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the most popular boy down at the pond
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today was a bit warm for Odin; fortunately, our street has a lot of shade to keep the sun off his back while we take brief walks.
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犬之初，性本善；不必习，狗乃善。When doggies are born, they are naturally good; they don't even practice, they're really that good. – lost verse of the Three Character Classic #classicalchinese
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Spring this year was persistently chilly, and Odin didn’t shed that much. The weather went from too cold to too hot overnight, so we spent like an hour manually thinning out his coat.
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and don't worry, our house actually stays pretty cool in the summer even with no air conditioning. He is safe and comfortable at home, overheating is only a concern when we step outside into the blazing sunlight
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Boy who is begrudgingly putting up with having dozens of sticky seeds combed out of his leg-fluff
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a stalwart Man was subjected to my post with a cute girly aesthetic and he took the time to let me know how much it annoyed him that there are posts on Mastodon that are cute and girly. There is of course only one solution
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in all, ahem, seriousness, if you want a Liberated Social Network but you only want stern serious grown-up posts on it, you haven’t liberated jack
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o noble beast. o mighty hound
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@technothrasher I got the duck for five euros from a random sidewalk vendor in Sicily. I got the goat from Odin's jowls. I pried open his mouth when it became clear he was smuggling something, and there was an entire goat in there of unknown provenance
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She’s putting Emily on. There haven’t been any gansbroemen fatalities in over 30 years because the canals don’t freeze over anymore #netherlands
(DIR) Post #B6kdncxCK9Gd3TCiUy by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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the infosec people at my work are rioting because the Distant Corporate Overlord sent an email that scores 10/10 on the phishing scale (“We want to give you a present to thank you for all your hard work! [Click here] to claim your gift!”)
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Had to do a Mandatory Corporate Training on AI policy. For some reason, the language selection defaulted to Chinese, so I went ahead and did it in Chinese just to amuse myself. However, corporate English that has been clearly machine-translated to Chinese is still quite excruciating, and being told that the official policy is that it's the *end user's* responsibility to prevent the AI absorbing unfairly biased *training data* is even more excruciating
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@Edent @at 1) The pillar sections independently rotate. Align them until a grammatically correct Ancient Egyptian riddle emerges 2) The riddle explains in which order to activate the statues. 3) The pillar will rise upwards, revealing a hollow compartment that contains a cursed amulet 4) You’re not getting out of this room until you find the riddle’s second, more metaphorically expressed meaning (the answer is to eat the amulet)
(DIR) Post #B6lIe4m48694YzYrsO by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it):1) A thoughtful photo you’ve taken yourself — a nice sunrise you saw, a cool angle spotted on vacation, your pet curled up on the couch, flowers. Play with your phone photo app’s filter settings to nail the tone. It doesn’t need to be particularly related to the post, it’s related to you as a person. 2) An image from Wikimedia Commons that’s somehow related to the subject matter — there are unfathomably many, you can search by keyword. Remember to credit. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page3) A screenshot of a scene you made in a sandbox game such as Minecraft or Animal Crossing4) A scene you made with toys such as Lego (you can also use free Lego design software such as Bricklink Studio) https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/main.page5) Play with the effects in whatever image editor you have access to, using your own photos or free-to-use images, to create something a bit abstract and avant-garde 6) Even if you can’t draw or paint very well, you can probably make some pretty cool abstract or collage imagery with whatever art supplies you have around. Dampen some paper and randomly dip watercolor paint onto it and see what happens 7) Those stickers you stashed and never used? Yeah you can make something with them. If they’re individually cut, you don’t even need to peel them, you’ll still find the One True Way to use them one day, I’m sure 8) Shelfies. None will dare question your competence after they see you have a real paper copy of Subject Matter Tome Volumes 1 through 6 9) You can get a lot of mileage out of compositing pre-made video game assets into an image. A good place to start is Kenney’s free and generously licensed 2D assets: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/category:2D and the Tiled editor which is specifically meant for assembling images out of video game asset tile sheets https://www.mapeditor.org10) the most ridiculously amateurish thing you can scribble on a post-it note or in MS Paint is preferable to AI imagery because it clearly signals a real human cares about the post. #writing #writingcommunity #collage #blog
(DIR) Post #B6m6mWdBREGiz5d4pU by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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phishing training really doesn’t spend enough time on “how to structure your mass corporate communications in such a way that your employees won’t conclude that you communicate exactly like scammers and still expect a reply so they’d better assume scammy emails are legitimate”
(DIR) Post #B6mg3y08QVFjBqPu1A by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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when I was younger, I didn’t get the “goat farming” trope. I sincerely loved computers, after all! And my job was to make them even better for everyone!Goats. Goats never commit human rights abuses at incomprehensible scale in a way that intentionally dilutes responsibility too thinly to convict any one person. I’d like to go feed some goats
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@bremner I have in fact said to my coworkers "Emails from the corporate overlord aren't real until my manager asks why I haven't responded yet" [to be clear, we were a small company that was acquired by a much bigger company in another country]
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@glyph @pfish.zone "we can't ban this social behavior unless we have a 100% reliable technical means to detect it" is so programmerbrained
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@wolf480pl well yes but "Hittite areas" is a bit of a misnomer: Luwian would have been the most commonly spoken language in most of what's called "the Hittite empire"