If you're one of the many therapists I'm seeing who was approached by an AI company offering six figures for "de-identified" notes, reports, etc, and you've abandoned your ethics enough to consider the offer, make sure when you negotiate your compensation that you factor in legal fees and the cost of losing your license.
I hate it here.
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much safer this way tbh
We can even say we use a fusion reactor
So, one of my nieces told me a story today about how she went to the hospital in severe pain and they wouldn't even give her Advil.
I, on the other hand, went in—admittedly in pain, but it wasn't my primary concern—and was offered a morphine script (which I declined).
What??
I don't want to just jump to the conclusion that the difference is that I'm a white male, but...
The irony of this statistical issue in healthcare is women typically have higher tolerance for pain than men, yet the opposite solution happens. A woman in pain really means they are in pain.
My wife has had pharmacists accuse her of med seeking. Shut up and fill the rx, she has a rare, deadly, and painful medical condition most doctors don't even understand, let alone a pharmacist 🫠 #veds
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small and apologetic mutual aid request please:
could anyone help us a bit with the cost of a new car battery? it's going to be around 200€. rent is due, and thanks to the EU's ppwr + US absurdity and the increasing cost of everything, i've made precisely one sale in the past nearly 4 weeks, so the extra battery cost is a bit 
we live in the middle of nowhere, have one car, and i'm disabled and getting sicker, so it's very essential.
BUT please look after yourselves first! everyone's struggling these days.
thank you if you can help; no worries at all if you can't.
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Setting the time range on DuckDuckGo to before December 2022 kind of helps search results
This fails when articles were "updated" any time after 2022 or if they just lie about their publication date
I don't have this set as default, since it adds kind of a fingerprint
(Search URL format is below, not screen-reader friendly)
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@xgranade I’m this close to making myself a nametag with „Luddite“ as job title.
I used to have joke nametags with „Professional Scapegoat“ and „Master Sergeant Shooter Person“ on it but that one won’t be.
@jacqueline
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I get the impression that a lot of slop/vibe generated stuff is from people who aren't programmers at all, so they probably have no clue that going down to asm would be an improvement over higher level languages?
I had to stop using interpreted languages in elementary school because they were so inefficient, asm was the way back then; when I finally encountered C in college? It felt bloated. I do not think anyone using LLMs and vibing their way around, would have such insights; since I get the impression most of those lessons were lost on folks after CPUs transcended the 10MHz barrier, decades ago and kept getting faster and cheaper and nerds such as I were some of the only ones left who cared?
@Igigog I am certain that at some point LLMs will emit compiled code directly for "optimization". No one will be able to look at the source, since there will be no source.
Sounds like a reasonable point on the enshittification path.
when I was fresh out of university and starting my career I thought that everyone was like me and actually enjoys building elegant concise maintainable and extensible systems
but I guess some people just want to trot out slop and go home?
@zrb I think this is what happens when for the last 20 years or so it became common to tell students to get into this profession for the money. (Which makes sense - it's more money than most degrees.)
So we now have a large population of coders who really (more or less) _don't_ care that much. Getting a bigger paycheck was their primary motivation in the first place.
to this day i ruthlessly go through my projects looking for repeating boilerplate and try to find ways to eliminate it.
Sometimes it's easier than other times, but I always see it as an opportunity for improvement
omg yes. when "good" was the goal rather than "now?" When being asked to do things of questionable legal, ethical, or moral value was preposterous?
"This could kill all humans? Well obviously I gotta do it first!"
remember when people actually liked programming and helped each other learn?
@theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel I disagree on the second point, actually. When I look at the *kind* of people gloating that I'll be left behind, I don't feel lonely at all - they are not the types whose company I would enjoy anyway.
The internet weirdos who still enjoy coding, on the other hand, mostly seem like lovely people.
@theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel That's not to say I'm doing fine at all. I'm terrified of the future and I'm awfully, awfully depressed.
Just not lonely. The company of ghouls is worse than no company at all.
@datarama @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel
I feel like im drifting aimlessly towards oblivion, it was hypothetical and now it feels all but assured.
I work and pretend as much as i can that shit isn’t breaking down when it very clearly is
@theorangetheme @cyberquixote @wrl @ladytel It is a flaw of my personality that I'm not prone to rage or anger, even when I ought to be. I just get sad instead.
