@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaIt’s kinda silly, but I enjoy pressing “accept all cookies” and then proceeding to wipe every cookie before I load the next site. In one browser I simply reject all cookies, which is kind of hilarious, because it makes sites seem like they have amnesia. “Hey there. Want a cookie? Here you go.” Next story on the same site: “Hey there. Want a cookie? Here you go.” 🤣
@grumpybozo@toad.socialMost of the responses seem to be for coders.
I hope I won’t ever need to do another sysadmin interview but I wonder how silly it would be to have someone using a LLM to respond.
I ask wildly open questions because I don’t care as much about what they know as I do about how they think. Come back with what reads/sounds like LLM output and I don’t care where it came from or even if it’s technically correct.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VINNI: You're not good enough to get past me, Tarrant.
DEETA: You're going to look pretty silly flat on your back with a face full of footprints.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/213 B7B3
@kurt@nelson.fun@… and do *anything* about 9th and Irving. The amount of delays there due to cars is just silly.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL preseason winners and losers: Rookies break out, Cowboys' Jerry Jones looks silly and more
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-pre
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsReally silly dream
I had a really silly #dream recently. I dreamt that my CFL broke. Or more specifically, it kept trying to turn out, successive parts of it were lighting up, then it all went off and tried again. And it looked like it had a bunch of cuts across it, and around these cuts little thunder sparks started appearing, like some kind of STALKER-like anomaly.
I finally flipped the switch, but the anomaly remained, and I wanted to get rid of it in case the sparks could jump onto my hardware and damage something. So I threw a metal bowl towards it, supposing the thunder would jump onto it. While it was flying near the anomaly, it slowed down and started turning back like a boomerang. On top of that, pieces of cat food (don't ask me why I threw a full bowl) were getting out of it and staying in the air levitating. When the bowl reached the floor and started turning again, Mr Ek came close to it and started levitating himself; he was sitting a few centimeters above the floor.
In the middle of all this, I've figured out I should record it. I took a bunch of photos with my phone, before I managed to switch to recording video.
Once I've recorded the fascinating flying bowls and levitating cat food, I needed to go back to discharging the thing. I threw a second metal bowl, and that one started levitating as well. I've figured out that's stupid, and I've found some big ass hammer with a metal end and a wooden handle. I held the end near the lamp to charge it, then tried to find something to discharge it to. I've tried some small stuff like the door handle, but obviously that wasn't sufficient. Finally, I've figured out to use the electricity box, since it is grounded. I held the hammer to it, watching sparks light the semi-darkness; I've recorded that as well.
And that's how much of it I remember.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeHuman used Poof Ball.
It was Super Effective!
@stefan@gardenstate.socialCooked - bad
Cooking - good
Broiled - silly
Broiling - sad
Roasting - bitter sweet
Roasted - good
Baked - sweet
Baking - bad
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
3-way FTP: Pushing files around with silly and unusual methods.
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/18/ftp/
saved 2020-02-18 https://…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Yeasayer:
🎵 Silly Me
#NowPlaying #Yeasayer
https://yeasayer.bandcamp.com/track/silly-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qNCCJULESeP9S43mObLlP
@ruari@velocipederider.comMy youngest tends to wear a Casio LA-20WH most of the time. When I bought it for them it cost me around $25. Recently they broke the strap. So I looked at the options. An official Casio strap for a LA-20WH costs around $16. With tax/shipping I am likely to pay around $20, which feels … kinda silly, given the price of a new watch.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… It’s such a transparently silly argument.
*Nothing* human made is here to stay unless we *decide* it is.
@…
@seav@en.osm.townWatching #IdrisElba portray the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 prime minister and the United States 🇺🇸 president in two movies this year wasn’t in my bingo card. 😮 One movie is a fun watch and is very silly, while the other is sobering and really terrifying.
#films
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialA response to the Financial Times: A few points of clarification about degrowth - resilience
By Tim Parrique
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-24/a-response-to-the-financial-times-a-few-points-of-clari…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCardinals WR Marvin Harrison Jr. shrugs off 'silly' calls for more targets: 'We're 2-0' https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-wr-marvin-harrison-jr-shrugs-off-calls-more-targets-silly-2-0
@markhburton@mstdn.socialNo bloody thank you, Peter Kyle. Strangely enough I can think for myself. Silly little boy
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioIdk what it says about me that my first thought was “this would be terrible for vampires”
(The proposal here is to put satellites that reflect the sun so someone could have custom sunlight over their house at night… very silly)
https://mas.to/@dmacphee/115418055122136038
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 27: Kate Beaton
I missed a day yesterday, but I noticed earlier that I had gotten ahead somewhere early on, so I'm gonna leave it and not post a catch-up.
