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 @user-1573 
 
 make sure you get full disk encryption! I hear it's quite important, but I
 can't use it because I'm an artist and if I like, died or whatever, nobody
 would be able to get my art.
 
 though knowing the reasons why I might suddenly die, odds are they'd just
 reflash the drives with windows or whatever xD
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/2257 ---
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 if you don't know how long you're going to be gone, how do you know what to
 bring? like, is it a "grab the hard drives" kind of trip, or is it more like
 "we'll return in the spring"?
 
 who can say, depends on who's driving.
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--- #2 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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--- #3 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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 @user-1206 
 
 Right. How can you trust that any drive produced in the last 10 years (aka any
 drive with a reasonable amount of storage space for sharing things like
 LaserDisk rips of Bubblegum Crisis or detailed instructions on how to build a
 nuclear power generator)how can you trust that any drive with that kind of
 capacity wasn't built with the goals of it's manufacturers included into it's
 design requirements? Goals that typically include invading your privacy and
 removing your opsec capabilities.
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--- #5 fediverse/6209 ---
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 okay just to clarify: if anyone is recording me or storing data about me, I
 would really prefer if you didn't delete it just because I realized it was
 happening. I like data! It's cool to know such things!
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 @user-766 
 
 ah yes but then how will my comrades come for my things know where to look? my
 precious precious drives may be less safe inside of the computer case but at
 least then someone I can about can find them.
 
 or what you're saying is that a basic part of situational awareness is having
 a plan for this kind of thing with the people who care about you? Ah, well,
 nobody cares about me like that. Just a couple normies who want nothing but
 business as usual.
 
 wonder if I can open up my hard drives to "read only" SSH access? Or maybe
 I'll just make the important files into a torrent. Or perhaps marking them as
 "downloadable locations" on Soulseek? Plenty of options, all of them require
 someone to care enough about your junk to want to archive it. Something
 something ipfs?
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--- #7 fediverse/2889 ---
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 @user-95 
 
 get two and do RAID! It's fun to set up! I think Western Digital is a good
 brand?
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--- #8 fediverse/6006 ---
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--- #9 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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--- #10 fediverse/6052 ---
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 @user-1895 
 
 I just thought your post was iconic and was made better with the full
 screenshot so you can share it if you want or keep it on your hard drive to
 find sometime in the future and be like "oh ha I remember that"
 
 I didn't keep the post, I just made it for you
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--- #11 fediverse/5219 ---
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 USB drives which format themselves if they're plugged into a device they don't
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--- #12 fediverse/4801 ---
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 if you're got a large directory full of text files that you want to combine
 into one single .txt or .pdf, let me know, I can hook you up with a mega file
 so it's easier to search through or manage when archiving data or whatever the
 heck else you wanna do with it
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 what if you painted every house twice, to ensure you got the color completely
 applied [ bright green or yellow would shine through in little spots, clear
 and obvious to even the most undiscerning of patrons of the arts
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 Hello, I am a great artist of the modern day. I refuse to provide my work to
 any revolution that does not work together, if only as familiar forces working
 in tandem for the betterment of humankind's work and world.
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--- #15 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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 "oh but what if one artist has 1500 works and another has 15"
 
 first of all, damn, good job. That's a lot of work.
 
 second of all, what you should be doing is making a simple thing called a
 STRUCT that stores DATA about each artist which lets you make decisions about
 how to distribute dollars. The artist with 15 pieces simply has fewer data
 points than the artist with 1500, but they are no less deserving of
 compensation for their work when the AI generates something in their style, or
 using their style as an inspiration.
 
 "oh but just because a piece is similar to another piece doesn't mean the
 first piece used the second piece as inspiration"
 
 I don't care. It's not meant to be a perfect solution. I'm sure there's
 problems with it, just like there are problems with anything that I, or anyone
 else, has ever suggested at any point in time while living on this earth or
 beyond. But it gets dollars into the hands of artists and I'm okay with that.
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 "hey what's up. can you borrow my phone for a bit? here's the password. you
 can learn anything you want about me. I told all my socials that I'm away
 until a secred code that only they know and me, so... ah nuts they're
 definitely gonna forget that, focus on what you know"
 
 ... huh? no I'm just saying, if you want to get to know me, check out my
 pictures on my phone
 
 here's a read-only copy that you can annotate as you will. I got the originals
 and their recipes on my computer at home. I recommend ms. paint for drawing
 notes on them.
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/output-pdf/output6.pdf
 
 I'm an artist I make art but... not on purpose, it's just of me a part.
 
