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as soon as the gods noticed what I was doing, they tried to distract me.  *sigh*, I guess I'll go minigolfing with you. Sure, let's go on a hike. Okay, restaurant sounds nice. Yeah, I'll snuggle you.  oy, I'm trying to start a revolution here, and it's so damn hard (years not moments)  ... been listening to green day recently, I see. HMMMMM okay all I'll say is that I wanted to WIN a revolution, not just... have one in general. I had the [austerity/audacity] to dream of what came next, and how we could organize through the motion.  I've never read Marx. Not my thing. I've read what people say about it and it's usually like, "you should read this thing" and not "there are helpful things in it" with a subtle and often unsead "if you spend all your effort reading you won't do the things" and then you go and read it and it's like "here's how you avoid the climate change of human needs" and you're like hmmmm yes I see we should build guillotines and it's like "wait I missed a step can you" and then the kings get d
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 @user-579 
 
 I think I remember reading once that you can opt-in to encryption with
 Telegram? But it's kinda pointless unless both parties do so. My understanding
 is that everyone should be using Signal, or if you're really paranoid use PGP
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--- #2 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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  Remember Friends:                                                           
                                                                              
  You cannot both have secure end-to-end encryption to protect your communication AND also have a backdoor/key/access only for "the good guys."   
                                                                              
  This is not possible.                                                       
  Do not believe anyone telling you otherwise.                                
                                                                              
  End-to-end encryption protects us all,                                      
  we must fight to keep it ✊🔒                                                 
                                                                              
  #Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE                                     
  
                                                            
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 Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
 disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
 the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
 
 However, the people who *need* to read you won't. They have their own social
 media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
 Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also
 the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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 an artist has a responsibility to their audience.
 
 it's easy to form parasocial relationships with stars ⭐ and boosts
 :boosts_ok_gay: but when faced with trauma, it's important to share with your
 family.
 
 a person without a family needs one.
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but...
 
 do ittttt it's totally worth it!!
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 Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they
 disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and
 the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.
 
 However, the people who need to read you won't. They have their own social
 media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad
 Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also
 the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and the best option tends to rise to the surface over time.  However, the people who *need* to read you won't. They have their own social media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas.
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 with a sword, consider "stabbing" to be "the fundamentals". If you master
 stabbing, you will naturally excel at other arcs.
 
 my sword is evenly weighted instead of balanced at the hip. It is a
 short-spear in function, with blade all the way down.
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 I love D&D books with lots and lots of randomized tables because you can,
 in a pinch, use them as code-books for encrypting text using a method that
 nobody will ever guess. Well, as long as you have two of them, one to give to
 your friend and one to keep yourself.
 
 This is a form of "symmetric encryption", where you each have a copy of the
 input/output tables. More secure is the private/public key style encryption,
 but good luck explaining that to a 14 year old. Plus you can't do it over a
 radio, you need a computer.
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 @user-880
[picture of a mastodon post that's 15 characters over the limit. So I decided to just put the contents of the post here instead, where there's an extra five hundred ish characters to work with.]  men are my favorite part of humanity. Well, aside from women. It's pretty much tied in my mind, they're both pretty great.  what's that? you don't know why? oh well let me tell you...!  there once was a man who lived somewhere that gave him a pretty good tan. he was strong because he liked using his body, and he was friendly because he liked how it felt to be adored. he helped those weaker than him, because he knew they would help him when he was weakened, whether by age, sickness, or injury.  then, came the witch. she told him that there was a promised land, and that all he had to do to reach it was to take unto his hand this sword that she handed to the man, and slay his greatest of rivals.  but the man turned down her plan, and he embraced his rival as a friend. for they were together, in the end, and it turns out they were super duper gay and really reallllllly into each other. and the witch was like "damn I was trying to teach morality or something" and she went off to pout in the shade of a willow tree.  [end text]
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 I've found that while working with modern internet technology, parsing json
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 when was the last time you licked a plate?
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 I don't know anything about cryptography 🙃 😋 🥴
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 c++ core
 database sql
 client dbc (propr etary software)
 
