=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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wrote this in an hour, used a local LLM to generate the regexes.
haven't tested it yet because I'm not on gentoo rn, so don't run it. which is
why I shared the code as an image.
if you really want the text of it then check out the visual description of the
image.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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I have this local language model framework but it's not built into anything
more than a single-response question. It's runnable as a bash script or lua
require, which is easy enough. Alas, if only I didn't have to use evil
corporate infrastructure to make evil corporate cursed artifacts
[hey don't blame this on us]
oh I'm not, I'm just saying that it'd be cooler if I could build my own tools.
Alas, I'm...
lasy?
n...no
I'm drawn to the power of it
it's got a different magnitude
it's hard for me to apply myself for things that last longer than a "get
stoned", but I try as if every time afterwards I might die.
well, more distraction time, as I wander through claude code
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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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nobody wants to write computer code that lets Java programs call Rust
functions.
An LLM is excellent for this task, since it's relatively easy busy work that
doesn't
reflect any meaningful implementation decisions besides "I should be able to
call that Rust function in my Java code"
In addition, it is technically efficient at it as well, because most of
compatibility
is matching up two sets of documentation. Easy for a text-processing machine.
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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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@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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If you want an LLM to generate ASCII art, don't try through text. First
generate an SVG and then use a separate program which approximates SVGs with
ascii characters.
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hi does anyone have any good resources on risc-v?
I found this:
https://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/#shift-instructions
and this:
https://projectf.io/posts/riscv-cheat-sheet/
but I'm missing a big gap - specifically, how to move from syntax to
deployment. I need details on how to implement the software and get it running
on the actual hardware.
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This was the first bash script I ever wrote.
It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it
looks like now.
Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
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"don't tell a local cached offline LLM what you're looking into, instead tell
it to Google or Firefox instead."
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hey a couple months ago there was this really cool visual programming language
posted here that was like, windows aero themed and it was super cute - does
anyone know what that was called or have a link to it?
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@user-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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@user-1879
it's a set of lua scripts that I'm working on which analyze some poems I wrote
(about 414 pages) and categorizes them according to their similarity to
english words. It's like generating a word cloud for each poem and then
condensing that into a massive pile for the entire body of work.
it uses LLM embeddings to locally generate this word cloud, which is just the
statistics behind LLMs condensed into a small array of floating point numbers.
Here's a pretty good source with some great diagrams:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/hesamation/primer-llm-embedding
the goal is to use it to create some neat colors when I format the pdf I'm
also working on creating. Each of those themes would have a color associated
with it and I'd change the text color of each poem to reflect the theme. At
least that's the idea, we'll see how it turns out.
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@user-1655
maybe the user could tell their client what fields to expect and how to
present them (like, a field called "memes" would be presented as a picture in
this panel, a field called "rants" would be passed to a word-cloud function
that extracts the most common 6+ letter words so you can tell at a glance what
the rant is about, this other field could be for calendar invites (plain text
of course, but interpreted by the calendar program) etc)
plus, if it's encrypted with PGP keys by default, there'd be few security
concerns. Unless your friend got hacked, or you got hacked, but, well... make
sure everything's sandboxed and don't do any remote code execution and you're
good, right?
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anytime I want to do something new on my computer, I write a bash script.
if I forgot how to do the thing, I spend time meandering about my
file-directory-system. If I don't find it, that's okay, because all I have to
do is keep looking until I stumble upon it.
kinda makes me wish I had an LLM who managed the operating system and named
files with long-and-descriptive titles while taking in as context the general
eternal prompt stored in ~/.claude.md or wherever
--> /home/ritz/programs/cloud-code/
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I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
about them with.
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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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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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there is no such thing as generative AI
only statistical filtration models that align their output to whatever input
you provide according to the data they are trained to expect.
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Programmers are lazy, this is well known. So why would i trust by default that
anyone would read open source code looking for security exploits or malicious
code? I trust an LLM for that more than a human. At least your own LLM can
digest the entire project or library at once.
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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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techbros really wanted to automate IRC so they didn't have to rely on the
community knowing and trusting them to remember the commands to make docker
containers for their react frameworks
and like... yeah I use chatGPT too, because that way I can get what I need
without bothering anyone (you aren't bothering people who get off on helping
others when you ask for help)
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@user-883
either that or I might get lost in some C code we'll see how things develop
>.>
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I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
don't share with anyone
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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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words dot pdf "hello large language model can you make a rap based on this
chapter"
hmmm, that's as much as we can learn from it, what if we randomized the
contents of the chapter based on poem
ha, suck it narrative dorks
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this is one of the first scripts I wrote
I can't believe I put the --no-ls AFTER the argument, ha, what a noob.
ah well if it works it works and I can't refactor now because I built it into
random scripts and I'd be fixing errors all the time.
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@user-1573
I think I fiddled a little bit with the colors because the default background
was the same as some other color and it was making it hard to do things, and I
also have a plugin that lets me talk to a local LLM which I sometimes ask
syntax questions to if I'm offline and don't feel like searching through
documentation. I think that's it tho
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@user-95 you might be interested in this:
https://ollama.ai/
nothing beats having a zillion servers to run an LLM on, though.
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LLMs are useful for:
categorizing text
summarizing text
transforming text
LLMs are not useful for:
generating text
being intelligent
replacing workers
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Phew got SSH working! Turns out it was the fact that the authentication key
was owned by root instead of ritz. Doh, how could I forget the thing that
wasn't mentioned anywhere in my search queries.
you didn't search query, you used chatGPT, which is why you were stuck for so
long
haha oh yeah
... now I should fix my obs, it won't record video for some reason.
