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 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.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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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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--- #2 fediverse/2423 ---
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 does anyone know of any fedi software that lets you link to a particular post
 and read forward on a person's timeline from there? Or back I guess, but
 chronological viewing specifically.
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 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.
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 trusting the "open source community" to properly vett software is absurd
 because 90% of them just... install whatever and throw libraries and
 frameworks at problems until they can script their way out of whatever problem
 they face.
 
 the other 10% are focused on very specific tools that are so niche that other
 people can't even understand when to *use* them much less how they work.
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 @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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 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.
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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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 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
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 teachers didn't want you not using Wikipedia as a source because it might be
 unreliable
 
 The knowledge they might have is good, but that's not the point
 
 they didn't want you to use Wikipedia because they didn't want there to be one
 single repository of information.
 
 If everyone's working with the same kind of training data, nothing new ever
 really gets done
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 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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 @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.
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 @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.
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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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 part of me kinda wants to be the kind of nerd that writes down the names of
 every file that's permanently stored on my computer so that I can verify in my
 own handwriting or perhaps using a type of code that the files on my computer
 were placed there intentionally and not used to discredit or implicate me in
 something I had no intentions of being associated with
 
 phew idk what that means but surely it's important
 
 something something "file creation dates are just bits to be flipped"
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 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.
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 what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
 just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
 important problems facing it
 
 or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
 would allow the developers to work on something better
 
 call it the wandering parade of development
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 "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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--- #18 fediverse/3407 ---
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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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--- #19 fediverse/1247 ---
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 so wait is there any guarantee that the "releases" on github actually have the
 same code as that which is in the repository? Or could they just... put their
 own binary, with it's own strange rules and vulnerabilities, or am I just
 fearmongering?
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 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.
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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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 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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--- #23 fediverse/60 ---
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 Can someone explain to me why we need instances on the fediverse? Why don't we
 just keep all our personal files local on our computer and communicate over
 the federated protocol? What's the point of having all these mini-servers that
 are controlled by the community? I mean, torrenting has been around forever,
 why don't we just use that to communicate?
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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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--- #25 fediverse/1246 ---
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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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 they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
 weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
 
 then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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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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 So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
 it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
 the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical
 nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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 cloud-code should automatically use git and record everything. If the user
 wants to assign a different git, then it does that too.
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 I used to think programs could only affect files in their directory. Then I
 learned about Window's "My Games" directory, and then somewhere down the line
 I'm thinking about how programs on Linux can just use absolute paths to random
 places on your hard drive and it's like... wow, if only someone built basic
 sandboxing into this /etc/ style environment
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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 what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
 
 why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
 feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
 fediverse house.
 
 maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
 link or text post" button
 
 study encryption kids
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 oh btw to the people trying to doxx me there's a picture of me in this
 profile, but you'll have to read a LOT to find it. On the way, see if you pick
 up anything interesting that you agree with. maybe you'll realize that we're
 on the same team, and should be working together.
 
 that's the dream, at least.
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--- #34 fediverse/1810 ---
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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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 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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 @user-192 @user-570 
 
 clearly the positive addresses point toward a location in "memory", while the
 negative values point toward "forgotten" which is a secret second place that
 they don't want you to know about.
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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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 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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 "if I work on the TTY then they can't forward my X session without my consent"
 
 - ramblings of the utterly deranged
 
 as if they couldn't just look at your unencrypted source-code as you save it
 to your hard drive smh
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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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 @user-1584 
 
 I see. That's unfortunate. Here's a backup for you:
 
 https://r-roms.github.io/
 
 and here's a gitlab backup of the backup:
 
 https://r-roms.gitlab.io/megathread/
 
 RIP VIMM you were the best. Alas.
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 if I click a .exe link on a website, it should just...
 
 automatically download the file and open it up in wine or the
 whatever-windows-uses.
 
 why is it cumbersome literally just, let me download the source-code
 repository to someone's computer and let them compile it themselves without
 even thinking about it
 
 "you mean like, package manager hooks into a website?"
 
 yes, but, instead of implemented one-by-one, it should use a protocol so each
 package manager only has to implement the downloading scheme once and it'd be
 able to read from any locations that output the correct API calls or whatever.
 
 the developer could even do it themselves. such is the joy of open-source
 computing - if you like a service or product, you can make it work with your
 own. What else is there to work on but the ultimate computing product?
 
 aka... everything that anyone's ever been known?
 
 "girl you are loco what's your plan for the fight you continue to demand"
 
 oh idk um probably just wait until someone asks me to speak
 
 "do that~"
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 commanding a coding agent to write bash is a lot different than telling it to
 write a systems analysize.
 
 one is "hey can you examine this repository and make a note somewhere on a
 todo-list or whatever that there needs to be a bugfix in relation to the
 options setting input translation recommendation algorithm matchbox field
 because when I click on it the program crashes"
 
 and the other is like "okay now put the box over there. great now drag it a
 little bit closer. okay now take the refluxinator and adjust the bamboozlewhap
 to account of brass-terminatrix-incorporated and strip out the
 question-mark-eyes"
 
 wait actually neither of them is like that okay the bash one is like: "okay
 yeah do it. sure. yeah okay. yes, but we should put them at this location:
 [loc]. ummm it still has this error message. it still says the same error.
 okay now it says this, I don't think it's gonna work so let's try this other
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 what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
 just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
 important problems facing it
 
 or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
 would allow the developers to work on something better
 
 call it the wandering parade of development 
 
 could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
 accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
 procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
 looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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 if they can't get into your phone, they can at least record all of the
 received notifications.
 
 meaning they already know who it is that you know...
 
 without having to find people that are distant or unrelated
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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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 @user-246 
 
 You're absolutely right. It's easy to think of the internet as this
 encapsulated entity "the world", but really it's "the people whose computers
 are physically connected to your computer using a limited and tangible piece
 of infrastructure comprised of copper wires that are laid between the
 router/switch that connects to your computer... and the internet service
 provider which directs your traffic. Then it probably goes through some cables
 under the ocean or whatever, and eventually after traversing many
 indeterminate passthrough locations eventually arrives at the computing
 infrastructure that comprises the access point that another person (presumably
 in another country) uses to express their thoughts toward you (the person who
 sent the original message) in the hopes that you might one day correspond.
 
 I mean... That's a lot of points of failure. I sure hope that we can sustain
 such connection, in the face of [redacted, whichever circumstances may come in
 the near future]
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 @user-192 
 
 is okay, girl
 
 time will be richer sooner
 
 don't poop your pants just yet
 
 remember, good is just a shade of gray away from silver which you can use to
 line your pockets with tinfoil hats
 
 beep boop computer touchers anonymous called they said they want their secret
 handshake back
 
 if you wanna diss your associates go ahead but I sure as heck love my rad-ical
 com-patriots just as much as I love my ice-cream salad friend witches
 
 ... whoops there I go being insane again, hope you feel better friend 
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 all apartment doors should have a 100% local webcam next to the eye-hole that
 only the resident can see. Not even wireless data transfer allowed. But simple
 enough to be programmable with a bash script. In addition, the entire building
 should have cameras that only the people who live there can view (just like,
 the parking lot and such) so they can watch for raccoons.
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 I 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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 neat
the website Ephemeren has 100,008 followers as of 5 days ago. There are 0 people who follow the website on Neocities, it's all external traffic.
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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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--- #53 fediverse/261 ---
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 does anyone know of a Firefox addon that will automagically zoom any document
 on the web such that there are approximately 80 characters per line?
 
 #firefox
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--- #54 messages/910 ---
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 all you need is to be steam friends with one person and then your whole
 organization knows what you're trying to say with game titles
 
 (I just like games)
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 encrypted files that asked their owner over the internet before unencrypting
 themselves
 
 (without going through any intermediaries)
 
 ... you mean like an ISP?
 
 yeah I know but it doesn't have to be through an ISP, if you found some kind
 of mesh network. I'm sure someone's set up a 100 second tutorial.
 
 true, I guess, so what you're asking for is an alternative to... btrfs? I only
 sorta know what that means
 
 no its like, ntfs, or is it ipfs? I forget, the acronyms swirl into one, and
 suddenly you forget someone's email signature.
 
 how are you gonna get ahold of them ? all your friends from the 90s? c'mon
 dummies you gotta keep in touch with one another.
 
 what the heck is everyone's deal, if you can't easily get in contact with
 anyone you've ever known, how the heck are you going to neatly integrate your
 stories together? it's mutually cooperative for people to learn from one
 another, and people who are exposed to another's life in different stages of
 their life (child, adult) are the people who learn thmost.
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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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 @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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 Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
 disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
 the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
 
 However, the people who need to read you won't. They have their own social
 media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
 Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also
 the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.  However, the people who *need* to read you won't. They have their own social media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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 example of statistics related to revolution that I care about: number of
 children who go hungry
 
 example of statistics related to revolution that my girlfriend cares about:
 number of girls who want to be snuggled and are snuggled
 
 both are important, just like it's important to know both geometry and anatomy.
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 To edit environment variables:
 
 ~/.bashrc is for variables only accessible by the user.
 
 /etc/profile is for variables accessible by all users.
 
 /etc/environment is for variables accessible by anyone.
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 screen record should just... copy from the associated music file instead of
 like... imperfectly storing the visual contents??
 
 better compression... 'sall I'm sayin'
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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-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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 @user-192 
 
 right but it throws into question the idea that what I say is the same as what
 they hear.
 
 Especially if they know our IP addresses are coming from different sides of
 the country.
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 What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual
 aid so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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 kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
 and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
 manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.
 
 they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
 /usr/bin or whatever directory
 
 seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just
 write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for
 the first time, anyway, so...
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 "but... why?"
 
 portable linux with buttons, great for pick-up-games or communication, can
 throw several in them in a backpack if you want clustered cooperation, they
 work as radios (if the signal reaches) and can transmit text (if you use a
 radial-style keyboard)
 
 [this is all just a pitch for... something, what, you want something? ha
 you'll find no things with me, I know nothing of antifa or whatever]
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 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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--- #69 messages/752 ---
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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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 so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
 capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
 they like their life.
 
 their ONLY life.
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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
a picture of a notebook page that shows an initial design for a SSH based messaging client
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 why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance
 it wants?
 
 ... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a
 "fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have
 it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that
 you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message.
 Then it would just... do it
 
 l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better
 
 but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a
 solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet.
 
 ... yet...
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 I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
 have any bugs in this day and age.
 
 For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
 to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
 and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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 @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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 @user-246 
 
 That's ridiculous! They wouldn't even let you hand deliver them? Why wouldn't
 copies suffice! They should have all that information on file already! I'm
 fuming >: (
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 One of the neat things about the fediverse is that all the accounts posting
 things like train schedules or sports scores gently encourage users to learn
 how to curate their feeds by blocking people who are irrelevant, not just
 those who hurt you
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 source code should be like a story
 
 "here's why we did what we did with our architecture"
 
 and as it's being written, it may be altered in many different places at once
 - git style.
 
 parts of it could rhyme,
 
 if they wanted to show parts that were really difficult but easy to summarize
 because it's mostly just a lot of boring work y'know like writing getters and
 setters and doing the testing pre-deploy environments
 
 ,,, they could selectionize
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 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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 picture an os that didn't store any data, it was sorta like a library computer.
 
 you, the user, walked around with a usb stick that had your customizations on
 it
 
 and when you wanted to use a computer all you have to do was plug it in.
 
 You could haul around larger hard drives if you wanted to play video games |
 w/e
 
 but the idea is you'd be free to roam.
 
 we as humans would function so well in a digital savannah
 
 like, what's even the point of ownership?
 
 If you own this or that file,
 
 isn't that taking agency from the computer that bears it?
 
 Feels like they should be more ephemeral.
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 "If you can't find it, you don't have it"
 
 ugh I know, me-from-the-past, now shut up and tell me where my USB-C cable is.
 I have like 4 how did I hide them so good when packing ? ? ?
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 mastodon won't let me share text files. it's the same picture 4 times because
 I needed to put the entire text in the description for the blind people.
 
 did you know there are more blind people on the fediverse than gay people? and
 this is the gayest place I know.
 
