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Am I bad for feeling a bit giddy about all the massive centralized services being down and causing disruption? This is exactly why we should cure tech people of their cloud fixation. It's easy until it all dies. downdetector.com/

i have never, ever wanted tips from a piece of software. please. if you think your UI is too complicated to figure out without tips then you should unfuck it before you ship it.

I'm going to pretend it's the full moon keeping me restless instead of the ectra energy drink I took to get through work today 😎👉👉

Unfortunate that digital "screaming into the void" is less cathartic and exhausting than doing so in meatspace.

I use the rotisserie chicken method of sleeping where I can never get comfortable. I should attach a lil dynamo so I can charge my phone or something off this. I'd be the machines favorite battery if I was in The Matrix.

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If I were a cave dwelller I'd be hunting in the night while the creatures are off guard. Probs only on clear nights.

New rule:

For every 10 developers you hire, you have to hire 1 developer whose sole job is to remove code. Every single PR they create must be net-negative in terms of lines of code.

Sorry I don't make the rules, all must comply.

Buhhhh I love bespoke decentralized databases and the tradeoffs in creating themmmmm 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

My fave tech term has got to be "footgun" for describing tools or approaches that are equivalent to "shooting yourself in the foot"

Advertising should be banned.

Advertising is an industry whose goal is to manipulate people at a massive scale into spending money on or believing things.
Advertising pollutes our physical and digital landscape visually and serves as an inconvenience.

Food 

Hungy but if I eat this late I might get heartburn. Present me will suffer so we can avoid a near future me who will suffer harder. 😵 Morning me better get its snack on ASAP

AI 

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-he

Gardening turns gift-giving into less of a display of generosity and more of a necessity. It's less "I have graciously decided to let you partake in the fruits of my garden" and more like "I am begging you on my hands and knees to take as many apples as you can, bring a bucket. Bring two buckets."

14. Since I'm into alternative input devices, I might get one of these smart rings for their gesture support. Also the sensors are supported on gadgetbridge so it could be a nice alternative to wearing an entire watch.

colmi.info/products/colmi-r12-

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AI, hell, 3/3 

Consensus reality is up for grabs, and everything that can be manufactured, will be manufactured.
And this will only serve those who already have power.

And with models trained on the materials of this racist, sexist, classist etc. civilization, there are certain people this is way easier to leaverage against.

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food 

See, if I add some parsley and beef to mu instant noodles it makes it a real breakfast!

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