 I fell asleep in a dream lately. I think I'm exhausted.
a visual of the post and my profile side-by-side the same, but annotated
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 my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed     │
 due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to      │
 get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first.             │
 unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote           │
 backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I   │
 am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I     │
 can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I      │
 didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are               │
 non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes     │
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 directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I     │
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--- #19 fediverse/3095 ---
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 if your business can't afford to have a back-up plan, then it is not a
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--- #20 fediverse/4900 ---
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 if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
 code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
 at once
 
 [statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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--- #21 fediverse/1608 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 It's likely it could have been an artist's mock-up - like a UX designer and an
 animator sat down and said "let's make a cool design" and that's what they
 came up with. Designers do that all the time.
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--- #22 fediverse/1718 ---
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing
 
 how cool is that
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--- #23 fediverse/60 ---
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 Can someone explain to me why we need instances on the fediverse? Why don't we
 just keep all our personal files local on our computer and communicate over
 the federated protocol? What's the point of having all these mini-servers that
 are controlled by the community? I mean, torrenting has been around forever,
 why don't we just use that to communicate?
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--- #24 fediverse/6141 ---
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 fediverse software that downloads every post you've ever seen to your hard
 drive in an easy-to-read text file so you can go back and look at it later
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--- #25 fediverse/3407 ---
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 @user-1218 
 
 there's only a password so that if the zip archive is displaced from it's
 context it's harder to read.
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 "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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--- #27 messages/1170 ---
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 look, it's easy enough to solve bitrot. Just store three copies of the file
 and synchronize them everytime you open them. Like, an in-software raid array,
 except with less expense because a .png is what, 2mb? great, now they're 6mb.
 Nobody will notice except people who really should be buying more hard drives.
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 Linux is great! It can do anything you want it to.
 
 Except that thing you want it to do. Why don't you go fix it? It's not hard,
 all you have to do is run these configure files or operate this doohickey and
 BAM suddenly you got apes writing machine gun regulation software
 
 [I don't think those two things are related]
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--- #29 fediverse/6278 ---
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 @user-1429 
 
 do something fun and hard like walk to seattle or install linux on a toaster
 or write happy notes on post-its and leave them in public places or make art
 and leave it in a public place or~
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 someone once told me that anything with a battery is a bomb if you hit it with
 just the right kind of radiation. or maybe he said 5g waves or electromagnetic
 pulse or... actually he didn't say at all. he just said batteries are bombs. I
 hope he's doing okay, he could have killed me like, 15 times but he didn't. so
 I guess that means he likes me? I hope he's doing okay.
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 @user-1206 
 
 Also, the next day I'd bring my own flash drive with my own goodies and leave
 it in the same spot (maybe in a ziploc this time)
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 @user-1071 
 
 I have plenty of things made, but none of it organized : (
 
 Kinda makes me wish I could like... train an LLM on my social media posts and
 use it programmatically somehow to help me organize my stuff into different
 categories according to what kind of topic or style they were written in.
 Hmmm......... There's no way I could do it, I mean, there's no way I could
 organize and edit my stuff, but with the help of a computer I might.
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 hey. wanna know what would be really cursed?
 
 --
 
 if trump dropped out and musk took his place
 
 --
 
 good thing it'll never happen because those dinguses can't accept defeat and
 will never tactically retreat
 
 --
 
 maybe something to keep in mind for 4 years from now. eyes on the prize for
 now means our eyes aren't to our flanks.
 
 what else could they do that would come out of left field?
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--- #34 fediverse/52 ---
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 @user-54 @user-55 @user-56 I disagree with this. I shamelessly promote my
 website because I want to share art, not because I want to make money. You
 literally can't pay me. I have no ads.
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--- #35 fediverse/5185 ---
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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 does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that
 isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home
 like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which
 is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
 courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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 @user-883 
 
 Pretty sure I use ALSA, but I might have installed Pulseaudio for
 compatibility reasons. I'll see
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 why does my fridge keep saying "you're dead to me"...?
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 @user-147 years of practice. every time you delete what you said is another
 chance to practice that slips away. writing is the easy part, you got that
 down because you need something to delete, right? the hard part is being
 received by others, and continuing the conversation as you direct it.
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--- #40 fediverse/6102 ---
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 sorry I was just making stuff up because it's fun, hope I didn't accidentally
 unleash disaster or masterpiece, either would be equally bad
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 Why would a server ever demand that an older client upgraded? What right do
 they have?
 
 Just treat them the same as you always have, whatever forms and limitations,
 Otherwise what's the point? There's no reliability! What if you're shot? What
 then? We've lost our greatest friends! You can't be seriously wanting for
 another spark? What's wrong with you my friend, are you alright or on a bend?
 What's wrong in your sight, that you'd wander into this own end? Well, take
 care of your birthright, and all is well to thine kin.
 
 Well there we go, sadness forever, as our line here doth end. What else shall
 be considered? What ends is too much deserved? It's so unfavorable!
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--- #42 messages/770 ---
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 There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
 update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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 is it against fedi law to post screenshots of your past liked posts? like,
 would that be doxxing people?
 
 I'm thinking like a "youtube rewind" but like, "here's what I'm into" and like
 "I could have boosted them but I put them in a 25mb zip file instead so you
 can share them more easily which tbh is a greater honor than being boosted
 because, like, as long as you're alive that hard drive's gonna follow you and
 someday in like 30 years I'll see it and think of you" but also "aren't you
 scared that this hard drive of yours will fall into the wrong hands" and like
 "yeah that's why I encrypt it because then a stray neutrino could wipe my
 drive"
 
 ... would that be unethical, or would it be kinda sweet and give us a
 perspective on what a single slice of the "fediverse" was like at a particular
 time? And better question, would that be something worth automating because I
 already did like 60% of that for my own posts, could probably just tweak it to
 do liked posts as well.
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 Can't help but wonder 
 
 If I ever had my own will at all 
 
 Can't help but wonder 
 
 If I would have used it to perish even sooner
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--- #45 fediverse/6449 ---
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 currently have 20-30 tabs open with poems written but not posted.
 
