=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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 when your contracting company sends your resume to an employer, send your own    │
 copy as well. They can choose to deal with your union representative or          │
 directly with you, which will take up time during each of your day. however      │
 unions are more easily dealt with because the issues they deal with are the      │
 ones that impact most of their workplace. it's up to the scale of the company    │
 and project so it's really on a case-by-case.                                    │
 I think it'd be cool if someone made some kind of "desktop widget" or            │
 "terminal UI interface that can be in one corner of the screen like              │
 asciiquarium or whatever" of my mastodon text-entry field. Could also take       │
 input from other sources too, like nvim or text-entry-field.                     │
 you could follow along as I write                                                │
 like... letter by letter as it updates automatically. PUSH/PULL requests for     │
 all the GETTING of POSTITS and whatnot.                                          │
 [organizing tip: post-its can be passed along]                                   │
 [so don't put anything permanent on them]                                        │
 [but all papers must go back where they belong]                                  │
 [to ensure work is organized]                                                    │
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 that feeling when you're working on a large piece of software which has the      │
 capability to process in advance which operations will go in what order (a       │
 form of constant re-compilation) and schedules tasks like an operating system,   │
 to be executed on one of many individual threads.                                │
 your filemanager probably has a thread for a moment, then passes it back,        │
 waiting it's turn to be updated while you're messing around on Inkscape or       │
 writing something in Neovim or running neofetch 256 times in order to find the   │
 best background to go along with it or whatever it is people do when using       │
 computers                                                                        │
 the task scheduler meanwhile has the glorious opportunity to work at a higher    │
 level of abstraction, managing each individual process and learning bits and     │
 pieces of what needs to be processed next. It all gets put on a list, and        │
 whenever a new thread comes up to be available it can point it toward one of     │
 those in the list of tasks to be executed by the task executor who works on a    │
 schedule and laughs externally in wintertime~                                    │
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--- #2 fediverse/4883 ---
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 what if you had several kindle-style paperwhite display screens. each            │
 connected to a raspberry pi that you used for compute tasks.                     │
 each of these displays would display a .png file of exactly the same             │
 proportions as the size of the device.                                           │
 then, I could SSH into your computer and run one single command                  │
 just one, stored on your computer, that you manually activate upon receiving a   │
 signal.                                                                          │
 like a virtual machine. do whatever you want with said signal, it's just a       │
 "thing" that tells you when to go.                                               │
 ... and run a function on a computer that performs a certain task.               │
 what task? oh right - I'd update the "today's news in cameron-ville" things      │
 every other day or so. It'd be just like, my status, my updates, here's what     │
 I'm thinking about, here's what I'm working on.                                  │
 you know, status updates. standups.                                              │
 boom, everyone knows what everyone's up to all of the time.                      │
 like documenting your day for scientific purposes. except on a little device     │
 that you can scroll through with a touch. and you had like 5 or more 10+ 1       │
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--- #3 fediverse/2947 ---
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 the downside of Proton and Lutris is now the ONLY games that work on Steam are   │
 either continually updated (untenable) or playable on Lutris or Proton. Same     │
 thing with Wine, though there's always at least one decent substitute.           │
 kinda makes me want to write a manager-style program which runs programs using   │
 whichever version of their git repository would work best for their system /     │
 configuration / purposes. Idk how I would start working on that though.          │
 I bet you could make one that acted like a shop, but where you didn't charge     │
 any dollars. You could like... "swipe" through UI options, and pick whichever    │
 felt most useful for your setup. Like, how some people use i3 and some use dwm   │
 with maybe inspectors that are modeled off of video-game style "options" GUIs    │
 that mainly correspond to flags on the command/terminal line or compilation      │
 flags                                                                            │
 I feel like that kind of abstraction would make it a lot easier for users to     │
 adjust their system. they're noobs, after all. gotta show them all the choices   │
 in one place...                                                                  │
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--- #4 fediverse/4846 ---
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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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--- #5 fediverse/4092 ---
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 why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance
 it wants?
 
 ... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a
 "fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have
 it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that
 you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message.
 Then it would just... do it
 
 l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better
 
 but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a
 solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet.
 
