finally, a private key that current quantum computers can factorize
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A white person who tells you change can only be accomplished by voting and you should only protest peacefully and never fight back even as the regime is gunning you down is a fascist.
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The only thing these people care about is their own material comfort and safety and the illusion of order even under an authoritarian state, including the protection of all those possessions and wealth and privilege, and the possessions and privilege of people like them. "Don't disrupt anything. Don't resist. Just lie down and die if you don't like it."
Get MLK's name out of your racist, lying mouths while you're at it, assholes.
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!
a white person will simply tell you to wait for a better season, every season, because they have never suffered for something, never bled for it, never believed in it so hard that if they did, maybe they might actually explode into flames.
they don't believe in anything, so many of these people are just nihilists who like shiny crapola
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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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10/10 meme. No notes. 😁
not just a reaction pic - marketing material for fedi
I'mma kick it!
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."
@Legit_Spaghetti definitely the second.
@Legit_Spaghetti but also, hornets can't read, so I don't think they'll notice the laziness.
"So, hey, have you all heard of this new decentralized social network called Bluesky?"
Alice wants me to die, fighting hornets.
@PhoenixSerenity
Just leave them alone and then you won't need to 😛
@KanaMauna by all memes 💁🏼♀️
Use it well.
Ok yeah true but once you get used to the chronic psychic waves its actually not so bad
large signal groups approximately half the time 😅
I really really want this sign, but I’d replace the bee skep with a paper wasp nest.
Saved, will definitely be utilizing. That’s so awesome!!
wish they didn't use a bee skep to illustrate. Bees are constantly getting a bad rap!
That is Fashbook in an image!
Absolutely snarfing that for the reaction GIFs
To be paired with a slightly less dramatic: "Notice: Inactive Hornets' Nest"
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)
Were they murder hornets?
@Enema_Cowboy I think they were just assholes.
Yeah, but native hornets or those of immigrant origin (Asian one, green¹ one for example) ? 🤔
A French beehive...
¹ Bruce, it's for you !
A French beehive...
¹ Bruce, it's for you !
@fassil I didn't knock on the hive to ask them 🤷🏼♀️
Pedantic: that's a beehive.
@RealGene hornets aren't known for their drawing skills 🤷🏼♀️
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Haha, love it!! 😆 👍 👍
My brain has twice as many hornets as my skull can hold, but if I can keep at least half of them active at all times, I'm Ok.
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No worries, just walk past it wokefully, and don't mention AI (Apis Intelligence, I presume)
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I have had (European) hornets all around the house this summer. Most relaxed guests I have had compared to wasps and flies. It’s just the humming and size that is a bit too impressive. 😅
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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.
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I have 5 boxes. Yep, 5. They are loosely organized and more tightly tangled.
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@tom grzybow I might've needed more storage than this, but I live with an anti-hoarder. 🙃
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If you need a cable, any cable, I have it. Same goes for wall transformers...
@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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I refuse to throw out any of my SCSI cables. Do you know how difficult they are to find, nowadays?
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@tom grzybow When I first got married, I had an ungodly number of USB micro cables because my phone charger needed them and they had such a high failure rate. Katy influenced me to get rid of most of them. I still have a surprisingly large number of them though.
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Ever since reading that book I have desperately wanted an RFID organizational system like that. Spent a bit of time years back trying to puzzle out how to do it in a reasonably affordable way but at the time it would have been pretty spendy. Maybe now though...
@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.
@jfred never read the book; whats the system?
@Connor Cadellin It was basically an inventory system where you put an RFID tag on everything you own and then have a bunch of plain plastic containers built into the architecture that serve as storage, but also can read their contents. When you want something, you type it into a search and the bin that contains that item lights up.
it looks great! Do you use the TP core method to keep cables neat? I find it useful to keep them from tangling with their neighbors. 😀
@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.
Went on a short break with a friend last weekend.. They "forgot" the usb-c wire their stupid modern phone needs (mine is sensible micro usb like 99% of its era) .. They had to go find one in a very expensive tourist city... 2 hours later I found one still new complete with it's little wire tie lying on the street....... so now I have my own usb-c charging cable and nothing to plug it ..
Got me to read Makers, and realize I'd read it once before long ago. Fun moments of nostalgia, and a very timely book to be reminded of.
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The best part: my registrar says it's available and I can have it for $17.99.
