Notices by aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io), page 3

@foone @eevee "Average developer decompiles 100 programs per year" factoid actually just statistical error. Foone is an outlier and should not have been counted

@mattly Spoilers: 99% of the time, it's adding a forced arbitration clause

@inthehands @seachanger I can remember one sarcastic reply along the lines of "can't believe you felt the need to CW that". Can't recall what the CW was, though. I know I happened to choose a well moderated instance. Maybe there are people who blocked me without announcing it for CWing too much or not enough. I also found the buried setting to disable DMs from nonfollowers, so it's possible someone tried to yell at me that way and failed (though I doubt I'm anywhere near visible enough for that)

@thomasfuchs You're remembered for the rules you break

@Riedl Ohhhhh it was because the workers unionized. That context was missing from all the headlines I previously saw about the chatbot. It's unfair labor practices every time, I should have guessed.

@dgar Person. Woman. Man. Hydrogen hyperfine transition. Pulsar map.

(alt text note: this is actually the Pioneer Plaque, not the Voyager Golden Record, which had decoding instructions instead of nudes https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/golden-record-cover/)

@thomasfuchs @mikeymikey which is why hashtag following is not quite as powerful as it seems (and completely useless on a small/personal instance) because it doesn't actually pull in any toots that weren't on your server already

@thomasfuchs wait hang on, isn't it "public posts from this instance + all people (on any instance) that are followed by someone on this instance", not "all people on federated instances"? Unless my mental model is the one that's wrong

@thomasfuchs @foone That's a lot of trust you're placing in the function naming that none of them are actually bubble sort

@thomasfuchs Yep this is the one that made me add it to home screen

@thomasfuchs @est she looks way too happy for someone who appears to be holding an iron from the wrong end

@thomasfuchs This one is tricky though because if you look through actual search results you find two answers with roughly equal amounts of support. Which really sucks if you want to know the answer (I'm still wondering), but also means it makes no sense to ask a stochastic parrot about it either

@thomasfuchs or "what kind of fire extinguisher should you use to put out a lithium battery fire". Yes, real example (luckily no actual fire)

@thomasfuchs They're not wrong

@passthejoe @thomasfuchs Barley malt is always a tricky one! Everyone knows about wheat obviously but not always barley

@thomasfuchs I'm surprised *rice* krispies weren't gluten free to begin with, but now I want a box of this variant

@thomasfuchs @bk1e I don't use any voice assistance but I do use voice typing a fair amount when I'm alone. Very obnoxious of course in an open office or anywhere with people around, but then again since the pandemic gets become acceptable to join a Zoom meeting at your desk and talk into your monitor with everyone around expected to wear headphones to tune you out, so who knows?

@thomasfuchs @mrmetaverse Read this as LDAP, but you know what, still true

@thomasfuchs oh, that's the "nice weather you're having, meatbags" one, right?

@thomasfuchs what app is this?