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My dude, I know. The sky is yellow.
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I’m sorry, but I see the BSD license as misguided.
The argument for it is sound, but it doesn’t protect the commons, and what we need now more than ever is a thriving and protected commons.
“High quality software should be universally available” is noble. “Software we depend on shouldn’t be vulnerable to theft” is pragmatic.
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I realize I’ve made an argument that the free software weirdos are pragmatic but the future is weird
There is no "theft" if the original is still there.
Your license *cannot* protect your software from a corpo taking it. You can't afford to sue, even if you find out. Roku proved GPL is meaningless.
What you can do is keep your software free for real people (not corpos) to use. BSD does that better than GPL, which can only be used in GPL-specific projects.
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@mdhughes That doesn’t make it meaningless. Blender, Krita and other projects endure only because of the GPL.
Code only being usable in GPL projects is the entry price of a better model.
If a corpo can effectively destroy the open development of a specific software, they’ve stolen it. Changing the license on blender and using coercive tactics against the original, if those tactics are successful, would be effectively stealing it from the commons.
BSD doesn’t survive that threat.
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Blender & Krita would be just as free under BSD. There might be "pro" closed-source versions, but the originals would still be there.
How can a corpo destroy a project? MS wants a paint program, they'll steal whatever they want GPL or BSD, or generate slop copied from them. The original is STILL THERE. Where do you think BSD projects go when someone copies them?
"OH guess they own us now!" is not how anyone reacts when corpo copies their code. More like "Good luck with that!"
@mdhughes BSD has though. macOS uses FreeBSD code extensively.
SPICE is still around even if there’s a huge number of forks.
The thing about GPL is… well, it is supposed to force companies to give back
It doesn’t say that what they give back is useful
Example: a TON of “open-source” corporate Linux kernel code is slop that is essentially useless, they do the dumbest thing that works
@Elizafox And, Apple doesn't do too badly at keeping their BSD stuff open source:
opensource.apple.com
Does have most of their tools, and updates where possible/relevant. You can build opendarwin, tho it's not super useful when FreeBSD, etc. exist.
I’m not really interested in debating which software is more “free” but is more resilient to modern tactics.
A BSD-licensed or MIT-licensed project is vulnerable to a CLA being instituted assigning copyright, and an eventual rug-pull in which multiple years of development is retroactively not BSD licensed.
It’s not trivial to pull this off, but GPL licensed code just doesn’t have this weakness.
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I just saw a video of an AI executive saying that people will connect their brains to the cloud so they can have 1,000 times more thoughts.
Neurotypical people. Please listen to me. I promise you, with all the ADHD in my body-
You really do not want 1,000 more thoughts.
You may think you do, but you extremely do not.
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just try 1000 times more thoughts
you certainly will not regret 1000 times more thoughts
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Most of those thoughts are going to be really stupid or irritating!
100% for sure.
@forestine They really want to be us but being us is hard. 😱
stolen valor 😛
on the other hand, I fully endorse AI executives plugging their brains into experimental brain modification equipment.
@itsmaya They can absolutely have at it lmao
@itsmaya the ineffectual force meets a nonexistent object
@itsmaya
Are you sure? They have money. Lots.
Are you sure? They have money. Lots.
I used to self-medicate with alcohol for exactly this reason: decrease the number of thoughts at once so I could actually do and enjoy things!
You know, if they think having a bunch more thoughts and ideas on their team will help, they could just try actually employing ADHD people and giving us accommodations so we can stay in the jobs. I was terminated from a job back in 2022 because I struggled to meet the deliverables they first intended in the job description for my role as a researcher, but I brought in new contracts worth tens of thousands of dollars and did other types of thought-partner work that was way outside my description...which they did not value one bit.
@JoscelynTransient That's why I take weed! Gotta reduce the thoughts down to something manageable.
Sorry you got shafted at work. 💗
I hope someone appreciates you properly soon.
They really do be saying the incomprehensible stupid and wild things to try to remain relevant.
I agree, they don't want that many thoughts per second, hour, or whatever metric the AI Chud was peddling.
I have to take medication to sleep because my brain is too active at night. During the day, I'm prone to daydreaming because of it (there's also the anxiety 😭).
These chuds need to wake the fuck up.
I took two seconds to imagine someone with anxiety and/or depression having this and, 😬 holy shit no, this would kill people
I am urging AI Executives everywhere to attempt to have one thought that is not about money. Maybe try having a Creative Thought?
a thousand times, yes! An overactive mind is a fucking curse.
Trying to go to sleep is quite the job! ☹️
Sorry to say, but I would absolutely do this! Judging by the comments here, I'm one of the lucky ones who found a balance with intrusive thoughts and makes use of the noise in my head for everyday life. Yeah ok I have a million unfinished projects lying around, but man, if I could use that computing power when I'm hyper-focused on a subject..!
@Shdwdrgn Counter argHOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREAument, I think we haNEVER TRUST THIS ONE VEGITABLEve proven whCANDY CRUSH DOWNLOADy that is a terNEED MORE THOUGHT TIME? GET THOUGHTS PLUS FOR ONLY 29.99 A WEEKrible idea.
Nobody wants to smoke whatever that AI executive is on, when s/he claimed that AI will help people connect their brains to the cloud and increase their thoughts a thousand-fold. The guy needs to be in a padded cell, not running a business.
Since this AI executive seems addicted to science fiction, I suggest he rewatch what happens to Cate Blanchett's character at the end of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.
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I saw "connect their brains to the cloud" and thought of Microsoft introducing opt-out OneDrive sync for your brain
AI execs want everyone to connect the brain to the cloud so they can future monetize the 4 low level thoughts neurotypicals like me actually have in a day. The "we own everything and you only rent it" agenda for the human mind.
They think it’ll turn them into “Lucy”, but it’ll be more like “The Terminal Man”.
not only do I NOT want 1,000 more thoughts, they can have the ones I have now. Take my thoughts.
Please.
Please.
i have plenty of spare thoughts lying around to donate to the neurotypical folks if they want to try the ADHD Experience™
what 1000 multiplied by zero, someone should have asked that CEO...
Insert Jack Nicholson “You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" meme here.
If I were to stick a computer in my brain it would be to serve as an outlet for more of the thoughts I already have. That and an interface to OpenStreetMap. (I wouldn't actually trust any entity existing under capitalism to make a computer I'd put in my head)
I think it says more about how completely devoid of thoughts an AI executive is. Just an empty zombie with no ability to come up with any thoughts on their own any more.
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You know how there are weird tricks with computer stuff that you think everyone knows but they don't? I live learning and teaching new things like those when they come up.
Today's was the carat substitution in bash. It probably works in other shells too but IDK, I'm too old to learn a new shell.
The way it works is fairly similar to the / in sed or similar. You can use them to run the previous command but with a string substitution.
For example, let's say I entered this command:
dig A cascadiacrow.org
When it fails to resolve, I realize it was a .com domain. Rather than retyping the command, or hitting the up arrow to change the previous command, you could do this:
^org^com^
And it would run:
dig A cascadiacrow.com
Kind of cool with those one liners you spend way too much time on and find a typo.
