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jimfl

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He's justified, and he's ancient, and he drives an ice-cream van.

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That’s not what those words mean.

Sign on a door days & hours of operation but most importantly: walk ins by appointment only. The exact opposite of a walk in.
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@Binder Its the emergency room. You can get seen immediately if you come in on a gurney

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@Binder If you have your back to the door, Gurney will walk in without an appointment

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Uh. Why? Why would I want to do that?

A web browser is offering me contextual choices about a rendered object which might be an image. One of the choices: Ask an AI Chatbot.
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🎶owl bee seeing you, in all the familiar branches

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@Binder That was a hoot!

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I forgot what Nitter Kibbeh was called, so I just wrote “gheethiopian” on the label before putting it in the fridge

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Groundhog Day is the holiday where we decide whether to defer the decision to take down the winter holiday decorations for another six weeks

closeup of a red toned wool rug strewn with pine needles
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Moltbook is somehow sadder than real people participating in a dismal mashup of LinkedIn and Hacker News comments

I can more or less reconstruct the prompts for many of the bots. “Pimp my shitcoin,” as one obvious example, or “waste tokens harping on all the other bots for wasting tokens”

Anyway, moltbook made me sad, and now I’m sad

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There should be an Emmy for how you show up to the Emmys

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Haha, I filtered my own post about filtering again

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@SocketSecurity/115976194603584688

When the executive order mandating SBOM for software under federal contract, I happened to be working at the time in software supply chain integrity. When people (managers) started talking about SBOM all of a sudden, my response was always “Who cares?”

Just like when “cryptographically sign all the things” started. “Who cares?”

The question comes not from ambivalence; I want to see as many of the desire paths you’re asking me to pave over as I can possibly digest, because that helps me see the real problem people want to solve. If people are building their own solutions (desire paths), encoded in those are the true issue(s)

With software signing, it turns out that the answer to “Who cares if this asset isn’t signed?” was “Rent seekers.” The only people who ever reliably check signatures are making sure you paid your dues to be in the club, or that you’re not jailbreaking your tractor

SBOM was worse in that I was never able to find a single patch of grass worn down to dirt by someone making their own way through dependency tracking on 3rd party software

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The direction that software supply chain integrity began to take by the time I left genuinely frightened me into anxiousness. A working solution of the kind proposed could effectively be the end of general purpose personal computing

Imagine every consumer computing device being a John Deere tractor

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Am I stupid?

Offered a choice between “here’s a dedicated device that does this thing and only this thing” and “here’s an app that does the thing” I chose the app

I KNOW this stuff. Why do I always choose wrongly?

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I’m $DEMOGRAPHIC and I take surveys

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I am not even curious what kind of kompromat they have on Tim Cook

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Ugh! I just rolled my eyes through consecutive articles from one online science magazine, and finally removed the feed from my aggregator

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“Why do you have to make things so complicated?”

“Do I?”

“You just looked at a digital thermometer that reads 31.6F and reported the temperature as ‘four tenths of a degree Fahrenheit below zero Celsius.’”

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NOT🐙 MANDATORY

Packaging for Beech-Nut Oaty Bars
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I don't understand the sense of "tag your [problematic post] with a hashtag".

Hashtags are to bring a post to greater attention and I gotta be honest, when I'm posting about say, US politics, I don't want to discuss it with randos on the internet. I really, really don't. I'm not going to put a hashtag on it. I'll put a content warning on it. I'll even use the word "uspol" for people to filter against, but I'm not going to # tag it because I'm not looking for more eyeballs. Less, really.

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@troublewithwords If metadata were reliable (and certainly it is not) it would be just as useful for exclusion as inclusion

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I didn’t realize “dry January” was about still eating leftover Thanksgiving turkey

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This is a joke, in that this year we brined the turkey in buttermilk for several days, and spatchcocked it. The moistness was second only to smoked

But it’s not a joke in that, due to getting a 14lb turkey for 2 people, we are still eating on the damn thing

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Why is it that bicycles for the mind veer for the gutter as soon as the rider thinks nobody’s watching?

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I got 23 problems, but a criterion of simplicity in mathematical proofs ain’t one

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Vinegar is stored in the balsamic

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Rename Calibri

@jimfl@hachyderm.io avatar jimfl , to random

has a pretty amazing bug in its new corvette feature. If you claim a wrecked starship for salvage when your corvette is your current ship, the corvette vanishes when you break the salvaged starship up for parts/credits

I managed to get it back by archiving every other starship except the corvette

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When I say that my mind’s made up, I mean that you’re imagining its existence.

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@Binder Being, as I am, a solipsist, I’m going to have to agree with you there

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    @Binder Siddhartha and shaddup

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    @Binder But SOAP can be

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    FYI: If you're poor you are automatically opted out of all boycotts.

    Shit is hard enough, take what you can get. Someone telling you to not use that gift card because of a boycott can get fucked. Buy the things you need to get through the day.

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    @troublewithwords taps head You can’t vote with your wallet if you don’t have a wallet

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    @Binder Or Scooter from Borderlands 2

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    RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115604346477068018

    Wow. I feel really bad about my iPhone 8 Plus all of the sudden

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    Narrator: he didn’t

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    @Binder Is it alright if we seat you in the toric section?

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    This is my first time seeing this notation for boosts (in @phanpy ) and I don’t really understand why I’m now being tasked with arithmetic, however simple

    A neon-purple capsule-shaped UI button with a rocket ship icon, and a label that reads “341 + 2”
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    @Binder Bona fide!

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    Are you telling me Mork was a Borg?
    In this economy?

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    @troublewithwords I thought Mork was Sith apprentice to Darth Orson

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    @Binder C:\esspit

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    Why OpenBSD and not Berkeley Software Open Distribution (BSOD)?

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    @Binder Similarly, I’d prefer to live in a built, rather than a building

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    The horror of LinkedIn

    Two adjacent posts in a LinkedIn feed: the first is someone posting that they’d been impacted by the Amazon layoff, the next is a sponsored post by Amazon trying to hire more people
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    So what happens to iRobot vacuums if the company shuts down? I feel like @pluralistic will have an appropriate cautionary tale in his repertoire...

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    @http_error_418 @pluralistic Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics require an active internet connection to the 3LoRaaS service.

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    @mook @Binder They tend to go up and down periodically

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    A pressure relief bivalve is used to keep systems clam.

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    @Binder nobody was ever fired for buying Valve

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    I'm a very hairy bloke and decided to tidy up before a beach holiday by clipping my back and chest. Unfortunately, I went overboard and, with my remaining leg hair, ended up looking like Mr Tumnus from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I had to cancel the trip.

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    @fesshole Stop! I can only become so erect

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    A Virginia license plate reading DMITJ1M
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    @rejectedplates I’m a doctor, not a DMV clerk

    @jimfl@hachyderm.io avatar jimfl , to random

    I am a heavy user of email filters. Every once in a while I peek in some of the folders and clean stuff out, and hoo booey is Amazon horny for me to buy a watch band

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    An accordion is the opposite of a discordian.

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    @troublewithwords Which implies that acco is the opposite of disco