@ryllviant.bsky.social

36 Followers 28 Following 34 Posts Joined Jan 2025
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I kinda feel like my cat's got a quest for me

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1 week ago

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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1 week ago

"And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace."

Tacitus, about 2000 years ago.

We've learned so little but better ways to kill our fellows and ravage the earth.

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1 week ago
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

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1 week ago
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DEF CON hackers 'fed up with government,' Jake Braun says Interview: Jake Braun thinks hackers need to create a 'Digital arsenal of democracy' to defend us all

Looks like the hackers are starting to get fed up of democracy being undermined, and are doing something about it. www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/d...

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2 weeks ago

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

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1 week ago

The only way to stop them is to make them not billionaires any more. Folly and arrogance are their only connections to the human condition.

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2 weeks ago

This might be the whitest thing I've ever said, but lavender and vanilla are a glorious combination in cakes.

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2 weeks ago

I have some concerns about the amount of taxidermy in the dining room.

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2 weeks ago

'Te futueo et caballum tuum', given who was riding in.

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3 weeks ago

How lovely that you finally feel this freedom of expression, how vile that you were denied it this long.

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1 month ago
Picture of a white fluffy chicken staring downwards into a camera, text reads "every decision in your life has led to you seeing this picture of a chicken"
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1 month ago

Fake sharkologist here and I can say with no authority that shark has just stepped on some lego

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1 month ago
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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1 month ago

Fool is the kindest term I would use to describe him. 'Obvious shill with no communal spirit' comes to mind as the next.

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1 month ago

I fear we'll all live to see the bad bit, but not the good bit.

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1 month ago

They want people to know that those people they arrest are terrified. They seek to inspire terror. There's a word for people who seek to do that, I'm sure.

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1 month ago

For phone calls I always assumed it was North American English for 'up', and British English for no 'up'. That said, I'm not native to either place, so this all might be misunderstanding.

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1 month ago

Aside from the MS part as succinctly noted previously, the bit where they tried to mimic parts of the mismatched amalgam of outlook functions and, almost miraculously, made everything about it worse.

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2 months ago

Fewer beans next time *nods*

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2 months ago

Creations like this are beyond vile, and dehumanising in the extreme. The thinking behind creating such a thing goes beyond 'we didn't think this through' to true evil.

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2 months ago
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Seven Feel-Good Science Stories to Restore Your Faith in 2025 Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025

It's been a rough year living on planet earth, but there are some things worth celebrating. www.scientificamerican.com/article/seve...

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2 months ago

It's almost like having people with the most share the most is a moral imperative.

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2 months ago

I expected most companies to jump on the AI bandwagon, but 'AI first', Firefox? I've stuck with you through thick and thin since the Netscape Navigator days in 1994, but bye-bye. Don't let the lack of ad revenue and donations hit your arse on the way out.

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2 months ago

AI content is trash, and where does trash belong? In the bin. Don't be trash or else be binned. Simple, no?

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2 months ago

My food tastes have become *less* weird as I've got older I would happily gobble up samphire with smoked eel all smeared in appelstroop (a thick kind of apple syrup) as a kid.

This was after the 1/4 jar of hot English mustard and butter sandwich phase, but before the microwaved mayonnaise one.

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3 months ago

You know what to do baby ❤️

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3 months ago

If pet rocks burned down half an acre of the Amazon forest each time you looked at them.

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3 months ago

Oh that's dreadful, but I'd be lying if I said that I hadn't seen those stereotypes in action quite regularly.

Among the most prolific and hipocrisy-ridden are:
- Aussies drink more than Brits
- We're all criminals
- shrimp on the barbie
- fosters beer is popular

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3 months ago

That'll teach me not to reply when I'm tired! I know what you mean, 23 years of living in the UK and I still get the aussie stereotype jokes.

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