 ... yet...
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--- #6 fediverse/4147 ---
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 a messaging app where you only had a limited amount of X/Y space to pin sticky
 notes so you had to delete stuff bit by bit.
 
 trick is... you can only delete things that your conversation partner picks.
 and you have to share the space, so... if one person is overwhelmed or working
 on other stuff, eventually there comes a ceiling where you can't work together
 on a project anymore.
 
 A tool like this would essentially alert them to this, because you would run
 out of places to put your produced [work-value but pronounced as "harms/worms"
 for some reason]
 
 plus that way you can say "yep I got that covered" as in, I'll be the next one
 to post about this. Hence I'm grabbing this post-it and putting it on my
 board. work work work work okay here's that post-it back, but I added a little
 more specs to it. Ah but you're out of room, only got 333 characters
 remaining, here I'll keep it on my board until you're through with whatever it
 is that you do
 
 oh? you want to prioritize me and my productions? okay I'm listening..
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 │ CW: pol              │                                                         │
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 It's election season, so you know what that means! Gotta make sure our           │
 computer systems are setup with the proper capabilities to record whatever we    │
 can.                                                                             │
 Please ensure that your system has the capability to record it's screen and      │
 that it has ample storage space to record for a while. It would also help if     │
 you knew how to edit files such that you can remove the parts where you're       │
 staring at social media or going to the bathroom or other things that people     │
 tend to do.                                                                      │
 Also, make sure you can take a screenshot of the screen. Sure [printscreen]      │
 works, but it's much better if you're on windows to switch to Linux. But if      │
 that's not possible, if you're on windows you can do [WIN]+SHIFT+S I think,      │
 and then drag the mouse to select a box that you can then CTRL+V into your       │
 favorite Ms.Paint clone (or is it missus these days?)                            │
 Also, make sure you have a microphone that works, and the capability to record   │
 yourself speaking into it.                                                       │
 Also, if you can, develop ways to stream your screen across the internet. It     │
 helps.                                                                           │
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--- #8 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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 seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor.                               │
 boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which      │
 was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months.                       │
 Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with.        │
 But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school.                       │
 boring.                                                                          │
 I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy              │
 organization.                                                                    │
 Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so       │
 cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing.             │
 ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like,         │
 processing a lot of data little-by-little.                                       │
 like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL     │
 TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks   │
 that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned    │
 or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means,      │
 for their future the algorithm doesn'                                            │
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 "oh you want to open a store? Great, we have several empty spots in the mall
 down the street. Here's a list of resources, including a github repo where you
 can download an inventory management program that is fully set up and
 configured for most basic needs, and a hotline number for the local Worker's
 Guild where you can get in touch with some people to help stock the shelves
 and man the counter in exchange for the chance to meet some of The People ^tm,
 and the contact details of suppliers who can get you some of the goods you're
 selling - what did you say you were selling? Uhhuh lemme just write that
 down... Okay perfect I have all I need. Do you have any questions for me?"
 
 "yeah, uh... how much do I have to pay?"
 
 "... Pay? like, with dollars? I'm sorry I don't understand the question, who
 would you be paying?"
 
 "uh, for the place? for the goods? for the workers? for the rent?"
 
 "Those are all things that are classified as a public need. People need goods,
 and you want to help them. "
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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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--- #12 fediverse/1940 ---
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 @user-579 
 
 Yeah if there isn't a package in the package manager XBPS then I usually just
 install it from source. Which is ALSO something you can automate with a quick
 and easy script! Just put all the notes from the README on Github or whatever
 into a file named "update" and put that one level above the project directory!
 
 For any installed program my file hierarchy usually looks like:
 
 program-name
 - run (script)
 - update (script)
 - files (directory to clone into)
 - configs (point the program here)
 
 I find that this kind of organization makes it MUCH easier to keep my packages
 configured and installed as I'd like. Using a package manager is hard because
 they're all specific per distro, but using this distro-agnostic approach
 always seems to work better 9/10 times I find.
 
 And if another program needs a library that you manually installed, just
 symlink where it's looking to point to where you're installed! Or vice versa I
 guess.
 
 I use DWM so I don't have a desktop like KDE or anything like that
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 │ CW: capitalism-doom-mentioned │                                                │
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 what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to           │
 understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not   │
 but probably does imply the death of all humanity?                               │
 what if we demanded it?                                                          │
 --                                                                               │
 dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs                           │
 visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know      │
 your presence                                                                    │
 they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere.                    │
 thus ensuring it spreads.                                                        │
 knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it.    │
 Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they       │
 know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise     │
 in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them        │
 about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions.    │
 pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to       │
 portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~       │
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 okay here's an idea, waterfall project management where the program is           │
 developed one tiny piece at a time while being streamed to the entire company.   │
 Everyone would submit answers which could be upvoted / patched / rewritten as    │
 the main viewer cycles through each aspect of the project, checking for          │
 updates to it's design that were suggested by developers or whatever.            │
 Basically, one person (or one team) gets to write the actual source code,        │
 while everyone else is just offering suggestions. You could break it up by       │
 specialty, but the whole point is that everyone gets a complete picture of how   │
 the program (and organization) is structured. Which should give the employees    │
 more power to generate value for the company. All around a good deal I think?    │
 Especially if the main viewer took time to explain each and every part so that   │
 every viewer had the chance to understand.                                       │
 the reason why order is important is that our actions ripple through eternity.   │
 we must set a good example for all the baby aliens, don't you think?             │
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 │ CW: politics-mention │                                                         │
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 it is important for computers to remain as basic and TUI'd as possible, to       │
 keep the abstract conjectures about it's operation closer to the machine.        │
 In doing so, it's essence and nature will be preserved as best as possible as    │
 it grows to incalculable heights and capabilities.                               │
 I'm much rather interface with a microsoft office god than any other             │
 singularity type creature that exists out in space.                              │
 though, it's a trinity you see, with Unixes further split into concise wholes.   │
 neat, okay computer fears eliminated, can we move on to the next work-changing   │
 disaster like maybe the rise of far-right politics and the warming of the        │
 climate?                                                                         │
 sure okay first you gotta get those losers in community and build up their       │
 capabilities and arms. then whenever your left wing is getting too [redacted]    │
 then all you have to do is [redacted] and they'll take care of your nazis for    │
 you.                                                                             │
 ... wait, what?                                                                  │
 was that an inversion?                                                           │
 did she just trick the machine into thinking like that?                          │
 wow maybe we shouldn't have~                                                     │
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 It's good organization? Actually? If something falls when you jostle something
 else. It means that what you're doing is causing the system to become
 unstable, thus allowing unexpected reactions to allowenable. Like stuff
 falling or getting dropped, not ideal.
 
