=== ANCHOR POEM === ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: tech-social-media-idea │ └────────────────────────────┘ social media network that's just a private git repo that downloads all the posts / comments / pictures / whatever from your friends and can be viewed in a web-browser by navigating the filesystem? people "get" firefox ideally where everyone mirrors the repo on their own systems, and each person gets like 10gb or whatever of space. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/6141 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┘ --- #2 fediverse/2423 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/2252 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: tech-encryption │ └──────────────────────┘ users don't want to have to think about encryption keys. they should be available for them if they need them, in like... a folder or something somewhere, but they don't need to really know that they exist. more friction like that keeps people away from being secure. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #4 messages/753 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/5386 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┘ --- #6 messages/1247 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── you can even design it as you go, making it do slightly adjacent uses in addition to what it currently does. for example: https://github.com/gabrilend/r-mail is a reference implementation with some ideas for how to design some specific parts. make sure you go through it yourself though, so you understand how it works. don't worry, the source-code files are numbered like the table of contents [chamber of commerce] in a story or book. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #7 fediverse/4892 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── 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/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/4801 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── if you're got a large directory full of text files that you want to combine into one single .txt or .pdf, let me know, I can hook you up with a mega file so it's easier to search through or manage when archiving data or whatever the heck else you wanna do with it ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/4056 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/2015 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── 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) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/2202 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: Reply │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1206 Right. How can you trust that any drive produced in the last 10 years (aka any drive with a reasonable amount of storage space for sharing things like LaserDisk rips of Bubblegum Crisis or detailed instructions on how to build a nuclear power generator)how can you trust that any drive with that kind of capacity wasn't built with the goals of it's manufacturers included into it's design requirements? Goals that typically include invading your privacy and removing your opsec capabilities. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/4906 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── @user-763 use the gameboy as a database there's a 0 percent chance that any network spy guys would be able to see what's stored on a gameboy cartridge. truly the most remote of classes of places. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/5234 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── "don't tell a local cached offline LLM what you're looking into, instead tell it to Google or Firefox instead." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/1503 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: vague-gesturing-at-paranoia-I-think │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 messages/233 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── With this capability we could organize based on common interests. A person might see a link on a mastodon server and comment on it there, in a public forum with their comments limited to people within 50km or 25 miles of where they currently were. No other clients would receive a downloaded version of their comment, meaning the data simply wouldn't flow to others beyond that region. Every time they logged in the syncing software would attempt to share their words with whoever would listen. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 messages/526 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/5873 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── "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 --) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/3407 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── @user-1218 there's only a password so that if the zip archive is displaced from it's context it's harder to read. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/1247 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── 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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/4819 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: scary-cursed │ └──────────────────────┘ thanks to the internet, people in suburbs are no less radical than people in the cities. often, just less experienced. less connected. greater distance between ties... which means that if one of them is found, it'll take a while before their relations can be dispatched. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ |