Posts by maz@mastodon.online
(DIR) Post #ATF1Qzi05Q8XrXrZcu by maz@mastodon.online
2023-03-03T14:30:19Z
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@john Which is the idea behind having an _Always On_ group in my #homeassistant setup. It coincidentally ensures I only need one well aimed shot to hit all available feet.
(DIR) Post #AUVPr1QgCYhydkdXTk by maz@mastodon.online
2023-04-10T10:00:39Z
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@EU_Commission Would that include a #rightToHack? Because aside from broken displays broken software and end of vendor support typically mark the end of usability. And not everybody seems to be on board with the #RightToRepair broken software when it comes to unlocking, publishing instructions, liberating cloud bound hardware and so on. The proposal reads already like those organisations have already succeeded in watering down the idea.
(DIR) Post #AXcTRyJrqDqj2UrcoK by maz@mastodon.online
2023-07-12T13:30:44Z
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@john Imaginary ones? To be discovered by the next generations of palaeontologists/workers and named after today's generation because it would be inconceivable to not do so? Or the corresponding antisaurs?
(DIR) Post #AXt3L18YbarKjFY6sK by maz@mastodon.online
2023-07-20T13:28:27Z
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@john Economy class is just billable ballast is one hypothesis https://youtu.be/BzB5xtGGsTc
(DIR) Post #AhMwHkUnUC1LPGLtsO by maz@mastodon.online
2024-04-29T04:19:44Z
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@futurebird I would also like to hear from people that had to deal with letters to the editor and secretaries and other assistants that "managed multi media" pre internet. I remember quite clearly at least one magazine that featured hate mail regularly. Media Pros and Celebrities are continuing to engage trolls but obviously ignorant that they are no longer controlling the kill switch.
(DIR) Post #AjeDKIkB3AsnyL8j68 by maz@mastodon.online
2024-07-06T08:04:36Z
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@aral #CommonSense, #VoiceOfReason have been voided of meaning in a similar manner, being all time favourites in the conflict management phrasebook to silence dissent top down: "Y'all *just* have to calm down!"
(DIR) Post #AkejqtCDIelXFxbD1c by maz@mastodon.online
2024-08-05T12:01:28Z
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@john In de.: "Haha, stoopid Americans! (hot mc donalds coffee, microwaving pets, blabla, political correctness, bla)"Usually it turns out we are instead 5-10 years behind, as someone has to figure out how to put a german spin on it.Sadly this is not the case with regard to violent racist mobs.
(DIR) Post #AwIfORpkSWJiztDalc by maz@mastodon.online
2025-07-19T18:53:09Z
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@futurebird Ordinary millionaires thinking of themselves as fantastically rich are a bit pathetic. In Lawrence of Arabia Peter O'Toole is singing this 1891 smash hit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Broke_the_Bank_at_Monte_Carlo_(song). Wikipedia also says that Andrew Carnegie gave away 350M$, 90% of his fortune, to charities in the last 18years before his death in 1919. Todays top billionaires are estimated in hundreds of G$. In that league any upstart millionaire is probably just another upper middle class twit of the year.