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1. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 19:56:21 EDT Brian Ó

   Is it just me or has the right-wing conspiracy fringe in the US kind of toned it down this election? I mean, they're still churning out bigoted nonsense, but people eating dogs and cats seems much more plausible than world leaders having secret baby-killing orgies in the basement of a pizzeria. Maybe that's just me.

   #usa #politics #elections #qanon
2. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 19:56:29 EDT Brian Ó

   https://youtu.be/thJgU9jkdU4

   #rammstein #music #german #dicketitten
3. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 14:45:50 EDT Hypolite Petovan
   Even if I know why it is that way, I’m still upset that at equal load, running a smaller engine at nominal capacity is more efficient than running a bigger engine at lower capacity.
   • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 19:17:56 EDT Hypolite Petovan

     • Brian Ó
     @Brian Ó I expect it to last until my dying breath. It's a low-level upset that I can maintain for ever.
4. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 16:38:36 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   While I also occasionally suffer from the regular FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), I mainly suffer from KIMO (Know I’m Missing Out) about the following behaviors:
   - Belonging to a cult, whether it’s religious, sports or political.
   - Believing individual words have any inherent power.
   - Enjoying recreational drugs, including alcohol, smoking and coffee.

   And I feel it makes it harder for me to find a meaning for my life given I’m not experiencing the full range of behaviors it offers. 🤔
5. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 13:47:54 EDT Brian Ó

   #arson #crime #humor
6. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 16:42:43 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   German language capitalizes all nouns, sure. But why not go all the way in composite nouns, like ComicHeft or BundesDatenSchutzGesetz?

   #linguistics

   • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 19:46:22 EDT Hypolite Petovan
     @Markus Exactly!
7. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 12:03:03 EDT Hypolite Petovan
   Super Nova >>> Lower Avon
8. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 11:44:43 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   How do I know that a Meta engineer is working from home in my apartment building? Probably the unclaimed-for-days bubble mailer in the shared package room addressed to "[redacted] Meta Platforms, Inc" that has sticker labels on it saying it includes a Yubico pass key and an "Open Me First" document.

   #OpSec

   • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 16:03:38 EDT Hypolite Petovan
     @Tek aEvl It's because @wilhelm is using iceshrimp. Friendica records the reactions but for now it isn't possible to leave them from Friendica.
9. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 15:11:01 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   My company's latest internal training about business ethics contains this uncut gem:
   

   Keep in mind...

   ... if you’ve indicated where you work on your personal social media, people online might reach out to your employer to complain about your online actions.

   
   Compared to the rest of the training, the more informal tone of this tidbit with the ellipses makes me think it was a last minute addition after Things Had Happened.
10. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin@status.hackerposse.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 22:16:17 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

    • New Hampshire
    An event not to be missed: the complete restored Metropolis, with an unforgettable soundtrack _performed live_ by the amazing Jeff Rapsis https://thecolonial.org/event/film-event-metropolis-with-music-by-jeff-rapsis/
    Oct 9 in Keene, !NH
11. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 18:15:10 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    I finally pulled the trigger and bought a second-hand copy of the #LEGO 71411 The Mighty Bowser set lego.com/en-us/product/the-mig…. And at almost 3,000 parts, it’s a hefty chonker. On the plus side, his eyes and eyebrows are posable, for delightfully silly effects. On the minus side, without the by-bag sorting of a new set, the paper instructions have a terrible color palette and I made several color errors during the build, which made me think I was missing more parts than I actually did.

    In the end, the set looks pretty close from the original #Nintendo subject and my main issue will be to find a spot in my apartment for this large and rather heavy model.

    friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos…
12. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 17:38:54 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    Quoted anonymously because I do not want to hurt their feelings, to the question whether we’re the only intelligent life form in the Universe:
    

    […]the arrogance required to assume we're unique in the vastness of the universe seems deeply human to me.

    
    I’d argue that mainly basing oneself on a perceived humanity trait to answer a question that has been asked so many times that we probably have a pretty good statistical model for it seems equally human to me.

    Not saying they’re wrong, but the arrogant ones might not be wrong either just because they’re arrogant.
13. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 18:49:10 EDT Brian Ó

    I'm going to see #Heilung in #Dublin this April, but I'm probably going to stick around in #Ireland for a while too see the sights. If anyone has any suggestions, they'd be appreciated.
14. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 17:32:25 EDT Brian Ó

    Hey @[Brad Koehn ☑️](http://social.gibberfish.org/people/349ab82134669a3b), you seem to know a lot about aviation. I have a question for you. Yesterday when I was on a flight, the plane was within seconds of touching down when we climbed again, circled, and came in for a second landing attempt. The pilot eventually told us that there was another plane on the runway, which was -- concerning. Do you know if these kind of things are filed publicly with some federal agency? I'd like to know the details of what actually happened.
15. ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 13:21:18 EDT ploum

    Did you know?

    To publicly acknowledge the fact that an artificial intelligence was used during the writing of a scientific paper, scientists add "et AI" (with AI in Latin) at the end of the list of authors.

    • Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) repeated this.
16. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 09:22:31 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    @Ed Right, I have had a newfangled interest for him since the midlaner tournament in BetBoom Dacha that he almost won from the position 4! I’m not familiar with his past though, please feel free to forward me relevant interview clips!
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 10:36:06 EDT Hypolite Petovan
      @Ed Thanks!
17. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 11:48:33 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    #MiniReview #VideoGames Airborne Kingdom (2020) is a contemplative city builder with an Arabic aesthetic that works well without overdoing it. The city planning is pretty forgiving thanks to the move feature even if it isn't always free, and while the main story can be done in less than 10 hours, the optional content and the sandbox mode should satisfy any further desire to play.
18. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 19:35:33 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    Periodical reminder there's no objective hypocrisy in people, everybody is always internally consistent. So accusations of hypocrisy reveals more about the accuser who doesn't have (or doesn’t want to get) a grasp on this consistency than about the accused.
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 19:52:24 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      • anubis2814
      @anubis2814 That can be an aspect of it, but then it becomes easy to switch from accusing people of hypocrisy to accusing people of cognitive dissonance and we've learned nothing. Some people just don't have the same core values as ourselves, and so judging their opinions based on our values will always yield a flawed analysis.
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:36:56 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      • Jonathan Lamothe
      @Jonathan Lamothe Of course, but that’s subjective hypocrisy, you’re judging yourself based on your own values, which is fine by me. I do it too.
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:40:46 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      • Brian Ó
      @Brian Ó Sure, there can be willful or intentional hypocrisy, but I feel like it can be more accurately described by “lies”, “political calculus”, etc… As the person doing it is still internally consistent throughout the process.
19. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 19:27:13 EDT Hubert Chathi
    Just found out (via infosec.exchange/@racheltobac/…) about LinkedIn automatically opting-in (almost) everyone to having their data used to train generative AI. Checked my settings to turn it off, and I also noticed that they had opted me into having my data used for "social, economic, and workplace research".
20. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 17:03:22 EDT Brian Ó

    Does anyone here use #AWX? I just had AAP pitched at me by some Red Hat sales people and they made it sound like RH has deliberately hamstrung the project to force people behind their paywall.

    #awx #aap #ansible #redhat #linux