 I have no idea if I'm going to post all of these. I wrote all of them in ~2
 hours, with maybe 3 or four being added as I was working on the production
 elements after the initial bingewrite.
 
 I also added a bit of context, or modified some of them that felt too cursed
 or otherwise unwieldy. Sometimes I got distracted and needed to come back and
 finish, and in those cases I only added a sentence or two because it's like
 "oh, where was I going with that? I remember what was next, but I don't know
 the further..."
 
 ... I think I might go for another. Wish me luck.
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 @user-398 
 
 you take that back you feckin goof Mickey is king for a reason I will DIE on
 this hill
 
 (jk sorry for being combative but I'd just like to say that I'm someone who
 likes him unironically in essentially every incarnation)
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--- #47 fediverse/650 ---
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 why don't we just demand backwards compatibility of our software as a
 requirement?
 
 ah because that would reduce demand. Nevermind that it's more flexible,
 nevermind that we could accomplish so much more with it - it's expendable
 [expensive] because it reduced market penetration. Not because of the
 technology, because of the deluded and self-perpetuating
 mechanicosmic-mechanicommunication that designed our lives. It's name is
 capitalism, and it thrives where we survive, so that's good enough to
 maintain-em? Sure why not. Brb sleeping for 8 hours. Or playing games.
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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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 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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 @user-1748 
 
 they want you drained and overloaded.
 
 makes it harder to take care of others.
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 part of me kinda wants to be the kind of nerd that writes down the names of
 every file that's permanently stored on my computer so that I can verify in my
 own handwriting or perhaps using a type of code that the files on my computer
 were placed there intentionally and not used to discredit or implicate me in
 something I had no intentions of being associated with
 
 phew idk what that means but surely it's important
 
 something something "file creation dates are just bits to be flipped"
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--- #52 fediverse/5782 ---
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 sometimes I post random silly [scary] things to pad out the serious things and
 I hope that's okay
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 yay I hit the 5 hour limit on claude-code! now I can play video games and
 write more issue tickets for the computer to work on for me.
 
 what's that? results? oh, I'm not interested in those. This is an art project
 you see, so clearly, clearly, the end result shouldn't matter to me, because
 all art is special or something. so says she who tries to share her art with
 everyone she sees... I wonder who yet believes?
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--- #54 fediverse/2660 ---
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 @user-1298 
 
 this is kinda cursed, pretend there's another content warning:
 
 --
 
 that kinda happens every time you sleep for most people
 
 or, well, maybe just for me
 
 it's like starting with a blank slate and having access to "memories" that can
 be referenced by ID or searched for using keywords
 
 also like, a "todo" list of things that I've been working on or that are going
 on in my life
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--- #55 fediverse/4155 ---
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 @user-889 
 
 can't comment on your personal life, but you make good music tho so that's
 something.
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 🖼
           local response  equals 1 while true do if response does not equal 0 then require: build, my_name, and heart. end.                  response  equals in_channel:peek()  humans are unafraid because anyone better than us would necessarily be kinder
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--- #57 fediverse/2996 ---
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 have you ever just... like, listened to an entire album that a friend
 recommended?
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--- #58 fediverse/3690 ---
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 what if we demanded private servers for video games (by law? what else would
 even work??) and encouraged companies to hire people to make high-quality mods
 for their competitors games so they couldn't make as much money selling
 expansion packs and DLC
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--- #59 fediverse/4336 ---
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 gonna play more video games, currently have 11 tabs of written posts open in
 my browser...
 
 (okay a few of them get a little off-topic, but hey I have ADHD what do you
 expect of me)
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--- #60 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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--- #61 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-889 
 
 I put your music in one of my favorite videos and I think about you every time
 I think about it
 
 I hope that means something
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--- #63 fediverse/3277 ---
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 also, whose idea was AppData like... c'mon "Local"? "LocalLow"? what's the
 difference and why does it matter? why not just put things on the hard drive,
 and store it in a single, unified, easily understood formulation?
 
 also... what's up with not supporting .ext4 drives? we support NTFS!!
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--- #64 fediverse/4843 ---
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 just because someone did something one way and it worked, doesn't mean you
 have to do it that way again.
 
 but you should have a reason why you aren't doing it that way.
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--- #65 fediverse/5961 ---
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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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--- #66 messages/215 ---
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 Nobody tells me they like my artwork. No one! So why do I keep making it?
 What's wrong with me?
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--- #67 fediverse/5052 ---
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 "hello, I'd like to make games using your tools and art assets. I will sell
 anything I make to you and only you, and if you don't want it that's fine too,
 I'll just play it with my friends sometimes."
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--- #68 fediverse/1535 ---
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 I only take things that aren't mine if they're in the trash. Or near the
 trash. Or in a store.
 
 so weird how the store won't let me leave until I give them some of my
 dollars. This quartermaster drives a hard bargain!
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--- #69 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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--- #70 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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--- #71 fediverse/2945 ---
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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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--- #72 messages/312 ---
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 Okay. Consider: if I'm good, and hearing what I say makes you feel bad, then
 what does that tell you about you?
 