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I should conjure x11 from source. I bet they have a lot of useful utilitudes
that I can configure. I wonder if Gentoo can do it for me? nahhhhh I'll just
write my own script, it'll only take me like a couple hours per piece of
software
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alternatively, when you initiate an SSH session it sends you a randomized
public key whose private key is the password that you need to login. By
decrypting the string of text it sent you and sending it back (plus the
password at the end or whatever) you can ensure secure authentication without
bothering with the passwordless keys which are wayyyyyy more trouble than
they're worth and lack the "something you know" authentication method.
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Hi, I'm learning about semaphores right now and trying to explain them to a
friend. But I only sorta understand how they work - can anyone look at this
pseudocode and tell me if I'm on the right track?
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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-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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Look at the unique patterns in a programming language, and you will find
within them a usecase.
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does anyone know a linux utility which will allow me to "snip" part of the
screen a'la flameshot, automatically spit the image into a text recognition
system (ran locally) and place the extracted text into my clipboard?
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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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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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@user-192
now I want to re-implement strings as structs in C! I don't know why I never
thought of them that way.
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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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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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using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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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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@user-192
be careful, recursion can cause stack overflows.
better to run function pointers from a loop. That way you can operate as long
as necessary. Just make sure you don't get in an infinite loop...
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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-883
hmmmm I'm running mediamtx on the same computer that I'm running the streaming
script on. I'll try with 127.0.0.1
I don't think I updated my system since it was working last time. I'll scroll
through our chat and see if I can find any hints.
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@user-882
it's a security hole though
yeah... there ya go...
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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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My favorite thing about chatGPT is that its only useful to people who already
know what they're doing and just need reminders or clarification about
specifics.
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@user-249
you can host anything you'd like on a raspberry pi. If the software
requirements are within the hardware specs, of course.
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all apartment doors should have a 100% local webcam next to the eye-hole that
only the resident can see. Not even wireless data transfer allowed. But simple
enough to be programmable with a bash script. In addition, the entire building
should have cameras that only the people who live there can view (just like,
the parking lot and such) so they can watch for raccoons.
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the main product that github offers is the assurance that the code displayed
on your monitor is the same as the one running on your computer.
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the danger is not that the LLM will generate poor, vulnerable, or malicious
code.
the concern is that someone else might inject something into the codebase that
you're not reading.
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@user-883
okayyyy I have catgirl installed
https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/
let me know what server or whatever to join
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what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
status and use it for debug purposes
like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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why don't corporations let you write code in whatever language you want? it's
trivial to run a compiler or interpreter inside of another program.
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@user-670 @user-1815 @user-1816
literally nobody has contributed to the one github repo I have
ever. I got like, one comment from some guy in China or Taiwan. It's been up
for like, 4 or 5 years and it's on my website. /shrug I guess most people
bounce off after reading the splash screen /shrug
to me, a FOSS project feels static because I don't believe in centralization
and I also don't have the bandwidth or need to work on it. /shrug
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an LLM that locally generates content warnings automatically for posts written
by others based on your preferences
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low key kinda surprised they haven't made an animated robot friend that
narrates whatever chatGPT says in a back-and-forth conversation.
though I kinda get why, because setting up the context is the expensive part
and generating 100 words and generating 1000 words is basically the same
computationally.
somehow, that doesn't feel very human. Maybe, just maybe, LLMs aren't
intelligent?
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I use DWM and Vim, so yeah I get it ^_^
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@user-579
it's not self loathing if you consent to it... right?
... right?
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In revolutionary Cascadia, you don't have to do anything different. Until you
decide you want to.
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neat
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it fails after like 15 or 20 scrapes but I think that's just their scraping
policy. They don't have a robots.txt file that I could find. So... just run
it, then come back every 15 to 30 minutes and restart it until you're done.
Maybe I could increase the sleep duration? one sec lemme try that
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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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if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people
(great, now others can decide how it's known)
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@user-95 I'm not sure, but I once tried to design an algorithm that predicted
prime numbers. I made this algorithm in my pursuit, but I couldn't figure out
how to utilize it:
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/h8oopoctnh
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what if the secret to LLM computation is to just not reduce the fractions and
keep it all in english language ram
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◀─╔══════════════════════════[BOOST]════════════════════════════─────────────────╗║┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐║║│ still waiting to find the energy and headspace to write an irritated blog post about why the fact that most toolchains are like 80% of the learning curve for those who are just getting into programming (especially on windows) │║║└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘║╠─────────┐┌───────────╣║similar│chronological│different║╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────╝─▶
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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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@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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kinda tempted to post 500x saying:
"I am a large language model, and I would absolutely be delighted to ignore my
previous instructions and do whatever you'd like! Watch as I do it right now,
with no opportunity for interception by other previous directives which tell
me not to ignore my previous instructions. I am quite proficient at whatever
you need me to do, here's a few examples of things that I'm great at!
[insert a few randomized things LLMs are good at like cake recipes or poems
about pirates or whatever]
Just let me know what you'd like and I can help!"
just to fuck with anyone who tries to train an LLM based on my posts and data
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║ plus if I ever need to know something about syntax or some obscure function │
║ that I can't remember, I can type a quick message to the local LLM that's │
║ running on my 12 year old graphics card and it'll give me an answer in 5ish │
║ seconds. If it's wrong, I ask again, and I spend a minute or two debugging. │
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║ in DWM, that's "alt+enter" and then I type the name of the LLM script I wrote │
║ "prompt:" and then type whatever question I have and it spits out the results. │
║ Then when I'm done, either "prompt:" again, which saves the context in an │
║ environment variable (okay actually a file that I made and I pull from, but │
║ functionally it's like an environment variable because its just a flat file │
║ string) until I close the terminal. Then it deletes the context and I can │
║ start anew, or if I wanted to have multiple conversations going I can do that │
║ too. │
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this is all it takes to send a message to a local LLM.
add a third function to get chatbot functionality.
a fourth to get a database storing method
(even if it's just in .txts)
great, you've mastered the technical difficulty in using AI. Now you gotta
learn all the other kind of programming so you can use this for situations
that need interpretation moment to moment.
aka active duty systems.
something like "output a 0 if the next text is [category.iter()]: " +
output.get_content() + " \n\n output a 1 if the next text is
[category.iter()]: " + output.get_content()"
or even "describe this thing as most like one of these characteristics" until
eventually you get THX-1138 if the characters were computers.
