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Oh no! Two days ago I was the *email expert* but now I'm apparently the *not getting in the spam folder* expert - and those are way different
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silverwizard
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I just gotta say though

I'm so fucking lucky to have my job - this is awesome

Hey Google - since you're fucking morons who don't know what AI is - why don't you just buy some lawmakers and get them to fine/imprison people for making horrible shitty AI a part of an app. Kill Microsoft and take the dumb shit offline!

Muppets RPG Noodling:

So the GM is playing the character who wants the episode to work. They (secretly) set a list of segments that need to happen. Your goal is to successfully do all these scenes.

Everyone else creates a character, that character has a goal (I think 2-3 would be correct), something they want to happen in the episode. Typically this is gonna be like, flirt with a guest star, manage to do a song, or whatever.

You may generate a guest star once all this is together.

Use some sort of tooling to allow people to take the scene and control it, use a Baron Munchhausen style story-stick game, but probably with some Drama System style stuff to get the game flowing. The GM sets each scene, but then the player whose "turn" it is has *control* and needs to try to accomplish their goals or complete the scene. At the end of the scene, do some sort of Fiasco-style "success" ceremony.

At the end of the game, if the GM succeeded at making most of the scene "succeed", then you move on. Otherwise you take a cancellation point. When you have a pre-determined number of cancellation points, the campaign is over.

If a player accomplishes their goals, they get a star power, which can probably be used in the Drama System style stuff above, or just generally used for bragging points when the series is finally cancelled.

Alternate arrangement would be to use Budget in place of cancellation points.

#Muppets #TTRPG

#TTRPG #Muppets
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#PLEASE PLEASE, #schools and #faculty, stop "teaching" #Adobe #Photoshop, #GoogleDocs, #Microsoft #Windows, #Zoom, and other commercial software applications.

You're not providing #students an #education, you're providing companies customers.

We never taught Smith-Corona, or Turbo TS40, or Ford Tempo. We taught, respectively, typing, wood shop, and student driving. We should teach word processing, computer technology, and communications.

#K12 #Teaching #HigherEd #EdTech
#ScreemingInTheDark

Photo credit: "The Scream" by Skeletalmess (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) accessed Feb. 8, 2023 https://www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/48607766468
#Windows #photoshop #education #Microsoft #edtech #zoom #higherED #students #schools #teaching #adobe #googledocs #k12 #faculty #please #screeminginthedark
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Michael T Babcock
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related aside: by only ever allowing single a single piece of software to be used for class assignments, teachers are also removing the skill of "find out how to do X in your software of choice."
Using Word or Google Docs or LibreOffice doesn't matter to me (much; I hate Word) but *forcing* students to use any one piece of software is myopic.

Meetings about email and DNS all morning, next it's a meeting about pentesting

I feel like i'm doing this "Hacker Lead" thing right

Whenever I make an object in our cloud that I don't think is gonna be long lived, I just called it "DeleteMeAfterFeb2023" and it is... very nice.

I just found a random token in our environment and was like "fuuuuuuck gonna take forever to track". And then it had the comment "If you see this after April 2022, delete it"

And, thanks past me

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BitBucket: "You can automate your shit with pipelines!"
Me: "But how do I automate the automation?!"

I just want not need to manage my pipeline schedules through the *web*

So Mastodon recently made a change where if you click on someone's profile and view it, and then click follow, you get told "fuck off to your own damn instance and just search you idiot"

Whereas the Mastodon expectation is that I've specifically viewed the profile of everyone I click the follow button for.

I'm not sure why the mastodon community has opted for maximum friction for their preferred workflow.

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Martijn Vos
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@silverwizard I always want to check what they post before I follow them. This works when doing it from a post or comment, though you need to skip the first tow options. But from a contact request, the option isn't there as far as I can tell. I keep trying to look for them and I only run into all the wrong options there.
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Revolutionary X-Men group where the leader is named Mitochondria
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So I knew this song as a kid. And I cannot find any evidence it exists online *except this website*

I've got a memory of finding a youtube video of one person sing it

Does this weirdness live in anyone else's memory?

dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songboā€¦

Mmmm-Bleep Song

dragon.sleepdeprived.ca

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Libraries are one of the few spaces allowed to focus on being great over being profitable
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Made candied orange peel, and then made orange cinnamon bread, then French toast with maple butter

and uh, gonna do that again

(sorry, French toast is not photogenic)

Do I know anyone with an M2 Mac to try to connect to MySQL in a docker container via an SSL tunnel via MySQL Workbench?