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Root #monsterdon post #TheLastManOnEarth
Why does this monster have such a smarmy look on its face? #ultraman #monsterdon
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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?
He's like Clark Kent, nobody expects anything from him, & he has a super suit.
So we're just doing Vincent Price films forever now? I'm okay with this, I guess. #monsterdon
Where's that light bulb getting power from? #monsterdon
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Oh, he's got a generator. Next question: where's he getting the fuel? #monsterdon
In an overly convoluted way as we'll see in a little bit
I mean, for an end-of-the-world scenario, this isn't a bad setup. #monsterdon
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If you're going to hunt zombie/vampires in the apocalypse, you may as well look stylish doing it. #monsterdon
Grocery store garlic still good after three years? I'm calling shennanigans!
Also, he must have some really impressive fuel stabilizer.
I assumed he was farming the garlic. #monsterdon
All his arable soil is devoted to gasoline berries
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THAT's a euphemism?!... #MonsterDon
Let's just run into the crowd of zombies... #monsterdon
Maybe the move here is to just stay in the car? #monsterdon
That projector is shockingly high-def! #monsterdon
An airborne virus? That's preposterous! #monsterdon
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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...?
I'm no scientist, but I don't unserstand how germs would either confirm or refute the existence of vampires. It seems pretty non-sequitur to me. #monsterdon
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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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It is a well known fact that shouting "come back!" is the best way to catch a fleeing dog. #monsterdon
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KOKW is an FM radio call sign, not an amateur radio call sign, isn't it? #monsterdon
Also, I doubt there's anyone left who cares about enforcing such rules. #monsterdon
When is he scheduled for his booster bat? #monsterdon
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Now all we need is enough blood to give transfusions for millions of zombies. #monsterdon
Good thing the armory was conveniently unlocked. #monsterdon
In all of this, no one has managed to shout "we have a damn cure!"? #monsterdon
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I mean, they got "you don't understand!" in there multiple times.
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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? 🤷♂️
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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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/very-deep-and-tired-sigh
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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I guess a question is, what things will be "must haves" for an MVP computing environment? Some people are asking about running SteamOS games on alternative OSes, but such matters are best left out of scope IMO.
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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?
at the time I thought the reason I needed this was age verification
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...
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@mcc I’m reminded of John Barnes’ novel _Finity_, in which the protagonists had to fall back to pre-digitisation tools to avoid the way more modern tools would have undesired side-effects. In the novel it was quantum mechanics having this effect, but the analogy of all-pervasive AI having a dangerous level of influence on our perception (or even the possibility) of consensus reality is striking.
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apology accepted ahead of time, can relate
@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 😞
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@ell1e the thing that terrifies me is the heaviweightness, splinteredness, and slop-centricness of any kind of video acceleration right now
@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)
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@ell1e i feel like since last night i've been having a lot of baffling conversations with this comment from linux folks. i cannot stress how much you need 3d acceleration because you need 2d acceleration. do you ever *scroll a window*? then you need 2d acceleration
@ell1e ignore games. literally, don't worry about games for the moment, gamedevs will target whatever platform you put in front of them. software renderers stopped being good enough when screen sizes started being 1920x1080 and above
@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.
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@ell1e @mcc this doesn't mirror my experience; I have a relatively fast 12th gen i5 that can only do soft render on NetBSD, and it is a tad painful to use for scrolling things in browsers at FullHD, and almost completely unusable for watching videos (dropping the resolution helps, but it's not a reliable solution)
@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.
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@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.
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@mcc tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr201… looks amazing, but it seems that relatively little of that ever made it out of the lab.
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I had a similar thought. I remember encountering and being like "maybe it's good for remote regions of the world use cases"
Now, I think about it on and off regularly.
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 nod nod, yes
@cr1901 at least studying/{,re}learning is indeed one motivation to tinker around OS design and implementation, but it'd help not being metaphorically held at gunpoint by GIGO as a service^W^W^W^WGenAI...
@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.
The thought of needing to implementing EVERYTHING instead of just installing a package and being done with it so I can go back to whatever it is I wanted to do that is decidedly Not needing to be elbows deep in the guts of my computer's OS makes me want to just cry.
@dragonarchitect it is indeed majorly depressing. But also, I find it heartwarming that my old systems still run fine. And so do old games, old software and such.
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.
@dragonarchitect can't blame you, we're all in a survival mode tbh
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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When people tell me the future of computing is AI, I want to say the future of computing is de-soldering ARM CPUs off of broken appliances.
