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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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Technically, all PDFs are malicious.
@vikki but if we don't Interconnect All The Things then how will we be served appropriate and targetted adverts?
/went online outside of my adblocker recently. it's hell out there :(
@LilahTovMoon had to google that :D
also now considering how expensive a Torosa Newton's cradle would be to construct
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Blah blah cyber attack.
Maybe we should just stop centralising and interconnecting absolutely everything to absolutely everything else.
These days you can’t even visit a website without it pulling the fonts, styles, images from a bazillion different sources rather than the site itself. Never mind ads and all the other cruft.
Now think about how we do that with entire IT systems and consider how trivial it is to break one thing that impacts a bazillion other things in an instant.
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@JennyList :( big hugs, nil illegitimi carborundum etc
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From the country that brought you Boaty McBoatface comes Network Rail's leaf-removal train:
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THIS IS THE RIGHT KIND OF CANCEL CULTURE.
So Disney is offering massive discounts for 6 months if you try to cancel your subscription. For those who weren’t cancelling bc their young kids, it’s worth at least trying to cancel and take the discount they offer to keep you. Then cancel before the promotion period ends.
They are also spending a fortune on ads to get people back. The boycott is working. Soooo many people are fighting back.
#Disney #boycott
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Things I DON'T want in my tech 
• Spying
• AI
• "AI"
• Lies
• The thinnest touchscreen
• The largest touchscreen
• An app that is 15 apps
• An app that does things I don't know about
• A popup asking "Now?" or "Later?" without a "Never!" option
• An update that makes it all worse
• Exploding batteries
Things I DO want in my tech 
• Privacy 🔒
• Security 🛡️
• Repairability 🛠️
• Pretty interfaces 
• Buttons 
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I continue to fail to do anything useful. Off to change that now. Definitely.
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computers were a mistake [remembers that I met my husband online] all computers not directly serving the purpose of socially interconnecting the world's weirdest 1% of people were a mistake
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Hello! We are a small independent bookshop in Stow, in the Scottish Borders. We are no longer using Twitter, for obvious reasons, but could use some new followers on Mastodon and other social media channels - where our presence is smaller than on Twitter. Please help / share this is you can! Thank you.
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