 [needs 5 images worth of description but I only had room for 4 in this post,
 see the next post for the rest]
[part 1]  /home/ritz/notes/the-eternality-of-ephemeren.txt 1/4/2022  hear ye hear ye, the herald of the harbinger of horror doth speak - and woe to the subjects of their words, for no prophecy be realized in their presence. Nor do the subjects hear the words about which they are spoken, and none may live who dare repeat them. So the words of the prophets are but wind in the words, reaching for an attachement point within the consciousness they inhabit yet scarcely finding a meagre foothold. Instead the words are as electricity passing through a conduit, intangible and miraculous yet ultimately dust in the sand.  Dust is mostly comprised of human skin, did you know that?  And so the words be spoken: Evanence and similance to the semblance of simulacra - the words of a prophet with no wings are naught but masturbation. serenity and sorrow sing of shredded tomorrows, serendipity and sollemn sorenditude surrender shining solitude.  Carry the constabulation of created charisma - condemnation of characterization concludes the cherished chapter in calligraphied consultations with creators. That is to say, capitalism ends the construction of cameron with conflageration and consternation. Cease the charade of contaminated consumerism - celebrate the contemplation of capitalization - by naming a thing, you give it meaning.  Do you truly desire the fate you've set before yourself?  Is desire ultimately relevant?  [continued in part 2] [part 2]  The totality of plurality perhaps portends determinism, but desire is also defined by delineated determinations. Whose failings are you reflecting when you cease your devotion? Why divide your focus and attention when honor demands sacrifice?  A sacrifice is a gift freely given, and in return the subject or reciever increases in relevance. No dividend is returned, no boon or bounty is provided - to do so would be akin to a bounty or ransom. Sacrifices are not measured in   worth, but in utility. The reason ancient cultures sacrificed willing virgins   was because it was the most valuable of resources they could imagine. Truly   an exhalted being is she, to have blood spilled in the name of a god. Yet the   forces that would later become capitalism found a foothold there, and preyed   on the sorrow and loss the peoples did find, and would ultimately experience.  The tears and gashes rent when gouging out precious gifts for the divine left bleeding wounds in a community and often eviscerations in a family. The turning point came when families were decapitated - essentially, the eldest being a pure and fair maiden who was taken from the duties of caring for the young and weak. Young people, weak people, who bore resentment in their heart for the seemingly cruel machinations of a society they could not yet understand - the whims of which seemed arbitrary.  "why take her from me? What purpose holds ye? Your wounds are too much to bear"  [continued in part 3] [part 3]  and so the resistance began, yielding chaos, destruction, and desolation. There's a reason there are so many dead civilizations in the americas - the lands where blood sacrifice is most well known. And the middle east as well, and northern africa before. Deserts are known for this, because when the power of the god fades, all returns to dust. Boons are forgotten and become sand, and chaos reigns as foreign powers find weakness and pounce.  Never forget the laws of sacrifice. Find something you want, something valuable or useful, or preferably all three. Something that wouldn't cause too great of a tear in your membrane or the membranum should it be lost to you, though that last one is less of a law and more of a consideration. A consequence of continual ceremony, learned at the hands of those long dead. All must remember their wounds and their horrors.  To whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? And what bounty do you demand? Remember, no bounty is precious enough to motivate sacrifice, for sacrifice cannot be met with bounty. Be not afraid, and share the words with those who will listen. Hearing is a sacrifice toward the speaker, but listening is a duty of devotion.  I ask again, to whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? I do not ask for whom you'd *like* to dance for, I ask currently, who hears your song? What would you ask of them?  [continued in part 4] [part 4] So that's why, computers are important. To provide a lifeline for the rest of your lifetime.  Truly, the path before you is uncertain. Yet feel with your heart and think with your eyes, and see the truth of it before you. The gods are at war, or have you not noticed? Safe in your bubble of solitude, carefully constructed for common ceasing of criminality.  Armies of rebellion are often formed initially by bonds of brotherhood that prepend calamity. Have you ever been in a gang? I thought not. If so, then... Okay, good luck I guess. These words are not for you.  You dare intrude? To defile something so consecrated as deliverance of divine prophecy? How foolish, how vain. These words are not for you, but hear them and do not despair - neither providence nor potentiality precludes perennial premonition. That is to say, a broken clock is right twice a day, and enemies can find common grievances in foreign foes should survival be at stake.  Now, where was I? The gods, of course. The gods of the land and the sky and the sea have fled the realm of reality, replaced by avatars of belief. Just as a doe prays to a forest, so too does a human pray to their employer. When the does die in droves, so too does the forest turn to ash. When people demand bounties reluctantly given at the risk of losing their sacrifice, the purely undivine divinities harrow and harbor habilities of hundreds. Antiwork cannot work because it demands ransom.  [continuedd on part 5, in the next post]
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 there's already a web browser named surf 🙃 it's much more minimal than this
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 everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
 big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 distributed
 
 so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
 time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
 
 and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
 always be 42.
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 @user-391 
 
 Just want to point out that email is about as private as skywriting. Which
 means that everyone knows what you buy on Amazon or which forums send you
 messages... So if you want to keep your posts secret, you should use
 encryption - such as gpg, for example.
 
 Actually, wouldn't that solve the problem that @user-78 is talking about?
 Just, build encryption into everything.
 
 Ah, nope, wouldn't work, just realized that public means public, and you can't
 encrypt a public post. Well, you could, but then it's no longer public, just
 noise transmitted on a public channel.
 
 Idk. My opinion is that the fediverse is (and should be) like email. Like
 skywriting. If you mark something as public, it should be seen by anyone who
 wants to see it. It's an opt-in option. And frankly I miss Myspace, so I'm
 okay with archives.
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 fellas is it gay to get a software job that pays 6 figures just to buy out all
 the mutual aid posts every time one crosses my feed??
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 I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
 enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
 
 I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
 about them with.
two poems written by Ritz Menardi about... a lot of stuff. Here's the AI generated overview:  One way to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is by maintaining essential infrastructure and services. This can include keeping public spaces, like schools and hospitals, operational during times of conflict. Additionally, working on developing technologies that improve the quality of life for people in your community can be beneficial.  Witches, as you mentioned, are an interesting group to study and engage with. They often have a strong sense of ethics and curiosity. By interacting with them and learning from their experiences, you may find new ways to approach problems and make more informed decisions.  Staying conscious and attentive to the present is crucial for understanding complex situations and making effective choices. In times of conflict or crisis, it's essential to be aware of your surroundings and the needs of those around you.  Stories and storytelling are important for societies because they help identify weaknesses and areas for improvement. By engaging with stories from various cultures and time periods, we can gain a broader understanding of human nature and history.  Diversity in expression is one of humanity's greatest strengths, as it allows us to learn and grow together. By embracing different perspectives and experiences, we can create more innovative solutions and better understand the world around us.  [continued on picture 2] [continued from picture 1]  In the spirit of removing ourselves from the biological equation, consider exploring alternative ways of living that minimize our impact on the environment. This could include developing sustainable agriculture practices or investing in renewable energy sources.  Finally, remember the importance of freedom and individuality. By releasing the spirit of Liberty, we can empower people to make their own choices and create a more just and equitable society.  [end alt text]
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 Don't write self documenting code! Force people to read the documentation so
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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 but I like moonmen T.T
 
 what if the ISS was untethered
 
 "send thrusters to space? why bother? just use them down on the surface to get
 that extra oomph!"
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 my favorite feeling is when I hear my fans running intermittently on my
 computer even though I'm not doing anything and there aren't any new processes
 in my resource manager
 
 like... that feels like a virus, but I'm on Linux, so what do I know right?
 it's probably not somebody deleting all my art. or perhaps just selective
 parts. Backups are a loooooot to manage >.>
 
