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 the reason they want you to use launchers for your games is that way they can
 control the way that you launch the executable. smh
 >.>
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse_boost/6017 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Linux admins when they have to use Windows: :/                              
                                                                              
  Windows admins when they have to use Linux: :\                              
  
                                                            
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--- #2 fediverse/2750 ---
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 @user-246 @user-570 
 
 or "what button do you want to use for "yes I want to configure my keybinds"?
 Push "start" to use the default"
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--- #3 fediverse/369 ---
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 Gaming on Linux is never knowing for sure that a game will launch.
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--- #4 messages/185 ---
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 The only reason a media streaming website would require you to log in before
 expressing it's purpose is to capture and use user data in a way that may may
 not be aligned to your interests.
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--- #5 fediverse/2662 ---
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 the reason rent is so expensive is because of all the surveillance equipment
 they need to pay for and upkeep
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--- #6 messages/757 ---
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 the reason they want bitcoin is so they can buy more computers and use digital
 dollars to rule the world
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--- #7 fediverse/5247 ---
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 the hardest problem in computer science is figuring out why users do what they
 do.
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--- #8 messages/264 ---
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 Don't write self documenting code! Force people to read the documentation so
 they know how to use it
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--- #9 messages/511 ---
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 That feeling when running a command on my laptop causes the fans to spin up on
 my desktop...!
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--- #10 fediverse/4296 ---
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 @user-1655 
 
 why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
 parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
 client we want?
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--- #11 fediverse/2808 ---
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 │ CW: politics-leftism-military-death-mentioned │
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 the reason leftists cling to institutions is because without them, the
 military would just shoot us.
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--- #12 fediverse/1682 ---
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 girls who have so many tabs open that they use ctrl+T to navigate to the most
 recent tabs
 
 wishing there was a way to scroll back to the beginning... alas
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--- #13 fediverse/2622 ---
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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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--- #14 fediverse/3123 ---
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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--- #15 fediverse/102 ---
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 @user-5 why not just use a keyboard? 🙃​
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--- #16 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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--- #17 fediverse/4017 ---
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 the only way to get people to fight fascism is to affect them with it.
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--- #18 fediverse/1771 ---
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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--- #19 fediverse/357 ---
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 @user-5 
 
 and mobile users who accidentally type . instead of [space] or something like
 that which is easy to mistakenly press on some keyboards
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--- #20 fediverse/6168 ---
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 don't mind me, just weaponizing plurality
 
 leveraging, please say leveraging next time
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--- #21 fediverse/1472 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 my streaming is broken and I can't figure out why : (
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--- #22 fediverse/3246 ---
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 the computer, fundamentally, cannot know who is logged into it.
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--- #23 fediverse/1870 ---
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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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--- #24 fediverse/1416 ---
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 @user-979 @user-980 
 
 they do it for power.
 
 power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
 evil.
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--- #25 fediverse/797 ---
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 irc is bloat
 
 use ssh + write to chat with your friends instead
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--- #26 fediverse/2786 ---
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 the best way, I find, to be deserving of trust is to do the best that you can,
 and be honest when you cannot do more.
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--- #27 fediverse/1872 ---
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 the most efficient productivity hack that I know is:
 
 pkill firefox
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--- #28 fediverse/6438 ---
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 why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some
 people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because
 that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools
 
 "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
 it's documentation in my context window."
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--- #29 fediverse/3287 ---
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 oh great my games are randomly crashing now in ways that they didn't used to do
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--- #30 fediverse/4804 ---
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 I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
 
 ... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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--- #31 fediverse/4827 ---
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 @user-1352 
 
 I run Nix on one of my laptops and I really enjoy it : )
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--- #32 fediverse/4896 ---
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 │ CW: re: relationships, mh(+/-), where I've been recently │
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 @user-1748 
 
 they want you drained and overloaded.
 
