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C.A couple of days ago, I watched Jaws (1975) again. It turns 50 this year, and is widely credited as being the first "summer <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/blockbuster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blockbuster</a>" <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#movie</a>, which (for better or worse) has set the tone for Hollywood studios ever since.The movie holds up really well.A couple of days before *that*, I went down a rabbit hole of the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/production" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#production</a> costs of the most expensive films ever made. To pick one example near (but not at) the top of the list, there's Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Adjusted for inflation, its production cost is over US$400M.Four hundred million US dollars.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Jaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jaws</a>, not adjusted for inflation, cost US$9M. Nine million. Its budget was originally set for $4M, but because of shooting on the ocean, which hadn't been done for a major feature, there were unexpected costs, and the mechanical <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/shark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shark</a> effects ended up costing a lot more than planned. Adjusting for <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inflation</a> gives a number somewhere in the neighbourhood of US$50M.Jaws is a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a> people remember. It has a good story, relatable and likeable characters, action, suspense, etc, etc.The <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Avengers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Avengers</a> movie cost eight times as much and ... I barely remember it. It had lots of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pixels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixels</a>. It had wooden acting. It was utterly forgettable, even though it was supposed to be the climax of the "<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MCU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MCU</a>". In fifty years, will anyone remember it, or any <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Marvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marvel</a> film? Doubtful.I wish <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hollywood</a> would get back into telling <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stories</a>, rather than trying to be <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#videogames</a> you can't play, just watch.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Jason RushI hate this stupid bottle-episode trend. When TV used to be 24 episodes a season, sure, take an episode to do a random story. But with 10 episode seasons? Even if it's a good bottle episode (like tonight's Mythic Quest about Pootie) it's still robbing us of, like, a tenth of a season!<a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/amwatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amwatching</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tv</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/grumpy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grumpy</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/getoffmylawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#getoffmylawn</a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/grumblegrumble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grumblegrumble</a>

Internet Rando<a href="https://mastodon.seattlematrix.org/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a> Learned a new acronym today, <a href="https://mastodon.seattlematrix.org/tags/DARVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DARVO</a> Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.Holy crap, I've been trying to put into words what I've been seeing happen when people start their whataboutism and they're clearly punching down.. Punching up/down was already a great addition to my vocabulary for processing all the crazy crap happening in my country. <a href="https://mastodon.seattlematrix.org/tags/DARVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DARVO</a> is such a great what's-actually-happening breakdown of words I've only been to label "nazi tactics" beforehand.

David CroyleAmazon has become more unreliable in the past year or two. Yesterday was my 5th late delivery of the year so far. The truck pulled up to my house *twice* from different directions, and eventually moved on without making the delivery. The driver clearly couldn't find the package in the truck. So I've stopped opting for any more relaxed deliveries because there's a high probability that they will be late anyway. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

SmithChartIch sitze jetzt in der zweiten Business-Tech-Konferenz in kurzer Zeit. Und gefühlt haben 50% der Speaker AI-Slob-Bilder in den Präsentationen. Die tragen meistens auch nichts inhaltliches bei. Ich kann mich da nicht dran gewöhnen. Ich hoffe das ist jetzt nicht der neue Look von Präsentationen - sondern einfach nur weil es novel ist. 🙃 <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a>

Mark GrafThis short film is making the rounds again on social media because it has become relevant again about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/posttruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#posttruth</a> America. But PLEASE only share it from the original filmmaker’s channels (Ideaman Studios, 2017). It’s being freebooted again, particular on FB, where a recent page was given a “Rising Creator” badge. 🤬 Likely others, because, well <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> .<a href="https://youtu.be/Zh3Yz3PiXZw?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Zh3Yz3PiXZw?feature=shared</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freebooting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freebooting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#copyright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alternativemath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alternativemath</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a>

