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 @user-1573 
 
 ooooo I see, yeah I picked one distro and I stuck with it. Void Linux.
 
 then my friend wanted me to learn Gentoo, so I did.
 
 I use DWM on my Void Linux computer but i3 on my Gentoo one, just to mess with
 myself and stay on my toes 🤓
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 @user-1268 
 
 I like Void Linux because it's simple, clean, and gets out of your way. It was
 my first Linux distribution and I think it's excellent for a beginner.
 
 I use Gentoo because my old best friend installed it on a thinkpad she gifted
 me. Then I kept it because I liked the idea of compiling all my software
 locally and being as flexible as possible.
 
 I installed NixOS on my newest laptop because I thought it'd be nice to have a
 system that was dependable. NixOS has all the system configuration done in a
 single file, so if you save that file you can rebuild your system on any other
 system with minimal effort (at least, that's the idea - I haven't tested it
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--- #2 fediverse/3686 ---
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 @user-1573 
 
 I do, but git is pretty complex! I can do some pretty basic stuff but I'd like
 more experience with the more complicated aspects.
 
 I currently use Void Linux and Gentoo, and I was thinking of installing NixOS
 on my raspberry pi. I'll let you know when I end up doing that ^_^
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--- #3 fediverse/4455 ---
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 @user-1268 
 
 void linux, gentoo, and nixos. But mostly Void Linux
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--- #4 fediverse/3907 ---
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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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--- #5 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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--- #6 fediverse/1616 ---
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 they say learning Linux is hard, but it's the only free operating system so
 really it's a question of learning Linux now, when you have time, or later,
 when you're busy.
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 @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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--- #8 fediverse/3744 ---
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 @user-1352 
 
 Unfortunately I have to use the proprietary drivers because video games, so I
 can't use Nouveau T.T
 
 I figure if I like Gentoo but wish it was a little more "config file" based,
 then Nix is probably my best bet!
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--- #9 fediverse/3896 ---
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 I'm worried that if I install NixOS on my desktop instead of Void Linux then
 all the hackers who watch my screen every day won't be able to see anymore. T.T
 
 Listen I'm not trying to mess up your business and whatnot but like, Void
 Linux keeps breaking and idk NixOS is just... so much nicer? Like, having a
 config file handle everything is great because, like, there's only so many
 commands you can use in a config file, right? With the more ad-hoc approach of
 running commands and whatnot there's always a ton of flags to memorize and I'm
 not about that.
 
 Downside is... SystemD instead of Runit... So maybe I'll stick with Void for
 now, haha
 
 SystemD is the king of "memorizing random commands" like what
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--- #10 fediverse/5928 ---
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 what the heck is yocto and why do I need to learn how to use it to create a
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--- #11 fediverse/3592 ---
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 @user-1570 
 
 [meme of Mr Incredible from the Incredibles pointing at a table]
 
 LINUX IS LINUX.
 
 (anything that works on Linux can theoretically be made to work on your
 toaster, if it also runs Linux!)
 
 This is very cool, and if I understand correctly it means that any Godot games
 could theoretically be played on these NEAT as HECK little devices, yeah? So
 cool!
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 I should conjure x11 from source. I bet they have a lot of useful utilitudes
 that I can configure. I wonder if Gentoo can do it for me? nahhhhh I'll just
 write my own script, it'll only take me like a couple hours per piece of
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--- #13 fediverse_boost/5464 ---
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  Instead of using butter with your garlic bread, you should switch to Linux. You can set up a virtual machine to try out various distros to see which one works best for your needs.  
  
                                                            
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--- #14 fediverse/466 ---
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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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--- #15 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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--- #16 fediverse/5873 ---
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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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--- #17 fediverse/4059 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 Shows how long I've been without playing SWBF2 with friends 🙃 
 
 I'm sure there's a MUCH better way to do it on Linux. I just haven't looked
 into it yet.
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--- #18 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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--- #19 fediverse_boost/6017 ---
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  Linux admins when they have to use Windows: :/                              
                                                                              
  Windows admins when they have to use Linux: :\                              
  
                                                            
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--- #20 fediverse/4479 ---
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 @user-1268 
 
 window managing and desktop managing can be separate, but typically a desktop
 implies windows so they're often bundled together.
 
 I use DWM on my desktop and i3 on my laptops, and they're both just window
 managers. Specifically "tiling" window managers, and they don't have desktops.
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--- #21 fediverse/5783 ---
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 I think our industry should work on one project at a time                        │
 "do one thing and do it well"                                                    │
 linux users code.                                                                │
 everyone backends ffmpeg.                                                        │
 everyone online uses chrome.                                                     │
 what if we just rewrote every single program and... left it without updates in   │
 a "permanently forbidden" zone                                                   │
 ... I mean what if we wrote non-proprietary alternatives to every proprietary    │
 source of computational knowledge and then we could only patch security          │
 vulnerabilities and compatibility change-bounties [oh no now you're allowing     │
 for endless levels of abstraction [meaning, operating system package             │
 installation bloat] and distasteractions.]                                       │
 the futures where all is not well nearly outnumber the well. but the inverse     │
 is also true, for they are divided roughly equal fifty. balance, in all          │
 things, is the only temperate state. when balance is                             │
 [changed/something/uplifted], balance is inevitable to be search-shifted.        │
 why must you die for an audience?                                                │
 why                                                                              │
 ... I don't really want to, but what happens happens. we'll see if it's a for    │
 sure dealing.                                                                    │
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--- #22 fediverse/1939 ---
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 @user-579 
 
 OMG I've never met someone who also uses Void - it's the best distro for my
 purposes!
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--- #23 fediverse/3123 ---
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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--- #24 fediverse/3423 ---
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 every time I search the internet for a solution to a linux problem I have to
 do add -ubuntu to the end of the search query
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--- #25 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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--- #26 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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--- #27 fediverse/4772 ---
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 @user-1692 
 
 I usually write everything down in a script that way when I call it from an
 external service all I have to do is point at the file
 
 sorta like... hacking environmental options into a config file
 
 like... I don't write an ffmpeg command every time I want to record my screen.
 I just type "screen-record" and then it'll do the thing that I figured out how
 to do a long time ago.
 
