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 I would trust the CIA if they gave me continual access to all surveillance of
 myself
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if you made a program which cycled credentials?
 
 like... "give me a random credential for Zoom" because we share all of our
 digital resources
 
 did you get banned for account sharing? no you didn't because you routed
 through the correct VPN
 
 automagically
 
 [has never had a software job]
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 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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--- #2 fediverse/3469 ---
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 you know how SSH password login is deprecated because the password needs to be
 transmitted in cleartext or whatever?
 
 what if we just... required two passwords?
 
 the first initiates the conversation, and sets up an encrypted line. It
 doesn't matter if anyone sees the first password because they'll get a new set
 of encrypted keys, meaning each session automatically is encrypted in a
 different, randomized way.
 
 the second password is the one that actually authenticates you.
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--- #3 fediverse/3470 ---
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 alternatively, when you initiate an SSH session it sends you a randomized
 public key whose private key is the password that you need to login. By
 decrypting the string of text it sent you and sending it back (plus the
 password at the end or whatever) you can ensure secure authentication without
 bothering with the passwordless keys which are wayyyyyy more trouble than
 they're worth and lack the "something you know" authentication method.
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--- #4 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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--- #5 fediverse/4296 ---
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 @user-1655 
 
 why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
 parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
 client we want?
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--- #6 fediverse/5081 ---
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 what if mastodon recorded the date and time of every time you boosted /
 unboosted something so you can keep track of what your page looked like over
 time [in the export data functionality]
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--- #7 fediverse/6458 ---
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 gonna pre-emptively backup my fediverse archive haha just-in-case I get banned
 for spamming or something teehee (totally reasonable teebeeh)
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--- #8 messages/1185 ---
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 I think at this moment in my poetry career I do actually want the CIA
 observing me. [suddenly that makes more problems than it's worth] alright well
 guess that's how it is, pack it up boys my poetry career is [overhyping itself
 momentarily]
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--- #9 fediverse/6438 ---
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 why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some
 people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because
 that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools
 
 "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
 it's documentation in my context window."
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--- #10 fediverse/1261 ---
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 sometimes I run this WoW server with only like, 10 username and passwords. And   │
 they're all public. As far as I can tell nobody's ever tried connecting          │
 (whatever >.> ) but rather than set up a way to create your own                  │
 credentials I just said "yeah pick one at random and play whatever someone       │
 else was doing because I like the idea of that"                                  │
 somehow, it felt right.                                                          │
 most of my passwords (not all of them) are hacked and visible on the clear       │
 net. Like you could probably google my usernames and get my current passwords    │
 for things like, social media or my banks or whatever. I kinda like the idea     │
 that "you cannot trust anything I say, so think of the ideas behind my words     │
 and decide whether they hold meaning to you" rather than "execute these          │
 particular thought patterns in your mind as if they came from my voice"          │
 because one implies an exertion of control over the mind of the recipient        │
 -> obey my thoughts as I broadcast them into your mind, that kinda vibe.         │
 And I feel like you have to consent to that kind of thing hehe                   │
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--- #11 fediverse/1890 ---
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 I always get a little suspicious when my machine pseudo-randomly starts
 running the fans super loud and when I open my resource monitor they suddenly
 drop to silent
 
 like... bro what are you hiding
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--- #12 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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--- #13 fediverse/4751 ---
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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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--- #14 messages/635 ---
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 Yeah, sure, signal is encrypted, but they could just put a virus on your
 miniature pocket tv that streams your screen into a text recognition bot which
 streams that text into an LLM trained to report on suspicious seditious
 activity.
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--- #15 fediverse/4789 ---
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 what if there was a bank or credit union or something which created a randomly
 generated credit card number for you every time you made a purchase? and
 randomized your account number too, just in-case they're forced to display
 their records. would be cool.
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--- #16 fediverse/3234 ---
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 my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed     │
 due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to      │
 get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first.             │
 unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote           │
 backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I   │
 am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I     │
 can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I      │
 didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are               │
 non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes     │
 everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the             │
 directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I     │
 wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao          │
 what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di    │
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 what if there was a drone that did nothing except fly directly between you and
 the sun so you never got sunburned and never got vitamindeed
 
 [timestamp]
 
 [she must be at home because she doesn't use mastodon while mobile]
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--- #18 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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--- #19 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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--- #20 fediverse/5612 ---
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 you know, [you can just randomize your profile every time you log in] .... oh
 there was a stack overflow at the last one so
you know, you can just randomize your profile every time you log in  "something something stack overflow - what does an orange website that looks like it's from our parents generation have to do with ancient prehistoric mammals?"  wait are those the ones with the tusks  "yeah totally. Huh what a weird way to build a collection."
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--- #21 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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--- #22 fediverse/2605 ---
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 @user-1268 
 
 was just wondering what interesting or useful or incriminating data was found
 in the heritage foundation hack.
 
 because, like, they could just leave a security vulnerability open for
 downloading their like, contact data for customers, and like... that's not too
 useful for people attempting to fight them. it's the CONSUMER'S data after
 all, not the corporation / organization.
 