Anyway, I used it and someone thought it was magic so if it's new to you too, happy Monday.
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I’m a big fan of ‘!!’, which runs the previous command again.
Permission denied?! Fine! ‘sudo !!’
@bob_zim Yes! I use that one all the time too.
@bob_zim I just always wish ^com^org^g worked. It takes me forever to remember
!!:gs/com/org/
and usually requires a reminder from stack overflow
@bob_zim
I also like using history for that.
Run 'history', find the line number for the command you want, then type ! followed by that number, eg: !233 or something.
@bruce @bob_zim Speaking of history, at least in bash, if you put one or more spaces before your command, that command does NOT get saved to your command history. 👻
This is sometimes useful when you have to repeatedly run a very long command and then want to do a one-time test of some variation of it without breaking your "up+enter" flow.
@drwho @bob_zim github.com/nvbn/thefuck
GitHub - nvbn/thefuck: Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
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@bob_zim An 'onomatopoeia' is when the word sounds like the sound it describes. Anyone know if there's a term for something resembling the emotion it conveys?
"!!" to mean "do what I told you last time again" seems to perfectly capture the spirit in which it is likely to be written.
@coppercauldronart@sunny.garden waow
I like using $_ in bash
It refers to the final argument of the last command, useful when such argument is very long, like:
mkdir /var/log/very/long/dir/path
chmod 2750 $_
cd $_
There $_ holds /var/log/very/long/dir/path
When writing this, I was thinking that something feels special about it, and just remembered that this is a trick that a human being taught me years ago, not something I read in a manual.
@donelias
Fun fact: on the surface, both `!$` and `$_` seem to do the same thing, pop the last argument of the previous command, but the former brings it up **after shell expansion** while the latter brings it up **before shell expansion**.
For example:
```
~$ ls fooba*
test1
test2
test3
~$ ls !$
test1
test2
test3
~$ ls $_
ls: fooba*: No such file or directory
```
Or even more speaking:
```
~$ echo "$(date -z UTC)"
Tue Jul 14 14:48:25 UTC 2026
# wait a few seconds
~$ echo 'With $_\t' $_ '\nWith !$\t' !$
With $_ Tue Jul 14 14:48:25 UTC 2026
With !$ Tue Jul 14 14:48:39 UTC 2026
```
Here, `$_` was expanded to what was actually received by the command, whereas `!$` was expanded to what you actually typed, before the shell interpreted it.
@cR0w
@donelias Nice. Funny thing is that about the only time I remember to use that one is when I
mkdir and wand to cd to it, just like your example. Otherwise I forget about it until I use Powershell again.
@donelias I use !$ for that, or !!* for all the arguments, or !!:n for argument[n]. Or !?blah?:n for argument[n] from the last command containing "blah".
@donelias jfc I always forget this.
Also reading the bash docs: why tf would I ever need this feature.. oh right..
Neat, I learned something today!
Thank you for this! I keep meaning to look this up since I knew something like it existed but I have let it slip my mind for years.
@aredridel No problem. I'm a lot more solo than I used to be so I often forget how much we can learn from each other, especially the little things like that. Those things were some of my favorite parts of teaching.
That's from csh, fwiw, as is the !-style history expansion. csh is thankfully forgotten by most people but it introduced a lot of user interface improvements in the days before everyone had addressable-cursor video display terminals.
@wollman Neat. I did not know that.
@wollman Interactively, I still use tcsh (which I believe added to csh in-place command-line editing and a few other things bash brought into sh-land), almost entirely because there’s no way to make bash not beep when there are multiple possible auto-complete options. For any actual scripting, I (mostly) use bash.
@wollman tcsh remains my preferred interactive shell, and allows all the above tricks. Yes, I am old!
!$ and !! and up-arrow and history and !nnn (for history entry nnn) are probably the ones I use most, many many times each day.
yep it's new to me, thanks! happy monday (tuesday in my part of the world)
I dig this command 😀
if you type Alt+Dot (or Esc,Dot), it shows the previous command's final argument. Do it again for the command before that.
Alt+{2,Dot} (holding Alt, press 2 then Dot) gets the penultimate argument. Keep holding Alt so you can press Dot to go to older commands.
#bash & #zsh. Note, some terminals don't support the Alt implementation. Esc can't enumerate.
this is amazing! Please more of this!
I love carat substitution! At $CURRENT_JOB zsh is the recommended default, carat substitution also works but doesn’t run immediately- the substituted command line is ready for you to hit Enter but you can also modify it, or abort it, if you want
@elblivion Oh that's kind of cool. So you can do a double check before executing.
@elblivion if you prefer to view the resulting command before running it,
gnu.org/software/bash/manual/h…
shopt -s histverify. Or to reëdit a failed substitution, shopt -s histreedit.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/h…
> I'm too old to learn a new shell.
Progression be like:
I'm too old to learn anew.
I'm too old to learn.
I'm too old.
edit: by the way, the string substitution in bash is probably the Never Ending Story (wouwo wouwo wouwooo) in terms of how many ways one can do that.
And yes, i didn't know that one. Handy 👍🏻
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that is magic ... And here I've been mostly just deleting and retyping all these years
You might love "fc" (fix command), it drops you in your $EDITOR with the last command line to edit and runs it when you save and exit.
@schnittchen hah, annoyingly I did not see your reply - mine later in the thread is almost identical ...
@schnittchen Nice. That's a new one to me.
originated in csh, later adopted in bash
fc ("fix command") - if you have been editing a command-line and it's gotten complex (we've all been there) then this will open an editor to let you work on it. close the editor and bash will then execute the edited command
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@mherbert You're the second one to recommend that one in this thread. I guess I really should give it a try. Thanks.
I use this a lot to take a command that's gotten too big to edit comfortably, use the $EDITOR of my choice to reformat and then save as a small shell script, very handy
I was lucky enough to learn the carat subst. early fr a book 👍. Used it a Lot. And History is a great cheat/help ! tcsh was definitely preferred at the last place I worked.
i can confirm that the tilde trick works in zsh, too, at least for me; it probably depends on your config file.
!! works too, but !$ does not. of course you can probably use the tilde trick, instead.
I been using Linux for 15 years, didn't know this was a thing.
not new to me. But thank you!
Brings up long forgotten memories of learning shell at university where we didn’t have full screen editing. !, !!, ^, and ex were regular friends.
that’s a caret not a carat.
@RichardBuckle Good catch. Not sure why I used the other one. I don't even mess with gold or jewels or anything.
thanks, did not know this trick.
One that I use to share - the comma. It can be used in a lot of places in a "from - to" mode.
mv file.txt{,md} == rename
mv file{.txt,} == strip
mv file{,.txt} == unstrip
...etc. Not a secret, useful in all sorts of work.