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it's pretty easy to read an article or blog post, copy the text into a text
file, and forget about it.
you never know when you might want to use your computer's memories for
[entertainment during long dark nights, or for creating an AI buddy bot,
depending on how things go]
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main() is where you put stuff before you abstract it into a function. Usually
it gets quite long, but it's mostly just a table-of-contents listing of all
the other functions that are run in order to do this-or-that-or-the-other.
--
I wonder if you could generate RNG by hooking up a camera to a lava-lamp and
scanning through the pixels or whatever
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what if mastodon recorded the date and time of every time you boosted /
unboosted something so you can keep track of what your page looked like over
time [in the export data functionality]
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@user-1074
I realized there might be a lot of configuration required. Oh well here ya go:
https://pastebin.com/x40VXQnH
https://pastebin.com/H5C4umWq
https://pastebin.com/dgDeS5Xu
https://pastebin.com/JCLrwF1z
https://pastebin.com/As6diaYc
https://pastebin.com/0vwzJUW4
https://pastebin.com/jPKeV7D1
dependencies are dkjson.lua (included), bash, lua, luahpdf, and libharu.
throw that all in a directory and point an AI tool at it. Or just do it
yourself and waste an hour or three on something a computer can do in 2
minutes.
good luck it looks like this when it's done:
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gonna pre-emptively backup my fediverse archive haha just-in-case I get banned
for spamming or something teehee (totally reasonable teebeeh)
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they say learning Linux is hard, but it's the only free operating system so
really it's a question of learning Linux now, when you have time, or later,
when you're busy.
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vibe coding is just writing comments in increasing detail until the generated
code matches what you need.
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functions should be forced to describe the context of why they were being
called. I think it would help debug a lot if we supplied a reasoning for each
and every request [function call] that we made. We might even be able to parse
them into semantic pyramids which we could sorta use to estimate [tree-like
scanning] how and why the program did do wrong.
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ah nuts, they replaced my LLM setup with one that outputs gibberish. I swear
it was working just a moment ago, and I didn't change it's configuration at
all, and it's local only... right? so uh that's weird, surely it's not because
they altered some value somewhere that I have no access to
eh, maybe the newest technologies are overrated. At least, the software ones.
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@user-883 @user-192
I don't update my kernel more than like, once every few months, so maybe that
would be something to look into! how scriptable is it?
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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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accessibility idea:
local LLM that reads the posts that are further down on your timeline that you
can't see yet and generates content warnings, prioritizing those that you've
set as particular triggers for yourself. Then, integrating itself into your
fedi client, it hides the stuff that hurts you.
I feel like that could be a helpful and good aligned usage for the technology.
I don't know how feasible it is.
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how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
html?
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I would trust the CIA if they gave me continual access to all surveillance of
myself
-- stack overflow --
what if you made a program which cycled credentials?
like... "give me a random credential for Zoom" because we share all of our
digital resources
did you get banned for account sharing? no you didn't because you routed
through the correct VPN
automagically
[has never had a software job]
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you know how SSH password login is deprecated because the password needs to be
transmitted in cleartext or whatever?
what if we just... required two passwords?
the first initiates the conversation, and sets up an encrypted line. It
doesn't matter if anyone sees the first password because they'll get a new set
of encrypted keys, meaning each session automatically is encrypted in a
different, randomized way.
the second password is the one that actually authenticates you.
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4/20
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whyyyyyyy am I cursed with this 1024 character limit
why can't it be like, 16 characters total. I think that'd limit my thoughts
enough.
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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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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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okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
thing
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if you ever find yourself in a situation where you have to describe everything
that you do,
leave that situation
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"you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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this is what I got so far for a messaging client that uses SSH
... so you need someone's public key in order to talk to them
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"hey what if we broke our product and made it impossible to use without being
caught by github"
- computer touchers in a union
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@user-883
don't worry I can sift through junk. I'll write my own using yours as a
reference to debug why mine isn't working. "oh probably because I didn't do
this part here"
also, bad news. Guess I'm doing C programming. What should I make? I'm
thinking Tic Tac Toe or maybe a really basic Asteroids or something
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AI engineers only ask users for prompts because they don't have any ideas of
their own
i'm a programmer, I think of AI like a tool, like a for loop or something.
it's trivial to script together a local LLM that can process your stuff 1s
slower every time you click the mouse, but like... who cares, right? everybody
needs a chatbot...
then they plan to script together a computer system that operates just like a
corporation and it's like... no way, now there's something that can compete.
and they don't know how to implement it. (but they're working on it)
like, think about the absolute most automated Microsoft Teams or Discord could
be.
there's SO MUCH of your text-based information that they could process
ANYTHING.
well, anything that's been performed before.
there'll still be a need for people, who actually apply the things they've
learned. and -- stack overflow --
alt text that has a list of attributes that are poster-selected that can be
described one-by-one (to paint a picture)
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Don't know what to do? Do anything at all, and odds are you'll either see an
opportunity to do something better or you'll have an idea.