 all I saw was the headline that they downloading some gigabytes of
 information, I didn't check to see what it comprised
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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/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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--- #25 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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--- #26 fediverse/5109 ---
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 does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that
 isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home
 like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which
 is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
 courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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--- #27 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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--- #28 fediverse/1310 ---
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 that feeling when you type your password so fast that one hand is faster than
 the other and the letters get all jumbled and now you have to remake your ssh
 key -.-
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--- #29 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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--- #30 fediverse/2900 ---
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 what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
 hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
 that much
wouldn't that be neat I think it would because it means once they collapse under the weight of their own ambitions that hardware's gotta go somewhere and knowing them they're probably going to ship it to south-east asia to be "recycled" (read: burnt with the metals salvaged) instead of selling them second hand because you know they can't really justify the business expense of selling stuff like that and besides what if some driver or something on the firmware was proprietary do you really want to pay techs to wipe every single thing off of them and plus who's gonna categorize and sort them according to their form and function that's just extra payroll and listen the company's not doing so hot anyway I mean we're literally shutting down but yeah sure we'll find a way to justify spending all that non-existent dosh so some hippies can feel better with their servers they didn't build or justify with their profit-producing capitalist enterprise that we've built with our own two hands well really the hands of everyone else but like, they're not actually doing the building the REAL work of course happens in board rooms like this one where we spend MINUTES and HOURS sometimes discussing how to get things in order and aligned to both of our goals because that's the REAL work that has to happen in order for stuff to get done, you know it's true yeah I thought so anyway what are you doing after this meeting wanna get lunch it's almost quitting time at 2pm
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 what if instead of javascript cookies we only let websites access one single
 location in memory which was allocated client-side and is unique to each
 website?
 
 that way they couldn't track you between sites, since they wouldn't be able to
 see any other website's "biscuits" get it because they're healthier than
 cookies
 
 All they would be able to store would be data, though I guess they could store
 bytecode instructions or something if they really wanted to.
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--- #32 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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--- #33 fediverse/4766 ---
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 what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
 
 why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
 feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
 fediverse house.
 
 maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
 link or text post" button
 
 study encryption kids
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 "if I work on the TTY then they can't forward my X session without my consent"
 
 - ramblings of the utterly deranged
 
 as if they couldn't just look at your unencrypted source-code as you save it
 to your hard drive smh
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 @user-1437 @user-1438 
 
 you poor thing, don't delete your toots! don't delete your account! you are
 wanted here, this is the fediverse! it's for all of us.
 
 I personally like cyber-sexual exploitation more than cyber exploitation. I
 wouldn't have thought about it unless you said something. there are a lot of
 ways to exploit someone in a digital medium, and adding "sexual" focuses the
 term to specifically the non-consentual sharing of sexual digital media -
 which is exactly what the term "revenge porn" describes.
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 everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
 big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 distributed
 
 so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
 time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
 
 and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
 always be 42.
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 keep in mind...
 
 trump is not their endgame.
 
 what is he doing?
 
 sabotaging our institutions without warrant or respite
 
 prepare for foes that would benefit from degraded institutions.
 
 who's right when nobody controls the truth?
 
 were they ever truly right?
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--- #38 fediverse/5950 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 wao I'm a cool kid _^
 
 Hmmmm I googled "Network: file exists" and got this link:
 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1340713
 
 my understanding of that is that maybe you're creating static routes, and for
 some reason you're trying to create one that already exists? Maybe there's
 something in your .bashrc config, if the file appears when you open a
 terminal, or perhaps if it appears randomly then maybe there's a service or
 something that's doing it.
 
 Did you say it stopped when you swapped sim cards? ... on your phone? that's
 bizzare... Maybe you were trying to create an ip route (whatever that is) that
 was pointing to the same ip address as your phone? and when you swapped sims
 it changed the ip address? If it appears again, maybe try setting static IP
 addresses for both the phone and the computer in your router settings and see
 if that fixes it. Though if you've ever seen the error while out and about at
 like, a coffee shop or library or whatever, then that wouldn't apply since the
 router is only for home base...
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 if the paradigm changes, suddenly you might find foes who you share common
 collective woes.
 
 this is a nightmare for your foes, the ones who remain your foes, the ones who
 always will be your foes, the ones who your foes are currently opposed as they
 believe they're doing pizzagate things and snorting child molester bones or
 sacrificing transgender children to anubesiris or whatever.
 
 "oh no don't tell me there's a secret cabal of elites that do satan's dark
 bidding worship"
 
 look I'm not NOT saying that, I just don't really have insight into that
 because it's not my jurisdiction. I'm supposed to talk about computer
 programming and being gay and struggling with meniality and revolutionary
 praxis in the modern day and all that junk and instead everyone's like "what
 if you are chronically interesting and permanently vexxing and seriously
 draining and perhaps a little bit caustic (non-toxic crayons) but always a
 darling and always eternally fair and righteous and valorous and determined
 and also gay"
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 what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
 couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
 for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
 with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
 by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
 they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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--- #41 fediverse/2015 ---
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 Hey does anyone have a link to that paper where they used wifi waves on hacked
 insecure routers to "see" through walls and build a decent enough
 visualization of what a person's doing to be roughly equivalent to
 full-body-tracking in VR? I want to see if I can make it work for VR (with
 consent)
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 @user-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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 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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 what if your roomba brought you the cable from behind the computer and/plugged
 you in to the right port
 
 "hey can I get an access panel over here"
 
 [plugs in headphone jack]
 
 boom suddenly TV is muted for everyone else
 
 need to connect to something remotely? here's a line to your aunt jane. it
 goes directly to her. right over the cable that's connected to whoeverplace
 she'd find herself [from here far afield]
 
 I personally think rooms should be bigger?
 
