Catoblepas

@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi, Jeffrey!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  PSA, 2 security vendors on VirusTotal flag this site as phishing and 1 as suspicious. It might literally just be because it’s a Gmail clone and nothing else, but I don’t know enough to evaluate it further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Dickheads!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My baby gay ass reading this at 10: 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grampa when NYC elects a socialist mayor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so incredibly funny in light of how the ADL launched a “Mamdani Monitor” project immediately after he was elected

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Takei (TOS), Rebecca Romijn (SNW), Tig Notaro (DIS, SA) and Karim Diané (SA)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re already putting up stadium seating for the parade along the roads in Pasadena, it’s pretty wild. Dunno if I want to battle the winter weather, I’ve lived in LA 12+ years and never done the Rose Parade, but the Trek stars make it tempting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hat on top of a hat technology. The underlying problems with LLMs remain unchanged, and “agentic AI” is basically a marketing term to make people think those problems are solved. I realize you probably know this, I’m just kvetching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did yours also get fucked up in the microwave but still used for food anyway? That thing’s gotta be at least 50% of the microplastics in my brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One grandma had 4 and the other had 7. My parents kept a chaotic mix of whatever was on sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, sorry if my earlier reply was too flippant. It’s just very frustrating to see people (not you specifically, but others in the thread) defending it as not classist at all, or classism that’s okay because it’s aimed at shitty people. I think a lot of the comments I see on the fediverse aren’t doing it intentionally, but seem to have the mentality that people who are living or have lived in poverty aren’t also here and participating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s ignore that low income people are more likely to vote for Democrats, or the underlying classism inherent in using the size and value of someone’s home when it comes to determining if their arguments are worth listening to. Somewhere there’s a guy like that, so let’s just make him the symbol of all of them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But being poor is how you know they’re wrong! 😑

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox expands fingerprint protections: advancing towards a more private web | The Mozilla Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I haven’t jumped ship despite not being a fan of the AI browser integration. From what I’ve seen Mozilla seems to be the most concerned about preventing fingerprinting, which is the most worrying form of tracking to me. I’m glad to see they’re continuing to try to improve anti-fingerprinting capabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Fisher is at risk of head crabs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘California Academy of Sciences’ sounds like a professional organization, but it’s actually a museum open to the public. I went over a decade ago but it’s one of the coolest museums I’ve ever been to. They have an indoor, 4 story rainforest greenhouse dome thing filled with plants, free flying birds, and a bunch of other animals. They’ve also got a nice planetarium and natural history exhibits. Their green roof was great when we saw it, it’s just my ideal fantasy solar punk building.

  TL;DR: Lots of pics here. Go to the California Academy of Sciences if you’re ever in San Francisco, because it’s at the Golden Gate Park and you’re probably going to want to go there anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plastics made from petroleum aren’t the same thing as heated up vegetable oil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a problem that’s going to be after next quarter!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The purpose of punctuation is to make communication clearer. But over-adherence to prescriptivism inhibits communication. IDIC includes people who don’t punctuate worth a damn 🖖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep opening your mouth and proving you’re the worst story teller to have anything to do with Trek, Ricky. I’m including whoever wrote the Spock’s Brain episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Piefed has scheduled posts. I haven’t used it because I have no reason to, but the functionality is there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday update from the Prime Radiant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, Hari Seldon, very cool 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only other thing I’ve found that helped was under Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> Reduce Transparency, the nausea-inducing design decisions really are baffling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t tried yet, for your iPad try going Settings -> Accessibility-> Motion, and enable Reduce Motion and Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions. Both helped me, because I hated the blur effects too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you don’t understand! If you use our product to ask it about things you don’t know anything about, its answers are indistinguishable (to you) from an expert opinion, even when it’s wrong. This is a pure win for society with no down sides!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having someone use a remote kill command for an item you bought for reasons other than imminent threats to safety ought to be illegal. This shouldn’t be treated differently from a car salesman bricking your windshield after you drive off the lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pronouns history⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a He-Man can take something that big up the butt!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The humanity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People talk about opportunity being a major factor in suicides (ex: the removal of coal gas stoves from homes dropping the suicide rate), but man, I would bet my life that so is being hungry. I never want to fucking die quite so much as if I drop or ruin food right before eating it. If I was already on the edge I’m not saying I would kill myself over it, but I totally get why someone would, considering the impulsive nature of suicide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ornithologists do something similar when they have to handle a small bird in the field or in a lab: the ice cream cone grip

  “Shayla Cochran: Picture from my Ornithology class showing the difference in size between a Cooper's Hawk and a Sharp-shinned Hawk. They don't look thrilled to be held like ice cream cones, but it's their own damn fault for being ice cream cone-shaped.” A photo of two hawks, both small enough to be held with a single hand restraining the lower part of their folded wings and their legs to gently immobilize them. This grip results in the majority of their body sticking up like a goofy bird-shaped ice cream cone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad we’re out of the obligatory mustache era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snail lyfe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in the Bible Belt and churches in my hometown would put up homophobic messages on those outdoor notice boards that you see as you drive by. Not every single one, but not none of them, either. This was going on until the late 2000s at least, I’ve heard it’s marginally improved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your last words being "Whoops", probably greatly increases the odds that someone writes about your death⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead Like Me had a bit about this. Everyone’s last words are documented when they die, and almost all of them are something like “ow,” “what?” or “oh, crap!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping that MFer on its toes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I love succulents. Thriving on neglect is what I need out of a plant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live a couple of blocks off a freeway exit, I’m very familiar with that. I still go walking in the rich neighborhoods, because they have nice trees and can’t stop me.