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The first #ProhibitionOrcs tale is now free everywhere. Bootlegging over the Detroit River! Elves that need a punch in the face! Orcs at breakfast! Frozen feet and hot lead!
Yes, this is a shameless teaser to try to get you to buy the duology. But if you hate the story, you won't like the books. If you like the story, readers assure me they get better.
Grab it from:
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(Edited to add: If you choose to buy the duology from my store, you'll get a bonus exclusive cookbook of orcish recipes! Real recipes, that regular people have cooked, eaten, and mostly survived.)
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Stories you can get for free, direct from me or from other sites. They all stand alone, but lead into other books. I hope you'll love one of them and come back for more. (You can get tales that I nโฆTilted Windmill Press
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Apparently since the release of ChatGPT our emails from our sales people are getting blocked for being spam.
Almost like writing weird generic spam instead of an email gets your domain blocked
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are we talking about general emails (like direct communication with customers and prospects), or marketing campaign/mailing lists?
If the latter, you may consider using a service that is dedicated to this type of messaging (Sengrid, Mailchimp, whatever). It will have its own DKIM signature and a different origin (of course present in SPF records), and would make human, hand-crafted artisan messages written with love less likely to be blocked by a blanket RBL listing.
If the former, then maybe you don't need salespeople after all. Just an OpenAI API subscription and a couple of scripts.
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make AI write useless script
hire writer as an *editor* and violate guild rules but try to be a dick on a technicality where Draft 0 was by AI
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FUCK OFF
Hotel wifi being slow isn't an outage
Not giving me access but telling me to do it isn't delegation
*breathes*
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Sean, we want to see more leadership from you! But you 100% cannot have admin access to our email.
You can control the MX record, have control over the users, have the ability to read everything, just not the Admin keyword. Meaning you have to bug the CEO whenever something changes, and boy will he get mad at you for bugging him.
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Hacker Public Radio ~ The Technology Community Podcast
Hacker Public Radio is an podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that are of interest to hackers and hobbyists.hackerpublicradio.org
Wow! An entire #HackerPublicRadio series on #AWK. I'm sure I've heard some of these already, but I'll see if I can add just the series to @AntennaPod and decrease even more my copious amounts of free time for listening ๐
And, of course, repeat my so-far unkept promise to contribute an episode or two. I hear @hpr is running low on episodes again.
@bobjonkman @ghostdancer @AntennaPod
I'm reliably informed that there will be an ebook to accompany the series.
cc: @perloid
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Boosting this. Vote to stop privatizing Ontario healthcare:
The Ontario Health Coalition is holding a community-run referendum on the province's plan to privatize many aspects of Ontario's public healthcare system.
You can vote online now until tomorrow at midnight.
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You can also vote at one of nearly one thousand voting stations across the province, including the following locations and times in Toronto-Danforth tomorrow:
โข The Redwood Theatre at 1300 Gerrard St E from from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
โข The Gerrard/Ashdale Toronto Public Library branch at 1432 Gerrard St. E from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
โข MPP Peter Tabuns constituency office from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
โข Phin Park at the corner of Condor and Baird from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
โข Eastminster United Church at 310 Danforth Ave from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Our public healthcare system is crucial for the wellbeing of ourselves, our loved ones and our communities. Please vote online now or at one of the above stations tomorrow.
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Come into work after a week's vacation. Find a message from myself:
"Terraform is completely broken. redis subnets are b0rked in production"
I curse the person who setup our redis and immediately begin to ask the musical question "Can we make a change to our environment without destroying and replacing it"
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@Rivetgeek Oh I love giving tasks to "once we get all the shit fixed"
Since - you know - that's the far off future where it will never happen
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Hey #zfs people
if I have a pool I want to view when I can't mount it - any way to view files? (Read only root so mountpoints can't create)
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@Mike Gerdts That... is the right idea, if I can find a mount
I feel like this is probably freebsd inside baseball though
Setup a solar irrigation system off a new rain barrel so that my son can do some plant automation (watched a kids show about farm robots)
Started moving from a bank to a credit union (got accounts - just need to slowly fill them)
Made a tiramisu
Damn good birthday
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Here comes the ice man
He's trying to freeze the crew
He's not a nice man
His touch will turn you blue
youtube.com/watch?v=uLnCKBYRBjโฆ
Iceman Chase Scene - A Pup Named Scooby Doo
I can never find this anywhere, so I guess I'll upload itI don't own this!YouTube
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to those of you who suggest i let the bodies hit the floor, four things, here we go now:
- nothing wrong with me
- nothing wrong with me
- nothing wrong with me
- nothing wrong with me
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Apparently I can't report someone who is using Mastodon, because I am not using Mastodon.
I can't even just go over to their mastodon page and report them.
Reporting logistics is hard - but there's gotta be a better way
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If I go to your Friendica instance, I see my own login and stuff and can do basic interactions
I wish the software industry wasn't just such fucking *marks*.
It feels like we as a culture are just basically idiots with no attention span or no sense of history.