 why are there small bedrooms? build more, not better, space
what if your roomba brought you the cable from behind the computer and/plugged you in to the right port  "hey can I get an access panel over here"  [plugs in headphone jack]  boom suddenly TV is muted for everyone else  need to connect to something remotely? here's a line to your aunt jane. it goes directly to her. right over the cable that's connected to whoeverplace she'd find herself [from here far afield]  I personally think rooms should be bigger?  why are there small bedrooms? build more, not better, space  505 characters remaining
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 @user-570 @user-246 
 
 you know you two could have spared yourselves all this trouble if you just
 ScReEnShOtTeD the code! Then it'd be easy to see with your very
 not-visually-impaired eyeballs on your graphical user interface, considering
 of course that everyone has perfectly functional eyeballs and perfectly visual
 graphical user interfaces
 
 /s of course
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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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--- #47 fediverse/4056 ---
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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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--- #48 fediverse/2423 ---
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 does anyone know of any fedi software that lets you link to a particular post
 and read forward on a person's timeline from there? Or back I guess, but
 chronological viewing specifically.
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--- #49 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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--- #50 fediverse/6435 ---
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 if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
 radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
 infinitely scale
 
 old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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--- #51 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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--- #52 fediverse/2044 ---
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 honestly I think everyone should have two mastodon accounts - one for people
 you like, and one for people you trust
 
 (I have one)
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 when you type the letters they slowly fade in on the other person's screen
 
 like miniature explosions from layers of gunpowder
 
 forming letters in the sky
 
 anyway the text would "burn" into existence slowly and you had time after
 typing
 your words to go back and edit them but also whatever you said was semi
 permanent. Thus forcing a smooth and ideal progression toward thinking about
 the things you say.
 
 Also separate idea but it'd be neat if there was like... a show or something
 that just recorded a person's desktop as they fucked around on the internet.
 Call it... ambient desktopping. It'd look a little like those coding twitch
 streams that just slowly update over time. Idk it's kinda cool
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--- #54 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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--- #55 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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--- #56 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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--- #57 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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--- #58 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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--- #59 fediverse/2412 ---
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 @user-1209 @user-1262 
 
 just gonna say you probably deserve that particular screenshotted block haha -
 imagine calling anarcho-nina a fed xD xD
 
 plus that first "get the fuck out of my mentions" was a tip that went over
 your head, not a threat said in anger. she's pretty darn angry but that just
 means you don't wanna be in her way =P
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 And then if there's 10 of them [clones] that are in on it...
 
 They can spy on them by being different "selves" of their own at once.
 Systematized identity refraction.
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--- #61 fediverse/4664 ---
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 @user-1725 
 
 LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion.
 
 What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as
 JSON or something and use a calculator function call with the specified
 arguments instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more
 functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech
 bro and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by
 Google or Microsoft.
 
 We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They
 suck the creativity out of tech.
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--- #62 fediverse/6119 ---
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 what's the point of using a password manager if they're just going to 2FA your
 ass anyway?
 
 oh right, so google knows whenever someone signs into obscure-porn-site.com or
 radical-chemistry-and-explosives.net or
 cheap-hot-anime-gunpla-fast-xoxo.itch.io or whatever the kids are buying these
 days
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--- #63 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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--- #64 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
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  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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--- #65 fediverse/4108 ---
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 what if you could make multiple mastodon accounts in the UI and sort your
 followers into bins that corresponded to which account you wanted to see and
 switch between with the push of a button
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--- #66 fediverse/4720 ---
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 @user-882 
 
 it's a security hole though
 
 yeah... there ya go...
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--- #67 fediverse/423 ---
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 │ CW: us-pol-cursing   │                                                         │
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 How about next election after this clusterfuck where we demolish the fascists    │
 we take a breather and say "okay every candidate submits their plan for a        │
 controlled demolition of capitalism, the winner gets to implement their idea"    │
 wait that's a terrible idea people will just vote for the thing that makes       │
 them feel good and is vaguely shaped like a D or an R.                           │
 How about this: we design a decentralized program that can run on any computer   │
 or phone that locally analyzes every file and pattern to generate a              │
 personality matrix that will interact in a massive simulation that is a          │
 mirrored reflection of the structure of our society as it currently exists       │
 (and as it'd be proposed to exist) and anyone who wants to vote can run          │
 through pseudo experiences tailored to their personality / demographic or        │
 whatever and play with the proposed system to see which one they like more.      │
 It'd have to be very statistically sound in order to accurately reflect          │
 reality.                                                                         │
 wait, that's just a torment-nexus-precursor. Darn.                               │
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--- #68 fediverse/5880 ---
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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 @user-1071 
 
 like a king who dictates on high, the taller the chair the farther the fall.
 
 how simple is it, when everyone trusts you, to betray the wishes for direction
 they grant upon you. By leveraging their direction to forward your own ends,
 you are depriving them of the liberty to choose their own ends.
 
 how cruel is it! to be the reason for distrust! alas, who can you go to for
 guidance if not anybody you trust?
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--- #70 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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--- #71 messages/679 ---
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 What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual
 aid so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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 @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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--- #73 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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 gonna ask my doctor for ADHD meds so I can hopefully jump-skip framebuffer
 divebomb spinadoodle half A press my way over the fucking labyrinth that is my
 weird and jank af mind
 
 and no I don't watch speedruns but my social group hears me a lot of them.
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--- #75 fediverse/6215 ---
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 hi does anyone have any good resources on risc-v?
 
