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mousey

@mousey@seattlematrix.org

Linux nerd, game nerd, dad jokes, memes, opinions. (OMG, so many opinions.)

#YearOfTheLinuxDesktop since 1998

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matrix , to Random stuff
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The http://matrix.org homeserver has been struggling with load over the last 24h (thanks perhaps to Slack for driving users our way: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/slack-defends-default-opt-in-for-ai-training-on-chats-amid-user-outrage/) - we're working on fixing performance. Folks on other homeservers are of course unaffected. Apologies for the inconvenience. https://status.matrix.org is tracking the incident.

mousey ,
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@matrix congrats on having the best possible problems!

J12t , to Random stuff
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A distributed social web of meaningful relationships.

Instead of a few centralized walled-garden apps that only tell you what an unaccountable third party wants you to know.

P.S. Still working on the messaging... how can I improve this?

mousey ,
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@J12t

I keep seeing people lamenting being unable to game a following together because of a lack of algorithm.

What you're saying resonates with me because I never wanted that. Never joined a commercially run, centralized, social network, because I never saw it as a "network".

means, when I follow someone (or someone follows me), I'm building my own social network out of people I personally want to associate with.

That value is worth well more than an algorithm could provide.

davidrevoy , to Random stuff
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My treasure

A webcomic in four panels (no speech bubble) Panel 1: In a cave containing a treasure with a lot of gold, a young adventurer is chased by a monster: a treasure with big teeth. She drops all the gold items she had on her escape. Panel 2: While climbing a mountain of bones and skulls to reach the exit of the cave, the adventurer throws a bone to the monster. It is startled. Panel 3: Like a brave dog, the monster returns the bone to the adventurer, happy to start over. The adventurer has a think about it. Panel 4: Later, in a city, the adventurer walks proudly and happily with her new "dog" (the monster's treasure) on a leash. This one is a happy one. Mini Fantasy Theater, by David Revoy (www.davidrevoy.com) License: CC-By-Sa
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    mousey ,
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    @davidrevoy they're all good mimics, bront.

    PCMag , to Random stuff
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    Files scattered across multiple computers? Tired of futzing with your KVM switch? Thunderbolt Share comes to the rescue—maybe. https://www.pcmag.com/news/kvm-killer-intels-thunderbolt-share-could-link-pcs-without-the-fuss

    mousey ,
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    @PCMag maybe y'all just need to apt-get install barrier and be done with it.

    404mediaco , to Random stuff
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    Scoop: Solar storm is causing farmers' tractor GPS systems to go haywire. Many have shut down planting altogether during a critical period. A Deere dealer said accuracy is "extremely compromised"

    https://www.404media.co/solar-storm-knocks-out-tractor-gps-systems-during-peak-planting-season/

    mousey ,
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    @404mediaco if only the farmers could fix the tractors themselves..

    vwbusguy , to Random stuff
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    Imagine if the stock market disappeared tomorrow. Do you think we'd really be worse off? Surely, some would. But in general, would we really be worse off?

    mousey ,
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    @vwbusguy e-recycling, and internet-in-a-box would become hella important basically overnight.

    Em0nM4stodon , to Random stuff
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    What technology and/or tech organization gives you the most hope for the future right now? 💚👀

    mousey ,
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    @Em0nM4stodon




    Any and all distros





    and the ongoing, tireless, thankless, largely invisible works of the

    vwbusguy , to Random stuff
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    Kids these days can't possibly appreciate what the internet was like before we had browser tabs.

    mousey ,
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    @vwbusguy And nobody remembers Galeon, the browser that introduced tabs to the world, either.

    vwbusguy , to Linux
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    Is there a waypipe for MacOS? Like, a way to run something like the geany IDE hosted on a networked Linux VM over ssh on a MacBook.

    mousey ,
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    @vwbusguy laughs in export DISPLAY=

    grumpygamer , (edited ) to Random stuff
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    When you first launch a game do you...

    mousey ,
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    @grumpygamer Being left handed, I generally have to spend a bunch of time remapping everything keybindingwise so I can play a game. especially FPS games. WASD is the epitome of right privilege.. Its numpad-8,6,4,2 for the rest of us.

    numpad-5 is jump, numpad-/ is sprint, numpad-0 is crouch.

    QE, for right people is numpad-7,9 for me.

    numpad-1,3 for anything else

    numpad-enter for use/interact

    mouse on left side, buttons swapped..

    as long as a game has rebindable keybindings, anyway...

    nixCraft , to Random stuff
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    What is a 10x engineer? Wrong answers only.

    mousey ,
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    @nixCraft Ten interns in a trenchcoat.

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    AI in space: Karpathy suggests AI chatbots as interstellar messengers to alien civilizations

    Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/ai-in-space-karpathy-suggests-ai-chatbots-as-interstellar-messengers-to-alien-civilizations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    mousey ,
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    @arstechnica why is this bullshit considered news?

    gamingonlinux , to Steam
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    HELLDIVERS 2 will soon actually require a PlayStation Network account https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/helldivers-2-will-soon-actually-require-a-playstation-network-account/

    mousey ,
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    @gamingonlinux A game glorifiying fascism pulls a fascist tactic??
    :pikachu_surprise_face:

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    Prosecutors in court are reviewing the latest alleged gag order violations by Donald Trump as the former president's first criminal trial resumes in NYC.

    mousey ,
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    @w7voa Lock him up.

    vwbusguy , to Random stuff
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    Dear AP, I would love to know why your article about UCLA depicts NYPD officers going through the window of a brick building. This stuff takes away from your credibility.

    mousey ,
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    @vwbusguy fun fact. I'm yet to see any of America's 6 media companies report on the protests at universities through an objective lens. Literally all of them are propaganda mouthpieces now.

    I'm actually kind of afraid.

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week

    Disappointing streaming changes are happening so fast that it's hard to keep up.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/all-the-ways-streaming-services-are-aggravating-their-subscribers-this-week/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    mousey ,
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    @arstechnica /me laughs in mp3.

    dankennedy_nu , (edited ) to Random stuff
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    From The Huntington News, our great student newspaper at Northeastern: Jewish Affinity Group commends Northeastern administration for clearing pro-Palestinian encampment. https://huntnewsnu.com/78044/campus/jewish-affinity-group-commends-northeastern-administration-for-clearing-pro-palestinian-encampment/

    mousey ,
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    @dankennedy_nu what? why?

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    NYC Mayor Eric Adams says ~300 arrests made on two campuses in response to attempts to radicalize people in the city. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/columbia-university-protests-nypd-video-hamilton-hall/5371376/

    mousey ,
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    @w7voa You're gonna lose followers in the fedi if you try to pass off this as news. I mean LOOK.AROUND.YOU.

    If one side says its raining, and another side says its not raining, your job as a is to GO OUTSIDE AND CHECK!

    People in the city aren not being "Radicalized" by what's going on on campuses.. Why are they really being radicalized??

    Maybe report on that. Maybe report on why cops in riot gear are assaulting peaceful protestors? Less party line, more reporting.

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    (Reuters) - Elon Musk's abrupt decision to lay off employees who ran Tesla's electric vehicle charging business blindsided automakers gearing up to equip new EVs for customers to use the Tesla Supercharger network. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/musk-disbands-tesla-ev-charging-team-leaving-customers-dark-2024-04-30/

    mousey ,
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    @w7voa Why is it possible for Elon to blindside anyone?? Is Twit^H^H^H^HX not enough evidence of who he is and how he operates?

    🙄

    parismarx , to Tesla
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    This is truly one of the more baffling decisions I’ve seen in a long time. Tesla is a leader in charging infrastructure, to the degree that virtually every other carmaker is even adopting its standard.

    Then Elon Musk laid off the entire Supercharger team.

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145621/tesla-layoff-supercharger-ev-charging-nacs-elon-musk

    mousey ,
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    @parismarx You should see what Musk did with Twitter, and how that's workin' out. I'm sure Tesla is thrilled to share a similar fate as their upper echelon continues to get pruned..