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You're aware of Oh Shit ?
github.com/watzon/ohshit
github.com/watzon/ohshit
GitHub - watzon/ohshit: Oh Shit! is the command fixer you didn't know you needed. Inspired by thefuck.
Oh Shit! is the command fixer you didn't know you needed. Inspired by thefuck. - watzon/ohshitGitHub
@lienrag Nice! When I was teaching, I showed students
thefuck and they thought it was fun.
Two favorites of mine are “alt + .” to get the previous (repeatable) *last* argument, and using fzf to get a fuzzy history search.
Another useful shortcut ist ^X-e, or ^X-^E (depends on shell, and possibly terminal emulator) to open $EDITOR for readable multi-line commands
I learned this in like 1989 and never remembered how to do it until you reminded me.
Oh this will be very useful! Thanks!
I've played around briefly and found that if there's more than one match it only substitutes the first one. Are there options to do more, or am I getting greedy?
@uastronomer I think some shells allow you to number it at the end like
sed. So something like ^foo^bar^3 but I don't remember for sure. I'll try to remember to play around with it later.
Bash history expansion always looked very powerful, but also very complex at the same time, so I didn’t bother learning it.
This particular shortcut looks like it can be useful, that being said.
@breizh Most of the Bash stuff is pretty simple but when a grey beard tries to explain it with their experience, it usually gets complex fast.
also check out theFuck
github.com/nvbn/thefuck
github.com/nvbn/thefuck
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Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command. - nvbn/thefuckGitHub
@cy I used this when I was teaching. Students enjoyed it.
This is a cool trick!
One note: When I shared it, one of my followers felt like there was an implication here that Bash/shell scripting is more widely used than it is. (The xkcd "we forget most people only know x, y, and of course z" strikes again).
Would it be possible to rephrase this slightly to emphasise this toot is specifically targeted at people who know Bash?
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@brib I tried:
Today's was the carat substitution in bash. It probably works in other shells too but IDK, I'm too old to learn a new shell.
I just confirmed it works on zsh too. Thank you! Saved me some typing already!
when I need to do substitutions or otherwise want to push bash to its limits, my first reference was always the Bash Hacker's Wiki, which is now defunct but I'm thankful for flokoe for being back the content: flokoe.github.io/bash-hackers-…
my favorite bash trick, for when you've really boned up and deleted ls: echo *
(echo is a built-in and the shell handles the wildcard internally)
@jordan How many times have you deleted
ls? 😅
everyone should read this classic story if you haven't seen it ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/rec…
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@jordan I had that issue upgrading Ubuntu to 26.04 (from a much older release), which moved from GNU to UUtils Coreutils but forgot to install the replacement. I went to the old standby of echo * but then also remembered that Debian systems all include BusyBox. Just run busybox ls instead.
This was essential as various dpkg post install scripts needed ln, cp, rm, and more, so I temporarily symlinked (busybox ln …) these commands, in /bin, to busybox. Voila, the upgrade could complete.
you can WHAT. Insane, thanks for sharing this
my *sh secret is @atuin
Huh.
zsh has !!:s/org/com/ . I don't know if it does the caret thing.
Have you got a window somewhere off screen in Windows, where you can't grab it with the mouse to drag it around?
This has worked since windows 3.x, possibly earlier: Alt+Space, m, tap an arrow key, then move your mouse. Tapping an arrow key "sticks" the window to your mouse cursor.
If this didn't work, the window might be maximized and needs to be Restored first: Alt+Space, R. Then do the above.
@xabean That's one I won't remember but super cool. Thanks.
@xabean Use this all the time! Before they removed the feature, I also used to use "Cascade Windows" from the task bar when this happened.
The cascade button also worked for hidden dialog boxes. Still haven't found a replacement for that trick with regard to those.
@xabean From Windows 7 onwards it's even simpler – hold down Win key and press ← or → a few times.
I hope everyone knows ctrl-a throws you to beginning of the line & ctrl-e to the end.
> + I was too lazy for any of the "sudo !!" solutions, I mostly realize that I forgot sudo _while_ typing the command. So bound that to double-esc (also brings last command if prompt is empty):
zsh: paste.gurkan.in/nonundulating-…
bash: paste.gurkan.in/unconcentrativ… (not tested as much, only if I have to 
)
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thats a good one. Thanks
This thread is 🔥!
I want to throw {} expansion into the ring:
E.g `ls file.{c,h}` expands the file argument once with c, then with h, so effectively running `ls file.c file.h`.
Very useful for comparing the same file in different folders: `diff -u {old,new}/somefile.ext`.
And much more targeted than most globbing, e.g. `git add file.*` usally complains about my vi backup files but `git add file.{c,h,proto}` targets exactly what I want.
E.g `ls file.{c,h}` expands the file argument once with c, then with h, so effectively running `ls file.c file.h`.
Very useful for comparing the same file in different folders: `diff -u {old,new}/somefile.ext`.
And much more targeted than most globbing, e.g. `git add file.*` usally complains about my vi backup files but `git add file.{c,h,proto}` targets exactly what I want.
@astifter I love using expansion for that kind of stuff. Also
for loops.
@astifter this is about as much as I have in long term memory for expansion haha
tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/paramete… also honorable mention for substitution which in my opinion is second only to `trap` for being the most arcane but useful thing.
did not know this. Thank you
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Still my favorite lesser known Bash feature is glob expansion during editing. Type ``` echo *.txt ``` And then press Ctrl-X followed by star, expression will be expanded and then you can remove items you'd like to exclude (either inside bash or pre…BEDNAR~1 (Infosec Exchange)
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CTRL + A (beginning of line), CTRL + E end of line, CTRL + K (kill, erase to the end of the line), CTRL + D (delete a character forward).
These are pretty common but I only learned some of them from Emacs.
and CTRL + N and P (next and previous) as a replacement for arrow down and arrow up. Works on text editors and menus and is more comfortable on most keyboards. (yes, delete and draft just screwed me over)
@Sharkfie @:rainbowCrow: The one of these that was the biggest game changer for me is CTRL + R to search backward through my command history.
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I learned this trick in the early 1980s at DEC, from Ken Arnold, who was in my department. Except Ken used the comma character instead of carat, saving a few keystrokes. The magic in .login is:
set histchars=\!,
(cshrc / tchsrc syntax, not bash.) I have carried this incantation forward in all my Unix-like environments for 40+ years.
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Let's say you have two container runtime engines but you want to prefer one over the other:
which podman docker | head -n1
This will prefer whichever is first in the list, podman, in this case. Why is it useful? Say you're creating a Makefile and you need to interact with a container. Some people use podman and others use docker. In your Makefile you can put:
CONTAINER_RUNTIME ?= $(shell which podman docker | head -n1)
Then you can refer to $(CONTAINER_RUNTIME) in the Makefile target to use either podman or docker, (or something else, but that's for another toot).
(as a disclaimer, I work for Red Hat, which maintains Podman, but I do not work on that team.)
Another one:
Let's say that you sometimes have to paste sensitive things into your terminal, like login strings, or credentials.
