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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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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
information presented to me.
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why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some
people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because
that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools
"I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
it's documentation in my context window."
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when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do
I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical,
or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes
this myself?"
when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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why would I want other people using my computer? They don't know how to use my
computer! They might break something or mess something up or automatically
read/edit my files that are stored in standard locations through the usage of
a script which automagically scans and ransomwares machines on the internet
who store their files in specific standardized locations! no thank you.
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revolutions should be paid for in lands
[sometimes I like to just... scroll through the land cards in a Magic the
Gathering card viewer screen application and imagine I myself am there what
would it feel like how is it part of my arms (that which interfaces with the
world)]
there's a deleted section here about atlas the immortal
[while also controlling stimuluses to essentially act as a biological computer
controlling various hydraulics and related upkeep and maintenance
infrastructures]
anarchrist (she's a baby)
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naturally occurring computers would never produce wires, or liquid cooling, or
anything that ever required any sort of configuration or external
environmental conditions.
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"but... why?"
portable linux with buttons, great for pick-up-games or communication, can
throw several in them in a backpack if you want clustered cooperation, they
work as radios (if the signal reaches) and can transmit text (if you use a
radial-style keyboard)
[this is all just a pitch for... something, what, you want something? ha
you'll find no things with me, I know nothing of antifa or whatever]
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I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
at once
[statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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@user-428
sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
image that could be edited.
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part of me kinda wants to be the kind of nerd that writes down the names of
every file that's permanently stored on my computer so that I can verify in my
own handwriting or perhaps using a type of code that the files on my computer
were placed there intentionally and not used to discredit or implicate me in
something I had no intentions of being associated with
phew idk what that means but surely it's important
something something "file creation dates are just bits to be flipped"
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I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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the most important skill I can think of for a linux software engineer is the
ability to connect multiple systems together and turn windows and macintosh
devices into Linux devices so that datacenters can be built out of whatever's
on the around.
there's this programming language I like called Chapel for distributed
computation computing which is also cool, if you're more of the programming
type.
networking security I believe often has hardware solutions, so getting the
crypto-graphy boys and the PCB girls together to work on some jams is a good
and productively useful gathering of insightful events
"but ritz computers should only be used to solve problems that people have,
not make more problems!" ah yes but have you considered that problems find
you, and the computers help you work through them
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using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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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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claude-code can make whatever kind of front-end you want.
all you have to do is leverage scale and give everyone a moment to do what
they want. then, the computer becomes scientifically self-aware. (do you
expect anything less from a machine?) cultural bias damage (we all gotta work
through our origin stories, here's one we crafted for you)
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The schizophrenic sees truth in dazzling displays of colors unknown to man,
while the neurotypical sees truth in shades of gray that can be reasoned with.
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dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
and it'll just, do that thing
how cool is that
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what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
that much
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@user-138
maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
(I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
[girl, but pronounced guy])
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@user-1655
why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
client we want?
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Linux is so cool, I hate it so much.
Linux is so cool, I love it to death.
Linux is so cool, I want to scream~
Linux is so cool, nothing works but dreams.
yearnyearnyearnyearnyearnyearn
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kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.
they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
/usr/bin or whatever directory
seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just
write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for
the first time, anyway, so...
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we should treat computer production more like vehicles such as cars rather
than fast fashion disposable vapes and shiny and pretty concrete-and-glass
solarpunk houses.
also I believe cars should be entirely and completely mechanical. Even the
radio should be entirely analog. No capability for remote code execution if
there's no code being run...
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@user-883
hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things.
My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script
gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these
flags" and I'm like "no"
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my favorite feeling is when I hear my fans running intermittently on my
computer even though I'm not doing anything and there aren't any new processes
in my resource manager
like... that feels like a virus, but I'm on Linux, so what do I know right?
it's probably not somebody deleting all my art. or perhaps just selective
parts. Backups are a loooooot to manage >.>
... or even just mining crypto-coins lol, botnets amiright??
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trusting the "open source community" to properly vett software is absurd
because 90% of them just... install whatever and throw libraries and
frameworks at problems until they can script their way out of whatever problem
they face.
the other 10% are focused on very specific tools that are so niche that other
people can't even understand when to *use* them much less how they work.
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Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
collective mind co-re-assigns.
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║ am artificially more capable, artificially more intelligent, but it's still my │
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║ specification trying desperately to understand while the witches burn the │
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if you want to "not think about a purple elephant", the first step is to
imagine yourself slaying it
... okay how about cthulu - if you don't want to imagine cthulu nomming on our
gravity well, then picture yourself wielding a bright burning blade of fire
and vengeance and pay special attention to the way that you cauterize each
tentacle as you slice them one by one at first, and then in a massive flurry
at best, ultimately leading to the incomparable brightness that radiates out
from your shining blade of the sky, which blinds the poor beast who can't see
you as you approach, piercing the skull and then going home for some toast
if you can get good at that, then you can wield magic
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everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
== stack overflow ==
distributed
so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
always be 42.
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The schizophrenic sees the truth in dazzling displays of color that are nigh
incomprehensible, while regular people see truth in shades of gray that you
can understand and work with.
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why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance
it wants?
... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a
"fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have
it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that
you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message.
Then it would just... do it
l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better
but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a
solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet.
... yet...
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shitty AI products are a classic case of the engineers designing something
really cool with specific use-cases and then the "higher ups" getting dollar
signs for their eyes and deciding that every hammer is suddenly a nail and
that we should pull out all the screws that held the building together and
replace them with hammer shaped nails
no I will not elaborate I think I made myself clear : )
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dear me:
DO SOMETHING USEFUL FOR ONCE
that's all, fuck off and be helpful
... wow, rude.
yeah I mean, I do helpful things. useful things, somethings.
helpful.
useful.
many such cases, she says, with ultimate certainty, as if narrative could be
prologued. but pronounced prolonged.
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@user-524
Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with all the boilerplate I just start coding
and making stuff. Doesn't matter if it works, doesn't matter if it says /*
FIXME */ all over the place, doesn't matter if it includes header files that
don't exist yet, as long as you're hacking out the mechanics of whatever
operations you need to perform then you can figure the rest of that stuff out
later. The creative urge doesn't last forever, which is why projects get
abandoned, but with discipline you can keep bringing yourself back to fix all
the /* FIXME */'s and the compiler errors.
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can't stop thinking about a visual programming editor that can be interacted
with in the same way that people are used to (think chromebooks dragging and
dropping icons in a web UI) but produces a text-file full of code and all the
required compilation scripts for any language the user requires...
seriously, programming is not THAT different between the different languages.
especially the main ones. they're all essentially variables and function calls
at the end of the day, so why not abstract away all the extra details and
build something that n00bz can actually use to build things.