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    US government auctions 5.34-petaflop Cheyenne supercomputer

    145,152-core supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/us-government-auctions-5-34-petaflop-cheyenne-supercomputer/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    mousey ,
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    @arstechnica does it run linux?

    oh wait, yes it does.

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    Binance’s billionaire founder gets 4 months for violating money laundering law

    US prosecutors sought 3-year sentence for Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/binances-billionaire-founder-gets-4-months-for-violating-money-laundering-law/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    mousey ,
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    @arstechnica woah, 4 whole months? That'll teach 'em!!

    PCMag , to Random stuff
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    Roku is preparing the show video ads in home-screen slots that currently only show still images and is considering other ways to serve up commercials to users, says CEO Anthony Woods. https://www.pcmag.com/news/brace-for-more-ads-on-roku-tv-home-screens

    mousey ,
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    @PCMag Roku's enshittification rages on.

    rbreich , to Random stuff
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    How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

    1. Break up corporate monopolies

    2. Continue building union power

    3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

    Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

    mousey ,
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    @rbreich Yeah I wish people would recognize as the Labor of Operating Systems.

    If we would collectively act, to help each other out by switching to Linux, and stop being beholden to (Ads in your Start Menu) Big Tech, and do the work to take back the means of computation, we'd have a chance against stupid corporate dystopia.

    Many companies similarily beholden to big tech need to be broken up, but change starts at your home directory.

    I know. I know. I'm the crazy one. right? smh

    rbreich , to Random stuff
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    I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

    But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

    mousey ,
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    @rbreich Meta, Xitter, MSLinkedIn are just mad they're not the favorite data vacuum, so they're "competing" by making their government, which they bought and paid for, go after the foreign competition, in typical Surveillance capitalist style.

    This isn't the media narrative though because, you know.. only 6 companies run the media for America.

    And somehow we're not protesting in the streets about this.

    indivisibleteam , to Random stuff
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    mousey ,
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    @indivisibleteam I click like a lot. ⭐

    oatmeal , to Random stuff
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    Keith wasn’t ready

    mousey ,
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    @oatmeal um, ew

    nixCraft , to Random stuff
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    vpn services.

    mousey ,
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    @nixCraft corporately owned centralized social networks. which are really surveillance plantations people live in to enrich those corporations.

    GottaLaff , (edited ) to Random stuff
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    I won’t link to Twitter, but I had to screen grab it for you:

    Via @potus:

    mousey ,
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    @TopKnot @GottaLaff then they'll go after queer people, then immigrants, then women, then minorities, then each other.

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens

    Most devs would need to pay out of pocket to host Alexa apps after June.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-virtually-kills-efforts-to-develop-alexa-skills-disappointing-dozens/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    mousey ,
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    @arstechnica Dozens!

    gamingonlinux , (edited ) to Random stuff
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    That's some truly classy PR from Playton. I put up an X/Twitter poll about interest in the web3 blockchain handheld that's going to use their OS...their reply was...

    mousey ,
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    @gamingonlinux Shh!!! Stop tryna call out their obvious scam! You'll ruin their rugpull plans!

    vwbusguy , (edited ) to Random stuff
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    Let your brain feast today on this little nugget of info.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/cxtmg6xykEs

    mousey ,
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    @vwbusguy Honestly, this is just what my day needed.. wæ̃̂ːː!!

    rbreich , to Random stuff
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    Keep your eyes on this story. Shadowy “online” Axos Bank and its biggest billionaire shareholder, Don Hankey, have together extended more than $500 million in financing for Trump’s benefit. They helped him out on loans and now a huge civil judgment. What will they get in return?

    mousey ,
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    @rbreich bought and paid for? that's how authoritarians circumvent democracy and the rule of law. just make sure your dude owes you billions.

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    IDF says it “struck military infrastructure that, based on precise intelligence, was used by the Hezbollah terrorist organization on the Syrian front.”

    mousey ,
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    @w7voa so, another hospital?

    nixCraft , to Random stuff
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    Damn. Edge woke up today and chose violence 😂

    mousey ,
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    @nixCraft Microsoft loves Linux.. It's Linux users they hate.

    mattblaze , to Random stuff
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    The XZ backdoor seems to have become a Rorschach test that shows whatever you already believed about the security of open source software against sabotage.