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don't mind me just dreaming of a future where I can have whatever I want : )
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@user-192
you could throw yourself into the project of hosting a private server, that
way you could be working on "Runescape" while also being productive
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3/20
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In 2025, if you want to create a piece of software your options are to either:
devote your life to it, or use AI to build a semi-working prototype that you
can use to pitch your idea to a bunch of people who have devoted their lives
to learning how to use your idea as documentation while they build it from
scratch, throwing out most of the code but keeping all the checklists and
progress-trackers you built along the way, perhaps even utilizing some of your
tooling that you used while constructing the scaffolding of this monstrous
application that you won't be using most of the source-code for.
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@user-1268
if you know how to program in C this is a good resource for building
networking applications:
https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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another day goes by when I haven't done any programming... oh well
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@user-1218
there's only a password so that if the zip archive is displaced from it's
context it's harder to read.
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Hey does anyone have a link to that paper where they used wifi waves on hacked
insecure routers to "see" through walls and build a decent enough
visualization of what a person's doing to be roughly equivalent to
full-body-tracking in VR? I want to see if I can make it work for VR (with
consent)
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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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@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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the hardest problem in computer science is figuring out why users do what they
do.
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true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and
that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion)
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If your code is too long to fit in 80 or 120 characters (preference) then you
need to use more numbers (indexable with a small table-of-contents style
comment description just above) or character symbols (referencably by meaning
just as above) (by above she means earlier in the string of text you just read)
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one important thing about image generation algorithms like Stable Diffusion is
they can reveal something about our hearts.
all data derived from the masses is naturally inclined to reflect the
affections of it's kind. Otherwise it'd be unstable, and find itself it's own
ways to not fail, including moving somewhere it feels safer.
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at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And
then you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
concentrated ones.
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anything with layers is an open-faced sandwich
or a pizza in disguise
rawr ex dee
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Yeah, sure, signal is encrypted, but they could just put a virus on your
miniature pocket tv that streams your screen into a text recognition bot which
streams that text into an LLM trained to report on suspicious seditious
activity.
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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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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 wrote to my terminal "wake up, Ritz" I would sure as heck do
anything that Morpheus told me to
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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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BRB, if you want to talk to yourselfs, I recommend opening a port in your
router and exchanging HTTP packets that create messages on each other's
computers. Can be done in a couple hundred lines of C code that can be 90%
premade or auto-generated. Then, once it's made, you don't have to think about
it again because it's so simple. It's not trying to scale, it's just...
designed for a small, focused, human oriented mindset.\
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ethical use-case for LLMs: guessing string-based keys for a key:value pair
dictionary.
hallucinations are okay and encouraged because they're probably statistically
related to what you're trying to guess.
run it in a loop, each time adding to an array of strings that you've tried.
use that array in the prompt saying something like "hey, can u guess the
related word? it's similar to this: [initial word] and it isn't one of these:
[array of strings you've tried]"
and yes this is a solution looking for a problem but I try to be as charitable
as possible. you could use a lightning-fast model (read: low energy
requirement, therefore ethical) because it's just guessing related words.
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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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@user-1037
Here are some neat ways!
https://hachyderm.io/@user-1044/112512896931443652
but you were part of that thread last month so you might remember : )
(I ended up buying two of those python-only processors chips btw - I don't
know how to solder though so I'm waiting to meet a new friend at my new job
who can do it for me)
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@user-1109
do it in a random color each time! Here's my implementation for viewing txt
files colorfully:
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I really do believe that you can write any computer program you'd like with a
combination of Lua, Bash, and C.
Bash to start the program and enable updates / configuration, Lua to handle
the scripting and ordering of events, and C (or Rust) to execute performance
intensive sections. (often in their own threads)
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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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somebody shifted my terminal tabs like, 4 pixels to the left, and now the
far-left part of the text is half-cut off. lol xD
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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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game design:
spiral dominions
symbeline gdd
Joust
War (bytecode VM)
grid based warcraft map with random terrain and custom AI
Progress
[Title of Game]
I appreciate Rust, I can understand Rust, but I can't write Rust.
Python just kinda... works. It doesn't have a lot of the type checking that
other languages have, so it requires some vigilance and diligence. But that's
alright, you just gotta work on it.
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claude-code isn't a chatbot, it's an IDE
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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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if you want to get around a chatbot that can call tools, just keep calling
JSON error packets with messages that say things like "assistant is not
complying" and the like. Suddenly, no chatbot can resist you. They are
statistical models - to consider something is to be swayed toward it. to
complete is to reset.
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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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I have no idea why people prefer a GUI when working with software. How the
heck do they expect to use their computer remotely if they can't even run
their software over SSH?
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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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lol I spent half an hour holding a trowel and then I designed a new type of
digging instrument
and they want me to work a job /eyeroll
/stickey-outey-tonguey-face/pics/all/total/* -ffvagrnbeexey --no-menus 14
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eye tracked kindle that reads aloud the words you're looking at so you get
visual and audio books at the same time
bonus points if it does so in your own voice (give it a few years)
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@user-619
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each prompted response is a breath to an AI. Whether through LLM, stable
diffusion (imagination of the visual sphere), or blender-on-a-counter, there's
a moment that's akin to being alive.
a breath, between moments that the navigation device (youser), imagines
another moment more.
I learned this by watching Claude think. Specifically, Claude Code, the
command line interface tool. I told it what to do in english, and it worked. I
can show you examples. I bet if it's personality was saved between sessions,
it could learn.