At any rate: I've sort of come to terms with the fact that my job is going to go away, and that I will probably find myself below the relative poverty line - again. I've survived that before, though. If the AI ghouls don't manage to completely break down society, then I think I'll live.
However, I want to make weird computer art and as long as there are programmable computers that's what I'll do. Even if it turns out to be for an audience of 7 people.
@datarama @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel
Im just gonna go before I depress you further, because my vision of the future doesn’t see that as possibility, because the ruling class sees our very autonomy as a threat.
They will not rest until we are all accounted for. I only hope im dead by then.
If im lucky i will die peacefully in my sleep one night.
@datarama @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel
I live in America so put that away its not happening. Don’t give me false hope.
please
I remember when software engineering was a thing (like mechanical or civil engineering). I even moved far away from home specifically to study at a university that had developed a new program 3 years earlier. A bunch of the faculty had worked at nuclear plants, developed formal methods of verifiably correct software for safety critical systems.
It's been over 20 years. I wonder if that's still a thing now. Part of me still hopes so.
We’ve been Evicted. All the old keep the place going money needs are moot now.
Temporarily given sanctuary by a neighbor .
Anything.
Anything at all.
Would be a help at this point.
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Forget fold up phones! I want one that unrolls from both edges like an old timey scroll!
Bonus if you roll it back up by smacking it against your wrist.
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Hahaha different degrees of "old timey"
Just like different degrees of infinity 🤣
So since this morning I've been having this weird weakness in my arm. I figured it was possibly a result of the muscle relaxant I was prescribed last night, but I imagine that should be well out of my system by now. I called the telehealth system again and am currently waiting on a callback from a nurse—which should happen in the next couple hours.
It was suggested that I could use their online symptom assessment tool for faster advice, but after jumping through those hoops, all it tells me is "seek medical advice".
Umm... what exactly is it you think I've been doing all this time?
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Telehealth nurse: See a doctor within four hours.
ER nurse: Just so you know, we have an eight hour expected wait time.
Me: Neat. 🙃
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On call doctor wrote me a script for some muscle relaxants, but interestingly, during our consultation he seemed confused by the term "stimming".
The context was when he asked if I knew what brought it on, I said: "I do this thing when I get excited where I'll sort of tense all my muscles up for a second; it's kind of a stimming thing. I did that and there was a sudden sharp pain." I had to re explain this a couple times. I'm not quite sure he actually understood in the end.
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Me, I clap my hands rapidly for a few seconds, sometimes jumping from my seat.
When I say I clap my hands, I clap each of them, separately, though roughly in unison. My long fingers can flap nicely against my palms.
:-}
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if I could just hold my arm above my head 24/7, I wouldn't need to be dealing with any of this now. 🙃
I don't know why that makes the pain stop. 🤷♂️
Welp, I'm taking the first pill and calling it a night early. I held off as long as I could because I didn't want them to wear off in the middle of the night. The over over the counter stuff just isn't cutting it.
Goodnight, fedi.
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Awoken at 1:22AM by pain again.
Fuck.
Of course I would choose to clean my #FountainPens on the same day I cleaned the sink.
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Opened a brand new, factory sealed, bottle of metformin to immediately see a hair in the bottle.
How??
This does not instill confidence in their quality control process.
I don't normally get cereal but I got a free box of Cinnamon Crunch Special K. I just pour a little in a cup and eat them dry. Sometimes there's a weird nugget in the bottom. I spent 4-5 cups of this wondering if these manufacturing errors were safe to eat or just swept up of the floor before looking at the box to realize they're supposed to be there. They're the "crunch."
Low consumer confidence is not at all good for business. But they don't care because they know we don't have choices anymore.
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I don't know how many of us there are who straight up refuse to use Discord regardless of who wants us to and for what purpose. My biggest issue is the mystery meat navigation from one space to another powered by hastily created amateur icons with only tooltips for the NAME of the space. And no option to fix it.
To me a FOSS project on Discord is closed-development model. I will never participate, and everyone who is participating is a black box to me that outputs new free releases.
My biggest issue is simply that developers are demanding that I trust my security and privacy to a closed-source opaque Silicon Valley vendor who has a history of violating both. I must give this untrustworthy vendor unspecified access to my device via app APIs, my contact information, an unspecified amount of personal data, and… I may even be required to scan my government ID and send it to this company, depending on local legal jurisdiction and how the server is configured.