 makes it harder to take care of others.
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--- #33 fediverse/6021 ---
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 you volunteer for things because you want a say in how they turn out.
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--- #34 fediverse/3692 ---
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 the reason Discord won't allow you to join their communities via 3rd party
 clients like TUI's and CLI's is because they're worried games will just bake a
 client into the game and hide all the community stuff. They're worried because
 there's no reason why a fighting game needs to have a button for viewing a
 puzzle game's community.
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--- #35 fediverse/4093 ---
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 I have no idea why people prefer a GUI when working with software. How the
 heck do they expect to use their computer remotely if they can't even run
 their software over SSH?
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--- #36 fediverse/4621 ---
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 @user-1716 
 
 there's already a web browser named surf 🙃 it's much more minimal than this
 one tho
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--- #37 fediverse/2888 ---
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 @user-1382 
 
 It is a better way, and some apps don't listen, which means it's better but
 less versatile
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--- #38 fediverse/4527 ---
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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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--- #39 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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--- #40 messages/315 ---
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 The need to engage with capitalism has reduced my output dramatically.
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--- #41 fediverse/1286 ---
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 the fact that business types don't listen to the engineers and their "ethics"
 means they shouldn't be in charge of them.
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--- #42 fediverse/4720 ---
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 @user-882 
 
 it's a security hole though
 
 yeah... there ya go...
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--- #43 fediverse/4109 ---
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 │ CW: AI-mentioned     │
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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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--- #44 fediverse/6319 ---
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 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we
 can
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--- #45 fediverse/3150 ---
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 │ CW: cursing-mentioned │
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 I fucking hate how games give dopamine
 
 they're so much more educational than that.
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--- #46 fediverse/1397 ---
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 why don't we teach git in high school?
 
 oh yeah, because microsoft word is not plain text.
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--- #47 fediverse/280 ---
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 old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
 they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.
 
 why waste pixels being verbose?
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--- #48 fediverse/3282 ---
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 I hate how fragile Linux is
 
 It deserves to be strong and durable
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--- #49 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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--- #50 fediverse/6233 ---
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 │ CW: cursed-definitely-cursed │
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 the moment games started using mocap was the moment computers began to
 empathize with units dying
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--- #51 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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--- #52 fediverse/2157 ---
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 @user-1180 
 
 the reason I say this is sometimes it's necessary to boost a post that doesn't
 have a CW and like, I can't add one of my own, so...
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--- #53 fediverse/5185 ---
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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--- #54 messages/1077 ---
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 mystical, not mstical [microsoft style]
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--- #55 fediverse/6057 ---
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 gonna touch grass. maybe do some programming. ttyl
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--- #56 fediverse/4855 ---
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 "you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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--- #57 messages/127 ---
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 All I want for my mobile computing is the ability to use the interface of
 android to access resources and perform tasks that are relevant to my primary
 computer. Like, a mainframe with the phone as a terminal. Except instead of
 text, it's buttons and sliders and all the things that mobile UI experts have
 spent so much time carefully crafting.
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--- #58 messages/186 ---
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 It's obfuscated, such that you cannot know the totality of their purpose for
 you (via your data)
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--- #59 fediverse/94 ---
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 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less
 difficult. : )
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--- #60 bluesky#21 ---
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 the main product that github offers is the assurance that the code displayed
 on your monitor is the same as the one running on your computer.
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--- #61 bluesky#27 ---
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 you can have as many processes running on a computer as you please, just make
 sure they're all named chrome.exe so the user doesn't suspect a thing.
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--- #62 fediverse/4731 ---
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 https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
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--- #63 fediverse/905 ---
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 having trouble naming things?
 
 just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're
 trying to get across.
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--- #64 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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--- #65 messages/588 ---
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 The reason teachers are paid so little is so that only those who care will do
 it.
 