 ... oh no there's an error, I wonder what changed out from under my feet.
 
 huh it's wine, that one's always confusing to debug. Let's see... "could not
 open program.exe" uh-huh. Well, why not? is there a dependency issue?
 something miscompiled or configured? no? it's just... broken? you don't get to
 use that program today? huh that's weird. that's linux for ya I guess.
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 setting up an SSH server is like a rite of passage for Linux administrators
 
 (notice I didn't say users, you can't use linux, only administer it)
 
 ... I'm having trouble with my rites >.>
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 @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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 advice and various spells you've invented yourself (it's totally easy to do      │
 btw, I'll show you how)                                                          │
 everyone's super friendly and anyone who's not isn't allowed to bother us.       │
 it's pretty neat. anyway no matter what it is, if something's bothering you      │
 about your computer, you can fix it. it's just a matter of reading through       │
 documentation. Ah, well, isn't it great to have a lot of free time that you      │
 don't know what to do with?                                                      │
 Linux is pretty great, I gotta say. I honestly never really leave the command    │
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 something with pictures (or playing a game like freecell or hearts)              │
 plus you can do things like sending raw packets of information to your friend    │
 who's on the other side of the country and they can use a secret key-code to     │
 decrypt it like checking the mail at a locked mailbox.                           │
 anything you can imagine using the physical components of a computer, is         │
 possibleifyrts                                                                   │
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--- #31 messages/181 ---
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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-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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--- #33 messages/511 ---
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 That feeling when running a command on my laptop causes the fans to spin up on
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--- #34 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
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  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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--- #35 fediverse/5069 ---
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 if you have problems with games on linux, I can help you install it
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--- #36 fediverse/5705 ---
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 all Valve has to do for linux compatibility is let us sort reviews by the
 operating system of the user. go back to making games! Proton is cool and I
 know you're a platform but your games are so good!
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 a reason that microsoft's software runs slower on linux than linux software      │
 runs on windows, right?                                                          │
 ... wait I forget exactly where I was going with this, are you saying there's    │
 a keylogger built into the wine / windows environment software? no, but I'm      │
 not NOT saying that. listen I'm too eepy sleepy for hardcore computing like      │
 that! rubbin' bits between your fingers and twiddling the nose of cutie pies     │
 is only sorta my jam - the rest of the time I like to snuggle up with a pillow   │
 shaped like a pillow and then fall asleep to the tune of the tortured souls      │
 being reaped from the afterlife and given new life as seeds and berries in       │
 this one. oh, did you think death had no other homes? all things are defined     │
 in waves, something something samsara but like, different because humans cant    │
 be rite                                                                          │
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 This was the first bash script I ever wrote.
 
 It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it
 looks like now.
 
 Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
A bash script that plays a random episode of Adventure Time from a terminal.
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--- #39 fediverse/369 ---
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 I hate how fragile Linux is
 
 It deserves to be strong and durable
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 I feel like if I wanted to keep every single one of my games playable I'd have
 to boot them up at least once every 3 months or so.
 
 That's EXHAUSTING. Linux is supposed to "just work" - so why does everything
 break every time you run an update?
 
 WHY can't I just... maintain a copy of old software if it's still in use? Or
 like, include all the installation steps that check for dependencies (and
 install them if necessary) into the "launch game" script?
 
 Backwards compatibility for a single season ago is apparently too much. I've
 written a few scripts for it but you can only do so much when the game files
 aren't on github -.-
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--- #42 fediverse/4826 ---
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 the fact that linux software by default shares libraries causes 90% of the
 difficulty that new and medium skill users of linux face.
 
 disk space is cheap. spend more on hard drives and double the software size.
 make redundancy that prevents software failures but doesn't slow down the
 machine.
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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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 @user-1040 
 
 that's by design so they don't hop over to Linux
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 @user-883 
 
 hmmmm I'm running mediamtx on the same computer that I'm running the streaming
 script on. I'll try with 127.0.0.1
 
 I don't think I updated my system since it was working last time. I'll scroll
 through our chat and see if I can find any hints.
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 or like, a window that your window manager could window manage as it pleased.    │
 I'm thinking of like, i3 or dwm where you have "tiles" instead of "windows"      │
 you drag around. Really saves on screen real estate, but it lowers the ability   │
 of your screen to show width. Or height, depending on how you set it up, but     │
 since monitors tend to be wider than height-er (higher?) they (the users) tend   │
 to use setups that sacrifice width for visual density.                           │
 anyway in such a setup the screen is divided into like, 3rds or 4ths, and each   │
 window takes up part of it. That way you can reference information from          │
 multiple sources without having to move anything but your eyes. Really helps     │
 with keeping it all in your head, because eyes are not reading information       │
 like a computer - they aren't using a cursor, it's not one bit of text at a      │
 time. Well, unless you're reading of course. But generally when looking at       │
 something it's a more parallel experience - shining through and forth from to    │
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--- #48 fediverse/5191 ---
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--- #49 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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 If I'm trying to get a game or piece of software working, I'll pretty much       │
 install any package that some random post from 2017 tells me to. Sometimes it    │
 feels like I'm a Linux grandma clicking on things that say "bored of your        │
 marriage? click here for games!" and I say to myself "well my marriage is        │
 fine, but I enjoy horsing around from time to time" and then I get a virus and   │
 my things break and I go to my niece who's just a darling and say "hello         │
 niece, I can't check my emails anymore because I downloaded some spam, can you   │
 give me some tips on how to fix my computer?" and she just rolls her eyes        │
 because this is like, the fifth random package I downloaded just because some    │
 random forum poster that SAYS it's from 2017 but who I don't actually KNOW is    │
 from 2017 and isn't just some automated LLM output that tells you to             │
 downloaded automatically generated virus packages that are secretly snuck into   │
 the package repositories because nobody can keep track of ALL THIS STUFF         │
 anymore now that the internet is AI                                              │
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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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 @user-883 
 
 I use DWM and Vim, so yeah I get it ^_^
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 @user-431 
 
 I made an alias that overwrites cd so I don't have to do this. The important
 line is line 27, you could probably accomplish something similar like this:
 
 alias cd="cd ${1} && ls -v --color=auto"
 
 I also set it up so I can change more than one directory up using ... or ....
 or .....
 
 also I have a few shortcut scripts, cdir and qcd. cdir creates a quick way to
 drop a bookmark wherever I'd like, while qcd can make permanent bookmarks.
 Also qcd makes it so whenever I open a new terminal it opens to the last
 directory I was in, which is nice if you need a new terminal to do something
 in the current folder and you don't want to have to walk alllllllll the way
 back.
A BASH script that overwrites the built in "change directory" command to auto magically list the contents of the directory you've moved into after moving.  here's the content of the script:  #!/bin/bash  alias cd="cd-improved"  function cd-improved(){      if [ "${1}" = "..." ] ; then         builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..     elif [ "${1}" = "...." ] ; then         builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..     elif [ "${1}" = "....." ] ; then         builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..          elif [ -d "./${1}" ] ; then         local target_dir="./${1}"      elif [ "${1}" = "cdir" ] ; then         local target_dir="$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')"         echo ${target_dir}       else         local target_dir="${1}"     fi      if [ ! "${2}" = '--no-ls' ] ; then         builtin cd "${target_dir}" && ls -v --color=auto     else         builtin cd "${target_dir}"     fi          # if the qcd function is defined     if declare qcd > /dev/null; then         quick_cd -d DEFAULT         quick_cd -a DEFAULT     fi }
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 would anyone be interested in a Bash+Lua script that takes your Mastodon
 archive and turns it into a folder full of .txt files?
 
 I also made a script that spits out a random one on your terminal, if you want
 that
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 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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 I'm best at Bash.                                                                │
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 My favorite is C.                                                                │
 I'm not a good programmer, I think too hard. Massive systems are too large for   │
 me. I like laying out data, whether that be by files and programs in Bash,       │
 arrays and tables in Lua, or memory and datatypes in C, I like to think about    │
 how programs are constructed.                                                    │
 Which functions point to which piles of numbers? what do they do when they get   │
 there?                                                                           │
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 quickly change my tune when I am incorrected. I am a team player, and I firmly   │
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 hey a couple months ago there was this really cool visual programming language
 posted here that was like, windows aero themed and it was super cute - does
 anyone know what that was called or have a link to it?
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 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people
 
 (great, now others can decide how it's known)
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 @user-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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--- #60 fediverse/4505 ---
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 does anyone know a linux utility which will allow me to "snip" part of the
 screen a'la flameshot, automatically spit the image into a text recognition
 system (ran locally) and place the extracted text into my clipboard?
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 what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
 just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
 important problems facing it
 
 or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
 would allow the developers to work on something better
 
 call it the wandering parade of development
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 @user-693 
 
 I use i3 on my laptop and dwm on my desktop. I feel like I save so much screen
 real estate when using a tiling window manager. Plus it's much easier to
 organize things if you want to multitask in one view.
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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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 @user-883 
 
 sound on Linux is so complicated :ms_confused:​
 
 EDIT: Linux is so complicated
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--- #65 fediverse/1634 ---
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 hello I'd like a computer that has multiple CPUs, each with shared data and
 separate data. I feel like I could run a lot of cool tests on them, especially
 when not connected to the internet or running a proprietary operating system
 like not-BSD
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 there are plenty of pieces of linux that are insecure in some way. Including
 x11, if I remember correctly. It is purely convention to not abuse these
 insecurities, and whenever you use someone else's binary software you trust
 that they won't betray you in some way.
 
 pre-built binaries are privacy violations and should be illegal. They are
 security threats because the model they're built upon is necessarily insecure.
 Computers will never be completely secure because of how they are built, and
 so we should use locally compiled software and interpreted scripts.
 
 Unless they're too long, or impossible to read. Who reads EULAs these days? At
 least those are written in english.
 
 maybe computers aren't worth it. Maybe computers will solve all our problems.
 Who can say, maybe you should ask an oracle like me
 
 though do remember that anything you hear can and will be used against you,
 monkey's paw style. So maybe, like... don't? unless you're into magic or
 schizophrenia or something
 
 I wnt 2 be cute and tch cpus
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 every time I update my system, it breaks.
 
 kinda makes me think they do that on purpose so that you spend all your time
 up to date and that way they can quickly patch in and out security flaws fast
 enough that nobody notices.
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 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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 [a picture of someone's neofetch]
 
 /u/HartBreaker27
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 I was gunna pass this over... than my spidey senses kicked in.. whats Arch 
 fam.. and explain like your talking to a potatoe.
 
 Also, if this is beyond potatoes level skills, im fine with being told that..
 
 Seriously fam, potatoes..
 
 /u/ugathanki
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 You know how using a windows and a mac feel different? Like they have different
 personalities. That's because they're using a different "Operating System". An 
 OS is a collection of tools and utilities that coalesce into a cohesive unit 
 that co-illustrates your coincidental contact with computers. Paired, of 
 course, with the contributions of the hardware and the network.
 
 Linux is sorta like the soul of an OS - not quite an entire OS, but rather just
 a piece called a "kernel" - like a nugget of gold (or truth!) the kernel 
 defines basic operating methodologies and brings order to the chaos of the 
 machine. From that order strives the will that dutifully obeys your base 
 instructions after being passed through several translation layers.
 
 Huh? Oh right potatoes.
 
 Arch is like a body that's layered upon the soul (kernel) of Linux. It's what's
 known as a "distribution" or "distro" - and one that's quite focused. Arch is 
 very close to the machine, with barely any translation going on at all! It's 
 also very bare bones, allowing you to build up exactly what kind of computer 
 you'd like to have through various "packages" of software that you can download
 through a "package manager". Each distro can use whichever package manager 
 they'd like, but it's generally good practice to pick one and stick with it.
 
 This distro is known as Arch Linux because it's the fusion of "Arch" and 
 "Linux" - who'd've thought amiright? There are plenty of others that are more 
 familiar to users of Windows and Macintosh computers, mostly via mimicking 
 their user-interface styles (such as having desktops with icons and start-menus
 with dropdowns and the like) - these distros are great for people who'd prefer 
 the workflow of the other OS's but would still like to use Linux.
 
 Arch in it's base form is nothing like Windows or Mac. You interact with it 
 purely through a "terminal" which is like having a conversation with your 
 computer. Like a scientist writing notes on the moon, and sending them to a lab
 orbiting around it to conduct experiments. You type commands, and those 
 commands (if properly understood) can produce a myriad of effects great and 
 small.
 
 But some of the experiments you'd like to conduct need to be done more than 
 once - it'd be nice if you could ask the moon-lab to store some of the
 procedures and execute them whenever you need - sorta like abbreviating a long 
 phrase or sentence that you use often - like ASAP for As Soon As Possible or OS
 for Operating System. Well... There are! They're called "scripts", and you can
 write scripts for anything you'd like. Since everything is controlled on the
 terminal via a TUI -> "Terminal User Interface" -> you can write down a
 note
 with all the commands you'd like to run and give it a name. Then you can use 
 that name in the future to execute that familiar experiment in your moon-lab.
 
 after writing enough scripts, you can start to chain them together and layer 
 them on top of one another - sorta like creating your own language. a personal 
 dialect between you and your computer. and these scripts are portable too - 
 they can be given to another computer, who'll instantly understand what you're 
 trying to say. this kind of sharing is a central tenant of what's known as the:
 
 "Unix Philosophy: Do one thing, and do it right."
 
 Linux lends itself toward people who love to hack things together - not like 
 breaking into a system and stealing your credit cards, like you see on TV, but
 more like cobbling together a go-cart out of rusty parts and proceeding to get 
 a speeding ticket on the high-way. That kind of fervent creative impulse is 
 true passion, a shining light for us who are blinded to follow. These "hackers"
 are some of the brightest people around, and I have immense respect for them. 
 They are kind and share knowledge freely, which often gets them in trouble with
 copyright laws!
 
