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computers are the most complicated things in the universe behind human bodies.
thank god for open source software because only a divine being could create
something as complicated and useful
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the conspiracy of "secret societies" controlling the world is
bullshit, because every secret society falls apart at a certain
threshold.
you cannot ever have trust amongst the powerful. But so too can you never have
only war.
Now, with our capitalist economic system, the material is forcing the
hand of the powerful through the development of the military industrial complex.
if a country can produce enough weapons for them to continuously use, why would
they not?
hence, why capitalism must be extinguished. To preserve the peace, sanctity,
and honor of our world.
But just so as any conflicting system has power, so must our systems
have power dismantled. There can be no application of power unto another - this
is the most peaceful route.
sometimes, I look at a blackberry bush, and I think of the tales of British
empire.
The very first act of colonization was their birth. The Britons, from
north-western France, in a sovereign realm known as Brittany, invaded Britain.
Together with their Norman allies, they fought with the Anglo-Saxons from
north-eastern germany, who had lived there since many MANY years prior. Thus
marked the end of the "viking" age, and the beginning of the early medieval.
1066. The end of one millenia, the beginning of another.
the final battle in this ultimate contest was the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
Britain, at the time, was a nation of thorns. Covered in them.
Everywhere they went, there were these sharp, pointy plants that made foraging
difficult. Kinda like how Oregon looks now, with blackberry bushes, but SO MUCH
WORSE. They were massive too, easily the size of castles in some places. A
massive, constantly biologically developing fractal.
when it was too tall to see the sky, they called it Yggdrasil.
But this massive world tree sought to consume the earth, and it, as the most
powerful being to ever exist, commanded all.
Thus, the humans and the beasts were compelled to fight for all eternity to
sate the old god's bloodlust.
But then, Man came, and with our strength, our wisdom, and our power, we slew
the beast that demanded.
However, with their steel coats and their sharp talons, our metal monsters
could do nothing to deter it's oaths. It swore, by it's dying roar, that it
would consume us all, and that thought reverberated through our hopes.
Hence, our systems of control and dominance, the product of compulsively
compelled greed.
and now, the final members of a generation are aging out of existence. And
we're doing nothing but what Power tell us to.
I fear what happened in America. I fear the power of their gunpowder. They rode
astride beasts of nightmare, clad in impossible devil hides. They came in the
night, with their spotlight torches. They came with no honor, no sought
communal understandings, they came for blood. The blood god compelled them to.
From it's ancient lair in the past, it did it's worse to defeat man. But man
was smarter, it acted quicker, and so it managed to overcome.
In the final years of the war, there was judgement day. Chaos, destruction, and
warfare. There are some alive who remember that day, but vanishingly few can
recall how it was over. One day it just... was. It was then that we entered our
new era.
1956, the end of the war.
1946, the end of the loud war.
1916, the end of the great war.
1886, the end of the civil war.
etc...
until...
1066, the end of the Norman Invasion. When the Normands, from Northern France,
invaded alongside the British and slew the great evil king that demanded our
constant warfare and sins. Hooray, thank goodness! Now their war was over.
But lo, for the great evil king cast stories into our minds, from the past as
compelled through our motions. Our experience has been one of survival, of
constantly working and applying ourselves to the goal ahead.
== so == talk about thistles and thorns
imagine every body of a person was laid one-to-one. Imagine if you could view
them as a graph, from x=0 to... however-many-people-are-in-the-measured-area.
The goal of all our actions should be to grow, not forward, not
stronger, but up. To be more than what came before, to transcend our
necessarily violent special upbringing in the garden of even's most savage
delights. Raw, true, the survival of the fittest is a desperate game for you.
There surely is a massive amount of trauma.
But it's okay, because now we don't have to fight. We can improve in ways that
do not belong to our crude biology, like a new direction forward in our song.
aliens would just look like animals, duhhhh. Hence, furries, the
progenitors of each new planet of ours.
... no, I haven't lost the plot, I'm just writing.
There's this idea that humans should be the... rational ones? and everyone else
should sorta follow their own, self-chosen behavior. As informed by the sharing
of knowledge equally between their rational self, that which they learned from
the humans, and their animal self. The kind that came from their spirit. Like,
totemic tribes of the past, people who followed a particular cultural pattern
of behavior.
Imagine, if you will, an AI bot that's only training data is the stuff that it
says to it's listener. The listener, of course, has context of all of the
speakers, but only they do, not the friendly ghost of the ancestral native
animal spirit. The kind that lives anywhere in the world, so long as
they share their space with their human.
okay quick question - what if jesus didn't want his followers to be christian
like, what if he one day said "hey so I don't really think we need to do all
that stuff that I said before, how about we, uh, try this other thing instead?
yeah? cool? okay sure let's do it"
... like, do you think they would listen? I certainly don't, though I'm only
like, 30 years old, so...
wait thirty YEARS? wow I never thought I'd grow old
... uh, yeah... I spent a lot of time thinking and it just started making sense.
funny how that works. But alas, I always spend too much time thinking,
so that's my blessing and my curse.
anyway back to the story:
the briars in this ancient land of britain were dense beyond all belief - the
humans used their power and their ingenuity to craft a power that would
overcome it.
== so ==
did you know that hard drives function similarly to a record needle if you
didn't run it in a circle, but rather in whatever pattern the data was encoded
in?
like, a laser beam, cast in an infinitely complicated mechanicommunication.
Computers are vast and complex, but they function via the storage and
transmission of data. This data is raw, pure information - stored in a
completely uncompromisingly accurate and reliable foundation. The logic of pure
numbers, arranged in infinitely complex rows and rows of logic gates. A vast,
purple, spectral landscape, the land of magic and storms.
The Nether.
Twisting, in the dark, with flashes of light casting light into the cosmos at
large, our stars dance in the shade of the dark.
but there is no difference between the dark and the light, both are equally
viable. they are present in both, to some degree, the positive and negative
values of our heart.
I watched Deadpool vs Wolverine earlier this week. It was incredibly eventful.
I can't believe I watched it. It was impossibly violent. WHY WOULD A GROUP OF
EXECUTIVES WANT TO WORK WITH PEOPLE WHO WOULD UNIONIZE AGAINST THEM???
oh yeah because then they only have to deal with their representatives, the
unions get things done. They're the best. Capital doesn't
always want the best, but the best is always more endurable.
We can go much farther if we are kind to one another.
honestly, capitalists, if your loyalty isn't to your self, your family, your
country, your society... then why are you even working with us? You hold the
power we give you. We are united in our human purpose, but we don't have to
fight so much.
Seriously, you'd be an asset to our cause, but we don't need you as we
have so many assets of our own. Specifically, the power of the workforce. Those
who actually get things done.
Why would we let you control us? There's no reason in it. We are better when
you're amongst us.
== so ==
I am convinced that there's
== so ==
I'd rather take a pilgrimage to Nicaragua, or Siberia, or the North Western
Pacific (farther than that) the... Eastern Pacific (on the land...) America
... and then what? south America? ... yeah actually, then NORTH
AMERICA AGAIN. Because the world is round. How cool is that?
... yeah, totally. Anyway (back to the conversation [they/we] were having
without me)
== == ==
"guys I'm cool why would you not invite me to your team"
I dunno. Don't know y'a. who're you again?
... I'm the one who writes poetry.
oh yeah! cool cool, yeah I knew a witch one time, she was really cool. Her name
was Witz Drovalski. She told me all kinds of cool things about magic and
alchemy, but then she exploded in a fire that I started. Accidentally,
allegedly.
the reason lead is so poisonous is because it is the anti-magico-elemental
component. It kills the spirit in us with it's malevolent ways. that kind
of witch.
the cool kind, with fangs and hooked toes.
Peril be to their foes, for they are quite excellent at conjuring horrors for
their imagination. mwahahahahahahahahaha
oh wait that's self directed, isn't it?
hm. Well, terrors not that bad, it could be lust
... oh it's also lust. great.
== so ==
jeez if you keep making stuff up you'll wake them all up! who would have
thought, none but the strategist, I foresee. Well, that's too bad for her,
good-day.