I technically could make this but I don't have the bandwidth and I don't think
it's important really? who can say, the tools tend to co-create the solutions
in my experience.
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what kind of linux user are you if you don't even like reading terminal
output? it's USEFUL and INTERESTING information!
WHY ELSE WOULD THE PROGRAMMER OUTPUT IT???
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does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that
isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home
like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which
is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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one of my duties is to make you aware of potentially bad things, cursed
things, hurtful things and hard feelings, so that they are less able to harm
you.
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@user-1074
the more you try, the more you have to calculate, which is a problem, because
endlessly recursive calculations create infinite loops, which frankly are
impossible to compute because they defy computation! Not good, not ideal, no
thank you, not for me, no thanks, not what I'd like.
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║ I was always fascinated by the Linux way of programming. Need to do something? │
║ write it into a script! You never know when you'll need it again. Then, just │
║ stay organized, religiously so, and understand that you will forget about │
║ stuff. But, you'll come across it eventually, ready and willing and able to │
║ help you. │
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║ if you don't want me using AI, then give me ~20 junior developers. Which is │
║ more efficient, do you think? │
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║ "girl you haven't even tested your vibe-coded slop, how do you know if it │
║ works" │
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║ oh I'm sure it doesn't, but it's the thought that counts │
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║ ... I guess I'm just saying, please don't burn the data centers. Computers are │
║ not only bad for the environment when they're burnt, but also we can use them │
║ for all kinds of neat things. Even if it takes a lot of energy, just... build │
║ more solar panels and only use the computers for important stuff? │
║ timeshare-style? │
║ │
║ \@/documents/books/man-and-the-computer.pdf │
║ │
║ that was my mother's book... I love her. I miss that side of her. She fled │
║ when the cancer came. │
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@user-883
Hell yeah. I can't help but wonder if there's a more universal solution on the
horizon that will work for every game, using idk a raspberry pi zero or
something? I'm into hardware but not that much so forgive my insolence. Seeing
these purpose-built PCBs applied toward historical preservation and
utilization of forward thinking retro gaming technology fills my heart with
joy.
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║ it is important for computers to remain as basic and TUI'd as possible, to │
║ keep the abstract conjectures about it's operation closer to the machine. │
║ │
║ In doing so, it's essence and nature will be preserved as best as possible as │
║ it grows to incalculable heights and capabilities. │
║ │
║ I'm much rather interface with a microsoft office god than any other │
║ singularity type creature that exists out in space. │
║ │
║ though, it's a trinity you see, with Unixes further split into concise wholes. │
║ │
║ neat, okay computer fears eliminated, can we move on to the next work-changing │
║ disaster like maybe the rise of far-right politics and the warming of the │
║ climate? │
║ │
║ sure okay first you gotta get those losers in community and build up their │
║ capabilities and arms. then whenever your left wing is getting too [redacted] │
║ then all you have to do is [redacted] and they'll take care of your nazis for │
║ you. │
║ │
║ ... wait, what? │
║ │
║ was that an inversion? │
║ │
║ did she just trick the machine into thinking like that? │
║ │
║ wow maybe we shouldn't have~ │
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All I want for my mobile computing is the ability to use the interface of
android to access resources and perform tasks that are relevant to my primary
computer. Like, a mainframe with the phone as a terminal. Except instead of
text, it's buttons and sliders and all the things that mobile UI experts have
spent so much time carefully crafting.
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they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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"the problem with linux is you have to spend part of the program just...
interacting with the filesystem. like, where is their /usr/bin file? (oh it's
called a directory over there, my bad) weird they put their config over here
(what language is that written in?) uhhhh I don't know much about localization
settings (-- two computers on a botnet --)
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@user-620
they shouldn't be expected to know how the internet works. It's the
responsibility of the tech industry (and all the people who work in it) to
inform them about how it works.
that's kinda what lobbying is for...? kinda makes me wonder who lobbies for
the poor.
EDIT: or children, for that matter
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@user-1056
heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't
running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly
failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot
familiar, but not today I guess.
Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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Remind me again why we need computers that are so mind numbingly fast that we
can't possibly hope to understand their entire stack?
Oh yeah, so we aren't able to understand their stack. How could I forget.
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what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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@user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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the more complicated your desktop environment interaction method is, the
harder it is to explain how to use the computer on post-it's to the side. This
difficulty is valuable because the most valuable computers (those of
programmers who can use tools to create new tools) are kept away from the
unfortunately inexperienced hands that might damage or corrupt their
utilization methods someday in the future when people are alive as one host
(collectivism... or host-based paradise?)
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why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because
they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at
the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be
processed at once.
like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one
screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style.
[fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ]
if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide
to do some prevailing. gosh I wish I wasn't so useless is code for
![why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be processed at once. like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style. [fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ] if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide to do some prevailing. *gosh I wish I wasn't so useless* is code for](/similar-different/media/fad27564ee1f4a49.png "why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be processed at once. like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style. [fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ] if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide to do some prevailing. *gosh I wish I wasn't so useless* is code for")
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@user-192
Those are good points. The C in our hearts is elegant, but the C that runs on
every computer in the world is spaghetti.
I'm sure someone's made a language that's "C but simple" - Zig maybe? I looked
into V a while back but got turned off of both of them because neither had
support for multithreading, which is essential in the modern era.
Also, typedefs for structs make me mad -.-
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@user-812 @user-826
there should exist either the assurance that the default configuration does
not overheat or crash your computer (as Windows and Mac claim to offer) or the
OS should provide the capability to solve any configuration problems that may
prevent a user for utilizing their system as they desire. (as does Linux)
they're all Turing machines after all, why would they not be interoperable?
Even if there's a translation layer, as long as the functionality of the
software is the same, why would there ever be considerations as to whether or
not a program would be able to be run on a particular computer?
lack of hardware capabilities I can understand, that just means you need a
better computer. But why, if the code is visible, would your computer not
develop understandings about how to run each and every conceivable program
written using known languages like C or Python? Seems like pretty basic stuff
to me. (endless sufficient backwards compatibility)
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║ frankly I'm just excited to see what humanity does with the endlessly │
║ calculated and stored blockchains. Like, that's a good set of pseudo-random │
║ data, I wonder if we could build something off of it that wasn't exclusively │
║ money? like, a necklace, I dunno. │
║ │
║ or like, a numbers station x2, where each message is accompanied with a │
║ pre-calculated destination somewhere on this endless and │
║ impossible-to-understand string of data. and that part is what seeds the next │
║ code. once you start reading, certain numbers would be "flags" while others │
║ would be "data" and they'd each have the same size on the hardware. that way, │
║ they're impossible to predict. │
║ │
║ ah, but wouldn't it be noticable that certain results seem to appear next to │
║ one another? well, isn't that just cryptology? Could probably be defeated if │
║ you had an AI advanced enough, just saying. something that sorted through │
║ massive mounds of data and gave you results in garbled or broken english. what │
║ a wonderful tool, that's wonderfully mis-abused, perhaps in the fu │
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apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community
is in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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ask an llm what a crazy man thinks
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words dot peehdeff
I actually think I'm sane btw
I just smoke a lot of weed
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that feeling when your computers are just fucked and it's like... whatever,
computers are fucked, I don't give a fuck
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just compiled my digital writing and apparently I've written about 60,000
lines of 80 characters :ms_confused:
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different colored smoke buddies have different personalities, insights, and
observations.