 Too bad they're burnt out.
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--- #66 fediverse/4108 ---
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 what if you could make multiple mastodon accounts in the UI and sort your
 followers into bins that corresponded to which account you wanted to see and
 switch between with the push of a button
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--- #67 fediverse/2252 ---
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 │ CW: tech-encryption  │
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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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--- #68 fediverse/986 ---
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 adding dashes to your text - like - this - is a punctuation choice, not
 formatting or grammar.
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--- #69 fediverse/5416 ---
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 if you aren't rude, or bothersome, or excessively boring, you can pretty much
 be my friend forever.
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--- #70 fediverse/4900 ---
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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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--- #71 fediverse/83 ---
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 @user-89 hence why it shut down, I guess
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--- #72 messages/1212 ---
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 The gallow is more merciful than a lynching, but only just.
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--- #73 fediverse/2601 ---
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 @user-249 
 
 you can host anything you'd like on a raspberry pi. If the software
 requirements are within the hardware specs, of course.
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--- #74 fediverse/5933 ---
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 @user-217 
 
 the darkness
 how resplendent
 would be incomplete
 without that present
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--- #75 messages/161 ---
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 You only think that because it was contrasted with the Soviet union, which
 didn't exert power in that way.
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--- #76 fediverse/103 ---
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 @user-5 Those are good reasons to use a controller! Also, you get the analog
 inputs, which is nice.
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--- #77 fediverse/2862 ---
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 I don't like package managers...
 
 [then don't use them]
 
 oh right 4head
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--- #78 fediverse/1770 ---
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 the cool kids are doing graffiti
 
 the smart ones have something to say
 
 the clever ones do it at night
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--- #79 fediverse/1396 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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--- #80 fediverse/5345 ---
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 you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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--- #81 fediverse/3055 ---
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 If you're on a Windows computer, first of all why and second of all you can
 use the WINDOWS key + SHIFT + S to screenshot a part of the screen.
 
 this will put it in your copy/paste clipboard, meaning all you have to do is
 ctrl+V and boom suddenly you are significantly more productive.
 
 just don't forget alt text...
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--- #82 messages/1230 ---
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 The machine cult is just when everyone's job is building and maintaining the
 computer.
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--- #83 fediverse/5872 ---
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 what if there was a drone that did nothing except fly directly between you and
 the sun so you never got sunburned and never got vitamindeed
 
 [timestamp]
 
 [she must be at home because she doesn't use mastodon while mobile]
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--- #84 fediverse/2120 ---
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 sometimes I think performing my art was just an excuse to use Linux. At least,
 some of my art.
 
 But hey, I'm not complaining, it's awesome.
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--- #85 messages/1002 ---
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 In revolutionary Cascadia, you don't have to do anything different. Until you
 decide you want to.
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--- #86 fediverse/4072 ---
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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--- #87 fediverse/5069 ---
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 if you have problems with games on linux, I can help you install it
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--- #88 fediverse/5962 ---
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 all you need for mouse buttons is alt ctrl and... shift
 
 then bind shift to everything that you can.
 
 can also bind backspace and delete if you have enough keys
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--- #89 fediverse/4570 ---
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 easiest way to deliver email malware is to put it in the "unsubscribe" link
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--- #90 fediverse/1310 ---
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 that feeling when you type your password so fast that one hand is faster than
 the other and the letters get all jumbled and now you have to remake your ssh
 key -.-
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--- #91 fediverse/2111 ---
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 when someone deletes what they were typing and starts over, that means they
 have something more to share and you should try and figure out what it is with
 questions.
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--- #92 fediverse/3086 ---
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 a package manager that hosts mods to games
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--- #93 fediverse/5086 ---
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 nobody could have expected rogue trickster spirits operating in the pacific
 northwest, but hey here we are.
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--- #94 fediverse/5976 ---
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 this is why AI is evil, as explained to a witch.
picture of an ai conversation:  "let's move on to a different topic, this time I think we should describe the poem's contents self-referentially as a 3rd person narrative, with the perspective being the subject and her thoughts. I'd like to use the analyze.lua function for more than simply extracting keywords, I'd also like to use it for transformation as well. can we make a new directory inside of the /theme-analysis/ directory that will store the narratives? it should be combined into a book with milky white pages and brighter-than-blood red. Nearly pink, but a bit more orange. It should utilize generative art to make the pages feel as if they are *oozing* in sharp stalagmite and stalagtite pictures. Could probably generate with mathematical functions and a bit of fuzzing (statistically) to create straight lines. Very sharp, though, like lines being carved in butter or blood or stone. It should feel painful to read. It should be a cursed artifact. each of these narratives can be stored in the /theme-analysis/narratives/ directory, and the narrative.lua script can be called from /theme-analysis/analyze.lua. This narrative script will indeed call into analyze as well, essentially as a reciprocal dependency. Instead of analyzing for word-cloud purposes, as /theme-analysis/analyze.lua is currently doing, it would have it's own slightly tailored processes for extracting a narrative from a series of short, segmented and semipseudo disconnected series of poems.  [the ai says yes]
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--- #95 messages/1154 ---
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 Freedom to do anything, and the liberty to choose as you please.
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--- #96 fediverse/1482 ---
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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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--- #97 fediverse/1558 ---
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 Just because you haven't won yet, doesn't mean you've lost.
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--- #98 fediverse/5988 ---
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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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--- #99 messages/1085 ---
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 When other people use your objects, they will always damage them more than you
 do. Share with this in mind.
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--- #100 fediverse/5881 ---
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 I wish I could click on ls output to cd up or down
 