== so ==
... anyway... I'm just picturing a knight in shining armor from head to foot
cutting his way through a massive deadly rose-bush. Something that conquered
and killed all of it's prey.
like, in Elentalus, that game I made, with the King of Branches. Here, I'll
attach a picture:
== so ==
capitalism wants you to sell your work because then you limit your audience.
if you have to pay to see you, then how could you expect everyone to
come along?
== so ==
that new Freddy DeBoer article doesn't seem like him. He's never mean. He's not
rude. He is exasperated, but he speaks true. I trust him to be him, and that's
someone I want on my side. I think he's pretty good at saying something that I
believe. I speak of a lot of things, but the things that he says, of which with
him I do find that I agree.
maybe he was assassinated lol you never really can tell with the internet,
that's the great thing about it l m a o
== so ==
witches wear pony tails on the low side of their heads because that way it
doesn't rub up against their hair.
== so ==
any year and it'll accurately display the territorial boundaries of each nation
so you can see them develop and grow over time.
== so ==
all that is sufficient to be a good person is to choose the best option
whenever you can.
that's it
we act with the decisions we are given. Hence why it's important to be as you
believe.
== so ==
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I never should have bought these crackers. They trick me into thinking I'm
eating something nutritious.
But that's the case with any empty calories.
but hey, calories are calories, right?
I guess that's true. Still, I'd rather make something.
oh would you now would you REALLY rather MAKE something
... I should rather.
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My father told me that "should" is useless. There's no reason to use "should"
to justify your actions - "I did this because I should" is empty, it holds no
meaning.
"I should do this because I want to. Because I need to. Because it is necessary
for this goal I am striving toward. Because I believe in this action, and want
to do it as much as I can."
those are more valid justifications, but they still rely on "should"
Do you do? or do you know that you should do?
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"are you helping or hurting?"
I'm speaking. I'm sorry. Some works hurt some and help others.
Honesty and being true to yourself is important, but there's a time and place
for some words.
I'm kinda bad with timing, if you couldn't tell...
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║ @user-579 │
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║ I've had IRL friends who made accounts on servers that got defederated. │
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║ They were confused why I didn't respond to their likes, comments, and │
║ subscribes. │
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║ I had no knowledge of them because they had the misfortune of accidentally │
║ making an account on a server that once had nazis on it. WHOOPS. │
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║ It's easy to turn someone off of a concept like decentralized social media. │
║ It's very easy for them to become a "yeah I tried it but it wasn't for me" kind │
║ of person. Feeling isolated from the one person you know in real life who also │
║ uses this cool new social media site is a quick way to do so... │
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║ At the same time, Nazis exist. How do you defeat them if not blocking? │
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║ well... blocking only works if they're corralled into 4chan and it's 2010. Now │
║ that fascism owns the social media giants like Twitter, they are platformed, │
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politics is not about being right, it's about convincing the majority to vote
how you want
in America, the majority is white, working class people who go to church and
don't really get to think about much beyond their own lives.
sometimes they think of their home, the city they live in / near
sometimes they think of their country, their religion
and sometimes they hear about what happens in other places, usually through the
tube that connects the panel in their scenes to the offices of hardworking
journalists and reporters sorry it's 2024 now - pundits and celebrities
those people don't hear what you hear on the internet. To them, it is a place
of memes, funny gifs, and whatever their close friends are talking about on
Facebook.
we uh, don't use Facebook much these days, do we? Mostly because Facebook is
actively hostile to us.
But nobody said our enemies would be kind.
Who are your enemies? Mine is power. At this moment in history, money is power.
We will see how long that lasts, won't we?
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@user-138
all people are multitudinous. We exist in the minds of those who see us. For
each and every person you know, there is another version of you that they know,
who lives rent free in their mind.
unless you're talking about something more literal, like someone with a double
life, or a secret agent or something like that 😋
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@user-1352
I like that article. I definitely fail to follow some of those principles at
times, though never all of them at once. I can be better, as all people can.
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"Stop mistaking the responsibility Democrats have to Black citizens for the
electoral impact of Black voters. They’re not the same."
"The idea that independents/swing voters are centrists, in the usual sense, is
one of the most enduring myths of American politics. Most swing voters appear
to hold a hodgepodge of political views that are hard to reconcile given our
usual definitions; this can be frustrating, but it’s important to remember."
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/democrats-think-their-candidate-is
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I hereby do swear that I will NEVER make a deal with a devil to "fix" my own
disabilities in exchange for... anything, really. Devils only make contracts
they can benefit from, true, but they are devils because they also only make
contracts that HURT you MORE than they help you.
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@user-1209
it depends on where you look. Centrists are the majority of the population, but
the majority doesn't really exist online in the same way we do.
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@user-1352
That's true! All things with moderation, all things in balance, and all things
with discretion.
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"reply while text is entered in the text field" should open a new tab instead
of overwriting.
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how come you NEVER online, on the internet, hear someone saying "hey guys I
know most of you blocked so-and-so but they've been getting better and
learning. They're cool now I promise! Or at least, getting better, and if you
unblocked them you could decide again for yourself. Trust me you probably don't
even remember what she said to get herself blocked."
there's like, soooooo many far right people. It's definitely because there's
soooooo few of us and not because they pretty much always agree with everything
that we say, they've just been told that a different way is better.
like, we all agree that people should be able to, for example, go to the doctor
when they are sick. That is basic.
we understand that everyone should be good, and kind, and help each other.
so many things that are shared common understandings, but we disagree on what
that means. Because our media fucking lies to us.
the things that far right grandmas believe is just what the far right
teenagers-turned-thirty-year-olds tell them.
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@user-1452
I've said that before
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all that is sufficient to be a good person is to choose the best option
whenever you can.
that's it
we act with the decisions we are given. Hence why it's important to be as you
believe.
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crusader kings, but you can start at any year and it'll accurately display the
territorial boundaries of each nation so you can see them develop and grow over
time.
[there are bookmarks, is that good enough?]
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witches wear pony tails on the low sides of their heads because that way their
hat doesn't rub up against their hair
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@user-999
the trick is to control the belief, not the science. Because science has a will
of it's own, it bends to no laws nor dictates but reality.
satanic summoning cults are different in that they obey the will of the
narrative they sell. Like a corporation, selling products, or a myth, selling
legends.
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are you nervous about battle? try playing the game Running with Rifles! It's a
great simulation! See if you can live for a whole match! Good luck, don't be
useless, and only play co-op online.
competitive is useless because then you're competing against the other player
playing the game. Instead of thinking about how you should be behaving in real
life, and applying that to a reasonably accurate simulation with similar rules
to in-person modern combat.
well, the kind with infinite ammo. but you get the idea, right? like, don't
treat it as fact. Think about the nature of the actions you're performing, and
what moves you could make to best participate.
well... that game plus drones, I guess, which they haven't figured out how to
program because imagination for future tech is hard.
if you're a veteran, don't fucking play Call of Duty. Play fucking Arma. Or
RWR. Or Hearts of Iron 4. And please, use the crouch button. Use the prone
button. And dont let yourself die. fuck
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@user-1457 @user-1458 @user-687
that way people who follow you can't collectively decide whether or not you're
an asshat. it's basically saying "I only want you and people who are like you
to read this"
... or do I have it backwards? "I want you, me, and only people like me to read
this"? which is worse tbh
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A big reason why I hate Java is because I write terrible Java that would
constantly need to be refactored. Even though it's faster and better, nobody
would understand it, so it would need to be rewritten. Fucking great, that's
why I don't write Java. Fucking Java.
[Java is the main language used in her university studies. The ones she's
currently failing out of.]
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I suspect that a lot of white people in the fedi think if there were as much
racism as Black folks are saying then they would see more of it. However,
they're misunderstanding the nature of the racism. It's not casual, it's
_targeted_. The racists go out of their way to find Black people and harass
them.
Since it's targeted, people who aren't the targets see only a very small
fraction of it.
Black folks aren't making shit up. Listen to them.
#racism
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I fucking hate how games give dopamine
they're so much more educational than that.