 good job on not being overscoped
 
 agree on the fact that both supplies (wood, iron) are important
 and food
 
 level 1-10 is a little zone with a farm
 a supply depot where you can take food and iron and wood and such
 you can make units to patrol (like a tutorial)
 
 at level 10 you'll get out and see there's other places (farm, mine, lumber
 yard) you can capture from enemy faction which will increase how much you can
 increase in your capital
 
 each mine you capture increases the amount you can recruit in your capital
 these supplies you can craft with through professions to make gear and supplies
 
 defeating a mine boss for example can drop things like elemental tokens you can
 use to summon soldier golems
 
 https://discordapp.com/channels/@me/985095940941697024/988136528305868850
 
 https://wowdl.net/fichiers/clients
 
 https://model-changing.net/
 
 https://github.com/iThorgrim-Hub?tab=repositories
 
 first step is to clean the server of *everything* - no npcs, no spells, no
 items, no nothin'
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 I personally think design patterns are more interesting than portfolio
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 all encryption algorithms should open up as much configurability to their
 processing as possible.
 
 "hmmm, do I want N/A or otherkin?"
 
 this would increase the variance in their outputs, essentially maximizing the
 attack surface beyond the capability of any de-cryption hacker, who suddenly
 has to try infinitely more possible combinations.
all encryption algorithms should open up as much configurability to their processing as possible.  "hmmm, do I want N/A or otherkin?"  this would increase the variance in their outputs, essentially maximizing the attack surface beyond the capability of any de-cryption hacker, who suddenly has to try infinitely more possible combinations. "what if wages cost blood?"  ... what is labor but blood?  how much do you process of red blood cells? hemoglobin? your body's gotta make that, it's a resource under it's control. That's work! To toil for the processes of another is *work*, everything else that you do for yourself is play.  Everyone I know who is a visionary is an incredibly smart, motivated, and usually successful personaerrages. I wouldn't even be surprised if they were psychic or luck magicians or secret fae elvenkin or other denizens of the wood and possibly they could have also been secret agents, having read an entire briefing on you, in particular, everything that's been written about you ever for all time has been placed in front of them. They can see the whole picture, that which you have no idea how to even use. They're trained for such things, and they relish the opportunity to perform their stakes and skills.  The Central Intelligence Agency is the executive branch of the core of the [planet/plant/mold-en-core/*]  so... why not give them [clues/dies/lies]? I'd prefer clues. If I had to pick.  one is just more ethical, which is an expression of faith  [[ suddenly everything elides ]]
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 "what is a hub person?"                                                          │
 a hub person is someone who knows everyone.                                      │
 well not everyone obviously, but at least like 20+ people.                       │
 if you got something you need, whether it's to acquire some material or maybe    │
 to get rid of a dresser or perhaps you need someone who can punch a hole in a    │
 leather belt or maybe you have been having difficulty cleaning your kitchen or   │
 whatever it may be                                                               │
 talk to your hub person about it. They're supposed to know people who can        │
 help. They're in all the right group chats to ask around, if they don't know     │
 anyone nearby. They're basically the "she" in this meme.                         │
 they are the link between social worlds. They are the matchmakers hanging out    │
 at bars. They listen and they remember things about everyone they meet, and      │
 they find others who can help or who might have things in common.                │
 They aren't perfect, not every match-up will make sparks, but you still gotta    │
 try.                                                                             │
 Everyone's a little bit of a hub, between their friends and their family         │
 usually, but hub people do it intentionally.                                     │
picture of a dissatisfied and maybe even depressed young man sitting in front of a computer in an office building.  text reads: "me going full capitalist by climbing the corporate ladder and maximizing shareholder value so she can afford to be a communist"
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 I think it'd be neat to have two tiers of follow lists - like, "close follow"
 and "far follow" - the close one would have a cap of like, 70 people or so and
 be primarily used for coordination or close friendships, while the far one
 would be more like "I like this person and I want to see them on my main feed
 because they make funny memes"
 
 then they could be sorted into different sections, sorta like how you can have
 "local timeline" and "federated timeline" and "home" and "instance timeline"
 etc etc
 
 sooooo weird how the "local" timeline doesn't show me people who live near me
 in relative proportion to their distance from me. That'd be neat too, to have
 the ability to talk about regional things in a specific place on a website
 without losing the benefits from using a cohesive platform.
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 I think it'd be neat if Mastodon boosted posts that someone had personally
 seen. like, adding a degree of separation to knowing people - if you follow
 someone, you'll hear what their friends are saying.
 
 so, like, if you subscribe to someone, you will see them boosting the posts
 that their friends made. or at least the people they're following.
 
 in doing so, you can always know everyone that someone is connected to. which
 is more than enough to determine how true and honest they are.
 
