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@passcod.nz

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Speaks: 🇳🇿 🇫🇷 🦀. nominally bi with left gender. dni if you have dni in your bio. rust oss developer (watchexec, cargo watch, cargo binstall). budding electronics hobbyist. writes fanfic https://passcod.name https://mastodon.social/@passcod

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Félix @passcod.nz · Jun 10

i use they/he professionally (and on here for consistency) (my in-person pronouns are different) and let's be clear this is entirely because i want people to use they but don't want them to make a deal out of it if they don't want to for some reason (i work with a lot of very religious countries)

Félix @passcod.nz · 3h

okay but can the onion acquire his channel after all or nah

NPR @npr.org · 3h

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected an appeal from Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax. n.pr/47qHJ7O

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of Sandy Hook shooting defamation judgment

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected an appeal from Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax.

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Félix @passcod.nz · 3h

so, sometimes if a youtube short can't load, it will autoswitch to the next one so you're still watching shit. it turns out, network conditions aren't typically improved by doing *more requests for more video streams* so what can happen is my shorts feed transforms into a deluge of 500ms soundbites.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 8h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 14h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 20h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Félix @passcod.nz · 6h

(i'm not on a jury and have been released from duty)

Félix @passcod.nz · 6h

heard a great idiom at jury duty preselection this week: "the only thing you'll get looking back at your past is a sore neck"

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Félix @passcod.nz · 6h

light is EM so maybe every fibre is actually radio (physics people don't kill me)

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Félix @passcod.nz · 6h

otoh, most internet broadcasting is achually unicast IP...

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Félix @passcod.nz · 6h

me when i'm a professional

When the complaint was first referred toThe Platform, the online media organisation responded to the complaintant "You Plonker we aren't subject to the Broadcasting Standards Authority".

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Félix @passcod.nz · 6h

also, lmao. personally when i do a secret power grab i do it via an official press release and ask my political enemies for comment in advance. obviously.

Kiwiblog: time to abolish the BSA as it is attempting a secret power grab over the internet

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Félix @passcod.nz · 6h

o1h, BSA covering all broadcast including internet seems pretty obvious as written, and it is useful to have an authority for stuff like misleading advertisements and unfair reporting

otoh, the puritan rules of language censorship in media suck tbh...

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Félix @passcod.nz · 13h

new heresy, get your brand new heresy here!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 1d

Did you hear that Dan and Phil admitted they've been in a relationship for 16 years? Because I have never heard of these two dudes before today but people are FREAKING OUT.

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Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

if you consider typical 2fa implementation: sms or a totp app on your phone. login to the thing from your phone and it's always been 1-device, with only hardware tokens being the not-commonly-used-outside-of-experts exception

thus passkeys are a replacement for sms/totp, not for hardware tokens

Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

I've always associated them with ACT but same deal

Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

l m a o

Trish: "Oh sure, everything needs checking but it's a bit like power assisted steering in a car, no?"

Sorrelish: "You cannot just tell it not to hallucinate. Hallucinations are mathematicallg inevitable in large language models, you're telling 2+2 to not equal 4. You're giving yourself an entirely false sense of control over the output."

Trish: "Yeah but I wondered if telling it not to invent DATA would work...?"

Repost by Trish: "here's how to disable linkedin using your data for GenAI"

Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

common green W

but seriously, wut???

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

The Taxpayer Union - Curia poll interviewed 1000 adults around NZ in early October and asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement: “New Zealanders may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track”.

One in four Te Pāti Māori supporters, or 26% of those surveyed, agreed or strongly agreed with the statement - the highest of supporters for any of the six parties in parliament. This was followed by one in five ACT voters, or 20%.

The support for the statement in the research dropped to 16% for Labour voters, 13% for National voters, 10% for NZ First and 8% among Green voters.

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Félix @passcod.nz · 1d

just because you read N genre books and didn't like them doesn't mean the entire genre is bad

maybe your library is always out of the good ones and what you thought was a representative sample was actually "the only ones afficionados don't care for"

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Félix @passcod.nz · 2d

this post is not sponsored i just like the thing and voluntarily deal with kubernetes every (work)day

Félix @passcod.nz · 2d

it's dangerous to go alone in the dark! headlamp.dev

Headlamp

Headlamp is a user-friendly Kubernetes UI focused on extensibility

headlamp.dev

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Félix @passcod.nz · 2d

First strawberry from my very own garden

Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

it's like garlic: for betterness, double it

Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

*checks time* aaaand now time for ttrpg

Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

we then played a game of Hanabi, which has basically three rules and is pretty fun and very hard. an instructive contrast :D

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Félix @passcod.nz · 3d

the polydice are confusing. probably should replace with a number N of D6 instead for power/difficulty scales.

too many modifiers! and too many layers of modifiers.

the different types of cards being different sizes was well received

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