    It clearly proves the inherent superiority of the open source model. Or the inherent vulnerability. One of those, definitely.

    mousey ,
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    @mattblaze Five Guys make a great burger.

    slashdot , to Random stuff
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    New 'Matrix' Movie in Works https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/04/03/1810245/new-matrix-movie-in-works?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

    mousey ,
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    @slashdot I wonder if it'll be about end-to-end encrypted chat.

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    Outage reports for Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp have just spiked. https://downdetector.com/status/instagram/

    mousey ,
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    @w7voa ..i read on Mastodon without issue.

    Gargron , to Random stuff
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    The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.

    mousey ,
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    @Gargron

    ironically, it's American law (namely the First Amendment) which disallows whitehouse.gov (for example) from running a mastodon (or other #fediverse) instance. They would probably be, by law, disallowed from moderating bad posts/accounts.

    Other countries don't have this legal limitation, which is why so many other governments have their own #fedi instances.

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    Users say Google’s VPN app “breaks” the Windows DNS settings

    Does Google's app really need to constantly reset all Windows network interfaces?

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/users-say-googles-vpn-app-breaks-the-windows-dns-settings/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    mousey ,
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    @arstechnica Surprise! Two companies i'd never want to trust with my data aren't working well together?! Color me surprised..

    TheConversationUS , to Cybersecurity
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    Several popular messaging apps, including Messenger, Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, use end-to-end encryption.

    Here’s how it protects you:
    https://theconversation.com/are-private-conversations-truly-private-a-cybersecurity-expert-explains-how-end-to-end-encryption-protects-you-224477

    mousey ,
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    @TheConversationUS This article is missing all mention of . 🙄

    nixCraft , to Random stuff
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    Sama somehow convinced Microsoft to spend another 100 billion dollars. He still needs 6.9 trillion, tho. Let’s go 😂 Microsoft & OpenAI are working on plans for a data center project that could cost as much as $100 billion and include an artificial intelligence supercomputer called "Stargate" set to launch in 2028 https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-openai-planning-100-billion-data-center-project-information-reports-2024-03-29/

    mousey ,
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    @nixCraft
    $100,000,000,000..

    How much free university is that, and for how many countries?

    Chrishallbeck , to Random stuff
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    Scroll.

    mousey ,
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    @Chrishallbeck

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    Media reports say independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today will announce his running mate is wealthy Silicon Valley attorney Nicole Shanahan, who is the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin and an alleged former paramour of Elon Musk.

    mousey ,
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    @w7voa Magnets? HOW DO THEY WORK??

    lowqualityfacts , to Random stuff
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    Me: The pain is unbearable. I need more morphine.

    AI Nurse: Morphine does not exist. There are no medications that start with an M.

    Me: That is wrong. Please give me something to help relieve the pain.

    AI Nurse: Of course! You are a 185 pound male. An adult, male kangaroo weighs up to 190 pounds. Therefore, I will administer kangaroo medicine.

    mousey ,
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    @lowqualityfacts you forgot to add

    PCMag , to Random stuff
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    Roblox is launching two new AI tools for creators who use its desktop Roblox Studio software, allowing over 5 million developers and creators on its platform to generate new object textures and character avatars based on text prompts. https://www.pcmag.com/news/roblox-launches-new-generative-ai-texture-and-avatar-tools-for-creators

    mousey ,
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    @PCMag but does it run on ?

    Spoiler alert: No.

    lowqualityfacts , to Random stuff
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    Some people have seemed confused about what my Low Quality Facts account is, so I made this graph to help you all understand it.

    mousey ,
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    @lowqualityfacts line goes in the wrong direction.

    Chrishallbeck , to Random stuff
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    A piece of furniture that looks like a dresser but the drawers are fake and the whole front opens like a refrigerator door and you just slide the basket of clean laundry inside.

    mousey ,
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    @Chrishallbeck Hell yeah, I'll take 3 pls.

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