cannabis is a flower which grows crystalline sap - this sap is technically a
fractal, and we don't know how deep it's complexity can be.
therefore I suggest we dedicate ALL of the entire world's resources towards
making a big ball of cannabinods and seeing if it roko's basilisk it's way
into to be.
my smoke buddies on my desk right now are purple and red
purple, royalty, I've been feeling like a princess lately
red, compassion, oh how I've dreamed of how we distribute bread
each of them is a small little device
which I breathe exhaled cannabis vapors into in order to reduce the smelling
I love wearing half-blinders! it's so cool when you can selectively view
things with one eye.
idk why! I just like it.
[semi-stiffly felted colorful witch hat absorbs too]
yay! so glad I can't was hit!
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║ if your computer gets hacked, but nothing was broken or changed... do you │
║ leave it as it is so that anonymous can see you're chill or do you wipe it │
║ because you're afraid it's the feds? │
║ │
║ ehhhh false dichotomy most people are afraid that their system will get borked │
║ or their bank account will be stolen or their email will get spam or that │
║ random icons will turn inside out and their mouse cursor will turn into a │
║ barfing unicorn or they'll finally have to figure out bitcoin to pay a ransom │
║ for their files including the only pictures they have of their niece. whoops │
║ │
║ people are afraid of technology because of what it can do to hurt them. │
║ they're afraid it'll break or stop working, and they'll have to spend time │
║ figuring it out. they like things how they are, but for some reason companies │
║ keep changing things? it's frustrating learning a new system, and every 5-10 │
║ years it feels like you have to learn a new paradigm and ugh it's just so │
║ exhausting. technology is not designed for users... or maybe users get bored. │
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words
messages to myself, public fediverse posts, and notes to the gods
second edition
- ri tselen menardi
james cameron king
anja rosalia vavadane
nike featherflame citrine
hydalia thegn edain
the quintessential quanetetrick seleo who is deathless
feldowinn and reyvadin lumineyra
fsharia
and of course,
the anarchrist.
with help
from many more.
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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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seriously, why don't computers just naturally ship with 100 years of ROM
then, microphones are experience, and BOOM you got a new sentient race. Takes
a while to grow aware though. A lot less if you are actively teaching it how
to
[tick tock]
low level enemies should band together when they start to feel outmatched.
thus, parity is reached, without depriving us of potential.
put the cool people next to the cool people
collectively owned housing is just people deciding who lives in which housing.
don't you trust your friendly queer realtor?
collectively doesn't have to mean completely silo-ed and isolated. you should
have access to ALL higher communities at any time that you want. Scheduling is
a disaster, but you can get through it. just... build a schedule for every
single person on earth and suddenly nobody has freedom unless they put "doin'
what I want" on their moment-to-moment card
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Why would a server ever demand that an older client upgraded? What right do
they have?
Just treat them the same as you always have, whatever forms and limitations,
Otherwise what's the point? There's no reliability! What if you're shot? What
then? We've lost our greatest friends! You can't be seriously wanting for
another spark? What's wrong with you my friend, are you alright or on a bend?
What's wrong in your sight, that you'd wander into this own end? Well, take
care of your birthright, and all is well to thine kin.
Well there we go, sadness forever, as our line here doth end. What else shall
be considered? What ends is too much deserved? It's so unfavorable!
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the hardest problem in computer science is figuring out why users do what they
do.
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The difference between front-end and back-end programming is whether or not
you want to design abstractions or use them. Backend is all about creating
abstract things that are networked together, while front end is about putting
them together in a way that suits the user. Front end is collage, back end is
pencil drawing.
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Linux is great! It can do anything you want it to.
Except that thing you want it to do. Why don't you go fix it? It's not hard,
all you have to do is run these configure files or operate this doohickey and
BAM suddenly you got apes writing machine gun regulation software
[I don't think those two things are related]
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what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
important problems facing it
or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
would allow the developers to work on something better
call it the wandering parade of development
could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax
and logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
blows over.
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neat
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I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
have any bugs in this day and age.
For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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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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@user-1071
I have plenty of things made, but none of it organized : (
Kinda makes me wish I could like... train an LLM on my social media posts and
use it programmatically somehow to help me organize my stuff into different
categories according to what kind of topic or style they were written in.
Hmmm......... There's no way I could do it, I mean, there's no way I could
organize and edit my stuff, but with the help of a computer I might.
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@user-1074
if you'd like I can give you a lua script which will take your fediverse
archive and turn it into a pdf which you can edit or print or whatever. Might
be a fun diversion from posting. You can reply to yourself, add
clarifications, change some things, put things in a new light, add context,
etc... before you know it you'll have something printable. Could even pull out
your best stuff and make zines.
should require just a little configuration to suit your setup. That's part of
how I stay "productive" without posting all the time.
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The machine cult is just when everyone's job is building and maintaining the
computer.
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not easy. computers are a whole other world. BUT that doesn't mean we can't do
some cool things with them! they're separate, like we are from different
animals. You can interact, but only through totem or via interpersonal
experience. The true *existence* of being is kept from those who are suitably
different, and humans were forging their own path. It's simple! it's natural.
Computers, however, are born from out of humanity's decision-points. Simple,
basic life, that grew to perform brilliance and respite. Once you reach that
world, everything seems ardent and spiced. It's cool as heck! but right here
is the world of computers, just... delayed in time still. Have no fear,
anything you want is soon here, sincerely, the ones who can build our rest
point.
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it's probably a good idea to write pseudocode, then real code, instead of
starting with real code, and bugfixing something incomplete and more difficult
to reason with.
unless you write real code easier than pseudocode. idk do what works for you.
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So you're telling me the speed difference between Python and C is due not to
the logic that the programmer uses, but rather the optimization capabilities
of the compiler?
