Tired: This meeting could have been an email.

Wired: This startup could have been a spreadsheet.

fated encounter
feted encounter
fetid encounter

All sound roughly the same, but are all dramatically different kinds of encounters.

We investigated performance degradation due to excessive crawling of Codeberg.

We often trace back such things to company websites that proudly list their key investors - but don't actually explain what they are doing (or why they need to crawl Codeberg more excessively than the crawlers of the major search engines combined).

It's probably not a use case we believe in anyway, so we blocked several large IP ranges today.

Vendor: "use a strong password and set up 2-factor auth to protect your account"
Me: "great, thank you"
Vendor: "your password has expired, we sent you a reset link by email"

Hello people of the US, Germany here.

We have a bit of experience with a convicted felon and radical right-wing extremist becoming leader of our country.

Our advice: Don't do it.

OK, how beautiful is this cover?

#StarTrek #Comics #StarTrekCelebrations

Yo, ClaudeBot. You see that f'n robots.txt? Yes, it's for you.

Oh, you don't care? Well, then, choke on a bucket of 403s.

Amused by the fact that convicted felons can't vote, but can apparently be elected into a position where they can appoint Supreme Court judges.

So, it's official now? Donald -- quack?

Do Musk next.

I don't have ADHD (pretty sure, I went over a bunch of resources to verify), but some days listening to "ADHD relief music" is the only way I can stay focused on a task.

Obviously, obviate the bloviated, not the obverse.

#Russia #disinformation #news #InformationWarfare #media #politics #PinkSlimeJournalism

"More than 150 fake local news websites pushing Russian propaganda to U.S. audiences are connected to John Mark Dougan, an American former law enforcement officer living in Moscow, according to a research report published Wednesday by NewsGuard, a firm that monitors misinformation."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fake-news-sites-florida-deputy-sheriff-russia-rcna154315

"Occupation is not just changing the national flag to another. It means mass deportations, torture, rape, forced adoption, erasure of identity, and mass graves." - Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the #Ukraine-based Center for Civil Liberties, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/28/calls-for-ukraine-to-stop-defending-itself-are-immoral-nobel-laureate-matviichuk-says/

Tired: showing off high uptime to prove your system can run uninterrupted for a long time.

Wired: showing off low uptime to prove your system survives a reboot.

LOL, what a pathetic opener. Welcome to my "always send to junk" list.

If I'm king, I'll make it illegal to claim that something is "free" if it's selling your data or showing you ads.

Dang, it's been 5 years already!

Spend time with your kids, all. The days are long, but the years are short. ♥️

All crew,

We have updated our privacy policy for all Enterprise crew members.

The policy describes how we use internal sensors to generate a transporter signature of your brain and body at the quantum level, and when and how we transmit that info to third-party planets.

Worf

How's it going with asking Gemini to analyze a PDF document in my drive to answer a question.

Baseball keeps breaking AI, which still makes me think Fallout script writers knew something we don't yet know.