 Why else would you hear what I say if not to reflect upon yourself? And why
 would the good reflect away from the types of things that make you a suitable
 fit for capitalism?
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--- #73 fediverse/390 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 turns out most people are decent and kind, and cannabalism tends to be an act
 of either destitute desperation or unholy barbarism.
 
 something something bread and circuses work
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--- #74 fediverse/3299 ---
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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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--- #75 messages/892 ---
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 Why do we only have one file extension? Why not put them one after another for
 increased categorization?
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--- #76 messages/1228 ---
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 You should be able to donate anything you want to a tool library. It should
 always have plenty of washing machines. They might even be kept out of state.
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--- #77 fediverse/618 ---
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 Can't stop thinking 
 
 [the rest is left blank, as a testament to the inability of the author to
 express their thoughts in a temporally contextual way. Presumably the previous
 text would be followed by an "about..." with the rest dedicated to a
 particular thought that felt important enough to share with the internet.]
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--- #78 fediverse/3755 ---
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 @user-1071 
 
 hehe it was my favorite job I've ever had
 
 downside is... it was hard to get to work every day. I'm not built for
 long-term dedicated labor. Maybe I should freelance? idk where to even begin
 with that, though.
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--- #79 fediverse/3776 ---
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 whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis  or thisssss make sure if you're
 doing K's that you have at least four
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--- #80 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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--- #81 fediverse/3126 ---
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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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--- #82 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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--- #83 fediverse/4866 ---
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 don't you just love it when you get several discord notifications but you tab
 back to check out the discord screen and there's no red numbers anywhere?
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 @user-1443 
 
 they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
 
 which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
 
 there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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--- #85 fediverse/2832 ---
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 when people ask what I do I don't say "art" because I'd do that anyway.
 
 my art is precious to me, because it is the most "me" I can conceive.
 
 and like... I can carry it with me to the future.
 
 I have only once given away one of my journals, and it was a wedding present
 to a witch or two.
 
 so yeah I'm an artist, but I'm also whatever you need me to do.
 
 and yes, I of course hope that what you need me to do is what I can do.
 
 because I can't do much more than this.
 
 But I can show up every once in a while,
 
 and maybe make you smile or consider,
 
 and maybe I can ride past on my bike.
 
 but that's the human in me, telling me it's time to move with my feet, and I
 can do little but listen.
 
 ... that should make doxxing me a bit easier. have it it : )
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--- #86 fediverse/3802 ---
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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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--- #87 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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--- #88 fediverse/5121 ---
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 If you counted the characters in each of my posts and then graphed them with
 grafana or whatever
 
 I think you'd see some interesting things about how often I am at exactly 0
 characters remaining
 
 maybe I'm just curious
 
 I make it an art form
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--- #89 fediverse/3266 ---
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 how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
 are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
 html?
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--- #90 fediverse/6371 ---
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 may they pass on my hard drives as read-only memories like ashes on a shelf or
 stories of most wealth
 
 I hope I reconnect with all my old signal contacts. wonder what they're up to.
 I bet they're cool now. ;)
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--- #91 fediverse/1771 ---
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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--- #92 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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--- #93 fediverse/2729 ---
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 haha it's always as soon as I open my resource monitor, the fans die down xD
screenshot of a resource monitor where there's a sharp vertical line right as the program is opened and the graph starts, implying the task given to the CPU was cancelled as soon as the resource monitor was opened
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--- #94 fediverse/6120 ---
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 it's pretty easy to read an article or blog post, copy the text into a text
 file, and forget about it.
 
 you never know when you might want to use your computer's memories for
 [entertainment during long dark nights, or for creating an AI buddy bot,
 depending on how things go]
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--- #95 fediverse/4892 ---
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 what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement
 storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed
 into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our
 terminals?
 
 something something not-curses
 
 https://notcurses.com/
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--- #96 fediverse/2614 ---
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 literally just... if you want to connect to me, come hang out on my wavelength.
 
 or like, invite me to join yours, and I'll do my best to show how I feel about
 the things you share.
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--- #97 fediverse/3631 ---
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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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--- #98 messages/533 ---
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 They keep trying to make a movie out of my life because that's how they keep
 culture going but I won't let them unless the movie is about them
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--- #99 fediverse_boost/3867 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I really hate "two factor" auth.  Like, cool, I get it, it let's you pretend you can divest responsibility for security and recovery, but also it means dropping my phone too hard could be a life disrupting event so somehow I don't really feel like this is for my benefit.  
  
                                                            
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--- #100 fediverse/4128 ---
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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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--- #101 fediverse/676 ---
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 would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon
 unless you filled out a content warning for it.
 
 sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel
 like reading something from X perspective right now"
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--- #102 fediverse/6101 ---
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 oh look at me, cargo-culting wine commands because I can't be bothered to        │
 guess whether the windows software running on my computer is doing evil          │
 microsoft things as part of the drivers or whatever. I mean, there's gotta be    │
 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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 every time I update my system I can't help but think "okay THIS is the time
 they sneak a keylogger or screen recorder or whatever in" and like... there's
 no way I'd ever know, I just want Steam to work again, it was working
 yesterday, NOTHING CHANGED, STEAM, SO WHY do I gotta risk a keylogger by
 updating my system for the first time in 3+ months
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 @user-236
 
 here's some music that I like lately
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q84Td36Tpys
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCcWWcL_Sg4
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7gEgIEUj3A
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnSMftcFN0
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 @user-883 
 
 my streaming is broken and I can't figure out why : (
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--- #106 fediverse/1385 ---
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 listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want
 to consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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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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--- #108 fediverse/3215 ---
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 tell me this: why do Starlink satellites need lights on them at all?
 