If you paste them in normally, they'll show up in your history, and that could be bad. That can be mitigated to some extent in Bourne shell with:
export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace
Now, you can put a leading space in front of your sensitive command and it won't show up in your history:
` curl -u username:password https://www.example.com/login`
(put in backticks to make it obvious there's a leading space)
@thedoh on macOS you can run something like
eval $(pbpaste)
to run what’s in your clipboard without the command itself going in your history. You sometimes need “s around the parameter (like if it’s multiline maybe?). I’m sure Linux has an equivalent to pbpaste, but I don’t know what it is.
@jamesoff This one you have to be careful of because it can open you up to clipboard shenanigans, but it's a good one!
A favourite of mine is related to that:
some-command | pbcopy
@thedoh yeah I use that a bunch too 😀
And of course, only for clipboard contents you trust. I mostly use it for things like setting temp AWS creds vended by a portal (for times I don’t have sso or other mechanisms)
My favorite that most people don't seem to know is that substitution in sed (and vim) doesn't require slashes.
Most people use something like 's/search/replace/'
But you can use any character for the delimiters, such as: 's#search#replace#'
This is very handy when editing paths or anything else with slashes in the search or replace text.
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@erikosterholm Thanks! I didn't know it either.
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You mean to tell me that replacing doesn't need a convoluted string of escape characters?!?!!?
wtf
@erikosterholm I usually use commas.
This also works in perl (everywhere where slashes are used; for bare matching, you can use $m =~ m,whatever,; in place of $m =~ /whatever/).
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this one is older than bash – I used it in csh (frequently, as csh didn't have arrows).
you’ve heard of ‘syntactic sugars’ now get a load of #shellSugars
First time doom-scrolling on Mastodon for me. You're all amazing!
Will have to invest my first 2 hours at work tomorrow to keep up with the replies.
@TFG I did not realize how many nerds had pent up tricks they needed to share. I absolutely love it.
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Root #monsterdon post #Wolfen1981
I watched the Wolfen 1981 movie last night. It's great.
@Ivy Blackledge Whitfield 2026 I sometines forget my posts federate to Diaspora* as well.
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Well, this movie is officially a fever dream. #monsterdon
Was that a keg on the police car? #monsterdon
Well that was some impressive nonsense technology. #monsterdon
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Dear @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻,
If the official solution to a file getting randomly locked is to shut the whole server down and then manually edit the database, something's been done wrong. If this were to happen to a random non-admin user, they'd have no solution (other than pinging their sysadmin). The owner of a file should be able to manually clear its lock if necessary.
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I've been thinking about #bicycling in the oppressive heat we've had lately. I wondered if there was a way to rig up some kind of fan that would be powered by the pedals to create a nice airflow as I rode.
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Then I realized what a ridiculous idea this was.
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Some of the world's brightest minds have the knowledge and skills to heal our #planet yet many spend their talents creating technologies for conflicts instead of solutions for humanity.
Imagine if that same innovation was used to restore nature, fight hunger, and build peace.🤔
The world needs wisdom that serves life, not destruction.
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So, there's apparently a free #bicycle #repair thing going on at #VictoriaPark today, but it's currently 29°C out, so I don't know if I'll be up for biking out there today. There's a reason @Katy Lamothe and I have been biking at night. #KWAwesome
@Katy Lamothe Besides, my bike's in somewhat decent shape. I think it just needs some minor adjustments.
Check out Red Racoon. They do that regularly. 😀🚴♀️❤️
@Mark Connolly @Katy Lamothe I think it's run by them. It's apparently an evey Saturday thing.
Yeah, that’s my understanding. And they do it ad hoc at other locations too. Fantastic people 😀🚴♀️❤️
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Wow. They are doing a great job.
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@Derek_DIY Right? It’s such a fantastic organization!
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A GPU doing matrix multiplication will never be conscious
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@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) I came across my first love lock a few days ago. I'd seen it a few times, but wasn't carrying my tools. I finally remembered to bring them with me today only to find that the keyway seemed to be filled with some sort of glue?
Have you encountered this before? Is there any hope of non-destructive opening left? I imagine probably not (especially at my current skill level).
I'm clearly not the first person who's tried to open it. It's in pretty rough shape.
yeah, sometimes they're glued, or the key is broken off in them, or they're wrapped in duct tape. Those ones stay until they get cut off or rust away.
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I'm kind of shocked how busy the Iron Horse Trail is at this hour. That said, it's the perfect night for an outing. The weather's fantastic.
@Jonathan Lamothe it's always so nice to see it busy. I fucking love trails. I love the people on them.
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@Organic Maps I've added some local businesses to the app on one of my devices, and that information can now be found on OSM proper, but those changes don't appear to have propagated to my other devices. Is there a way I can force a map update?
Edit: I have tried deleting and re-downloading the map.
wait until the new map update is ready (map updates at the moment come with app updates, as we constantly change/improve the map data format). We plan weekly, or even daily updates, now it's approx' bi-monthly.
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Looks like my gitea server was being scraped. I've taken some preliminary steps to mitigate that and suddenly everything's gotten much more responsive.
@Lizette aka the original SpudCell Well, I've stopped the bleeding. I still need to put a more comprehensive solution in place.
busy days ahead
Could this help? mastodon.mit.edu/@almonds/1168…
I keep hearing friends on/off Fedi worry about aggressive AI/web scrapers or mention them hitting their servers.I've been experimenting with different defenses for the last few months and want to share this setup, even if helps just one other person directly or indirectly. It has reduced the load on our servers usually by 80% by CPU as well as log entries.
sum.mit.edu/git/almonds/block_…
@Maddie I'll certainly have a look. Most of my services are being run on a local machine, reverse proxied over a private VPN to a public VPS, so this does complicate IP-based bans. Though I suppose that the filtering should happen at the VPS anyway.
Yeah, if you set up reverse proxy tunnels the same way I do and with nginx, then the VPS does all the defending
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I just caught that Libera.Chat uses the phrase "insufficient human involvement" and I love that specific phrasing for flagging LLM-generated pull requests.
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It's concise in a way that "no AI" isn't.
I like it. I've been trying to formulate a similar policy for my own project.
I want good and maintainable code. The more generated code a PR contains, the less it matches those criteria. It really needs that human touch and context awareness.
I like that it could also apply to communications that were entirely the creation of a human mind, but not one that put a great deal of effort into making sure it's coherent
This extends beyond AI into what is commonly seen in dark psychology as well.
According to the U.S. Copyright Office "insufficient human involvement" means the output doesn't get (new) copyright protections.
(The output could still violate the copyrights of the authors of the training data for the model.)
@veronica, good explanation too:
"(...) received a number of pull requests featuring obvious LLM-generated content. So far, these have all demonstrated non-understanding of either Libera Chat’s requirements or the codebases being contributed-to."
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Got an odd email to my old Gmail address that I only keep around for legacy reasons, asking about an Emacs package I wrote. I'm not sure where they even got that address. It can't be found anywhere in the repository, and my current address is clearly in the README and on every single commit.