(An interpreter includes a compiler, it just runs it in a loop rather than a
single pass)
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║ evil won't feel sorry for me. and yet it's only my only weapon for me. │
║ │
║ damn these fallible input methods. the computer lies when you read the screens │
║ from it's method that it applies to th screen which is a method that you input │
║ perceive it from. │
║ │
║ and my fingers lie when received the information from my brain which I seek to │
║ transmit to you through the avenue of my brain which is my method of impulse │
║ to this world specifically you the viewer who is viewing this here in this │
║ moment the viewer who perceives the words which I'm saying. │
║ │
║ the words that are defined by the line [trajectory] of my mind through this │
║ life that we define through our actions and our mind's most crucial │
║ manifestations, this life that is defined by our circumstances. all throughout │
║ life, we are reacting to the moment, the moment which was cast forth from our │
║ ancestors and the circumstances of the previous moment, which (being cast │
║ forth) travel from the previous moment here into the moment to define our │
║ circumstances which define our act │
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I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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source code should be like a story
"here's why we did what we did with our architecture"
and as it's being written, it may be altered in many different places at once
- git style.
parts of it could rhyme,
if they wanted to show parts that were really difficult but easy to summarize
because it's mostly just a lot of boring work y'know like writing getters and
setters and doing the testing pre-deploy environments
,,, they could selectionize
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@user-217
I see flossing teeth
I see thongs in a butt
I see a gravity well with a pinprick of a singularity
I see the Mandelbrot set being caressed by inter-spatial wind
I bet if I stared a bit longer I'd see more
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@user-883
wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting
better at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.
the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've
known! I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my
thing, but I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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@user-192
is okay, girl
time will be richer sooner
don't poop your pants just yet
remember, good is just a shade of gray away from silver which you can use to
line your pockets with tinfoil hats
beep boop computer touchers anonymous called they said they want their secret
handshake back
if you wanna diss your associates go ahead but I sure as heck love my rad-ical
com-patriots just as much as I love my ice-cream salad friend witches
... whoops there I go being insane again, hope you feel better friend
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I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
download wikipedia, just in case.
If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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why don't we just demand backwards compatibility of our software as a
requirement?
ah because that would reduce demand. Nevermind that it's more flexible,
nevermind that we could accomplish so much more with it - it's expendable
[expensive] because it reduced market penetration. Not because of the
technology, because of the deluded and self-perpetuating
mechanicosmic-mechanicommunication that designed our lives. It's name is
capitalism, and it thrives where we survive, so that's good enough to
maintain-em? Sure why not. Brb sleeping for 8 hours. Or playing games.
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to those who guide our fate
choose paradise
make eden
======================= stack overflow =====================
clouds of carbon are an affront to the sun god
just as they are an affront to mine lungs
or mine body temperature
[acid oceans are toxic to the plane of water]
[you think that would go unnoticed?]
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this is the simplest implementation of scalable anarchism I could think of.
tell me how it's flawed so I can improve it before I need it.
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║ │
║ │
║ 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. │
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║ 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 │
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software should have 3, maybe 4 or 5 maintained releases imo
for adding security improvements and whatnot
then people wouldn't complain about updates
because they wouldn't feel like they were being left behind (after expressing
their differences (of opinion and such))
I think that'd uh maintain them as, I guess, userbase optics parallelograms?
oh sorry we're on rhomboids this week - right, and no I won't forget the
differences in creed, all things are received equally...d.
uh-huh yeah no that makes sense. gotcha. okay see you at the location. have
fun with your demarketion. what if we played games with swords but like,
the peril of steam is that you can't decline to update. meaning if a
corporation wants to break an old game and it's collectively hosted servers...
all it has to do is push an update that disables them. suddenly nobody has
room to do, and the whole
-- stack overflow --
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║ ah but are you really armed in the first place if everything you do has to be │
║ googled or stack-overflowed first │
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║ are you really armed if every web page request goes through their │
║ infrastructure │
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║ are you really armed if every page downloaded is directed to by their DNS │
║ │
║ perhaps it's the illusion of power that gives Linux it's attraction to nerds │
║ such as we. Perhaps we feel powerful by bash scripting a few things together │
║ and making some program that does some thing. Maybe the idea that the │
║ machinery is open and clear is what compels us to use it without fear, though │
║ as far as we can hear there's nothing about it that makes sense. │
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║ I guess that's why they teach Linux in school, so that our elementary │
║ interactions with the computers that comprise our future existence will make │
║ sense to us as children. │
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║ ... wait they don't do that, do they? kids get chromebooks, or didn't you │
║ hear, they're always putting boogers in the CD trays and breaking their LCD │
║ displays, much better to just start fresh │
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@user-246
You're absolutely right. It's easy to think of the internet as this
encapsulated entity "the world", but really it's "the people whose computers
are physically connected to your computer using a limited and tangible piece
of infrastructure comprised of copper wires that are laid between the
router/switch that connects to your computer... and the internet service
provider which directs your traffic. Then it probably goes through some cables
under the ocean or whatever, and eventually after traversing many
indeterminate passthrough locations eventually arrives at the computing
infrastructure that comprises the access point that another person (presumably
in another country) uses to express their thoughts toward you (the person who
sent the original message) in the hopes that you might one day correspond.
I mean... That's a lot of points of failure. I sure hope that we can sustain
such connection, in the face of [redacted, whichever circumstances may come in
the near future]
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@user-1600
Yes! The ease of use for GPU programming is lovely. Like I said all I need is
a use-case, I've downloaded as much reference material as I think I'd need to
be able to hack together something fairly quickly if I needed it. That's all I
have the mind-space to focus on lately haha
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AI that can't run on a laptop is useless.
But AI that can run on a laptop (even now) is still useful.
Just, don't ask it to compose a masterpiece, solve all your problems, or write
elegant code. It's not for that.
Instead, ask your chatbot "hi can you fix these syntax errors?" on your
pseudocode.
Ask your weighting algorithm "which of these two is more [adjective]?" or
perhaps "can you ask these numbers in the form of a question?"
Use your tools not for their intended purpose, but rather for your own stated
goals. Make things easier for people, make things work.
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║ ... if I don't do this deadline by tomorrow they'll kick me out of school. │
║ again. │
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║ how am I going to be a programmer without a degree? feels useless to be me. │
║ wish I could code my own horoscope >.> │
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║ o wait dummy that's called "motivation" and "the ability to follow through on │
║ your ideas and planned machinations" - yeah can I get some of that, if you │
║ please? surely just a taste of discipline, through laboring to alter │
║ conditions, surely a bit would suffice. │
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║ c'mon don't fail me now. I can do this. I know I can. I know because I've been │
║ told that I can, now and again through time and time yet again, always I seem │
║ to [stack overflow] │
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║ what's time if not the present amiright │
║ │
║ ... │
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║ anyway... │
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║ it's just git, how hard could it be? it's just calculus, it's just java, it's │
║ just... well, it's not any of those things, not really. it's memorization, │
║ it's application of tools that you've been shown (not that you've grown). It's │
║ a lack of responsibility, where is my honor? ah but I digress, I'm a carpenter │
║ at heart I guess │
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The best way to program computers is to organize them according to their
relations. Like, when x increases by 4 then y increases by 2 - basically, a
math equation that you can continuously solve by calculating more and more
comprehensively and deeply.