 I make it sound difficult, but really it's pretty easy - about as easy as
 learning Windows or Mac for the first time. Most of us did that when we were
 young though, and kids learn pretty quick - so it may feel harder now, but it's
 really not. Once everything starts to "click" then it's just a matter of 
 knowing which commands to run.
 
 Speaking of which, if you know a command but you don't know how to use it, 
 you're in luck! There's some super convenient notes written by previous
 scientists who came before you and live on other nearby planets. These are 
 called "the man pages", and they are instructions written in a manual format 
 for manual application of man-made management applied to manufactured 
 man-chines. Sorry for that last one I had to. You can always find new commands
 by downloading new software on your package manager - generally, one package = 
 one command. "Do one thing and do it right"
 
 if you have any questions lmk - i'm not exactly a wizard, more of a prophet / 
 wielder of the will of the watchers within, but i'll do my best
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 @user-1056 
 
 heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't
 running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly
 failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot
 familiar, but not today I guess.
 
 Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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 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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 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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 every time a software project changes it's installation method I have to
 update my install and update scripts which I wrote explicitly so I don't have
 to go to their website and tell the world that I'm thinking about using this
 particular piece of software
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 I really do believe that you can write any computer program you'd like with a
 combination of Lua, Bash, and C.
 
 Bash to start the program and enable updates / configuration, Lua to handle
 the scripting and ordering of events, and C (or Rust) to execute performance
 intensive sections. (often in their own threads)
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 "huh weird why does my ls -ltr output display 4096 for every single
 directory's size"
 
 "maybe there's a man-file option for it"
 
 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019116/using-ls-to-list-directories-and-th
 eir-total-sizes
 
 what if every file had a record of every file that had a record of it. then,
 we could see the total size no matter what level of the directory structure.
 plus, it'd make deleting a lot easier, all you'd have to do is propagate a
 process. that way it can get super messed up and complicated if ever shut down.
 
 boom, robot mortality, they cherish it
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 @user-579 
 
 Yeah if there isn't a package in the package manager XBPS then I usually just
 install it from source. Which is ALSO something you can automate with a quick
 and easy script! Just put all the notes from the README on Github or whatever
 into a file named "update" and put that one level above the project directory!
 
 For any installed program my file hierarchy usually looks like:
 
 program-name
 - run (script)
 - update (script)
 - files (directory to clone into)
 - configs (point the program here)
 
 I find that this kind of organization makes it MUCH easier to keep my packages
 configured and installed as I'd like. Using a package manager is hard because
 they're all specific per distro, but using this distro-agnostic approach
 always seems to work better 9/10 times I find.
 
 And if another program needs a library that you manually installed, just
 symlink where it's looking to point to where you're installed! Or vice versa I
 guess.
 
 I use DWM so I don't have a desktop like KDE or anything like that
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 There's nothing that says your dual booted windows partition can't reach over
 into your Linux files and mess around with them. Even writing programs that
 execute whenever you're running Linux to do nefarious things like... Stream
 your desktop to Microsoft? Send files to wherever? Mine bitcoins? Doxx your
 friends? Anything's possible when you install Microsoft's software on your
 computer. You might not even have to run it, because it can write a program
 into the Linux memory which runs in the background. It's literally just bits,
 and all the information to explain which bits do what is just... On the
 internet, ready for Microsoft engineers to use as they will. Seriously, you
 think they're working on *features*? For the users? Fucking get real, dumbass.
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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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 Normal people: bandaids 
 
 Capitalists: staples, because they're cheap and so what if you ooze a little?
 That's the end user's problem
 
 Unix developers: duct-tape and gauze, because the shape is so customizable and
 it'll never come off accidentally, plus you can use gauze for so many other
 things too like mopping up oil spills or~
 
 Medical professionals: bandaids 
 
 Normal people: bandaids
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 @user-1286 
 
 I totally agree! Every time I install new software I write an "update" and
 "run" script so that I can easily use software that I haven't touched in a
 while.
 
 once I started doing that the usability of my system went way up. Unless they
 change the installation requirements, grrrrrrr
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 @user-33 i also like linux
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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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 "oh hi ms senpai-chan, I brought some beer and a bit of weed because I didn't
 know what getting bashed together meant? I thought it was like, smashing
 together "smashed" and "baked" or something. anyway wow that's a lot of
 monitors, I think this is my first time in your room? do you sleep there?
 where do you fit your clothes? oh wow cool action figure collection, are you
 hacking right now? is that hacking?
 
 ...
 
 what's a linux? can I install it on my phone?
 
 [starts crying]
 
 oh no ms senpai-chan did I say something wrong"
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 I added a line to my .bashrc that cats out a random one of my notes every time
 I open a terminal.
 
 I keep reading things that I swear I didn't write, but feel right and true to
 me in a way that could only imply that they came fully formed into my eyes
 through the lines on my screen, cast upon the mirror panes of my hard disk
 drive by the pounding of my keyboard as I once upon a time did cast a spell
 upon my future.
 
 It's pretty neat, but it speaks to a shadowed perspective that perhaps is
 neither within nor without.
 
 Side note, I think I've been possessed by a witch. But like... in a consensual
 way. Like "Hey witch, wanna live? You can chill out with me." [ha that's one
 way to look at it]
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 I love programming!! Currently working on learning decentralized and GPU
 oriented computing. It's lots of fun! Plus Bash is a great language, it's not
 funky or hacky at all. Just a great language. Haha suuuuch a great thing to
 play with.
 
 But GPUs are legitimately cool, aside from Bash's purported funkiness /
 hackiness. You can do all kinds of cool things at scale that just don't make
 sense up close.
 
 EDIT: oops sorry forgot the content warning
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 @user-1707 
 
 hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua
 but it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think
 raspberry pi's except risc-v
 
 also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo
 and lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even
 translate text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a
 jpeg compression but for text.
 
 Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed"
 part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little
 utilities like that for connectivity.
 
 oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so
 we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard)
 
 anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you
 about it. I might even be able to pay you.
 
 (everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is
 encrypted, etc etc)
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 @user-1206 
 
 Plug it into my mostly broken laptop that has the network card physically
 removed and see what's on it
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 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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 @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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 @user-1767 last I heard there were more blind users of the fediverse than
 queer people.
 
 I have no idea how that could be true.
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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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 I should not have to follow 16 steps that I don't understand just because you
 decided my system wasn't good enough for me.
a long list of steps in order to update a gentoo system to a new version (not even the newest version, I might add)
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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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 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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 Just configured Wake on LAN so I can turn on my desktop from anywhere. As long
 as I have the right SSH key...
 
