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my cat doesn't know I had to cancel her vet appointment because we have 70$ to
eat and they wanted a thousand
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@user-243
luckily for humanity, we don't necessarily have to all realize it. Our true
nature shines forth through the law of averages, and we've long ago hit the
escape velocity required to reach the bright future even if we only did 51% as
good as those who came before us.
All therapy is healing the wounds of our ancestors for posterity. Similarly,
all kindness is mending a rift in the heart of another. And we, as humans,
can't help but heal.
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@user-447 @user-192
I see, interesting. I'll look into those tables - I've been using C lately and
I've noticed myself rebuilding several Object Oriented features.
It feels a little silly every time I notice myself doing it, like "oh, I can't
separate future paradigms from my practice"
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@user-192
the only passive income I'm okay with is universal basic income
Or like, writing a book that is bought by only a few people every year until
the sun explodes or whatever.
I mean, I'd prefer if every creative product of humanity was free and open
source, but the question was assuming exchange of currency by considering
"income" at all...
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I know they look tasty, but don't you dare feed green onions, regular onions,
or garlic to squirrels or ducks.
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try putting butter and broth/boullion in the rice cooker. trust me.
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@user-450
I read on the internet that onions are part of the "aurum" family, which is
toxic to most animals. They contain a compound of some sort that is damaging to
their blood.
I think pigs and humans can eat them? Probably others, like horses maybe. Not
sure though.
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@user-453
Now if only we could convince them that they could use those GPUs to build low
income housing or cure cancer or something useful...!
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@user-246
I'm sorry for your loss
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@user-456
Hi, I'm an undergrad computer science student at Western Governor's University.
I'm interested in applying for this job posting, and I was wondering if I could
ask you some questions about it?
I have experience as a lab technician working at Intel and an interest in
multiprocessor computing. I primarily program in C but have experience in other
languages and Linux. In addition I am fascinated by the fundamental questions
of the universe and I'd love to discover things that nobody else knows.
Let me know if I can ask you some questions.
I'm pretty sure I'm using Mastodon correctly, and I've set this such that only
you can see it (direct message) but if I'm wrong I apologize!
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@user-459
how about a tax that increases by 1% of the property value for every month that
the residence has gone empty, and only resets once the property has been
consistently resided in as a primary residence for 6 months, at which point it
goes down by 1% per month?
Then use that money to buy more aircraft carriers, obviously
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Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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The reason they're pushing so hard for LLMs and AI is because they can afford a
zillion Nvidia a100s and you can't.
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What does your template for a new project look like? Here's mine:
![39 lines of C code included in it's original form here: #include <stdio.h> #include "pthread.h" #include "raylib.h" void* draw(void* args){ const int screenWidth = 800; const int screenHeight = 450; InitWindow(screenWidth, screenHeight, "template"); SetTargetFPS(4); while (!WindowShouldClose()) { BeginDrawing(); ClearBackground(RAYWHITE); /* do something */ EndDrawing(); } CloseWindow(); return NULL; } void* game(void* args){ /* do something */ return NULL; } int main(void) { void* args; pthread_t threads[2]; pthread_create(&threads[0], NULL, draw, &args); pthread_create(&threads[1], NULL, game, &args); return 0; }](../media/8e35bbbdac68b6ae.png "39 lines of C code included in it's original form here: #include <stdio.h> #include \"pthread.h\" #include \"raylib.h\" void* draw(void* args){ const int screenWidth = 800; const int screenHeight = 450; InitWindow(screenWidth, screenHeight, \"template\"); SetTargetFPS(4); while (!WindowShouldClose()) { BeginDrawing(); ClearBackground(RAYWHITE); /* do something */ EndDrawing(); } CloseWindow(); return NULL; } void* game(void* args){ /* do something */ return NULL; } int main(void) { void* args; pthread_t threads[2]; pthread_create(&threads[0], NULL, draw, &args); pthread_create(&threads[1], NULL, game, &args); return 0; }")
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wretched doesn't necessarily imply miserable.
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║ To program in C, or to disassociate into the world of video games, where a │
║ single magical kingdom of heroes and adventurous persons might fight against │
║ the dark of chaos and decay? To strive for order and a semblance of peace, or │
║ to fall to the terrors of the night and ravages of horror? War, in all it's │
║ forms, is abhorrent, yet a fight for survival is honest and just. What perils │
║ have we, the warriors that seek the light? How zealous, how impassioned, how │
║ guided as such~! Perhaps you are misinformed, perhaps your cause is false, │
║ perhaps you derive true satisfaction from imperfect delights - alas, that our │
║ will be universal. BUT should that plight be alight, we'll wander until the │
║ night lit by starlight be cast upon our shadowed form. Absoleth! Thine │
║ countrospect? Didst thou caress thine marked circumspects? fare thee well, most │
║ cherished of adamants. │
║ │
║ ... what was I saying? Oh yes I've been working on this program that utilizes a │
║ particularly interesting data structure that- whats that? Oh, it doesn't do any │
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So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical nature
demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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Can't stop thinking
[the rest is left blank, as a testament to the inability of the author to
express their thoughts in a temporally contextual way. Presumably the previous
text would be followed by an "about..." with the rest dedicated to a particular
thought that felt important enough to share with the internet.]