C.I've been in the software field for some time. Many - perhaps most - of the software and systems engineers that I've worked with have had an interest in system security, or at least in not introducing obvious security holes into what they were building.This was a good thing.But somewhere along the way, this kind of thing got normalized. We've taught a new cadre of programmers that security doesn't matter if it slows you down or inconveniences you in the slightest way. No one should ever be doing this, with the possible exception of the script you're fetching being one you wrote yourself, and even then I wouldn't trust that it hadn't been tampered with.As a result, I'm really not surprised at the level of (in)security in deployed systems these days.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#software</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#engineering</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldMan</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/programmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programmer</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a>

Mayonnasie<a href="https://social.chiefgyk3d.com/@chiefgyk3d" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@chiefgyk3d</a> Bouncing off of this; When / why did web browsers start trying to up-sell some other service? Let my web browser be a web browser, and my VPN a VPN. Never have I thought: "Man, I love Firefox, but I would love it more if I could use it like an IDE (or some other unfitting service)." I don't know, I just find it odd. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Edward L PlattCan someone explain the trend of devices with power buttons that need to be held X seconds but don't do anything until you let go? I don't understand why anyone would want that. <a href="https://greatjustice.net/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

C.Bets?<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/upgrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#upgrade</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/downgrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#downgrade</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SAP</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MurphysLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MurphysLaw</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CanadaPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanadaPost</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bureaucracy</a>

C.<a href="https://mastodon.social/@religiousryan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@religiousryan</a> I'm not sure what a serious look at a voluntary union is supposed to accomplish. Even if you ignore the fact that Canadians would vote it down with at least 90% saying "no", it simply isn't possible. Canada joining the USA would require us to (seriously) modify our constitution.Modifying the constitution in Canada has been functionally impossible for a generation (more, really), and is likely to remain so for at least another generation.So, without voluntary union, you're left with the USA trying to conquer Canada and take it by force. That won't work. See: Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, etc, etc.So this type of post[1] is basically clickbait, and annoying <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/clickbait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clickbait</a> at that.I could do with a whole lot less of this type of thing.-30[1] It doesn't help that the post is "illustrated" with AI-generated slop. Which in a recent toot I noted just the sight of pisses me off.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MakeAmericaGoAway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MakeAmericaGoAway</a>

Super Default!American right wing visits to lecture Europeans about free speech. I almost find that funny. And last time I checked, my free speech was quite intact you creepy, fascist fucks. <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵<a href="https://tech.lgbt/@chasnah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@chasnah</a><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/meirl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MeIRL</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/mood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MOOD</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/scrogneugneurd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scrogneugneurd</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

decodorOh, for the love of bandwidth—can we please go back to a time when using a website didn’t feel like enduring an endless barrage of pop-ups and notifications? I just want to click around in peace without being ambushed by every "Login with Google?" pitch, incessant "turn on notifications" nag, and that never-ending parade of "help us improve" surveys. And then, as if that weren’t enough, there's the cookie policy novella and a chatbot agent waiting in the wings like an overeager game show host. What has the web become in 2025—a relentless circus of digital interruptions? Rant over. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a>

anarcat<a href="https://mastodon.social/@cks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cks</a> <a href="https://tacobelllabs.net/@iliana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@iliana</a> "new"?? kids these days <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a>

Kagan MacTane (he/him)It's cloudy and looks like it might rain. 🌧 Gotta be DEI's fault!<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/BlameEverythingOnDEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlameEverythingOnDEI</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Simon SjödinVisst Östersunds kommun. Snövallar behöver tas bort. Men det är inte akut som när det vräker ner snö. Så ett förslag är att köra traktorn med snöslungan och lastbilarna en annan tid än i rusningstrafik. Färre skulle reta sig på det och kommit sen till jobbet. <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a>

I see Dud people!I'm shouting "FUCK OFF" at the moon. Why do you ask, officer? <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

isaiahnew dishwasher day. yeah! 🎉basically identical. looks similar, sounds similar, same features. happy it works tho.feels ludicrously wasteful to landfill so much stainless steel and replace it with something that offers nothing other than new leak-free o-rings. capitalism!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a>

Roxas (dual wielder)All you kids listening to your boojie woojie music and wearin' your hoopers can get off my lawn. New year starts at 7am. <a href="https://hactivedirectory.com/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a> <a href="https://hactivedirectory.com/tags/happynewyear" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#happynewyear</a>

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