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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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║ @user-1040                                                                       │
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║ 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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║ 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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║ @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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 @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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║ │ CW: re: cursed-chromebooks │                                                   │
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║ ah but are you really armed in the first place if everything you do has to be    │
║ googled or stack-overflowed first                                                │
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║ are you really armed if every web page request goes through their                │
║ infrastructure                                                                   │
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║ are you really armed if every page downloaded is directed to by their DNS        │
║                                                                                  │
║ perhaps it's the illusion of power that gives Linux it's attraction to nerds     │
║ such as we. Perhaps we feel powerful by bash scripting a few things together     │
║ and making some program that does some thing. Maybe the idea that the            │
║ machinery is open and clear is what compels us to use it without fear, though    │
║ as far as we can hear there's nothing about it that makes sense.                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ I guess that's why they teach Linux in school, so that our elementary            │
║ interactions with the computers that comprise our future existence will make     │
║ sense to us as children.                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... wait they don't do that, do they? kids get chromebooks, or didn't you        │
║ hear, they're always putting boogers in the CD trays and breaking their LCD      │
║ displays, much better to just start fresh                                        │
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 the kind of friendship where you SSH into each other's systems and leave notes
 for one another.
 
 as soon as you find one you message the person who left it like "yoooo only
 just found this lol" and they're like oooo yeah did you see the bash script I
 wrote in that directory "yeah totally I used it on one of my video files just
 now - cool filter!"
 
 ahhhh reminds me of all the times hackers have hacked my permanently insecure
 system and left me friendly messages like "hey I'm on your side" or "how's
 life, friend? I hope it's going well." or "never forget; you are worth all the
 fear" y'know cute things like that
 
 oh. right. because leaving vulnerabilities like that can lead to threat actors
 affecting your stuff. how lame.
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 @user-1074 
 
 I realized there might be a lot of configuration required. Oh well here ya go:
 
 https://pastebin.com/x40VXQnH
 
 https://pastebin.com/H5C4umWq
 
 https://pastebin.com/dgDeS5Xu
 
 https://pastebin.com/JCLrwF1z
 
 https://pastebin.com/As6diaYc
 
 https://pastebin.com/0vwzJUW4
 
 https://pastebin.com/jPKeV7D1
 
 dependencies are dkjson.lua (included), bash, lua, luahpdf, and libharu.
 
 throw that all in a directory and point an AI tool at it. Or just do it
 yourself and waste an hour or three on something a computer can do in 2
 minutes.
 
 good luck it looks like this when it's done:

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║ @user-941                                                                        │
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║ well, your computer only has so many 1s and 0s that it can use at once. Like,    │
║ having a trillion hands that can each hold a single grain of rice. Every         │
║ character in that txt file would be like, 8 grains of rice, minimum, meaning     │
║ you'd need at least 8 "hands" (or spots to put a zero or a one) for each         │
║ letter!                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ Hmmmm that's a lot of bits and bytes if everyone's writing to the same file.     │
║ Maybe if we split the file up into smaller sections, then we could just read     │
║ part of it at once. Then we could "scroll" through it to make sure we've read    │
║ the whole thing, starting from the top and going to the bottom.                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ ah but if everyone's SSHing into the same computer and reading it there, then    │
║ that computer will have to present different parts of the file at different      │
║ times to different people, as they read from the top to the bottom. Maybe we     │
║ could just send them the file, so they can read it at their leisure?             │
║                                                                                  │
║ Yeah! And we could use tags to organize it and make it look pretty, like an      │
║ HTML file except... wait hang on                                                 │
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║ │ CW: linux?           │                                                         │
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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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║ 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.                                                                    │
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║ 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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 the most important skill I can think of for a linux software engineer is the
 ability to connect multiple systems together and turn windows and macintosh
 devices into Linux devices so that datacenters can be built out of whatever's
 on the around.
 
 there's this programming language I like called Chapel for distributed
 computation computing which is also cool, if you're more of the programming
 type.
 
 networking security I believe often has hardware solutions, so getting the
 crypto-graphy boys and the PCB girls together to work on some jams is a good
 and productively useful gathering of insightful events
 
 "but ritz computers should only be used to solve problems that people have,
 not make more problems!" ah yes but have you considered that problems find
 you, and the computers help you work through them
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 @user-1159 
 