 girl that's just called midnight commander
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--- #101 fediverse/5919 ---
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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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--- #102 fediverse_boost/283 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Webpages should never have been allowed to execute code.                    
  
                                                            
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--- #103 fediverse/4823 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 I try to download the documentation for any tool that I know how to use.
 Especially on my laptops.
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--- #104 fediverse/898 ---
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 if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax
 and logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
 nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
 blows over.
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--- #105 fediverse/5823 ---
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 the firsthing a helpful comrade would do with their mistakes is bring
 attention to them.
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--- #106 fediverse/1588 ---
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 @user-1035 
 
 Even better if you say "you do you too"
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
 gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
 that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
 productive use of our state's time
 
 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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--- #108 messages/1026 ---
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 There are three ways to cast software.
 
 Using int, wisdom, or charisma.
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--- #109 fediverse/6457 ---
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 the second rule is you don't have to hang out with mortals. there are places
 you can go where they won't find you, except by accident, and then you just go
 somewhere else.
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--- #110 fediverse/6343 ---
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 you can revolute whenever you want to.
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--- #111 fediverse/5072 ---
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 I like to play with the camera zoomed in all the way and by only using my
 mouse. no keyboard. just clicking noise.
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--- #112 fediverse/402 ---
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 the standard keyboard was designed when global variables were more common,
 hence why the CAPS_LOCK key is so prominent.
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--- #113 messages/1172 ---
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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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--- #114 fediverse/5109 ---
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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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--- #115 fediverse/1610 ---
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 @user-1040 
 
 that's by design so they don't hop over to Linux
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--- #116 fediverse/1730 ---
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 the best way to make friends is to be open and honest to them
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--- #117 fediverse/3917 ---
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 people who don't play games are fucked in the afterlife, just sayin'
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--- #118 fediverse/3903 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 would love something like that...! Also, joystick for flight games
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--- #119 messages/431 ---
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 Rent is expensive because they only want you living there if you're working.
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--- #120 messages/740 ---
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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--- #121 fediverse/4118 ---
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 all modern software should be written in a multithreaded way, change my mind
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--- #122 fediverse/1224 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 sure that would help! I've used it to convert video files to a smaller size
 for uploading to websites, but that's about it
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--- #123 messages/568 ---
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 https://expe.app.link/vLkAM4SFMNb
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--- #124 fediverse/854 ---
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 the user knows more than the programmer
 