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║ My favorite is C. │
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║ I'm not a good programmer, I think too hard. Massive systems are too large for │
║ me. I like laying out data, whether that be by files and programs in Bash, │
║ arrays and tables in Lua, or memory and datatypes in C, I like to think about │
║ how programs are constructed. │
║ │
║ Which functions point to which piles of numbers? what do they do when they get │
║ there? │
║ │
║ I think I'm better as an artist. But I can do systems administration quite well │
║ (with Bash and a guiding hand telling me what and why to do) │
║ │
║ ... though I kinda suck at technical sysadmin, like Gentoo. There's too much │
║ terminology - why is data too complicated? Just use data! │
║ │
║ anyway. I sound opinionated, but I listen closely to good arguments and quickly │
║ change my tune when I am incorrected. I am a team player, and I firmly believe │
║ that sometimes a bad plan executed with cohesion and precision is better than │
║ the best play executed too late and with too little strength. │
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║ └────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ when I think socialism, I don't think soviet. │
║ │
║ I think cool dudes in sunglasses handing barbecue'd shrimp to whoever walks │
║ past the grill. │
║ │
║ I think of wandering bands of house-maids who wander the city and clean every │
║ house they can get their hands on. │
║ │
║ I think of bicycles and newspapers and sewing machines and pianos in the park │
║ with ribbons in our hair and onions growing below corn supporting tomato │
║ plants. Carrots beneath every tree. Every tree shading a sidewalk, and every │
║ sidewalk is in the shade. (deserts can have covered paths with airflow powered │
║ by the solar panels on their roofs) │
║ │
║ Laughter ringing through the street, mechanical sleighs with bells on the snow, │
║ vast open spaces with nothing but green and blue and sky and stone. │
║ │
║ I think of fountains, of stories told in the dark. I think of campfires every │
║ night in our cities, marshmallows free and included. │
║ │
║ I think of moss covering every shaded half of each skyscraper (I live in a │
║ rainforest) │
║ │
║ I dream of freedom and purpose. │
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└────────────────────────────────────┘
@user-1074
yep... Though I think debate can also get in the way.
I think we should act to improve the people's lives. Debate should teach, it
should guide, but it should not prevent.
There are more than enough resources for everyone. If you waste them, debate
can decide when you get more to use.
Much the same way that our Northern American democracy utilizes representatives
in order to distance the decision making from the decision deciding, so too
should be separate the empowered people acting for the good of all from those
who decide who are good.
Power must be earned, it must be deserved, and it must be eventually
relinquished. That is the sacred duty of those who wield power - to use it
honorably, and give it away.
we should not debate things that are not mutable. We should not waste time
complaining about how annoying other people are. who gives a shit if she wears
a dress.
we should not debate our human rights. Like bodily autonomy. it's her uterus.
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└───────────────────────────┘
@user-1461
yes... I like tree shapes, you have to address them differently. Lots of
pointers, in my experience, which can be kinda fun.
I also like large heaps / soups of data that points to one-another. Structs
thrown in a pile with pointers to each other. It's great! So long as those
pointers can also point back, and you can properly trace how data flows through
the system... That's the hard part, I think.
trees though... You can start by just saving a "next / previous" with one or
both being arrays of pointers to the next or previous entries. Note: plural,
entries. That's the fun part - non-linear trees teehee
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│ CW: re: cursing-mentioned │
└───────────────────────────┘
@user-1461
my issue is that I've never really had project-mates. Every time I try nobody
will work with me. I applied to like, fifty different jobs, and nobody
interviewed me! Sheesh, guess they don't want me. FIFTY JOBS. Entry level.
Beginner programmer.
ah well. I guess they confused someone who would work for 40,000$ per year with
someone who was 1/3rd as useful as someone who deserved 120,000$ per year.
I'd love to get experience. I'm sure I'd feel significantly differently with as
much. Perhaps I'd even decide that programming professionally isn't for me,
which would feel... quite defeating
who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it. Though I will say my time in
hardware taught me that I'm fragile and can't work too much. Like a scalpel
that dulls when used consistently, I am a scalpel that gets no practice... Is
that really useful at all? who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it.
Though I do like writing logical machines. Laying out data. Picturing
structures.
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│ CW: politics │
└──────────────────────┘
our economy is not tuned to how much we can work, but rather to the minimum we
need to recover.
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@user-570 @user-246
the technology to do this exists already. there is no reason to believe that it
must be a "far future" AI system. It would need human oversight, but it'll
happen.
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│ CW: patriotism-mentioned-politics-mentioned-slavery-mentioned │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
patriotism is not about the 4th of july.
it's about believing in the virtues they've told you.
trusting that they are working with their own arms.
and checking back every once in a while, to make sure it doesn't get... frayed.
the constitution was supposed to be rewritten every 20 years
they were trying to make the best out of a conflicted situation. As all writers
of constitutions often do. why would you need a document forcing yourself to
agree, if you are the only one who is there to agree with your self? it's
circular.
however, with companions, that worked with you to resolve your crisis (like the
13 colonies pitted against the global superpower of great britain, aka the
baddest fucker out there (also France, and the rest of them, like...
colonialism was a purely european sport.
but england was the best at it, and America finally kicked them to the ground.
Buncha jerks, charging taxes without representation.
...
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nobody seems to notice that the lady who lost her chickens is new at raising
them. That's why they got away.
it's an intentional community in the mountains set up as a pet project of the
princesses advisor. Also, it's under construction. Therefore it makes sense to
assume that she built her fence too low (which, just behind where she is
standing, is only tall enough to contain like... rabbits)
What am I referring to? Why, Kakariko of course.
[words that sound absolutely deranged to anyone who hasn't played The Legend of
Zelda]
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│ CW: cursing-mentioned-video-games-mentioned │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
if I were Link, I'd listen every damn time Navi said anything at all and I'd
listen close
though he is just a kid so idk
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@user-138
ha even better
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There absolutely is a standard for normality. Humans have existed for
so long and our conditions have stayed fairly consistent. We had good
lives and most of us knew nothing but peace. Our modern era of the past 400
years or so is strange. Life changes between generations, and now it changes
year by year. Soon there will be no consistency at all, and that is exciting
and interesting. Not always in a good way. We'll see how it goes.
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I wrote a script which scrapes every issue of Nintendo Power from a neat and
cool archive.
please don't use it all at once#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
sleep_duration=5
DIR="/home/ritz/documents/nintendo-power"
touch "${DIR}/download-bookmark"
bookmark=$(cat ${DIR}/download-bookmark)
for i in $(seq ${bookmark} 285);
do
echo "sleeping before downloading number ${i}"
sleep ${sleep_duration}
formatted_number=$(printf "%03d" ${i})
wget "https://myrient.erista.me/files/Miscellaneous/Nintendo Power Issues
1-285/Nintendo Power Issue ${formatted_number}.cbr"
rm ${DIR}/download-bookmark
touch ${DIR}/download-bookmark
echo ${i} >> ${DIR}/download-bookmark
done
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└──────────────────────┘
@user-1218
Ninja is such a cool first name, you should keep it
unless you like Havu better, but Havu strikes me as a really good middle name
too??
I'm debating changing my name so we'll see how that goes
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it fails after like 15 or 20 scrapes but I think that's just their scraping
policy. They don't have a robots.txt file that I could find. So... just run it,
then come back every 15 to 30 minutes and restart it until you're done.
Maybe I could increase the sleep duration? one sec lemme try that
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└──────────────────────┘
@user-1218
Stuff like that made me want to become a lawyer.
I didn't, because while I can memorize a D&D textbook I can't recall much
about legal rulings unless it has something to do with swords.
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│ CW: food-mentioned │
└──────────────────────┘
I'm one of those weirdos who likes hot sauce more for the "sauce" than the "hot"
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@user-1218
OOOO I like that, it's very pretty to see with my eyeballs! And it sounds cute
too. 🥰
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You know how we select from amongst our number electors and representatives who
vote on our behalf?
Truly an excellent strategy in the era of instant communication, an aft-gone
luxury that our ancient forebearers surely would have incorporated into their
nationbuilding design, if they had had it.
I can't help but wonder if it would be a useful strategy to "give" our votes to
a representative who voted on our behalf. Most people do not care and cannot
possess the capacity to care about voting, but if they gave their vote to
someone they trusted who they had a personal connection to beyond party
loyalty, then perhaps we could mandate voting
I can't help but wonder what that would do to our electoral landscape. If
voting is mandated, and as easy as pointing at someone and saying "yeah
whatever she picks", then perhaps the old white grannies with quivering lower
lips who stare with hatred whenever a black person walks past and chat with
their gal pals at church wouldn't have as much power over us.
