘they'll train on it anyway’. Literally arguing that consent isn't worth discussing, much less worrying about, because these same companies that they are apparently in favour of, will violate it anyway. Your fair game simply for existing on the internet, apparently. ‘implicit consent’ one said. They then seem to have absolutely zero comprehension of why some of us are utterly horrified by such ‘arguments’. Not sure it's a coincidence that so far it's always a man proposing that one. (and yes, I personally know men who are also horrified by it and do value consent, settle down everyone)
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Mar 27, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @gemelen@mammut.moe
@gemelen@mammut.moe @UnePorte@eldritch.cafe ah but see if we didn't do this how would we know when legs magically respawned and so on, we simply must know these things! Y'know, so we can calculate precisely how much is owed in disability payments that weren't really needed. (/s)
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Mar 27, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @th@social.v.st
@th @moira okay but at least bike should be above walking
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Mar 26, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @alice@mk.nyaa.place
@alice@mk.nyaa.place @redsad@ohai.social Nothing would come between us 🎶
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Mar 24, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @CryogenicIce9@mastodon.online
@CryogenicIce9@mastodon.online @ExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global they can't do it anyway, the billion is money they'd already spent leasing sites to build wind farms, the US cancelled those leases this is just them being compensated Unless you're suggesting an oil company should just unilaterally occupy that territory regardless?
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Mar 24, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @ExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global
@ExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global More accurately: Returning the $1 billion an oil company had paid the US, which the oil company will now instead use increasing European dependency on US gas exports.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Mar 23, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @davidho@mastodon.world
@davidho@mastodon.world yeah idk why the whole thing wasn't something like ‘No Tyrants’ to begin with whatever philosophical positions people might have aside, a ‘king’ can exist within a regular constitutional order and often have less actual power than ‘presidents’ — the problems come when you've got someone ruling arbitrarily with a disregard for process
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Mar 01, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @petergleick@fediscience.org
@petergleick also the United Kingdom, despite somehow also being Sir Human Rights Lawyer. The mind baffles.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Jan 28, 2026
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
@lynnesbian as you may or may not know gboolean in GLib-land is in practice an alias for int, 'cos C99 hadn't happened yet and so forth. Meaning it can in fact store any int value, not simply TRUE/FALSE, and you can mostly even get away with it. You shouldn't, but you can. I know for a fact there is code ‘in production’ today that intentionally uses gboolean as a TRUE/FALSE/-1 tristate.
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Dec 13, 2025
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @virtulis@loud.computer
@virtulis@loud.computer @hailey@hails.org glib, a library for C, vs glibc, a C library
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purple is technically employed @purple@tech.lgbt · Aug 20, 2025
purple is technically employed
@purple@tech.lgbt

A quirky person who is maybe too into purple: Extra Quirk Edition Living on that storied isle, bored of the current chapter. Warning: May contain misguided attempts at humour, often as a defensive mechanism, and dangerously high levels of sarcasm. Also I ⭐ a lot, apparently?

tech.lgbt
Replying to @chetwisniewski@securitycafe.ca
@chetwisniewski@securitycafe.ca @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social nor the UK considering gestures at basically every NHS IT project ever
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