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stars are natural too
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all apartment doors should have a 100% local webcam next to the eye-hole that
only the resident can see. Not even wireless data transfer allowed. But simple
enough to be programmable with a bash script. In addition, the entire building
should have cameras that only the people who live there can view (just like,
the parking lot and such) so they can watch for raccoons.
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I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
about them with.
![two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview: One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial. Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions. Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you. Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history. Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us. [continued on picture 2]](../media/e86085206a718b6e.png "two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview: One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial. Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions. Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you. Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history. Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us. [continued on picture 2]")
![[continued from picture 1] In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources. Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society. [end alt text]](../media/ad3a0a69d3dcf172.png "[continued from picture 1] In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources. Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society. [end alt text]")
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Golf courses and national park trails should be one and the same. Picture it -
you're walking through a forest and you find a branch in the path. A small sign
with a circle on it represents the ball, and you can ignore it if you'd like.
Choosing to take the path to the game, you curve around a bit, just out of
sight of the main path, and there is your little green.
It's roughly 10ft by 10ft, so pretty darn small. Just enough for you to set up
and look around for your next shot. There'd only be one, or maybe more if space
permits and the trail was especially branchy. But looking through the foliage
you'd find a small hole passing through that illuminated your target green like
a spotlight.
Looking up on a hike you'll typically see the branches of the understory, the
shimmer of light, and the texture of wood. When standing on a small little
green, you'd see that, but with a perfectly circular hole that showed exactly
where you needed to hit the ball to score your point. Well, not exactly
circular because gravity will pull the ball down, meaning you need to see the
entire arc. Unless you're at a vantage point or something and can see straight
down to it.
I believe this would be true justice, where everyone gets what they want.
Golfers can play their game in bright natural spaces, and hikers can exist
undisturbed. Golf courses can be used as farmland, to ensure the city gets fed.
Plus there could be fees for golfers, rather than being paid to a private
resort owned by a billionaire they'd go to the park rangers.
And golf courses as they currently exist could still exist, they'd just be more
like parks for the people with days reserved for golfing. Or maybe they'd golf
over fields of wheat and cabbage, rather than plain old empty grass. I mean,
the infrastructure is already in place for golf, why not use it for more
practical purposes too? Better than burning it down to sate our bloodlust
toward the rich. The goal is to make EVERYONE rich, remember? How can you do
that when the crabs behind you keep pulling you down?
Much better, I think, to design things such that the benefits of the rich are
shared equally, while the responsibility of power rests heavy as a sword of
damocles. That blade is what is missing from our advanced future society, but
I've got a sword and I'm not afraid to swing it.
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Children, listen to your elders. They're the ones who made the problems you're
dealing with, so they're the ones who know how and why those problems came to
be.
Elders, listen to the children. If your solution would have worked, the problem
would already have been solved.
People, work together to address issues. A United force can accomplish so much
more than individuals struggling on their own.
In an authoritarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is how we do
things because this is right, this is how it should be."
In a libertarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is why we do
things this way, and here's why this way works best for me."
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hey a couple months ago there was this really cool visual programming language
posted here that was like, windows aero themed and it was super cute - does
anyone know what that was called or have a link to it?
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@user-1037
It isn't scratch, it was more like... connecting puyo puyos I think
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@user-1037
It had mostly pastel colors I think, well not really pastel, more like that
mid-2000s aesthetic where everything is glass and colored fluids / palm trees /
dolphins
I remember there were different colors / shapes for different operations like
"add" or "while loop" and I think they combined somehow? It was a real
experimental thing I think, but there was an animation so I'm assuming it was
functional. I'm trying to remember more about it but I can't, it's so random...
I don't even know what I'd search for really.
I just had a friend who I think would really like it, and I was thinking of my
friend and that came to mind...
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@user-1037
oooo those are cool, but it didn't have the "puzzlepiece" arrangement. It was
more... 2 dimensional I think? More like putting marbles on a chinese-checkers
board. And they had relationships if you moused over them, like...
semi-transparent arrows connecting them I think? It was different than anything
I'd ever seen before.