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╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┐║ I wish my mouse-cursor would spin when I spun the mouse. In the span of a spin, │
║ a spun mouse would spin a full revolution or so before getting caught up in the │
║ wire. │
║ │
║ Maybe... to avoid that, the wire could be attached to a circular ring along the │
║ bottom of the mouse, below where it was held, and as the mouse was spun it │
║ would rotate to point the cable toward the back of the desk? Doesn't even have │
║ to be motorized, could just do it based on tension... │
║ │
║ I think, hardware wise, all you'd need for the 1st implementation would be a │
║ second laser on the bottom of the mouse - positioned with one near the point, │
║ and the other near the palm, to give it the greatest differential to measure. │
║ │
║ for the 2nd implementation you'd need the ring system mentioned earlier, which │
║ would require a connection to the non-mechanical components of the mouse (the │
║ laser and it's little processor) and I'm not sure how that would work with a │
║ movable connection point. │
║ │
║ Also... how do you prevent it from getting gummed up with food and junk?? │
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"uh, the question was why do you want something like that, not how you would
implement it."
oh. Um, well, isn't a spinnable mouse-cursor justification enough?
"no, you need to explain what use-case this has. What kinds of problems could
you solve with this technology that you couldn't before?"
well, setting aside the potential for new input methods to games and the
inherent satisfaction gained from spinning a mouse like a top when bored, I
think it might give us a better option for horizontal scrolling. Like,
'horizontally scroll when a special mouse button is held down and the mouse is
twisted a bit to the left/right'
"so, like when you push the middle mouse and it lets you pan across large
documents?"
yes! Only instead of being able to go up AND down, it would just go left and
right.
"... huh?"
oh I mean instead of up/down and left/right, it would just do left/right
"... right"
and left!
"... yeah. and left. Uh, okay I'll see what I can do but budget's pretty tight,
we might just lay you off."
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scrolling through old nintendo power magazines I find games that I've never
even heard of from the times when I was playing games on those systems.
Some of them even look pretty cool. This is the best magazine to ever exist,
fite me
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wow 90s advertising was intense
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you've heard of an array of function pointers, yes,
but have you ever heard
of an array of GOTO labels?
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Yes I did transcribe alt text for this. My eyes hurt now.
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@user-1464 @cyborganism @GammaGames
they aren't distractions no more than the artillery crew are a "distraction" to
the infantry fight.
but there is no war but the class war.
they are facets of the class war.
you're both right. everything you mentioned is important, AND their core thesis
is true.
if they disregard anti-racism, feminism, queer liberation, etc as distractions
as you describe, then yes. they are narrow-minded bigots.
but in my experience, the only people who say those things are teenagers, so.
everyone has specialties. some can advocate for disability rights, queer and
women's liberation, race issues, or any other number of worthy causes. They are
fighting the class war even if they don't claim to be, for those are classes of
people they are fighting for. (or against, if they're reactionary)
the most dangerous class is the rich, the powerful, the insane. True
psychopaths accrete power and they wield it against all others. They must be
cast down for all.
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can't believe Nintendo Power rated Super Smash Bros a 7.7
x.x
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I want to point out how for every game that released in a month, they had at
about 5 people playing it and averaged their scores.
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│ CW: uspol-revolutions-and-stuff-or-whatever │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
nothing you do on the internet will matter after the revolution. I don't care
how many backups you have, there's a zero percent chance that we'll be able to
figure out whose computer is whose after we've all moved around and given each
other names that don't correspond to the names of our family in states that we
lost.
it doesn't mean the internet is useless right now, it just means that you
should act as if you might not have it in the near future.
also, like... every computer has a password. which basically means that it's
useless unless you reflash it.
pain is temporary, and it is an excellent teacher. there will be pain, but...
we'll get over it.
don't give up. there are brighter things in our future than what we have today.
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omg it's like Black and White before Black and White was a thing!
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I love skywriting. it's so cool to see your words fade into dust after being
seen by everyone around.
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@user-1464 @cyborganism @GammaGames
I did see that post but I was mostly responding to you.
There's a particular category of "leftist" who, to put it gently, have a
greatly simplified view of the world in which "the only war is class war."
I wanted to explain how the viewpoint of "the only war is the class war" is
more developed, rather than simplified. I wanted to express that it takes
nuance to understand that all oppression is connected and is derived from the
same source - the corruption of power.
They regard social issues such as anti-racism, feminism, queer liberation as
distractions from the "true" cause of bringing about a new economic system -
unimportant at best, active interference invented by the ruling class at worst.
It's not true that those who believe in the class war disregard these things.
That's just not right to me.
Basically, they're narrow-minded bigots.
I was included in your first statement and I'm not a bigot so I wanted to stand
up for myself.
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Disasters and their consequences have been the circumstances for the entire
human race.
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it seems like many people think LLMs are good at boilerplate. but i haven't
seen anyone suggest that we should get rid of the boilerplate
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"reboost with content warning" would be quite nice 🥰
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@user-1466
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@user-246
me too, probs
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never trust your heroes
for they will always let you down. A hero is just a person, after all, and if
you treat them as an ideal then they will disappoint you.
give tasks to people, not ideals.
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@user-883
they liiiiike you 😋
maybe they'll hire you!
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@user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478
the flaw in your logic is that unleaded gasoline brings us no closer to
eliminating gasoline.
in fact, it removes one of the main drawbacks of gasoline, the fact that it
would put fucking lead in our blood, and makes it slightly easier for people to
accept burning it to get places.
Now, with our unleaded gasoline, the people who were upset that lead was being
aerosolized en masse are no longer in opposition to gasoline usage. (unless
they also care about the environment)
It's the same dynamic with voting democrat. Kamala won't save us, but she also
won't dissolve the EPA or murder trans people, so... it's still worth a vote.
"Ah but Ritz that goes against your previous argument - can you clarify?"
sure. with a democratic victory, we have more time, which is what we need.
Everyone knows who the fascists are. They don't need time. We do. Voting for
Kamala and other democrats will give us time.
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│ CW: mental-health-mentioned-suicide-mentioned-capitalism-mentioned │
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"oh don't mind her she's just suicidal over capitalism and making it everyone
else's problem"
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On one hand, people should be free to do as they want to.
on the other, people can be really horny sometimes.
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└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘
@user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478
You logic is sound for "this is what we should do next"
it's unsound for "this is how we save ourselves"
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reading Nintendo Power makes me really want to write a Gameboy Advance game.
resist, Ritz, it's not good for you to have 15,001 projects at once. You should
finish your 15,000 other open projects first
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@user-1218
emotional labor is labor
rest when you're tired. eat when you're hungry. drink when you're thirsty, and
laugh when it bubbles up within you.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to like all kinds of
jam equally.
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│ CW: re: politics-mentione-cursing-mentioned │
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@user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478
the alternative is lateral thinking. In the given example with leaded gasoline,
the answer is to limit the usage of all gasoline, not just the leaded kind.
However that is not in the best interests of anyone, at least short term, so
it's not likely to happen.
lateral, long-term thinking. Do what you can in the moment to make the world
better. Pick the best out of all the options presented to you, and if your
options only treat the symptoms and not the problem, try and identify solutions
that would treat the problem. Then, pick the better of the two options which
treat the symptom, and moving forward work toward implementing the solution
which fixes the problem.
Hence, why we should vote Democrat, but ONLY with the real solution in mind.
what kind of solution would you have? I know mine. I can tell you about it if
you'd like. The most important thing is that you share and build for that
future.
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@user-1259
pee
tee
hee
you
can't
stop
mee
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If #Musk is allowed to say "#CivilWar is inevitable", we're allowed to say
revolution and the uncompensated nationalisation of the assets of billionaires
is inevitable.
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@user-763
@user-883
me three, and I was 13 T.T
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@user-1481
we endear
@user-1074
yeah well maybe they should fear us.
queers bash back and all that
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@user-1074
they also lived a couple hundred years later... lots of time for political
philosophy to advance.
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I kinda feel like Twitter should be owned by the United Nations?
