Fish Id Wardrobe

Monsters from the Id! Fish from the Wardrobe! Or something.

(TTRPG/Coding/Linux/Politics/Snark/Woo/ASD, in no particular order.)

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2024-08-13 07:04:38

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I would argue that the biggest impediment to the roll-out of artificial intelligence is the fact that we haven't invented it yet.

2024-07-20 09:08:48

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@npub15zu…s7lx This is nice. Reeves' humility here could be an act, of course. But I think it's always a good sign that, at least, they're smart enough to know it's the right act?

2024-07-12 19:56:13

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@npub1g7j…7unj Why do moose always look derpy? :D

2024-07-05 12:00:43

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@npub1yvr…mjkg sometimes they deserve it, though

2024-06-29 08:30:25

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@npub15zu…s7lx I mean, Germans knew, presumably.

2024-06-15 09:59:34

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
I mean --- electoral fraud like, shorting the stock market for millions before Brexit? That sort of electoral fraud? ... No?

2024-06-15 07:16:42

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@npub15zu…s7lx Also: when he was a child *nobody* had Sky? Because it wasn't a thing yet?

2024-05-28 07:12:00

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@npub1ztt…tvss and certainly not if you bomb them again the next day

2024-05-09 00:52:35

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@npub1xpc…3t05 I think if a worm died after it ate part of his brain, that tells you a lot about how bad his brain is

2024-05-03 21:24:53

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@npub16u7…uend Unpopular opinion: the software industry should stop coming up with new ways to do things for a while. At this point it's just churn. Feels like advertisments for soap powder (or, indeed, SOAP powder).

2024-04-19 06:59:04

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@npub1656…j93w I have genuinely known folks who say "squirrel"

2024-04-13 08:16:47

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@npub1ekn…2g2y not even as an optional package? That would be a hard no here.

2024-04-08 07:51:20

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@npub1yvr…mjkg
Also: poor folks are just lazy. They could get a better job if they wanted to.

2024-04-06 21:45:50

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@npub1yvr…mjkg if it's what I've just watched -- I'd never realised quite how sexually explicit minor Abba songs could be...

2024-03-27 14:11:58

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@npub1yvr…mjkg That's a load of bull.

2024-03-10 10:29:25

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@npub198t…hasj The Rapture is four stops away...

2024-02-27 08:15:12

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@npub198t…hasj Although it's fine to laugh at both parties, I think.

2024-02-09 18:46:58

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@npub1yvr…mjkg Fluffy‽! Someone has an … advanced sense of humour

2024-02-07 13:59:56

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@npub1yvr…mjkg "why can't you be brain dead like the rest of us?"
I feel like there should be an appropriate scene in Shaun Of The Dead or something.

2024-02-07 12:25:59

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@npub1yvr…mjkg WTAF? How do you grow out of reading?

2024-01-19 04:05:08

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@npub18wj…lvmv EACH OTHERS heads? You mean, mutually? I think it would have to be a one way thing…

2024-01-07 20:14:36

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@npub1pes…0vfa I thought "that's not a new story", but it turns out it's a different mouse, different shed … but the same guy

2023-12-23 21:21:59

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@npub1m26…2jhh Theoretically completion is much better but you spend ages fiddling with it to get it just how you want it.
The killer feature for me was file completion on remote computers when typing an rsync command…

2023-12-03 07:10:19

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@npub1tcy…vmaf Oooh! That's really good!

2023-11-30 11:53:53

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@npub10zv…nz7m You could probably just use quotes of things they have said in public at this point

2023-11-12 10:24:36

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@npub1yvr…mjkg It unlocks the air in the radiator?

2023-11-10 09:25:47

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@npub1jc0…sldg Aw

2023-11-08 18:40:38

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@npub1jc0…sldg The word in the Cat Community is clearly getting out: go to Garius' house if you are in trouble 🤍

2023-10-31 11:54:57

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@npub1yvr…mjkg Well, technically. Every UK submarine can, but they are *boats*

2023-10-26 09:04:25

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@npub1yvr…mjkg Ah… :D

2023-10-26 08:59:06

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@npub1yvr…mjkg well, no, but they can hear higher frequencies than you can. They literally sell teenager-deterrant boxes that work like this… :)

2023-10-26 08:54:12

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@npub1yvr…mjkg might work

2023-10-24 05:14:00

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@npub1q9m…zgdu @npub1ke3…xcva @npub1ua7…rrg3 @npub13rw…nfd8 Or: elves are large ironed Cornish Rexes

2023-10-22 14:01:49

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@npub1e7m…7x48 coffee withdrawl?