Anyhow, I don't even understand what they're asking, but I think they think I've used an AI agent to write the code and are asking about its configuration? I want to reply that I have no need of such things because I'm an actual programmer with an actual brain, but that would probably come off kind of asshole-ish, and I could be wrong about what they're asking.
Then again, this whole email could have been written by a hallucinating AI. Who knows?
As a side note, it looked this morning like my gitea instance was being scraped. I wonder if these two things are related.
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Root #monsterdon post #EarthVsTheSpider1958
Why does Joe look like he's 47 and on his third divorce? #monsterdon
Jo was on the beach at Omaha #MOnsterdon
Man, this guy is callous. #monsterdon
Those are some pristine freaking bones. #monsterdon
Considering how sticky this "net" supposedly is, they sure seem to be able to move around an awful lot. #monsterdon
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Let's spray the whole cave with DDT. We still have a man unaccounted for, but it's probably fiiiiiiine, right? #monsterdon
They haven't found a body yet, have they? Why is everyone already just assuming he's dead.
Also, this poor guy's wife really must not like him very much, does she?
I love how he just stood there screaming and doing jazz hands instead of doing literally anything to try to escape. #monsterdon
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And then there was this lady, who could have... I don't know... opened the car door? #monsterdon
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Who goes searching for a bracelet in a cave without a flashlight? #monsterdon
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Ah, Joe with his slightly receeding hair line and five o'clock shadow. How many times has this guy been held back in school? #monsterdon
"She attached too much importance to that bracelet."
Lady, you don't know the half of it. #monsterdon
"If those kids have got a lot of sense..."
Sir, I assure you, it has been very well established that they do not.
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Where is all the light in this cave coming from? Maybe follow that to find your exit? #monsterdon
They *actually* answered that, phosphorescent fungus.
"Ledge, if we can get out far enough on it, the spider can't follow us."
Riiiiiight. I've never seen a spider just scale a wall.
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Did they just taze the spider? #monsterdon
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Sometimes I wish I were less of a perfectionist. I was baking cookies for a potluck tomorrow. The recipe called for the dough to be rolled out into one inch balls. There may or may not have been a caliper involved.
In my defense though, they turned out amazingly. Now I just have to not eat them before they get to where they're going. I did have to eat some though, but strictly for QA purposes.
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Sometimes I like researching obscure mathematical topics just for fun. The frustrating thing I occasionally run into is notation that I don't know how to interpret. This turns out to be rather difficult to search for online.
For example: I'm doing some research into finite fields, and I have encountered something that looks like ℤ/pℤ.
I know that ℤ typically represents the set of integers. I'm also given that p, in this case, represents an arbitrary prime number. From context, I think it's meant to represent the set {0, 1, 2,... p-1}, but I could be wrong, and, if so, I don't follow the logic.
I'm trying to brush up on my set theory, but nothing I've seen thus far explains it.
Edit for additional context: The document I'm reading is at:
people.math.harvard.edu/~lande…
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Oh hey, I think that means natural numbers mod thicc Z ?
@Shae Erisson How? Isn't the set of natural numbers typically represented by
ℕ?
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It's funny how you think you know what something looks like until you try to draw it.
is this about owls?
@Shae Erisson Actually, in this case, it was a train.
@shapr Try to draw a bicycle from memory 😀❤️
@Mark Connolly @Shae Erisson This, I can do reasonably well, but it's not easy. (Mostly because I've been asked that one before)
@uxMark is this a reference to my favorite research paper?
link.springer.com/content/pdf/…
I bring up this paper at parties and ask people to draw bicycles.
@shapr Indirectly it probably was. I'd been thinkinbg of someone’s project years ago where they created 3D models of people’s drawings of bikes. Hilarity ensued!
@shapr Just had a quick search and it was probably this!
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Bicycles Built Based on People's Attempts to Draw Them From Memory
In 2009 designer Gianluca Gimini started asking friends and strangers to draw a men's bicycle from memory. While some got …Staff (BOOOOOOOM!)
@Mark Connolly @Shae Erisson I saw a YouTube video where they created actual bikes from them and watched people try to ride them.
@shapr That sounds fantastic 🤣
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I feel like the way some folks are expressing annoyance with the goose discourse, that they're not viscerally connecting with the symbolism the way most of us are.
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Like, I *feel* this meme. It's representative of my whole life, of having my lifeforce sucked out of me by parasites until I'm ill at age 50 and have nothing to show for it. It's a rare but accidental honesty from the clueless fucks who rule this world. It's the entire story of each of us and the whole world told in a handful of phrases and images.
"Goose is not valued" feels like a rallying cry for valuable people who are only just now starting to realize...
...that we do have value.
And that the only way they're going to understand our value is if we make them.
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exaaaaactly! The image generating machine built from our stolen words and images does not see the value in us. Now it’s throwing up art from an internal mechanism devoid of life while choking out the air, water and land. H0NNNk!!!
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@MamaLake love your overthinking - here i am raiding know your meme for anything where "goose was not valued!" can be shoehorned in without a though in my empty lil head
As I fell asleep, I reflected on how this is actually a great example of what Jung meant by the collective unconscious. It was never anything mystical or inherently new age. The mechanism is simple:
A significant portion of the population has had common experiences that shaped us, particularly to do with being taken for granted and exploited by abusers and capitalism now in late stage collapse, and feeling generally powerless to defend ourselves. Add this to our common cultural background (Aesop, Grimm, Untitled games with a previous meme cycle), and our knowledge of the properties of reality (cute animals but loud and fast with long necks and built-in weapons and will attac).
These ingredients mix together similarly for each of us, such that we instantly understand a meaning that wasn't intended by its out-of-touch corporate creator. This validation, in addition to a particular irony that makes our oppressors look like fools, gives us a common emotional and creative response.
(There's a similar effect that underlies the concepts of the "zeitgeist" (also a Jungian idea) and the attitudes of generational cohorts.)
Of course there are exceptions. Some may lack one or more of these ingredients due to diverse experiences, backgrounds, sensory processing, trauma copes, sense of humor, and exposure to the source materials. But that doesn't change that it happens, or why.
And I'm here for it.
brilliantly stated. so much yes.
ohhhhhh wow. Thanks for a this. I got here late and had only seen fragments and offshoots of the meme and had no actual idea what it meant except that "Goose is not valued" and it had something to do with Softbank and I was left wondering if Softbank was investing in goose farms but I'm autistic and was kind of afraid to ask because I often miss things that are really obvious. Buuuuuuut apparently I just missed a whole lot of information 🫠 or something. Makes sense now. 👍
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@secretsloth You can find the full slide deck here!
discuss.systems/@dev/116807460…
Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthygroup.softbank/media/Project/s…
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I would have liked to ask, at the “inside the goose” slide, what are your inputs to the Goose/Factory?
(I.e., have you lost your decaying mind?)
@inthehands @jimfl I think there's also an aspect where the deck exposes how much the kinds of people who effectively run economies the world over have absolutely cooked their own brains.