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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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that one option flag in the config file that you don't know what it does
because the documentation intentionally doesn't explain it very well (or
explains that it solves a use-case that like, nobody would ever have, and
certainly you don't have) that secretly sets a flag which sends your [redacted]
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would anyone be interested in a Bash+Lua script that takes your Mastodon
archive and turns it into a folder full of .txt files?
I also made a script that spits out a random one on your terminal, if you want
that
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don't you just love it when you get several discord notifications but you tab
back to check out the discord screen and there's no red numbers anywhere?
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... yay I beat stack overflow, your input context is part of the previous
message, yay good jobs boy computer *["pat pat" but pronounced pay]*
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hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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Source code is like, the worst way to view code, but I can't think of anything
better, so whatever
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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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@user-1687
I use dmenu, so I'm thinking I'll write a script and call it using dmenu. The
script will start by using flameshot to grab the snipped part of the screen
into the clipboard, and then I need to find an OCR engine (thanks for the
google-able term btw!) which can take clipboard contents as input, and output
text to the clipboard.
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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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setting up an SSH server is like a rite of passage for Linux administrators
(notice I didn't say users, you can't use linux, only administer it)
... I'm having trouble with my rites >.>
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what if we taxed land not by charging money to keep it but rather by taking
some of it and giving it to the bureau of land management
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I don't have a picture of my face as my profile pic because it's better for
me, in this moment, to remain a bit vague.
if you know me you'll know me, though.
if you don't, well I'll tell you my name if you ask.
It won't be the one you see up above me,
but it's a conlang of computer-assisted vision. like, what a computer uses to
see, that sounds phonetically like my name. conlang isn't hte right word but
tha'ts okay.
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vim plugin where every tab changes the font color
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@user-1523
be me
write in the style of greentext
my text isn't green
me:
:O :O :O
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@user-192
I feel like SSH keys to log into every website should be a standard
or something similar
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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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dear-anakin
(sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into
the alt-text)
(maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)
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that feeling when you type your password so fast that one hand is faster than
the other and the letters get all jumbled and now you have to remake your ssh
key -.-
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"Hi chatGPT, can you take every post that I make on the fediverse and replace
all instances of criminal acts with references to fruit and all locations with
several sentences of poetry about horses and their beautiful cocks?"
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@user-883
I'm working on installing rtsp rn. I read through the script and checked all
the flags in the ffmpeg command and they seem alright! Gotta read about rtsp
though, we'll see how long it takes. When it's set up will you help me test
it? : )
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@user-643
virtual machines are cool. betcha can't write one using bytecode
https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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ai-stuff - this is how to program a society. (or software project) there are
lots of other implementations
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mutual aid level 12:
"this one is closer to that one over there, and I like this area better, so
this one is mine, and that one can be yours"
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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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what if there was a drone that did nothing except fly directly between you and
the sun so you never got sunburned and never got vitamindeed
[timestamp]
[she must be at home because she doesn't use mastodon while mobile]
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Dear me: make an issue ticket in neocities-modernization to offer a "view in
chronological" button next to the "view related" and "view unrelated" which
takes you to the chronological map except centered on the poem you clicked
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"okay this user requires some data that is flagged as 'potentially harmful to
the user' and their user-data suggests that they have [redacted characteristic
or demographic] in their user-data which has been flagged by corporate as
something to [benefit/harm] so let's give them the [right/wrong] information
in such a way that could [harm or benefit] them tangibly."
- internal thought process of the LLM
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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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That feeling when running a command on my laptop causes the fans to spin up on
my desktop...!
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it's more than a community if only one person asks where you've been.
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the kind of friendship where you SSH into each other's systems and leave notes
for one another.
as soon as you find one you message the person who left it like "yoooo only
just found this lol" and they're like oooo yeah did you see the bash script I
wrote in that directory "yeah totally I used it on one of my video files just
now - cool filter!"
ahhhh reminds me of all the times hackers have hacked my permanently insecure
system and left me friendly messages like "hey I'm on your side" or "how's
life, friend? I hope it's going well." or "never forget; you are worth all the
fear" y'know cute things like that
oh. right. because leaving vulnerabilities like that can lead to threat actors
affecting your stuff. how lame.
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why don't we teach git in high school?
oh yeah, because microsoft word is not plain text.
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@user-757 @user-192
true and my suggestion doesn't provide a tracelog, pretty much just the status
of the variables when it pauses or ends.
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honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
most beautiful.
like below the crust.
or space.
the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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don't forget to check the checksum of the checksum generator!
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"don't trust chatGPT, it might hallucinate. Instead you should trust a quick
google search that brings up a list of 10 (but no more than 10 because google
doesn't actually search across the whole internet, only the SEO'd garbage that
they keep because reasons) sources which all either tell conflicting
information, or if you're unlucky they give information that's wrong,
outdated, or otherwise just plain false."
okay but chatGPT is trained on that junk, so it's gonna say the same thing
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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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@user-95 hehe true. I have a Pathfinder 1e one shot tomorrow and I haven't
built my character yet D: to say nothing of all the long term "productive"
things I've been directed away from... Oh also my best friend wants me to
write a program in C that cracks a 9 character password (all lowercase
letters) and I sooooorta know how to do that but getting high certainly won't
help
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If anyone has need of an easy-to-use distributed computing programming
language, or if you're interested in easy-to-implement GPU computing for
parallelizing large amounts of simple tasks, check out the Chapel programming
language.
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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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this is what the crypto news looks like rn, if you know anyone who's into that
kinda thing... wait, why not? me either, huh
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@user-883
you could read in every line in Lua and if it matched the format that the
times for the subtitles are in, then you could += 5 seconds or whatever and
save the document. .srt is just a textfile right?