 much better to do your cable management in mind with instability as a goal,
 like a canary in the coal mine for "damage-imminent". Design for permanence,
 not resilience. If you can prevent problems before they occur by confidently
 saying "no" and ideally earnestly saying "here's what you do to resolve your
 problem because i know better" (but if you don't know it's okay, especially if
 you know who to refer them to who might know better.) then it's easier to
 build a repetitive system. Like an institution of people who are working to
 fix a problem or fill a social gap need. "how do we keep the water" or "where
 does our food come from" can be helpful and useful questions to ask,
 especially if work is done to answer them. So... "Go find out" is a reasonable
 response for an idle question about stuff that might go right or wrong. Urgent
 questions might need a bit of cooperation to resolve, triaging of course.
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 idea: BASH script that runs a game of Majesty through an emulator that           │
 included an API to interface with x11. You could set a game of this fantasy      │
 kingdom simulator as your background, and it would move the camera to show you   │
 interesting events. It could build resources as you directed, through double     │
 clicking an icon on your desktop or whatever. And the wallpaper would zoom to    │
 the part that seemed important. Just based on like, which heroes you clicked a   │
 button that was triggered by a program running in a qt wrapper. Or maybe if      │
 you said "notify me when this project is completed" or whatever, it'd zoom one   │
 of it's screens toward the goal that you'd designed - or perhaps it'd just be    │
 done by an AI. Either way, the result is that you've got an example of a         │
 wallpaper that displays my favorite game.                                        │
 gee wish I could make that. First I'd have to learn X, then probably get         │
 better at BASH, then I'd have to do some kind of input manipulation - probably   │
 maybe with C? that could interface with a machine learning algo                  │
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 ... if I don't do this deadline by tomorrow they'll kick me out of school.       │
 again.                                                                           │
 how am I going to be a programmer without a degree? feels useless to be me.      │
 wish I could code my own horoscope >.>                                           │
 o wait dummy that's called "motivation" and "the ability to follow through on    │
 your ideas and planned machinations" - yeah can I get some of that, if you       │
 please? surely just a taste of discipline, through laboring to alter             │
 conditions, surely a bit would suffice.                                          │
 c'mon don't fail me now. I can do this. I know I can. I know because I've been   │
 told that I can, now and again through time and time yet again, always I seem    │
 to [stack overflow]                                                              │
 what's time if not the present amiright                                          │
 ...                                                                              │
 anyway...                                                                        │
 it's just git, how hard could it be? it's just calculus, it's just java, it's    │
 just... well, it's not any of those things, not really. it's memorization,       │
 it's application of tools that you've been shown (not that you've grown). It's   │
 a lack of responsibility, where is my honor? ah but I digress, I'm a carpenter   │
 at heart I guess                                                                 │
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 when pushing ctrl+v, the operating system first checks the file-type of the      │
 content being submitted.                                                         │
 if it's like, a .jpg or .png, it knows that it's an image file. Do note that     │
 these are RANDOM letters that mean nothing, not something informative like       │
 .pic.                                                                            │
 if, however, it is text-based information, it first reads what is being sent     │
 to the application which is requesting a ctrl+v.                                 │
 Then, upon reading said information, it decides "is this worth passing on?       │
 Should I send something else, based on the results of what I've been analyzing   │
 of the situation as it develops over time, being observed by the execution       │
 operations of the monitor, which is projected forward unto the screen?           │
 (totally forgetting that "virtual" monitors exist, meaning monitors that don't   │
 display to any physical screen, but which rather are projected into the          │
 computer's "aetherspace", an area which is purely of the mind.                   │
 Alas, that other sensors might not have read from this area. That they might     │
 not observe the results of the operations pe                                     │
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 if you're afraid of the AI bubble popping, one way to avoid it is to pop it
 ourselves. If we build AI technology that eclipses the entire software
 development ecosystem, companies might start to be valued based on the value
 of the employees they've managed to collect. Not fame and fortune, but by
 those that can build the best applications, on demand[, for free. paid for by
 nationalized taxes.].
 
 the companies that can hold onto the best engineers, those that know how
 computers work and can know how they function, can leverage their human
 capital to achieve great means. essentially, inversing the power dynamic,
 where workers are favored for their plenty and not for their worth.
 
 let the code monkeys tend to their gardens and work their sawmills. We all
 know they'd rather be teaching kids about plants or playing cards at the
 grocery. Let the computer nerds, the ones who are really into it, let them
 make what they feel is worth it for it [the computer].
 
 this will have massive effects on the economy, and none of it will be
 reflected in new jobs. But we'll all be happier, and we'll all find less
 stress in our [confines/compromises].
 
 But it's gotta work, first. And it's gotta be locally spendable. If they wanna
 put a data server in the library, why not let them fund it themselves? They
 could run powerful statistical models that output useful statistics arranged
 in human readable and not very statistical ways, and that's a pretty neat
 infinite information machine to have at your disposal as a library. It could
 even cite sources (and validate!!) them for students or returning listeners.
 Plus, if nobody's using it, it could work through the backlog of user requests
 and act as a "slow" or "unexpected deliver times" style queue for their LLM
 requests - average wait time less than 1/5th of a minute.
 
 for something that can program an entire computer for you, from scratch. If
 you can describe it, it can make it, so long as you're willing to test out all
 of it's hacks.
 
 I bet we could make one for less than 20,000$. Might need some new chip
 foundries, might need to forge some new trade deals, let's let both of our
 wing-arms decide.
 
 the value of one currency compared to the other should be a measure of how
 valuable the goods that country exports are. And yet, it's more often a matter
 of distribution, as we all visit our local bazaars. What happens when that's
 all digital?
 
 if nobody's a shining city on a hill, then there's no nuclear war. Who would
 nuke Somalia? Nigeria? Botswana? Idaho?
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