When people tell me the future of computing is AI, I want to say the future of computing is de-soldering ARM CPUs off of broken appliances.
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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.
@tiotasram I've been thinking about it for a few years, and I think going analogue is an option. It's very fun and tactile
@tiotasram plus, catgirls with great big modular synths are well ahead of the game 😉
@tiotasram electro-spun appropriately doped polyacetylene on synthetic diamond substrate.
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.
@sinza better be prepared. It's not just about MREs and firearms.
welcome, "operator"
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.
Ah, four years ago... I thought "people I respect have deep pride in their craft and if there happened to be a parasitic slopmachine, they would never stand for it."
(Well, I only really thought the pride thing. The slopmachine hadn't crossed my mind. Sure, there was some toy from some "Open""AI" company, but there was no way that would go anywhere...)
I find that the vast majority of people, especially USAians, are supremely stupid and lazy. After all, 54% of adult Americans have LESS THAN A 6th grade education. Functionally illiterate.
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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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It's hard to believe this book was written in the '80s. I'm going to have to give it a re-read at some point soon because there were a lot of moving parts and I'm sure I missed stuff that I'll pick up on the second time around. All in all, an enjoyable read.
Review of "Neuromancer" (5 stars): None
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It's hard to believe this book was written in the '80s. I'm going to have to give it a re-read at some point soon because there were a lot of moving parts and I'm sure I missed stuff that I'll pick up on the second time around. All in all, an enjoyable read.
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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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One of my favorite books of all time, such an amazing narrative and so many amazing, even if terrible, characters in Neuromancer!
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Oh hells yes. I love this vegan "dirty spaghetti" recipe. I needed this.
can you share that recipe please?
@govardhana Here you go.
contentednesscooking.com/dirty…
I've transcribed a local copy into my recipe file, if you'd prefer a plaintext (or other format) version, I can make that happen for you.
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Do you have any info about their nature? (IP subnets, spoofed user agents)
@Maddie I haven't had a chance to do much digging into it yet.
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I'm probably gonna have to figure out how to do a manual upgrade again. I have to do this every few years, but not often enough that I can remember off the top of my head how. I just remember that it's a pain in the ass.
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Today the upgrade just kind of worked. Odd...
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I keep getting ads for "wealth management" services. If whatever algorithm that's serving these up thinks this is a good fit, at least I can tell I've been doing a good job of screwing with the data brokers.
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Perhaps they think you need all the help you might get?
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My partner and I seem to be passing the same flu back and forth. I'm presently reclining in a hammock chair (because I can't lay flat wthout coughing up a lung) under a weighted blanket with the humidifier going. I'm starting to perhaps feel human again.
Maybe when I have a bit more energy, I'll make myself a nice cup of pu'erh.
Well now I have company. I couldn't get up if I wanted to.
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A terminal UI is just a GUI where the graphics card is your imagination and the rendering engine is 50 years of accumulated technical debt.
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The comedy of my Cyberhole toys using a Terminal, simulating a VT52 more or less, made in HTML & JS, running in a browser, on a "real" GUI, relying on high-speed graphics cards because I'm WAY too lazy to do my own double-buffering, hits me just about every day I play with it.
I keep being amazed by terminals that use fancy UTF characters, colours and whatnot to create graphic features when you could just as well render just any old shape in the same place.
Unless something actually needs to be able to run outside of a desktop environment (which, alright, is needed for a fair number of things), I don't really see the benefit.
I'm still waiting for a proper graphical code/equation editor where comments happen in the margins and can be threaded and contain figures, where I can zoom out to see methods and classes as little boxes with connectors, arranged in a way that makes the relations between them more obvious, and I can rearrange and refactor them by drag & drop.
@Mr. Teatime @muesli I do a surprising amount of computing over an SSH connection with no X11 or Wayland system on my end. If it can't be run through a CLI or TUI, I can't use it.
...technically I can do VNC, but it's a pain in the ass and requires way more bandwidth than it ought to.
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No objection. I have to use the non-graphical ttys on my machines so often it's a bit embarrassing (RAM full, desktop locked up ...), so yes, I do appreciate a good shell.
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No objection. I have to use the non-graphical ttys on my machines so often it's a bit embarrassing (RAM full, desktop locked up ...), so yes, I do appreciate a good shell.
