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Olivier Roux (moose)
@otolithe@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-0617 Followers
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Joined October 28, 2022
Boosted by @cstross@wandering.shop
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@mgoggie@mastodon.nz @cstross@wandering.shop everybody reacts like that, not just young people… last year I got covid, bad, at a trade show. Told one of my colleagues and he had that exact same reaction: “wait, Covid is still around?”
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop I don’t get why people want iPads to be “real computers”. I love my iPad as what it is: a great tablet for reading, browsing the web, watching videos, gaming etc. I’ve been a Mac user since 1984 and not once have I missed multi windows on iPad. Each device has its own uses.
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@bodhipaksa @cstross LLMs have become a cult. they trigger exactly the same religious-like responses.
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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca @cstross@wandering.shop decades of underfunding public fire services… and here we are. And you can’t fix that in a couple years, even with boatloads of money. It’s too late.
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop I absolutely love the Mac (since my first 512 Mac), I work on a Mac all day long, and really don’t like the trend to make it more iPad/iOS like. Just like I’m not a fan of attempts to make iPads more like Macs. I like a tool for each purpose/context I guess…
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@bruces isn’t that was Microsoft Recall was supposed to be?
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@cstross@wandering.shop @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us is it cunning to flay Aer Linguz?
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@cabel services are slowly rotting Apple from inside. It’s sad.
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@poppyhaze@girlcock.club @cstross@wandering.shop works with “rich people” instead of “politicians”, too.
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@roadriverrail @cstross but then this ensures you can never unsubscribe from whatever AI service you have been relying on. Captive audience as a business model.
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@talin@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop not a first for LLMs/AI, seems like the MAGA movement achieved the same ages ago. With no trace of Intelligence, artificial or not.
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop because they apparently cannot find a way to make it useful to you? You love the hardware but find the software limiting, which is what a section of iPad buyers have been complaining about since the original model. Maybe it’s because the iPad is fundamentally not for them? (Not trolling here, I find this actually an interesting question)
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop maybe iPads should not cost USD3000? That’s pro laptop territory… I think even Apple is not clear on what iPad should be.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu but surely we will have open source, self-printed, crowd sourced, modular AR glasses… granted, they will wear 1.5kg and have 10’ of battery life, but what’s that for freedom? 😂
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@cstross@wandering.shop ICE trains would love to deport you to Algeria. Ah, wait, wrong ICE. This one just loves to be late.
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@jrychter@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop and by “acquiring” they mean “grab by the pussy”, really…
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@parisba@cloudisland.nz @siracusa@mastodon.social the problem with corporations when they grow to hyperscale: they forget they exist because of their customers.
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@cstross@wandering.shop don’t give him ideas he will find amazing!
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@cstross@wandering.shop @memeorandum@universeodon.com they’re the “cricket” emoji… I’ll give you that, they’re not super readable 😂
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@timbray@cosocial.ca @siracusa@mastodon.social that is so perfectly true. Sad.
Quel courage de la part de la France. Macron et les autres, à genoux devant Trump.
https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2026/04/23/le-climat-absent-des-discussions-du-g7-environnement-a-paris-si-l-on-commence-a-en-parler-il-n-y-a-plus-de-g7_6682743_3244.html
I’d like to thank @cstross@wandering.shop for recommending “There is no antimemetics division”. This book is blowing my mind.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop Hey, who knows, right now I don't want them to sell all my personal info, but maybe in a month I'll be fine with it... NOT.
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@lyndamerry484@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop and they will continue screaming they’re cancelled by the left wing media.
Et moi je propose l’insertion de cette loi dans le rectum de ces deux sinistres connards.
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2026/04/02/loi-duplomb-2-gerard-larcher-et-laurent-duplomb-reclament-son-insertion-dans-la-future-loi-d-urgence-agricole_6676150_823448.html
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@MarkAsser @cstross he’s not center right: he left Orban’s party in 2024 and was married to his Justice minister. So pretty much in line with Orban, I’d say. So is it great he kicked Orban out? Of course! But then, he’s on the reactionary, conservative side of the Right. Not center.
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@nileane @cstross @david_chisnall yeah I love that the “solution” to “ social networks are full of horrible stuff” is not to regulate social networks so that they don’t profit off shoving horrible stuff in everyone’s face, but to make sure only adults are exposed to that shit. 🙄
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@cstross@wandering.shop ding dong! The witch is dead!
Let me repeat: fuck you, Apple. Ads are rotting you. What’s the goal here? Make the best ads? Insanely great ads? Oh, I know: insanely great amounts of fucking money.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apple-confirms-that-its-maps-app-will-begin-showing-ads-to-users-this-summer/
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@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social @cstross@wandering.shop “but how are we gonna make money if people don’t buy our shit!”. Man, if that’s CEO stuff, I bet I could do it too…
Et moi je propose d’inscrire dans la Constitution française l’interdiction des cons. Ça fera de la place dans le pays…
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/03/26/thierry-breton-il-faut-inscrire-dans-la-constitution-francaise-une-regle-d-or-limitant-le-deficit-public-a-1-du-pib-a-l-horizon-2032_6674303_3232.html
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@cstross@wandering.shop @briankrebs@infosec.exchange also, Apple was never really a “tech leader” in terms of adopting new stuff… they used to just wait and then release something that was truly mature, not some half baked “hey, it’s new” products. Sadly, with AI, they seem to have succumbed to FOMO.
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@lensco@mastodon.world @atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social I think "Liquid Ass" is the perfect moniker, because the whole UI sure looks like it.
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@cstross@wandering.shop I first read this as “Nutella bukake” and went “uhhhhh?”… then read again and went 🤮
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@hn100@social.lansky.name @cstross@wandering.shop oh hi! I’m your friendly pusher. Sure that drug is totally free, help yourself, no strings attached!
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@LillyHerself@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop @memeorandum@universeodon.com I assume that’s not linked to Mastodon but to whatever client you use. You probably can set the text bigger. Or the client could enlarge emojis.