I think I found a consistent crash

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I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.
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Raywat Deonandan
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I see your point, but I disagree. This is a transformative moment in technology for mainstream use. It's not a traditional tool, but a tool nonetheless. We have to figure out how to live with it, and that doesn't always mean learning to *combat* it.
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Chris Godwin :masto_verify:
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@deonandan half these arguments are just about one of chatGPTs skills, when it has many... but you can't see that by thinking it's something other than a tool. Documentation and consistency does not a tool make. Use makes it a tool and it certainly has been used to great success repeatedly. ADHD people love it. ADHD people can't do what the OP suggests. The "why don't you just do this" crowd is privileged, lamenting the loss of their privilege like they're entitled to it. Bye Privlecia.
@Raywat Deonandan
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wizzwizz4
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@chris @deonandan How is ChatGPT useful for kinetics? The interaction / feedback cycle is high-latency, and it's turn-based rather than real-time. I guess the ChatGPT bandwidth is high? But that's only useful if you read fast.

I get how talking something through with an actual person is useful, but ChatGPT needs a lot of babysitting (it doesn't actually understand anything) and your focus has to be taken up dealing with *it* instead of whatever you were trying to do in the first place.

@Raywat Deonandan @Chris Godwin :masto_verify:
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Chris Godwin :masto_verify:
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@wizzwizz4 @deonandan only the free GA versions have those particular problems. The free playground version doesn't have those issues. ChatGPT isn't useful for all fields. I'm sure someone knows how to use it for kinetics, but I think for that particular fields maybe Bullfrogs biochemistry platform is better.
@wizzwizz4 @Raywat Deonandan

youtube.com/watch?v=zwBjfQPuhFā€¦

The question on everyone's mind today


Where Do They Make Balloons?

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesWhere Do They Make Balloons? Ā· They Might Be Giants (For Kids)No!ā„— 2013 Idlewild RecordingsReleased on: 2002-06...
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Awwwww, they shot it because they thought balloons were from the same place as spaghetti

I describe NPC body language as giving away vibes *a lot*

Like, the PCs say a bunch and I go "She scowls and seems disbelieving but doesn't speak"
Or "She replies " that makes sense", obviously not believing that"

I realize I don't know if I see that elsewhere.

#TTRPG

#TTRPG

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Satchel šŸŽ²šŸ’¼
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Hmm, this inspires me to put a body language cheatsheet into my GM screen!

writerswrite.co.za/cheat-sheetā€¦


Cheat Sheets For Writing Body Language - Writers Write

Writers Write is your one-stop writing resource. Use these cheat sheets to help you show a character's state of mind when you're writing body language.
Writers Write

My brain is apparently this song

Wine Stained Futon, by Jaya The Cat

from the album A Good Day For The Damned
Jaya The Cat

One of the things about people being bad actors with APIs is that APIs are a way to make automations more polite, and work on your terms. They are contract.

Twitter is basically WotC and the OGL right now. They want you to pay microtransactions in order to do something you can legally do, but they could, in theory, make take *slightly* more work.

Well, ok, twitter wants macrotransactions

In the 90s my mom bought of super 90s wireless headphones (INFRARED) in order to watch TV while washing dishes

And as a parent - that's a decision I completely understand now

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Hypolite Petovan
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@Jonathan Lamothe I assume the receiver was on top of the headphones arch.
@Jonathan Lamothe
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silverwizard
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If I recall correctly it was on an ear can....

But I am not confident in that assertion

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Counter Strike: Global Offensive was the first video game written in Go

#Lies

#lies
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silverwizard
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People often say "I'm gonna go play rust" and I'm like "Oh! I'm writing a webserver in that"
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I was walking down the street where the houses were numbered, 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, and 1MB.

That was a trip down memory lane.