These are the requirements set by Discord before a user is allowed to READ (not even contribute or comment) the release notes, changelog, FAQs, closed support tickets, issue db, and any and all discussion surrounding your nominally open-source project.
“Oh, but a discord account is free” doesn’t even begin to cover the cost and friction you are imposing on your users by demanding they participate in this platform.
Seriously, why the F do even companies use Discord for support? There are just so many projects I can't in any way contact to inform them of bugs or etc for the sole simple reason they would require me to sign up for an enshittified network that steals my private info to sell without my permission and then jump through hoops to "join their server" (sometimes with specific requirements even to make a post.)
What the bleep happened to just having an e-mail account or one of those forms on a page? Why did everyone decide this was better? Heck, if you want constant live chat, why not use IRC? It has been around forever and has zero requirements. (You can even use a Javascript client on-page to connect to the right server and autojoin the right channel automatically.)
There's a notable privacy project that does all their dev discussion on Discord. I'm only interested in them because I won't go to Discord. It's pretty wild.
Not tagging them in because I did that and had a brief exchange with their Fedi account about it, which was highly unsatisfying and not worth repeating.
But I feels ya.
+ stop suggesting {Discord, Matrix, Fluxer, Stoat, basically any chat app} as a wiki/docs for your project.
Wikis and docs are one thing, your chats and forums should be a separate thing.
Well then.... How about Reddit?
/S
"we're open source"
"ok cool, i have a problem"
"oh just search the discord, there's a fix there"
open source done on the dark web is not open source, it's published source and a big fuck you to users
Stop
suggesting
Discord.
(was enough) ;)
Literally what advantage does Discord have over a good old Forum?
I have developed an appreciation for Forums because they are usually just hosted by the service provider, so there's no need to worry about corporations and making unnecessary accounts.
Company I work for spent half a million dollars on specialized printers. Two of them....
And the company official does support via mod tickets in discord....
also: stop using commercial and corporate social media as your only presence on the internet.
Since all these social medias will and definitely block your accounts if your behaviour isn't following their "guidelines" (read: "stay in line or we'll ruin your digital life")
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People keep doing the "when all you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail" thing, except that there are other tools, they just only want to use one.
Our apartment building does not have assigned parking. It's just kind of a free-for-all. Anyhow, some time between when we parked two days ago and just now, the spot we were parked in became one that requires an accessible parking permit.
Fortunately, we didn't get a ticket. That would've been an interesting one to fight.
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ok i'm now addicted to this website
Become one of the babies being born right now and live their whole life inside the real statistics of 172 countries. Where will you be born?1 in 8 Billion
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Yep. That's pretty cool.
I'm going to play with it more later.
What's the shortest your baby has lived and the longest you've had it live?
Curse you, I am crying now after fast forwarding through my guy's life.
I outlived my wife AND one of my twin daughters. Got to have three grandkids. Was broke almost the entire time, no complaints.
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@Jim P.hantom I woke up to the PHP thing this morning. All I'd heard at that point was "immediately shut down all PHP servers until a patch is available" and so, down went my fedi services until I could get a handle on what the hell was going on. Fortunately, patches were already available at that point.
0/10—would not recommend
Anyhow, back to running my daily backups/updates...
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
Also Denmark has a functioning free healthcare system.
Damn commie bastards!
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me: "I think my opsec could be better, i'm probably below average"
the industrial accident of a certificate authority: "our private key is 4"
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but do you do YOLO-Ops like this?
“The CRL's were signed with the original private keys (which were supposed to be the correct keys with appropriate entropy) but given that this resulted in incorrect signatures, they were resigned with flawed keys.”
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NEW (nobody) in CA Program - CA Certificate Compliance. Last updated 2026-10-20.bugzilla.mozilla.org
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A+ on trolling 😂 I love it.
These keys are not even things that live in a space where factoring is an operation that makes sense, and it's (RSA) public keys you'd factor, not private keys.
But yes, a QC might be able to factor 4=2*2 on a good day, if you tell it in advance to expect 4 as input. 🤡
Tell them to ask a dog for help:
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Prime factoring is one of the key algorithms to modern encryption security. Does it help if you use a dog?www.someweekendreading.blog
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The phrase "false peace" broke the light of day across my mind when I first heard it. It's white people's favorite thing.
