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I can certainly relate to your last comment there. A couple of very bright acquaintances, who I happen to know are actually excellent programmers, have recently become AI lovies, and yes, it's exactly like talking to a recently converted religious nut-job. Apparently I'm missing out, and I'll be left behind.
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
What I love about the Fediverse is that it’s just for the joy of it. Like early Twitter. Like good banter. And of course, cats. Cats cats cats.
We hit the ground running yesterday when we arrived back home. Our annual sealift arrived Friday and the ship would be done Saturday afternoon. We have five crates, plus more from the lumber supply business here.
Sealift day is a little like having all your birthdays at once on the day the circus comes to town.
Here’s the MV Zélada Desgagnes at anchor.
We only opened 2 crates that had our household stuff. The largest, 8’ x 8’ x 4’, was packed with stuff, and shuffled from the crate to the living room, to (mostly) the spare bedroom and other places it will live. The other crate was mostly solar, tools, and fuel drums, but had household stuff as well so it needed to be opened. #Nunavut #Sealift
That must've felt like a week rolled into one day! 😯
Good that it all arrived safely though 👍🙂
For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have so far. Please parse this list and suggest along these lines, if you like.
@codinghorror maybe too aggressive:
Rush - Working Man
I've had to search 'Halloween [food item]' kind of a lot in the last few weeks for various projects, and I'm very sad to report the results are like 40% AI at this point.
(Yes, I already DuckDuckWent, among others.)
Incidentally, I just placed an online supermarket delivery order via Amazon (because I need a food drop for stuff I can't carry upstairs right now) and their unit price calculations on groceries are broken, looks like a multiply instead of divide error to go from pack size to price per kg. Feels like AI-induced enshittification has hit the big boys.
@cstross I have noticed that Amazon price listings frequently get such calculations wrong even for basic non-food consumables, and they do engage in surveillance capitalist, behavioural pricing games with users.
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Es gibt Anbieter wie Google, die alle E‑Mails scannen – wer Wert auf vertrauliche Kommunikation legt, sollte sich einen anderen Anbieter suchen.
📅 DI.DAY Darmstadt | September 2026
🕚 06.09.2026 - 14:00 Uhr
➡️ https://events.diday.org/events/cfcbfe4d-9ca0-4a09-b62d-189b640ba813
🏠 Ort folgt.
DI.DAY Darmstadt | September 2026 | E‑Mail-Anbieter – Alternativen zu Gmail, GMX, etc.
Wir würden dir gerne helfen, dein digitales Leben wieder in die eigene Hand zu nehmen. Um dich dabei ein wenig zu unterstützen, möchten wir dir kurzweilige Vorträge zu wechselnden Themen und auch praktische Hilfe vor Ort anbieten.
E‑Mail-Anbieter – Alternativen zu Gmail, GMX, Outlook und Co.
Der E‑Mail-Anbieter ist eine kritische Komponente, da dort vieles wie Bestellbestätigungen, Flugbuchungen, Reisebuchungen, Bewerbungen und vieles mehr zusammenlaufen.
Es gibt Anbieter wie Google, die ein- und ausgehende E‑Mails scannen – wer Wert auf vertrauliche Kommunikation legt, sollte sich einen anderen Anbieter suchen.
Wie immer gilt: Wir werden auch ein paar Dinge für dich zum Ausprobieren da haben, aber wenn du lieber gleich mit deinen eigenen Geräten experimentieren möchtest, bring sie gerne mit!
Wir freuen uns auf dich!
am 06. September 2026, 14:15 - 17:00 Uhr
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Folgt. Wahrscheinlich wieder an der Hochschule Darmstadt.
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Wir freuen uns über Ideen und Anregungen!
While Trump is building his vanity ballroom, China is building the robot armies that will show up on future battlefields.
Priorities, ladies and gentlement. Priorities.
@randahl has anyone ever read a book?
You are given limited access to the Gearworks of Reality. You may delete one of these from human civilization.
@mttaggart assertion: all the folks not tapping "gambling" have gambling addiction and cldn't survive a day w/o a game of chance.
« Echenoz ne peut être qu'Echenoz. Claude peut être n'importe qui. »
Just free yourself.
You’ll be helping yourself and strengthening a free community.
Digital freedom and independence are so easy to achieve – in just a few steps.
Here’s one of them:
https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes/whatsapp-to-signal
Don’t be afraid of digital freedom!
#WhatsApp #Signal #SignalMessenger #DigitalIndependence #BigTech #DiDay #Resistance #DigitalResistance #OlsbergSocial
TIL the Netherlands hides massive rubbish bins underground so their streets stay clean 🤯
@TheBreadmonkey Similar things here in Finland 👍
Maybe the collapse of the computer hardware industry will trigger the resurgence of "dumb" devices. 15 years or so ago, my TV did not need RAM. Neither did my refrigerator, or microwave. Maybe, just maybe, there will be a deshittification.
@djoerd but apparently it is based on sailfish os (European, from Jolla), which makes it a quirky niche product nevertheless. Maybe it has a transfer apps via audio option?
@murb Quirky niche is fine. If my Fairphone 3 ever breaks, I my replace it by a Jolla (one with a web browser)
After three months living in Tokyo, a New Zealander has come to realize that the trick to surviving a Japanese summer isn't beating the heat — it's learning to live around it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/08/23/climate-change/tokyo-summer-climate-shock/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #tokyo #heatwaves #heatstroke #climatechange
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