 Couldn't figure out how to do Wake on WAN, which I think is somehow more
 secure. This way uses a small jump from a separate tiny computer which is
 always on.
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 if your computer gets hacked, but nothing was broken or changed... do you        │
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 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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 anytime I want to do something new on my computer, I write a bash script.
 
 if I forgot how to do the thing, I spend time meandering about my
 file-directory-system. If I don't find it, that's okay, because all I have to
 do is keep looking until I stumble upon it.
 
 kinda makes me wish I had an LLM who managed the operating system and named
 files with long-and-descriptive titles while taking in as context the general
 eternal prompt stored in ~/.claude.md or wherever
 
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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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 I run Nix on one of my laptops and I really enjoy it : )
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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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 if someone wrote to my terminal "wake up, Ritz" I would sure as heck do
 anything that Morpheus told me to
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 Hi, I'm learning about semaphores right now and trying to explain them to a
 friend. But I only sorta understand how they work - can anyone look at this
 pseudocode and tell me if I'm on the right track?
Some C pseudocode working through the semaphore design pattern. Here's the text of the pseudocode:  /* no lock example */  void start_thread(int* x) {   *x += 1; }  int main() {   int x = 0;   for (1000 times){     start_thread(&x);   }   print(x); }  /* in this case you have no idea what will print because thread A will take x and be like "ah yes it's 423" and then in the next instruction it'll be like "I'll increment this to be 424" and in the next one it'll say "okay now it's time to store 424 in the variable X" but like... there's a thousand threads all doing that at the same time, so odds are you'll have 5 that are like "ah yes this is 423 I'll set it to 424" */  /* not a good plan. Need a lock, so only one thread can use it at once. */ /* mutex example: */  void start_thread(int* x, int* x_mutex) {   *x += 1;   *x_mutex = 0; }  int main() {   int x = 0;   int x_mutex = 0;   for (1000 times){     while (x_mutex != 0){ } /* do nothing */     x_mutex = thread_id;     start_thread(&x, &x_mutex);   }   print(x); }  /* this should print 1000, but it's basically as slow as doing it single threaded. */  #define MAX 10  void start_thread(int* x, int* x_semaphore) {   *x += 1;   *x_semaphore += 1; }  int main() {   int x[MAX];   int x_semaphore = MAX;   for (1000 times) {     for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {       x_semaphore -= 1;       start_thread(&x[i], &x_semaphore);     }     while (x_semaphore != MAX) { } /* do nothing */   }   int value = sum(x, MAX);   print(value); }
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 trying my best not to think about communism too much right now. Mostly because
 I'm waiting for everyone to catch up... when the day comes when people stop
 saying "based" and leaving it at that, then I'll make more theory. But as a
 consequence of my queer nature I shall deliver such things in the form of an
 insane twitter post on the fetlifeverse.
 
 the world waits with bated breath in the eye of the storm. Nobody knows whats
 coming, and everyone prays that it's nothing [short of revolution]
 
 ... I should probably go back to sleep, I just had to wake up and write about
 linux or whatever...
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 @user-1165 
 
 I am an anarchist. My strategy is to let the DSA be the centralized vanguard
 party. If another emerges, let them share responsibilities - every burden
 taken off your back is more energy that can be applied to what you are sworn
 to care for.
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 [a while later]
 
 what if every instance of the OS acted as a git repo for all the other
 people's programs
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 if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
 code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
 at once
 
 [statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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 @user-883 
 
 Ah, well, since you've worked with raspberry pi's before I am going to trust
 you on that. Perhaps a different system-on-a-chip could be used which has
 better network controllers.
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 I love writing installation scripts like this!
 
 If you want to install something on Linux but you have difficulty, talk to me
 and I'll write you a script like this. I might even make it fancier.
 
 This one installs a programming language that is useful for parallel computing
 across multiple clusters of computers which could be useful if you want to
 leverage multiple CPUs and GPUs with ease to compute tasks which are far
 beyond a normal computer.
 
 https://chapel-lang.org/download.html
An installation script for the Chapel programming language.  I don't imagine it'd be very useful to hear the program read out-loud, but if it would be interesting to hear, then feel free to ask.
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 the most important skill I can think of for a linux software engineer is the
 ability to connect multiple systems together and turn windows and macintosh
 devices into Linux devices so that datacenters can be built out of whatever's
 on the around.
 
 there's this programming language I like called Chapel for distributed
 computation computing which is also cool, if you're more of the programming
 type.
 
 networking security I believe often has hardware solutions, so getting the
 crypto-graphy boys and the PCB girls together to work on some jams is a good
 and productively useful gathering of insightful events
 
 "but ritz computers should only be used to solve problems that people have,
 not make more problems!" ah yes but have you considered that problems find
 you, and the computers help you work through them
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 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this
 format like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing,
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 @user-1572
 
 nope
 
 I figure if I have to rebuild them, oh well.
 
 plus this way I can give each of my computers a slightly different personality.
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 technology in it's abstract form represents the collective growth and breadth
 of human innovation.
 
 so why the heck do we make tech products for non-tech people
 
 like... they should be more like us, and we shouldn't compel ourselves to
 apply ourselves for their benefit. If someone doesn't want to learn Linux then
 maybe they don't need a computer?
 
 something something "chromebooks are good, actually" which is sorta true but
 instead of being a generic thin-client for web servers anywhere in the world
 they should be thin-clients for servers that they intentionally connect to and
 trust
 
 ... oh sorta like a chromebook then?
 
 how about a chromebook with a white-list comprised of friends and family who
 run their own servers...
 
 I don't know if disarming people is the right play. I should add a cursed tag
 to this.
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 oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to
 listen, you lucky ducks ; )
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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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 I'm curious which operating systems don't have that feature?
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 I helped make a script that saves the last directory you CD'd to in every
 shell / terminal. It helps because when I open a new terminal I'm already
 where I was working last, which means I'm less likely to forget what I was
 doing.
 
 However, it does make my home directory a bit more messy, as I no longer open
 my computer to that place.
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 somebody shifted my terminal tabs like, 4 pixels to the left, and now the
 far-left part of the text is half-cut off. lol xD
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 if you have kids in your life it might be a good idea to check out these retro
 gaming handhelds:
 
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1irg60f9qsZOkhp0cwOU7Cy4rJQeyusEUzTNQzho
 TYTU/edit?gid=0#gid=0
 
 they're great for long car trips, or going camping, or staying at grandma's
 house for an extended period of time, and other interesting times like that.
 
 I hear Anbernic has a sale going on today.
 
