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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 3h

It’s funny to think that a taco truck outside your office, if it takes in revenue greater than its costs—you know: profit?—has more profit than OpenAI and Anthropic combined.

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12h

TechCrunch says I'm interfering with the intended operation of their web site. Looks like the intended purpose of their site is to show me advertising. Looks like I'm adding the entire web site to the #adBlocker list.

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Emma (IPG) @invoxiplaygames.uk · 05/10/2026

sorry for not posting all day yesterday. went ahead and tried to build Rome, turns out it takes way longer than you'd think 😓

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@chad Canadians don't dare cross into that country to cheer any more?

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@dangillmor I've been keeping two small boot drives, with as many user files as possible out on a bigger drive. The Ubuntu upgrade is a clean install on the older boot drive, with the current active one as fallback and reference for all of the setup, config and packages I forgot about. Upgrades […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 29/09/2026

You go shopping and… #Linux

A large digital advertising display in a shopping centre showing Spotberry running on a Raspberry Pi, with the entire interface upside down and a login/shutdown dialog visible in the centre.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Saw some hilarious comments on a post about how Singapore has the most powerful passport in the world. There are Americans who are surprised, deeply hurt, and the best one is the person who said ‘yeah but when you get kidnapped in a foreign place it’s the American government that’s more likely […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I guess word spread about the local girl with the big dog who speaks a little Chinese (the girl, not the dog) because some Pizza Tour ladies walked up and started asking about Odin in Chinese

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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

We’re at the point in Alberta where Ministers of the crown are celebrating the opening of garage doors. That’s it. It’s a garage door. Not an ambulance, no, it’s a garage door. #ableg #abpoli

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rednikki @rednikki.toot.boston.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@sundogplanets AI is terrible for citations. Citations are a huge part of my job (I edit at a journal). All of us journal people are trying to send up the alarm about how much AI screws up citations, and no one is listening. If you ask AI to format your citations it will mess up all your DOIs […]

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂

Flock Safety has issued a legal demand seeking the removal of a public map showing the locations of approximately 300.000 of it's surveillance devices across the United States.

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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

the rich techbros warning about the potential catastrophic dangers of AI in terms of, "they might cause a billion deaths because superintelligent AGI!" rather than, "we've made the conscious decision to use this error-prone chatbot to review health insurance claims" sure is a psyop if I've ever […]

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🍁 Δράκακηϛ ⚜️ @drakakis.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Canadians don't scare easy … but there's one creature that terrifies the bravest of souls …

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I was listening to an economist who kept misusing the word "energy" when he really meant "oil" but the pre-recorded economist couldn't sense my annoyance or hear me correcting him every time. #energy

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I saw this little one person electric vehicle in a mall parking lot the other day and then again blocking traffic on a 60 km/h road nearby where I'm pretty sure the Ontario electric vehicle experiment doesn't allow them. I wondered because I don't think there's any […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Cute little red car with cheeky front license plate, driving across the lanes in a shopping mall parking lot.

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173251374… Just take some time to understand that a lot of the "magic" and "creativity" of chatbots is basically hardcoded. Thousands of humans wrote it. The AI hype is basically ELIZA 2.0 powered by a nuclear plant.

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llewelly @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

1/2 satellite experts: uh, if you put computers in space they'll suffer rad damage ... investors: rad damage! That sounds so cool! Let's go for it!

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a... Butt Fang. I cannot convey how much I love this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Close up of a very colourful caterpillar vertical on a small twig. It's black with lots of white spots on top, with yellow sides and bright orange and black spots on the yellow part, with bright orange feet, and a bright orange horn. A.k.a. butt fang.

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 23/09/2026

EVERYONE IT HAS HAPPENED ONE OF MY BOXES OF CABLES AND DEAD HARDWARE HAS YIELDED A JST 2.0 PH 4 PIN CONNECTOR PLUG THAT I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO BUY OFF OF AMAZON AND NOW I CAN JUST HARVEST IT OFF OF A DEAD FAN NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

[re: war] this says "Raspberry Pi mini-sandwich"

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Could someone tell Netflix‘s shareholders that the reason why I am opening up Netflix in the first place is to watch either a TV show or a movie? It is never, ever, to play a video game? Ever. #Netflix

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Fritz Adalis @fritzadalis.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

A friend of mine used to plug his vcr in at midnight so it'd blink the correct time.