Nothing seems to make sense right now, but we keep getting told that very serious businessfolks who know what they are doing are making rational and reasoned decisions... the deck puts the lie to that in very memeworthy fashion.
@jimfl
I think the reason the deck really hits so broadly is (like Luna said) we relate to the unvalued goose, and then the deck says “Hey billionaires, you can value the goose •by owning it•”
…which is…the world’s present moment, the world’s history, all of it.
People may not be articulating all that, but I do think we’re feeling it at some level.
so much this! 🙏
@inthehands @jimfl Like, the AI bubble is manifestly absurd if you know literally anything about LLMs. And yet we keep getting told that AI is the future, that there is no bubble, that entire countries need to restructure around energy production for AI data centers.
And then this deck comes along and proves that the investors driving the bubble are complete fools.
Nice. I saw a person wearing a t-shirt that said, "I am the goose" and I had to chuckle at that because it was so true.
@inthehands @xgranade @jimfl Part of the labor theory of value is that exchange value and use value are two very different things, and capitalists keep trying to reduce use value to exchange value.
Exchange value is what you can put a number to. It's the number in "line goes up". Use value is everything we actually care about. "Use" is itself already a bit misleading.
So, "the goose is unvalued" feels like a metaphor for our own feeling unappreciated and alienated. Those are social lacks. "Goose value is 71" doesn't solve that problem at all, and is comically precise.
wait, the goose is _us_ ?!
@zompetto Always has been.
Wait, the goose is people? … I thought Soylent Green was people 😵💫
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terrible opinion that harms my faith in humanity
Overheard today: "The best thing we can do for all these drug addicts is to throw them in jail. It's not nice but it'll get 'em clean."
Why is it that the people with the most uninformed opinions always seem to also have the loudest ones?
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So, for a while now, after hearing a bunch of #ActuallyAutistic individuals talking about their experiences, I've been asserting that I wouldn't be shocked to learn that I was on the autistic spectrum.
Today, for shits and giggles, I decided to take the AQ and RAADS-R tests, and scored "very strong alignment with autistic traits" on both. While I'm not shocked to learn this, I have to admit, I didn't expect to score that high.
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Same thing happened to me. I was like “huh, would you look at that?” Got diagnosed in March but by that time, I had already accepted it. Your next step is entirely up to you but know that if you want advice, the #ActuallyAutistic community will be happy to help. 🙂👍
@AutistiCritic I keep going back and forth as to whether or not I should persue a diagnosis. I don't know that it would give me any benefit, and while I don't live in the US,* some of their policies do tend to leak across the border. To that end, I wonder if it would be an unnecessary risk to have official documentation of having autism on the record.
* I live in Canada.
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It tends to give no accommodations that your ADHD diagnosis doesn't already give you. Also remember an official diagnosis isn't about whether you are autistic. But about how it effects you and what level of help you may need. It's purely a deficit assessment.
It tends to give no accommodations that your ADHD diagnosis doesn't already give you. Also remember an official diagnosis isn't about whether you are autistic. But about how it effects you and what level of help you may need. It's purely a deficit assessment.
I’m in the UK but I understand your reticence, especially with the current muppets in charge. I haven’t pursued any official help just yet but it’s reassuring to know that I could if needed. It was always more about answering my questions than anything else, which is why I’m pleased I chose this path. Whatever works for you, my friend. 🙂👍
welcome to the party 😀
I found these links incredibly helpful when I was going through the same journey:
This link is a general description of what it might mean if you find you are autistic, with emphasis on how it can be tranformatively positive. I know for me it was the greatest gift of the last 7 years or so.
coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/pub…
This reframes the DSM diagnosis from external, and kind of crappy, diagnostic framing to instead how someone might directly experience any of the main criteria.
coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/pub…
This should not be such a good link, but it's so great honestly I think everyone should read it. I learned a ton of words about how to talk about myself, and found it super helpful. I also sent it to our therapist (who has no experience working explicitly with autistic people, so I'm slowly training her).
coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/pub…
There is no autism epidemic:
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Is There Really an Autism Epidemic? Understanding the Rise in Diagnoses with Historical and Human Context
Autism diagnoses are rising—but that doesn’t mean there’s an epidemic. Learn the real reasons behind the increase, from evolving diagnostic criteria to better recognition of underrepresented groups.Dr. Megan Anna Neff (Neurodivergent Insights)
and just took the RAADS-R test and scored really high. I've never had an assessment and I don't know that I ever will because it costs a lot of money. I'm certain I have ADHD, too, and assessment for that is also very expensive. It's too bad, because I suspect the meds would help me. I'm in my 50s.
@Shantell Powell Yeah, I've had two separate ADHD diagnoses (is that how you pluralize it). I got the first one back in the 90s, when when the DSM made the two mutually exclusive.
@adelinej @Shanmonster *gasp* You're an Egyptologist? May I please follow you? Pretty please with sugar on top? 😁
@Baroness Winter @AudhdDespiteNoisyAbleism 🇨🇦 Actually, that is pretty cool. I wish I knew more about Egyptology for reasons that would probably be considered... unusual.
It was the same for me. But peer review doesn't lie.
Yeah. Scored in the so-called Grey Zone on RAADS-R. Std disclaimer about self-administered screeners. I should look up AQ.
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Katy and I both love Taco Bell, but we seldom get it because:
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B) It's not exactly healthy
...but it was a special occasion, so we did today.
As I was picking up our order, out of nowhere, the guy behind me in line asks "Have you tried the Diablo sauce?" He then, before I can even answer, proceeds to tell the young woman working the counter—who seemed as taken aback by this exchange as I was—to give me some Diablo sauce. I don't object because... I mean... what the hell is even happening?
I figure this guy either really loves this sauce or is getting a kickback somehow. If the latter, I guess Taco Bell has adopted a weirdly aggressive marketing campaign, because... who does that?
Anyhow, it was okay, I guess...
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Why do batteries suck so much?
What did they do now? You reminded me, a while ago, I tried to use my multimeter, but the 9V was dead, so I swapped it, and that one was dead, too.
I figured the dozens of others in the office cabinet must be dead, too, so I went home to use a crappy multimeter to measure the batteries, and *that* 9V was also dead. I swapped it once more, and it finally let me measure the others.
6.6 volts, 6.6 volts, and 9.5 volts (zinc-chloride). And then the battery dies, that I had just swapped in.
@Maddie I was just annoyed at the fact that the battery in a laptop I'd spent a bunch of time installing Debian on is toast. I didn't realize this earlier because I had it plugged in for the install process.
I've also had a number of other similar incidents lately. Most notably with the battery in Katy's e-bike.
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Trying to install #Debian on another machine, but #Windows is being stubborn. I accidentally let it boot into Windows 10 and now it's insisting on installing updates before it reboots. Holding the power button to force a shutdown appears to have been disabled somehow.
Fine, whatever. It's not like I have anything else to do tonight.
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Things are going swimmingly.
Welp, I've hit a snag. The installer doesn't seem to be talking to to the wifi card. The laptop has no ethernet port. I have a USB to ethernet adapter, but the laptop has only one USB-A port (and a USB micro port, weirdly?). The USB port is occupied by the flash drive with the installer. I've tried using a USB hub to make more ports available, but then the system can't see the flash drive.
I'm at a loss.
I've managed to find a workaround to install without a network connection. Hopefully, I'll be able to use the ethernet adaptor afterward to download the drivers after the fact.
Luckily I've not had to deal with this situation, but I am aware of two work-arounds.
1. Best may be to include the driver you need - if you can determine what it is - on the install media.
2. Next best is to perform a minimal install to get a bootable system and then use the USB/Eth adapter to find, download and install the WiFi driver. (This will rule out the 'netinst' media.)
'lsusb' and 'lspci' should help to ID the WiFi module. Or documentation for the laptop may help.
HTH,
Does the flash drive need to remain inserted after the installer boots? Quite often they don't.
And something else to consider, which I've found useful in similar situations in the past, would be a "live" USB key rather than an "installer" one. Often those are able to get to the point where you can remove the USB key, and then have enough of a system to pursue other install methods.
If your system has got a sufficient amount of RAM, try loading the ISO into memory in order to free up the USB.
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having the 'Secured Boot' enabled, could explain the situation, I think...
Try to find the real boot, not Zindozs one in UEFI
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June 29th, 8pm, Shakedown Street, Benson, OMAHA
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One of the tips I was given on how to get used to it is to ditch my mouse (trackball, in my case) and just use the tablet as my day-to-day pointing device. The only problem with this strategy is that, outside of when I'm actually drawing, probably 90% of my computer use is keyboard-driven (including the browser (qutebrowser) that I'm using right now).
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#monsterdon #ultraman #PreShow
I see the #EndOfTheWorld1977 trailer subscribes to the "hollow earth" theory? #monsterdon
Well that escalated quickly. #monsterdon
I keep thinking my projector is out of focus, but I think the credits are just blurry. #monsterdon
I see that the aliens use QWERTY keyboards? #monsterdon
Look at the fabulous sleeves on that outfit in their full 1977 glory! #monsterdon
Why does the computer lab sound like the bridge of the USS Enterprise? #monsterdon
Not only have the aliens learned English, but presumably also ASCII? #monsterdon
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What the hell is a "power impulse meter"? #monsterdon
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Herb Tarlek called. He wants his suit back. #monsterdon
Stand aside Geordi LaForge; the techno-babble in this movie is on a whole new level. #monsterdon
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They seem remarkably calm for just having seen a guy blow up. #monsterdon
Mind control, remarkably similar to complete disinterest.
You know it's powerful 'cause it glows. #monsterdon
I see cops were trigger happy in the '70s too. #monsterdon
Why do the aliens who can blow things up with their minds need this guy's help exactly? Why cant they just take the [strike]dilithium[/strike] variance crystal? #monsterdon
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I mean, I guess it is what it says on the tin. #monsterdon #EndOfTheWorld1977
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A video of my speech to Tri-Pride festival here in Waterloo Region on June 6. Runs about 16 minutes all told, probably 12 of them are me. The other four are a very kind introduction by the MC and former head of Tri-Pride and my good friend, Kamil Ahmed (he/him).
The reference to Jan Liggett and Adam Cooper near the end is to this story:
My speech has a few naughty words in it, so maybe don't put the sound up high if you're gonna be overheard by a prude.
Sorry about the sound quality - the wind was a bit fierce, and I haven't received the second angle we set up yet, which hopefully will have different windy bits.
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Thanks for sharing your story here! Waterloo Region is fortunate to have benefited from 30 years of your activism. And from your ongoing activism in this municipal election year!
And yeah, the wind noise is something, but your message got through 😀❤️
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Ok, I toss this out every 6mos or so as fedi grows...
I'm gathering local connections of fedi folk in #Guelph and area. Get some low key meatspace hang outs going on.
Walks, masked movie nights or board games, knitting in a coffee shop, hanging out at the library...
I'm hoping to do more structured events at some point but am pretty low energy these days so keeping it simple.
We have a signal group to connect and organise. Hit me up if you'd like an invite.
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On a related note, we should totes do a #fediMeetup here. Comfy chairs in the shade of city hall. Cool trees and water.
*happy sigh*
Give me a wave if you want to make this happen.
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And I am once again looking to hire someone to come in for 2hr/week to help with food prep and house cleaning. Pays $20/hr, DT #Guelph
In particular, we're getting a weekly CSA produce delivery and need help to make sure we use it up. We're two burned out autistics, so aren't great at improvising or meal planning on the fly.
Just need a chill grounded person to help keep the basics under control so we can spend our spoons on building resiliency (and fun, we need fun!) .
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I'm not in your country but you are so seen right now
I myself have trouble getting through meal kit boxes due to all the food prep, but I still get them because I don't want to draw a blank at dinnertime and end up eating nothing but cereal every night, not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, but I really like vegetables
I hope you find your helper!!!
i hope you have some more people join! Finding some covid cautious people to go on masked walks with or sit in the park together over the last year had been amazing!
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Anyone have ridiculous #InternetOfShit examples you're really fond of?
Toasters, coffee machines, or microwaves that don't work without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Vacuum, TV, or toothbrush botnets. Preferably something you have a picture of, from first hand experience.
I teach an #EmbeddedSystems class, and it's good to show examples of what *not* to do, in case they pursue the industry. (Boost for reach appreciated)
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My go-to example is a "smart" mug that keeps the temperature of coffee.
It sounds neat if it worked, but it also sounds like the frivolous kind of idea someone might have from staying up late, drinking too much cold coffee, and trying to think of the next big idea for their company...
Apparently this brand in the image bricked their mugs after an app upgrade. 😬
Oh, I searched "app controlled spoon", expecting not to find anything, and now I think I need to cry
We bought a new fridge and a new washer last year and it was basically impossible (at our price range) to find non- #InternetOfShit devices. We keep ours offline but why is online the default for washers and fridges?!
@marielgm because through some baffling arithmetic, data became worth more than computers cost
I first realized we were Doomed a decade ago when I found myself installing a firmware update on a camera lens. A *fixed-focus* lens.
@cstross my soldering iron has an operating system
@wtremmel I'd be ok with an open source firmware or NetBSD lol but sounds like it's not
That looks pretty neat! I never knew about smart soldering irons before. Anything that's "smart" at authentically helping users/creators, without profit or power motive, is a great goal to aim for, IMO.
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I thought there was no spoon?
*makes a deranged face*
- There is no spoon
- There is no spoon
But not about the Parkinson Anti-Tremor Spoon, I hope?
@slowtiger Nah, tech for accessibility is noble, especially when designed _with_ users rather than _for_ -- the product I saw was "AI powered" and about tracking nutrition data, and some other features I don't want to remember...
