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Flip side of this: ~3 years ago, I got automated calls from “RBC Visa”. I ignored them.
Then my card stopped working.
So I called the number on the back of my card and said as much.
The agent gave me a hard time: “So you JUST IGNORED our calls about this?”
“No; I didn’t know they were you calling.”
“How did you not know they were us?! It says ‘this is RBC Visa’ when you answer!”
“That’s indistinguishable from fraud.”
He did not like that. He thought …

Uff. Wenn man #curl in #powershell nutzt (aka: nicht das echte curl, sondern ein Wrapper von #Microsoft), dann wird zurückgegebenes Javascript einfach ohne Rückfrage ausgeführt. Was kan…

This is interesting. Normally I dislike left-side PBLs, but next to a bus lane it makes more sense. #PDX #SafeStreets #ProtectedBikeLanes

Hey cool, @… got me chocolates for the holidays (disclosure, I am ThingM and we send these out to our large customers. and our helpers. and me)

i do fedi by just putting shit into drafts and firing one im feeling off before i start disliking it again. scrolling thru my large collection, i feel like its too easy to tell which clumps of drafts i was manic during lol

"If George Boole is the 19th century’s AI scientist, then his contemporary machine learning engineers were Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. The Difference Engine, which would be frequently cited as the first example of a (mechanical) programmable digital computer if it had been built at the time, was explicitly designed to _replace_ rather than _augment_ human thought. Just as modern software engineering managers use Jira to avoid thinking about process engineering."

Douglas Hofstadter
You may be worried that I am going to talk about an author of books that are not about programming, and you are correct and incorrect. Correct, in that Hofstadter's books are not about programming (the intellectually hollow like to claim that they are not about anything at all, or that if you think you know what they are about then you did not understand them; this is untrue). Incorrect, in that Hofstadter's books and computer programs themselves are about the same thing.

Speaking of Stewart Lee, he says he spots fake AI engagement regarding him because it says things like, "it's wild how Lee's managed to evolve without losing that strange rhythm and bite that makes him so unique"
He adds, "People that like me don't say it's wild. No one that comes to see me thinks anything is wild, so I know that's fake."
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The Black Pirate (1926)
Produced By & Starring Douglas Fairbanks
DECEMBER 8, 2025 AT 7:30PM
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Your call: I feel uncomfortable these days in downtown Vancouver - so hanging around waiting for a bus when going home ....