Beaton is an absolute legend in the webcomic space for "Hark! A Vagrant!" which is full of extremely silly literary and historical short comics. However, I've also read her graphic autobiography "Ducks" which deals with her time working in the Alberta oilfields to pay off her college loans and gets into some serious stuff (CW: sexual assault). I love her lighthearted art style, and she's great at comedic delivery, letting me laugh at her comics even when I don't 100% get the literary or historical referent.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI think the new light bars on the front of Tesla and other new cars are silly (and perhaps even dangerous - I find that they diminish my ability to estimate distance to the vehicle at night.)
In any case, I wonder whether there is, or soon will be, modification kits to replicate Gort's visor's light bar, as seen in the clip below...
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itIt's been a week since I watched this episode, and I still giggle at this scene about once per day.
[I read a lot of Mad Magazine in my youth.]
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialIt's been delightful to see all the imaginative responses to this cartoon, detailing various types of sabotage on the silo's ventilation, or how to properly seal the door forever.
For me, the amusing thing was that something so cheap and simple is used to defeat something so complicated and expensive. It's a lovely dig at the tech bros who think they're so smart. #humour
@servelan@newsie.socialIt's the tariffs, silly.
U.S. economy feels the pinch as low-income consumers cut spending - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/20/low-income-spending-economy/
@lilmikesf@c.imMost Americans polled irked by vainglorious #WhiteHouse ballroom debacle, which — surprise! — now requires the demolition of the ENTIRE #EastWing.
#Drumpf falsely promised his silly pet project wouldn't "interfere w…
@steve@s.yelvington.comI'm still seeing calls for the blue states to withhold federal taxes. Stop being silly. That is NOT how it works. Federal income taxes are withheld from paychecks by employers, not states, and sent directly to the federal government.
@hynek@mastodon.socialreally loving to get told both that our whole economy is about to collapse because ai is such a big deal and that our economy is about to collapse because ai is a silly bubble
@cdarwin@c.imThe “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith.
Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “practicing politics the right way” because he would debate students who disa…
@yaya@jorts.horseGo Ahead Eagles is a silly name for a football club. cmon PSV do not let these eagles go ahead
🛑🦅
#fedifc #eredivisie
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyYes, the "National Energy Dominance Council" is dumb and just...silly.
But this? This is utterly cretinous. (Via @…) Reality-free propaganda from top to bottom.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaI could have written "maybe we rely a bit too much on these giant server farms owned by a single entity?" but I like the more silly and less serious approach to the discussion.
Beside, writing it here I'm just preaching the quire. So we might have some fun meanwhile!
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialWhat is the best (and safest) way to trigger a GPIO pin on a Raspberry Pi from a 5V microcontroller?
(An Arduino, in this case.)
I think the answer is a level shifter, but there's also an optoisloator/optocoupler, and of course a few resistors (though that one is probably the least safe.) A relay could work but seems like silly overkill.
#microcontroller
@ruario@vivaldi.netOK I'm being a bit silly here, yes. Over the years I have written many custom install scripts for myself and others in the Vivaldi team. We have a few special requirements, e.g. we often run a bunch of copies of Vivaldi side by side. In addition to the public stable and snapshot releases we do multiple builds a day (often per commit) straight from our main branch, and developers make branch builds where they work on a feature or bug, that QA and others test. Even for the public builds, a…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza<Phase> no... I musn't have any more coffee !!! ;)
<Simunye> sure yu do Phase :)
<Phase> you really want me bouncing off the ceiling?
<Simunye> yesh :)
<kira_> bouncing off the ceiling is gewd
<Phase> ok, that was a silly question
<kira_> it's splatting on the floor that's the problem.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
George Clinton:
🎵 Silly Millameter
#GeorgeClinton
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KdZNYPYOzY47TN9V2WGbz
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.ukHeadhunter: forget about amnesia
When Headhunter came out on the Dreamcast, it was when the format was dying and games were being reduced to silly prices in HMV. This was good news for my collection and my wallet, with many £5 games filling up my shelves. It was not good for the games themselves, since I had such an abundance of choice that I would not commit more than an hour or so to anything in particular.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialBig tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."
But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.
#UX
@eyebee@mstdn.socialSilly me! Concerning my previous post about Apple upgrades, I should have mentioned I am referring to the various operating systems, NOT hardware. I certainly do not upgrade every time a new product comes out!
I’m not intending to upgrade either iPhones or Apple Watches this year. #apple
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialSimple solutions are always the best.
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterAnyway, having posted a bunch of childish nonsense I'm going to leave you all now. Enjoy 1978 if you're staying up for it, otherwise we'll engage in more silly tooting in a week's time. Night, all! #TOTP
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere’s just an astonishing number of things that are marvelous done at the scale of research study and somewhere between silly and catastrophic done at the scale of an entire society….