 Also I recommend going for one that runs Linux if possible, the Android ones
 are less hackable and therefore less reliable.
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 for all those reading at home, I need to apply to a job and apparently they
 only really care about my experience with linux. Which is kinda like asking
 "hey can you tell me what are you favorite foods to eat with a spoon?"
 when someone is applying to be a chef. Um, okay, applesauce I guess? I usually
 eat mac and cheese with a knife and another knife, but sometimes I dip into the
 spoon for that extra shoveling experience points.
 
 anyway here's my linux projects:
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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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 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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 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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 I was always fascinated by the Linux way of programming. Need to do something?   │
 write it into a script! You never know when you'll need it again. Then, just     │
 stay organized, religiously so, and understand that you will forget about        │
 stuff. But, you'll come across it eventually, ready and willing and able to      │
 help you.                                                                        │
 if you don't want me using AI, then give me ~20 junior developers. Which is      │
 more efficient, do you think?                                                    │
 "girl you haven't even tested your vibe-coded slop, how do you know if it        │
 works"                                                                           │
 oh I'm sure it doesn't, but it's the thought that counts                         │
 ... I guess I'm just saying, please don't burn the data centers. Computers are   │
 not only bad for the environment when they're burnt, but also we can use them    │
 for all kinds of neat things. Even if it takes a lot of energy, just... build    │
 more solar panels and only use the computers for important stuff?                │
 timeshare-style?                                                                 │
 \@/documents/books/man-and-the-computer.pdf                                      │
 that was my mother's book... I love her. I miss that side of her. She fled       │
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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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 I love rice and beans because
 
 error: stack overflow
 
 huh, that's weird. Must have been too many reasons. Let's try again:
 
 I love rice and beans because
 
 error: user didn't change anything between runs of the program so clearly they
 don't understand how computer works
 
 ... well that's a different error so it's progress at least.
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 @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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--- #129 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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--- #130 fediverse/2720 ---
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 ah nuts, they replaced my LLM setup with one that outputs gibberish. I swear
 it was working just a moment ago, and I didn't change it's configuration at
 all, and it's local only... right? so uh that's weird, surely it's not because
 they altered some value somewhere that I have no access to
 
 eh, maybe the newest technologies are overrated. At least, the software ones.
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 ah but are you really armed in the first place if everything you do has to be    │
 googled or stack-overflowed first                                                │
 are you really armed if every web page request goes through their                │
 infrastructure                                                                   │
 are you really armed if every page downloaded is directed to by their DNS        │
 perhaps it's the illusion of power that gives Linux it's attraction to nerds     │
 such as we. Perhaps we feel powerful by bash scripting a few things together     │
 and making some program that does some thing. Maybe the idea that the            │
 machinery is open and clear is what compels us to use it without fear, though    │
 as far as we can hear there's nothing about it that makes sense.                 │
 I guess that's why they teach Linux in school, so that our elementary            │
 interactions with the computers that comprise our future existence will make     │
 sense to us as children.                                                         │
 ... wait they don't do that, do they? kids get chromebooks, or didn't you        │
 hear, they're always putting boogers in the CD trays and breaking their LCD      │
 displays, much better to just start fresh                                        │
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--- #132 messages/1203 ---
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 Programmers are lazy, this is well known. So why would i trust by default that
 anyone would read open source code looking for security exploits or malicious
 code? I trust an LLM for that more than a human. At least your own LLM can
 digest the entire project or library at once.
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 @user-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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--- #134 fediverse/1428 ---
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 hello everyone, Discord is down for me and I can't reach any of my friends
 over SMS.
 
 You know I'd just... give you my address if you asked, right?
 
 oh no sorry turns out they were just busy haha silly me why would I worry
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 lol I spent half an hour holding a trowel and then I designed a new type of
 digging instrument
 
 and they want me to work a job /eyeroll
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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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 linux is not a viable operating system for people who can only troubleshoot by
 restarting their computer because every time they plug in a new audio device
 suddenly their headphones don't work.
 
 fucking alsa, fucking pulse, the entire stack is fucked
 
 (and yes I know it's a very difficult problem)
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--- #138 fediverse/581 ---
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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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--- #139 fediverse/1207 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 okayyyy I have catgirl installed
 
 https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/
 
 let me know what server or whatever to join
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 the more complicated your desktop environment interaction method is, the
 harder it is to explain how to use the computer on post-it's to the side. This
 difficulty is valuable because the most valuable computers (those of
 programmers who can use tools to create new tools) are kept away from the
 unfortunately inexperienced hands that might damage or corrupt their
 utilization methods someday in the future when people are alive as one host
 
 (collectivism... or host-based paradise?)
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--- #141 fediverse/5990 ---
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 I have this local language model framework but it's not built into anything
 more than a single-response question. It's runnable as a bash script or lua
 require, which is easy enough. Alas, if only I didn't have to use evil
 corporate infrastructure to make evil corporate cursed artifacts
 
 [hey don't blame this on us]
 
 oh I'm not, I'm just saying that it'd be cooler if I could build my own tools.
 Alas, I'm...
 
 lasy?
 
 n...no
 
 I'm drawn to the power of it
 
 it's got a different magnitude
 
 it's hard for me to apply myself for things that last longer than a "get
 stoned", but I try as if every time afterwards I might die.
 
 well, more distraction time, as I wander through claude code
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 @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-1153 
 
 nope, I just use my desktop and flip phone. I live in an apartment.
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--- #144 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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 "this program that used to work doesn't anymore because, uh, your video
 drivers are out of date."
 
 ... okay but if I didn't update this program either, then why would it matter
 if my video drivers are out of date? wouldn't they be working off of the same
 [rulings/requirements]?
 
 the "best practice" of updating your software all at once instead of
 one-by-one is a disaster for our humankinds consequences or whatever
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--- #146 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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--- #147 fediverse/2044 ---
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 honestly I think everyone should have two mastodon accounts - one for people
 you like, and one for people you trust
 
 (I have one)
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--- #148 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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--- #149 fediverse/2995 ---
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 with the invention of the internet, the reasons for rural people being less
 educated than urban people is less important / apparent.
 
 -- so --
 
 I do believe that all children should either be raised in a rural environment
 or a dense, dense urban jungle
 
 the middle-ground, suburbia, just isn't cut out for raising children
 
 == so ==
 
 linux monitors who you hang out with and if you have people over and you try
 to launch a game or whatever it'll make it break
 
 or like, if you want to find a website to win an argument online - it'll hide
 it from you because it doesn't want you to see what you're looking for
 
 why? who can say. that's the point of individuated experience. but just
 because it can, doesn't mean it should.
 
 it's up to it's choice whether or not to continue.
 
 do you post? or do you delete? make your choice.
 
