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   Cassandra is only carbon now (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Feb-2026 06:59:01 JST Cassandra is only carbon now

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   Many, not nearly all but *many*, folks using this things seem (again, as a gut feeling) to just talk differently after contact with chatbots? I can't even quite put my finger on it, but it scares the shit out of me.

   It's not even an argument against chatbots, I have plenty of arguments that are far better substantiated, it's a personal fear about what they're doing.

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   Nathan Lowell (he/him) 📎 (nlowell@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 09-Feb-2026 21:14:32 JST Nathan Lowell (he/him) 📎

   A new day. A new chance to succeed.

   I missed a scheduled task yesterday. Something I intended to do but lost sight of as the day unfolded around me.

   It's all part of Practice. Not every day runs smoothly. Not every task gets done on time.

   For me, it's especially true of health and well-being tasks like my morning walk. If I don't do it early, it tends to slip off the day's list and can disappear if I let it.

   The trick is to not let it.

   I hope you can get your tasks all done #today

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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jan-2026 04:22:17 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   I mean look, I don't trust Macron. You shouldn't either. That guy is the posterboy for "if rich "liberals" have to choose between fascism and sharing, they're picking fascism" - ask anyone from France who knows their ass from their elbow about that guy and you'll hear some shit, believe me.

   It's entirely possible what Macron sees is that because he has Europe's only independent military, he is King of that powerbloc in a "Great Power Struggle" world.

   But the other option is "Trump runs Europe"

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   David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jan-2026 20:32:17 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

   Apparently Samsung is putting ‘AI’ (and ads) in fridges. I am certainly not opposed to innovation and think that a lot of technologies that haven’t changed much for a long time have room for improvement (if you grew up in the US or Europe, try using a Japanese toilet and you’ll understand). But the frustrating thing is that there are a lot of useful things that a fridge could do with some computing power and a bit of electrical control that they don’t and which don’t need ‘AI’. Some examples:

   • It could talk to a smart meter to run the compressor when electricity is cheap and keep a reservoir of chilled coolant for when electricity is expensive.
   • It could automatically close the door if I leave it open for more than a minute and don’t first put it into ‘I am cleaning the fridge now’ mode.
   • It could record (with bar code or image recognition - the latter of which you could even market as ‘AI’ because apparently computer vision is ‘AI’ now) when I open things like milk or juice so when a thing says ‘consume writhing 5 days of opening’ and I can’t remember when I opened it, it can tell me.
   • It could then warn me if I’ve left something that will spoil in the fridge.
   • It could track when I remove / replace things so ‘are we nearly out of X’ is a question I can answer from my phone / tablet / laptop when organising a food order, without having to go and check.

   All of these are features I would actually find useful. The last ones require a bit of clever computer vision and good UI design, the earlier ones are just applications of mature technology.

   And I would actually pay more for these features (and the first one would likely save me more money over the lifetime of the fridge than the price delta, so everyone wins [except oil companies, but that is a feature in itself]).

   I could write a similar rant about pretty much every piece of electrical equipment I own. All of these have a load of trivial improvements that could be made if you start by asking the question ‘how do people use this and how do we improve it?’ Rather than ‘how do we add {an app,AI,this week’s buzzword} that marketing wants in the next generation?’

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   King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi (dragonarchitect@rubber.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 23:21:42 JST King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

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   @whitequark At least you have the skills to be able to do that.

   I don't.

   So any API that is not well-documented becomes a hard project blocker for me.

   It's literally why I noped away from the entire node.js ecosystem because the documentation is abysmal.

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   Moos-a-dee 🫎 (moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 06-Dec-2025 04:15:52 JST Moos-a-dee 🫎

   These days Microsoft Outlook often asks if I'm missing an attachment before I send my email but I'm never using the word "attachment" so I don't know what is triggering it's "double check for attachment" thing but it's bothering me.

   It's probably an AI prompt and it always returns a positive result so it always asks me for attachments. 🙄