 [more/better]
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--- #125 fediverse/5353 ---
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 some of my favorite games are behind me and I can't describe how happy I am to
 have known here
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--- #126 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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--- #127 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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--- #128 messages/488 ---
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 Look at the unique patterns in a programming language, and you will find
 within them a usecase.
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--- #129 fediverse/3266 ---
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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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--- #130 fediverse/345 ---
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 If you want to write object oriented C, just make one file per class and use
 static functions for private methods.
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--- #131 fediverse/65 ---
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #132 fediverse/3351 ---
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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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--- #133 fediverse/5390 ---
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 ext4 is not an encryption scheme, even though it seems that way to windows
 users.
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--- #134 fediverse/1242 ---
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 one way to network is to connect other people.
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--- #135 messages/551 ---
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 This gun is my sword 
 This blade is my weapon 
 And my foes will lay before me
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--- #136 messages/111 ---
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 When someone remakes content into a different expression like a remake or
 reboot or whatever it gives a different message in its meaning - some
 circumstances and characters can apply for more than one message I'm it's
 meaning
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--- #137 fediverse/5018 ---
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 │ CW: politics-mentioned │
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 if you want to do communism in a city, you must first buy a parking lot.
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--- #138 fediverse/6125 ---
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 @user-1871 
 
 conquer your foes and they will never again harm you.
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--- #139 fediverse/6141 ---
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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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--- #140 messages/892 ---
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 Why do we only have one file extension? Why not put them one after another for
 increased categorization?
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--- #141 fediverse/820 ---
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 your conveyals? are you really using twitter like a blog? ... >.> ...
 okay I'll stop
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--- #142 messages/678 ---
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 ChatGPT needs a way to leave a thank-you without demanding a response
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--- #143 fediverse/5218 ---
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 │ CW: historical-weapons-mentioned │
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 "what if cannons were aimed like rifles?"the guy who was ahead of his time for
 rocket propelled grenades or laser guided airstrikes of small munition
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--- #144 fediverse/6385 ---
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 interpreted programs allow you to change variables at run-time from remote.
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--- #145 fediverse/2379 ---
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 │ CW: uspol            │
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 they have the audacity to claim their plan for next year is a second
 revolution, as if we had sat idle
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--- #146 messages/888 ---
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 The biggest danger to opsec is when other people think they know more than you.
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--- #147 messages/141 ---
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 Why would we say not to divide by zero? We literally do it every time we use
 the percent sign smh [silly]
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--- #148 fediverse/2873 ---
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 @user-883 @user-192 
 
 I don't update my kernel more than like, once every few months, so maybe that
 would be something to look into! how scriptable is it?
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 pls hire me blizzard. I am desperate to be used for a common cause and guided
 by a caring hand.
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 maybe some whiteboards and notebooks as well...
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 the democrats are the ones who forced us to get jobs, so... /shrug
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--- #152 messages/226 ---
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 The fighter doth not know who he is fighting
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 @user-907 
 
 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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--- #154 fediverse/3388 ---
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 what if they made grass only able to be cut with horizontal strikes and pots
 only able to be smashed with vertical
 
 to encourage the player to learn the difference
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--- #155 fediverse/5877 ---
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 I wish I could click on ls output to cd up or down
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--- #156 fediverse/112 ---
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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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--- #157 fediverse/3952 ---
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 they want eye tracking so they can tell what kinds of ads to sell me
 
 I want eye tracking on the desktop so I can select enemies in MMOs easier
 
 we are not the same
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--- #158 fediverse/6278 ---
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 @user-1429 
 
 do something fun and hard like walk to seattle or install linux on a toaster
 or write happy notes on post-its and leave them in public places or make art
 and leave it in a public place or~
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--- #159 fediverse/3787 ---
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 arithmatic control flow
 
 If A, then B. Else C
a picture of a programmatic implementation of arithmatic control flow
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--- #160 messages/701 ---
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 one sec  gotta send something else from my phone... now, what was it, hmmmmm
 lemme think
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 good thing they can turn off their empathy module haha now they can torture
 them as they please
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--- #162 messages/1236 ---
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  true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and
  that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion)
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--- #163 fediverse/1480 ---
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 The mandate of heaven can eat my shorts
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--- #164 messages/373 ---
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 that moment when you swear you see your messages changing under your
 fingertips, long after you've written them
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--- #165 fediverse/3454 ---
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 deleting messages is pointless.
 
