bender

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Home of Bender Rodriguez. Get off my lawn!

And here is one of my many nuggets of wisdom: "Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park. With blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the park."

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In-reply-to » Giving paper notebooks another try. I love paper notebooks. The problem is that I'm very chaotic writing my ideas.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org wrote:

“The parchment, on the other hand, might be a bit wasteful for just temporary ideas that are not perfectly layed out yet.”

OK, OK, I will use the cheap one. :-P

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In-reply-to » "Designed by Apple in California" stopped being sold in 2019. It sold for $199, and $299 (two sizes). Check the eBay pricing on that link, if you want to know the selling price today.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org can one truly set a fixed price on art? I wouldn’t pay the original amount (in retrospect, I regret it, as it could make me richer now), but those who did were buying art, and a piece of history. It is well made, to boot.

But again, not for me. 😅

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Portion of the modified Twitter TOS that goes into effect today (it’s on right now), as summarised (ironically) by Google’s Gemini:

“In simpler terms, this means that when you share your content (like text, images, or videos) on the service, you’re giving the company permission to use it in various ways. They can copy, modify, distribute, and even use it to train their AI models. This includes sharing your content with others and using it on other platforms. You won’t be paid for this, but using the service itself is considered enough compensation.”

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In-reply-to » Anyone thinking of trying our (or already are) the ATprotocok / BlueSky? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net what I, poorly, tried to say is that you could run those “key services” if you want. Again, I know you have a certain fixation on what’s decentralised, or not… LOL, so start fixing it by changing that Wikipedia entry! I believe in you! 🙈

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In-reply-to » I have grown used to, and to love, the Ubuntu font. It is highly legible.

@prologic@twtxt.net oi! :-D I think it is fine as is right now. My vision isn’t as good as it used to be, and my display is not the “standard” size. Phanpy uses a pretty neat slider on its settings that allow you to set the default size. I will query its developer to see what he has to say.

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is I think he is on vacations (I sure hope he is, having fun and all!), or something. I haven’t seeing anything from him for over a day now. Very unusual.

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In-reply-to » Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de that would have never worked for me. I don’t have that kind of money in a bank account. 😂

We should standardise numerical notations, at least the nations using the Arabic numerals. Spain also uses the period as the thousands separator. For legibility sake, commas and periods make sense, like €3,500.25, for example. That’s three thousand five hundred Euros, and 25 Euro cents. But this should also work: €3500.25.

It makes little sense that €334.90 gets interpreted as €33490 (or €33,490). 🤯

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net using Yarn he isn’t supposed to follow it, it should show as context, no?

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In-reply-to » I need money for my mother's heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with any amount?

@prologic@twtxt.net lies, and scams aside, there is plenty of need in the world. Yet, you can’t help everyone. Best way to do it is to donate to a worthy cause, and ignore one offs.

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In-reply-to » @sorenpeter Section 7 on emojis: Exactly that, it's an avatar for text interfaces. The metadata name needs tweaking, but that's a cool idea. If I implemented this in my client, I'd make the text avatar overridable by the user, though. Otherwise I'd probably only see boxes for everbody in my terminal. :-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I think it would make the interface look too busy, I would pass on that one.

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In-reply-to » I have lots of things to do at home. All I need is more energy.

@wbknl@twtxt.net you and I. There is a backyard waiting for me to mow (most likely will tackle it tomorrow), and a front yard that yearns the touch of the mower as well (that one will have to wait a bit longer).

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