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@mirth @inthehands "wouldn't it be nice if everyone was nice" and now I'm quoting pratchett. "no", is I think his considered answer, if you read Hogfather…

@inthehands apparently some of the team resigned from ruby central (not the project; just stopped taking salary) due to DHH being a right-wing nutcase … I've heard a rumour that this takeover is kinda sponsored by DHH.

huge if true, as they say.

@babe
> In Mullvad’s case, in 2023 we had a real-life test of our process: here you can read more about how the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad office with a search warrant, but how they left empty-handed (because we don’t save any data).

ah. that's why the name rang a bell.

@RikerGoogling Federation directive 34124 added a swear filter to the Universal Translator. Unfortunately, from the point of view of that directive, Klingon consists entirely of swearwords.

@landley "food" "truck" "alley"

@0xabad1dea anyone who got good essay marks at school probably learned to do at least two of the Seventeen Things.

@inthehands another instance of computers having fun for you so you can get on with work, I feel.

@inthehands the real trouble comes when staff actually fall for this and write code.

I've spent much of my career coding in one of these, and I've met people with no understanding of coding at all who have written thousands of lines of garbage which kind of works – often by copying and pasting the same dreadful code again and again.

@CynAq @hellomiakoda very little? possibly auto-generated, like when google shows you amazon links for "depression" or "genocide"?

@inthehands do you feel like expanding on "specialness"? I generally just avoid the weird parts of YAML by not using them.

@inthehands I can certainly see why your vocalist moving away would kill the project -- she has an *astonishing* voice.

> it always feels (I hope) like verbal language is present

Well, this is true of a lot of modern music, sadly. Until reading this I thought it was just me not making out the words...

This is astonishing music, not comforting music. I'm glad I heard it but I'd be unlikely to return to it often...

@inthehands then perhaps I should say: it's weird we're not hearing about this because surely it should interest everyone?

@inthehands It amazes me how little effort we are expending on trying to understand intelligence. I mean: I'm sure it is studied. But we hear so little about it that I assume not as much as, say, the cost of fish or what day of the week is most depressing

TIL that 2017ish thinkpads have post beeps so complex that you need an app to shazam them in order to make sense of them. I admit this helped me figure out my wife's dead laptop at a quarter to midnight, but honestly, it's still a very odd idea?

#microfiction
"Grandad! You're not a nazi!"
"Well, technically I was a member of the party from April 29th 1921 to May 1st. Joined in order to make off with the mummy of the wizard-priestess Su An Ansaret an' the instructions to resurect her. Took 'em two days to work out I was missing; their security was terrible."
"Su An— didn't you say grandma Sue was Egyptian and you couldn't talk about it?"
"Might as well tell you now. She wanted me to wake her in 2025. She's going to be furious as it is."

@RikerGoogling elf - vulcan = romulan

@RikerGoogling why do Klingons use Bat'leth not disruptors?

@glynmoody shine this into your eyeball, they said. It's perfectly safe, they said

@glynmoody Most animals don't communicate entirely by sound. This might work for, I don't know, whales? But much less so for cats and dogs.

@babe Yes! Bring back surreal adverts, and throw in a bit of horny, why not?