@fribbledom
Tools makers have been very successful at labeling working code and working tools as "technical debt". As you would expect from people who would be unemployed if not selling us on using new tools to write new code. Really slick scam they have going on there. With the willing participation of people who similarly benefit from calling working technology "technical debt". #technology
@Badtux the Snarky Penguin @muesli That being said, technical debt is a real thing.
@me Only because tool makers make it a real thing. If I am not running Java 37 and Spring Boot 9 I can no longer get security and bug fixes. Instead I have to upgrade to new security flaws and new bugs. As well as introduce new bugs into my program because they changed APIs and renamed a bunch of things. It's a scam to keep people employed.
@Badtux the Snarky Penguin That is definitely a thing, and I'm not going to pretend the modern computing industry isn't a giant clusterfuck, but also, sometimes we just legitimately come up with better ways of doing things.
Things do get messy when money is involved, though.
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@me The reality is that 95% of data entry jobs would work just as well with a 25x80 greenscreen terminal backed up by a COBOL application. A huge amount of the "improvements" since that was state of the art are self serving nonsense intended to keep programmers employed and tools providers emitting a constant stream of paid updates (or in the case of free tools, to keep the programmers of those tools employed writing a constant stream of updates).
@Badtux the Snarky Penguin Have you ever tried to program in COBOL?
@me 95% of new programmers would benefit from knowing how to do control-break processing. I clean up after so many youngsters doing ad hoc processing for data we have known how to process efficiently since 1968.
Honestly I much prefer Java to COBOL and the recent enhancements to add more modern language features to Java version 255 are much appreciated. However: Programmer convenience is not the purpose of software engineering. Solving business problems is.
@Badtux the Snarky Penguin I think that programmers could also benefit from learning assembly. That doesn't mean I'm going to use it as my day-to-day language. A good software engineer knows that everything is a trade-off, and it's about picking the tool that best solves the problem at hand.
I wholeheartedly agree with you that the industry is overrun with inexperienced devs who build a ton of slop (even before so-called AI hit the scene) because the companies they work for want to make line go up above all else. That's a capitalism problem more than an engineering problem though.
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I know the fedi really hates it, but have you ever actually tried heroin? It's really good actually, and everyone who says otherwise is a hater who doesn't understand nuance. 🥴
Nuance is for wokesters - go for broke!
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Nationality isn't really important to them. Religion isn't really important to them. Culture? It isn't important to these kinds of wealthy and powerful people.
The only other people they can really "see" are those with enough wealth and power (and the will) to have an impact on their lives. Everyone else is essentially invisible, unimportant. Background music, an NPC.
Colorful hats of religion, ethnicity, nationality are like masquerade ball costumes. Useful, fun even, but not important.
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There is a secular value in being able to navigate diversity, in having experience with and an understanding of a diversity of cultures. It's popular with academics and some business people because it's a stance that allows you to learn more about the world, which academics like and it can help you make more deals which the business people like. I'm not talking about secular inclusiveness.
I'm talking about the utter indifference of the ultra wealthy to anything but other ultra wealthy people.
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Your uncle who is a small 'm' millionaire who learned to speak Mandarin doesn't come into this.
He's invisible too.
This is very true. I've seen it happen to people who marry into that wealth too.
It's the wealth disparity as much the total amount. I see it here in Mexico with the gringos who move here too...although it's aided by a healthy dose of white supremacy.
I think the paranoia that comes with ultra-wealth (people are trying to take advantage of you), and the awkwardness (shame?) of social conversations with people whose problems are completely different than yours, all contribute to it. But that doesn't excuse it. It just means that it's work to keeping it from happening.
What really gets to me is the banality of those circles. Gossip, garden parties, and finance.
culture is important to the people who need it, and the rich can never own culture
Word to that sister...
Religion serves as justification for hate, punishment. Words have opposite meaning, science means nothing, all to support their evil visions of having it ALL.
Regular people…. maybe they pick it up & mimic it to feel like they’re in w the soulless rich that are literally extracting us & everything else to death.
Regular people…. maybe they pick it up & mimic it to feel like they’re in w the soulless rich that are literally extracting us & everything else to death.
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Welcome to #TransTuesday!
There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter
Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated.
EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia
If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die
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TERFs, PART 3: NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION OF HARRY POTTER - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This is what it all comes down to, for trans people and the cis folks who actually care about us. Listen up, and show it to every cis person you know who does not get it.Tilly Bridges (Tilly's Trans Tuesdays - transgender education for everyone!)