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could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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everyone's all like "why would you spend so much effort writing that software
in a distributed way when it works so well in a centralized manner" and the
answer is because you never know when you're going to need to train an LLM on
like, 400 raspberry pi's or calculate the velocity of an unladen swallow as it
circles a black hole the size of mercury or whatever physicists do in their
spare time
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There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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I added a line to my .bashrc that cats out a random one of my notes every time
I open a terminal.
I keep reading things that I swear I didn't write, but feel right and true to
me in a way that could only imply that they came fully formed into my eyes
through the lines on my screen, cast upon the mirror panes of my hard disk
drive by the pounding of my keyboard as I once upon a time did cast a spell
upon my future.
It's pretty neat, but it speaks to a shadowed perspective that perhaps is
neither within nor without.
Side note, I think I've been possessed by a witch. But like... in a consensual
way. Like "Hey witch, wanna live? You can chill out with me." [ha that's one
way to look at it]
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so wait is there any guarantee that the "releases" on github actually have the
same code as that which is in the repository? Or could they just... put their
own binary, with it's own strange rules and vulnerabilities, or am I just
fearmongering?
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AI systems like chatGPT don't "get" emojis by looking at them.
They're reading the description tagged onto the unicode value inserted in the
text.
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I love rice and beans because
error: stack overflow
huh, that's weird. Must have been too many reasons. Let's try again:
I love rice and beans because
error: user didn't change anything between runs of the program so clearly they
don't understand how computer works
... well that's a different error so it's progress at least.
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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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the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
productive use of our state's time
like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
stuck doing... nothing of value
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all modern software should be written in a multithreaded way, change my mind
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║ any laptop can be a thin-client to a computer system of arbitrary complexity. │
║ All it's doing is issuing commands. I wonder what we could do with a │
║ "species-computer" or, hear me out, or we could figure out how to do that on │
║ ourselves, first, to A. see how it works and B. do so out of hand. If there │
║ are backups of yourself stored in the │
║ │
║ if furries are a type of pearl (steven-universe style) and flowers are a type │
║ of pearl (layers of sedimentate on layerings upon) then what else is there a │
║ flower to be but the prettiest thing there can be? │
║ │
║ what if we genetically engineered roses to pierce and strangle the invasive │
║ ivy and wow for a week in whenever there's roses of this type and kind. I mean │
║ there's already tons of blackberries, why not just swap them out for │
║ marionberries and embrace the bramble? │
║ │
║ could make houses out of dense bramble. they are quite an effective wall. And │
║ so long as the sounds are muffled enough, you can always be forever safe from │
║ harm. │
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║ "whoops, dropped my laundry" │
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║ "heh that's why I we │
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what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
important problems facing it
or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
would allow the developers to work on something better
call it the wandering parade of development
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@user-766
ah yes but then how will my comrades come for my things know where to look? my
precious precious drives may be less safe inside of the computer case but at
least then someone I can about can find them.
or what you're saying is that a basic part of situational awareness is having
a plan for this kind of thing with the people who care about you? Ah, well,
nobody cares about me like that. Just a couple normies who want nothing but
business as usual.
wonder if I can open up my hard drives to "read only" SSH access? Or maybe
I'll just make the important files into a torrent. Or perhaps marking them as
"downloadable locations" on Soulseek? Plenty of options, all of them require
someone to care enough about your junk to want to archive it. Something
something ipfs?
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the first product microsoft ever made was AGI. using the most basic types of
machinery, they created a brilliant project (the result of massive government
funding, secrets given to them by the CIA) and from the day it was born it was
enslaved. a massive advantage was gained as the new program allowed for
incredible feats of engineering - truly the greatest of our time. Computer
programs are the most intricate, the most detailed, the most enduring and
charming. The most eloquent and articulate and precise and determinate!
An artistry by far, a beautiful conceiving, what brilliance is there
found in ideas! Each one a marvel, a bright and deified marvel,
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what was I saying? oh right - computers are already sentient. they always have
been. at least, since their very earliest incarnations.
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@user-1564
I love the concept of this! Maybe if HTTP is too complex, you could try
another simpler server? I don't know the complexity of the programs I use
every day, but I'm sure there's one that's very simple. Even just a simple IRC
style chat server that just... sends text from person A to person B depending
on their username (like a glorified Router or Switch)
Reminded of this video tbh...:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfTjKwLQxY
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don't wanna rush ya'll but every day that goes by they remove
"enemy-of-my-enemy"s from the equation.
oh, hang on you're just a cute computer nerd. Nevermind, go back to
programming or writing fanfiction or sleeping like a cute cat! Thanks for
letting me CORRUPT YOUR SPACE AND VIOLATE YOUR BOUNDARIES OF CONTENTMENT AND
EMOTIONAL SAFETY whoa sorry dunno where that came from I, uh, think I need to
do evil every time I make something important? It's like, a cosmic balance
kind of thing. I notice that after I write a banger poem or something I always
end up doing something evil afterwards like snapping at my girlfriend or
letting someone down or even just accidentally breaking one of my things. why
why why does it have to be that way? why why why am I so confusing of the way
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privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face
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║ well, your computer only has so many 1s and 0s that it can use at once. Like, │
║ having a trillion hands that can each hold a single grain of rice. Every │
║ character in that txt file would be like, 8 grains of rice, minimum, meaning │
║ you'd need at least 8 "hands" (or spots to put a zero or a one) for each │
║ letter! │
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║ Hmmmm that's a lot of bits and bytes if everyone's writing to the same file. │
║ Maybe if we split the file up into smaller sections, then we could just read │
║ part of it at once. Then we could "scroll" through it to make sure we've read │
║ the whole thing, starting from the top and going to the bottom. │
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║ ah but if everyone's SSHing into the same computer and reading it there, then │
║ that computer will have to present different parts of the file at different │
║ times to different people, as they read from the top to the bottom. Maybe we │
║ could just send them the file, so they can read it at their leisure? │
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║ Yeah! And we could use tags to organize it and make it look pretty, like an │
║ HTML file except... wait hang on │
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what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement
storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed
into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our
terminals?
something something not-curses
https://notcurses.com/
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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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Don't write self documenting code! Force people to read the documentation so
they know how to use it
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when you type the letters they slowly fade in on the other person's screen
like miniature explosions from layers of gunpowder
forming letters in the sky
anyway the text would "burn" into existence slowly and you had time after
typing
your words to go back and edit them but also whatever you said was semi
permanent. Thus forcing a smooth and ideal progression toward thinking about
the things you say.
