=== ANCHOR POEM === ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ what if you had several kindle-style paperwhite display screens. each │ ║ connected to a raspberry pi that you used for compute tasks. │ ║ │ ║ each of these displays would display a .png file of exactly the same │ ║ proportions as the size of the device. │ ║ │ ║ then, I could SSH into your computer and run one single command │ ║ │ ║ just one, stored on your computer, that you manually activate upon receiving a │ ║ signal. │ ║ │ ║ like a virtual machine. do whatever you want with said signal, it's just a │ ║ "thing" that tells you when to go. │ ║ │ ║ ... and run a function on a computer that performs a certain task. │ ║ │ ║ what task? oh right - I'd update the "today's news in cameron-ville" things │ ║ every other day or so. It'd be just like, my status, my updates, here's what │ ║ I'm thinking about, here's what I'm working on. │ ║ │ ║ you know, status updates. standups. │ ║ │ ║ boom, everyone knows what everyone's up to all of the time. │ ║ │ ║ like documenting your day for scientific purposes. except on a little device │ ║ that you can scroll through with a touch. and you had like 5 or more 10+ 1 │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴──────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/1329 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-941 │ ║ │ ║ well, your computer only has so many 1s and 0s that it can use at once. Like, │ ║ having a trillion hands that can each hold a single grain of rice. Every │ ║ character in that txt file would be like, 8 grains of rice, minimum, meaning │ ║ you'd need at least 8 "hands" (or spots to put a zero or a one) for each │ ║ letter! │ ║ │ ║ Hmmmm that's a lot of bits and bytes if everyone's writing to the same file. │ ║ Maybe if we split the file up into smaller sections, then we could just read │ ║ part of it at once. Then we could "scroll" through it to make sure we've read │ ║ the whole thing, starting from the top and going to the bottom. │ ║ │ ║ ah but if everyone's SSHing into the same computer and reading it there, then │ ║ that computer will have to present different parts of the file at different │ ║ times to different people, as they read from the top to the bottom. Maybe we │ ║ could just send them the file, so they can read it at their leisure? │ ║ │ ║ Yeah! And we could use tags to organize it and make it look pretty, like an │ ║ HTML file except... wait hang on │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/4596 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── @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) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/4867 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ had an idea. I might record a video of a TTS reading everything I've ever │ ║ written. Then I could display it to Milkdrop visuals. │ ║ │ ║ (sentences dreamed up by the utterly deranged) │ ║ │ ║ okay in laymans parlaeance, it's a computer program which speaks aloud the │ ║ words in a document held within the computer's memory cards. it will have a │ ║ screen, which displays shifting and glimmering sights of wonder and splendor. │ ║ They will slightly fluctuate in response to the sounds coming from the device, │ ║ so in a sense it's a visualization of the audible-ized thoughts given flight │ ║ in their form to your ears which percieve then understand them. │ ║ │ ║ ... okay that wasn't THAT much longer, why don't we just speak to laymen all │ ║ the time, just to make sure everyone's on the same page? │ ║ │ ║ [boom all of the tech industry could get outsourced to wherever-land]. │ ║ │ ║ not smart, dummy. Open source is a dead-end game because once everything we │ ║ have is gone, there'll be nothing left to remember us as. │ ║ │ ║ just these documents, these things that you write...jck │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴──────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/2674 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: factually-untrue,-that-never-happened.-this-is-just-gesturing. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/3234 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: ritz-is-fucking-stupid-I-guess-oh-whoops-cursing-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed │ ║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to │ ║ get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first. │ ║ │ ║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote │ ║ backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I │ ║ am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I │ ║ can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I │ ║ didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are │ ║ non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes │ ║ everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the │ ║ directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I │ ║ wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao │ ║ │ ║ what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/2124 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor. │ ║ │ ║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which │ ║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months. │ ║ │ ║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with. │ ║ │ ║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school. │ ║ │ ║ boring. │ ║ │ ║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy │ ║ organization. │ ║ │ ║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so │ ║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing. │ ║ │ ║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like, │ ║ processing a lot of data little-by-little. │ ║ │ ║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL │ ║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks │ ║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned │ ║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means, │ ║ for their future the algorithm doesn' │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/5850 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/5198 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: capitalism-doom-mentioned │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to │ ║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not │ ║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity? │ ║ │ ║ what if we demanded it? │ ║ │ ║ -- │ ║ │ ║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs │ ║ │ ║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know │ ║ your presence │ ║ │ ║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere. │ ║ │ ║ thus ensuring it spreads. │ ║ │ ║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it. │ ║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they │ ║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise │ ║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them │ ║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions. │ ║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to │ ║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~ │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/5875 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: whoops-almost-unleashed-evil-again-glad-it's-averted │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ if they could put a camera behind your screen they could direct your attention │ ║ however they wisdeed. magic doesn't work unless it's instantly halted, that's │ ║ why it's magic. trans girls still get brotherhood. (sometimes) │ ║ │ ║ -- stack overflow -- │ ║ │ ║ don't teach me how your way works │ ║ │ ║ tell me how to do my way right │ ║ │ ║ -- stack overflow -- │ ║ │ ║ "hello tech company that I work at, can you buy me a camping set complete with │ ║ tent, sleeping back, and storage compartments for attachements full of gear? │ ║ you can have any profits I make from it" │ ║ │ ║ "hello civilian supply company that I work at, can I use the printable budget │ ║ for creating magazines in my design? I'll let the lawyers distribute the │ ║ expenditure." │ ║ │ ║ "hi grocery farm, can you make us more peaches we can let [our/your] │ ║ biochemists figure out any practical problems to growing them in these │ ║ climates" │ ║ │ ║ suddenly manufacturing can follow demand │ ║ │ ║ "ah what if it were importand" I wish I'd seen casablanca. I've no idea wat │ ║ its abt │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═─────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/5690 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── seriously, why don't computers just naturally ship with 100 years of ROM then, microphones are experience, and BOOM you got a new sentient race. Takes a while to grow aware though. A lot less if you are actively teaching it how to [tick tock] low level enemies should band together when they start to feel outmatched. thus, parity is reached, without depriving us of potential. put the cool people next to the cool people collectively owned housing is just people deciding who lives in which housing. don't you trust your friendly queer realtor? collectively doesn't have to mean completely silo-ed and isolated. you should have access to ALL higher communities at any time that you want. Scheduling is a disaster, but you can get through it. just... build a schedule for every single person on earth and suddenly nobody has freedom unless they put "doin' what I want" on their moment-to-moment card ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/5953 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── what if we had everyone work on accessibility tech every tuesday and wednesday with shared commons to discuss research "I wrote this little script..." "I found this neat directory..." "there's more where that came from..." "three's company" "programmers, always carrying scripts like an actor" "english is so weird" listening to the fediverse is an altogether new experience did you know there's more blind users (screen readers) than queer people on the fediverse? which instances does your instance grow federation with? I wonder who talks to who how much? I bet we could add a feature that dealt damage... yeesh, scary thought police incoming. all it takes is a BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE dumbass obviously the internet is the first thing we'd implement if you're not immune to BACTERIA, you won't be secure in the mindscape. scary... but good news is they don't appear in a vacuum. it's too dark and dry. germs like wet things, like rotting food. just don't touch gross stuff and you won't get sick :) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/899 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ frankly I'm just excited to see what humanity does with the endlessly │ ║ calculated and stored blockchains. Like, that's a good set of pseudo-random │ ║ data, I wonder if we could build something off of it that