It's slightly surprising how often OpenAI and similar companies are proudly announcing "not only are we breaking the law, and not only did we build an automated system to break the law faster, we also built it to break the law autonomously when no one has told it to break the law!"

I was waiting for my robot friend when a sleek stranger came up to me.

"Hi!" they said.

"Um... hi?"

"Oh, sorry."

My phone pinged with a text from my friend: "Body's in for service, this is a loaner."

"Oh!" I said. "Er... Is it nice?"

"Can't wait to go back. This is..."

"Not you?"

"Not me."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #Smallstories

What should I use to backup my crap?

Needs:
- linux support
- easily automated
- encryption
- incremental backups
- dedupe/compression
- low memory usage, even with lots of files (so no restic)
- rclone backend support

Wants:
- no slop

OOP

Object Oriented Pets (the ones that like to play fetch)

how many refrigerants can you recall, together with any useful information about them (no matter how scant), by their number?

the robotgirl/dollgirl differs from the puppygirl and also the catgirl because it is by far the most likely to be a workaholic. There's a kind of competency and ability implied there that is pointedly absent in the stereotypical puppygirl.

It should be illegal that i can't visit my long-distance partnets for free whenever i want. I wanna cuddle and kissie themb ​​

ebuild that installs a ​​ on your computer

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i'm aware of sed's done as s/foo/bar/
but i've also seen sed's done as s|foo|bar|, s@foo@bar@, s,foo,bar,, s%foo%bar%, etc...
what is it supposed to be? what difference does it make? can it really be basically any..uhh... "special character"?

Does free will exist?

If you could install a mind link with another person, such that all thoughts, feelings, senses and movements were fully telepathically shared, allowing the minds to operate effectively as one hive mind, would you do it?

Why does it have to be way too hot to be gay with creatures? I just want to be gay properly...

as an individual developer, how much would you pay per month for a Forgejo Actions compatible CI service (Codeberg or your own forge) that offers VM-based isolation and non-Linux runners (BSD, macOS, Windows), as well as real human support?

please select an answer that describes how much you feel would be fair to pay to cover your needs, whichever those currently are. assume there is a pricing plan that perfectly fits your usage.

please boost!