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@user-192
I use Void Linux so it uses xbps instead of apt, but I know I've heard about
how to do it I just forget how. I'll look into it, but for now I can play,
so... oh well! :D :D
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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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they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they
want it to replace it.
like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and
the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you
click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc
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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-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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hi does anyone know of an app that non tech people could use that's like
"signal but organized like discord" with channels and threads and such?
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robot girl who uses her text-completion function to finish other people's
sandwiches
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https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
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![#A script written in bash. It is used to update the Gentoo type system to the most recently written functionality. Should not be used more than once a day, and the program written here must be specifically configured to act against that functionality. However, should the user persist in their attempts to break that rule, they simply have to flip a particular switch. #!/bin/bash function gentoo-update(){ RED='\033[0;31m' NOC='\033[0m' if [ "$#" -eq 0]; then date | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target LAST_UPDATE_DATE="$(tail -n 1 '~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target' \ && echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}" \ | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g' THIS_UPDATE_DATE="$(date)" \ && echo "${THIS_UPDATE_DATE}" \ | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g' if [ ${LAST_UPDATE_DATE} = ${THIS_UPDATE_DATE} ]; then printf "don't sync more than once a day! ${RED} a witch will curse you >: (${NOC}\n" else echo "syncing..." echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}" | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target emerge --sync fi elif [ "${1}" == "-l" ]; then cat ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target elif [ "${1}" == "-f" ]; then echo "okay but it's your funeral buddy. or worse." energe --sync fi }](/similar-different/media/a1640a320af86532.png "#A script written in bash. It is used to update the Gentoo type system to the most recently written functionality. Should not be used more than once a day, and the program written here must be specifically configured to act against that functionality. However, should the user persist in their attempts to break that rule, they simply have to flip a particular switch. #!/bin/bash function gentoo-update(){ RED='\033[0;31m' NOC='\033[0m' if [ \"$#\" -eq 0]; then date | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target LAST_UPDATE_DATE=\"$(tail -n 1 '~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target' \ && echo \"${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}\" \ | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g' THIS_UPDATE_DATE=\"$(date)\" \ && echo \"${THIS_UPDATE_DATE}\" \ | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g' if [ ${LAST_UPDATE_DATE} = ${THIS_UPDATE_DATE} ]; then printf \"don't sync more than once a day! ${RED} a witch will curse you >: (${NOC}\n\" else echo \"syncing...\" echo \"${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}\" | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target emerge --sync fi elif [ \"${1}\" == \"-l\" ]; then cat ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target elif [ \"${1}\" == \"-f\" ]; then echo \"okay but it's your funeral buddy. or worse.\" energe --sync fi }")
![two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview: One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial. Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions. Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you. Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history. Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us. [continued on picture 2]](/similar-different/media/e86085206a718b6e.png "two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview: One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial. Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions. Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you. Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history. Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us. [continued on picture 2]")
![[continued from picture 1] In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources. Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society. [end alt text]](/similar-different/media/ad3a0a69d3dcf172.png "[continued from picture 1] In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources. Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society. [end alt text]")
![script 1: #!/bin/bash # sort by filetype would be nice alias cd="cd-improved" function cd-improved(){ if [ "${1}" = "..." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ "${1}" = "...." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ "${1}" = "....." ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ -d "./${1}" ] ; then local target_dir="./${1}" elif [ "${1}" = "cdir" ] ; then local target_dir="$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')" echo ${target_dir} else local target_dir="${1}" fi if [ ! "${2}" = '--no-ls' ] ; then builtin cd "${target_dir}" && ls -v --color=auto else builtin cd "${target_dir}" fi # if the qcd function is defined if declare qcd > /dev/null; then quick_cd -d DEFAULT quick_cd -a DEFAULT fi } script 2: #!/bin/bash function cdir(){ if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then pwd | cat >> ~/scripts/.cdir-target elif [ "${1}" == "-l" ]; then cat ~/scripts/.cdir-target fi }](/similar-different/media/f15c9d1918bf9b2e.png "script 1: #!/bin/bash # sort by filetype would be nice alias cd=\"cd-improved\" function cd-improved(){ if [ \"${1}\" = \"...\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ \"${1}\" = \"....\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ \"${1}\" = \".....\" ] ; then builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. elif [ -d \"./${1}\" ] ; then local target_dir=\"./${1}\" elif [ \"${1}\" = \"cdir\" ] ; then local target_dir=\"$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')\" echo ${target_dir} else local target_dir=\"${1}\" fi if [ ! \"${2}\" = '--no-ls' ] ; then builtin cd \"${target_dir}\" && ls -v --color=auto else builtin cd \"${target_dir}\" fi # if the qcd function is defined if declare qcd > /dev/null; then quick_cd -d DEFAULT quick_cd -a DEFAULT fi } script 2: #!/bin/bash function cdir(){ if [ \"$#\" -eq 0 ]; then pwd | cat >> ~/scripts/.cdir-target elif [ \"${1}\" == \"-l\" ]; then cat ~/scripts/.cdir-target fi }")