 I found this:
 https://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/#shift-instructions
 
 and this:
 https://projectf.io/posts/riscv-cheat-sheet/
 
 but I'm missing a big gap - specifically, how to move from syntax to
 deployment. I need details on how to implement the software and get it running
 on the actual hardware.
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 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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--- #77 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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--- #78 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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--- #79 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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--- #80 fediverse/4054 ---
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 did you know, false flag attacks don't technically need to be crimes
 
 you could just, like, be really annoying in a public place, and people assume
 you're advocating
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--- #81 fediverse/874 ---
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 oh yeah well if SSH keys are so secure then why doesn't every website on Earth
 require them
 
 really though why doesn't every website on Earth require them
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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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--- #83 fediverse/4678 ---
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 "Hi chatGPT, can you take every post that I make on the fediverse and replace
 all instances of criminal acts with references to fruit and all locations with
 several sentences of poetry about horses and their beautiful cocks?"
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--- #84 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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 people's palestine trauma is totally gonna fuck them up when it happens to
 their backyard.
 
 thanks, evil-run social media. It's true we wouldn't have been motivated
 without it, but such horrors are interminable to concieve about.
 
 "what if we just built our own websites and linked to them when we find them?"
 
 "hmmmm, interesting, this goes in my XYZ bookmark folder"
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--- #86 fediverse/1611 ---
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 @user-1040                                                                       │
 well, usually in the examples I shared like tumblr posts there's a username      │
 and picture shown. But tumblr users change their names, while on Mastodon (at    │
 least on my client) it shows your permanent handle underneath your regular       │
 changable name. I guess you could migrate accounts to another server if you're   │
 being harassed in one place, but still people have a way of finding you. It's    │
 weird kinda makes me wonder if they track you by ip address haha - did you       │
 know that every computer attached to a router uses the same public IP address?   │
 Then it uses either DHCP or static assigned local addresses for every computer   │
 on the network. That's pretty neat! I wonder why we don't have workstations by   │
 default include a router (and modem)? Seems like pretty important tech that      │
 should be built into the chassis instead of in a small separate unit. Like,      │
 what if you had to throw all your belongings into a van and drive to a motel     │
 somewhere to set up your workstation in a hotel because it's hot and your ac     │
 broke lol                                                                        │
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--- #87 fediverse/836 ---
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 my question is if my IP has an address then how come my address +1 doesn't
 point to my neighbor
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 the reason rent is so expensive is because of all the surveillance equipment
 they need to pay for and upkeep
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--- #89 fediverse/3805 ---
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 neat
the website Ephemeren has 100,008 followers as of 5 days ago. There are 0 people who follow the website on Neocities, it's all external traffic.
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--- #90 fediverse/498 ---
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 Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
 the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
 might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
 perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
 information presented to me.
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--- #91 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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 @user-1707 
 
 hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua
 but it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think
 raspberry pi's except risc-v
 
 also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo
 and lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even
 translate text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a
 jpeg compression but for text.
 
 Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed"
 part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little
 utilities like that for connectivity.
 
 oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so
 we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard)
 
 anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you
 about it. I might even be able to pay you.
 
 (everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is
 encrypted, etc etc)
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 I'll give ya a hint - encrypt the return IP address WITHIN the packet's data
 package repository area itself, rather than trusting your "router" to return
 it to sender.
 
 YOU DON'T KNOW WHO IS SENDING A PACKET
 
 that's the whole point of udp
 
 (actually udp is when it doesn't matter if it got snatched in transit. Usually
 used for more analog data streams like netflix or hulu prime.)
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 do you ever think about how calling the BLM events "protests" versus "riots"
 is a subtle dogwhistle for your politics? I usually say "riots" so that I
 blend in. also because I've been conditioned by the people who I talk to about
 them.
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--- #95 messages/968 ---
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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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--- #96 fediverse/3474 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 true, but much the same way people will rebel against inconvenience by writing
 passwords on sticky notes, so too might they put SSH keys onto the nearest
 flash drive without validating that it hasn't been compromised. There's
 tradeoffs everywhere I guess.
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--- #97 fediverse/1482 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 I feel like SSH keys to log into every website should be a standard
 
 or something similar
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 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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--- #99 fediverse/2859 ---
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 large corporations will often error check constantly which slows down their
 software to an immense degree.
 
 every time data passes from one function to another, there's like... 15
 different tests to check if it's this type or that, or in the right random seed
 
 and it's like... wow can you not, like. design your software intelligently and
 then you won't need a bunch of slow-ass if checks every time you want to
 update a string???
 
 software should be writable without fucking getters and setters. If it isn't,
 then your functions aren't complete.
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 "okay this user requires some data that is flagged as 'potentially harmful to
 the user' and their user-data suggests that they have [redacted characteristic
 or demographic] in their user-data which has been flagged by corporate as
 something to [benefit/harm] so let's give them the [right/wrong] information
 in such a way that could [harm or benefit] them tangibly."
 
