Notices by Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (ian@hachyderm.io)

It has come to my attention that there are younger folks who haven’t heard of Five Geek Social Fallacies.

It was written in 2003 and the social dynamics stay real. Once you read it, you’ll see them everywhere.

https://plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-social-fallacies/

Apparently I brought back 2003 in more ways than one by slashdotting their server, so here’s an archived version

https://web.archive.org/web/20240113211003/https://plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-social-fallacies/

PSA: Walgreens and CVS are allowing people to schedule for both the mpox and new COVID vaccines starting next week and there are lots of times available. Get it! 💉

PSA: delete your old Photobucket account now! Don’t put it off.

You know those emails you’ve been getting for a year from Photobucket threatening to delete your old account and you were like lol who cares and ignored them?

Turns out they didn’t delete them anyway, they repurposed the business as a broker of biometric data to AI companies and they’re using your old pictures for that. You have to actually go in and delete your account to opt out, and you only have until Monday, July 22 to do it.

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It doesn’t matter how many times I hear it, I always hear LSP as Lumpy Space Princess

oh my glob!

somebody asked how people who have historically been anti-copyright could be against AI content theft, so let me give this a shot:

Information wants to be free to enrich human knowledge. It does not want to be free to make human knowledge worse to enrich the pockets of assholes

Anyone know of a USB C hub (or a Thunderbolt one, whatever) that actually works to connect two HDMI extended displays on an M3 MacBook Pro? I feel like this should not be this complicated.

Ideally I’d like something reasonably portable that also has an Ethernet jack, USB A and C ports, and maybe a SD card reader, but I guess let’s start with “actually works”

If the problem is cultural, the solution will not be technological.

at what point does the industry in need of disruption become the tech industry

I still can’t believe I took these. 🤩

Aurora borealis from the May 11 G5 solar storm, Superior National Forest, MN

Taken with an iPhone 13 Pro Max, no filters whatsoever!

dropping 0day in your timeline

Anyone know what sites have actually reliable, spam-free info for American students considering going to college abroad?

Google is dead and suggesting ChatGPT will catch you a block

my daughter asked me “if SSH stands for Secure Shell Protocol, why isn’t it SSP?” and I very confidently said “there was probably already something called SSP” before realizing I didn’t actually know if that was true

BUT NOW I WANT TO KNOW TOO

I put my laptop down for one second

@munin Literally a marketplace selling prompts to generate the displayed pictures of furniture. Bizarre. I don’t understand who the target audience would be for this

love to try to go furniture shopping and end up with… pictures of LLM-generated furniture? from a “prompt marketplace”?! Fuck this, I’m going to an antique store

I'D JUST LIKE TO INTERJECT FOR A MOMENT. WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS LINUX IS IN FACT GNU/LINUX, OR AS I'VE RECENTLY TAKEN TO CALLING IT, GNU + LINUX. LINUX IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM UNTO ITSELF, BUT RATHER ANOTHER FREE COMPONENT OF A FULLY FUNCTIONING GNU SYSTEM

my child introduced me to the game of Wikipedia racing and it is fun as hell

pick two unrelated topics and see who can get from one to the other the fastest or in the fewest amount of clicks

@inthehands I've seen a lot of folks saying that this year! Maybe it was the cold