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Companies should treat user data as toxic waste rather than as something they want to gather and hoard for business models like targeted advertising. It's not a good thing to have a bunch of sensitive data which could be obtained by adversaries or requested by a government.

@jamesoff the book is
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

by Nicci French

just in case anyone else was wondering what fine literature or pulp fiction was being consumed :)

@Dtl @JennyList @trans_rescue oooooh, a magic-smoke emitting one. like it!

maybe random value, but black stuffing crochet-hooked out in places for the smoke

@jamesoff reads an email, smashes the phone on the floor.

ding noise from his pocket.
pulls out phone, reads another email, smashes the phone on the floor.

@Dtl @JennyList @trans_rescue this, but probably an implausably high value.

/goes to check what the banding for 'open circuit' would look like

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@spv @JennyList @trans_rescue nice. my last was an X31. sadly the mobo went sizzle, so it is no more :'(

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@JennyList @spv @trans_rescue I see your ThinkPad remote keyboard and raise you a "stolen/repurposed kvm keyboard from a rack being decommed" ;)

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My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him.

Went out. Had a few drinks. Nice guy. He's a web designer.

Specialises in debugging.

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@MattMerk I have to admit it's a new word to me, but the concept made sense enough to be able to google-fu through it :)
My reading is more consume-consume-consume and analysing the contents rather than analyse the writer's methodology and structuring

@MattMerk multiperspectivity?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiper
maybe multivocal narration if different characters present their own perspectives?

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I mean in some ways being up there is safer than the ground, where Boeing assassins live.

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It surely can't be a coincidence that Alexander the Great and Kermit the Frog share the same middle name.

@fesshole especially if you do it the Joaquin Phoenix way in Gladiator.

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Mastod1 be nice. (sorry, closed for new registrations after a bunch of 'commercial/spamming' accounts jumped in - rule 3 on site)