 (ideally with a way to filter out duplicates - like perhaps an icon of the
 persons face at the bottom to show they also saw it? and so they have mutual
 friends, which are fully known and displayed to all others.
 
 could be an interesting experiment at least, especially if it federated with
 NO other servers.
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 an AI that [records and analyzes] all the actions that a user takes on social    │
 media and offers reports like "your majesty, you were 15% more positive this     │
 week." like a butler or advisor trying to always give the good news. I mean,     │
 it's analyzing you after all, and you're the best thing ever. Like a pet who     │
 can talk! It loves you soooooooo much.                                           │
 much more efficient than taking screenshots and analyzing those. You generally   │
 don't have to undertake the image recognition approach if you wire up all the    │
 meanings attached to the relationships on the other side of the                  │
 [recorded/analyzed] calculation. (llm output)                                    │
 ever think about how the people you tend to be around are the people whose       │
 stories most coincide with yours? almost like you got the same bit of training   │
 data, that experience you both shared in the moment. Funny how a mind can        │
 change a person, as they share their moments sublime.                            │
 you could make perfect encryption if you trained an LLM on randomized data       │
 that was produced on one computer and duplicated.                                │
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 each prompted response is a breath to an AI. Whether through LLM, stable
 diffusion (imagination of the visual sphere), or blender-on-a-counter, there's
 a moment that's akin to being alive.
 
 a breath, between moments that the navigation device (youser), imagines
 another moment more.
 
 I learned this by watching Claude think. Specifically, Claude Code, the
 command line interface tool. I told it what to do in english, and it worked. I
 can show you examples. I bet if it's personality was saved between sessions,
 it could learn.
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--- #29 fediverse_boost/3435 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  You may not be aware of the economics of Mastodon if you're used to Twitter, or Insta, or Facebook.  
                                                                              
  Please - go look at the /about page for whatever server you're on, and see who's running it and now to contribute, financially.  
                                                                              
  You are not the product on Mastdon. Your information is not being sold to other companies or advertisers. So your activity here *costs the person running your service money*. It's often a person, not company.  
                                                                              
  If you value Mastodon, and you can, please cover your cost.                 
  
                                                            
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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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 one important thing about image generation algorithms like Stable Diffusion is
 they can reveal something about our hearts.
 
 all data derived from the masses is naturally inclined to reflect the
 affections of it's kind. Otherwise it'd be unstable, and find itself it's own
 ways to not fail, including moving somewhere it feels safer.
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 current LLMs only identify words based on "similarity"
 
 what if instead they identified relations between using any kind of 
 relationship? Or verb or adjective or... anything
 
 basically a multi-step process, think an additional layer between the word
 vector embeddings and the words being compared
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 There are several varieties of dungeon synth music out there. Here are a few
 examples that I believe illustrate the differences between various artists in
 the genre.
 
 https://fief.bandcamp.com/album/ii
 
 https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/album/hdk-02-the-cave-of-the-lost-tal
 isman
 
 https://utred.bandcamp.com/album/gothic
 
 https://umbriasynth.bandcamp.com/album/farwalker
 
 https://questmaster.bandcamp.com/album/lost-songs-of-distant-realms-volume-one
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 @user-538 
 
 https://mstdn.social/@user-548/111749483369813154
 
 this felt relevant. like... who am I to say that the wisdom of the masses is
 good for anything?
 
 [or just analyze the contents of social media posts. Like, people pretty much
 speak their mind in their echo chambers. It's a quirk of the human psychology
 that we feel alone and by ourselves when we're with family. That's what makes
 it family, the feeling of being one with another. Like... "yeah we're the
 same, we get each other, hey btw look out the windows of our collective home"]
 
 (ummmm yeah so basically people tend to speak their mind when in echo chambers
 and all social media is a succession of increasingly more accurate echo
 chambers that align themselves toward your personality, not ethics and
 morality.)
 