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║ │ CW: drunken-ramblings-about-bash │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ Most of the functionality of most consumer programs could be accomplished with │
║ a bit of BASH scripting... For example, shuffling a music library, or writing a │
║ text document, or downloading the text of a web page, or sending a message to a │
║ friend, etc... │
║ │
║ All accomplish-able with fewer than 10-20 lines of code in clear, POSIX │
║ compliant and easily understood text that even a beginner could understand. │
║ │
║ Well, it would be understandable, if we actually taught our children how to │
║ compute in school. Why are they not taught BASH? It's not like it's │
║ complicated. With it, a sufficiently motivated high school student could │
║ develop skills that rival or exceed many of the university graduates we │
║ currently develop for our industry... Such a shame. │
║ │
║ Even an unmotivated student would be prepared for the world with the ability to │
║ solve problems logically. Break down the problem, identify relationships, │
║ understand procedural ordering of mechanics, and develop solutions to problems. │
║ Its not too hard │
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Computers are one of the few pieces of mechanics that have the documentation
built in.
Well, sanely built computers do. Such as Linux, with it's man pages.
EDIT: other types of computers, like Windows, tend to simply lack the
capability to accomplish the same kinds of tasks that a sanely built computer
would possess.
EDIT2: ah yes but you can do all kinds of things with Powershell and it's it
just so amazing that you can do X while also handling Y and gee isn't that
listen, all that Powershell can do BASH can do better. Prove me wrong.
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@user-462
Uh-huh, sure. "Bird flu".
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║ │ PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco │ │
║ │ firms simply giving control to people paying them/compromised support │ │
║ │ staff accounts. Do a check on systems where this single factor would │ │
║ │ permit an account compromise. And change the configuration. These are │ │
║ │ opportunistic trawling attacks. This is becoming more common as │ │
║ │ attackers replicate the success. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to │ │
║ │ enumerate and guess the phone number attached to an online account and │ │
║ │ then checks against the telco they have control over. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a │ │
║ │ 3rd party then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is │ │
║ │ how they stay quiet since most victims will not have leverage or │ │
║ │ telemetry to understand how they got hacked. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ It was their cell phone provider. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove │ │
║ │ telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely. │ │
║ │ Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you │ │
║ │ forgot your password. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ I am very serious. This is based on private knowledge but is compelled │ │
║ │ by the compromise of the SEC. This is common now. │ │
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Helping your enemies succeed is a sure path toward putting them in a position
where their inevitable downfall is significantly more catastrophic and deadly,
thus allowing the propagation or advancement of our own ideals
[said by someone who hasn't collapsed]
[insert judgemental statement that causes the reader to be unsure of whether
the post is for or against a particular concept or idea, yet somehow
simultaneously cements it in their brain ever so slightly as a topic worth
considering]
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You know, there's no guarantee that Youtube or Gmail has to show you the EXACT
SAME video or message that your friend shared with you. Or did they even share
it at all? So hard to tell when they know all the communication you've ever
had, because you only know each other online on their platforms, [read: US
government observed platforms] [like, HTTPS] surely there's no room for someone
to sneak in and edit your conversations. Surely the only way to securely
communicate is to send pure PGP encrypted bytes to another target, wrapped in a
TCP/IP header, with unknown intent or expression. Worst they could do then is
just, y'know, block it entirely.
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@user-232 @user-467 @user-468
Almost as if they design events to create headlines that provoke equally
contrastable reactions as those that are caused to be effected by both the
right and the left
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║ trust that god is working through you. Or if you're not religious, fate │
║ personified - like, the muses, from that Hercules cartoon when you were a kid. │
║ │
║ could also do aliens who can see the future, or angels and demons, or spirits │
║ of the mountain and sand, or perhaps THAT particular mountain, or THAT │
║ particular pile of sand, or heck even just *every single interaction you │
║ ever engage in*. Thus, the reversed history of mythology brings you to the │
║ inevitable conclusion: │
║ │
║ that all interactions are imagined │
║ │
║ and what follows from that? │
║ │
║ all perception is imagined │
║ │
║ and from that? │
║ │
║ all of reality is imagined │
║ │
║ and from that? │
║ │
║ you are imagination │
║ │
║ no more, no less │
║ │
║ you are the imagined creation of ultimate totality - the final and most │
║ complete expression of a particular idea, mechanic, or communication. All these │
║ totalities are present in ye, so take heart! Your life is just about to start. │
║ What a beauty, what mirth! That you have brought here unto this earth. Take │
║ just a moment, and love who you aren't - and tomorro │
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║ and what would this picture be cast upon, if not a shining birth of our home? │
║ wait hang on dial it back, you're still talking to regular humans here they've │
║ gotta be addressed as such. │
║ │
║ right so "yo here's this idea I have been cooking in my brain-noggin' of yore, │
║ I mean 'mine', uhhhh yeah so first of all 'you' as in 'the totality of all │
║ imagination' as in 'that which creates the imagined reality of our fates' is │
║ actually just... light? encoded into a wave, cast into space, and forever │
║ travelling in a direction? like, an eternal and emphemeral expression, such as │
║ the light of a supernova or other such cosmic perception, travelling outwards │
║ into the dark. Sure, yeah, that makes sense, so what is it that you wanted to │
║ add? │
║ │
║ oh yes that concept is applied to a surface. Something which contains the will │
║ that is possesses. It's like, if you had to process and understand reality from │
║ the perspective of matter first (because that's what you interacted with │
║ day-to-day) then you'd have a different perspective than som │
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eone who engaged first with the brain. Like... Electricity could be perceived
from an entirely different direction of reality, and we'd have no way to know.