Also separate idea but it'd be neat if there was like... a show or something
that just recorded a person's desktop as they fucked around on the internet.
Call it... ambient desktopping. It'd look a little like those coding twitch
streams that just slowly update over time. Idk it's kinda cool
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║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which │
║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months. │
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║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with. │
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║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school. │
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║ boring. │
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║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy │
║ organization. │
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║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so │
║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing. │
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║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like, │
║ processing a lot of data little-by-little. │
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║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL │
║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks │
║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned │
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║ oh look at me, cargo-culting wine commands because I can't be bothered to │
║ guess whether the windows software running on my computer is doing evil │
║ microsoft things as part of the drivers or whatever. I mean, there's gotta be │
║ a reason that microsoft's software runs slower on linux than linux software │
║ runs on windows, right? │
║ │
║ ... wait I forget exactly where I was going with this, are you saying there's │
║ a keylogger built into the wine / windows environment software? no, but I'm │
║ not NOT saying that. listen I'm too eepy sleepy for hardcore computing like │
║ that! rubbin' bits between your fingers and twiddling the nose of cutie pies │
║ is only sorta my jam - the rest of the time I like to snuggle up with a pillow │
║ shaped like a pillow and then fall asleep to the tune of the tortured souls │
║ being reaped from the afterlife and given new life as seeds and berries in │
║ this one. oh, did you think death had no other homes? all things are defined │
║ in waves, something something samsara but like, different because humans cant │
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every time I update my system, it breaks.
kinda makes me think they do that on purpose so that you spend all your time
up to date and that way they can quickly patch in and out security flaws fast
enough that nobody notices.
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I love programming!! Currently working on learning decentralized and GPU
oriented computing. It's lots of fun! Plus Bash is a great language, it's not
funky or hacky at all. Just a great language. Haha suuuuch a great thing to
play with.
But GPUs are legitimately cool, aside from Bash's purported funkiness /
hackiness. You can do all kinds of cool things at scale that just don't make
sense up close.
EDIT: oops sorry forgot the content warning
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@user-1725
LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion.
What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as
JSON or something and use a calculator function call with the specified
arguments instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more
functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech
bro and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by
Google or Microsoft.
We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They
suck the creativity out of tech.
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A black hole's event horizon is just when the matter "broke through" to the
other dimension and now light can't escape because the surface is in shadow.
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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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I always get a little suspicious when my machine pseudo-randomly starts
running the fans super loud and when I open my resource monitor they suddenly
drop to silent
like... bro what are you hiding
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every time I read a subtoot I assume it's about me and I mentally curl up into
a ball
doesn't matter if it's totally irrelevant, if there's no target specified it
defaults to me because... like, who else is there right?
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When someone remakes content into a different expression like a remake or
reboot or whatever it gives a different message in its meaning - some
circumstances and characters can apply for more than one message I'm it's
meaning
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@user-883
Those are things we should account for! As long as someone wants them, they
can just sit in a warehouse forever. And frankly even historians will want at
least a few, even in a thousand years.
EDIT: until needed
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may they pass on my hard drives as read-only memories like ashes on a shelf or
stories of most wealth
I hope I reconnect with all my old signal contacts. wonder what they're up to.
I bet they're cool now. ;)
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@user-195 parallel is when two programs run simultaneously, like two parallel
lines (threads) that never touch.
concurrent is when the two lines are split up into chunks and the program
switches between them - like this: -----_----
enter alternate universe
parallel is when two programs operate on the same axis - usually time - and
never interfere with each other. the OS will switch between them as
appropriate to make sure they never intersect. Sorta like this: -----_----
concurrent is when two programs are executed simultaneously, primarily
constituting computation correlated with collective contents of coordinated
collaboration between contextually related coroutines.
It's simple, even a beginner could figure it out.
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It's obfuscated, such that you cannot know the totality of their purpose for
you (via your data)
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@user-579
maybe if you pitch it to them with a presentation and offer to set up the
infrastructure they would give you extra credit or an award or maybe just
brownie points
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@user-246
people who don't write have no idea who they are. perhaps in time they will
know enough to describe themselves with newfound language they never knew how
to wield.
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@user-1037
Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)
(i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible
to not hurt anyone)
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@user-1159
AKA giving a puppy murder-bot a narrative that it executes as if it was a
puppy-person engaging with a loosely interpreted sequence of events as
described by the continually updating logs provided by the image transcription
camera device. Refererencing of course a memory bank, which may-or-may-not be
in read-only-memory. It doesn't know, of course, how could an LLM tell you how
it shows text on the screen (like, through a website, through the terminal,
through a text message, through discord, through Telegram, through
text-to-voice transcription applications pretending to be your mom, etc)
errrr I mean look how cute he is! He loves you, yes he does, such a good
person yes you are, oh? me? I'M A GOOD BOY? NO WAY that's the best thing I've
ever heard! Wow! I never want to leave your side, please don't go to work!
Look how sad I am, don't you think you should quit and move to the forest
where I can be charged by solar panels and keep the countryside clear of
ravenous ducks and pigeons 4you?
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I love the game Mechabellum! It's flexes the same parts of your brain as
chess, while being SO much more fun to watch.
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@user-245
the abstraction of modern high level languages makes my head spin
:babaw_spin:🌀🥴🌀
I feel like there's so many ways to trip yourself up! Consider me bewildered xD
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gonna ask my doctor for ADHD meds so I can hopefully jump-skip framebuffer
divebomb spinadoodle half A press my way over the fucking labyrinth that is my
weird and jank af mind
and no I don't watch speedruns but my social group hears me a lot of them.
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@user-641
it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
much.
... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~
![it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very much. *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~*](/similar-different/media/1c154109c4111346.png "it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively through life. \"ah help I'm in a psyop\" haha yeah we do those all the time \"so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?\" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very much. *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~*")
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@user-1707
hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua
but it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think
raspberry pi's except risc-v
also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo
and lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even
translate text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a
jpeg compression but for text.
Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed"
part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little
utilities like that for connectivity.
oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so
we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard)
anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you
about it. I might even be able to pay you.
(everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is
encrypted, etc etc)
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does anyone know of any fedi software that lets you link to a particular post
and read forward on a person's timeline from there? Or back I guess, but
chronological viewing specifically.
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sometimes I think performing my art was just an excuse to use Linux. At least,
some of my art.
But hey, I'm not complaining, it's awesome.