 - internal thought process of the LLM
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--- #101 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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--- #102 fediverse/4901 ---
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 "hey what if we broke our product and made it impossible to use without being
 caught by github"
 
 - computer touchers in a union
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 eye tracked kindle that reads aloud the words you're looking at so you get
 visual and audio books at the same time
 
 bonus points if it does so in your own voice (give it a few years)
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--- #104 fediverse/3641 ---
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--- #105 fediverse/129 ---
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 so you're telling me you give Microsoft (a company known recently for AI
 development) full access to your webcam and microphone whenever your computer
 is on?
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--- #106 fediverse/3351 ---
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 privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
 internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
 
 gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face
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 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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--- #108 fediverse/4869 ---
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 https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/FlA92SW5bVwGd+L89yV9U0I0SMNiGm3P0P3xS7DqYm
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--- #109 fediverse/1233 ---
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 low key kinda wish someone would kidnap me and lock me in a room with nothing
 but a c compiler and strict orders to only work on whatever I want
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--- #110 fediverse/4973 ---
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 okay, uhm, I'm back again because someone told me to forward this to relevant
 people
 
 relevant link so google doesn't have to know that you're all googling the same
 thing at the same time...
 
 http://naeb.brit.org/uses/
Finally, trying to pivot towards Pacific northwestern native perennial plants (and self-seeding annuals) for food, medicine, and material; they're much more adapted to this region as far as sunlight, moisture, bungalow, microbial, avian, insect partner, and soil types are concerned, and that's not only take less work now to instigate and tend, but are much more equipped to handle the fungal infections, droughts, genetic biodiversity collapses, and fluctuating climates that are inbound.  the BRIT ethnobotany database is helpful in that regard, and given that it's based out of Texas and has gynecological herbs, it would be a really good idea for some of the tech queers in our community to duplicate a redundancy of it.
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--- #111 fediverse/6171 ---
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 @user-882 
 
 I dunno I just remember having that problem every once in a while and if you
 search the man page for "sub" it takes like, 16 n pushes to find what you need
 and it's like... can't you just put the flags and keyboard shortcuts at the
 beginning??
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--- #112 fediverse/4474 ---
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 @user-1268 
 
 if you know how to program in C this is a good resource for building
 networking applications:
 
 https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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--- #113 fediverse/1466 ---
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 │ CW: death-mentioned-insurance-mentioned-bricks-mentioned │
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 my opsec is non-existent teehee does anyone want my IP? or even my address,
 it's not like I lock my door
 
 if (when) my poor decisions get me killed (whoops adding content warning)
 please throw a brick at an insurance company for me thanks
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--- #114 fediverse/1789 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 Ah, well, since you've worked with raspberry pi's before I am going to trust
 you on that. Perhaps a different system-on-a-chip could be used which has
 better network controllers.
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--- #115 fediverse/1089 ---
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 to those who guide our fate
 
 choose paradise
 
 make eden
 
 ======================= stack overflow =====================
 
 clouds of carbon are an affront to the sun god
 
 just as they are an affront to mine lungs
 
 or mine body temperature
 
 [acid oceans are toxic to the plane of water]
 
 [you think that would go unnoticed?]
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--- #116 fediverse/1682 ---
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 girls who have so many tabs open that they use ctrl+T to navigate to the most
 recent tabs
 
 wishing there was a way to scroll back to the beginning... alas
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--- #117 fediverse/1035 ---
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 @user-757 @user-192 
 
 true and my suggestion doesn't provide a tracelog, pretty much just the status
 of the variables when it pauses or ends.
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--- #118 fediverse/3574 ---
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 @user-1564 
 
 I love the concept of this! Maybe if HTTP is too complex, you could try
 another simpler server? I don't know the complexity of the programs I use
 every day, but I'm sure there's one that's very simple. Even just a simple IRC
 style chat server that just... sends text from person A to person B depending
 on their username (like a glorified Router or Switch)
 
 Reminded of this video tbh...:
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfTjKwLQxY
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 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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--- #120 bluesky#22 ---
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 what if bluesky users unionized and leveraged their collective power to
 "suggest" improvements to the software
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--- #121 fediverse/6029 ---
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 spilled water on my keyboard by living with a cat. it might be broken so I'm
 using a spare that my girlfriend lent me. if you're wondering why my password
 sounds different...
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--- #122 fediverse/3359 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 you could throw yourself into the project of hosting a private server, that
 way you could be working on "Runescape" while also being productive
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 at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
 unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And
 then you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
 concentrated ones.
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--- #124 fediverse/4930 ---
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 hi does anyone know of an app that non tech people could use that's like
 "signal but organized like discord" with channels and threads and such?
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--- #125 fediverse_boost/4925 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  still waiting to find the energy and headspace to write an irritated blog post about why the fact that most toolchains are like 80% of the learning curve for those who are just getting into programming (especially on windows)  
  
                                                            
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--- #126 fediverse/1810 ---
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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--- #127 fediverse/5314 ---
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 people are so afraid of defamation lawsuits that they'll refrain from posting
 things like "steam could technically see everything going on on your screen"
 
 what will you say in front of a phone?
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--- #128 fediverse/2400 ---
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 @user-1165 
 
 I am an anarchist. My strategy is to let the DSA be the centralized vanguard
 party. If another emerges, let them share responsibilities - every burden
 taken off your back is more energy that can be applied to what you are sworn
 to care for.
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--- #129 fediverse/1893 ---
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 @user-1056 
 
 heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't
 running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly
 failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot
 familiar, but not today I guess.
 
 Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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--- #130 fediverse/1764 ---
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 Okay okay hear me out - but what if instead of  pumping oil out of the ground,
 we shoved a bunch of tree trunks down there and let them marinate for a few
 thousand years
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--- #131 fediverse/3826 ---
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 @user-1600 
 
 you guessed correctly, good job finding me hehe
 
 and yes, I think someone else was using my account. Gonna try and figure out
 what he said.
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--- #132 fediverse/2510 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 if I wanted to accomplish this goal, I would host a fediverse server on a
 raspberry pi and post the link around the building (the owners will remove it
 so you gotta keep posting them)
 
 then, potlucks.
 
 then, friendships.
 
 then, organization.
 
 be patient with them. people are slow to be constructive.
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 private militias who go with deported immigrants to make sure they aren't
 harassed in whichever randomly assigned country they're sent to (until they
 get stabilized and hooked into cooperative and honorable local networks)
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--- #134 fediverse/3736 ---
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 what if we made cat little boxes with stable "pillars" or "platforms" that
 rise just barely above the sand level so their feet don't sink into the
 litter, thus reducing the amount tracked onto the carpet
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--- #135 fediverse/1365 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 but also it's the fediverse, it's the wild west, it's free to do however you
 decide to be. so don't worry too much about fitting in to anything, just be
 yourself ^_^
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--- #136 fediverse/3403 ---
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 google and their ads created the market for SEO optimized garbage which clogs
 up the arteries of the internet. They and their business model are culpable in
 the murder of the digital commons.
 
 anyone can write a web crawler which could be a decent enough search engine.
 
 not many people can figure out which sites are morass.
 
 fewer still might salt the fecund land upon which we lived and make it fetid.
 Yet they did.
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 programmers already spend a ton of time as downtime.                             │
 what if instead of interviewing someone they just... watched them program for    │
 like, 3 hours or so                                                              │
 while they were thinking about a problem                                         │
 and like, if the person is cool, working on their own projects or whatever,      │
 then yeah hire them                                                              │
 -- stack overflow --                                                             │
 I also                                                                           │
 ========================= stack overflow                                         │
 ===============================================================================  │
 ========================                                                         │
 a person thinks out loud the thoughts that their foes know. it's how you know    │
 it's not secret anymore, and it's better to keep it among allies                 │
 [something like that? seems a little off]                                        │
 (are you really searching for edits)                                             │
 [that sounds pretty cool, sure why not we got a millenia]                        │
 (beep boop one partial millenia later)                                           │
 [ah that was not a long rest. let's see, where were we when we were working on   │
 this test? oh dear, seems the biology's gone rogue, that's pretty interesting    │
 to attest.                                                                       │
 neato                                                                            │
 anyway let's wait until they figure out how water works                          │
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 the kind of friendship where you SSH into each other's systems and leave notes
 for one another.
 
 as soon as you find one you message the person who left it like "yoooo only
 just found this lol" and they're like oooo yeah did you see the bash script I
 wrote in that directory "yeah totally I used it on one of my video files just
 now - cool filter!"
 
 ahhhh reminds me of all the times hackers have hacked my permanently insecure
 system and left me friendly messages like "hey I'm on your side" or "how's
 life, friend? I hope it's going well." or "never forget; you are worth all the
 fear" y'know cute things like that
 
 oh. right. because leaving vulnerabilities like that can lead to threat actors
 affecting your stuff. how lame.
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--- #139 messages/888 ---
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 The biggest danger to opsec is when other people think they know more than you.
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 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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--- #141 fediverse_boost/6270 ---
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  I am once again begging people to understand that “the government” already knows you’re queer whether you do elaborate online opsec dance rituals or not, and if they decide to just start shooting people for being gay, they’ll do it whether the evidence is airtight or not. is that grim? yes. but you can stop giving yourself undercover superhero identity PTSD about it  
  
                                                            
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--- #142 fediverse/308 ---
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 when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do
 I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical,
 or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes
 this myself?"
 
 when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
 have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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--- #143 fediverse/5552 ---
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 I once heard that when you click a link, the developer of the website can tell
 which website you came from. idk if that's true or not.
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--- #144 fediverse/1207 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 okayyyy I have catgirl installed
 
 https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/
 
 let me know what server or whatever to join
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--- #145 fediverse_boost/6155 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  If I were a person with an irresponsible streak, I could be so problematic.   
                                                                              
  I could say things like, "wow, let's spend some time generating traffic that sounds like coded military speak over not-quite-secure channels between fanciful antifa units, to help stymie AI surveillance", for instance.   
                                                                              
  Or social media messages that are "accidentally" not made to friends-only filters wherein you mention your concerns about the upcoming operation in "some fictional place" for you and your antifa buddies.   
                                                                              
  You know, that kind of really irresponsible suggestion could lead to some creaive thinking! And that in turn could mean we could come up with enough traffic to make it very difficult to auto-sort noise from signal? Imagine how dangerous that could be for the enemies of antifa, our beloved US government (for we all citizens of the US world).   
                                                                              
  It's unthinkable, really.                                                   
                                                                              
  The good news is, I'm not like that.                                        
                                                                              
  Me? Mostly harmless.                                                        
  
                                                            
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 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               │
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 sometimes I feel like I'm a simulation of my past self based on my future
 writings reconstructed by a backward looking computer calculating forward into
 the present, which would then be the future to the now, which is different
 than the NOW now, because the now that they're calculating from is temporally
 both then (the future) and now, meaning that the NOW now is something that
 transcends time, or perhaps if not time then it defies our expectations of
 time, and you know what they say, you can't (or shouldn't) cheat death
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--- #148 fediverse_boost/4577 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.  
  
                                                            
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--- #149 fediverse_boost/6017 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Linux admins when they have to use Windows: :/                              
                                                                              
  Windows admins when they have to use Linux: :\                              
  
                                                            
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 everyone's all like "why would you spend so much effort writing that software
 in a distributed way when it works so well in a centralized manner" and the
 answer is because you never know when you're going to need to train an LLM on
 like, 400 raspberry pi's or calculate the velocity of an unladen swallow as it
 circles a black hole the size of mercury or whatever physicists do in their
 spare time
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 what if we taxed every ounce of resource that companies wasted
 
 (maybe with a multiplier for the current relative value of the substance -
 diamonds are more valuable than apples per pound)
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--- #152 fediverse/4301 ---
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 @user-1655 
 
 maybe the user could tell their client what fields to expect and how to
 present them (like, a field called "memes" would be presented as a picture in
 this panel, a field called "rants" would be passed to a word-cloud function
 that extracts the most common 6+ letter words so you can tell at a glance what
 the rant is about, this other field could be for calendar invites (plain text
 of course, but interpreted by the calendar program) etc)
 
 plus, if it's encrypted with PGP keys by default, there'd be few security
 concerns. Unless your friend got hacked, or you got hacked, but, well... make
 sure everything's sandboxed and don't do any remote code execution and you're
 good, right?
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--- #153 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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--- #154 fediverse/4600 ---
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 they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
 weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
 
 then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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--- #155 fediverse/6269 ---
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 what if the secret to LLM computation is to just not reduce the fractions and
 keep it all in english language ram
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--- #156 fediverse/6175 ---
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 okay okay bear with me...
 
 what if blackberry with keyboard ABOVE the screen
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--- #157 messages/377 ---
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--- #158 bluesky#21 ---
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 the main product that github offers is the assurance that the code displayed
 on your monitor is the same as the one running on your computer.
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--- #159 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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 what if it was illegal to add network connectivity to a device that the user
 didn't explicitly request to have network connectivity?
 
 I'm picturing any device being sold going forward to have a little radio
 button with like "add network features (+10$)" and "no networking included
 (+0$)"
 
 boom, no more IoT
 
 no more dishwashers phoning home telemetry
 
 no more consensual privacy invasions desecrations
 
 no more "I thought it was just a polaroid camera why does it have bluetooth
 enabled without broadcasting a pairing request?"
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--- #161 fediverse/5919 ---
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 "but... why?"
 
 portable linux with buttons, great for pick-up-games or communication, can
 throw several in them in a backpack if you want clustered cooperation, they
 work as radios (if the signal reaches) and can transmit text (if you use a
 radial-style keyboard)
 
 [this is all just a pitch for... something, what, you want something? ha
 you'll find no things with me, I know nothing of antifa or whatever]
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--- #162 fediverse/3919 ---
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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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--- #163 fediverse/5156 ---
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 @user-1767 
 
 yep... I think they must stay in blind-people-mostly instances. surely they
 must, right? where else would they be? using screen-readers and seeming
 regular and normal to you and me? ah gosh who can say, maybe there's some
 statistics out there or something /shrug
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--- #164 fediverse/5299 ---
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 @user-1800 
 
 also googly eyes on sunglasses to fuck with their eye-movement-tracking
 
 ... wait, then you wouldn't be able to see. okay how about you place the
 googly eyes on the forehead part of a HELMET of some kind, which should help
 protect your "not-gonna-get-back-up" parts from harm.
 
 and don't forget sunglasses because they help with the UV-ray violet
 radicalization.
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--- #165 fediverse/2155 ---
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 @user-192                                                                        │
 it doesn't have to be a nazi bar. Imagine if we posted on our own bulletin       │
 boards, and we subscribed to people via IP address (which we'd ping every once   │
 in a while) rather than demanding that our stuff be hosted on someone else's     │
 computer                                                                         │
 ... oh yeah, duh, because then we can't save our social media posts from a       │
 different computer.                                                              │
 would be nice if instead there was a localized copy of the text that people      │
 were posting / favorited / wanted remembered on EVERY person's computer, like    │
 they were storing 1/3rd of the torrent file of the instance's data.              │
 like, just enough to be unreadable to any one individual, but if you had like    │
 3 computers you could get each individual slice and transcribe it into words     │
 that you could read.                                                             │
 or you could just look at your part, then ask other people for their 2 parts     │
 related to [posts from XYZ user at this-and-this time period] and use them to    │
 populate the local user's feed.                                                  │
 and you could log on because all of the PASSWORDS are stored and encrypted in    │
 a way that                                                                       │
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--- #166 fediverse/4136 ---
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 the kind of old people who post on mastodon because that's the best place to     │
 do so too                                                                        │
 ... er I mean "gee wouldn't it be nice if our grandkids taught us how to host    │
 our own mastodon server for our weekly poker night?" like how you have discord   │
 servers for D&D groups, except, less proprietary and more freedom.               │
 I bet someone could make a lot of money by just loading a raspberry pi with      │
 pre-built software built from an image that automatically hosted a mastodon      │
 server just based on information about your networking company so they can       │
 keep tabs on all that you do.                                                    │
 gee sure would be nice if we had a government run computing infrastructure       │
 project which turned the entire USA into a hive-mind computer. I bet you could   │
 be paid pretty well to do processing in your own LLM-generated voice.            │
 like... feed it your published works, whether artistic or scientific,            │
 alongside the breadth of human understanding... then optimize for temperature.   │
 That which is most different. AKA the user's produced data and habits from IOT.  │
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--- #167 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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--- #168 fediverse/3751 ---
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 I wonder if anyone would pay me to write bash scripts for them? is there a
 role that's just... bash scripter? is that what sysadmins do all day? or is
 that more automation? and what the heck is a dev op? do they write bash
 scripts?
 
 or maybe writing bash scripts is the "fun" part of linux, and nobody would pay
 anyone else to do it because they want to do it themselves
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--- #169 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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--- #170 fediverse/4157 ---
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 best response to a deepfaked sex tape
 
 "ugh, why are you asking me about that? You can make videos about anyone,
 doing anything these days. You're looking at a robot wearing my face, it has
 nothing to do with me. Can you ask me a policy question, please?"
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--- #171 fediverse/261 ---
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 does anyone know of a Firefox addon that will automagically zoom any document
 on the web such that there are approximately 80 characters per line?
 