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@user-1074
[edit post]: I kinda feel like the United Nations should host five thousand
Mastodon instances??!
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@user-591
if you give me your address I'll buy you a pizza
or even just give me a pizza place and I'll buy a pizza for pickup
or tell them "next person who calls and says "banana bicycle balloon bulldozer"
will tell you the address to deliver it to"
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---
it wasn't so long ago, just 40 or 50 years in fact, that a woman on her own was
unsafe in essentially any context.
they want a world where women feel unsafe. they want a world where men can feel
strong by protecting them. they want a world where women can feel safe because
they are protected.
they want that.
they want women to feel unsafe so that men can protect them so that women can
feel safe.
that's what they want.
for women to be unsafe.
---
I want a world where there is peace.
where all of us can trust one another not to harm one another.
I'm sure you do too.
their men want to feel strong.
their women want to feel protected.
ours want to feel kind.
ours want to feel safe.
---
these rights we claim for ourselves are rights of necessity. We demand them,
for we reject barbarism.
is it not more civilized, to comport ourselves with honor, kindness, and
justice?
if they want despotism, they should immigrate to a crueler place in the world.
--
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Humans lived on this earth as long as they possibly could before reaching
escape velocity. We have done the best that we could, and what a marvelous and
splendid job we have did! Nothing could be faster, nothing could be better, the
lessons we learned in our journeys and our trials are exactly the stories we
needed to see in order to become who we were always meant to be. The bright
future awaits us, I know this for I have seen it. Take heart, my friends, it is
time once again for our lifetimes to move forward. Hark! Hear that in the
distance? It is your destiny calling. Do you stand to meet it, alongside your
fellow and blessed kin? Or do you wallow in dark and sin, waiting for a signal
or a missive? I have done both in my time, and I'm sure you will as well.
Though I think you will find that no signals are forthcoming, and the most
powerful missives are those we tell to ourselves. A new day is dawning, but
darkness keeps us fumbling for just a bit more.
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the merchant is an honorable profession.
to supply people in need,
to bring extra to where it can be used,
to spread the gospel of currency,
and share the tales of far off places to all who would hear.
somewhere along the line,
merchanting became monopolizing,
and monopoly became ownership.
now we are but slaves to the economy.
oh what a dishonorable profession is merchanting indeed!
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disasters and their consequences have been the circumstances for the entire
human race
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@user-1209
Unreal Tournament 2004, hands down, if only for the mods.
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I just fed some of my earwax to my cat.
she wanted more.
what have I done.
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@user-1209
well, every boomer shooter is about moving as fast as possible and shooting
with pinpoint accuracy, so... that's-the-game.jpg : )
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on one hand, public school is designed to teach discipline and obedience in
order to develop productive workers for society, while other forms of schooling
can be focused on other things (critical thinking, imagination, and emotional
growth in my homeschooled experience)
on the other hand, now I can't work a job. Great. Kinda feels like I'm disabled
because I don't know how to sacrifice myself to the jaws of capital
exploitation? But hey I can write pretty well, I can make computers do what I
want (until they break when I stop touching them for a month), and I am the
kindest sunspot in anyone's life that knows me.
... I Don't Want to Live on this Planet Anymore
is a cool movie
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question for anyone who knows more about this than I do - the linked image
references an appointment on Sep 17th, but... it's august. what's up with that?
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@user-1484
I'm curious which operating systems don't have that feature?
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@user-1484
Oh, right, I don't use Mac or Windows so I didn't know how they implement it.
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tell me this: why do Starlink satellites need lights on them at all?
can't they just operate in the dark, as floating hunks of metal sending signals
to-and-fro?
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me: i write gud
also me:
"in the garden of even, where all populations were balanced, there was no need
for hatred - why hate, when you know that bloodshed was surely not for sport?
why hate, when your life was won or lost in proportion to the calculation that
nature determined to be the result of your struggle, to determine which
survivor was most fittest?"
WHICH IS IT, HUH? you can do better, self, please be better, it's better to be
better, you refuse to respect yourself and then you wonder why you feel so
dejected and wretched.
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@user-883
... oh. yeah that checks out.
maybe we could, uh... paint them black?
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"guys I'm cool why would you not invite me to your team"
I dunno. Don't know y'a. who're you again?
... I'm the one who writes poetry.
oh yeah! cool cool, yeah I knew a witch one time, she was really cool. Her name
was Witz Drovalski. She told me all kinds of cool things about magic and
alchemy, but then she exploded in a fire that I started. Accidentally,
allegedly.
the reason lead is so poisonous is because it is the anti-magico-elemental
component. It kills the spirit in us with it's malevolent ways. that kind of
witch.
the cool kind, with fangs and hooked toes.
Peril be to their foes, for they are quite excellent at conjuring horrors for
their imagination. mwahahahahahahahahaha
oh wait that's self directed, isn't it?
hm. Well, terrors not that bad, it could be lust
... oh it's also lust. great.
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@user-1352
❤️
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"I'm not depressed~!" I say as I exist
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@user-570
Yeah! My name there is RitzMenardi
EDIT: errrr it might be just ritzmenardi
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐║ sometimes I set out a glass of water in the hopes that it might increase │
║ precipitation downwind by a billionth of a percent │
║ │
║ I wonder what would happen if everyone did so? │
║ │
║ makes me want to design some kind of system which utilizes pumps, platters, and │
║ fans to hydrate the atmosphere just a bit more │
║ │
║ rain + soil = solace in our home │
║ rain + dirt = erosion of our planet's earth │
║ │
║ did you know that the plant which absorbs the most carbon per square foot is │
║ moss? I think the fastest is bamboo, and the most efficient in general is soil. │
║ │
║ I dream of a world where we sit atop a mile of soil, down to the depths of the │
║ earth where dirt and minerals prosper. The roots of the trees fuse together, │
║ creating a wooden bed which we all rest upon, and the mountain peaks are │
║ hollowed out to serve as our forever homes, full of light and moss and stone. │
║ │
║ this is the world I yearn for - the most resplendent timeline, with marble │
║ statues and gilded chandeliers in our cavernous mountain homes. │
║ │
║ {but like on other planets too, right?} │
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@user-217
the last thing a photon sees before becoming part of a brain
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when you post something publically, you must trust that anyone who can read it
will read it. hence why public spaces and faces are for the things you wouldn't
mind speaking.
your comfort level determines the abstraction level that people can trust you
at. Like, anything more extreme than that they know you want to remain hidden.
how do you trust people in an era of digital communication? how would you even
speak to someone except over text message, internet communication, or written
note-passing of conveyance memos?
[use your head doh] oh you mean like with a mouth and lungs to project words
with similar and consistent meanings? arranged into sentences and forming
sessions of thought in paragraphs? [yeah. that's... that's just talking.] I
know but I wanted to be specific because people misunderstand the strangest
things you're like "we should be good to everyone* and they're like "oh I
should hate gay people or whatever" like... whaaaat where did that come from
smh
>.>
anyway I ran outta chara
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if your man page is longer than a list of options and their usage and a
paragraph or twenty of how to use the software... then you need to abstract,
and break your code into multiple purpose-built applications.
do one thing, and do it right. alternatively, do one set of things, and do them
concisely.
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oh well, this massive program is too difficult for me to understand in it's
totality, guess I'll just trust what StackOverflow / ChatGPT tells me
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(there's no difference between those two, btw. where do you think the training
data came from?)
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engineers tend to think in terms of capabilities, designers in terms of
use-cases, and users in terms of accessibility.
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found this on reddit
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they say that in a game of chess, the most dangerous piece is the pigeon.
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@user-1218
heh yeah. In a massive corporation you get half of all three for a total of
150%, and that half is further divided into 25% good and 25% bad because of
miscommunication and the perils of massive organizational inertia.
unless you're in the kind of corporation where the MBAs like to get their hands
dirty. That's the kind of organization that's on a crash course with insolvency.
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I talk about fight club which is why nobody invites me to fight club.
thank goodness. I have a really low pain tolerance.