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@eri There are some other amusing replies e.g. * make love make: *** No rule to make target 'love'. Stop.

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penguinite @png.yap.pony.biz.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Life hack: `/dev/null` is most concurrent, high-performance, high-data-loss database system for Linux.

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Cameron MacLeod @c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I'm recruiting for a junior project management role in my team, and the recruiter who is screening folks just wrote this note: "answers started off strong and then became very vague and then became very AI" No thanks.

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

#3dprinting is a very serious hobby.

A photo of a toilet paper roll sitting on the back of a toilet tank, with a Shaun the Sheep face and sheep legs. The toilet roll resembles a sheep's body. Somewhat.

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

#Brexit stupidity continues. Sweden is deporting Englishmen who were formerly allowed to live, work and marry anywhere in the E.U. ‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home | Sweden | The Guardian […]

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 19/09/2026

don’t be fooled; they’re calling for a pause on ai development because they’re running out of money

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

It looks like being contractually forced into arbitration instead of being able to sue will not always go well for the corporation. #uber #arbitration Family awarded $40 million after Uber driver leaves daughter on Orange County freeway and she's killed - CBS Los Angeles […]

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The most confusing thing for me was that after cancellation, my balance owing was now an odd number like 22/30ths of my usual bill. The confusing part is that the cable bills are paid in advance of the service, so why was there a positive number remaining? I finally figured out that it was to […]

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Went to the ER recently because my country is so garbage that's the only way I'm gonna be seen, medically, by someone, and The thing that pissed me off the most wasn't the EMTs assuming/joking I was fat because *sigh* I'm not, but the fact this woman kept insisting I must have Munchausen […]

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Alright, so I called Rogers again _shortly after nine_ , speed ran the blabberynth 1-1-4-4 to get in a waiting queue. A nice lady in India came on the line fairly soon and I said I wanted to cancel a service. She tried briefly to upsell me to "Xfinity" or maybe an internet plan but I said I […]

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Another spot on the web site says if, for some insane reason, I wanted to move my service from one house to another, the business hours are Mon-Sat: 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. #Rogers

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

It's 8:07 ... still outside of the Regular Business Hours #Rogers

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

The chat thing is no help either. Anna told me I would have to call on the phone but didn't even want to tell me the main phone number – until it finally got frustrated, gave me the phone number and closed the chat. #Rogers

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I'm trying to call Rogers to cancel a service. I was expecting an Adventure but this isn't going the way I expected. The web site says their hours are Monday through Friday from 7 to 10. It's now 7:40. The telephone blabberynth takes me to a Customer Solutions Specialist queue and then tells me […]

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I should take a camera on the dog's every first trip out in the morning. Today's surprise was a cluster of large ink cap mushrooms under the tree. (Tennis ball for scale.)

A cluster of ink cap mushrooms, each one taller than the tennis ball. The top surface of the caps has already melted away to expose the gills.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@jaz I had "charge for procession spam - £100" on my web site. Every now and then I'd send out a bunch of invoices. Very few paid ... but enough did to cover the postage several times over!

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Gold, meanwhile has gone from $4500 to $6000 in the same time period. I should have put a pile of money into computer hardware.

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Wow. The hard drives that I paid $250 each for 18 months ago are now priced at $610 for buying direct from Western Digital and $510 at Canada Computers.

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I know my dog has really good hearing because she never asks me to repeat anything I tell her. #dogs

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

There's hope for the world. The ten year old reading Calvin and Hobbes just asked me "What's an ash tray?"

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Sam Oldman 🐀 @samloonie.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I just noticed that the Canadian government weather app has a Messages tab that wants to go through urbanairship to show me news items like "we changed the way we issue severe storm warnings". Urban Airship is a privately owned company in California that sells tracking data. It also offers a […]

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