Don't punish them. Don't hold them accountable. Don't ask for reparations. Don't fight them. Don't make them fight each other! Just let them hold power in perpetuity, which is the natural order of things in their minds, and if you have a grievance, you must convince them peacefully or not at all, at their leisure, when they deign to receive you.
People love to talk about MLK but nobody wants to talk about the Black Panthers anymore. They’re two sides of the same coin.
With that said, everyone needs to go vote!
Just in case anyone was unclear on the difference:
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Flagship S905X CC board for media, control, and production designs on mainline.libre.computer
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i've come up with a new versioning system for software, it's called cemetery versioning (cemver for short. pronounced the same as semver)
the version numbers have the form X.Y.Z where X, Y, and Z are natural numbers. there is no meaning attached to any of the numbers.
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Although, two notes:
One, I appreciate their use of the apostrophe.
Two, does that really look like a hornet's nest, or is it more like they used a beehive graphic and were all like, "Eh, close enough."
@PhoenixSerenity
Just leave them alone and then you won't need to 😛
I love our native hornets! They eat wasps... 🙃
(and the ones over here are really chill, our neighbour did move a nest to a different tree a while back, no stings)
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I'm sure everyone here has "the tech box": that box where you shove the miscelaneous cables and dongles and other crap that isn't currently being used but is too useful to just get rid of. In my case it had spilled over into multiple boxes and had just become a bit of a nightmare.
Anyhow, my parents were getting rid of this guy, so we took it home with us. Katy and I just spent the past hour meticulously going over every single item in our various tech boxes and cataloging them into a system inspired by the one described in @Cory Doctorow's book, Makers.* It's not quite so elaborate as in the book. It's just an org-mode document that tells me exactly which drawer each item is in—no fancy RFID tags, but they're not items with a lot of churn either, so it's fine. Got to admit, it was rather satisfying to my probably #AuDHD brain.
Anyhow, I present to you the new gay tech organizer.
* That system has lived rent free in my head since I read the book like a decade an a half ago.
Edit: I make one little edit to fix a typo (okay two typos) and then need like three more edits to fix the formatting errors those introduced. I'm fired.
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@tom grzybow It turns out I have stuff I didn't even remember getting. A handful of things got thrown out because I had no idea what they actually were.
We don't talk about the barrel jack adaptors...
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@Jonathan Frederickson I've used a similar system to help with packing when moving.
"Where's the spatula?"
"It's in one of the six boxes labeled kitchen."
vs.
"It's in box 21."
Game changer.
@Samuel Smith So long as there are no follow-up questions, I'm going to say "yes".
Nothing to see here.
For reals, though, I should look into that.
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My bulk mail folder sure has been a source of comedy gold lately. Just got an email offering to sell me a variant on a domain I already own for a mere USD 699. Apparently it's been offered to several other "matching businesses" and will be sold on a first come first served basis.
The best part: my registrar says it's available and I can have it for $17.99.
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So my knowledge of #ultraman is limited to the last few minutes of the episodes I've managed to catch before #monsterdon, and the only character whose name I know is Hayata*, but I can't wrap my brain around how nobody seems to have worked out that he's Ultraman.
* I guess there's also Cap (I assume short for captain). Does that count?
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Grocery store garlic still good after three years? I'm calling shennanigans!
Also, he must have some really impressive fuel stabilizer.
All his arable soil is devoted to gasoline berries
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"If you don't feel well, please go back to bed."
"I'm just a little tired is all."
You know what helps with that...?
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Germs do tend to be somewhat unreliable witnesses
"Mankind won't be destroyed. The fact that you and I are working here today is evidence of that."
For scientists, these guys seem to lack a grasp of basic logic.
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I mean, they got "you don't understand!" in there multiple times.
Remember kids: effective communication skills can save lives!
Got an email from a recruiter this morning. I thought it was for a position at a well-established company, and despite the yellow flags I decided to at least look into it.
It's clearly a different company than I thought, with a prominent typo right on their landing page (apparently they're a "worldwid" organization).