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Elaine!! Cory traded his recording equipment to some demons, so the brilliant Sara Century joins Hub and helps him unpack the strangely beautiful, problematic fairy tale that is the 1985 Gargoyle miniseries. Topics of discussion include: Gargoyle is the anti-Valkyrie, liking art you disagree with, Germaine rules, and WW1! All this, plus a heaping helping of Dylan disparaging. Enjoy! Enjoy!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ā€¦

ā€ŽTitan Up The Defense: Titan Up the Defense 315- The Gargoyle Miniseries (1985) on Apple Podcasts

ā€ŽShow Titan Up The Defense, Ep Titan Up the Defense 315- The Gargoyle Miniseries (1985) - Feb 1, 2023
Apple Podcasts

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Wilhoit's Law can be understood as "No laws when you're drinking claws"
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silverwizard
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Claws are White Claws, kinda the worst beer

And yeah, the Wilhoit thing is incredibly funny, you need to attribute it to "American Composer Frank Wilhoit"

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silverwizard
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The import thing is that I associate White Claws with 20-30 year old white men, and 18-25 year old white women

I feel like a lot of people don't differentiate Buzz Words and Jargon, and I think that not knowing the difference is a giant communication problem
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard it isn't an organic problem, though, it is very intently cultivated by people who stand to gain from the confusion.
@silverwizard
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This is the future public transit enthusiasts want
Trolley problem meme but nobody is tied to the tracks "Nobody is in danger - however, you can pull the lever to make the train hey closer just so you can wave at all the people"
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SEGFAULT
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@Capheind if it was a modern high speed train switching it without it being planned into the route would likely derail it as you must slow for switches
@Garden Punk
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micheal65536
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As an Autistic public transport enthusiast: Yes, but not so I can wave at people. Rather so I can get a closer look at the train, and say "I made the train do a thing, I interacted with it instead of being a passive observer".

This company's support team is making me go use the Internet Archive in order to explain that their statements have changed since last year

Thinking about a tabletop RPG where the attributes are roles.

So - basically take the Leverage (RPG) model with Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Thief, Mastermind and then use that in place of like, Strength, Dex, or Intelligence and so on. I would probably use a die pool system since I love it, and so you'd end up with Role + Skill.

And then I think the secret sauce is that you set the consequences of failure based on the Role used. So a Hitter failing generally is hurt, a Grifter is identitied, and a Thief is seen.

If you have each role be attached to a specific kind of health bar - it can incentivize changing roles and so on.

#TTRPG #RPG

#TTRPG #RPG

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silverwizard
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Yeah - so Wizard Climbing might be Flying and Wizard Swordplay might be Mordenkanen's Sword

I just always worry about that kind of thing where, why would a Wizard main ever roll Rogue, if Rogue can pick locks, but a Wizard can magic them open

I've not seen enough Dragon Prince to know if you can, say, detect the workings of a wizard or whatever

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silverwizard
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That makes sense
Blah, I need to get into that series and game

Tiiiiime

Someone just used the words "tinder box" in the context of tech things.

And my first thought wasn't "thing that burns" but something much worse

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Last night I dreamed I did a git pull on Friendica for the latest develop and it ruined everything

So that's a fucking weird dream, and means I care too much about this

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financial need, electric bill, lost child support

If you have a bit of extra, my friend finalized their divorce earlier this month, and temporarily lost part of their child support income due to the haste necessary for the final weeks of that.

They need $342 total to pay for this month's electric bill, and another about $100 for internet / phone. Trying to get them at least $500 total so there's a little bit to get them through until things stablize with their income payments.

Best way is via $bridBurgard on #CashApp if you can help with this.

Next month their finances will be better because the divorce got them a monthly payment for some of the possessions they didn't get to keep in the divorce.

Anything helps here, and they are doing art commissions for the rest.

If you desire botanical drawings or paintings, of #flowers or #herbs or especially #fungi and #mushrooms, please reach out to them here on fedi (@werecat).

If you can't help with the amount needed, please boost this, the bill is due on the 1st of next month (3 days)

#transCrowdFund #utilityHelp #art

a trio of mushrooms, line art on white paper with graphite
#art #mushrooms #TransCrowdFund #flowers #fungi #herbs #cashapp #utilityhelp @werecat

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parenTessaLation
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re: financial need, electric bill, lost child support
's first commission towards this bill is finished, here's the watermarked version:
Drawing: cluster of three mushrooms, colored blue and covered in fuzzy prickles.
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parenTessaLation
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re: financial need, electric bill MET, thanks

and we made it!