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… imma silly my way through it
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Zig's lovely syntax.
https://matklad.github.io/2025/08/09/zigs-lovely-syntax.html
saved 2025-08-10
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukRapidonline got back to me on my out-of-spec suntan capacitors; they found the ones they had in stock were a *little* better - they're getting 39.88-40.38uF where the 20% spec should top at 39.6%; they say that 'since we do not have a a calibrated capacitance meter' they're going to leave the report there; I pointed out they sell some very nice meters, and it's silly to be selling stuff you know is on the edge of the spec!
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeShh, am hiding
@aardrian@toot.cafeThree updates to old posts this morning:
Another post pointing out CSS-only widgets are problematic:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/03/css-only-widgets-are-inaccessible.html#Update02
Narrator is getting a Braille viewer:
@yaya@jorts.horsequick, mods are asleep, post precision airstrikes
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.socialbe there or be pudding
#Seattle @…
@groupnebula563@mastodon.socialbe there or be pudding
#Seattle @…
@muz4now@mastodon.worldWill Musicians Ever Rule the World?
It's a silly headline, but a sweet article (with music videos and such). Check it out.
https://muz4now.com/2020/will-musicians-ever-rule-the-world/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzApologies – for now – to Giants QB Russell Wilson after big day in wild loss to Cowboys https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/giants/2025/09/14/russell-wilson-stats-interception-cowboys/86155089007/
@samir@functional.computerAlright, I’m on chapter 10 and it’s been pretty fun. Silly, nonsensical (like what I remember of the first 2 games, which I played on my flatmate’s PS3 in university, approximately 17 billion years ago), but entertaining. I get why it has such good reviews. I am annoyed it took so damn long to get started though.
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de🇱🇷
@servelan@newsie.social"it feels silly to take what federal officers are doing in the city even a little bit seriously, because the fantasy of D.C. as some crime-addled hellhole is a deliberate invention. "
I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/08/trumps-washington-dc-takeover-heres-what-the-feds-are-really-doing.htm
@davej@dice.camp
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotWe watched Heads of State last night. Good silly fun, recommended.
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
@pgcd@mastodon.online @cdarwin@c.imThis Saturday, millions of people are going to say no, and insist that every American has a right to dissent.
It’s going to be big
— there will be enormous rallies in major cities, and smaller but still meaningful ones in towns around the country.
There will be families, and dogs, and people in silly costumes.
They’re going to march, and stand together, and listen to speeches, and hold up signs
Trump and his allies will spin their absurd conspiracy theories,…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… I had the silly idea to actually read that one… FML, that’s 20 seconds I’m never getting back.
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialMe when I open a dark world in my living room and my headset stands up and says
and makes me VR all over the place.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI am using Strava now, but only because it's a way to get my data from Apple Health to flow to other places. Right now Wandrer and Squadrats pull data from Strava, and Strava gets the original data from Apple Health. The world is complex and silly sometimes.
#bikeTooter #biking
@grumpybozo@toad.socialOh #ShadowServer, now you're just being silly...
#InfoSec #Scanners
@hynek@mastodon.socialsince I needed to occupy my brain with something silly that won’t cause an avalanche of open issues, I’ve created the best-possible social card for http://nohttps.lol
@catsalad@infosec.exchange👀
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itLoopy D And The Long Tail
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jdfwnosj5tavojrkinbcor6h/post/3lygupqt45s2x
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 07 - Assassin
NEBROX: You don't want him Lady! Take me [rushes forward and kneels in front of her] take me, Lady. I'm strong, I won't let you down.
BENOS: Silly old fool. [hauls him to his feet]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/167 B7B6
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgthis is exceedingly silly https://docs.rs/crate/fibonacci-numbers/latest/source/Cargo.toml
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeThe only drama I want in live involves cats
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioIf regular Ayurveda does not work for you: 🌿🧼
#Ayurveda #soap #India #silly #marketing
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeAsk your vet if cat extensions are right for you.
@buercher@tooting.chWhen the Lisa team was pushing to finalize their software in 1982, project managers started requiring programmers to submit weekly forms reporting on the number of lines of code they had written. Bill Atkinson thought that was silly. For the week in which he had rewritten QuickDraw’s region calculation routines to be six times faster and 2000 lines shorter, he put “-2000″ on the form. After a few more weeks the managers stopped asking him to fill out the form.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/
![She said it wasn't a friend group, she was aware we'd called it a "hoe union" and had "rules"
I said that it literally is made up of friends. And there aren't any enforced "rules" it's all voluntary.
I then got frustrated and asked why she thought it was appropriate to involve herself in private conversation that happened outside of school and campus, and left.
AITA for making that group chat?
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