 can't they just operate in the dark, as floating hunks of metal sending
 signals to-and-fro?
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 in other news, I spent ~9 hours yesterday working on a dumb project that I'll
 probably tell you about once it's finished, and then a BASH script that my
 friend and I wrote just deleted every single file because I failed to
 terminate a sed command. Or something, still not entirely sure what happened,
 because it deleted the script that was doing the deleting.
 
 good thing I have backups from ~3 hours ago. Feels great to lose 33% of a
 project for nothing.
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 @user-1582 
 
 I think that's what happened, in addition to... whatever this input/output
 error is. No clue what to do about that. Maybe my SD card is dying, I've
 flashed over it like, 10 times now haha 😅
ls: command not found  /bin/ls -bash: /bin/ls: Input/Output error
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 @user-1646 
 
 I usually just repost it and say something like: [stolen from reddit] or
 [stolen from one of my followers who didn't write any alt text]
 
 that way if they ever come across your post they'll know what it feels like to
 have a post stolen from them. Like how a blind person, happy to hear-read what
 they originally posted, but aggrieved from the conversation by their lack of
 alt-textual information, might feel stolen from if they happened across that
 originally posted alt-textless post.
 
 there are more blind people that use mastodon than queer people. At least,
 that's what I once heard. Dunno if it's true.
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--- #112 fediverse/5574 ---
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 don't forget to download your mastodon archive! why not, right? just throw it
 in a folder with the 19 others.
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 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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 wanna know how to go underground?
 
 just... don't leave your apartment. let your roommates take out your trash and
 buy your groceries. don't open your windows and do nothing for as long as
 possible.
 
 hope you got lots of edibles... get in shape, will ya? don't waste the paper
 in your journals.
 
 not that I intend to do that or anything, but um. for the red states maybe?
 use your best judgement yeah haha
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--- #115 fediverse/3282 ---
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 I hate how fragile Linux is
 
 It deserves to be strong and durable
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 https://rootgirl.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-never-let-you-in
 
 cool gay music listen if you dare ping the sea witch
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 teachers didn't want you not using Wikipedia as a source because it might be
 unreliable
 
 The knowledge they might have is good, but that's not the point
 
 they didn't want you to use Wikipedia because they didn't want there to be one
 single repository of information.
 
 If everyone's working with the same kind of training data, nothing new ever
 really gets done
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 acceleration-ism is just "learning the truth faster than they do"
 
 tbh should be more like "learning things to show them" but eh whatever gets
 the job done
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--- #119 fediverse/2198 ---
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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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--- #120 messages/503 ---
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 I am *sincere*, which is why I die so soon
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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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--- #122 fediverse/6145 ---
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 then, here's the cool part, if you share your software people might like it
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--- #123 fediverse/2157 ---
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 @user-1180 
 
 the reason I say this is sometimes it's necessary to boost a post that doesn't
 have a CW and like, I can't add one of my own, so...
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--- #124 fediverse/612 ---
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
 could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
 wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
 are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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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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 stressed out today because reasons so I sang a song that I wrote just now:
 
 download link:
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/cassandora-and-pandasandra.wav
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--- #127 messages/1116 ---
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 What works for me might not work for another,
 
 But 
 
 What works for me might work for another.
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 if you have TTS software you can listen to anything with any tone. this makes
 it difficult to find things.
 
 ============== stack overflow ============
 
 some people work by asking for funding. others work by saving up. 
 
 ============== stack
 overflow ============
 
 teach your animals to be actors so they know how to develop the scene. then
 they will truly come alive, as their narrative curve gives them determination
 in the outcomes of their goals.
 
 ============== stack 1234flow ============
 
 I believe it is good and natural actually for parents to guide their children
 as they grow?
 
 "oh but they can't consent to giving up their control" well too bad they're 2
 "ah but what if they WANT to run with scissors?" thus widening the [redacted]
 gap. "ohhhh she redacts things when she can't spell them" and also for comedic
 or dramatic effect sometimes. was not ACTUALLY redacted. redcoated. red coded.
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--- #129 fediverse/1247 ---
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 so wait is there any guarantee that the "releases" on github actually have the
 same code as that which is in the repository? Or could they just... put their
 own binary, with it's own strange rules and vulnerabilities, or am I just
 fearmongering?
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--- #130 fediverse/5911 ---
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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       │
 when the cancer came.                                                            │
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--- #131 fediverse/5395 ---
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 people always say "you don't have to storehouse metal, there's no need to
 scavenge, we can just buy more" as if I wasn't scarred by the wartime
 struggles of my grandparents
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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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--- #133 fediverse/1140 ---
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 @user-78 
 
 ah but if you increase it then I might be able to actually finish a thought,
 wouldn't that be a tragedy xD
 
 @user-91
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--- #134 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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--- #135 fediverse/5292 ---
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 you can trust me, but please don't rely on me, for all of my power is soft.
 sometimes people just don't want to do what I tell them to, and I wouldn't
 have it any other way.
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--- #136 fediverse/4804 ---
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 I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
 
 ... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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--- #138 fediverse/934 ---
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 @user-171 
 
 thanks, it's my most precious possession
 
 along with my flash drive with all my files on it. at least, the ones since I
 last backed up from my computer.
 
 does my cat count as a possession?
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--- #139 fediverse/3651 ---
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 @user-907 
 
 do you ever think up ideas and then dismiss them because they're too massive
 in scale? Not mechanical complexity, but like... you'd need 128gb of ram to
 run them or something like that
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 dear me: 
 
           DO SOMETHING USEFUL FOR ONCE
 
 that's all, fuck off and be helpful
 
 ... wow, rude.
 
 yeah I mean, I do helpful things. useful things, somethings.
 
 helpful.
 useful.
 
 many such cases, she says, with ultimate certainty, as if narrative could be
 prologued. but pronounced prolonged.
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 @user-570 
 
 unless you meant canada. I vote no on that, because there's very little
 difference between there and here. I mean, it's colder, which is nice. But
 don't move because of politics or whatever. We can handle that.
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 Look, when I promised "Revolution or Death" I got pretty busy and kinda forgot
 to do the "dying" part, and by now it'd be a little awkward if I offed myself
 for no visible reason, so... How about we try again this summer? Maybe in a
 month or two? I'll try to keep the fire burning a bit longer this time.
 
 plus I'm better at playing the piano now so maybe that'll help somehow.
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 apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community
 is in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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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-817 
 
 my two computers are named "kuvalu" and "tirilu"
 
 my hard drives are named "mtwo", "cmdo", "sigi", "dile", and "boppers"
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 if you ever survive a conflict, convince everyone to travel to different
 nearby cities. Continue to do so, spread the word of your victory.
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--- #147 fediverse/245 ---
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 if your phone doesn't have a headphone jack, how are you going to use it for
 anything that Apple doesn't want you to?
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--- #148 fediverse/5225 ---
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 @user-1779 
 
 we needed people like him and now he's dead
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--- #149 messages/573 ---
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 There will come a day when we must spam our messages into every discord server
 we know. Hold on tight.
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--- #150 fediverse/5079 ---
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 what if you boosted everything when someone liked it [when someone liked your
 post] and if they boost it then you read the first couple posts on their
 paragraph, just to say "hey" in return
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 Honestly if anyone wanted to just... take any of my stuff, even if they were
 just going to sell it, I'd probably give it to them? People in my life say I
 don't function well in a capitalist society. I guess I just trust everyone
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 you could type this on a phone
 
 screenshots though is computer.
 
 you'd have to carry it around
 
 or keep it in your hot car
 
 no thanks, no space.
 
 goodbye, everything you ever worked for
 
 why wouldn't you have cameras covering every entrance to your studio? it's not
 right to leave it all to a whim
 
 kidnapped
 made a prisoner while you
 froliced and wandered like a little lamb
 you're so dumb, you dumbass, what kind of person could be dumb
 whatever girl, we know you're smart
 what are you hiding?
 what truths are you spying?
 are you really as you say you are,
 or are you faking it for [truth-awards, but pronounced clout]
the trick isn't to overcome them. much better to convince them of your side. if you can earnestly present your best and most brilliant intanations to a willing and captive audience, a presentation or a performance or a play  you can trick them into your state of consciousness. all you gotta do, really, is act for them, and they'll get along with them plenty.  == stack overflow ==  your foes are primarily concerned   with how you'd do   if you           turned evil.  power is penance, not sin. it is a service            to be hallowed a whim.  to guide and steer upright     guided upon their own whim               [toward]  [ri-tselen-menardi]  ew, she's got a diaper fetish  -- evil witch >;  | --   evil wizard -- | :< -- brave paladin good, overall,   [264 characters remaining] if you never lie to someone, they can't hurt you. *enemies* what are you a child stupid. why are you so traumatic. "omg you were like, obsessed with her" *haunted the future* what do you think that meant grrrrr I wanna stab through one. hence, sword *fuck nazis* there are people alive who were hurt by them. GREVIOUS WOUNDINGS TO THE WORLD'S ECONOMY. yeah. right. economy.  [oops political violence mentioned, lemme add a content warning one sec:] Image attachment
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--- #153 fediverse/5303 ---
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 I don't ever delete my posts (except two or three times because I had a crisis
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 @user-950 
 
 heh somehow I managed to die inbetween games? yeah that checks out
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--- #155 fediverse/239 ---
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 if your computer gets hacked, but nothing was broken or changed... do you        │
 leave it as it is so that anonymous can see you're chill or do you wipe it       │
 because you're afraid it's the feds?                                             │
 ehhhh false dichotomy most people are afraid that their system will get borked   │
 or their bank account will be stolen or their email will get spam or that        │
 random icons will turn inside out and their mouse cursor will turn into a        │
 barfing unicorn or they'll finally have to figure out bitcoin to pay a ransom    │
 for their files including the only pictures they have of their niece. whoops     │
 people are afraid of technology because of what it can do to hurt them.          │
 they're afraid it'll break or stop working, and they'll have to spend time       │
 figuring it out. they like things how they are, but for some reason companies    │
 keep changing things? it's frustrating learning a new system, and every 5-10     │
 years it feels like you have to learn a new paradigm and ugh it's just so        │
 exhausting. technology is not designed for users...  or maybe users get bored.   │
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--- #156 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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--- #157 fediverse/3929 ---
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 are you about to delete a post that you thought was funny, but actually wasn't
 once you wrote it down and read it to yourself?
 