2023-10-20 12:19:36

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@npub1psd…9sr7 It suggests, possibly, that billionaires are getting stupider?
I mean, we have ample evidence that many modern billionaires have, at the very least, a rather odd connection with reality.
Perhaps this was not always the case, hence super-rich in the past recognising the value in these things?

2023-10-13 17:33:20

Tom Gauld is always a highlight of the week for me, but this time, well. I would love to have this on my wall!
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/111/228/887/290/249/814/original/e63b684d5d0ea8db.jpg

2023-10-04 14:33:18

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@npub1jc0…sldg Breifly tried this but I felt that it wasn't a wargame or even a miniatures-collecting game. More like an argument over whether the rule from my book or the rule from their book took precedence.

2023-10-03 10:10:17

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@npub1sdk…0kgj Is there? You must be looking at very different posts to me … which would itself indicate diversity.
Spell it out for me. Which people? What backgrounds?

2023-10-03 09:49:19

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@npub1sdk…0kgj "Mastodon does not need to grow to be successful" and "the tech is already good enough" are in no way the same thing.
The first is true. The Fediverse is a success.
The second is obviously false.

2023-10-02 09:26:06

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@npub1yvr…mjkg People have enough trouble understanding me. What chance have programs?

2023-10-02 08:54:59

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@npub1yvr…mjkg So they're saying that based on what is being said in the podcast, they can tell what sort of person is listening.
Right.

2023-09-29 09:01:04

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@npub15zu…s7lx This is true, but does not explain the business with the energy companies

2023-09-29 08:27:36

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@npub15zu…s7lx Why is it most of the dumbest things he does seem to involve cars, domestic energy, or the oil and gas industry somehow?
Remembering where his family's money comes from is … interesting … at this point. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. But.

2023-09-28 10:18:50

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@npub1yvr…mjkg "An LLM writes the description of the episode for you"?

2023-09-27 16:31:31

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@npub15zu…s7lx That sounds kind of …organised. And a crime. I'm sure there's a better term for that than "gangs"…

2023-09-25 07:15:10

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@npub1jc0…sldg It's just a normal bloke in Fe mail.

2023-09-21 11:49:48

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@npub1yvr…mjkg Perhaps he's going to claim diplomatic immunity, or say he's innocent of the original charges so he's "allowed" to escape?
Maybe he just thinks a couple of days in court will be a nice outing…

2023-09-20 10:54:50

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@npub15zu…s7lx We need MPs to be tested for sociopathy. There's a semi-objective scale for it.

2023-09-20 10:14:34

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@npub15zu…s7lx she'd rather they fry or drown, apparently

2023-09-19 07:05:11

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@npub1jc0…sldg ✅

2023-09-19 06:21:38

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@npub1jc0…sldg I know I've been drinking the Devil's advocat here, but where are all the folks in that new apartment block going to park? That does not look like a big site.

2023-09-17 07:22:06

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@npub1yvr…mjkg You would hope

2023-09-16 17:26:24

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@npub1e7m…7x48 Taste, too. Most of the taste of a potato is in the skin and the few mm beneath it.

2023-09-11 11:53:24

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@npub1k5k…0rnl I've been writing code for about as long, but other folks code is always a challenge for me.
Not the point, though: the code will tell you *what* it does. Not what is it supposed to do, or why!

2023-09-11 11:42:43

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@npub1k5k…0rnl "Just read the code" DEAR GODS NO

2023-09-02 08:35:03

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@npub1yvr…mjkg It's like living in a Pinter play, sometimes, isn't it? People talking entirely in non sequiturs.

2023-08-28 09:31:02

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@npub1yvr…mjkg That's not the *next* one, though, is it

2023-08-23 17:34:04

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@npub1jc0…sldg The Magic Roundabout v Predator. The aliens don't stand a chance. Bet they'd run from Ermintrude.

2023-08-13 15:18:21

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@npub1jc0…sldg Napoleon, the master tactician

2023-08-12 11:42:02

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@npub1yvr…mjkg Well I would certainly have never thought of that on my own…

2023-08-11 14:47:56

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 This is just Old Man Yells At Cloud, but somewhere along the way we stopped valuing thinking.
Maybe it's just because we're all drinking from a firehose of information these days. In which case it's difficult to assign blame.
But I look at a movie like the Maltese Falcon. There is barely any action in it. It was an Oscar winner(?). People swooned over Bogart. For what? All he does in the movie is look cool – and his character is smarter and more honourable than everyone else…

2023-08-07 10:10:46

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 Yes, I see the triangulation. But I'm failing to see the 'less bad enough' part. “We'll do exactly what the Tories did, except we're actually nice" isn't cutting it for me. Evil is as evil does…

2023-08-07 09:47:33

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 ^^^^
Once again Labour determined to try to make me not vote for them, despite their main opposition being incompetent venal billionaire sociopaths.