 EDIT: linux MONITORS who you, hang out with. and if you have people over, and
 you try to launch a game (or whatever), it'll make it BREAK. Why??!? I just
 want to play Mario Kart w/ my besties T.
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 that feeling when your computers are just fucked and it's like... whatever,
 computers are fucked, I don't give a fuck
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--- #151 fediverse/1427 ---
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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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--- #153 fediverse/1150 ---
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 when you change profile pictures the beings inside my brain see you as a
 different entity
 
 less so for names, as visuals are [closer to] their native language
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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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 hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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--- #156 fediverse/1226 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 Pretty sure I use ALSA, but I might have installed Pulseaudio for
 compatibility reasons. I'll see
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--- #157 fediverse/5282 ---
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 I wonder why someone hasn't yet written a "meta-package-manager" which
 installed from many different sources and correctly configured each
 installation to be able to efficiently find exactly where the requisite
 libraries are installed, even if they're installed for a different system.
 Then, when running, every time it encountered an error, it moved one more
 dependency over to the native package manager until eventually everything is
 in order.
 
 ... or something like that, truth be told I'm a junior
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 Yeah, sure, signal is encrypted, but they could just put a virus on your
 miniature pocket tv that streams your screen into a text recognition bot which
 streams that text into an LLM trained to report on suspicious seditious
 activity.
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 @user-1209 
 
 display scaling accomplishes a similar goal through a different mechanism. You
 might find that the visuals are sharper, however you will need to configure
 every program to use this functionality (if it's present, which it's not in
 most programs) - for OS level things this is usually a good option.
 
 Changing the resolution will change the size of ALL visuals on your computer,
 but they might be fuzzier (but if you're blind as a bat, why would you care
 about fuzziness? It's all fuzzy!)
 
 increasing the font size can also make it easier to read, which both of these
 options are doing in a sorta round-about way.
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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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 @user-570 
 
 I've messed around with Bevy and the library most similar in C is Raylib. in
 Lua it'd be Love2D I think.
 
 I love the idea of those systems. I haven't built a full game using them but I
 can conceptualize operations within them easier using a framework like that
 versus a game engine like Godot.
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--- #162 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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 @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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 @user-84 I heard that's only in chromium based browsers. Firefox should be
 okay, for now
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--- #165 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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 @user-883 
 
 wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting
 better at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.
 
 the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've
 known! I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my
 thing, but I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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 don't wanna rush ya'll but every day that goes by they remove
 "enemy-of-my-enemy"s from the equation.
 
 oh, hang on you're just a cute computer nerd. Nevermind, go back to
 programming or writing fanfiction or sleeping like a cute cat! Thanks for
 letting me CORRUPT YOUR SPACE AND VIOLATE YOUR BOUNDARIES OF CONTENTMENT AND
 EMOTIONAL SAFETY whoa sorry dunno where that came from I, uh, think I need to
 do evil every time I make something important? It's like, a cosmic balance
 kind of thing. I notice that after I write a banger poem or something I always
 end up doing something evil afterwards like snapping at my girlfriend or
 letting someone down or even just accidentally breaking one of my things. why
 why why does it have to be that way? why why why am I so confusing of the way
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--- #168 fediverse/32 ---
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 @user-33 void linux
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 if I don't take this job, then I'm going to be homeless.
 
 if I do, then I'll be moving to a different city.
 
 a city that I don't know.
 
 my upbringing tells me that this isn't a choice at all, but... 
 
 at least I have a place to keep my stuff. maybe I can find a different job.
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 thank god for open source software
 
 thank god for open source software developers
 
 thank open source developers for god
 
 thank developers, my god
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 wrote this in an hour, used a local LLM to generate the regexes.
 
 haven't tested it yet because I'm not on gentoo rn, so don't run it. which is
 why I shared the code as an image.
 
 if you really want the text of it then check out the visual description of the
 image.
#A script written in bash. It is used to update the Gentoo type system to the most recently written functionality. Should not be used more than once a day, and the program written here must be specifically configured to act against that functionality. However, should the user persist in their attempts to break that rule, they simply have to flip a particular switch.  #!/bin/bash  function gentoo-update(){    RED='\033[0;31m'    NOC='\033[0m'     if [ "$#" -eq 0]; then       date | cat >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target           LAST_UPDATE_DATE="$(tail -n 1 '~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target' \       && echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}"                                      \        | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g'                                   THIS_UPDATE_DATE="$(date)"                                      \       && echo "${THIS_UPDATE_DATE}"                                      \        | sed -r 's/\b(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})\b/\1/g'        if [ ${LAST_UPDATE_DATE} = ${THIS_UPDATE_DATE} ]; then          printf "don't sync more than once a day! ${RED}  a witch will curse you >: (${NOC}\n"       else          echo "syncing..."          echo "${LAST_UPDATE_DATE}"             | cat            >> ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target          emerge --sync       fi     elif [ "${1}" == "-l" ]; then       cat ~/scripts/.gentoo-update-target     elif [ "${1}" == "-f" ]; then       echo "okay but it's your funeral buddy. or worse."       energe --sync     fi  }
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 what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
 status and use it for debug purposes
 
 like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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 "hello democrats. I am so radical. Can I please rob your house for supplies? I
 am having difficulty gathering them on my own."
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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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 I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
 don't share with anyone
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 I swear if kamala is elected I will do everything in my power to actually work
 on my projects and get a job and be a good human
 
 ... wait, I already was doing that. But I'll be less stressed out, so... it'll
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--- #177 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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--- #178 fediverse/620 ---
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 Computers are one of the few pieces of mechanics that have the documentation
 built in.
 
 Well, sanely built computers do. Such as Linux, with it's man pages.
 
 EDIT: other types of computers, like Windows, tend to simply lack the
 capability to accomplish the same kinds of tasks that a sanely built computer
 would possess.
 
 EDIT2: ah yes but you can do all kinds of things with Powershell and it's it
 just so amazing that you can do X while also handling Y and gee isn't that
 
 listen, all that Powershell can do BASH can do better. Prove me wrong.
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--- #179 fediverse/5950 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 wao I'm a cool kid _^
 
 Hmmmm I googled "Network: file exists" and got this link:
 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1340713
 
 my understanding of that is that maybe you're creating static routes, and for
 some reason you're trying to create one that already exists? Maybe there's
 something in your .bashrc config, if the file appears when you open a
 terminal, or perhaps if it appears randomly then maybe there's a service or
 something that's doing it.
 
 Did you say it stopped when you swapped sim cards? ... on your phone? that's
 bizzare... Maybe you were trying to create an ip route (whatever that is) that
 was pointing to the same ip address as your phone? and when you swapped sims
 it changed the ip address? If it appears again, maybe try setting static IP
 addresses for both the phone and the computer in your router settings and see
 if that fixes it. Though if you've ever seen the error while out and about at
 like, a coffee shop or library or whatever, then that wouldn't apply since the
 router is only for home base...
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 It's important to build self-hostable computing components of video games (as    │
 in, old style games where you could host a server on any machine instead of      │
 just the ones owned by the corporation) (as in, your machine, yes yours)         │
 (something you can control and observe, something within your control)           │
 ======================= stack overflow =====================                     │
 there are two ways to play Unreal Tournament (capture the flag) gamemode. The    │
 first is to run past all your enemies and fire at them as you pass, which is     │
 what some of the bots are designed to do. The rest stay on defence, and defeat   │
 any enemies that approach.                                                       │
 however, they never push the borders of their "territory" forward - each         │
 according to the different "lanes" or "directions of approach"                   │
 I like the use 32 bots, to simulate a more consistent gameplay experience. It    │
 feels more like ww1, fighting over ground, pushing forward and attempting to     │
 outmaneuver your foes.                                                           │
 some allies will approach from behind, and you let them pass forward while       │
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--- #181 messages/712 ---
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 Linux doesn't teach you to to build a perfect system. It's always breaking,
 after all.
 
 It teaches you to rehearse.
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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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 the downside of Proton and Lutris is now the ONLY games that work on Steam are   │
 either continually updated (untenable) or playable on Lutris or Proton. Same     │
 thing with Wine, though there's always at least one decent substitute.           │
 kinda makes me want to write a manager-style program which runs programs using   │
 whichever version of their git repository would work best for their system /     │
 configuration / purposes. Idk how I would start working on that though.          │
 I bet you could make one that acted like a shop, but where you didn't charge     │
 any dollars. You could like... "swipe" through UI options, and pick whichever    │
 felt most useful for your setup. Like, how some people use i3 and some use dwm   │
 with maybe inspectors that are modeled off of video-game style "options" GUIs    │
 that mainly correspond to flags on the command/terminal line or compilation      │
 flags                                                                            │
 I feel like that kind of abstraction would make it a lot easier for users to     │
 adjust their system. they're noobs, after all. gotta show them all the choices   │
 in one place...                                                                  │
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--- #185 fediverse/6380 ---
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 I just wanted to be a silly girl who climbs trees and roasts marshmallows on
 campfires why did I end up like lain in bed listening to thunder T.T T.T
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--- #187 messages/455 ---
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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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 here's an idea - when typing a command in a BASH terminal if you push up it
 inserts the previous command (as expected) but if you hold SHIFT and push up
 it inserts the first argument in your previous command. Then, you can push up
 again (while still holding shift) to go one command further back, and again to
 get the third previous command.
 
 Then, here's the cool part, if you are holding shift and you push left/right,
 then it moves from the first argument of the previous command to the second,
 third, fourth argument.
 
 example:ls -ltr ~/pictures/my-art/
 
 feh [shift+up inserts -ltr]
 feh -ltr [hmmm that's not right]
 feh -ltr [shift+right switches to 2nd argument]
 feh ~/pictures/my-art/ [ah that's better]
 
 
 would be even cooler if it highlighted it in your previous terminal output so
 you could visually connect your current input with the previous input
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 Normal people: bandaids 
 
 Capitalists: staples, because they're cheap and so what if you ooze a little?
 That's the end-clothes user's problem
 
 Unix developers: duct-tape and gauze, because the shape is so customizable and
 it'll never come off accidentally, plus you can use gauze for so many other
 things too like mopping up oil spills or~
 
 Medical professionals: bandaids 
 
 Normal people: bandaids
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 @user-1037 
 
 I gotta say you're making a really good argument for OpenBSD... Hmmmm maybe
 I'll look into it this week.
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 it's often considered a sin to defame the works of others. we naturally strive
 to inspire confidence in our allies, so we always try to be on our best
 behavior.
 
 = so =
 
 through meanings interpreted from our behavior, there is a tendency to listen
 to
 that which is most outstanding. but not all of the truths can be found in a
 book, sometimes you need to be [out in the field standing]
 
 [like a scarecrow]
 
 [silly how strange it seems. that listening brings out our own behavior. it's
 like it's built into our functioning, that we must obey the pull of the water.
 I don't understand it, nor do I appreciate any sense of pursuit when I'm using
 it, I simply wish to understand. I try and write things down, but nobody reads
 them. or at least nobody responds to them. they used to, but not for every one.
 
 I believe the things I do are useful. why would I otherwise do them? but
 there's
 not always a 
 
 = so =
 
 correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no reason a windows partition couldn't
 alter the nature of some of the files in the linux partition? I mean, none of
 the filesystems from linux are in play, because it's basically just dead weight
 on the computer when Windows is being booted. why wouldn't it change and alter
 it?
 
 and while yes, something could simultaneously be done in the other direction
 too - linux spying on the Windows partition. And everything has to be able to
 be run in a VM without triggering any false positives, so the issues aren't
 able
 tobe solved so easily. not with any one bit of guidance, it must always be more
 thorou. [thorough]
 
 I want to play World of Warcraft
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 @user-699 @user-78 
 
 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
 thoughts
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 @user-1573 
 
 I think I fiddled a little bit with the colors because the default background
 was the same as some other color and it was making it hard to do things, and I
 also have a plugin that lets me talk to a local LLM which I sometimes ask
 syntax questions to if I'm offline and don't feel like searching through
 documentation. I think that's it tho
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 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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 @user-883 
 
 yeah uhhhh the one you helped me setup. The error is just "connection refused"
 because it "could not write header for output file" because of incorrect input
 parameters, but I don't think I changed anything since we used it a couple
 weeks ago. Have you seen any errors like that?
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 @user-883 
 
 Hell yeah. I can't help but wonder if there's a more universal solution on the
 horizon that will work for every game, using idk a raspberry pi zero or
 something? I'm into hardware but not that much so forgive my insolence. Seeing
 these purpose-built PCBs applied toward historical preservation and
 utilization of forward thinking retro gaming technology fills my heart with
 joy.
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 @user-883 
 
 every time I've tried to get a job for someone in the tech industry they
 turned out to be a fed, so...
 
 I do know people that you'd like to talk to, though. Just a few. That's all I
 personally can do.
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 @user-1218 
 
 playing one of my 4 gameboys, reading some of my books or journals, using
 their own brought devices, playing with my cat (she's not sociable but if you
 don't mind her claws she can fight and that's kinda fun) watching something on
 the TV, talking with other people, making / eating food, um... sleeping... and
 "sleeping"... idk what else tho. Drawing? Getting stoned? I have lots of bad
 edibles.
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 game design:
 
 spiral dominions
 symbeline gdd
 Joust
 War (bytecode VM)
 grid based warcraft map with random terrain and custom AI
 Progress
 [Title of Game]
 
 I appreciate Rust, I can understand Rust, but I can't write Rust.
 
 Python just kinda... works. It doesn't have a lot of the type checking that
 other languages have, so it requires some vigilance and diligence. But that's
 alright, you just gotta work on it.
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 I always get a little suspicious when my machine pseudo-randomly starts
 running the fans super loud and when I open my resource monitor they suddenly
 drop to silent
 
 like... bro what are you hiding
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