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I mean. I'd like to hear the reasoning for "even pirated" just because I'm not following that logic.
For the piracy angle, is it more "you're still absorbing it and possibly talking about it, and it still causes it to spread"?
@Gwendolyn studios TRACK pirating, and consider high numbers interest in their shows
it also keeps the franchise alive and spreads its influence. just like fanfic and fan art.
ALL OF IT keeps HP alive
You have to let it all go
Just read the essay
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Oh. I've never been into Harry Potter. I was asking mostly just as a curiosity. Thanks! Makes sense.
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They probably track mentions in social media, and the engaging those mentions create.
And you just reminded me there is at least 7 books and who knows how many films of that thing I haven't read.
I will resist the urge to fill that gap, but you get my meaning...
@🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @Gwen The Red Moss That is a perspective I hadn't considered. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
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If you do enjoy Harry Potter, know that a hateful old fascist loves that you lay down your morals for the sake of entertainment, she laughs about it over avocado toast and foot massages, at you, all day long, every single day.
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@Gwendolyn honestly as a person who used to be a fan when i was young and thought about the content for a bit. Ursula K. Le Guin is 100% spot on in her assessment: "stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited"
There's just better content and her transphobia is proof she's ethically a broken person and i would no longer want to feed my mind from her well.
@missqarnstein @Gwendolyn it's literally not about how good or bad you think the books are, and conflating your opinion of them with how horrid their author is is not good, actually. read the previous essay for more on that
There was no book series I was looking forward to reading to my children more. As my parents did for me. They have not heard a word of it. It ends with me.
@vramvoolenaar thank you for doing the right thing even when it's hard
@Curioso @vramvoolenaar @🎃 Killy Witches 👻 I was recommended the Discworld series as a better alternative to Harry Potter. Having started to read it, I heartily second that endorsement (unless there's some issue there I'm unaware of).
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EDIT: just saw the "even pirated" line. I want to stress I still won't look fondly on it even if I think it's less bad. I'm leaving the original comment for transparency and the hope others catch it if they didn't in your original post.
P.S., some of us won't judge you as harshly if the nostalgia trip is too strong, but you pirate it so the bitch doesn't get a single red cent. Y'all already do that for shit that isn't made by obsessive genital police.
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@disorderlyf pirating still supports it! when you say things like this you condone keeping it alive and a viable franchise
no Harry Potter means
NO HARRY POTTER. AT ALL. ANYWHERE.
Yeah, I saw what you said about tracking pirated download numbers and it convinced me, so I edited my comment to stress I still think it's a bad move to consume new Harry Potter media anyway.
I do not agree. The Harry Potter series is a masterwork. A true trans person was born with the wrong body, it must be a horrible experience, I feel very sorry for them.
When I see someone with a Harry Potter T-shirt on or something I immediately think of them as anti-trans. But I also see people in Starbucks or Gail's and I immediately think of them as anti-Palestinian racists.
I mean, they *might not* be those things but if they're so oblivious to what's going on in the world and are just ignorant, they might as well be those things. Ignorance is complicity.
@lydiaconwell ignorance is not complicity, not in this society. some people *genuinely* do not know. does mainstream news cover these things? people are overworked and exhausted and worried and stressed all the time. people miss things.
this is why we inform those folks, like my essays on this topic have done. because then they will know. and THEN if they still choose to support, they are complicit.
and people who feign ignorance to cover their bad choices are something else entirely.
I once tried reading "Where is my cow?" to my little ones... I guess that was too early though.
we just threw out all seven books we had in our home library. Figured it'd be the best case use of them.
@me @vramvoolenaar @jcurioso Might I suggest the Young Wizards series by @dianeduane as a good alternative.
HP has become too big, it probably won't be possible to kill it, especially if Rowling becomes rich...
@Gryficowa helpful, thanks
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Every time i walk past "Free Little Library" i peruse it for HP books so i can remove/destroy them. So far i've destroyed 2 HP books this way.
i never liked her shit
@MedeaVanamonde not the point tho. she’d be harmful trash even if you thought her books were the best ever written
oh I checked her work out around 2005…I could see the appeal but it didn’t appeal to me. i think I read one book and maybe saw 2 movies.
Meh and Feh…just something innately wrong about it all. Chalked it up to cultural differences between here and there.