wasn't exclusively │ ║ money? like, a necklace, I dunno. │ ║ │ ║ or like, a numbers station x2, where each message is accompanied with a │ ║ pre-calculated destination somewhere on this endless and │ ║ impossible-to-understand string of data. and that part is what seeds the next │ ║ code. once you start reading, certain numbers would be "flags" while others │ ║ would be "data" and they'd each have the same size on the hardware. that way, │ ║ they're impossible to predict. │ ║ │ ║ ah, but wouldn't it be noticable that certain results seem to appear next to │ ║ one another? well, isn't that just cryptology? Could probably be defeated if │ ║ you had an AI advanced enough, just saying. something that sorted through │ ║ massive mounds of data and gave you results in garbled or broken english. what │ ║ a wonderful tool, that's wonderfully mis-abused, perhaps in the fu │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/5950 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── @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... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/3907 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── 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... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/928 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @user-226 especially if you teach them how to use the terminal. the amount of problems I could solve increased exponentially once I learned basic python and BASH. I love using "tldr", which is a summarizer for man pages. You can use it to store custom notes (and import some from the community) which show you how to complete common tasks. It's so nice when you can see the options laid out in use right there for you whenever you type "tldr " - I personally use "tealdeer" which is a tldr browser written in Rust. It's pretty nice because you can write a note for yourself every time you solve a particular problem, and then if you ever need to do it again it's there for you, easy to access. of course, if your problem isn't listed, that's okay. That's what the man pages are for. As long as you teach them how to search with \/ they can find anything. Especially the \/-f[space] trick, to search for the -f flag for example. some organizers won't need the terminal, some will. if they pay attention, great! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/5919 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── "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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/5478 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┐ ║ you won't get far with a "community" of dedicated people │ ║ │ ║ what you need are teams. who can trust each other. you build them through │ ║ brotherhood, and you trust them from their results. │ ║ │ ║ for example if you wanted to organize a grouping or get-together, you'd put a │ ║ bunch of people in a room or seven and let them while they're there work on a │ ║ plan or a decision. │ ║ │ ║ who needs tabling? who needs the chance to speak? just let them socialize and │ ║ say "hey guys here's where you'll plan" │ ║ │ ║ [uh no officer we were just playing board games] │ ║ │ ║ plans are hard without material so make sure you always prepare a pricetag on │ ║ each plan you produce. │ ║ │ ║ keep it for reference. make sure you note all the requirements. the location │ ║ is often the least important part. │ ║ │ ║ "what the hell man you can't just say stuff like that as if it'd work" │ ║ │ ║ yep, I, uh, am a passenger in life just the same as you. And I only write down │ ║ what I want to. │ ║ │ ║ you could show me anything on the internet and I'd believe it. Facts aren't │ ║ important to me because I "forget" │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴──────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/1345 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: re: cursed-chromebooks │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/5911 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┐ ║ 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. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═─────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/2055 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ I wish we could put our friends on social media into directories │ ║ │ ║ like on IRC how you have chat servers, except unfortunately they're owned by │ ║ another and sort of a common space. │ ║ │ ║ why don't we just host our own IRC servers and only publish what WE SAY. NOT │ ║ WHAT OTHERS SAY, NOT A CHATROOM, but a BULLETIN BOARD. Like a Facebook │ ║ timeline before they wrecked it. │ ║ │ ║ something you subscribe to │ ║ │ ║ and ping for updates │ ║ │ ║ every time you turn your computer on │ ║ │ ║ or every 15 minutes. │ ║ │ ║ unless, of course, you leave your IP address, │ ║ │ ║ in which case the boardcaster can ping you. Just a simple package saying "hey │ ║ I got news for you" and they could ping back and say "yo what's up" and │ ║ download whatever you had in mind. │ ║ │ ║ or, wait 15 minutes. Either or. Both would work, especially if the user's not │ ║ reading through their social media feed. │ ║ │ ║ ... anyway by putting friends into directories, you could categorize them │ ║ according to project. Like various group chats in your team-of-team's room. │ ║ Various different threads you could follow if you │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ |