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@mattblaze This could really be fixed on the client/webui side by refusing to send a "DM" with any @'s not at the beginning of it, or putting up a warning prompt listing who the recipients are before sending. There's no excuse for Mastodon leaving it so utterly counterintuitive and dangerous as […]

Don't worry, I won't publicly embarrass the person who sent the DM that mentioned me.

I'll just remember who sent it.

Semi-periodic reminder that the DM feature here is utterly broken and should not be regarded as "private" in any meaningful sense. And its semantics seem designed to violate the principle of least surprise.

Example: ANYONE mentioned in a message, not just tagged at the start, is a recipient. So […]

Has anyone else noticed that YouTube has hidden the "skip to next video" button in a bunch of contexts? (in the mini player on desktop, in the big player for the first 30 seconds of the video?)

I'm so sick of updates to UI that clearly aren't about the user and instead are trying to get the […]

@viq @futurebird This might mean forfeiting other assets of the estate, but the smart thing to do in that situation would be to clearly transfer other assets before death (directly or via a trust if needed) so that creditors can't get their hands on them.

@viq @futurebird That's not how existing law works. If there's a lien on property you're inheriting then you're going to have to satisfy the outstanding loan amount to inherit cleanly, but you can just reject/refuse the inheritance or let the lender fight with the estate.

@futurebird How does a 50 year mortgage make any sense at all?

Generally a mortgage is offered with presumption of continued employment at or above current wages as the evidence that recovery of the loan is likely.

Unless they're going to be offering 15-year-olds mortgages, *retirement* comes […]

50 year mortgage
50 year mortgage
we want the 50 year 50 year mortgage

in a 30 year mortgage one often pays the price of the home more than twice over. This is not enough interest. MOAR

@leahstokes.bsky.social This is like, if a century or so ago, we were asking "Why are we giving 5-year-olds books in classrooms?"

Yes it's extremely problematic that these are devices with Google backdoors in them and that Google is harvesting behavioral data and holds captive everything stored […]

Two years ago, I wrote at very great length about how this played out in Myanmar. It is so upsetting to see how many of the same dynamics are at work here now.

https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it?

https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/

It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely […]

About two dozen dark gray bars of clay lined up in rows, sitting on a wooden table in what seems to be an institutional setting (school lab).

A small, orange-brown, fired rectangle of clay being held by a three-point bend test machine. It's metal with two control panels attached to wires.

Two graduated cylinders. One filled with dry, pulverized gray clay and the other filled with black pulverized burned sea sponge (sponge spicules).

A poster summarizing students' research results titled "Evaluating the Performance Characteristics of Spiculate-Tempered Pottery." There are four blue squares, one in each corner, filled with text with the headings: Introduction, Methods, Materials, Discussion. The rest of the poster is filled photos of test materials, microscopic images, graphs and tables. If you're really interested in the entire contents of this image, message me and I will send you a pdf with readable text.

Last year, I sent some #clay that I collected to the University of West Georgia Archaeology Dept and they just sent me the results of their experiment. They tested how the addition of sponge spicules (or fired sea sponge) affects the strength of the fired […]

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A macro-lens photo of a directionally lit purple-colored plastic gear sitting on and parallel to a turquoise-colored surface. Centered on top of the gear is a metal thrust bearing with a metal shaft through the center, and another metal part is partly visible below the gear. The teeth of the gear are slightly concave.

Got a new clip-on lens set that came with a better macro lens than I had before, and took this pic of a printed worm wheel gear that's been in operation for the past ~6 months. #3dprinting

"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by […]

Wanna watch something horribly boring with me in it? You get another chance tomorrow! The 59th IANA KSK (key signing key) ceremony is tomorrow, and it will hopefully be the least eventful yet. I say that because I will be the ceremony administrator, and the fewer events (we call them […]

screenshot: We're expecting your parcel soon! The parcel you have chosen has not been assigned to your account yet. Please provide the parcel number and add the parcel to your account. (the parcel number is literally right there in the url)

love how this package tracker website pretends that the tracking number isn't literally already in the URL so that it can pretend I need to register an account to get someone's metrics up

This explains a lot of the weird things I've seen in online ads. Such as receiving repeated ads for things I've already bought (and Google's algorithm most likely knows I have) or receiving ads for things I'm pretty sure the algorithm knows I'm not interested in, but I'm in the target […]

🇪🇺🚨 Tomorrow, EU gov's could approve #ChatControl 2.0 through the back door, unleashing mass surveillance to scan ALL your private messages & photos. 🤫 Your privacy is on the line.
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CI/CD means "crashes immediately, can't debug"

Is there a reason passive heating via geothermal heatpipes isn't feasible? Depth required too great? Unlike ground source heatpump, no external energy input should be needed. You get gravity return for free.

stop using our ATM operating system for gaming, you fucking idiots.

Mathematics is a language. But innumeracy is also a language and our president is fluent.

It's not just that he exaggerates, lies, and says things that make no sense when talking about numbers "often" no this is something deeper.

He is deeply committed to *never* speaking about any statistic […]

@waldo.net But that's the whole joy of persimmons.

“we decided to experiment with code generated by confabulation machines” – a sentence you don't want to hear from the authors of your password manager suite.

@oschene Are there no mime alternatives? I get email (both spam and legitimate stuff like login confirmations) with junk in the text/plain and content only in the text/html alternative. Senders apparently assume default preference order opposite of mine..

@pikesley Funny thing is it's entirely reciprocal. They're unable to take anything an actual expert says seriously because surely their bullshit extruder knows better. So it's only right to treat them the same.

"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously

PSA: Stripe is introducing some sort of awful automated "AI-powered Smart Disputes" that will be automatically enabled for your payee account if you don't act. It can be disabled at https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/disputes

Hm, has anyone made a tool (command line would be perfect) to iterate your entire pre-4.5 toot history and enable quotability for everything?

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/109355822005012040

And proper quote posting is live on Hachyderm!