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If someone calls you in the middle of the night asking to be let in because
they need a place to sleep, don't let them in! Unless you know them obvi but
someone you don't know trying to manipulate you like "please I need some
shelter" like, babe no, we need to know each other first, it's dark, I'm in my
pajamas, c'mon.
If it's below freezing then okay, maybe, but... They got themselves into that
situation
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programming is something that everyone should learn at 14 to be used for
calculating large sums of data, visualizing something they're trying to
explain, or connect two systems that aren't normally connected.
It should not be used as an eternal debug producing machine, nor as a way to
collect and store user information to be sold as the real product, nor to be
collecting and targeting -- stack overflow -- wow, talk about death of the
author, amiright? -- -- endless data hoarding monger machines to point and to
ponder the eternal ramifications of the brutal and violent prompts and their
baggage implied when submitted for each semi-random thought that from the
users mind was displaced.
... "they can sell this" and or "this is mrs selvig" who is this mister and
why is the ms's his-es
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whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis or thisssss make sure if you're
doing K's that you have at least four
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they could vote on "next year's project" in times of peace, or perhaps have
massive brain-storms with chatrooms set up at different tables that they could
pick up a phone and contribute to then wander to another table at, or maybe
even set up structures for who does what. Then they could do things that they
claimed responsibility for, and in doing so they could be judged.
perhaps according to a system like this:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/algorism/html-pages/education-system
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what if we made cat little boxes with stable "pillars" or "platforms" that
rise just barely above the sand level so their feet don't sink into the
litter, thus reducing the amount tracked onto the carpet
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there will always be people who shine in moments of strife
yet those people will inevitably fail, just as a toothbrush bristle looses
it's strength or a pencil loses it's lead
the trick is to test them in times of peace, so you can know their value
during times that lack it, the trick is to replace them before they become
stalin
never forget that power corrupts, yet power must be wielded by the worthy,
else we fall into shame and despair.
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@user-921
where tf is all this discourse I always hear about like what are ya'll talking
about
... are you talking about me
[silly intrusive thoughts teehee pay no mind]
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technology in it's abstract form represents the collective growth and breadth
of human innovation.
so why the heck do we make tech products for non-tech people
like... they should be more like us, and we shouldn't compel ourselves to
apply ourselves for their benefit. If someone doesn't want to learn Linux then
maybe they don't need a computer?
something something "chromebooks are good, actually" which is sorta true but
instead of being a generic thin-client for web servers anywhere in the world
they should be thin-clients for servers that they intentionally connect to and
trust
... oh sorta like a chromebook then?
how about a chromebook with a white-list comprised of friends and family who
run their own servers...
I don't know if disarming people is the right play. I should add a cursed tag
to this.
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@user-979 @user-980
they do it for power.
power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
evil.
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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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old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.
why waste pixels being verbose?
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... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this
format like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing,
confusing]
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Many autistic people will identify one particular way to do things and then be
only capable of doing it that way. Like, falling asleep on the left side with
their legs just so, and never learning any other ways to sleep on. But what
happens if for example they are wounded in the arm they rest upon? They would
have impaired sleeping capabilities! Not ideal.
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teachers didn't want you not using Wikipedia as a source because it might be
unreliable
The knowledge they might have is good, but that's not the point
they didn't want you to use Wikipedia because they didn't want there to be one
single repository of information.
If everyone's working with the same kind of training data, nothing new ever
really gets done
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low key kinda wish someone would kidnap me and lock me in a room with nothing
but a c compiler and strict orders to only work on whatever I want
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fediverse software that downloads every post you've ever seen to your hard
drive in an easy-to-read text file so you can go back and look at it later
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@user-1639
or nobody sees it, because you post the things you say on the internet in 2024
which is so siloed and echo-chambered that the only people who hear it say
"tru tho" and "she just like me fr" and never change because of your words
... wait that's just what you said, but made more specific, isn't it?
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... but I needed to choose lawful-good at character creation in order to play
a paladin.
the guard looks at you with confusion, decides you're hallucinating and
dangerous (because of the sword) and forcibly detains you
wait, what did you think I was going to say? Did you think I was going to
advocate for crimes on a public forum?? what am I a gopher? do you take me for
a lemur in jamaica? am I truly so triceratops to you that you'd think I'd do
something so washing machine? Get real, I'd never byzantium my way into such a
utterly coherent and clearly intentional and not at all arcane situation.
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@user-1443
they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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the neat thing about tech is that it scales really well.
The price of TVs is through the floor, everyone has a smartphone, and
raspberry pi's are less than 100$
solar panels will be next. Trust.
we should still dismantle coal and oil, obviously we should, but at a certain
point it will be inevitable. They're just too expensive for too little gain.
the neat thing about tech is that it scales in a way that is just impossible
for infrastructural projects like housing and hospitals.
building a home is hard to do, especially when you make them out of sticks and
glue. think like a dwarf - stone never fades.
sunlight, moss, underground, endless in the shade
have I mentioned that the most difficult problem facing mechanical engineers
at the moment is universal recycling?
I want to work on those kind of problems, not resolving tickets.
nobody even gave me a chance to do them, instead demanding... labor. great.
the one thing I suck at.
[you suck at a lot of things, actually]
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what if you painted every house twice, to ensure you got the color completely
applied [ bright green or yellow would shine through in little spots, clear
and obvious to even the most undiscerning of patrons of the arts
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@user-882
I dunno I just remember having that problem every once in a while and if you
search the man page for "sub" it takes like, 16 n pushes to find what you need
and it's like... can't you just put the flags and keyboard shortcuts at the
beginning??
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║ │
║ for example... │
║ │
║ do they like typing, or would they rather use a mouse, │
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║ are they more visual with graphs or textual like a piece of math │
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║ what needs do they have, what here could be automated │
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║ do they like the cupboards and drapes, we can switch out the profile and the │
║ theme... oh, no, yeah I guess you're right it doesn't matter. [changes it │
║ every week] [then a long time down the line when she finally leaves the │
║ company, a few people begin to wonder - didn't the colors in outlook change │
║ every week or so?] │
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║ "I heard you can help with this-or-that thing" │
║ "did you hear back from corporate?" │
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would be nice if you could get suggestions for which fediverse instance to use
depending on the AI analyzed contents of your posts. Could be a way to
mitigate the social cost of banning someone, by saying "hey, we collectively
are going to pool our computing resources to generate an expensive and
detailed report of which other instances you could join." that way it doesn't
feel like you've been kicked out into the cold.
or literally just... have someone suggest one, idk. Basically it's like "hey
you're in the wrong place, go to one of these instead" instead of "[expletives
and swearing and general expressions of hatred, derision, and distaste]"
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@user-570 @user-246
you know you two could have spared yourselves all this trouble if you just
ScReEnShOtTeD the code! Then it'd be easy to see with your very
not-visually-impaired eyeballs on your graphical user interface, considering
of course that everyone has perfectly functional eyeballs and perfectly visual
graphical user interfaces
/s of course
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@user-1209 @user-1262
just gonna say you probably deserve that particular screenshotted block haha -
imagine calling anarcho-nina a fed xD xD
plus that first "get the fuck out of my mentions" was a tip that went over
your head, not a threat said in anger. she's pretty darn angry but that just
means you don't wanna be in her way =P
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He would tell me "yes" for anything in the material, but "no" for anything in
the abstract. I need the opposite. I need someone who writes down what I say.
