Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Sometimes I think about how bees just know to collect pollen and build hives while we need instructions to even make bread. But then I remember, bees never built a Furby, did they?

It sucks there's not swappable face plates for major kitchen appliances and stuff.

My stove, fridge, and dishwasher (all hand me downs) are all different colors. I'd be willing to pay to get them to match too, but replacing any one of them is basically $1000 for a good one $500 for a super cheap one maybe actually worse than what I have

one of the least well hidden rituals in the death cult known as capitalism is the deliberate spoiling and discarding of useable food

stole this from @eevee on twitter

i use distributed systems because i kept getting frustrated with the guardians of stributed systems.

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There should be a reverse Indiana Jones film where a South American tribe sneaks into the Vatican, steals some relics, and gets away on a boat while a bunch of men in golden robes shake their fists and shout their strange language.

PSA: Google has now begun to roll-out the Ad Topics "feature" onto Android itself. It's not just in Chrome you have to disable the settings. Please #Boost to spread awareness.

If you didn't get the pop-up screen on your Android device (it looks like the first two screenshots), to opt-out of these settings:

Go to your device Settings
Press "Google"
Press "Ads"While you're here, press the "Delete Advertising ID" button and delete it
Press "Ad Privacy"
Review: "Ad Topics", "App-suggested ads", and "App Measurement". Make sure all are labelled as "OFF". (This page will look like the third screenshot)

If you don't see "Ad Privacy" in Step 4 then it means that it hasn't been rolled out to you yet. You might need to wait and check back in a couple of days to see if/when it has been implemented to disable these settings.

EDIT: There's another setting to review. In step 2, scroll to "Personalize using shared data". Turn everything off.

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#Android #Google #Privacy #AdTopics

Years of depression and ADHD has resulted in massive amount of clutter in *every* room of my house.

In the process of decluttering, I "create" empty space areas to move items into while I organize/sort/get rid of those items. A sort of swap space if you will.

The swap spaces change all over the house as I move things in and out of them, slowly getting more and more organized and things under control.

I realised today I'm literally defragging my house lol.

> whooops, we leaked 38TB of data.

> my bad - 34 years of social security numbers and passports leaked

> what do you mean the national postal service can't rent access to lists of citizen's information?

real reactions from database administrators. they have played us for absolute fools