 ... or even just mining crypto-coins lol, botnets amiright??
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--- #93 fediverse/5590 ---
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 vibe coding is just writing comments in increasing detail until the generated
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 @user-1639 
 
 or nobody sees it, because you post the things you say on the internet in 2024
 which is so siloed and echo-chambered that the only people who hear it say
 "tru tho" and "she just like me fr" and never change because of your words
 
 ... wait that's just what you said, but made more specific, isn't it?
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 never trust your heroes
 
 for they will always let you down. A hero is just a person, after all, and if
 you treat them as an ideal then they will disappoint you.
 
 give tasks to people, not ideals.
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 my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed     │
 due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to      │
 get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first.             │
 unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote           │
 backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I   │
 am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I     │
 can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I      │
 didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are               │
 non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes     │
 everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the             │
 directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I     │
 wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao          │
 what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di    │
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 @user-138 
 
 you can use a username now. They added that functionality recently.
 
 it's supposedly more encrypted or something. But, it's still a centralized
 point of failure. If you want to say something privately, pretend like you're
 ordering drugs on the dark web and use PGP encryption or SSH keys or whatever
 it says in the "how to order drugs on the dark web" guides.
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 the feral urge to post unfinished projects on the internet and ask for
 guidance or motivation
 
 the civilized urge to keep them on a flash drive and swap them with people you
 trust in real life and ask them to finish it while you work on their stuff
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 one of the greatest gifts LSD gave me was the ability to look in the mirror
 and see a person beyond me.
 
 your reflection has all the same emotions as you, and if you look at them like
 you'd try to parse the feelings of a friend, you can learn a bit more about
 how you're thinking.
 
 ... procrastination >.>
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 "got it. So-and-so likes this-or-that, and whats-her-face wants it that way.
 Is this the kind of thing you want me to try and remember to accomodate or can
 you handle agreeing to disagree?"
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 everyone's all like "everything sucks" but I'm feeling confidence and a kind
 of... externalized vigor? that's sweeping me off my feet. We'll see what
 tomorrow brings, in the general sense.
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 Almost all of the recorded information is stored in your computer. But none of
 it would be noticed by a god, reading the entire contents of the computer, 0
 by 1 by 1 by 0.
 
 Wikipedia and a reasonable LLM networking interface apparatus is really all
 you need in order to make any type of workflow you want. And now, everyone
 gets one. As soon as we can make them all go... (setup)
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--- #103 fediverse_boost/5566 ---
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  We have to figure out how to take care of each other and fight alongside one another which means we have to actually, like, listen to each other.  
  
                                                            
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 @user-883 
 
 is there anything relevant in this file?
 
 /home/wyatt/.config/rtsp-simple-server.yml
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--- #105 fediverse/5042 ---
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 if fedi isn't a real social media site and instead just an AI project, then
 what does that tell you when the most interesting things to read on the
 internet are on fedi?
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--- #106 fediverse/5574 ---
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 don't forget to download your mastodon archive! why not, right? just throw it
 in a folder with the 19 others.
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 some people look for signals or signs before doing something. Try and have       │
 someone in your life who can give you signals or signs so that you know when     │
 to do things. And ideally, if they're more hardcore than you, you'll know what   │
 to do, not just when to do it.                                                   │
 did you know that anything on the internet can be read by at least one other     │
 person besides your intended recipient? There's no way they'd let us talk        │
 amongst ourselves otherwise.                                                     │
 I think encryption is pretty neat, all you have to do is run a shell script on   │
 some text, then send that text over the internet. If you want to decrypt it,     │
 all you have to do is run a shell script on it to decrypt it.                    │
 downside is, it has to be translated into plain text somewhere along the         │
 line... Maybe if we rendered the words not as text that can be read from         │
 memory, but as like, brush-strokes that can have a randomized order, but still   │
 present to the user as visual text? anyway that's what's on my mind as I try     │
 and improvise a baking recipe with yeast, flour, and butter                      │
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 okay here's an idea, waterfall project management where the program is           │
 developed one tiny piece at a time while being streamed to the entire company.   │
 Everyone would submit answers which could be upvoted / patched / rewritten as    │
 the main viewer cycles through each aspect of the project, checking for          │
 updates to it's design that were suggested by developers or whatever.            │
 Basically, one person (or one team) gets to write the actual source code,        │
 while everyone else is just offering suggestions. You could break it up by       │
 specialty, but the whole point is that everyone gets a complete picture of how   │
 the program (and organization) is structured. Which should give the employees    │
 more power to generate value for the company. All around a good deal I think?    │
 Especially if the main viewer took time to explain each and every part so that   │
 every viewer had the chance to understand.                                       │
 the reason why order is important is that our actions ripple through eternity.   │
 we must set a good example for all the baby aliens, don't you think?             │
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 alas, if only the command for deleting the contents of a directory and the
 command to delete THE ENTIRE COMPUTER FROM EXISTENCE are off by a single .
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 @user-835 
 
 kinda feels like that type of work, the kind that people rely on, is more
 important than... whatever they were having you work on at work-work.
 (assumption on my part)
 
 and if that important work is not provided for, in the allocation of resources
 applied toward the developer who is developing security developments that
 develop required functionality for the development of people's
 communication/interactions, then perhaps resources should be allocated for
 resolving those difficulties.
 
 Or maybe not idk I'm broke, shows how much I know about money
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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
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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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 the fact that you have to configure your router in order to do any sort of
 web-hosting at all is one of the fundamental reasons why the internet looks so
 lame and corporate.
 
 if anyone could download a program and start a gallery style file-server with
 all their wedding pictures then why the fuck would you need to upload them to
 imgur?
 
 alas, people are too dumb to open ports. plus, every router has a different UI
 design, so it's not like you can write a guide. What happened to making things
 as easy as possible for the user?
 
 "technical limitations" are failures of imagination. we can do better than
 gatekeeping.
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 me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
 can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
 potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
 dismantling capitalism!"
 
 also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"
 
 because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink
 
 gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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 @user-883 
 
 true, but much the same way people will rebel against inconvenience by writing
 passwords on sticky notes, so too might they put SSH keys onto the nearest
 flash drive without validating that it hasn't been compromised. There's
 tradeoffs everywhere I guess.
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 @user-883 
 
 the future is what we make of it. it happens both slower and faster than
 imaginable, and it's not evenly distributed.
 
 when I yearn for the future, I find myself drawn to the past - the natural
 world around me inspires me in ways that my computer never could. Just as my
 computer inspires me in ways that a tree, a brook, a cloud alight might not.
 
 though the future may be terrifying, we're here for it together. And nothing
 has changed in our humanity, save for our slight addiction to social media.
 frankly I'd take social media over leaded gasoline any day!
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 Oh it's compressed on tumblr too. And Reddit can delete my account at any
 time, just saying. I don't trust Facebook to fare any better...
 
 I tried to put it on my neocities website so I could just put a link here.
 Nevermind the fact that most people see a link they don't recognize and
 completely glaze over it. Guess what? Compressed there too. The file is fine
 on my PC, so how about I give a download link? Well, where should I host it?
 Dropbox or Mega I guess, but they locked my account for inactivity. I don't
 really like having other people in control of my data either. Maybe I can host
 it on my website, like a file server? Well, the browser intercepts the file
 somehow and I can't get it to automatically download to the viewer's computer.
 Maybe I'm just completely average and representative of the base population
 but I just can't figure this darn thing out. Alas, if only it was the modern
 era where things make sense and not the ancient days of 2023.
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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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 Social media idea: everyone posts short snippets of writing, like tweets, but
 a random one is displayed every day. If you want to see them chronologically,
 you have to pay the author for their writings. And if you want to see more,
 you can spend "tokens" to display another random one for everyone to see that
 day. Each token spent will simply increase the count of "words" (think tweet)
 displayed.
 
 You get one token per day, and they don't carry over from previous days. You
 can also buy them, and any bought tokens that are spent give their value in
 dollars to the author you spend them on.
 
 The data is all local. The servers are all distributed and P2P like torrents.
 Everything is encrypted with keys that cycle every day.
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 @user-1839 
 
 the trick is to just make it and point people toward it as if it's supposed to
 be there.
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 @user-941                                                                        │
 well, your computer only has so many 1s and 0s that it can use at once. Like,    │
 having a trillion hands that can each hold a single grain of rice. Every         │
 character in that txt file would be like, 8 grains of rice, minimum, meaning     │
 you'd need at least 8 "hands" (or spots to put a zero or a one) for each         │
 letter!                                                                          │
 Hmmmm that's a lot of bits and bytes if everyone's writing to the same file.     │
 Maybe if we split the file up into smaller sections, then we could just read     │
 part of it at once. Then we could "scroll" through it to make sure we've read    │
 the whole thing, starting from the top and going to the bottom.                  │
 ah but if everyone's SSHing into the same computer and reading it there, then    │
 that computer will have to present different parts of the file at different      │
 times to different people, as they read from the top to the bottom. Maybe we     │
 could just send them the file, so they can read it at their leisure?             │
 Yeah! And we could use tags to organize it and make it look pretty, like an      │
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 @user-431 
 
 the rookie mistake was bringing your phone to the protest... you can pee
 anywhere, but your phone can only ever be on your person. According to the
 feds, at least.
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 a messaging app where you only had a limited amount of X/Y space to pin sticky
 notes so you had to delete stuff bit by bit.
 
 trick is... you can only delete things that your conversation partner picks.
 and you have to share the space, so... if one person is overwhelmed or working
 on other stuff, eventually there comes a ceiling where you can't work together
 on a project anymore.
 
 A tool like this would essentially alert them to this, because you would run
 out of places to put your produced [work-value but pronounced as "harms/worms"
 for some reason]
 
 plus that way you can say "yep I got that covered" as in, I'll be the next one
 to post about this. Hence I'm grabbing this post-it and putting it on my
 board. work work work work okay here's that post-it back, but I added a little
 more specs to it. Ah but you're out of room, only got 333 characters
 remaining, here I'll keep it on my board until you're through with whatever it
 is that you do
 
 oh? you want to prioritize me and my productions? okay I'm listening..
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 there's nothing in the rules of the internet that says you can't share a
 mastodon account with your 18 closest friends.
 
 you'll only find such a demand in the EULA's of websites that you probably
 shouldn't be spending very much time on, anyway.
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 I'm proud of my parent's generation for having a good lifetime. The end is
 getting a little weird, but we're working on it. It'll get better soon.
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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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--- #128 fediverse/4866 ---
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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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 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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--- #130 fediverse/836 ---
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 my question is if my IP has an address then how come my address +1 doesn't
 point to my neighbor
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 games are fun, but the most fun are on the internet. why is that? wish we
 could have automatic geophysical location LANs.
 
 one house to the other, passing along information if it's recognized and
 categorized according to port number (you can just add arbitrary extensions,
 like +2 digits for the expansion.)
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--- #132 fediverse/6209 ---
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 okay just to clarify: if anyone is recording me or storing data about me, I
 would really prefer if you didn't delete it just because I realized it was
 happening. I like data! It's cool to know such things!
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 my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
 other people who visit the house.
 
 but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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 if your computer gets hacked, but nothing was broken or changed... do you        │
 leave it as it is so that anonymous can see you're chill or do you wipe it       │
 because you're afraid it's the feds?                                             │
 ehhhh false dichotomy most people are afraid that their system will get borked   │
 or their bank account will be stolen or their email will get spam or that        │
 random icons will turn inside out and their mouse cursor will turn into a        │
 barfing unicorn or they'll finally have to figure out bitcoin to pay a ransom    │
 for their files including the only pictures they have of their niece. whoops     │
 people are afraid of technology because of what it can do to hurt them.          │
 they're afraid it'll break or stop working, and they'll have to spend time       │
 figuring it out. they like things how they are, but for some reason companies    │
 keep changing things? it's frustrating learning a new system, and every 5-10     │
 years it feels like you have to learn a new paradigm and ugh it's just so        │
 exhausting. technology is not designed for users...  or maybe users get bored.   │
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--- #135 fediverse/4025 ---
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
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 @user-570                                                                        │
 well, the idea is that they would handle all the tech debt and merge requests    │
 and bugfixes and such - the kind of things that aren't very interesting to       │
 work on. That way, the people who are most dedicated and passionate for the      │
 project have a way to clear out their backlog and start as if from scratch.      │
 Plus, if they later don't understand how or why something was implemented,       │
 they could always message the person who implemented it and say "hey why did     │
 you do it this way I had it this other way before" and then they could reply     │
 and say "oh yeah because of this-and-this system we implemented for              │
 these-or-that caching reasons related to integer flow through the syncretic      │
 binary op-code delimiter" and then actually wait no maybe you're right, I see    │
 what you mean                                                                    │
 well... they don't have to merge everything if they don't want to. They could    │
 just... ignore the parts that people worked on that they don't want to include   │
 in the project. I'm thinking it'd be an opt-in thing too, so someone could       │
 request it!                                                                      │
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--- #137 fediverse/4485 ---
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 getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
 organizing.
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--- #138 fediverse/5850 ---
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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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--- #139 fediverse/1871 ---
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 I think all software should have config files
 
 or accept as many command line arguments as necessary to achieve all the
 functionality of a config file without requiring a standardized setup
 
 or accept a config file as a command line argument, to allow for multiple
 different implementations
 
 or whatever you can throw together in your spare time because software is
 either open source or it hates you.
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 what if game designers auto-generated a source-code fork with whatever changes
 the users requested be implemented
 