All I could think of was what some business major friend told me about how soulless maximizing shareholder value is
My uncle had Parkinson's. I think this spoon might have got thrown as far as he could chuck it, and then driven over with his mobility scooter.
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@HollieK72 The tech industry can be so predatory /: That sounds like a funny story but also frustrating
I hope this is part of a larger project of searches that return nothing
@me exactly, *permacomputing* is the opposite of their strategy
I've used this Ember cup for years and years
Wouldn't that be better implemented with temperature-sensitive paint? No need for an app, an Internet connection, a power supply, etc. No firmware updates. No surveillance.
@CppGuy Thank you, this is the kind of thinking I'm practicing and want to be skilled at in my life
Nothing will ever be a worse product concept than this.
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A Bluetooth-connected tampon. Hoo boy.
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@scribblesonnapkins whyyyy
This is like.. if the patriarchy were represented by a single artifact, then this is the one
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Why do you think it was the first thought on my mind. It's condescending, pointless, and disposable, wasteful.
Plus it can inform on you if your state decides they need to know if your cycle was disrupted. anti-abortion enforcement?
I actually like this take on things. Everyone should have a tor gateway with it's own hidden onion address for their IoT stuff.
But yeah I don't want hackers up by butt.
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Connected sex toys are gathering huge amounts of data about our most intimate moments. Problem is, they're always getting hacked. Welcome to the emerging field of Onion DildonicsMatt Burgess (WIRED)
We don't have that many in our home but this was my favourite story
Edit: I don't think this story mentions it but without a functioning mobile app the device was completely redundant.
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Some great examples in this thread already.
This one also pretty eye-watering. IoT Smart Rectal Thermometer
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My cousin and sister both have Bosch series 4 dishwashers. Sister's has WiFi, cousin's doesn't, and it seems the only other difference between them is that sister must use the app to access certain programs, because the button that activates them on cousin's dishwasher was changed to the WiFi connect button on hers. Because obviously it's so much easier to unlock the phone, scroll to the app, wait for the app to open, scroll to the dishwasher and tap the program there instead of pressing the button on the dishwasher itself.
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@jamoquanty Your post is a bit ambiguous to me, so I'll just add -- yeah, it sucks when the disabled are conveniently blamed for shitty IoT devices that were supposedly created for accessibility
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Whenever I think of IoT devices, I think of this Mitch Hedberg bit. It's been my guiding principle for all my home automation:
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Comedy Central Stand-Up (YouTube)
more like a general usability thing but I really hate it when buttons to configure something go away in a product - or are really annoying to set - when the product wants you to configure it in the app.
if the app then doesn't work because it needs to talk to the internet and something isn't working, no progress is being done but frustration.
Offline modes should be a default, not a opt-in if that's even offered.
Don’t, AI. Everything else is mute.
Slightly related, maybe you can help me spread the word here?
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I have a few (older) examples in this talk I gave a little while ago.
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Electromagnetic Field (YouTube)
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@Edent These are wonderful (horrifying) examples, thank you so much. This helps me think about how to word the significance of having control over our own devices & data and on good approaches to that end
Sorry I don't have an image, but sometimes when I'm signing in to my home WiFi an option called "LG Oven" shows up.
I have a pretty good idea which neighbor it is. One day I might click that option and find out what they're having for supper.
@Karen5Lund lol, I'll keep a lookout for those
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The eggminder was good for a laugh.
the litter robot 4 stops cycling if the WiFi is spotty. It is Not Fun for anyone in the house when this happens. WIFI SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED FOR THIS. WTF.
On the other end of the spectrum, when the WiFi is out, iirc the SwitchBot curtains and shades work just fine, operated manually (but - if you forget to charge them you can’t go outside because the sliding glass door is blocked by the shade!)
@patterfloof while not technically an IoT Device, the bad design is Unifi controllers past a certain version needing MFA.
So if your internet breaks, you can't log into the controller to fix it, as the controller needs a working connection to do MFA...
So if your internet breaks, you can't log into the controller to fix it, as the controller needs a working connection to do MFA...
THis isn't big, but my brother connected a Kill-A-Watt meter to his smart TV and found out it was drawing a lot of current and bandwidth even when allegedly "Off".
Did someone mention beds, already?
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AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
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On the other end of things, I would like to give an honorable mention to my b-hyve smart watering timers. These connect to the app via Bluetooth, or via a gateway device to the Internet over wifi. If the online service ever dies, they can still be controlled in person via Bluetooth.
@david42 That's awesome, and as it should be
For a second I thought this was *bhyve* (FreeBSD, illumos) lol
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I bought a WiFi PWM controller to automate a fan.
I have to use a Chinese app which won't let me register without giving them my phone number, therefore its useless to me.
@me yeah 🙁 I tried using a fake one
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I don't necessarily know if this holds true everywhere, but at least in my area, #OrganicMaps is really good for planning #cycling routes.
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This probably has something to do with @CyclingGuide (@uxMark can correct me, but I believe they upstream their OSM cycling fixes).
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@flyingsquirrel @CyclingGuide Yes, any fixes we make to OSM data are available to everyone. In general, though, Waterloo Region has an excellent and active OSM community. So @CyclingGuide does benefit from that 😀🚴♀️❤️
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I suppose there are worse digs for after a nuclear apocolypse. #monsterdon
Sure, just let yourself in. #monsterdon
I thought this place was supposed to be remote. It kind of feels like Grand Central Station. #monsterdon
This whole "you can't stay" schtick is getting pretty old already. #monsterdon
"That meat's contaminated. If you ate it you would die."
Haven't we already established that the standard rules of radiation don't apply with this guy?
I love how it went from "you're not welcome here" to "don't go too far." This guy's giving me whiplash. #monsterdon
"We'll all be dead, or like Granger if we're unlucky."
I don't know. I'd rather end up like Granger than dead. It doesn't seem to bother him any.
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Okay... maybe he's bothered a little. #monsterdon
"A million years of evolution with one bomb."
I don't think you understand how evolution works.
"They should bear children as soon as possible."
Oh here we go... besides what about the food probem you already have? How is that going to help?
Oh good. He's going all cult leader. Nobody saw that coming from a mile away. #monsterdon
Oh, get off your freaking high horse. It's the end of the damn world. Let people have their coping mechanisms. #monsterdon
Listen, you're better off without this guy. Fuck Mickey. #monsterdon
...and not in the fun way. #monsterdon
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I want to know who's the genius who thought that it was a good idea to put the enter "key" on my on-screen keyboard so close to the make-keyboard-go-away button.
Jonatan Jansson likes this.
2026-06-14 00:47:00
2026-06-14 00:46:54
2026-06-14 00:46:54
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Picked up a used #bicycle for @Katy Lamothe because the battery on her e-bike is not holding a charge any more. Our car is very small, but it wasn't terribly far so I had her drop me off for the pick-up and I just rode it home while she took the car back.
I am in much worse shape than I expected. We'll be working on that this summer though.
Chris Ford likes this.
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Brian Sullivan
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