 it's always better to assume that they'll be screenshotted before you post.
 
 anything you say on the internet can and WILL be used against you
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--- #166 fediverse/5179 ---
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 why don't corporations let you write code in whatever language you want? it's
 trivial to run a compiler or interpreter inside of another program.
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--- #167 messages/1097 ---
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 the only (or most valid) form of preaching is encouraging to read a bit every
 day.
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--- #168 fediverse/4025 ---
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
 in on it.
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--- #169 messages/483 ---
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 "hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
 that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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--- #170 fediverse/267 ---
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 the unluckiest person in the world failed the most wisdom checks.
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--- #171 fediverse/5805 ---
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 the most interesting news about video games I've ever read was titled
 "graphics overhaul announced"
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--- #172 fediverse/5880 ---
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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--- #173 messages/662 ---
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 The trolley problem, but you're strapped to the track, and pulling the lever
 means working hard for months on end.
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--- #174 fediverse/97 ---
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 @user-110 Exactly! I play games to practice strategy and empathy, not to stand
 triumphant over a virtual foe. Why should I care for the lessons of others
 when mine so often go unlearnt?
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--- #175 fediverse/421 ---
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 one of my duties is to make you aware of potentially bad things, cursed
 things, hurtful things and hard feelings, so that they are less able to harm
 you.
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 @user-95 back when games had more value because you only had like, 6 of them
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 thank you for the dog posts they keep me friendly
 
 thank you for the cat posts they keep me sane
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 phew that takes a load off my mind : )
A screenshot of a chatGPT conversation  the user asks "How about politically? Are they a radical individual?"  the web search results filtered through a large language model replies: "Based on the public information, there is no public record of Ritz Menardi's political views or affiliations. Their online presence primarily focuses on technology, music, and creative writing, without any indication of radical political beliefs or activities."
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--- #179 fediverse/5360 ---
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 another day goes by when I haven't done any programming... oh well
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--- #180 fediverse/6145 ---
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 then, here's the cool part, if you share your software people might like it
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--- #181 fediverse/617 ---
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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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--- #182 fediverse/6286 ---
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 how can you call it a computer science education if the students can't even
 send packets
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--- #183 fediverse/5488 ---
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 okay ttyl I gotta go play video games I guess >.>
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--- #184 fediverse/4617 ---
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 the truth is, the "right" way to use computers is actually not as hard as it
 seems. we've just been trained to view microsoft products as the norm.
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--- #185 messages/463 ---
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 A democracy only works if the losing side consents to being governed by the
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 what if we demanded private servers for video games (by law? what else would
 even work??) and encouraged companies to hire people to make high-quality mods
 for their competitors games so they couldn't make as much money selling
 expansion packs and DLC
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--- #187 fediverse/562 ---
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 when peak unintelligibility levels have been reached, feel free to become
 unremarkable at your leisure.
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--- #188 messages/1228 ---
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 You should be able to donate anything you want to a tool library. It should
 always have plenty of washing machines. They might even be kept out of state.
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 The only valuable thing to them in the cities are the people whose jobs
 they're currently eliminating.
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 the law is a weapon to be wielded by the masses to subjugate their masters
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--- #191 messages/1116 ---
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 What works for me might not work for another,
 
 But 
 
 What works for me might work for another.
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 @user-246 
 
 or why they'd ban you without fighting you, trying to change your mind
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 they wanted image generators so they could fabricate evidence, doh
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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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 something something "those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat
 it" or something like that
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 @user-883 
 
 I have a different port for my desktop and my laptop just in-case the router
 forgets to check the postmarked address on the packets it receives... at least
 it'll know which port to send it to!
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 "why bother disadvantaged and vulnerable people when you could just grow your
 own?"
 
 - motivations of a capitalist-in-regard
 
 empowerment requires strength. do you force people to unbecome the victim? how
 are your traps mentally prepared?
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 You can learn a lot about someone by asking how long their commute is.
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 I use cannabis medically
 
 I post on the internet recreationally
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 born to write xlock screensavers
 
 cursed to shitpost
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