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Trying not to be a jerk here, but
"P.s. this is a statistical question, please no political comments." is an utterly baffling framing for a political opinion poll.
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@aparrish@friend.camp Pretty sure the junta classifies that as terrorism, along with opposing fascism.
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@cmccullough@polymaths.social Funny how often insults say more about the insulter than about the insultee.
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@algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club "Algernon is a bot" was not on my bingo card for this weekend.
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@th@social.v.st Oddly enough, I'm not sure googly eyes can save google at this point. Worth a shot though!
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange I hear their corporate headquarters is entirely made from rare earths. @alice@lgbtqia.space
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@mayintoronto@beige.party Wow, best answer for "masc coded accessory". @SJAsh_03@mastodon.sdf.org @EmpyClaw@mastodon.social
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@vbernat/116240955542340468
I guess the question of tabs versus spaces is finally settled for me.
Live your life so that when you say cringe things about your "AI girlfriend", people have some empathy, and not just contempt. Alternatively, if living a good life is too much to ask, just don't talk about whatever you get up to on the computer late at night, alone, paying by the minute.
RE: https://floss.social/@kusma/116296465164037105
In this case, boost _does_ imply endorsement.
Me, talking to a colleague last week: Oh come on, it's almost never a compiler bug.
Me, today: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1135526#18
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@nikitonsky The reporting is correct. The practice is laughably double-plus-ungood. @gabesalkin
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world I guess Lagos is always cooler than the UK, just not necessarily temperature wise ;).
DISCLAIMER: all my information about Lagos comes from the writing of @nnedi@mas.to
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@Zenie@piaille.fr Strange. I can confirm that my graphenos running pixel 9 complains about the lack of https on armbian.com. At a wild guess, something related to certificates. On the desktop (Debian) it seems like a perfectly normal Let's Encrypt cert on armbian.com. Framaform.org on the other hand is fine on the phone.
Not sure if this helps at all.
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@ricci@discuss.systems "Privacy" is silent in the "Privacy Violator 3000" brand. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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@adam refugee was the keyword to find
https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/world-c8sqdvr9z/-/a-vHJw7cdTRmu0NEqLTXvNog%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0
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@adam Does TRAC have the breakdown by country of origin? I read (but don't have a link/source) that essentially only Afrikaaner applicants from South Africa were being accepted.
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@bws It used to be case that some crap I had to use for work (e.g. Teams) worked better on Chromium than on Firefox. These days that seems to be more rare. Of course Firefox (and Mozilla) are far from perfect, but here we are.
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@regehr@mastodon.social I was following the link from the creduce README on github to
http://embed.cs.utah.edu/creduce/
which alleges to host "Documentation and other information". Then I tried the tutorial link mentioned above. I guess everything starting
https://embed.cs.utah.edu redirects to the csmith github repo which isn't really documentation for creduce, except in some strained philosophical sense ;).
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@liztai@hachyderm.io Ah, sounds similar to Canada. I'm not really clear why we have such tariffs, I guess to curry favour with the USA. There isn't any purely local manufacturing, but maybe we assemble EVs from US or Japanese companies.
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@thetyee@mstdn.ca lol, and that's their PR person. I look forward to pro-wrestling level campaigning.
@regehr@mastodon.social BTW, the link
https://embed.cs.utah.edu/creduce/using/
(along with all the other embed.cs.utah.edu URLs I tried) ends up on the github csmith repo. Not sure if this is intentional, but it does make the documentation hard to find.
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@teamtype @ethersync Hmm. I don't know what happened, I thought I clicked on the profile link in your post, but now that goes to new profile. Problem mysteriously resolved?
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@liztai@hachyderm.io I keep forgetting, that our anti-chinese-EV tariffs have been sortof removed, i.e. replaced by a fairly modest (roughly one annually per thousand Canadians) quota.
I'm not sure what market impact that will have, but I guess it can't hurt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93China_trade_war
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@liztai@hachyderm.io I'm curious if you ever thought about an electric car, it sounds perfect for those short trips. (I'm guessing that electric vehicles from China are affordable in Malaysia, but maybe that's wrong?)
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As promised, the "how much rice is in that cup" poll.
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@josh@social.joshtriplett.org I wonder how many LLM boosters are also raw milk boosters.
self OH: nihilism is a helluva drug.
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The winning option of 3/4 is the correct one. Somehow it always looks like more looking from the top.
Is anyone else noticing bizarre ligature behaviour in #phanpy? It seems like eff-eye is being replaced by eff-eff or eff-eff-ell in Firefox. The same thing happens in safe-mode.
EDIT: I unchecked "allow pages to choose their own fonts, and the problem seems fixed. So I guess I'm fine with this, but people who care more about design and fonts might not like it as a solution. Or maybe those people unchecked that box years ago.
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@Hoonse@chaos.social @minute@merveilles.town might have some ideas about this too. MNT reform seems to sell all kinds of populated boards.
Err. My university library just offered to export a citation to EasyBib, a service of Chegg. You know, the online cheating people? What actually is happening?