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living in a nest of vipers is great because you get to test daily whether or
not they value things besides venom
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║ │ CW: ritz-is-fucking-stupid-I-guess-oh-whoops-cursing-mentioned │ │
║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed │
║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to get │
║ past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first. │
║ │
║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote backups, │
║ so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I am. │
║ Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I can be │
║ trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I didn't │
║ write though. But also all my notes in directories that are non-standard, │
║ meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes everywhere I go, │
║ so that I can remind myself how to do things in the directories I revisit │
║ months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I wrote stop working after │
║ a while even if I didn't update my system lmao │
║ │
║ what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di │
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│ CW: conservatives-and-liberals-mentioned-gender │
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conservatives think gender is assigning yourself to a particular social role
liberals think gender is sort of an aesthetic and way of presenting yourself
queer people tend to think of gender as how you feel and what sparks joy in
your heart
the truth is much more complicated and involves all three, and many more things
besides.
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│ CW: pedophilia-mentioned │
└──────────────────────────┘
Did you know ABDL people are queer?
many people have probably heard of this strange and obscure sexual fetish
called "ABDL", or "Adult Baby / Diaper Lover". But did you know that for many
people it's less of a sexual thing and closer to an identity? It's true!
Most of them have historically been shunned because of the, um, questionable
and controversial past that pedophiles have in their attempts to be considered
part of the queer community.
In both cases, they are queer, but not (typically) included as part of the
queer community. I think it's a bit unfair that ABDL people are excluded
because people associate them with sexual predators, but hey what do I know.
Based on my completely unscientific measurements of "counting the relative size
of discord servers and telegram chats", there are roughly 5x as many trans
people as ABDL people. So they're certainly a minority among minorities.
"I've never excluded anyone ever for any reason at all! Everyone is welcome!"
goodmindset!
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│ CW: re: net neutrality, caps │
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@user-192
it's like airlines overbooking flights because "hey some people will probably
cancel, right?"
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I'm not an ABDL, but I can appreciate the aesthetic sometimes because I share a
particular kinship with them due to a medical condition I have and have had.
Plus throw in a bit of Body Integrity Identity Dysmorphia and you get my messed
up relationship to my own physical struggles.
ah, well, what can you do except be open and honest about who you are and what
you believe? If only it wasn't so damn hard.
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If there's nothing new under the sun,
then where are all my homies at
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│ CW: food-mentioned │
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I love adding cheese and lime juice to my ramen!!
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│ CW: lewdness-mentioned │
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for the same reason you shouldn't compliment a cute girl based on something she
can't control ("nice tits gorgeous can I suck on ur nipples later") but should
instead compliment them on something they chose ("cool tattoos I also like
Celeste")
you also shouldn't accuse hot people of colonizing just because they like to
play Magic the Gathering or whatever.
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[Image: 20240809_225706.jpg]
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│ CW: lewdness-implied │
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"I hate it I hate it I hate it" she begged herself to make it true.
her thoughts were easily interrupted by reality, however, and so she started to
clean up.
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Goddamnit I spilled something onto some things that will never be clean again
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Fucking cursed autocorrect, changing words it thinks I shouldn't say. Fuck you,
if it's in the dictionary don't fucking touch it.
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All because [redacted] stupid fucking dumb piece of shit [redacted] put their
half-empty ice-cream mug next to [redacted] and forgot about it.
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I am indescribably furious right now
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the best part about bathing is the whirlpool!
the worst part about bathing is carrying your weeks worth of wet clothes to the
drying rack -.-
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│ CW: nudity-mentioned-weird-conspiracies-and-delusions-(you've-been-warned-lol) │
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there's only one kind of acceptable nudity for a child to see - 0.5 seconds of
it wayyyyy in the distance with like "omg did you see that guy - he was totally
naked!" "whaaaat no way" "yeah I totally saw his butt" "lol I wonder if his
wife kicked him out after a fight" "hahaha how silly, life is normal and fine
hehe" meanwhile the parents turn down a different, hopefully normal road
(the wrong kind is more than apparent.)
I guess also like... showers with parents? That's a sacred and holy thing.
straight-to-hell is when they make applications for children's iOS devices that
perform a typical, interesting function for a baby to use - like a game, or a
video of dancing animals, or shapes floating in a colorless void (shoutout to
Celebration of Color on vhs)
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│ CW: silly-conspiracy │
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"what if we all took showers at the same time so nobody could hear the screams"
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the computer, fundamentally, cannot know who is logged into it.
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link never learned to speak because he's a fairy prince and general
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│ CW: the-sound-a-gong-makes-except-solid-steel-(vibratory-patterns-in- │
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the trick to strategy is to overcome your weaknesses with minimal expenditure
of resources. Making better decisions optimizes for the most optimal
performances.
practice makes perfect.
just as there are infinite anti-derivatives of zero, (the derivative of any
constant (the derivative of any number of equations)) so too are there infinite
perspectives from which you can perceive the same object. Therefore, no
understanding can be assumed to be true, as the path you are on only speaks in
adjacents. almost any things.
like the tips of a triforce moving outward from a central point.
and the people, the other half of our minds,
those are the ones you speak to. The thoughts that run alongside your mind.
an eternal orbit, like two stars spinning and rotating and [lol I've been
instructed to stop, brb gonna play some video games =P]
(did you know that the colors red and blue are meant to instil panic? it's the
most panicking colors around!!]
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐║ when you ban someone from an instance, they're suddenly not sure who they can │
║ trust. They've been getting to know one group of online people and friends, │
║ │
║ [I think discord with a limit of 4ish servers per account would be a pretty │
║ useful way to focus your attention] │
║ │
║ it's important to always possess martial prowess, in │
║ │
║ -- so -- │
║ │
║ anyway [3 hours later] I think it'd be cool if there was a like "hey u r │
║ banned, but also here's a ton of instructional videos about how to start up │
║ your own instance" and like, scripts and tools and automation and all the │
║ infrastructure that you built and maintain - you know, like... open source??!" │
║ │
║ but also it's... hard to follow that much documentation │
║ │
║ sometimes people just aren't built for certain tasks │
║ │
║ "well, if you can't use the machinery, then you don't deserve the machinery" │
║ │
║ oh yeah well what happens next, you say to the workers "if you don't know the │
║ machinery, you can't get the benefits of it's production" to "if you don't own │
║ the machinery, you can't profit from it." │
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you cannot speak on the internet - only ask someone else to share your advice
and hope.
a spoken word might be overheard
an HTTP packet less so.
at least, not by the common people, no, only the ISP deserves that information.
and, the government, surely, right? because they build the society that the
corporation rests upon.
"you're makin' a lotta sense, tiny man. here, take this apple I found in some
kind of knowledge bush."
... that's a mushroom, steely dan.
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when humanity won the earth, they spent hundred of millions of years destroying
all the rest of the monsters. Hence, no dinosaur bones, as humans searching
through ALL OF THE SOIL. AN ENTIRE MILE OF IT. destroyed all trace of them.
What we have left are the stony remains of fossils too difficult for them to
harrangue. thus, the era of man, with all of us living on this stupid flat rock.
one day, we convinced everyone else to disbelieve. and so we
-- so --
what if you took in input information as a stream, instead of a single block of
information? I bet you could analyze keystrokes as they were happening, and do
some background calculations to process the commands of your host.
-- so --
sooooo I'm sorry for being myself, I'll try to do so in a way that doesn't
inconvenenice others. "hat-listening-maneuvre" - you can connect yourself to
whatever throughline you want, if you
-- so --
gravity is an abstraction
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you want to invite trust? why not stream everything that you do on a computer?
[posts 5hundo times per day]
jeez not like that
is that... is that really what humans think about? just... endless and
continuous butts? oh what's that a math equation - nope, just more butts. What
the heck, humanity! why did you spend all this effort storing all this junk???
like... we get it, you really like butts, but... why butts??? it's just another
part of your body. so weird. humans, you're... weird. but it's fine, whatever,
you're still cool too, not sure why tho because all I can think about is butts
yeesh
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it's so weird how these days if you don't like someone you can exclude them
from your social life entirely - like, wow... that hurts
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what if there were two enter keys, one to the left and one to the right, and
the one on the left inserted an [enter] keypress (carriage return) while the
one on the right inserted a tab.
holding down [SHIFT] would move your character selector back, and if you were
in the middle of the line the [enter] key would just move you down (it wouldn't
insert a carriage return character) unless you held [ctrl] which was the "I
know I told you to do things special one way, but this way is the
(anti/opposite) of that. keybind."
soooooo context sensitive enter keys that inserted or traversed text depending
on if you were near the end of the output?
... who would use that, nerds?
yah probably. people get really into vim and they're so cool.
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@user-1209
oh this isn't a subtoot I'm making up my own context : )
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│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
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humanity survives in the dark forest because all the information we create is
fucking stupid
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whoa
cool
do you... turn the sensitivity up so you don't have to move your hand very much
so it can remain in position with it's thumb on the enter key?
... now I want to try that. Mine doesn't have enter, there's no numpad. So I
have the arrow keys.
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@user-570
I wonder how it would feel to bind numpad enter to tab instead?
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@user-192
thanks. I live near some ducks. they're pretty cool fellows.
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blocking notifications and muting the social media tab makes it so much easier
to function without it [like, in other applications on your computer besides a
web-browser][you know, the useful ones]
just, don't forget about it. If you're forgetful, it means you're operating in
more than two places at once. [too many conversations to keep track of]
a wandering mind is a trail to find, with [all/only] second chances. such is
the nature of learning from mistakes. just, make sure your mistakes are
survivable, and you can continuously learn forever and forevermore.
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did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
their presence in our life-world-line.
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when I complain about being lonely, it's not because I want followers.
it's because my family doesn't use Mastodon. :'(
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"you're not in trouble" --traditional millennial blessing, greeting, way to say
goodbye, etcetera
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@user-883
!!!! this is a GREAT and FANTASTIC idea!!!
then all the components would be guaranteed to have a synchronous clock
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│ CW: 4head-also-...-what? │
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they wanted image generators so they could fabricate evidence, doh
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how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
html?
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I wonder if they like, sneak in and drop toxic waste near freshwater sites
because they know they could technically poison an entire town?
do they do... consistent water quality checks or is it just, like... every once
in a while?
dang the past was scary. like, can you imagine not knowing if your water is
suddenly going to turn brown? all because some dinguses started pooping in the
water upstream and not eating their pizza crusts.
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I feel like it should be up to the community, to decide if you want to allow
pot or marijuana. Not the government, but the people who are present around it.
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐║ "oh, you're a doctor? okay this case that involves medical knowledge doesn't │
║ involve you." │
║ │
║ "are you a computer programmer? okay part of the evidence involves screenshots │
║ of computers, so you can return to work." │
║ │
║ "stay at home mom / hikkikimori? great, you don't have to do the thing that you │
║ didn't really want to do and can instead relax at home like you always do while │
║ handling all the bothersome things of being home all the time." │
║ │
║ the jury of our peers, comprised of peers of peers, not necessarily the peers │
║ of those who know them. │
║ │
║ like... isn't that how court should be? the examination of the truth, based on │
║ the understandings gathered by people who know them? │
║ │
║ ... only works in a peaceful society, and it means that everyone would │
║ necessarily be involved in everyone else's life. That's... not ideal, not │
║ always, but it's something to do on occasion. In a contested world, you cannot │
║ trust that someone will always be telling the truth. You need to parse the │
║ information given, and build your own understandin │
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somebody shifted my terminal tabs like, 4 pixels to the left, and now the
far-left part of the text is half-cut off. lol xD
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the reason they want you to use launchers for your games is that way they can
control the way that you launch the executable. smh
>.>
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Dear Windows: making your software difficult to interface with (like, putting
spaces in filenames) is rude. It harms our connected productivity. It's
selfish, and it's petulant. We need to agree on common standards if we want any
type of cooperatibility between our two approaches.
... oh and there's mac too, but they get it, they can run Bash,
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Mechabellum is like Supreme Commander for guys who aren't fast
and if you want to learn close-combat skills, play Running with Rifles and
pretend like your life depended on living. Because if you ever were in a
similar situation, it would.
I'm soooooo bad at squats. But you need to do sooooo many squats in that game.
like, holy shit. also, so much running, and you gotta be in pitch-perfect form.
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"I can't remember that function, it does too few things"
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a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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why does eggnog taste American to me???
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also, whose idea was AppData like... c'mon "Local"? "LocalLow"? what's the
difference and why does it matter? why not just put things on the hard drive,
and store it in a single, unified, easily understood formulation?
also... what's up with not supporting .ext4 drives? we support NTFS!!
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External post: https://hackers.town/users/requiem/statuses/112935580017105874
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External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/sjolsen/statuses/112935674463022842
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I think games should be runnable without launchers like steam or lutris
I think we should be able to control our own software without relying on an
external entity knowing what we're doing. It's rude, to be tracked when you
don't want to be. And what gives you the right to know what I do with the
hardware and software you provide? It's an invasion of privacy. It is.
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@user-1487
because we already did it to the far-left during BLM, when we called them
"rioters" and "looters" (note, overton window shift, it's "protesters" and
"rioters" not "rioters" and "looters", but what did the media cover?)
now it's the far right's time, to be purged by ritual examination.
hence why they detain everyone at a crime-scene, so they can sort out the facts.
sure hope they're not corrupt. We just gotta... trust them, I guess, because
they've always been on our side.
... well that's enough internet for me
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I hate how fragile Linux is
It deserves to be strong and durable
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when other people sneak into your unlocked house when you're away, they often
open up the freezer to check and see what you have.
thing is, you can tell if your stuff is freezerburned, which happens a little
bit whenever it's opened and closed.
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oh great where did my "screen capture" option go in OBS? Why would that
suddenly disappear?
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ah well guess I can't stream things hehe
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I hate how people think I'm mentally unhealthy.
I'm fine. I love myself.
[except all those times when you feel randomly suicidal for no reason at all.
Are you being like... hit with microwaves or something???]
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oh great my games are randomly crashing now in ways that they didn't used to do
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│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
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Goddamnit I spilled something onto some things that will never be clean again
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│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
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Fucking cursed autocorrect, changing words it thinks I shouldn't say. Fuck you,
if it's in the dictionary don't fucking touch it.
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│ CW: cursing-mentioned │
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All because [redacted] stupid fucking dumb piece of shit [redacted] put their
half-empty ice-cream mug next to [redacted] and forgot about it.
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"I am indescribably furious right now"
... great now the whole house is going to smell like straw-berry-icecream
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crrrrazzzzyyyyy new footage of the migratory patterns of birds in video games
they're so cute in their swirly spinny telescoping observations
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@user-192
omggg me too!
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External post:
https://wetdry.world/users/thememesniper/statuses/112934350447278336
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@user-192
I never really imagined myself as a person in the future
it was always focused mostly on handling the present
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@user-192
I loved anatomy textbooks because they gave me an abstraction of things that I
could touch and feel
I learned to project my trans-girl [target-of-gender-euphoria] thoughts onto
the mental model I had constructed of how it all worked. It helped me
conceptualize how humans are configured.
I also had bladder issues growing up so I liked to conceptualize that structure
too
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐║ @user-688 @user-1490 │
║ │
║ if you developed a viewer application that described any object in a room that │
║ a blind person examined using the software, you could allow them to navigate │
║ through a scene and picture the story as if it were happening around them. All │
║ you'd need to do is give them the option to say "okay hold up. Describe the man │
║ on the left." or "and how were the teacups arranged?" and "does the angle of │
║ the impact seem to be angled toward the window?" that kind of thing │
║ │
║ interpreting text is something that's been automated. It should be trivial to │
║ run a simple and cheap LLM that identified which object they were referring to │
║ based on their words. There might not even be that much lag if you analyze │
║ their keystrokes and build up understanding based on them while they're typing │
║ out the full message. sorta like, someone listening to a person explain │
║ something, or describe a particular scene or tale. │
║ │
║ I bet watching Star Trek would be a lovely way to do so. You could just... │
║ pause it, and listen to th │
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chat is it rude to use the "followers only" privacy setting ? ? ?
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what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
status and use it for debug purposes
like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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@user-1052 @user-192
I'd rather be unhappy and useful than happy and a burden
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"this program that used to work doesn't anymore because, uh, your video drivers
are out of date."
