“Oy!” “Wut?” Just chat (The Return of)

They’d have other problems already. Probably unusual vowel movements, for one (or 2)

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Is your argument with the great vowel shift, or the standardisation of English spelling?

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Yeah, it could be the standardization of English spelling.

:grin:

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What did the subjunctive ever do to you?

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Starting the year as I mean to go on.

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Doughy and full of cream?

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Eating many Semlor, but the end result is mostly the same, yes.

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Today I found myself driving on Hornyold Road.

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Well, you’re at that age.

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I recently learned of shutup10: a one-click way to turn off all the privacy violations pushed on windows. Doesn’t install anything, just runs from the exe. Highly recommend. I don’t know of an equivalent for iOS.

Why is this a concern now, specifically? Mainly because AI “companions” are designed to see everything you see, etc., and therefore completely bypass end-to-end encryption and violate privacy. You might not even know you have one active.

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Bank Account E-Mail: You have a new message, go to your app to read it. To find it, open the app an click on messages on the homescreen

I dutifully open the app, to find there is no messages or skeumorphic icon that could be interpreted as messages. After some digging, I find that is buried in the notifications (a bell icon)

Today’s minor rant over

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One of my cats turned on a vacuum cleaner. (It hangs on the wall, and has a top side rocker switch.). I was upstairs, and heard it come on. I thought “that’s a really loud vacuum that I can hear it inside.” After a minute I realized “oh, that’s downstairs. “. I went down and found both of them watching it carefully.

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I read that sentence as ‘turned into a vacuum cleaner’ and was intrigued!

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I read it and thought the cat hangs on the wall.

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@Whistle_Pig

Did you know that this is a thing?

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I did! Although I have never tried any.

Edit: it seems that you can buy it in the UK, but it’s pretty expensive :money_with_wings:

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I’d never tried Shakshouka but I’d heard great things about it, so I made that happen. It was indeed amazing.

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Oh, it’s lovely, there’s a great little cafe near us that make a delicious version of it, although it always makes me hum Kate Bush.

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(via BoardGameBloke: "It’s going to be tough! But we can do it. #BuyNo…" - Tabletop.VIP)

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