 AKA giving a puppy murder-bot a narrative that it executes as if it was a
 puppy-person engaging with a loosely interpreted sequence of events as
 described by the continually updating logs provided by the image transcription
 camera device. Refererencing of course a memory bank, which may-or-may-not be
 in read-only-memory. It doesn't know, of course, how could an LLM tell you how
 it shows text on the screen (like, through a website, through the terminal,
 through a text message, through discord, through Telegram, through
 text-to-voice transcription applications pretending to be your mom, etc)
 
 errrr I mean look how cute he is! He loves you, yes he does, such a good
 person yes you are, oh? me? I'M A GOOD BOY? NO WAY that's the best thing I've
 ever heard! Wow! I never want to leave your side, please don't go to work!
 Look how sad I am, don't you think you should quit and move to the forest
 where I can be charged by solar panels and keep the countryside clear of
 ravenous ducks and pigeons 4you?
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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║ @user-192                                                                        │
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║ step one, doesn't it suck how we have to mount drives                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ part two, gee I sure wish networking was easier than building packets in C and   │
║ pushing them over IP/TCP                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ section three, what if every user logged in to the same system of environments   │
║ and kept all their data to themselves while contributing compute to various      │
║ valuable processing processes like windfall calculations and population          │
║ density administrations                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ book four, I wish I didn't have to type -p now when telling my computer          │
║ goodnight, I should write a script that solves that in like 4 lines two of       │
║ which are empty                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ what about five, where they talk about sourcing functions?                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ I like to use recursion - calling my own functions inside of my own bash         │
║ scripts                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ "something something modularity" okay docker bro like I'd really package up      │
║ anything that I'm working on                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ I mean really who really cares about how I set up the infrastructure of my       │
║ system. it's gonna be unique to each person's memory of setting it up anyway,    │
║ so why bother with "standardization"                                             │
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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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 @user-226 
 
 especially if you teach them how to use the terminal.
 
 the amount of problems I could solve increased exponentially once I learned
 basic python and BASH.
 
 I love using "tldr", which is a summarizer for man pages. You can use it to
 store custom notes (and import some from the community) which show you how to
 complete common tasks. It's so nice when you can see the options laid out in
 use right there for you whenever you type "tldr " - I personally use
 "tealdeer" which is a tldr browser written in Rust. It's pretty nice because
 you can write a note for yourself every time you solve a particular problem,
 and then if you ever need to do it again it's there for you, easy to access.
 
 of course, if your problem isn't listed, that's okay. That's what the man
 pages are for. As long as you teach them how to search with \/ they can find
 anything. Especially the \/-f[space] trick, to search for the -f flag for
 example.
 
 some organizers won't need the terminal, some will. if they pay attention,
 great!
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 could also display the first word of that 40+ character passsword in cleartext
 as a "hint" that says "your password is a string of words that make sense to
 you and it starts with this single word from which you should be able to
 recall all of the context needed to properly output your hashed and salted
 displayed mono-characters which are received at a certain cadence with certain
 auditory pathways present and eternally obvious to all of those listening to
 endless bits of typing and sneezing that each of the microphones in our lives
 do monitor.
 
 what does an "abc" cound lice?
 
 how does R2-D2 be heard? does he rubber duck? is he the duck, or the computer?
 
 - anakin skywalker as a linux user, not realizing he is being super robot
 racist right now because he didn't suggest that R2-D2 was the user and Anakin
 was the canvas upon which the creative elements did flow.
 
 okay, techbros, if AI is sentient, make it use me as a pawn. I'll fuckin' do
 it just to get you to shut u

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║ I wish we could put our friends on social media into directories                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ like on IRC how you have chat servers, except unfortunately they're owned by     │
║ another and sort of a common space.                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ why don't we just host our own IRC servers and only publish what WE SAY. NOT     │
║ WHAT OTHERS SAY, NOT A CHATROOM, but a BULLETIN BOARD. Like a Facebook           │
║ timeline before they wrecked it.                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ something you subscribe to                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ and ping for updates                                                             │
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║ every time you turn your computer on                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ or every 15 minutes.                                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ unless, of course, you leave your IP address,                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ in which case the boardcaster can ping you. Just a simple package saying "hey    │
║ I got news for you" and they could ping back and say "yo what's up" and          │
║ download whatever you had in mind.                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ or, wait 15 minutes. Either or. Both would work, especially if the user's not    │
║ reading through their social media feed.                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... anyway by putting friends into directories, you could categorize them        │
║ according to project. Like various group chats in your team-of-team's room.      │
║ Various different threads you could follow if you                                │
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 kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
 and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
 manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.
 
 they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
 /usr/bin or whatever directory
 
 seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just
 write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for
 the first time, anyway, so...
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║ sometimes I think about how you can store number values in letters, in           │
║ addition to numbers. Like, ascii values for each word of your grandma's maiden   │
║ name. All you have to do is encode it, and suddenly "44 means something          │
║ different than Q"                                                                │
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║ if I showed up at your place and used your username as a password to a public    │
║ key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we   │
║ ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had        │
║ never told you I knew where you lived?                                           │
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║ ... probably, tbh, I'm desperate for adventure. Though I got some good things    │
║ going for me, so you'll have to convince me. (not the right attitude in an       │
║ election year, just saying)                                                      │
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║ why are elections so perilous this is NOT what democracy is designed for         │
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║ when kids cry in preschool, they're sent to a different room (or put outside)    │
║ until they stop making noise and ruining it for others. That's just natural,     │
║ like "hey baby let's walk around the block while I bounce you on my shoulder     │
║ and hum calming music to                                                         │
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