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12 Not Angry, Just Disappointed Men

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@gabrielesvelto How could there be a need to bail out the most successful, life-changing, amazing democratizing financial innovation in human history?

@inthehands How can these Senators sit back and watch US AID get defunded, and the FTC, and the FDA, and the CDC? Then, when people discuss defunding murderers, it’s not that easy?

#uspol #fuckice

@catsalad It’s yes, yes, yes. Unless you ask #MrMittens. Then it’s yes, yes, what the hell is taking you so long?

Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.

Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

@vkc I totally agree. I'm trying to be extra nice to the n00bs. If we want them to feel happy and welcome, then we need to do things that make them feel happy and welcome.

@imalcolm Whatever.

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@Clem @hosford42 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis

@FabioLeone94

Wenn Sie möchten, dass Ihre Firewall in Flammen aufgeht, ist dies ein guter Anfang.

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EN: if you want your #firewall to be on fire, this is a good start.

@catsalad @cR0w If your coffee doesn’t wake you up in the morning, try dropping a table in production.

@futurebird Of course. I wouldn’t ever say that to someone trying to learn. But you could tell them the story about the grumpy professor who was a jerk, and they can laugh while learning what printf() debugging is. 😀

@futurebird I’m pivoting off this just to share a funny story. An old CS prof shared this with me when I was staff in a CS department at a university.

One of his undergrads had come to him with a big printed listing of their code (back when that was how you did that! It was probably FORTRAN printed on fan-fold paper). They obviously wanted him to find the problem in their code. It became clear quickly that they hadn’t done anything to debug it themselves.

He started point at various places in the listing. “Right here, add PRINT ‘I am a dumbass’. And here: PRINT ‘I am a dumbass’” and so on. “Then run it and see how many dumbasses you get.”

Now, did he really do that? Is that just how he tells the story? Who knows. But it’s funny. And anyone who has ever written code will agree that this works sometimes.

@Viss Remember that everyone who said this would happen was overreacting.

@ricci OMG I am in stitches

I never knew it was called the “Moylan arrow.” But now that I know, I will call it that. It’s such a super simple, yet super valuable innovation.

https://www.jalopnik.com/2061179/inventor-little-arrow-what-side-fuel-filler-is-on-dies/

You are going to eat a bagel with toppings on it. The toppings are mostly on the top side. Do you:

#breakfast #bagel #poll

@amoroso In my business, I have a comprehensive technique to identify AI writing. I take a comprehensive look at the text and comprehensively search for overuse of the word comprehensive. This comprehensive method routinely finds AI-generated slop.

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

This is fantastic. Volkswagen Italy has the very logical Instagram handle of @volkswagenitalia.

This is a slightly cleaner instance of the Scunthorpe problem.

Ah, Bluesky, my sweet summer child.

You're going to enforce your "rules against harassment and toxic content". And then you'll discover that it's the same set of people doing the toxic shit. And those toxic people are connected to really powerful people from a specific political party.

And suddenly you'll be getting calls from really wealthy fascists asking why you're enforcing this liberal bias by squashing conservative speech...

It's so predictable I can't even. There is no neutral position. If you clamp down on all the hate speech and toxic shit, you will clamp down disproportionately on a specific demographic who will throw a (potentially violent) temper tantrum.

The thing is, Bluesky is fundamentally capitalist. They need money and all the money is with the fascists these days. If they clamp down on toxic fascists, they will clamp down on wealthy fascists and their money will dry up. This won't last.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/bluesky-says-its-getting-more-aggressive-about-moderation-and-enforcement/

#uspol #trump #bluesky