But still it felt like she was popular due to a Cross Roads Demon Deal.
Not far off the mark…
I mentioned Voldemort the other day and then apologized for the JKR reference. My friends have a trans kid. In fact, several of my friends have trans children! They laughed. They get me.
@Franceska Mann @🎃 Killy Witches 👻 I tend to refer to JKR as "she who shall not be named". It feels to me to be the only apropriate reference to her work.
Edit: If that does cause problems, please correct me.
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I was never into HP (too old I guess) so it's rather easy for me to do what feels like the right thing to do.
Personally, I'm only that radical (in a positive way) when it comes to veganism. So thank you for your take. It made me think.
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Especially if you have daughters, I can recommend Patricia Wrede - "Enchanted Forest Chronicles" for the younger ones and all Tamora Pierce Books for the older ones. I loved the "Song of the Lioness" and the "The Circle of Magic" Series the most.
Especially if you have daughters, I can recommend Patricia Wrede - "Enchanted Forest Chronicles" for the younger ones and all Tamora Pierce Books for the older ones. I loved the "Song of the Lioness" and the "The Circle of Magic" Series the most.
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After the recent reorganization in VPG, I’m leaving my job at Apple. Which means that I’m looking for a new job!
I’m looking for a senior or staff-level software engineering role, particularly where my experience with Swift, Objective-C, UI frameworks, Apple platforms, and large, complex software systems can be useful.
I’m looking for something in the SF Bay Area, something remote or something back in Belgium.
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- If I pet for too long, he gets mad.
It's a very dangerous game.
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@Void Chicken To be fair, apart from Vincent Price and the old guy, I couldn't tell any of the men apart. It didn't help that they were all wearing the same suit.
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Root #monsterdon post #TheBat1959
#Ultraman's batteries held out this time? This is unprecedented! #monsterdon
That said, he should really look into that Evangelion charging infrastructure. #ultraman #monsterdon
Ooh! Another Vincent Price one. #monsterdon
"It's their loss, not mine."
I have a feeling your tune will change when your entire staff quits, because you clearly don't give a crap about them.
I feel that if you're going to concoct such an elaborate plan, it's better to agree on the specifics beforehand. #monsterdon
See! This is what I'm talking about! #monsterdon
Maybe latch your storm doors? #monsterdon
"I hope the power doesn't go out putting the lights out."
"Now let's get ready to go to sleep [presumably with the lights out]."
It's amazing how a rich white woman can just order the police around like that. #monsterdon
Also, no sign of an intruder? What about the freaking hole he cut in the glass? #monsterdon
Not the rabies! #monsterdon
Oh, I guess you can test for the rabies by just looking. #monsterdon
Oh, somebody finally noticed the hole. They're oddly nonchalant about it. After all, glass is known for just spontaneously developing circular holes. #monsterdon
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If you've had a secret hiding place built in your home, and you have the seemingly only copy of the plans in said house, I know where I'd keep them... #monsterdon
"If the bat makes another call, I'll have a surprise for him."
Dude, he's a serial killer and you're like 100.
This cop really sucks at, you know... seeing things, doesn't he? #monsterdon
"Well, the thing about glass is that it's see-through...
... and the thing about a big hole cut in the glass is that it's also see-through."
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Such stealth... #monsterdon
There's a kilker on the loose. Obviously I'm going to investigate that noise.
Good choices.
Given this guy's MO, I'd have expected... any blood at all. #monsterdon
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Here's a tip: shoot first, then give the monologue. #monsterdon
Finally, this guy does anything useful at all... #monsterdon
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I have things I need to do today but there's a cat on me.
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Looks like @SDF.ORG is down again...
Not as bad as last time but I haven't been able to ssh in for a few hours now.
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"Jeff Bezos says AI could result in a 3-day work week"
Guy has employees peeing in bottles
What you don't realize is his plan is to redefine the week so it only has 3 days
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finallt a way to fit two full time jobs.
That's OK if the second day is Saturday and the third day is Sunday. 😜
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oh man, i want to be productive!
the workflow is:
AI -> massive economic crash -> capitalism overthrown -> 3 day week
AI -> massive economic crash -> capitalism overthrown -> 3 day week
if the financial benefits of Amazon's efficiency were shared with their staff maybe they could already have 3 day weeks?
