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So I'm seeing some... let's call it well-intentioned hacker contrarianism about Musk's now-aborted battle with Apple, and his proposed "amnesty" on the platform.

It runs something like this.

* Musk sucks as a spokesman, but Apple's monopoly is bad for tech and *should* be broken up.

* Most of the people who've been banned from Twitter are actually sex workers, leftists, Muslims, etc. and we should be happy Musk will liberate them.

Let's talk about ideological drift for a second.

this is the most succinct response I've ever seen to the comment "but Android is Linux!!"

Boss just fired me. In front of a coworker. Couldn’t even give me a reason. In an at-will, though it was likely retaliation and discrimination, the energy to fight him is low due to chronic illness.

Any looking for a tech person? General know-how/consulting, Shopify/eBay, hardware, and general management of inventory/data/systems.

Please boost?

Edit: Raleigh, NC (US) area or remote.

Edit linkedin.com/in/dylan-brown011

Edit for tags & wording: #FediHire #tech #HelpWanted #TechJobs #LookingForWork

I asked the AI to draw steampunk versions of the McDonaldland characters, including a mech Ronald McDonald, the Hamburglar, Birdie the Early Bird, and the Fry Guys.

I should have kept my mouth shut, as StackFucker2TheReturn and StackFucker3ThisTimeItsPersonal just showed up

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Saw _The Menu_.

It was obviously a horror/thriller movie, and not a comedy, as my local theater mislabeled it. (IMDB says "dark comedy".)

The secret is not cannibalism.

"We were so glad to see we had neighbours," the message began. "We wrote poems of joy to you in the storms and the clouds. But you never responded."
The message came from Jupiter.
"We grieved, until we realised you cannot read those, that you read radio waves. Thus we greet you."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

The AD&D 1st edition Manual of the Planes asserts that Limbo has 3 layers, despite the fact that it's a maelstrom of random chaos and you can't tell the difference between the layers or where the borders are and things move between them.

I'd like to know why.

Just had my first <Oh, I recognize that person from Fediverse> moment on Twitter.

#Infosec quiz: #OPSEC is short for?

Should humanity become grabby?

Re: Self-driving cars:

"But it’s also partly just that there was a long tail of really weird events. A deer crosses the road, or you have some crazy lighting conditions"

Bruh, a deer crossing the road in front of your car happens multiple times a day.

GIRL HELP I JOINED ANOTHER SOCIAL MEDIA SITE

Psst. The whole point of Android is to make it so that it's not economically viable to build your own smartphone.

Only people with preexisting popular properties (Apple) can compete, and that's no guarantee (Palm).

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Has somebody memed up that <just build your own app store> comic in response to current events yet?

Cartoon frog identification chart.

So when you make a fool of yourself, you can at least be slightly less foolish.

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