I don't need an air quality report to tell me things are bad right now. I can see haziness in the air when looking at things that are less than a block away.
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Just found doilies at the local No Frillsโข.
I'm not going to tell them what to stock, but I feel I should point out that this is the literal definition of a frill.
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Kitchener Public Library has discontinued their 3D printer program, but Waterloo Public Library hasn't.
In other news, I now have a custom phone holder for the car.
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I'm getting old. Every time I get up from sitting today, my back screams at me.
I am flatly uninterested in letting an LLM execute arbitrary code as my user account on my laptop and maybe even sudo to root are you people fucking nuts
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Iโm officially done with takes on AI beginning โEthical concerns asideโฆโ.
No! Stop right there.
Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Letโs get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.
Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.
It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.
What you mean is โI donโt want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.โ
Say that first.
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A small one of the myriad reasons I care is personal: every time you use spicy autocomplete to do any coding, it has been trained on source code that I have made available under specific licenses, and your use of my code does not happen under the terms of these licenses. So youโre stealing from me and my friends and thatโs not a great start to the conversation of validating your greed โ๏ธ
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> If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file
TIL my local grocer uses network connected e-ink displays for price tags. I just watched all the prices in a whole aisle change before my eyes.
That was... creepy.
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A thing that's always bothered me about Star Trek:
They always talk about the Alpha quadrant, Delta quadrant, etc. Space is three-dimensional. Shouldn't they be octants?
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They are only talking about our galaxy, the Milky Way. It's more like a disc than a sphere. So I find the quadrant nomenclature satisfactory.
Went to the emergency room today (everyone's fine) to discover that the two main hospitals in town have merged.
Me: Hmm... I wonder what the implications of this are going to be.
First words out of the doctor's mouth when he sees us: Are you okay with us using AI to record and transcribe this conversation?
Me: เฒ _เฒ
loooll
"ok yeah send my private medical info to a foreign corporation, go ahead"
/s
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So, I've recently learned that solo RPGs... exist.
This is going to be bad for my bank account.
I wonder if there's a market for someone who can convert a schematic drawing (or rough sketch) to an STL file for #3DPrinting on a freelance basis. I'm getting to be pretty decent at it, and it's kinda fun.
I'm pretty sure there's probably already some AI garbage that purports to do so.
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Setting up a #Windows machine for the first time in forever. I've been out of the game for a while. What, if any, antivirus is decent these days?
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@Jonathan Lamothe when I did use microsoft I just used the microsoft virus checker. But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software. So, the only way to stop the viruses is to stop using Microsoft. That is the only real solution.
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But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software.
Can you... elaborate on that one?
@Jonathan Lamothe I have used several operating systems such as Linux, which had no problem stopping viruses on the same machines as Microsoft. If they could do it, Microsoft could easily have stopped viruses. We might have accepted a transitory issue when viruses first appeared, but not a continued issue that continue despite many updates. The truth is Microsoft did very well from all the viruses, because they were used to deter people from trying non "official" microsoft software. That put Microsoft in a very dominant position and that is what made it so much money from some of the crappiest software on the planet.
Cleaning and re-inking my #FountainPens and I managed to spill one of my favourite Inkvent sample bottles. Fortunately, I somehow managed to save the majority of the ink. Don't ask me how.
I guess it's gonna be one of those days...
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@A Fine Day For Mischief ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ Sadly, I already cleaned it. Luckily, I had a protective mat on the desk. I could show you my inky hands, bit that's just an everyday occurrence around here.
I love marketing.
"We're committed to reduce our carbon footprint by shipping directly from the manufacturer to the consumer."
Sooo... drop shipping then? That's one way to spin it, I guess.
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I'm particular about my morning coffee. I always have 170g of coffee to 15g of flavouring syrup. (I used to drink double that, but I'm trying to keep the stimulants down.) The ratio is important.
Every now and again (like this morning) I accidentally overshoot on the syrup and have to adjust the amount of coffee to compensate.
This means, I get extra coffee (yay!) but I have to do semi-complicated math before my morning coffee, which is a little annoying.
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Nothing like getting all cozy and bundled up in a hammock with a book only to realize you've forgotten your glasses.
A slightly weird request: maybe someone among my mutuals is interested in staying at our place in South Wales for a few days to help us organise a hobbyist lab space at home? Vegetarian foods are on me, other than that, we can discuss ๐
An opportunity to touch many vintage computers, try some simple scientific experiments, and maybe design a PCB or two.
You'd think it's easy to find someone who would be happy to help, especially if you offer people money, but no ๐
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The human brain did not evolve to handle a massive amount of misinformation.
It evolved to more or less believe what itโs told, because the community/tribe is focused on the survival of all together.
Social tools let it know who was the most trustworthy.
But overall if someone said
โthatโs poisonousโ or
โdanger that way,โ they meant it!
Not to oversimplify, but I really get why weโre struggling as a species with misinformation.
EVERYONE NEEDS ACCOMMODATIONS TO HANDLE MODERN LIFE
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Critical thinking is a skill you can't outsource, and it used to be taught in public schools.
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@BoydStephenSmithJr even so, thereโs (some, needs replicating iirc) evidence that the human brain immediately accepts/believes everything it hears, and THEN begins a process of critical thinking.
So for people who are busy, overwhelmed, distracted, stressedโฆ that critical thinking mechanism may not have time or energy to function well.
Itโs easy for me as someone with enormous capacity for data & internal processing to forget itโs really not easy!
I didn't mean to claim it was easy, or to really put any blame on someone that fails to think critically. It is an acquired skill, and yes, there is evidence that it runs counter to our instinct / reflexive behaviors.
I just wanted to emphasize that (a) you can't depend on Google, AI, your Bubble, or _anything_ external to do it for you, and (b) we *should* try to skill people up on it as a public good like society did at some points in the past.
It's especially important when you are spreading information to try to think critically about it first, because some of your audience/followers/community might not be in the best condition to engage their own critical thinking skills.
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@BoydStephenSmithJr Admittedly, not a given these days, but my daughter, who teaches 7th grade history, says this: โI donโt care ultimately if you know if Attila the Hun invaded Europe in 952 AD, as long as youโre able to exercise critical thinking skills.โ Thatโs her number one goal.
I hope thereโs thousands more like her.
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PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains
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Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt:
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@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
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Current status: running a modified mand.c on the Decwriter II
Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
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@via unreachable The one in the Debian repositories can't. It looks like ASCII (actually CP437) but they're weirdly graphical tiles.
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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In order to stave off stress I quit caring how long I take or off I mess up I apologize. I still have phone avoidance and prefer text.
I have one group Iโm a member of and they have all their videos up. I donโt mind one on one calls as long as I know the person is neurodivergent and they know what that means to them.
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Thanks Amy!
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