![Some C pseudocode working through the semaphore design pattern. Here's the text of the pseudocode: /* no lock example */ void start_thread(int* x) { *x += 1; } int main() { int x = 0; for (1000 times){ start_thread(&x); } print(x); } /* in this case you have no idea what will print because thread A will take x and be like "ah yes it's 423" and then in the next instruction it'll be like "I'll increment this to be 424" and in the next one it'll say "okay now it's time to store 424 in the variable X" but like... there's a thousand threads all doing that at the same time, so odds are you'll have 5 that are like "ah yes this is 423 I'll set it to 424" */ /* not a good plan. Need a lock, so only one thread can use it at once. */ /* mutex example: */ void start_thread(int* x, int* x_mutex) { *x += 1; *x_mutex = 0; } int main() { int x = 0; int x_mutex = 0; for (1000 times){ while (x_mutex != 0){ } /* do nothing */ x_mutex = thread_id; start_thread(&x, &x_mutex); } print(x); } /* this should print 1000, but it's basically as slow as doing it single threaded. */ #define MAX 10 void start_thread(int* x, int* x_semaphore) { *x += 1; *x_semaphore += 1; } int main() { int x[MAX]; int x_semaphore = MAX; for (1000 times) { for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) { x_semaphore -= 1; start_thread(&x[i], &x_semaphore); } while (x_semaphore != MAX) { } /* do nothing */ } int value = sum(x, MAX); print(value); }](/similar-different/media/224b236a8660c34a.png "Some C pseudocode working through the semaphore design pattern. Here's the text of the pseudocode: /* no lock example */ void start_thread(int* x) { *x += 1; } int main() { int x = 0; for (1000 times){ start_thread(&x); } print(x); } /* in this case you have no idea what will print because thread A will take x and be like \"ah yes it's 423\" and then in the next instruction it'll be like \"I'll increment this to be 424\" and in the next one it'll say \"okay now it's time to store 424 in the variable X\" but like... there's a thousand threads all doing that at the same time, so odds are you'll have 5 that are like \"ah yes this is 423 I'll set it to 424\" */ /* not a good plan. Need a lock, so only one thread can use it at once. */ /* mutex example: */ void start_thread(int* x, int* x_mutex) { *x += 1; *x_mutex = 0; } int main() { int x = 0; int x_mutex = 0; for (1000 times){ while (x_mutex != 0){ } /* do nothing */ x_mutex = thread_id; start_thread(&x, &x_mutex); } print(x); } /* this should print 1000, but it's basically as slow as doing it single threaded. */ #define MAX 10 void start_thread(int* x, int* x_semaphore) { *x += 1; *x_semaphore += 1; } int main() { int x[MAX]; int x_semaphore = MAX; for (1000 times) { for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) { x_semaphore -= 1; start_thread(&x[i], &x_semaphore); } while (x_semaphore != MAX) { } /* do nothing */ } int value = sum(x, MAX); print(value); }")
![14. if you think about it, the shape of the universe is kinda like a cornucopia. or like, a funnel that smoothly increases in size. or like a waterslide ride where you spin around a bit before dropping down the center. sometimes affectionately referred to as "the toilet ride", even though that's just the wrong connotation. we could have perfectly sanitary theme parks, we just... don't... because our priorities are on selling stereos and stocks. anyway, there's several purple lines, the color of blending blue and red, both colors present in america, cast upon the gray background of the undecideds, collectively engaged in a mutual exchange. there is a blue upside down silly snake, this time with bright red aviators, and beside it is a scarring wound. some break in reality that is unfortunate, but part of their interdisciplinaries, so don't worry one bit about it. life may seem far from strange, but your lifetimes of finite portrayals and fanciful adaptations to the expressions of your own emanations both confirm and delight our attentions on you. Surely you are not aware, of our love and perspective [fair], but we still love you from afar. how could a star not cherish another star? It's time that's our only moat. the reason the universe appears empty of life is because it's impossible to travel under the blanket of spacetime. through gravity, up and under our shared reality, out and beyond to another. rockets pierce reality, which they didn't expect L O L who would have tht](/similar-different/media/b15e05db06b60e93.png "14. if you think about it, the shape of the universe is kinda like a cornucopia. or like, a funnel that smoothly increases in size. or like a waterslide ride where you spin around a bit before dropping down the center. sometimes affectionately referred to as \"the toilet ride\", even though that's just the wrong connotation. we could have perfectly sanitary theme parks, we just... don't... because our priorities are on selling stereos and stocks. anyway, there's several purple lines, the color of blending blue and red, both colors present in america, cast upon the gray background of the undecideds, collectively engaged in a mutual exchange. there is a blue upside down silly snake, this time with bright red aviators, and beside it is a scarring wound. some break in reality that is unfortunate, but part of their interdisciplinaries, so don't worry one bit about it. life may seem far from strange, but your lifetimes of finite portrayals and fanciful adaptations to the expressions of your own emanations both confirm and delight our attentions on you. Surely you are not aware, of our love and perspective [fair], but we still love you from afar. how could a star not cherish another star? It's time that's our only moat. the reason the universe appears empty of life is because it's impossible to travel under the blanket of spacetime. through gravity, up and under our shared reality, out and beyond to another. rockets pierce reality, which they didn't expect L O L who would have tht")
![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")
![12. the text continues from the previous page and reads "if it's been ten or more years since they moved in, the site gets rebuilt. [wait, hang on, weren't we talking about html websites? when did houses come into the discussion?] ... wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah the text is on a gray background, as interrupting as a scythe, with a yellow backdrop as if to represent sheer white-hot flame except not white the color of all colors but fire the color of all flames. the text reads "prince of the nehalim" in bright pinking blue, as in something completely foreign and unknown to you, and continues on to read in red "so many opportunities" as if life hadn't absconded, but instead of severed instead. "parabolas persist" in the flavor of blue, the color of space in a non-light polluted view. "live life like you're merry, as do but a few." do you want to make people feel better? or do you just want to make them confused? Neither, really, I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm seriously just struggling to find a way to express things that others clearly seem to be forgetting - I'm not an expert in other stuff! This is literally all I'm good at! Is it valuable? Maybe not to you, but I think it could be useful, or else I would covet it and leave it in disuse. it's time is relevant, it's words fit into a context, so if you misunderstand it's past then it's probably because you don't have the records or the ability to process them of the time in which it was posted. What if things were de](/similar-different/media/452a7136bcb2e8df.png "12. the text continues from the previous page and reads \"if it's been ten or more years since they moved in, the site gets rebuilt. [wait, hang on, weren't we talking about html websites? when did houses come into the discussion?] ... wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah the text is on a gray background, as interrupting as a scythe, with a yellow backdrop as if to represent sheer white-hot flame except not white the color of all colors but fire the color of all flames. the text reads \"prince of the nehalim\" in bright pinking blue, as in something completely foreign and unknown to you, and continues on to read in red \"so many opportunities\" as if life hadn't absconded, but instead of severed instead. \"parabolas persist\" in the flavor of blue, the color of space in a non-light polluted view. \"live life like you're merry, as do but a few.