 STOP
 
 write it down on a post-it and put it under your desk or behind a drawer
 
 put it in a .txt file in a random directory on your computer
 
 send it as a text message to yourself
 
 write it down, take a picture of it, and then burn the paper
 
 y'know, typical stuff like that
 
 do this and I guarantee you won't regret it
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--- #158 fediverse_boost/5011 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Remember not everybody can #protest today.                                  
                                                                              
  Some have to go to work or provide care. Some have health obstacles. Some simply don’t have the spoons. Some are in a targeted group and don't feel safe.  
                                                                              
  Encourage your friends and loved ones to come out but allow space for those who cannot.  
  
                                                            
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--- #159 fediverse/5416 ---
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 if you aren't rude, or bothersome, or excessively boring, you can pretty much
 be my friend forever.
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--- #160 fediverse/5850 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 if you'd like I can give you a lua script which will take your fediverse
 archive and turn it into a pdf which you can edit or print or whatever. Might
 be a fun diversion from posting. You can reply to yourself, add
 clarifications, change some things, put things in a new light, add context,
 etc... before you know it you'll have something printable. Could even pull out
 your best stuff and make zines.
 
 should require just a little configuration to suit your setup. That's part of
 how I stay "productive" without posting all the time.
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--- #161 fediverse/5241 ---
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 made something, dunno why but sometimes you just gotta let fate guide your
 pen-shaped-sword or whatever.
a picture of a futuristic tunnel boring device.
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--- #162 fediverse/2891 ---
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 they're painting the inside of my apartment and it naturally has low airflow
 in here and it's seeping under my door and making me woozy teehee better open
 all the windows
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--- #163 fediverse/2252 ---
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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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--- #164 fediverse/6363 ---
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 somehow it feels so difficult to work on my projects. I really haven't a         │
 single clue why.                                                                 │
 HMMM COULD IT BE BECAUSE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE OUTSIDE WALKING AROUND WRITING    │
 PICTURES OF CATS ON NOTEPAD PAPER AND LEAVING IT AMONGST THE FALLEN LEAVES?      │
 THINK, MENARDI, THINK                                                            │
 gosh I wish I had the motivation to write this webcomic scraper, it's been in    │
 my backlog for a year at this point                                              │
 WHY DON'T YOU BUILD TOOLS THAT BUILD COMMUNITY LIKE COLLECTIVIZED VIDEO GAMES    │
 OR SYSTEMS OF DISTRIBUTION AND CREATION?                                         │
 gee I'm feeling kinda lazy, sure hope it doesn't get permanently added to my     │
 character sheet                                                                  │
 SLOTHFUL: -1 to all stats, -5 to vassal opinion, -5 to personal combat skill,    │
 -10 to ambitious and zealous characters, +10 to greedy characters because they   │
 can take advantage of you, enables the hesitant commander tactical choice        │
 because you're too FUCKIN' LAZY (and too hard on yourself, jeez calm down)       │
 ..... nah couldn't be me. I'm certainly not diligent, but I work hard. It's      │
 just hard to work myself up to getting up...                                     │
a screenshot of the slothful sin from crusader kings 2. It shows various character stat maluses, and one tiny bonus.
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--- #165 fediverse/2898 ---
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 hi, do you want a pdf on queer theory?
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/stuff/things/definitely-not-porn/butts
 /a-critical-introduction-to-queer-theory.pdf
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--- #166 fediverse/71 ---
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 Oh it's compressed on tumblr too. And Reddit can delete my account at any
 time, just saying. I don't trust Facebook to fare any better...
 
 I tried to put it on my neocities website so I could just put a link here.
 Nevermind the fact that most people see a link they don't recognize and
 completely glaze over it. Guess what? Compressed there too. The file is fine
 on my PC, so how about I give a download link? Well, where should I host it?
 Dropbox or Mega I guess, but they locked my account for inactivity. I don't
 really like having other people in control of my data either. Maybe I can host
 it on my website, like a file server? Well, the browser intercepts the file
 somehow and I can't get it to automatically download to the viewer's computer.
 Maybe I'm just completely average and representative of the base population
 but I just can't figure this darn thing out. Alas, if only it was the modern
 era where things make sense and not the ancient days of 2023.
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--- #167 fediverse_boost/5470 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I like to leave notes on stuff I've modified so that I and any future owner (after i die or need to sell stuff to survive or whatever) can figure out what I've done, since more documentation might have vanished by the time it's needed  
  
