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Rob T Firefly

@ rob_t_firefly @lemmy.world

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  • AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day

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  • Fitting that it's ending in (eternal) September.

  • Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

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  • Robert who?

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  • Scientists have since figured out that furthest possible point from "Robert" on the matrix of human names is "Genevieve Bujold.".

  • A note from the mod on AI-generated comics

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  • What's easy for one person may be hard for another, and vice versa. Folks can find whichever they're good at and share it.

  • AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot

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  • I assume you hired that person for being clever.

  • A note from the mod on AI-generated comics

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  • You don't even need the stick figures if you're especially clever about it.

    There are lots of ways out there to be creative without generating slop.

  • A note from the mod on AI-generated comics

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  • Awesome! Thanks for this decision.

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  • In 2024 Texas' general results in the Presidential election were:

    • Donald Trump - 6,393,597 - 56.2%
    • Kamala Harris - 4,835,250 - 42.5%

    Kerr County, the place this article is about, swung proportionally harder:

    • Donald Trump - 21,615 - 76.8%
    • Kamala Harris - 6,315 - 22.4%

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  • Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?

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  • Right now I'm really hooked on Lucky Tower Ultimate. I've never been this into anything like it before, roguelites mostly bore me, but this game has such a goofy charm and - for an Early Access game - surprisingly deep explorability. It's my go-to game for picking up my Steam Deck and screwing around for 20 minutes or an hour. I'm still having a ton of fun with it.

  • Is she into you? 🤔

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  • “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.”

    Groucho Marx

  • Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free

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  • Add some massive unregulated grifting and hideous environmental consequences to your idea, and you've just invented Bitcoin.

  • What's the worst food you've ever eaten?

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  • I grew up hating a lot of vegetables because my grandfather - who I'm sure meant well - used to boil the life out of them. Green beans or broccoli would be soft, mushy, and greyish (while the water became green), and taste like unseasoned sadness.

    One day when I was in grade school in the year nineteen eighty-bad, the cafeteria served hot dogs which had gone greyish and we were all told it was fine. They smelled awful and made a bunch of kids sick.

  • What's the worst food you've ever eaten?

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  • The question is about the worst food you've ever eaten. Are you Steve?

  • Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal

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  • Or the terrifyingly-random bullshit that happens when someone chooses to depend on a free service such as Hotmail as their primary mission-critical address. (This article is about the developer getting locked out of their Hotmail, and the generally-broken state of Hotmail's account recovery process.)

  • Joe Rogan's friends followed him to Texas. They all seem to hate it.

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  • He has friends?

  • The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users.

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  • The full post by linked source Taylor Lorenz about this appears here on her Patreon (openly readable, not locked as of now).

    She still writes on Substack, though, which ultimately works in support of This Sort of Thing.

  • The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users.

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  • Lemmy's federated structure makes it easy to block the instances which don't moderate the nazis or tankies or anything else away to your satisfaction, while Substack is a centralized platform which has chosen to not only allow, but actively encourage and reward its nazis.

    So, any such problem on Lemmy is "better" because we can all (as individual users, and/or collectively as instances) deal with it as we like instead of bowing to Substack's decision to be a nazi bar for all its users.

  • The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users.

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  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • The linked story has been updated. The headline now reads:

    Labour rules out VPN ban in UK but issues warning to UK households

    Labour won't ban the use of Virtual Private Networks

    And the story begins:

    Labour has ruled out a possible VPN ban after reports thousands of UK households were at risk following the Online Safety Act kicking in under the government. Labour Party Tech Secretary Peter Kyle has revealed that the Government is "not considering a VPN ban" - after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.