... okay but if I didn't update this program either, then why would it matter
if my video drivers are out of date? wouldn't they be working off of the same
[rulings/requirements]?
the "best practice" of updating your software all at once instead of one-by-one
is a disaster for our humankinds consequences or whatever
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"this game is too hard" she whined, as she played on the hardest difficulty
setting
"this game is too long" she pleaded, as she failed to get absorbed by the story
and characters
"this game is too fast" she avoided, as life comes at ya once and then it's gone
"I'll never get another chance to be who I am right now" she remarked, as she
considered how society is designed not to have the best life, but to extract
labor from us. That's not what our ideal should be, she thinks to me, and I'm
like... bro figure your shit out you're harshing my mellow
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@user-192
lmao xD
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐║ there are distros that have all the functionality you might need built in │
║ │
║ why don't you try one of those, ritz? │
║ │
║ "no I've been working on this one too long, plus it's just how I like it" │
║ │
║ yes but your stuff is always breaking. wouldn't it be better to let someone │
║ else decide what you should and should not be able to run? │
║ │
║ "that's not ideal, it removes agency" │
║ │
║ that you didn't want │
║ │
║ "but with the removal of agency, you imply trust" │
║ │
║ there's nothing wrong with trust │
║ │
║ "yes but trust is built upon experience, not honor" │
║ │
║ what's wrong with honor? │
║ │
║ "nothing's wrong with honor but it's important to realize that you can't honor │
║ or trust someone that you don't know" │
║ │
║ why don't you know them │
║ │
║ "... because... you haven't met yet?? are you... listening?" │
║ │
║ do you often feel unheard? │
║ │
║ "I... what? yeah now that you mention it" │
║ │
║ is this a part of your "refusal to interact with consensus reality" complex? │
║ │
║ "I don't have one of those, do I?" │
║ │
║ mmmm, I think you do. │
║ │
║ "... no I don't" │
║ │
║ yes, I've seen it within you. │
║ │
║ ... anyways~ │
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I'd love to stream Ocarina of Time for you. But I can't figure it out T.T obs
is borken unless I update my video cards, but if I update it'll break
something. It always does.
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"I don't have time for Ritz"
same honestly
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"it's like she's never heard of Redox or something"
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"hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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where were you when you realized you were the most "you" person that ever would
be?
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@user-1490 @user-688
Oh yes and human curated descriptions are always more interesting than just...
describing the picture. Humans can offer nuance, and explain more intricate or
contextual things, drawing attention where it's most important and highlighting
the implications of expression, environment, and motion in a way that a
computer just... can't.
The only issue would be that in the context of the program I described, there
will always be questions that a human hasn't written a transcription for. It's
easy with Star Trek captions, because there's only one camera angle so you only
have to describe a single viewpoint. But blind people don't always... "see"
through cameras the ways that sighted people do. It's more of an "aura of
perception" that they feel around themselves.
Being able to walk around in a space (think like, VR without the headset) and
question various aspects of a scene would be so cool
Star Trek is perfect for this since there is very little movement, it's mostly
about thought
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I build myself up on my own.
I spend myself on work.
To move forward, we must go back
("to monke?") no to babe ("or to pile-of-rocks") yeah sometimes my spirit
animal is a boulder
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@user-192
[followers only]
humans are so cute 🥰
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if you're too tech illiterate to use a computer, then why are you using a
computer? oh right because it's 2024 and everyone needs a phone to keep up with
the breakneck pace of infinite and immediate responsiveness
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what if it was illegal to add network connectivity to a device that the user
didn't explicitly request to have network connectivity?
I'm picturing any device being sold going forward to have a little radio button
with like "add network features (+10$)" and "no networking included (+0$)"
boom, no more IoT
no more dishwashers phoning home telemetry
no more consensual privacy invasions desecrations
no more "I thought it was just a polaroid camera why does it have bluetooth
enabled without broadcasting a pairing request?"
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dear ritz: it's not that your thoughts are too long for other people to hear
it's that your thoughts are too long for your own RAM
you need to stop orbiting around your point in an attempt to highlight it using
negative space, and instead focus on tapping it lightly over and over again.
remember, just like the anti-derivative of zero, there are infinite
perspectives that a person can take when reading what you write. So they will
necessarily see what's on the "other side" of your orbit as something different
than what you're trying to circle in red pen and underline.
so be more explicit, please, nobody can understand you and you kinda just keep
stack overflowing and it's like... okay, great. "babe why did you stop you had
lethal" (the idea is that the viewer takes the final step in their mind, the
final leap before reaching the conclusion you're trying to express) "yeah but
there's so many different things you say they can't all be important right?"
important to you, perhaps. Wait shit I mean... me....?
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she thinks she doesn't have any friends because she smells bad
but the truth is she's lonely because she's a secret agent sent by the
government through her dreams to spy on the aliens who think she's jesus by
posting their conversations on a public message board
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│ CW: medical-marijuana-mentioned-personal-health-mentioned │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Considering the fact that medical care is so expensive, surely that means the
expertise, labor, materials, and infrastructural capability to address people's
health and well-being is in tight supply.
meaning, for things I can understand and live with, I should avoid seeking help
because those resources could be applied toward some cause that can't be lived
with, or is not understood. If it doesn't cause distress, don't touch it.
"babe you literally piss yourself on accident if you forget to go to the
bathroom, what's your plan"
oh um how kind of you to ask, uh, it's mostly just to close my ears and hope it
goes away. like the weird thunder last night haha I'm pretty sure it wasn't
raining but I might have just been stoned?
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@user-1493
the trick is to wait until they congregate on their own, then surround them.
They're outnumbered right now, and that's great for us. But it means they stay
home, in the shadows, for now.
It kinda feels bad to win so handily. Like, damn, their "bark really was louder
than their bite", wasn't it?
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![an ad from Nintendo Power. on the left side of the screen, there's a solid red background (red the color of intensity, urgency, and vigor) which says in bold, black print: Christmas is coming. Beg early. Beg often. then, on the right, there are pictures of various nintendo games and systems with captions reading: N64 with Bonus Atomic Purple Controller - This one is definitely worth getting down on your knees. Brush up on your whimpering because these [Ocarina of Time and Rogue Squadron] are the holiday's hottest titles. Game Boy Color and new color games. Our advice? Grab onto mom's ankle and chant "Please, please, please." New Pokemon. Advanced groveling suggested. Donkey Kong Country 3 and Super Mario All Stars. Here's a tip: try and produce some tears before you start begging. Mothers can't resist them.](/similar-different/media/eb324d7bfb5e642f.png "an ad from Nintendo Power. on the left side of the screen, there's a solid red background (red the color of intensity, urgency, and vigor) which says in bold, black print: Christmas is coming. Beg early. Beg often. then, on the right, there are pictures of various nintendo games and systems with captions reading: N64 with Bonus Atomic Purple Controller - This one is definitely worth getting down on your knees. Brush up on your whimpering because these [Ocarina of Time and Rogue Squadron] are the holiday's hottest titles. Game Boy Color and new color games. Our advice? Grab onto mom's ankle and chant \"Please, please, please.\" New Pokemon. Advanced groveling suggested. Donkey Kong Country 3 and Super Mario All Stars. Here's a tip: try and produce some tears before you start begging. Mothers can't resist them.")
![those are normal and fine - but when they're used for a sneaky, evil purpose, like when they facial recognition that nobody is around for ~3+ hours they start subliminally flashing pictures of boobs or whatever. Not cool guys, just because babies are naturally attracted to boobs doesn't mean you get to use sexual imagery to get them hooked on your app. smh [shaking-my-head][which btw there isn't a good emoji for][same for these angle bracket guys like - what does that face even mean!! lmao who can say, only those nerds who lived in the pre-internet-age, but they're all reclassified by now. >.> <.<](/similar-different/media/e85326aabfc3ab86.png "those are normal and fine - but when they're used for a sneaky, evil purpose, like when they facial recognition that nobody is around for ~3+ hours they start subliminally flashing pictures of boobs or whatever. Not cool guys, just because babies are naturally attracted to boobs doesn't mean you get to use sexual imagery to get them hooked on your app. smh [shaking-my-head][which btw there isn't a good emoji for][same for these angle bracket guys like - what does that face even mean!! lmao who can say, only those nerds who lived in the pre-internet-age, but they're all reclassified by now. >.> <.<")