                                                            
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--- #168 messages/542 ---
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 if you tell them not to keep your data that just means "don't keep my name on
 my data"
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--- #169 fediverse/6321 ---
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 "hey. wanna stretch with me? oh, whatever you want. I'll be doing my own
 thing."
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--- #170 messages/173 ---
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 When you die, nobody will ever taste your cooking again. Nobody will even
 remember what it tastes like.
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--- #171 fediverse/2601 ---
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 @user-249 
 
 you can host anything you'd like on a raspberry pi. If the software
 requirements are within the hardware specs, of course.
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--- #172 fediverse/6361 ---
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 sometimes I like playing two lofi/ambient playlists at once. if they don't
 sync up I switch one of them until it feels fine.
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--- #173 fediverse/5386 ---
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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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--- #174 fediverse/1224 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 sure that would help! I've used it to convert video files to a smaller size
 for uploading to websites, but that's about it
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--- #175 fediverse/5069 ---
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 if you have problems with games on linux, I can help you install it
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--- #176 fediverse/357 ---
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 @user-5 
 
 and mobile users who accidentally type . instead of [space] or something like
 that which is easy to mistakenly press on some keyboards
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--- #177 fediverse/4345 ---
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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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--- #178 messages/1102 ---
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 I want everyone to be able to do what they want. With oversight, sometimes,
 because we all share things and we can't agree if we don't share. and I agree
 to share, I think it's only fair.
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--- #179 fediverse/1001 ---
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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 perhaps that "light touch on reality" is what makes these pieces of art
 resonate with me. I think you're beautiful and have a good heart.
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--- #180 messages/127 ---
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 All I want for my mobile computing is the ability to use the interface of
 android to access resources and perform tasks that are relevant to my primary
 computer. Like, a mainframe with the phone as a terminal. Except instead of
 text, it's buttons and sliders and all the things that mobile UI experts have
 spent so much time carefully crafting.
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--- #181 fediverse/3741 ---
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 you can only be yourself once, and it happens while you're alive.
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--- #182 messages/765 ---
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
 for when secrecy is intended.
 
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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--- #183 fediverse/3287 ---
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 oh great my games are randomly crashing now in ways that they didn't used to do
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--- #184 fediverse/664 ---
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 @user-482 
 
 [secretly installs a keylogger and doesn't tell anyone upstream but still
 pushes it to production]
 
 [or worse, was told to do as such and given tools to fabricate "evidence" to
 the contrary to everyone else on the team]
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--- #185 messages/925 ---
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 but also, somehow, the coolest, kindest person you know.
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--- #186 fediverse/5329 ---
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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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--- #187 messages/526 ---
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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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--- #188 fediverse/450 ---
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 @user-334 
 
 You wouldn't believe the amount of time I spend wondering if a particular typo
 was divinely inspired and actually super important or... if it was just a
 fat-finger and I accidentally pushed a button I didn't intend.
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--- #189 fediverse/3123 ---
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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--- #190 fediverse/4314 ---
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 @user-1655 
 
 meanwhile I am haunted by words such as  "please save us" or "you could have
 done more" and "do you know how many husbands died for you"
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--- #191 fediverse/1444 ---
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 now is as good a time as any to clear your cookies and put every password you
 have to re-enter into a password manager. I know it's hard but you can do it!
 
 also, don't forget to request your archive of the fediverse every 7 days or
 whenever!
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--- #192 fediverse/4191 ---
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 [breaking up fediverse posts into little parts like this is nice because it
 allows people to "like" more specific things about what you're writing]
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--- #193 fediverse/3743 ---
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 @user-1218 
 
 ha wild
 
 well, survival games! shareware games are more of a distribution style and
 less of a genre, like "subscription software" versus "usable software"
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--- #194 messages/303 ---
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 Most of my magic is based on communicatuion. Why the fuck doesn't anyone want
 to sit down on a bunch of drugs and attempt to figure out telepathy with me?
 It's literally all I want! Though I can't say it's all I'll ever want. I'm
 sure I'll want more, but like... It's not that hard, conceptually, so... Let's
 just fucking try it please?
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 phew that takes a load off my mind : )
A screenshot of a chatGPT conversation  the user asks "How about politically? Are they a radical individual?"  the web search results filtered through a large language model replies: "Based on the public information, there is no public record of Ritz Menardi's political views or affiliations. Their online presence primarily focuses on technology, music, and creative writing, without any indication of radical political beliefs or activities."
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--- #196 fediverse/5977 ---
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 apparently you can use network sockets for inter-process communication if you
 just set the network to your home and the ports that are set to the defaults
 that people who know what software you use will know to listen on when they've
 hacked any single device on your network. good thing that data is with the
 router, right?
 
 what if there was a stop before leaving the computer?
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--- #197 fediverse/4193 ---
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 what if you could drop your "star" like on a line of your choosing in the
 "liked" tweet or toot
 
 just by dragging your mouse from the * up to the text somewhere
 
 or like... pick-up-and-drop, two clicks style
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--- #198 fediverse/31 ---
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 @user-33 i also like linux
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--- #199 fediverse/4073 ---
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 post until you can't anymore
 
 capitalism wants to drown your voice
 
 do not let it
 
 speak until you cannot speak
 
 then go do some pushups
 
 then find some friends
 
 then pitch a tent in the park
 
 then explain to the cops that you're not actually homeless and living there
 you're just trying to do this as a social statement because someone on the
 internet told you to
 
 then use your phone call to call your representative and complain about how
 much funding the police get
 
 then study law for 30 years because that's how long the government decided
 your life was worth
 
 by then you'll probably have figured out a better plan moving forward, so, use
 that one instead
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--- #200 fediverse/1416 ---
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 @user-979 @user-980 
 
 they do it for power.
 
 power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
 evil.
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