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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I like that term, nasal demons. I used to say that the full problem space of software testing included making sure that there wasn’t a scenario that caused lawn gnomes to start pouring out of the CD drive. Which is of course an impossible test and yet you can’t say testing is complete unless you’ve covered that scenario. It’s an idea meant to convey the infinite problem space of software testing. Nice to know there’s a concept out there closely related to my own.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Jul 17, 2026

Replying to @alice@lgbtqia.space

@alice@lgbtqia.space Sounds like a gouda way to earn some cheddar. I’d never be able muenster up the courage to do something like that, but I’ll brie your first subscriber.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @xgranade@wandering.shop

@xgranade@wandering.shop An opt-in search engine would have the benefit that it doesn’t have to be done “at scale”. It may be possible to run and manage without having the resources of a non-trivial fraction of the global economy. Hmmm

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · May 16, 2026

Replying to @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange “Don’t think of an elephant,” is a good way to get people to think about an elephant.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · May 13, 2026

Replying to @ophis@brain.worm.pink

@ophis@brain.worm.pink @mcc@mastodon.social @xgranade@wandering.shop Here’s a link that explains the differences between the two versions. The company’s product page doesn’t even mention the US version. https://www.phonearena.com/news/the-us-version-of-the-barbie-phone-is-better-than-the-global-one_id161984

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · May 12, 2026

Replying to @xgranade@wandering.shop

@xgranade@wandering.shop @mcc@mastodon.social I am unironically considering getting the Barbie phone (US version). It’s apparently a pretty good device for a feature phone. Plus…pink!

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · May 11, 2026

Replying to @eswag@dju.social

@eswag@dju.social @Landa@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com I agree that it’s a good comparison in that we should be highly skeptical. The Industrial Revolution has wrought numerous harms on human beings, possibly including our eventual extinction. If this really is a revolution on the same scale (which I doubt), maybe this time we should give some thought to the harms and risks before reshaping everything around it.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · May 09, 2026

Replying to @iamada@tech.lgbt

@iamada@tech.lgbt Are the straights OK?

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · May 08, 2026

Replying to @MissConstrue@mefi.social

@MissConstrue@mefi.social I say that every member of the fellowship was a hero in their own right. Even Boromir. Frodo and Sam were the only two that could bear the ring for any length of time. Sam was the only member of the fellowship with the strength to see the journey through from beginning to end, but between the two Frodo was the only one with both the courage to volunteer and the conviction that destroying the ring was the only choice. Once the path was set, not even the armies of Mordor could stop Samwise Gamgee. But he’d never have gone if Frodo hadn’t taken the first step.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @glyph@mastodon.social

@glyph@mastodon.social “Hey, remember how we all got upset at boomers for mortgaging our future to keep themselves comfortable a little longer? Maybe don’t be like them.”

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @zkat@fedi.zkat.tech

@zkat My instance’s awareness of accounts has just grown over time, but unless the post comes from somebody I’m following - posted or boosted - the instance won’t know it exists. The only way to get the full post list is to go the person’s home instance. I use Phanpy which has an easily accessible link to the account’s home instance. My understanding is that relays would help, but GTS doesn’t support relays yet.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io

@inthehands This is parody? She says as she glances aside at her inherited collection of mid-century folk albums.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io

@inthehands I rewatched that movie a couple months ago and couldn’t help feeling sad at how quaint it feels these days.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io

@Impossible_PhD Definitely not me. Because that would require a friend group.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @soatok@furry.engineer

@soatok@furry.engineer “Hey, let’s make the systemd of network protocols.” :neocat_sign_no:

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Apr 04, 2026

Replying to @jk@mastodon.social

@jk You mean the decades when popular music went through extremely rapid development before somebody slammed on the brakes in the early aughts and now everything sounds like it could have been done in 2010?

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Apr 03, 2026

Replying to @stux@mstdn.social

@stux Never has humanity invented a machine that says more boldly “That’s it, I’m outta here.”

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @faithisleaping@anarres.family

@faithisleaping @malcircuit I see the implicit argument now. Sorry, bad wording from a bad mood. I didn't mean to imply the world would be better off without those technologies. I'm not so sure about AI. Hypothetically if we started from scratch and built it in a good ethical framework it would be fine. I don't think it can be redeemed as-is.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @faithisleaping@anarres.family

@faithisleaping @malcircuit Mostly I'm frustrated that we continue to dive into technology after technology without learning to moderate the harms. With AI we know a lot of the harms and we're still failing to moderate them. (I don't know how well we knew the harms of past technologies early in their use as well as we know the harms of AI this time.) Intuitively I don't agree that technology is destroying everything. I don't want to make a "technology is destroying everything" argument. I also don't want to moderate my argument just because I don't want to be making that argument. I'd have to give more thought to what argument I want to make and how. I definitely agree the technologies I chose have done more good than harm. I chose media technologies by accident, but since they go together...they have progressively increased the spread of culture and human connection and that's amazing. And now I notice that my fear of the harm of AI is that it will undo that...flatten culture and erase human connection.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Mar 25, 2026

Replying to @faithisleaping@anarres.family

@faithisleaping @malcircuit I wish I could believe that it will eventually be proven to be bad. I'm afraid it's going to become a subliminal part of society and stick with us forever. Technologies have a tendency to do that no matter how harmful they are. Broadcasting brought us manufactured consent. Cable brought us cognitive overwhelm. Social media brought psyops to the individual. I'm afraid AI be around forever and destroy conceptual diversity.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @foone@digipres.club

@foone@digipres.club Ensuring your retro tech has not become discolored is beige verification.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place It's like an inverse NIH syndrome for an entire industry.

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Phie Lux :verified_trans: @sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club · Jan 15, 2026

Replying to @svat@mathstodon.xyz

@svat@mathstodon.xyz well, I think he’d just like all this to stop, really. Arthur Dent is the hero we need.

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