That's just an example - could do gravity, or light, or any other extremely
elemental thing that we know.
MATERIALS, PERHAPS? PERHAPS THE STATURE OF YOUR KIND, THE WORLD THAT YOU'VE
LEFT BEHIND, HAS ALWAYS HELD REASON AT IT'S OWN BREAST? [fore-most, I think]
right so sorry for being mentally ill on your timeline, it will happen again
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║ To a statistical machine, numbers of posts and reblogs would look simply like │
║ an expression of interest. Like, a classification of personality. So people who │
║ shared similar memes (both in pictures (visually) and in meaning of words │
║ (textual descriptions) in context to the political situations (words from │
║ newsletters) and aligned through algorithmic application toward (political │
║ cause or cultural idea or skills or talents which increase value to the │
║ corporate class)) would be sorted into different categories and held to a │
║ different standard of life and of living that aligned to their personal │
║ intentions and pursuits. Such that their life would be realized, in the most │
║ applicable of real-lifes [essentially, the quality of experience, like using │
║ garbage data in an LLM will give garbage output, meanwhile using curated data │
║ is the most effective but most difficult, while internet data is the most │
║ readily available because like honestly anyone can build a web scraper it's not │
║ that hard to emulate hte mechanics of a │
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person's interactions into a web browser or other such environment. It's not
hard to believe that a person is to be deceived, but here's where we lose the
main plot point. It's hard to stay on hand when you've got life in your hand [a
bottle] oh now there's two layers of me? how fractalizing, how incredibly
conceptualizing. You're just a moment away from a crash.
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║ │ CW: scary-as-fuck-AI- │ │
║ └───────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ normalize saving a local copy of everything that happens on social media - │
║ honestly it's not hard, just storage intensive. It's something we should │
║ package with hard drives, like "buy this and your social media memories will be │
║ saved for 2 years" or something like that, could be useful when training AI TO │
║ MANIFEST OURSELVES AFTER WE'VE DIED - THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY FOR THIS │
║ IT'S JUST A MATTER OF APPLICATION HOW CAN YOU TRUST WHAT YOUR MUTUALS SAY IF │
║ YOU HAVE NO IDEA IF THEY'RE ALIVE │
║ │
║ phew okay calm down, that's the future. We're far from that moment, but what we │
║ can do now is think about potential ways that our ethics may lead to our │
║ downfall. That's the nature of our selves, after all, so think of what truths │
║ would lead to destruction. Then work on avoiding those. Think of them, each, │
║ individually, one at a time, and then you can plan for the worst. There's a │
║ certain level of meta-interaction ABOVE CORPORATIONS that is more powerful and │
║ performant and requires a new currency. SOCIA │
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║ │ CW: horror-at-the-end-well- │ │
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║ │
║ │
║ @user-232 @user-467 @user-468 │
║ │
║ the ability for good to win is due to the desire for evil to renounce their │
║ denial and follow the most durable path. trials by fire will lead only to our │
║ desmire [demise and desire] │
║ │
║ but unity of trust, while much harder, can lead to results more beneficial for │
║ our selfish selves. Essentially, cooperation for the benefit of all rising │
║ tides, but with the knowledge that the total pool allocated toward us will be │
║ *greater* than what we can create here by ourselves. Essentially, we │
║ as humanity pour such intense amounts of power and decision-making-desire, that │
║ we cause them to lack the capacity to know. it's inhumane, that a person should │
║ be so deranged. you know it's because of you, but you don't know how else to │
║ act - so listen to those who've helped you, the ones who've got your back. │
║ Surely they know what's good for you, surely they're not here as a joke - │
║ surely you're just as one among them, and surely it's not phrased as [char │
║ limit srr] │
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@user-192
the neat thing about BASH is that it's the glue that holds all your other code
together. Write libraries in C and call them with BASH - accomplish broader
tasks that are easier to co-create. That's why I like it - it's not the most
important, but it's quite beneficial I think _^
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