Two comissions, some community aid, and a bit of swapping money between accounts, and the electric bill is covered.

Deeply appreciate the boosts and shares and contributions.

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Why the HELL does the Discord desktop app want to have permission to receive keystrokes from ANY application?

And the dialog should not just have "deny", but "NO FUCKING WAY BEOTCH!"

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Alex P. šŸ‘¹
Alex P. šŸ‘¹
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it's to make the push-to-talk work when you're using the overlay for gaming
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THIS.
Cartoon lady holding sign reading ā€œcops arenā€™t supposed to kill guilty people either ā€œ
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Mattie
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@dramypsyd Iā€™m having a hard time finding the source (just to credit the artist) but I think it might be this? tumblr.com/speciesofleastconceā€¦

Species of Least Concern

I work with wild animals I live in New England I foster pit bull puppies I lead urban nature walks I love bugs and mushrooms cismale genx rarelynsfw sometimes gory there will be spiders Zoos Prevent Extinction
Tumblr
@Dr. Amy, Psy.D.
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FiXato
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I dug a bit deeper, and also found it listed on this Red Bubble shop: redbubble.com/i/sticker/Cops-Aā€¦
Now that in itself isn't really conclusive as Red Bubble is full of people taking credit for other people's work unfortunately...

But Dana Drewdles does have a website with portfolio work, and while I couldn't find this image listed on it, her other work does seem to have the same style: danadrewdles.com/
@junkyardspaceship @dramypsyd


Cops Aren't Supposed to Kill Guilty People Either | Protest Sign | BLM | Black Lives Matter | End Police Brutality Sticker by danadrewdles

Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.
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Tattooing a QR code on my forehead decoding to "Ce n'est pas un mark of the beast"

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Wound

Somehow my pantleg wore the skin of my leg off
Like, literally, actual large cut on my shin

And it *fucking hurts*

Sorry

The important thing about Wizards creative commonsing D&D is that it's a trick to make you pay micro transactions for D&D

Recipe: no flour? No problem!

Also Recipe: put oats in the food processor until powder

This recipe doesn't get No Flour at all

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Devs: We should add a kiosk mode to make the application safer.
Manager: No time for such nonsense, deploy it now.
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Ian Scott šŸ™
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reminds me of when the app I was using on on of these crashed to desktop and didnā€™t restart, so of course I dug in the start menu and started Minecraft
A child playing Minecraft on a large information kiosk

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Tim is wearing a mask šŸŒˆ
Tim is wearing a mask šŸŒˆ
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I worked on London Underground's touch screen ticket machines in the 1990s. We made damn sure only our app could use the touchscreen, and the OS thought it was just a serial port.
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A BILLIONAIRE
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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Lilith Å MB
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@EndlessMason šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø I calls ā€™em like I sees ā€™em
@Endless Mason
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tech ragepost

Ugh, was wondering why Firefox kept showing intrusive af ads, even though it should be going through the local pi-hole. Turns out, an update made Firefox default to using DoH against Cloudflare's public servers.

First, screw Cloudflare, and screw Firefox for defaulting to using them.
Second, that's just a bad thing to silently turn on ā€” I have my DNS set up the way I like it for a reason, and am not in love with Firefox just deciding it knows better.

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schrotthaufen
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tech ragepost
@andrea Try disabling DoH via policy (either json file for Linux, or administrative template for Windows), or try the canary domain method for disabling DoH network wide: support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cā€¦

Canary domain - use-application-dns.net | Firefox Help

Network administrators may configure their networks to modify DNS requests for the following special-purpose domain, called a ''canary domain''.
support.mozilla.org
@Andrea
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Rob Pomeroy
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tech ragepost

Slightly off topic, but iOS 16.2 broke local DNS in a way that convinced me they'd silently enabled DOH everywhere. But the settings for DOH hadn't changed. The "fix" was to replace my DHCP assigned settings with manual, identical settings. Wut?

Back to #Firefox - was there any mention in the "What's new" page, first launch after the update? I never read those things. I've missed quite a few changes to default settings that way.

Since #DOH has privacy & security implications, positive and negative, I think it warrants a bit more than a "new features" mention in any event. Not everyone buys CloudFlare's "we're never evil" public persona...

#Firefox #DoH
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