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Mister Dave
@misterdave@tilde.zone
mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchsemi traditional family adult person with child persons (children are people)
professional animal botherer
computer touching but for fun(?)
small gamete donor (non practicing)
greyer by the day(er)
finger lakes (ny) to US-EAST-1 transplant. at least there's still Wegmans.
trying. open to being told how I'm wrong.
alphabet soup is in the pantry with the cupcakes, i got some pills that work and some that don't,
dangling asterisks are left to the reader as an exercise.
87 Followers
326 Following
50 Posts
Joined January 02, 2023
interactions:
boosts: haha, spread info, not necessarily endorsement. frequent, muting encouraged fav: acknowledge, sym/empathize/support, boosts replies: "yes and" but tell me to stop i follow many, read lists, miss much
profile pic / header image:
profile picture: photo of me, eye contact, basically white, black jaw length ringlets and full beard both with streaks of grey header image: photo of my dog Blaze, a yellow Labrador retriever, asleep sprawled out on her side
meta:
faves ok, boosts ok, replies ok, unless specified per post boosts/faves not endorsement public posts searchable ok to archive replies for personal use #noAI for my text or media
Contact:
hi@immrdave.com, DMs on, ask for Signal (or Telegram i guess)
tonight in product images that do not inspire confidence: you only like it because it’s connectorslop
my eldest recently informed me of the old adage "Metal is when you can't read the band name. The more you can't read it the more metal it is."
they grow up so fast 🥲
see also: batteries. even "non-replaceable" batteries. They're more than a few dollars, but if $50 saves replacing a several hundred dollar device, money well spent. a surprising array of faults can be traced back to a bum battery, even when some devices are connected to mains.
flat earthers are wrong. the earth is bumpy.
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i know some of y'all are in to fancy computers. check out this chungus of a connector we have at work.
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@glyph@mastodon.social @xgranade@wandering.shop @cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev "tell me the name of God you fungal piece of shit" still goes hard, but it's definitely a context changer.
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@aworkinglibrary AI will never seize the means of production, therefore AI cannot be an ally of labor
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@b0rk not css specific (would require minor wrangling for that user) but a collection of palettes for various purposes are at https://phillips.shef.ac.uk/pub/cpt-city/ (edit, changed link to a more useful source)
and in my esoteric color scheme collection i always have cubehelix https://people.phy.cam.ac.uk/dag9/CUBEHELIX/cubetry.html in case that's handy to you
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@annaecook@mastodon.social subject of active investigation, experimentally true but they're still trying to understand the large variance from what theory predicts.
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@ajroach42 last night (this morning), just to see what i could still reach.
but I'm a weirdo. (and i take your point, of course)
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@nightjar fucking carpet walkers* ought to know better.
- how clinical staff refers to non-clinical leadership
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@gknauss@mastodon.social yeah, me and Slut Tony dated for a while in college. didn't work out (I'm not slutty enough)
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@annaecook they're popular here too. i wonder if there's some new law or insurance requirement. when it's an adult driving (not the student driver) I like to imagine that they say "stupid driver: please be patient"
we have some notably bad drivers here, though
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@jk a viable business model, with the right location. not for me but I'm glad it's an option.
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@ryanc@infosec.exchange @djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology so are the toes also 568-B, or did you go to 568-A?
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@andnull well we're working backwards through them. 69 (nice), 68 (you do me ill owe you one), 67 (6 7)...
is route 66 still funny/relevant enough to count? could we get it there? 65 is 13*5, maybe really bad luck?
@jyn this is a corollary to "learn the rules so you know when to break them"
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@glyph "bro, i hear you. i'm just not sure you're thinking with a clear head right now."
but for vibes instead of drugs
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@bri7@social.treehouse.systems the conventional order of genders in english is:
Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Color, Origin, Material, and Purpose
girly is opinion(or quality), pastel is color, cyber is... material?and goth is purpose? or something like that
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@ifixcoinops as others have mentioned, I've read things about how to identify, prevent, and escape this kind of abuse, but I've never seen anything written about making tools that don't lend themselves to abusive ends. The closest I've read to that subject is probably some guy making a thing that is a blatant opportunity for abuse and then throwing up his hands saying "it's just a tool u can't control how they use it "
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@andnull It’s been five-plus years of pointedly ignoring them because I understand the cascade, but this is the first time I’ve seen it said so saliently.
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@nixCraft ticket status: "user ceased complaining of issue, presumed resolved or dead. inquire with HR if further clarification is necessary."
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@aral 'requires "protecting children"' might be too strong. It’s sufficient (and popular), but not necessary, the proverbial mole we’re having to whack today.
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@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr one aspect to consider is that (like all social action) we don't always post about the other steps we're taking. I am very vocal against the use of LLMs in my profession, but i do that in person and in professional fora. I state my opinion on the matter every time it comes up, and if necessary i make it embarrassing for people to admit that they use them or advocate for their use. I attend meetings to object to the zoning and power infrastructure changes that would enable *even more* datacenter development in my area. I learned all these tactics here on fedi.
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@feorag@wandering.shop evidently a hard job from the replies, but it does have a "lifeguard at the Olympics" feeling for sure
@emmatyping node 24.5 agrees