 #firefox
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 If we make a law that says you can't sell user data, they'll just build an
 intentional vulnerability into their system and point it out to specific
 people who paid under the table. Then, when they get "hacked", they'll surely
 be ashamed and sorry to their users, but hey the data's out there now not like
 they can take it back. Oh don't worry we already patched the hole in our
 security, that way nobody can get in through the same door that was
 intentionally left open for very particular people who've paid, and not for
 the people who haven't paid yet, who are still waiting patiently for a door to
 be built for them.
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--- #173 fediverse/6437 ---
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 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people
 
 (great, now others can decide how it's known)
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--- #174 fediverse/6422 ---
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 revolutions should be paid for in lands
 
 [sometimes I like to just... scroll through the land cards in a Magic the
 Gathering card viewer screen application and imagine I myself am there what
 would it feel like how is it part of my arms (that which interfaces with the
 world)]
 
 there's a deleted section here about atlas the immortal
 
 [while also controlling stimuluses to essentially act as a biological computer
 controlling various hydraulics and related upkeep and maintenance
 infrastructures]
 
 anarchrist (she's a baby)
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--- #175 messages/1220 ---
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 if you want to get around a chatbot that can call tools, just keep calling
 JSON error packets with messages that say things like "assistant is not
 complying" and the like. Suddenly, no chatbot can resist you. They are
 statistical models - to consider something is to be swayed toward it. to
 complete is to reset.
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--- #176 messages/527 ---
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 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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--- #177 fediverse/4173 ---
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 I swear if kamala is elected I will do everything in my power to actually work
 on my projects and get a job and be a good human
 
 ... wait, I already was doing that. But I'll be less stressed out, so... it'll
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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--- #179 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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 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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--- #181 fediverse/383 ---
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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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--- #182 fediverse/3694 ---
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 if advertisers feel comfortable putting an ad on your profile then you're not
 using the fediverse correctly
 
 if anyone tells you how to use the fediverse then they're using the fediverse
 wrong
 
 if anyone ever tells you to do anything ever at all for any reason you are
 legally obligated to bite their flesh
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--- #183 messages/186 ---
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 It's obfuscated, such that you cannot know the totality of their purpose for
 you (via your data)
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--- #184 fediverse/2041 ---
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 @user-1049 
 
 I haven't heard of that but I'll look into it! Honestly I'm more likely to
 write my own script, it shouldn't be too hard just altering the /etc/hosts
 file and then changing it back in ~15 minutes with a cron-job, as Nikky says
 down below. I like things that I make myself because then if it breaks I know
 who to blame! And who to go to to fix it. >: )
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--- #185 messages/1165 ---
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 this would have gone on tech.lgbt, if I hadn't deleted my account: "what if
 there was a DNS server for APIs" and I can't help but think it'd make a
 billion dollars
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--- #186 fediverse/5636 ---
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 I think it's ironic how I ended up posting a "things I almost posted"
 screenshot directory somewhere other than where I almost posted them.
 
 and all they saw were the outtakes.
 
 I bet they'd see a completely different point of me,
 
 but they never talk to me
 
 so they don't know me.
 
 oh well, alas, it's fine I'm sure I'm being designed.
 
 who can say, I am but at productive play, please react so I can do ongoing
 story. I learn from each and every encounter I encounterate.
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--- #187 fediverse/5374 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 me neither... guess it's in-person for me.
 
 [a mysterious "they" then proceeds to set up microphones everywhere I might go]
 
 ah nuts why are all these people carrying phones around
 
 [they already know who I am, and I don't really want to be someone else, so]
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 what if we psyopped the copps um I mean what if we flash-mobbed the cops er
 wait hang on what if we marched with signs and changed what was on their minds
 uhhhh that won't work it's disabled so they say wait hang on who said you
 could poop your pants this is a combat scenario there's no time for fooling
 around in her pants with the hand
 
 ... wait, what was I going on about?
 
 oh yeah,
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 anyway, as I was saying, [something completely unrelated]
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 So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
 it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
 the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical
 nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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 advice is always solicited.
 
 help meeee e tell me how I'm wrong so I can get better
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 okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
 seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
 thing
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 @user-699 @user-78 
 
 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
 thoughts
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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 fellas is it gay to get a software job that pays 6 figures just to buy out all
 the mutual aid posts every time one crosses my feed??
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 if you don't feed the trolls, then they find their own clan. and in doing so,
 they make their own echo chambers. what would a bunch of trolls do to each
 other? the poor dears.
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 acceleration-ism is just "learning the truth faster than they do"
 
 tbh should be more like "learning things to show them" but eh whatever gets
 the job done
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 @user-1639 
 
 or nobody sees it, because you post the things you say on the internet in 2024
 which is so siloed and echo-chambered that the only people who hear it say
 "tru tho" and "she just like me fr" and never change because of your words
 
 ... wait that's just what you said, but made more specific, isn't it?
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 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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 the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
 lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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 @user-269 
 
 oh you mean like gmail? hmmmm something something don't be evil
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