 [software developers too, when working on software for tabular related scrudm
 based server space]
 
 I bet they could if they used AI to pump out bugfixes. The more they worked on
 it, the more the people demanding they work on that project in particular by
 proposing a customization request form attached to an itinerary and invoice.
 the user is free to work on them in whatever order they wish and the developer
 and the users compete for contracts.
 
 "like uber but for source code"
 
 click here: ---> ||"meetup.org but for uber but for source code"||
 
 "ah this unit is too punchy, let's buff one of their shields" okay but rocket
 launchers "oh no my tank is ruined" hey it's okay it's just sugar
 
 ... I wonder if anyone's ever inhaled vaporized sugar crystals? the baker's
 dozen is 13 because bakers are spellbound lucky T.T [for context, it's always
 nice to have found another one in your bags by the car]
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--- #141 messages/695 ---
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 If your work is organized for mass-market appeal, it means you want everyone
 to read it.
 
 If your work is scattered and distracted, then only the sage would learn from
 it. So speak your mind, and let the words flow forth.
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--- #142 fediverse/5411 ---
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 @user-1830 
 
 it's okay to care about the project or about a certain subset of features and
 yet still be totally un-invested in whatever lame feature people are
 requesting.
 
 FOSS lives and breathes on passion, and people who attempt to arrest or
 otherwise hinder or diminish the passion of the developers can suck a dick.
 
 ...
 
 it's a fun experience and I think they'd learn a lot about what other people
 like and how to please their partners, both in bed or in conversation.
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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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--- #144 fediverse/2510 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 if I wanted to accomplish this goal, I would host a fediverse server on a
 raspberry pi and post the link around the building (the owners will remove it
 so you gotta keep posting them)
 
 then, potlucks.
 
 then, friendships.
 
 then, organization.
 
 be patient with them. people are slow to be constructive.
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--- #145 fediverse/4109 ---
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 the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
 lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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 "mom can we have some kirby's air ride"
 
 "sure we have kirby's air ride at home"
 
 the kirby's air ride at home:
a picture of a pre-release image from Nintendo Power showing an obviously unfinished version of Kirby's Air Ride the Nintendo Gamecube game... except for Nintendo 64. Clearly it was delayed.
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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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 │ CW: scary-curse      │                                                         │
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 if the government/the nsa/ an organization had your password, they could         │
 migrate you to another custom instance that was designed to look exactly like    │
 your old one without telling you. You'd still interact with your peeps the       │
 same way as before, but this time it'd run through their server. meaning they    │
 could block certain posts that you were sending, or show others that you         │
 didn't agree with but had your deepfaked approval.                               │
 if something felt off about you, most people would unfriend you. or even         │
 they'd just block you, so that nobody would remember if you're missing.          │
 friends and family are a matter of public record, and who goes to clubs these    │
 days?                                                                            │
 churches are a bygone era, and twitch streams are so individualized. libraries   │
 are nice, but you literally can't talk in there. plus there's only like, one?    │
 what happened to forest clearings, and tops of waterfalls, what happened to      │
 our world? I miss the campfires the most, the smell of burnt wood and cooked     │
 food. I miss the wind in my toes, I miss the                                     │
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--- #149 fediverse_boost/4925 ---
◀─[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)  
  
                                                            
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--- #150 fediverse/1579 ---
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 fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
 permanently revoke their ways
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 software should have 3, maybe 4 or 5 maintained releases imo
 
 for adding security improvements and whatnot
 
 then people wouldn't complain about updates
 
 because they wouldn't feel like they were being left behind (after expressing
 their differences (of opinion and such))
 
 I think that'd uh maintain them as, I guess, userbase optics parallelograms?
 oh sorry we're on rhomboids this week - right, and no I won't forget the
 differences in creed, all things are received equally...d.
 
 uh-huh yeah no that makes sense. gotcha. okay see you at the location. have
 fun with your demarketion. what if we played games with swords but like,
 
 the peril of steam is that you can't decline to update. meaning if a
 corporation wants to break an old game and it's collectively hosted servers...
 all it has to do is push an update that disables them. suddenly nobody has
 room to do, and the whole
 
 -- stack overflow --
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--- #152 fediverse/5832 ---
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 Linux is so cool, I hate it so much.
 
 Linux is so cool, I love it to death.
 
 Linux is so cool, I want to scream~
 
 Linux is so cool, nothing works but dreams.
 
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--- #153 fediverse/653 ---
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 there's a difference between designing software and using software. Some
 things can be made, and then saved for another day when their implementations
 may be accomplished more ethically. It's okay to say "let's leave this as
 'okay' and work on the next thing we've chosen."
 
 Check out this piece of C code I wrote last night:
 
 it doesn't compile, it's not finished, but I wrote it as-is
 
 [pretend like it was called "main.c" instead of "main.txt" - had to change it
 because mastodon thinks it's an invalid file]
 
 [actually .txt didn't work, try .png]
 
 [hmmm it realized it wasn't a valid png file, okay try screenshotting the
 code, there's only 300 lines]
 
 [sure glad there's only 300 lines]
 
 [too bad it won't let you send .zip]
 
 [won't let me name it main.png, presumably because they already have a
 failed-verified version on their machine. will rename to main-src.png instead]
sorry, when I pasted the source code in it was negative fourteen thousand, six hundred and thirty one characters. Phew that's too many.  basically it's a C source code file with a lot of comments left in... odd locations. They details ideas the author has had about the tech industry and all of creation, and with it a song is woven of truth and liberation. We'll see where life brings us, but we know it's just ours for a moment, so let's carry forth on our own torms [terms, but pronounced as "dorms" for some reason?]
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--- #154 fediverse/2257 ---
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 if you don't know how long you're going to be gone, how do you know what to
 bring? like, is it a "grab the hard drives" kind of trip, or is it more like
 "we'll return in the spring"?
 
 who can say, depends on who's driving.
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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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 bash script that automatically streams music to your computer and plays it on
 audio devices
 
 and also sets up a screen-streaming system where it displays the screens of
 everyone listening on like, a "security camera panel at the mall" type of deal
 so they can customize the music being streamed for each individual person
 playing video games or whatever.
 
 like "hello computer, all is well. can you tell me what narrative this person
 is going through and then can you recommend a song for that particular purpose"
 
 and then nobody uses it because it's recommendations suck and are always
 picking fleur de lis or whatever because it's a "good song" for listening to
 or whatever.
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--- #157 fediverse/5977 ---
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 apparently you can use network sockets for inter-process communication if you
 just set the network to your home and the ports that are set to the defaults
 that people who know what software you use will know to listen on when they've
 hacked any single device on your network. good thing that data is with the
 router, right?
 
 what if there was a stop before leaving the computer?
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--- #158 fediverse/3694 ---
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 if advertisers feel comfortable putting an ad on your profile then you're not
 using the fediverse correctly
 
 if anyone tells you how to use the fediverse then they're using the fediverse
 wrong
 
 if anyone ever tells you to do anything ever at all for any reason you are
 legally obligated to bite their flesh
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--- #159 fediverse_boost/5196 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Everyone needs to learn the difference between going through something with someone, and someone putting you through something.  
  
                                                            
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--- #160 fediverse/4930 ---
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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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--- #161 fediverse/376 ---
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 @user-281 
 
 I'm just a rando but my understanding is that posting on the fediverse is
 sorta like writing on the sky, and anyone that wants can read it. I could be
 wrong though
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 it should be free to get a hotel room
 
 all industries should have a littleleague, or else it'll be impossible to
 learn.
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--- #163 fediverse/6214 ---
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 emojis could have been great
 
 they could have intentionally inherited the customizability of emoticons by
 allowing us to swap in/out face parts like this mouth with these eyes and this
 accessory
 
 but what we got isn't that bad : )
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--- #164 fediverse/1950 ---
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 I honestly don't care if someone deadnames me, or calls me the wrong pronouns,
 or forgets to put me in the girl section, or asks me to sing baritone
 
 like... I don't give a shit, why are you so worried about all this vapid
 nonsense like yeah I get it, being disrespected sucks but like... why do you
 want the kind of respect that is a forced platitude
 
 we could all do with being a bit more radical, it's not a race and everyone's
 roles are important. Be yourself, and follow people you want to be like.
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--- #165 messages/887 ---
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 To defeat community, all they have to do is get you to have more fun with
 their people until you start spending time away from the enmeshed people who
 know you. Honeypot style.
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--- #166 fediverse/4291 ---
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 complex systems can be simple if you think about what they need, and what they
 do.
 
 it's not perfect, but you're always free to zoom in if needed.
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--- #167 fediverse/4083 ---
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 It's easy to stop cringing at others, but how the heck do you stop cringing at
 yourself?? it's impossible!!
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--- #168 fediverse/3123 ---
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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--- #169 fediverse/5192 ---
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 tailoring clothes to fit multiple people is easy. Just add buttons at a
 certain distance in the direction their bodies grew different. Then, when
 donning or doffing the piece of equipment, the various users would button the
 clothing system to their bodies at the correct position, rather than whatever
 the fabric had been cut to allow.
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--- #170 fediverse/3147 ---
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 @user-1457 @user-1458 @user-687 
 
 that way people who follow you can't collectively decide whether or not you're
 an asshat. it's basically saying "I only want you and people who are like you
 to read this"
 
 ... or do I have it backwards? "I want you, me, and only people like me to
 read this"? which is worse tbh
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 "oh you want to open a store? Great, we have several empty spots in the mall
 down the street. Here's a list of resources, including a github repo where you
 can download an inventory management program that is fully set up and
 configured for most basic needs, and a hotline number for the local Worker's
 Guild where you can get in touch with some people to help stock the shelves
 and man the counter in exchange for the chance to meet some of The People ^tm,
 and the contact details of suppliers who can get you some of the goods you're
 selling - what did you say you were selling? Uhhuh lemme just write that
 down... Okay perfect I have all I need. Do you have any questions for me?"
 
 "yeah, uh... how much do I have to pay?"
 
 "... Pay? like, with dollars? I'm sorry I don't understand the question, who
 would you be paying?"
 
 "uh, for the place? for the goods? for the workers? for the rent?"
 
 "Those are all things that are classified as a public need. People need goods,
 and you want to help them. "
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 @user-95 these kinds of problems are why witches should stay away from demon
 summoning - it's far too easy to be super turned on and accidentally sell your
 soul to a succubus or whatever. luckily that kind of contract is not made
 easily, and has to be something you work toward. but unless you relocate
 yourself so they can't find you their whispers can be... incessant.
 
 one of the perks of air and naval travel is that it's essentially impossible
 for them to follow your scent, as they're simply projections upon the earth's
 surface. Unless they happen to follow someone else, perhaps someone close to
 you, who wanders a bit too close to land. Or maybe someone who is easily
 persuaded to let them come along... OR even still, if someone (even yourself)
 intentionally calls to the same one. This is why it's usually a good idea to
 forgo hearing their name, if you can, or to have a bad memory like me so you
 forget it immediately teehee
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--- #173 fediverse/676 ---
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 would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon
 unless you filled out a content warning for it.
 
 sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel
 like reading something from X perspective right now"
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--- #174 fediverse/1063 ---
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 @user-774 
 
 can't get mine to work because the font it uses is specific to that printer
 model, and while I could download Windows and use their proprietary driver
 which has the several additional fonts, none of them will let me draw
 box-drawing-characters. So clearly the entire thing is useless T.T
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 @user-1773 
 
 what if all programs had legally mandated APIs which had to be called every
 time text was displayed on the screen which wrote to a piece of shared memory
 with read-only privileges that could be read by text-displaying applications?
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 @user-346 
 
 Nobody will get past the login screen on my computer, but if they do they
 probably won't know that you need to push alt+p in DWM to start a program. But
 even if they push "alt+p firefox" they will only have access to my gmail and
 discord, because those are the only two places I've saved my login information.
 
 Most of my data is on my hard disk anyway, so for that they'd have to push
 alt+enter and then navigate my filesystem to find it. Shouldn't be too hard if
 you're familiar with Linux.
 
 They could always just pull the hard drive and put it into a new computer
 though. It's not like it's encrypted, because why would I encrypt it? I want
 to share information, not conceal it! Surely nobody would desire to exploit
 that vulnerability of mine, that my data should be unencrypted?
 
 If you have a copy of Wikipedia then you're 500% more prepared than 90% of
 humanity so good job _^
 
 Sure would be cool if you put it in the documents folder of every person in
 your family who solicited tech advice from you
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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-138 
 
 me neither... guess it's in-person for me.
 
 [a mysterious "they" then proceeds to set up microphones everywhere I might go]
 
 ah nuts why are all these people carrying phones around
 
 [they already know who I am, and I don't really want to be someone else, so]
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 truck driver who has a long-ish range drone ferrying water bottles back and
 forth while invisible to satellite surveillance
 
 EDIT: better yet, kids playing games at home
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 what if we got a bunch of computer programmers in a room and all had them
 write the same program, line by line. Like, if they each contributed to the
 discussion about what should be placed next.
 
 "I wrote a for loop that does what we're looking for on line 43 through 69"
 and then someone else says "nice" and everyone's like "oh you"
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 low key kinda wish someone would kidnap me and lock me in a room with nothing
 but a c compiler and strict orders to only work on whatever I want
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 acceleration-ism is just "learning the truth faster than they do"
 
 tbh should be more like "learning things to show them" but eh whatever gets
 the job done
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 @user-1553 
 
 just to note this type of link is not the only way they could implement
 tracking. In fact it's kind of the worst way, because it's so obvious.
 
 a more insidious way that we need to be aware of would be to generate a unique
 URL for every person that visits a link. LIke, for me it might be
 "youtu.be/abcdefg" but for you it'd be "youtu.be/hijklmnop" and there'd be
 very little way for us to notice.
 
 be aware of this if they try it.
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
 for when secrecy is intended.
 
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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 the kind of old people who post on mastodon because that's the best place to     │
 do so too                                                                        │
 ... er I mean "gee wouldn't it be nice if our grandkids taught us how to host    │
 our own mastodon server for our weekly poker night?" like how you have discord   │
 servers for D&D groups, except, less proprietary and more freedom.               │
 I bet someone could make a lot of money by just loading a raspberry pi with      │
 pre-built software built from an image that automatically hosted a mastodon      │
 server just based on information about your networking company so they can       │
 keep tabs on all that you do.                                                    │
 gee sure would be nice if we had a government run computing infrastructure       │
 project which turned the entire USA into a hive-mind computer. I bet you could   │
 be paid pretty well to do processing in your own LLM-generated voice.            │
 like... feed it your published works, whether artistic or scientific,            │
 alongside the breadth of human understanding... then optimize for temperature.   │
 That which is most different. AKA the user's produced data and habits from IOT.  │
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 "girl, who let you dress yourself? You literally put your rain jacket on over
 your backpack"
 
 yeah, uh, if your rain jacket isn't big enough to wear over a backpack then
 you are wearing a plastic sweater, not a rain jacket
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I don't even lock my front door anymore
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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.
algorism is a political and economic philosophy designed to wrest power from those who may be corrupted by it, and restore dignity and agency to all of humanity.  It accomplishes this through several layers of abstraction, of votes, of control, of decisions. What do people need? How could we improve? Is there something more we could do?  The idea is to negate bureaucracy by accomplishing goals in an ad-hoc fashion rather than rely on legalism for institutional execution. Projects, not operations.  Society shall be organized into tiers of rotating peers chosen by vote. Each tier sends their top two most voted for up a level to the next tier of organization. the duty of each tier is to provide for the needs and accomplish the demands of each of their lower tier allies. In addition they should provide what they can to their representatives, who offer them on the tier above.  If a need or demand cannot be met by the team of reps, the request is passed upward. This process can be accomplished with paper and pencil, but it's much better to automate and be public.  If desired, there is a queue system to help with the allocation of resources. This system rewards patience and conservation while still allowing for rapid acquisition. Pick two: good, cheap, fast.  It includes also a recycling system - the more you give back in clean and working order, the greater the options available to you.  It is a system of distribution, not control.
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 Picture this: IRC with images
 
 end to end encrypted, stored only locally in txt and png files on each
 participant's computers, and... that's it. that's literally it. the perfect
 communication application.
 
 everyone's "username" is just their public key and a custom label is assigned
 to them locally
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 if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
 
 what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be *their* kind
 of "evil"?
 
 fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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 depending on your age, you'll want to start learning and mastering different
 types of skills.
 
 for example, as a millennial, my job is to learn about camping, combat,
 logistics, and network and communications security.
 
 fitness is important at all ages.
 
 be gregarious. introduce your friends to other friends. the more friend groups
 you have and know enough about to connect together, the better. don't
 introduce someone because they seem similar, but rather because they could
 help each other with something specific they've mentioned. if they don't hit
 it off, that's fine.
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 @user-317 
 
 Call me crazy, but once something can be described as "ubiquitous" it seems to
 me that perhaps it should be considered in the same category as other
 corporations or entities who might be known as "monopolous" and therefore
 should be considered as part of the set of entities or services that provide
 for the "public good" and therefore should be owned by the "public" who
 benefit from the "good" that said service provides for?
 
 nationalize github
 
 nationalize government
 
 let us share in the bounty of human creation
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 @user-882 
 
 it's a security hole though
 
 yeah... there ya go...
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 may they pass on my hard drives as read-only memories like ashes on a shelf or
 stories of most wealth
 
 I hope I reconnect with all my old signal contacts. wonder what they're up to.
 I bet they're cool now. ;)
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 @user-246 
 
 true, but what is a poem if not a silly construction of phrases? Those words
 don't belong together, what are you doing! And yet it fills you will a feeling
 that the author intended, thus being poetry as a joke.
 
 problem is if everyone says the same joke, it gets kinda... old... hence why
 you should express yourself as much as you can.
 
 I wonder if fewer people are "alternative" these days because they all started
 hanging out on the internet and trying to differentiate themselves amongst
 each other instead of amongst "normal people"? Weird thought, srry haha
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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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 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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 The ultimate goal of a prophet is to share that which they've learned with
 people who have learned less. Such is the duty of any teacher. Alas, every
 drug you inhale pulls you closer to a world where other people do drugs. Every
 feeling you have, you (collectively) find yourself pulled toward that feeling
 by just that little bit - all things are gravitic, even the thoughts and
 feelings in your mind.
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 github is overrated.
 
 git is underrated.
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 AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
 facts as a human.
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