I just read about "resistentialism" and it's clearly true.

Noun: "The belief that some inanimate objects exhibit malice toward humans."

Printers. Enough said.

Wow! I just found out that FTTH has reached our house! I can get rid of those two old FTTC connections and switch to a provider that will also give me a /48 IPv6 subnet natively!

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Vacation agrees with me!

Zwei Drittel der Entwickler sehen wenig Nutzen in KI, während ihre Manager optimistischer sind. Eine Atlassian-Studie zeigt: Nur 32% der Entwickler fühlen sich durch KI-Tools etwas produktiver, aber 100% der Manager glauben an einen Produktivitätsanstieg.
#KI #Softwareentwicklung #Atlassian
https://www.heise.de/news/Entwickler-sind-von-KI-nicht-begeistert-ihre-Manager-schon-9808503.html

Google claims math breakthrough with proof-solving AI models | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/google-ai-earns-silver-medal-equivalent-at-international-mathematical-olympiad/

JD Vance called for ‘federal response’ to block women from traveling for abortions

VP nominee pushed baseless warning in 2022 that George Soros would pack planes of Black women to get abortions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/jd-vance-abortion-ban-travel

This year's opening ceremony was inSeine.

Aight fellow #ScreenReader users... I'm trying to load a ringtone onto my #iPhone using #iTunes on a #Windows machine. My primary screen reader is #JAWS. So far, I am unable to load the .m4r file into the tones section of the program while my iPhone is connected. What gives? Any input greatly appreciated. #blind #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind

Oh nein, der CSD Pirna befindet sich in einer existenziellen Notlage!

"Der CSD Pirna e.V. steht vor erheblichen finanziellen Herausforderungen, die unsere Existenz bedrohen. Durch unvorhergesehene Mehrkosten beim diesjährigen Christopher Street Day sind wir in eine finanzielle Schieflage geraten, die uns ohne Eure Hilfe zur Vereinsinsolvenz zwingen könnte."

https://www.gofundme.com/f/csdpirna2024

Haben hier Menschen vielleicht Kontakte zu Hape Kerkeling, Carolin Kebekus oder Bettina Böttinger, die sich ja sehr stark für den CSD in Pirna engagiert hatten?
Ich denke, der Verein könnte jetzt noch einmal deren Bekanntheit und Engagement brauchen!

Hintergrund:
https://dresden.network/@fasnix/112777506195446520

#CSD #Pirna #CSDpirna #GoFundMe #Köln #Berlin #HapeKerkeling #CarolinKebekus #BettinaBöttinger

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Oh Lordy!! Hangover brain failed!! 🤷🏼‍♀️😕😢

Manually managing the domains you block is absolutely no substitute for actually good moderation tools, where #Mastodon has a lot of work to do.

But in the meantime, if your instance doesn't have a good blocklist, you can upload this CSV to your "Domain blocking list" at example.social/settings/imports to block some of the worst instances:

https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists/mastodon/_unified_tier0_blocklist.csv

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Ich fürchte, die meisten haben den Ernst der Lage immer noch nicht kapiert.

Wir haben einen Rechtsruck. Die Bundesregierung versagt völlig. Die Klimakatastrophe wird ungebremst kommen.

Now to start changing all my email address ... Melissa.sbs@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxxx ... And with SBS on-demand it's easier to delete your account... Unless you got stuff there ... Otherwise you have to send in an inquiry

Hugz & xXx

I don't have enough years left in my life to regrow my respect for #Israel.

#SPD-Außenpolitiker rügen #CDU
»Gegenüber #Trump fast devot«
Gemeinsamkeiten suchen oder knallhart bleiben? Der amerikanische Wahlkampf nimmt Fahrt auf – und deutsche Politiker streiten darüber, wie man mit einem möglichen Präsidenten Trump umgehen sollte.

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/donald-trump-spd-aussenpolitiker-ralf-stegner-und-axel-schaefer-ruegen-cdu-gegenueber-trump-fast-devot-a-91a7d201-e943-419b-ac3e-a413cc96da74

Ihr wollt, dass ich auf eure Websites komme? Dann schraubt die Werbung zurück und nervt nicht mit aufgeblasenen Cookiedialogen.

Meinen AdBlocker werde ich nicht abschalten. Nicht, solange das werbeverseuchte Netz so weiter macht oder vermutlich noch schlimmer wird.

#cookie #werbung #adblock

How pinchpenny can you be?

I mean: If you have to advertise "free mobile charging" to your customers, what might be the benefits for your staff? Free tap water?

Seen at #Karstadt, #Germany

Interval in the world-class performance of Handel's 'Israel in Egypt' opening the Haapsalu Early Music Festival, Stephen Layton conducting a combination of Baltic and Dutch musicians. Quite a location, as you can see, a rather too well kept secret on Estonians' part. You can hear it any time on Estonian Classic Radio. Music starts at 10m14s: https://klassikaraadio.err.ee/1609394980/kontserdisaalis-haapsalu-vanamuusikafestivali-avakontsert

Trump told MAGA supporters on Friday evening they will only have to vote in the 2024 election — and won’t ever have to do so again.

Why won't this be on every front page and news show tomorrow?

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2668822314/

How do we know that Lina Khan has done an excellent job as FTC chair?

Because billionaires and business leaders want her gone.

She's been an avid anti-trust enforcer and defender of working people.

She's also been an oligarch's worst nightmare.

#Mastodon4Harris Friday night update - we are almost three quarters of the way to $500,000.

Funds raised as of this post: $349,242.24
# of contributions: 4185
# of recurring contributions: 213

Contributions range from $1 to significantly more. Every one is important. Special thanks to those boosting and spreading the word of this fundraiser. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

💬 Ihre Meinung macht den Unterschied – Wie können wir unsere wissenschaftlichen #Publikationen und Ressourcen verbessern? Machen Sie mit unter https://t1p.de/mfwqt #Umfrage

In solidarity with #jasper, one of the 3 #fossilFuel power plants in my city is also on fire.

#PennedPossibilities 388 — Olympics Edition: Are your characters able to play any sports?

Jonah, Blythe, and Colette are pretty athletic, but more in the running/swimming every day way, not in the team sports kind of way. Blythe was on the track team in high school. All of them have careers that interfere too much. Laura, Jonah and Blythe's daughter, played soccer and was quite good at it.

A lot of #AGI denialism roots in having missed the boat.

People didn't manage to pivot their careers, or contribute meaningfully to the current trend in technology which aims to build AGIs and ASIs.

So, they will rationalize having missed the boat by hallucinating some walls coming up like a Deus Ex Machina to stop the progress, and then a next trend comes in the form of wherever they are situated.

Perhaps traditional old-fashioned #ML which "has smaller power requirements", or the world gives up with #AI and gets back to traditional software development with Java.

You can also see a lot of this #denialism by #VCs who missed the boat and are desperately clutching their Excel sheets trying to prove that the current cycle in AGI development cannot produce enough revenue to justify the investment.

They are implicitly hallucinating a wall which somehow prevents this technology from transforming our whole economic system.

So that they can take the next boat, which they pray for.

#WordWeavers Do your MC's dreams change during the story?

Ian's dreams have been the same sort of apocalyptic nightmarish shit since he was in his teens. The only difference is communal living in safehouses means that someone else knows about them now.

Found 6 new servers and 2 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,396 servers checked. 14,114,616 Total Users with 1,027,270 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

mi.moris.day a #misskey server from Private
mi.yyya-nico.co a #misskey server from Japan
mi.tomadoi.com a #misskey server from Japan
gs.umearbo.net a #gotosocial server from Private
akko.cuddleslut.fr a #akkoma server from Finland
mastodon.noahduffy.me a #mastodon server from France

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

Just think about 10 - 15 years ago if someone wrote what might happen, that has happened in the world we would all laugh at them

Wonder what the next 10 to 15 years will be like ... What will happen ... Stay tuned

Hugz & xXx

“On a good day I catch a glimpse of myself, a reason to grin. My smile feels like a blessing, permission to enjoy my existence and embrace the coming day.” Isolde

(Accessibility: Picture of Isolde smiling. Text: “On a good day I catch a glimpse of myself, a reason to grin. My smile feels like a blessing, permission to enjoy my existence and embrace the coming day.” Isolde)

#Trans #Transgender #SelfCare #Positivity #Success #LGBT #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

Schaut doch mal vorbei!

Montag 29. Juli

17-19 Uhr

Eröffnungsfest Weißenburger Staße

Testphase Fußgängerzone

Frei Eis solange der Vorrat reicht

#VCD #München #Haidhausen #Verkehrswende

https://www.europesays.com/1364088/ Wounded Ukrainian soldiers undergoing rehabilitation at the JGSDF Central Hospital enjoyed their first Japanese festival. #Ukraine

CEO of X Corp and ex-communicated father, Elon Musk took a brief pause from his daily transphobic tweets to plead with users of his website to stop calling it ‘Twitter’ and start referring to it as ‘X’.

https://chaser.com.au/general-news/stop-calling-it-twitter-says-guy-who-deadnames-his-own-child/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #deadnaming

Estampie: what they put on letters in Quebec.

Resting the climbing boots before attempting the great summits of Belfast.

Parametrix did some number crunching and estimates the Fortune 500 took a collective $5.4 billion (USD) hit thanks to CrowdStrike’s apocalyptic Falcon update and the combined failures of CS & impacted F500 orgs to design & run actual resilient IT infrastructure.

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64b69422439318309c9f1e44/66a24d5478783782964c1f6f_CrowdStrikes%20Impact%20on%20the%20Fortune%20500_%202024%20_Parametrix%20Analysis.pdf [report PDF]

https://www.parametrixinsurance.com/in-the-news/crowdstrike-to-cost-fortune-500-5-4-billion (PR)

Sorry, the opening ceremony was boring ... And that was the highlights ... I did see the Australian

Hugz & xXx