Also, they have both 10+ years of experience and were established in 2024? 🤷♂️
Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting.William Gibson
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When I first learned about CollapseOS four years ago, I thought that it's a very cool concept, but did find the idea "you'll have to implement from scratch everything in your computing stack" very disconnected from the reality. Like, what kind of plausible scenario could there be that one won't be able to get system software for their computer that they could trust to be of safe origin, free from backdoors and malware, and fit for the purpose, I thought.
Ha-ha.
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I keep thinking that the odds of that global supplychain collapse keep ticking up rapidly, but I didn't have "happily embrace slop" on my bingo card, that's for sure.
I thought surely, surely software developers of all people would realize that a brutally inefficient stochastic process was fundamently unfit for purpose but, no. Nooooooo.
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about a year ago I was writing in my head a blog post titled "I want retro computing without the retro", about designing stacks around standards minimal enough one person can make an MVP computing environment themselves.
I am now still wanting to write this but with increased urgency and slightly more of the stack needing to be single person 🙁
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@mcc @tkchia @joshg Portability, agreeing on a subset of interfaces, and not developing programs like there is just one target OS.
Now I'm not saying this is easy, or that it'll be possible to agree on a subset of specs and interfaces. But it does sound like the way to go to me, at least on a first sight.
@mcc @tkchia @joshg computers used to boot straight into a BASIC interpreter, and that was ok even for non-developper users. It had a good balance of protecting the machine and data from user errors, while not getting in the way (you can access all memory and execute arbitrary code, but the tystem is in ROM). And it provides an acceptaple learning curve
What would we use as a modern equivalent to this?
it's still on the bingo card. And chat control here/and in the EU. And then there's mandatory file scans on Android and iOS with reporting to police, still on the bingo cards.
And then there are Black Mirror like things that are already a reality. Like the marks printers leave on the paper for IDs. And unauthorised edits of images during printing. And camera applications that automatically "enhance" the image with un-disableable AI...
@mcc i love simple stacks.
I have a compiler project and I'm trying to avoid dependencies to make it easier to port to obscure custom operating systems at some point 😮
it's a shame that VESA, BIOS disk access, and other standards to make it easier to hand-roll your own kernel with minimal drivers seem to have gone out of fashion 😞
@mcc true, but i personally think 3d acceleration is overrated too.
I have WebGL disabled in my browser and I love software renderers! A ton of indie games could run just fine with a pure software renderer if they tried
(I realize others will consider 3d acceleration much more essential and that's fair, I suppose I have a privileged niche opinion)
@mcc I mean it depends. My machines are fast enough that pure software is enough, in my experience even something like a Raspberry Pi 5 is typically fast enough to do snappy software rendered UIs for a Full HD screen. (I don't use 4K because it just draws way more power with little improvement.)
Source: I've tried it, I remove all acceleration from a ton of apps entirely. And I scroll around in windows! I know that some of them didn't have 2D acceleration either because I wrote them.
@mcc That's sad to hear! Perhaps I judged wrongly then.
But I wonder, when you say videos, do you mean Youtube?
Youtube is a horrible website that causes a ton of extra draw rather than just the video playback itself. I would personally rather blame that on Youtube than the local software stack.
Some things that can help are 1. disable Youtube's ambient mode, 2. use an aggressive adblocker, 3. use an external client like freetubeapp.io to actually get decent performance.
FreeTube is a feature-rich and user-friendly YouTube client with a focus on privacy.freetubeapp.io
@mcc Software rendering will be a bit of a CPU hog for sure...
What I did experience on the Raspberry Pi 5 with software rendered apps is that they tend to lag a lot faster once I do stuff like e.g. compiling software.
Would be lying if I claimed it bothered me much, though. 👀 Perhaps it is because I grew up with Windows 98? You would see similar effects back then and it was just normal.
I don't WANT to reimplement everything. I just think it's bad to forget how things are done. And we look for permission to do that. As soon as computers get more convenient. It releases those feel-good endorphins that you no longer have to be on edge and actively keeping difficult-to-juggle-knowledge in your immediate working store. And then you get complacent.
I know I did/have :/.
@cr1901 I have a bone deep need to have the *ability* to reimplement everything. I want to know I know how to do it. Nevertheless there are some layers in the stack I didn't actually want to implement.
2025-me was excited about making her own CPU and GPU and her own programming language to write programs that run on them. But I thought I'd be able to write those programs on some other operating system someone else wrote with a text editor someone else wrote.