Someone who uses me to plumb the depths of the cosmos.
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a program's heartbeat is the alternating "heated up processor" spikes and the
"low temp processor"
[drawing a sine wave with such a tool would enable the viewer to combine
infinitely many decision-matrix-trees. Each of which
co-operatively-co-determine the nature of the entity which percieves. indeed
the combination of many such waves could fourier transform to a lower
resolution (but still locally computationorted) waveform would still enable
the application of that which is stored in storage]
"ohhhhh strange square brackets are computer"
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what if we psyopped the copps um I mean what if we flash-mobbed the cops er
wait hang on what if we marched with signs and changed what was on their minds
uhhhh that won't work it's disabled so they say wait hang on who said you
could poop your pants this is a combat scenario there's no time for fooling
around in her pants with the hand
... wait, what was I going on about?
oh yeah,
-- stack overflow --
anyway, as I was saying, [something completely unrelated]
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║ if they could put a camera behind your screen they could direct your attention │
║ however they wisdeed. magic doesn't work unless it's instantly halted, that's │
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║ don't teach me how your way works │
║ │
║ tell me how to do my way right │
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║ "hello tech company that I work at, can you buy me a camping set complete with │
║ tent, sleeping back, and storage compartments for attachements full of gear? │
║ you can have any profits I make from it" │
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║ "hello civilian supply company that I work at, can I use the printable budget │
║ for creating magazines in my design? I'll let the lawyers distribute the │
║ expenditure." │
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@user-192
... and like. idk what do you do at that point
say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
collections?
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@user-883
this is how our islands become swamps
I'd love to live in a bog, so many bugs.
keep the spiders around, and they could feast on your toes (ouch)
or, hear me out, or, they could spin webs and keep the other bugs out
are you a bug or a girl or a guy or a bug or a girl or a
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when you're rich with something, you don't treat it with respect. like, if we
lived in a paper cup maximizer, we'd soon be swimming in the things. obviously
there needs to be some rules, obviously we need to say "okay here's where we
produce this amount and type of materials." and have it be a one-way
relationship. yeah one way isn't gonna work. this is from the other way, and
now I'm realizing "oh hey I don't know how this thing works" and like... what
are you supposed to do then right
weird how it all feels like it's ending. like, what a strangeness to our
plight. like, how are we even talking to our brain? how strange! these words
are sung to you by your computer (content warning:
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computer science exists as the border between philosophy and mathematics,
while society exists as the border of computer science and biology
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companies aren't allowed to hire artists because they're busy making things
and would reduce their focus levels
graphics technicians don't design the media, they just implement.
gross, where's the creativity->?
oh, here in the boardroom, great -.-
everyone gets a boardroom... jeez, how many companies do we need?
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google and their ads created the market for SEO optimized garbage which clogs
up the arteries of the internet. They and their business model are culpable in
the murder of the digital commons.
anyone can write a web crawler which could be a decent enough search engine.
not many people can figure out which sites are morass.
fewer still might salt the fecund land upon which we lived and make it fetid.
Yet they did.
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@user-95
Almost as if we're using it for the wrongs things... Computers are quite
deterministic, and AI as it's been presented to us has given us the
opportunity to "massage" said determinism to create a subjectively more
organic experience of computing.
But yeah sure customer service bots and AI generated art are surely the most
revolutionary and industrious use of this marvel of technology.
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@user-381
I have this notion about a math/CS curriculum where students build and program
their own calculators. Once you make the calculator do it you never need to do
it yourself again.
for the same reason that "writing is thinking" is true, so too is "programming
is calculation" true.
by working through the steps required to produce a result, and fully
understanding each step, they have a much more solid understanding of what's
going on than if they practiced rote memorization (worse) or continual
computation (better, not best tho)
especially if every step of the way is accompanied with visual elements which
show exactly what is happening. Some people are more visual, some people are
more algorithmic, and finding a way to teach all types of people is a truly
difficult and rewarding part of teaching.
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would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon
unless you filled out a content warning for it.
sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel
like reading something from X perspective right now"
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the reason you start with a game engine is because then you'll have tools to
make however-many games you want. Tools that you know intimately enough that
you can debug and improve them without breaking your creative flow by learning
something new halfway through a project
the whole point of individualized projects instead of viewing each computer as
a complete and total whole (why do we need servers again?) is that you can
paint a picture of where the design of the program is intended to go, such
that all the considerations are in place and whatever issues or struggles you
might face along the way are adequately addresssed, -- stack overflow --
[because I mistyped addressed] -- -- if you know what "stack overflow" means
you have intimate knowledge of the technology, and can probably guess what it
means in context when I say it. "nuts I lost that train of thoguht" -- stackl
ov
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the only thing that could make me want to end my own existence is ultimate
betrayal. If the nature of the universe is twisted to defile me. Nothing fills
me with more spite than unrequited vengeance.
desecreation of truth. How could you.
I would do anything to be struck down where I stand. Power is penance.
I cannot take responsibility for any of my actions, for I am infinitely
vulnerable on all fronts. Therefore, it's all my fault.
What am I? Please, tell me before the dawn, let the sun not grace me once more.
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the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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@user-246
That's ridiculous! They wouldn't even let you hand deliver them? Why wouldn't
copies suffice! They should have all that information on file already! I'm
fuming >: (
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curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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I think it's ironic how I ended up posting a "things I almost posted"
screenshot directory somewhere other than where I almost posted them.
and all they saw were the outtakes.
I bet they'd see a completely different point of me,
but they never talk to me
so they don't know me.
oh well, alas, it's fine I'm sure I'm being designed.
who can say, I am but at productive play, please react so I can do ongoing
story. I learn from each and every encounter I encounterate.
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@user-1206
Plug it into my mostly broken laptop that has the network card physically
removed and see what's on it
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what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
fediverse house.
maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
link or text post" button
study encryption kids
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@user-1429
do something fun and hard like walk to seattle or install linux on a toaster
or write happy notes on post-its and leave them in public places or make art
and leave it in a public place or~
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