2023-08-01 09:43:14

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 @npub1wvw…4puk Well, look. That's not how it works. He sets out a manifesto, then we hold him to it. If he doesn't tell us what he's actually going to do when in office, we can't trust him to do it, can we?
Not just because we don't know what "it" is. Because it means he's untrustworthy.

2023-07-28 15:41:45

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@npub189n…satx In the US.
Strangely, voting democrat is not a thing that you can do in the whole world.

2023-07-03 10:23:16

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 I'd like to think that "expect" and "accept" are two different things. I expect it but I sure don't accept it.

2023-06-24 21:15:03

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@npub19lt…qfjk That's a door.

2023-06-22 13:10:45

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@npub1j99…xtd7 I assume the Bathosphere is one of them.

2023-06-18 13:59:24

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@npub15zu…s7lx Well, everybody has a time, I suppose. Sad, though. And you *will* have heard these recordings, or bits of them. For example, Kate Bush used them.

2023-06-18 08:57:30

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@npub15zu…s7lx How will that work, exactly? They're going to force me to buy tinned peaches?

2023-06-12 21:13:40

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@npub1j99…xtd7 They're saving your cookie preferences as a persistent 3rd party cookie?

2023-06-09 05:53:48

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@npub1fr4…hwts @npub1kmw…74gc @npub1xtm…3hcj @npub1gsm…5y8l Elsewhere I hear that Lemmy's primary instance has a fairly serious moderation problem which the mods – the developers – refuse to address. So there's that.

2023-06-05 12:46:35

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@npub1cvv…mv8d Could have just as easily been me.

2023-06-05 12:32:42

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@npub1cvv…mv8d I cleared the whole of the Zombie room and they didn't attack me, so I walked out again :)

2023-06-05 11:13:39

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@npub1tmp…ydrh Which time?
I'm pretty certain I never got the full story on more than one of these because more sensible instances immediately blocked the problematic ones.
Are you thinking of the time someone got booted from an instance because the instance had a wild idea about what "advertising" was? How did that story end? How could I know?

2023-06-05 08:42:57

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@npub1e7m…7x48 You're right, I was, but I'm still going to argue that a lot of Lavey-style satanists would recognise the latter as a secular organisation that followed their basic philosophy. I assume that's why it has a similar name?

2023-06-05 08:11:14

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@npub1cvv…mv8d It seems to me that making things easier to repair, would also make them easier to be reused in a different way – as a general rule.

2023-06-05 08:05:23

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@npub1e7m…7x48 Well, not really "despite", if you know anything about Anton Lavey, who invented both the church and the modern form (possibly the only form) of the religion.

2023-06-01 13:52:23

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@npub19lt…qfjk How long till your current battery dies? Will a new battery be more or less expensive at that point?

2023-05-28 11:08:03

Just flicking through a popular "make it for yourself" magazine via my library's app. Every single project uses a Raspberry Pi.
I suppose the age of amateur electronic engineers is gone. And the actions of rpi as a company have been questionable of late. Both of those things make me sad.
But beyond that – where the hell are folks getting these Pis from? They're always out of stock?

2023-05-28 08:32:44

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@npub15zu…s7lx Not as insane as what they are trying to hide, I'm guessing

2023-05-18 20:36:18

well, long day topped off by hearing that when my wife went to book a doctor's appointment she found that the surgery had been sold off to another practice and every single doctor had left.
Bit of a red flag.
But that's not all. Apparently in this new practice they round-robin the doctors; you don't get the same one twice. Which is truly shit for long-term chronic sufferers like my wife and daughter – and freaky for ASD folk like me.
So now we all need to find new GPs.

2023-05-05 10:40:01

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@npub1cvv…mv8d I think almost everyone at work ignores the "Teams" part of teams entirely. We use chats, and video calls. That's it.

2023-05-05 10:27:58

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@npub1cvv…mv8d It would help if it was all joined up and good, rather than a mess?
I mean Teams. Not Office365. Teams is like five programs in a bulging, wriggling sack.

2023-04-23 09:37:11

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#[0] A spreadsheet is possibly the perfect application. It's just a grid; it's use-agnostic. You can use it for anything at all.
Whether you *should* is another question. Sometimes a thing can be too useful…

2023-04-22 08:01:48

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#[0] Jobs doing fake Agile, tho'. I mean: if that's the only job you can get, I feel for you.

2023-04-22 07:47:13

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#[0] ::shudder:: Certification.

2023-04-22 07:29:27

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#[0] I think the actual Agile Manifesto is amazing, but things went rapidly downhill from there