House prices would still be too high. Maybe AI will invent a wealth tax so people with multiple properties will be forced to sell them causing prices to crash. Suddenly there will be enough housing for all and it will be affordable!
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it more likely to be that everyone can.onlybdo 3 days a week as part of a workshare where the available jobs left after AI takes all the current ones have to shared around so we can have something to buy food with
4-week and 3-week work, and however many else you may hear about, means something different for billionaires than for the rest of us.
We think, fewer work days but same pay and benefits.
They however want, fewer workdays, less pay, and fewer benefits or even no benefits. Many jurisdictions have minimal work day thresholds in place before the worker has the right to claim certain benefits.
So you can add that to your billionaire bullshit notebook.
Exactly. We've had the technology for a 3 day work week for decades now. But when your job becomes easier, it just makes bosses pile more stuff on you so they can justify "What am I paying you for?"
Each day will be 56 hours long.
Bezos is a fucking wanker with the emotional intelligence of a brick and the morals of some one who partied with Jeffrey Epstein. Needs locking up, not quoting.
He meant 3 days of payment.
First he will skip Sunday and Saterday.
Oh yeah, really? Stupid mothafucka!
... and no weekends.
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So I'm working on adding a feature to #NomadNet that allows you to press Alt+r (keybinding not yet fully settled upon) to find the most recently failed message in the current conversation and copy it into the message editor so that it can easily be resent.
I think I've done this, but in order to properly test it, I need to first intentionally cause a message to fail. This is proving more difficult than I anticipated.
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One of my favourite things in the world is just laying in a hammock with a good book. Why don't I do this more often?
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Looks like #gentoo has had a bunch of sponsors pull out. I wonder if this has anything to do with their stance against LLMs. Looks like they're looking for new ones. While I'm not in a position to help out on this, I will at least do what I can to boost the signal.
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Gentoo has had a series of issues, security-wise, management wise, socio-cultural wise (with their "Code of Ethics"), and now this. It seems something like the constant shaking of a wide-gauge screen.
@tom grzybow Honestly, all I know about Gentoo is that they've explicitly banned LLM-generated contributions. Can you elaborate on the issues with the code of ethics (or any of the others)?
I have followed the various linux distributions up-and-down, since the first Slackware release. The latest up-and-comer is Void, it seems.
All the FOSS donors seem to have just been quietly waiting for a fascist frontrunner to arrive so they can give that all their money.
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Welp, #Oktoberfest is officially kicking off today. I live very close to a large German club. I guess I'm not getting any sleep for the next while.
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Sooo... the parking lot's been packed for hours, but so far I haven't heard any noise. I'm not complaining by any means, but I certainy am confused.
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I've been working on this feature for over an hour without writing a single line of code. I'm just familiarising myself with this part of the (rather large) codebase. Working with other people's code is fun! #programming #reticulum #NomadNet
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Am I in danger of having my Canadian citizenship revoked? While I do like a bowl of KD,* I loathe the idea of putting ketchup in it.
* mac and cheese
Whaaat? There are people who put ketchup in their mac and cheese? Help them, please!
@tom grzybow Yeah, it's a very popular way to eat it here.
Please tell me you are joking!
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@tom grzybow I'm as weirded by it as you are.
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Kinda reminds me of the time one of my dates put cubes of ice in her wine. Sadly, I disapproved, and she was so nice too...
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Getting the idea these oligarchs are more scared of a mockalypse than an actual apocalypse. They’ll kill e/o in the world rather than be laughed at.
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@Shannon Prickett Probably has to do with the effect of surrounding themselves with sycophants. They've lost the ability to process criticism because they typically don't ever have to.
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We really backed off calling them "weird" too quickly when they started getting so upset about it two years ago.
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I love that the emails I get from the library always have their logo in the footer with an alt-text of "my company logo".
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@PerryM talk to him if you haven’t he may not even realize what he is doing. I know I used to be horrible about talking over people but with some practice I have gotten better about it and do it a lot less.
@cameron29 Cameron thank you for your concern. 1 of us personally knows the autistic person and has repeatedly talked to him. It is fine for a day or 2 and the behavior returns.
I shared my experience because the person who posted this is autistic and believes that he is not understood and is put upon. I contend, with experience, that his attitude it's a matter of perspective and I know several people who would agree.
I would guess that he is not being treated and is angry!
@PerryM ✅ @Church of Jeff The more I stare at that AI-generated image, the worse it gets.
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