John Romkey

Do I post here or there? Or both? Or do I just stick my head under a cat and move along, nothing to see here?

An illustration of a bearded "hacker" wearing a hoodie with three hands, with a small bucket labelled "S3", a railing labelled "RAILS" and an amulet that says "ESP32", sitting in front of a notebook computer. Nearby is an android representing ChatGPT saying "That sucks."

replying to ChatGPT: "but I have a beard you silly goat"

AI-generated image of a man holding his head in his hand saying "I feel like I'm talking to a brick wall" and an android labelled "ChatGPT" saying "Sure thing."

Inspired by a friend at @pdxhackerspace.org

to ChatGPT: "generate an image of what it feels like chatting with me on any given day. Be as vulnerable, honest, brutal as you can be. thank you"

Welcome to April 1, the day when you shouldn't believe everything other people say, whether it's online or not. Just like every other day.

Same here! I’m really happy to see someone talking about it.

Screenshot of Amex listing for "The White Lotus Thailand Experience" deluxe vacation package

In lighter news, Amex is offering a "White Lotus Experience" at a Four Seasons in Thailand. Has anyone at Amex ever watched the show? Will people pay thousands of dollars to get their life upended, relationships shattered and maybe get murdered? Maybe if Jennifer Coolidge shows up and derps around?

Thank you! I am delighted to see you here too!

😂

Completely out from using any Meta sites. They're monetizing the suffering of their own user base in order to better align with fascists. I'll be here and at mstdn.social/@romkey

For now please enjoy this screen cap of a gnome fucking a pig from an Instagram ad.

I really enjoyed the series. Thank you for it!

Cargo shorts are clearly the only way to protect it.

“Fix Your Hearts or Die”: David Lynch’s Work Has Always Been Deeply, Powerfully Queer The filmmaker was so much more than just an influence on his legion of LGBTQ+ fans.

"Fix your hearts or die"

Rest in peace, David Lynch. We will miss you.

www.them.us/story/david-...

This is the content I’m here for!

Many are feeling grief, fear, worry, anger right now and well-meaning folks may say not to worry, everything will be okay.

I know this comes from a place of love and concern but try to give them space to feel their feelings instead of negating or invalidating them. Let them process their feelings.

Harris/Walz. Not just because Trump is a menace to democracy, civility and the rule of law. Not just because 4 more years of Maya Rudolph playing Harris on SNL. Because I think they're well suited to help us through the next 4 years and will do a good job in a difficult time.

#makeitso

After hack, 23andMe gives users 30 days to opt out of class-action waiver Anyone who fails to opt out "will be deemed to have agreed to the new terms."

23andMe is really going for "set the sleaze factor to 10"... after recent hacks on customer data they're rewriting their arbitration policy in very anti-customer way.

I encourage customers to both opt out and let customer service know how terrible the new policy is.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Suing people who stopped doing business with you because you supported nazis, racism and antisemitism doesn't seem like a good business plan.

Screencap of a headline that says: "Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart': Jeff Bezos leaving Amazon's hometown f..." photo of Jeff Bezos keywords "Jeff Bezos" "Miami" credit: Geekwire

I can't be the only person who might have wished this headline ended with "for space"

(spoilers right below it, it's actually "for Miami" as Bezos becomes Florida Man)

Imagine having your annual revenue for a single product category being off by 5 *billion* dollars and that still represents only 2.5% of the total for that category.
#notdoctorevil

I'm not sure who needs to see their video doorbell through their thermostat but if you think you do apparently EcoBee is there for you.

Raspberry Pi 5 looks very nice. If you're getting one, get the official power adapter. It uses a non-standard USB C power mode, 5V@5A; most power adapters won't work with it.

Wish they'd used a simple barrel jack connector rather than a proprietary USB C mode that will lead to a lot of confusion.

I'm really hoping this comics anthology makes its funding goal... I'd love to read it and hope that the creators get the support they need.

"We Belong" - An All-Black, All-Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Comics Anthology

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And I’m pretty sure that if we handed you billions of dollars, you wouldn’t use them to fuck up the bird site.

Every time I see someone write "package" when they mean "packet" an old man inside my brain shakes a piece of coax ethernet cable at the sky and yells.

Reddit must be jealous of Twitter hogging the attention again.

Now they're doing away with awards and coins (which I don't care about) but apparently won't be refunding people who spent money on coins.

This is going to go well.

https://bit.ly/reddit-f-u

If only there were something that worked for everyone!

It's an unfortunately classic result for most people with weight loss when they stop doing the thing. It seems to be really tough to just maintain... all zoom this way or zoom that way or just "why isn't anything happening?".

Email’s been broken all day and I kinda like it!