"This very good company amazon has hosting for us, I bet that's not trying to replicate the Cisco model where they sell you a billion courses and you get locked in forever fucking your career"
"I bet this Peter Thiel fellow is really good and this generation's AI hype is probably different than the last four. I do know that Palantir and Paypal are renowned for how friendly and usable they are"
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The #HTTP 418 response is in the 4xx client error section, meaning it's YOUR fault that I'm a teapot.
I'm not mad, just disappointed. You really should have tried harder.
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I often say that a good prank needs meat on it.
Here's the BSDCan 2019 Charity Auction, where I pulled perhaps the best prank of my life. I would feel bad for Bob, except, you know, Bob.
youtube.com/watch?v=Dlt_H99xGCโฆ
This prank had a second part, given at the end of mwl.io/archives/4772 .
At this year's @bsdcan, we will auction off rare copies of the exclusive Beck and Provost Editions of "Terrapin Sky Tango."
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@adamsdesk
Most past years are on youtube.
This year will be streamed live, and on youtube. Plus IRC for discussion and feeding questions back to speakers.
"we fund Matrix dev by selling encrypted messaging to governments, which includes police: if you donโt like that then please feel free to use a different app" May 9th, 2023 -@element
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@Gabriele Svelto I really don't have to explain anything to you, especially not something you framed in bad faith. Obviously we don't have the same values, and you can't talk anyone out of their values, the same way I probably cant talk to you into growing some.
Values are only meaningful if you are making concessions for them. Pointing out that these personal concessions are somehow unwarranted or inconsistent will only get you a cold shoulder.
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How do you tell a sales person "you are unselling me - tell me a price and shut up"
They just - are managing to make me less excited as time goes on - because I know they are *saying* things wrong. I've *used* the product before.
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Oh, that IS the worst.
"It's new and better now!"
"Well, I'll agree on the first part."
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That was one of the problems that occurred to me when I read about a Skyrim mod using ChatGPT.
One of the things that astonishes me about this imminent disaster is that people seem oblivious that the main virtue of computing is getting definite answers to specific questions; LLMs will make computers completely useless for their primary purpose.
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Skyrim Mod Uses ChatGPT and Other AI Tools to Give NPCs a Memory and Endless Things to Say - IGN
A Skyrim modder named Art From The Machine has shown off a mod they're working on that uses ChatGPT and other AI tools to give NPCs a memory of your adventure, endless things for them to say, and a way to ask them questions with your voice.Adam Bankhurst (IGN)
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It's not that we can't see it it's that some people just like bad things.
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@Greg Stolze So I played Bring Me The Head Of The Comte De Sainte Germaine over the last 1.5 months (one session every other thursday).
And Cloisonnรฉ basically decided to smash her Subaru into Mother Apocolypse in order to protect Joy from her mother, and no one is sure what to do with these emotions.
This is your fault and I think we all love you for it! Thanks so much - that was really good (and for two players a very Feet First intro to UA)
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I accidentally just wrote a page of text....
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My son will randomly decide he wants to make things. And basically has no conception that he can't make things and that's really exciting.
He also made a train out of playdough, and then made a little mini-motor like he'd seen in toys, and opened the playdough train, put the playdough motor in, and said it could go by itself.
Just so proud of how much I've let him understand making.
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I am once again begging neighborhood organizations to put your family event information on *literally any public website* that isn't Facebook or Twitter.
Both have severely limited capabilities for finding information while signed out (or without an account).
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@Allan Haverholm We should always remember the Phaedrus Lesson
The past is always a perfect time - and the good part of it is often a quirk of memory, yeah
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What I hear when I see people who don't mask forcing people to attend in person:
1. I don't care about disabled people's health.
2. My convenience is more important than your safety.
3. I don't mind if your quality of life continues to worsen due to my actions.
4. I don't believe I can become disabled like you.
5. If I pretend it doesn't exist then I can't get sick. Stop telling me covid exists and I could get sick.
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I suddenly pulled from my memory a conservative making a case for Conservative Freeganism and Dumpstering to me in uni
it ... was coherent and good - but looking back 17 years later - holy shit, I want that back
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Basically it boiled down to
1) Freegansim will allow you to feed people for cheap, and taxes are bad, so if you can feed people with social discards you don't need to raise taxes
2) Feeding yourself for free is an important part of Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstaps
And like - sure - the premises are bad - but the actual stuff is... fine?
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For a few days I've been emailing back and forth with an agent to schedule an apartment tour. Today we make the 20 minute drive there, and the receptionist says "oh, we don't have any units to show right now."
"But I booked a tour through an agent."
"Who'd you message?"
"Kate"
"Oh, Kate is our bot. Have you heard of ChatGPT?"
This is how I find out they use AI to schedule tours, but the AI doesn't have access to their booking info. We live in hell
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in reply to silverwizard • • •Bigger better capacitors!
Honestly I'd just use the start capacitors from an air conditioner, those have a little more bite.
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