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@user-1037
Cool I'm into that stuff too : )
It had a very slick ui, very responsive if I remember correctly. Like, 60fps in
the browser kind of thing. Or maybe that was just the pre-rendered teaser
trailer shot idk.
honestly might have just been a front-end project or an animation, idk if it
actually worked as a programming language. But it seemed like a cool "UI" into
programming.
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║ those all seem really cool though! They all kinda have the same basic UI tho, │
║ kinda feel like there's opportunities for different kinds of expression. Like, │
║ in game design there's a lot of different genres, and yeah sidescrollers │
║ include mario and sonic but they're both very different experiences. So too │
║ perhaps could we interact with our computers by programming them in more │
║ engaging ways. │
║ │
║ they say some people are visual learners, others need to be taught, some people │
║ need to watch someone else doing it, and a few might just learn by plugging │
║ their brains into a computer and downloading a black belt in kung fu. │
║ │
║ Maybe typing long paragraphs of logic makes sense for some people, I know for │
║ most it doesn't come naturally. Maybe some people are more used to like, │
║ looking at maps that you can examine at different levels of abstraction. Like │
║ players who play Paradox games zooming from a national perspective to states │
║ and individuals and all the other things they might want to strategize using. │
║ Or m │
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@user-1037
I made a picture, hope it helps! I swear I didn't hallucinate this thing but it
might be less cool than I thought and I might have misremembered and made up
parts of it, I can't tell because it was such a short memory : (
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is it against fedi law to post screenshots of your past liked posts? like,
would that be doxxing people?
I'm thinking like a "youtube rewind" but like, "here's what I'm into" and like
"I could have boosted them but I put them in a 25mb zip file instead so you can
share them more easily which tbh is a greater honor than being boosted because,
like, as long as you're alive that hard drive's gonna follow you and someday in
like 30 years I'll see it and think of you" but also "aren't you scared that
this hard drive of yours will fall into the wrong hands" and like "yeah that's
why I encrypt it because then a stray neutrino could wipe my drive"
... would that be unethical, or would it be kinda sweet and give us a
perspective on what a single slice of the "fediverse" was like at a particular
time? And better question, would that be something worth automating because I
already did like 60% of that for my own posts, could probably just tweak it to
do liked posts as well.
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@user-1040 I think about all those screencaps of Tumblr posts or Twitter
threads or 4chan memes or even making fun of boomers on facebook and, like,
that seems like a privacy nightmare if you don't want your words to be
associated with you. like, if someone saw my name next to something I posted in
2013 then they'd probably get a very different perspective of who I was. That's
just part of growing up, and sometimes growing means changing how you represent
your self. By screenshotting their posts as I did (but didn't post yet) I am
denying the agency to change. Forever more they will be remembered as the name,
face, and words on the screen that I saw fit to remember. That feels
non-consentual to me.
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@user-1037
That looks pretty neat, thanks : )
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@user-1037
Okay I'll add you to my friends list so everytime I'm thinking about memories
of people by looking through the people I'm connected with on each platform
I'll remember you and our short quest to uncover the secret of the
thing-I-might-have-dreamed
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@user-1037
It's likely it could have been an artist's mock-up - like a UX designer and an
animator sat down and said "let's make a cool design" and that's what they came
up with. Designers do that all the time.
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@user-1043
I have intrusive thoughts almost constantly that take over my train of thought
and make it difficult to focus. Like suddenly I'm thinking about something
completely different, and I realize no, it wasn't suddenly, I actually just
stood there and thought
and then I think "what was I thinking again?" sometimes when I write these
strange uncontrollable spirals down it makes poetry. Which is kinda neat I
guess. Sometimes I just wonder about how DNS can be a singular point of failure
in our networking infrastructure or whatever haha
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@user-1040
that's by design so they don't hop over to Linux
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║ well, usually in the examples I shared like tumblr posts there's a username and │
║ picture shown. But tumblr users change their names, while on Mastodon (at least │
║ on my client) it shows your permanent handle underneath your regular changable │
║ name. I guess you could migrate accounts to another server if you're being │
║ harassed in one place, but still people have a way of finding you. It's weird │
║ kinda makes me wonder if they track you by ip address haha - did you know that │
║ every computer attached to a router uses the same public IP address? Then it │
║ uses either DHCP or static assigned local addresses for every computer on the │
║ network. That's pretty neat! I wonder why we don't have workstations by default │
║ include a router (and modem)? Seems like pretty important tech that should be │
║ built into the chassis instead of in a small separate unit. Like, what if you │
║ had to throw all your belongings into a van and drive to a motel somewhere to │
║ set up your workstation in a hotel because it's hot and your ac broke lol │
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@user-1040
also, I miss most of the names and faces in this archive and I think it'd be
neat to say "oh yeah I remember them because it wasn't so long ago and it's
weird how they're not around these days but I forgot about them because their
profile pic changed or maybe they stopped using mastodon or whatever" - idk it
feels empty sometimes because your follow list is always growing, but the
number of people who post seems to always go down. Or maybe I just read
Mastodon at unfortunate times when there's nothing going on. Who can say
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"Hi, welcome to my home, this is my cat, his name is Gopher, but I mostly just
call him Kitty or Dude."