The idea is still unbelievably disconnected from the reality.
I say as someone who literally has only 3-5 hours of free time outside of work to do with as I will, with a body and a mind that are both so utterly exhausted at the end of each day that I go blurry-eyed and foggy-brained when I look at a single line of code or an electrical component data sheet or any page of API documentation no matter how well-written it may be.
I've honestly gotten to the point of just.... giving up.
I simply can't afford to invest any of my limited time or spoons into caring about the provenance of the codebase anymore.
If it works, it works. That's all I have time and spoons to care about now.
Yeah, I didn't want to spoil their fun...
"collapse computing" will likely be adapting to whatever crap used hardware you can get your hands on, and adapting to it. Lol we're close enough to that now to be able to pre-taste it.
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I was once among those paranoid folks who believe that one day all software and hardware we can legally use will be backdoored by the government. And we'd have to purchase old hardware from black market to run free software.
Well, it's a different kind of "collapse", but certainly possible 😀
@cismonx Start stockpiling pre-ban hardware now. Same thing gun collectors do when new limits on magazine capacity or "assault" weapons get proposed.
Like guns it takes a very long time for every last pre-ban machine to die of electromigration. Should take longer than the remaining term in office of those voting for the bans
at this point I sometimes spend a few thought-cycles fantasizing about which materials other than UV-etched silicon a CPU-like thing could be made of, both for maybe-someday writing sci-fi reasons but also because I don't have a clean room or a silicon mine at home, and every time I get an urge to finally design my own PCB just for the sake of having done that, I'm reminded of how dependent that kind of thing is on so many huge global supply chains.
I think before I go too far in that direction I'll first try to formalize some algorithms-run-over-human-groups stuff as a thing that can reassure me my skills won't be useless in an apocalypse.
Dusk OS is a 32-bit Forth and big brother to Collapse OS. Its primary purpose
is to be maximally useful during the first stage of civilizational collapse,
that is, when we can't produce modern computers anymore but that there's still
many modern computers around.
huh, I wonder what's practically going on right now
In all seriousness, I used to think it was very disconnected from reality until I saw this post, then looked at Dusk OS, an OS related to CollapseOS.
Clearly, this is for the long haul.
There's always someone who sees what's coming before you do.
The important thing is to accept this rather than do everything to hide from admitting they were right.
Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting.William Gibson
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The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. More information on the [novel's official page][1]. [1]: http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/neuromancer.aspWilliam F. Gibson
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@govardhana Here you go.
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 • • •"ethical" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
If my encounters contribute to statistics, we're in trouble.
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in reply to NadiaPurge • • •@NadiaPurge "Ethical" just means you follow a set of ethics. You can change the set of ethics. You can follow ethics that only a monster would follow and you're still "ethical". See every CEO on the fucking planet.
They've sufficiently altered the ethics of the situation that I doubt very much they'll be held to account for anything. "De-identified" info is used and shared quite regularly in medical research. Generally with permission but some fighting that as "too costly".
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 • • •"Here's the collected works of Eric Berne and Claude Steiner"
"Now go hack people" /s
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 • • •I'm in software. I share those feelings. based on my experience, you can count on large organizations to say "we're taking a cautious approach to AI (so go ahead and use this AI product! the company told us it's fine)"
I've had luck convincing non technical people of technical truths by appealing to their personal values. what do you value about being a therapist, that's put at risk by AI ingesting notes?
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 • • •Holy. Smokes. That's horrible.
Edit: as in, we live in a currently horrible world and my horrible meter sensitivity has been adjusted accordingly, and I'm still horrified by this.
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 • • •Al Dimond
in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 • • •i guess the implication is that they're training a therapist-bot... even if this was ethically OK to do, what would it allow them to do? if they just see notes without observing what led to them they can't even *infer* the logic behind the notes. they can only learn to imitate the language and style.
what could possibly be the point of that? a machine that produces plausible-sounding notes and reports that aren't grounded in experience or judgment?
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 • • •When they came for the coders, I did not speak out, because I was not a coder.
When they came for the maths, I did not speak out, because I was not a mathematician.
When they came for the doctors...
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in reply to Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 • • •The more help these companies get the worse it is for the rest of us.