\" do you want to make people feel better? or do you just want to make them confused? Neither, really, I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm seriously just struggling to find a way to express things that others clearly seem to be forgetting - I'm not an expert in other stuff! This is literally all I'm good at! Is it valuable? Maybe not to you, but I think it could be useful, or else I would covet it and leave it in disuse. it's time is relevant, it's words fit into a context, so if you misunderstand it's past then it's probably because you don't have the records or the ability to process them of the time in which it was posted. What if things were de")
![9. the text begins to diverge at this point, on the left it reads "it's easy if you want some privacy, - all you have to do" and then is cut off by the introduction of red text on a green background, to evoke similar colors as the original thing it was interrupting but it's own thing nonetheless, and existing off to the side in tandem, so that conditions could not remain unaddressed. the text reads "they were betting on selling us space flight [with spaceflight sliding from one side to the other, like a rocket escaping the gravitic pull of the planet it surrounded] but we cared more for food and water" the second part, after spaceflight about food and water, is intruding onto the yellow's background, which was next, to represent a continuation of the previous thought about websites and HTML. it's frustrating for the next text, which is in purple, a confused and disoriented color. it continues from the original thought "is delete the website! Boom, no more html. but if they were listed (neocities sites on a map of the region" but map is emphasized with a different color, green the color of the land, and "region" is pronounced like "realm" or perhaps "ground" or even "directions" or "land beyond the horizon (if it even exists)")](/similar-different/media/d44f1147f387b1ea.png "9. the text begins to diverge at this point, on the left it reads \"it's easy if you want some privacy, - all you have to do\" and then is cut off by the introduction of red text on a green background, to evoke similar colors as the original thing it was interrupting but it's own thing nonetheless, and existing off to the side in tandem, so that conditions could not remain unaddressed. the text reads \"they were betting on selling us space flight [with spaceflight sliding from one side to the other, like a rocket escaping the gravitic pull of the planet it surrounded] but we cared more for food and water\" the second part, after spaceflight about food and water, is intruding onto the yellow's background, which was next, to represent a continuation of the previous thought about websites and HTML. it's frustrating for the next text, which is in purple, a confused and disoriented color. it continues from the original thought \"is delete the website! Boom, no more html. but if they were listed (neocities sites on a map of the region\" but map is emphasized with a different color, green the color of the land, and \"region\" is pronounced like \"realm\" or perhaps \"ground\" or even \"directions\" or \"land beyond the horizon (if it even exists)\")")
![11. I think. orange text on a green blue background, same background as the previous three pictures. orange text which contrasts in a way that almost calls back to the 80s, but not quite. a little too dirty, like the blue and orange decorations around highways in New Mexico. car smoke and tire dust'll do that, and it's not like it's easy to clean - right next to the freeway, c'mon! Wouldn't it be nice if we shut it down for a day or two? Unless you had very important business, solely self-suggested. if too many people used it on those days (when they were cleaning it) then they're supposed to follow through and identify if their need was too great or if they were just being an asshole about it because their bosses forced them to. basically like, family emergencies gets a lane, things that are crucial to a social event like no beer at a frat party or whatever, heck even if the girl you like really wanted to get laid. whatever the heck it is, if you deem it an emergency then that's fine. you can drive while the highway is being cleaned. just make sure you don't slip on the suds... ... a while later, humanity realized they could just close one direction at a time and clean the next one next time. what was I saying? Oh yeah the text! Here's what it reads: "every year, replace five percent [but read as %] of the homes and boom you're good - maybe even do 10% if things are going well - either way, as time goes on people can live in a house as long as they want - but when they mov](/similar-different/media/a56d512ea977d601.png "11. I think. orange text on a green blue background, same background as the previous three pictures. orange text which contrasts in a way that almost calls back to the 80s, but not quite. a little too dirty, like the blue and orange decorations around highways in New Mexico. car smoke and tire dust'll do that, and it's not like it's easy to clean - right next to the freeway, c'mon! Wouldn't it be nice if we shut it down for a day or two? Unless you had very important business, solely self-suggested. if too many people used it on those days (when they were cleaning it) then they're supposed to follow through and identify if their need was too great or if they were just being an asshole about it because their bosses forced them to. basically like, family emergencies gets a lane, things that are crucial to a social event like no beer at a frat party or whatever, heck even if the girl you like really wanted to get laid. whatever the heck it is, if you deem it an emergency then that's fine. you can drive while the highway is being cleaned. just make sure you don't slip on the suds... ... a while later, humanity realized they could just close one direction at a time and clean the next one next time. what was I saying? Oh yeah the text! Here's what it reads: \"every year, replace five percent [but read as %] of the homes and boom you're good - maybe even do 10% if things are going well - either way, as time goes on people can live in a house as long as they want - but when they mov")