the cat introducing himself "hi my name is Yoursuchagoodkittyyesyouare but you
can call me Yesyouare or Suchagood for short."
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wondering if anyone's ever made a computer that could only run programs written
in interpreted languages. Like, no binaries allowed. Would probably be slower,
but if my iphone is good enough for NASA to get to the moon then odds are it's
good enough for me.
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If Obi-Wan told his therapist that he felt a great disturbance in the force
like billions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced they'd
probably call him a necropath or something
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they say learning Linux is hard, but it's the only free operating system so
really it's a question of learning Linux now, when you have time, or later,
when you're busy.
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daydreaming about a gang of tough guys who goes around knocking down the
internal fence walls in suburbia and throwing potlucks for all the neighbors
for a month or two so they have social opportunities to meet each other and
make friends
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@user-1037
whoa, that micropython chip is seriously cool! Too bad most of the peripherals
are out of stock. Still though I bet you could make some interesting systems
with that.
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║ I didn't see it in any of those links, though seeing the picture for Skov made │
║ me realize I'm pretty sure it was tree based! But, maybe a little more reliant │
║ on the shape of the blocks rather than the text. │
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║ It also might have been from a top-down perspective like Reactible: │
║ http://reactable.com/mobile/ │
║ but I can't remember. All I saw was a short introductory video, which makes me │
║ think it might have been an artists conception or something. │
║ │
║ Scrolling through those galleries was really cool! There's been so much care │
║ and attention placed into the creation of interfaces for regular people (or │
║ visual people) to engage with the world of computation, and it's a little sad │
║ to me that we don't place more of an emphasis on it culturally. I am honored to │
║ exist in a time where people care enough to build Linux, for example! And yet │
║ most people don't get it. │
║ │
║ Seeing stuff like this fills me with hope though - Thank you for showing me │
║ those galleries and links, there's so much affection in them. │
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@user-1037
I gotta say you're making a really good argument for OpenBSD... Hmmmm maybe
I'll look into it this week.
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@user-883
You could buy a domain from a DNS and have it redirect to your computer in
order to obfuscate your IP address. That's what I did for my WoW server.
Downside is you'd have to trust the DNS, so... do you trust your security or
them more?
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@user-883
yeah, fair enough... Mine was like 20$ for a year but that's like, 10% of your
rice and bean budget so yeah don't do that
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@user-95
tell that to my love of Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom Sim
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║ For a person who is skilled with tech, working in unrelated industries doing │
║ tech jobs is better at assuaging the ethical part of your soul while applying │
║ your talents and putting food on the table than working in the tech industry. │
║ │
║ You'll learn the most in tech. You'll grow the most in tech. You'll contribute │
║ to solving problems that have never been solved before (if you're lucky), but │
║ the people there are often as you describe (aside from the diamonds in the │
║ rough, who need more friends tbh) and the products you'll be asked to create │
║ tend to be the worst kind for humans. │
║ │
║ I personally think the best way to facilitate innovative industry is to give │
║ every engineer a lab and let them build and collaborate on whatever they want. │
║ │
║ The marketing guys can sell whatever they make, to gather funds for the │
║ quartermasters to buy tools and supplies for the engineers. │
║ │
║ The marketing guys can offer hints about what users want, which the engineers │
║ will want to build because it means more toys to work with. │
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