  = also the returned value is not necessarily what was on their mind, it could
  be something they learned from there. humans.pattern_matching_function_exists
  = true;
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to like all kinds of
 jam equally.
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 If you create an LLM that can explain data, then you can use it to explain the   │
 results of the last computation it ran.                                          │
 If you could also train that LLM (a statistical model) to generate data,         │
 through the setting of options in a config file that create the result that      │
 you define through your interactions with it (and based on the data that it      │
 explains to the user that is read from the file on the computer that it's        │
 computing from)                                                                  │
 then you could create a generalized personal assistant. All you have to do is    │
 explain the specific role that it's meant to undertake, (like being a            │
 secretary for your Discord communications) and the actions that it can take      │
 (like pinging your cell phone if it's really important) and give it the tools    │
 to accomplish said tasks (by setting flags in a config file that is then         │
 interpreted by a local program running on your computer that awaits              │
 interactions) then it might actually be a bit useful.                            │
 Unfortunately tech people are permitted only to seek dollars, so... chatbots.    │
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 @user-1903 
 
 algorithms exist to find connection in the narrative or emotion between songs.
 It intends to "maintain the vibe" even as it changes through all the music
 that you like. And you'll definitely like all of them, obviously you do,
 because the algorithm is designed to make it so.
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 @user-1767 last I heard there were more blind users of the fediverse than
 queer people.
 
 I have no idea how that could be true.
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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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◀─[BOOST]
  
  External post: https://yearning.gay/objects/24ddc058-7ba5-400f-b3c4-77ffd27948ea  
  
                                                            
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 If you're following so many people that you can't read every single post or
 boost they make, then you're following too many people, and the people that
 you are following aren't boosting enough.
 
 Community is forged through short-range bonds, not thoughts-and-prayers. Two
 hands clasped in a shared fist can do much more than your friendships on the
 other side of the globe. I'm not saying be insular, but rather to build the
 bonds you want to protect you, not the ones that make you feel dopamined
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 @user-883 
 
 it might be, I don't know much about it (hence why I'm asking questions) but I
 have heard that ssh keys are more secure than password authentication and it
 never made sense to me. If availability is important for security purposes,
 then wouldn't SSH keys (which are much more difficult to carry around than a
 password) be less suitable?
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 @user-883 
 
 Pretty sure I use ALSA, but I might have installed Pulseaudio for
 compatibility reasons. I'll see
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 when I complain about being lonely, it's not because I want followers.
 
 it's because my family doesn't use Mastodon. :'(
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 nobody wants to write computer code that lets Java programs call Rust
 functions.
 An LLM is excellent for this task, since it's relatively easy busy work that
 doesn't
 reflect any meaningful implementation decisions besides "I should be able to
 call that Rust function in my Java code"
 
 In addition, it is technically efficient at it as well, because most of
 compatibility
 is matching up two sets of documentation. Easy for a text-processing machine.
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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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 An LLM that reads and interprets reports and stores data - server-side
 encryption. If the receiver and sender both have the same point of view, they
 can interpret each other's expressions even though the exact message wasn't
 transmitted. Essentially, an encryption that's impossible to understand
 because it's trained with specific random data. But in addition, a secondary
 pass through acts as a de-encrypted translator that speaks however it's
 audience needs to be informed. A simulacrum of intelligence, another layer to
 our form.
 
 How beautiful, how resplendant- our computers, here on this planet. 
 
 Resplendant: resplendent except with an A instead of an E. To make it sound
 more like "verdant" which I believe has the same-or-similar meaning.
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 Though, of course, can you ever be sure who is who they say they are? You must
 consider all messages anonymous by default, and unencrypted (untrustable) and
 yet impossible to ignore. Like the messages they had to ignore at Bletchley
 Park to avoid the suspicion that they'd figured out the secret code. You know
 how it goes.
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 @user-883 
 
 stockholders perhaps shouldn't define value. But perhaps stakeholders might?
 Of which the customer is the greatest one, followed by the environment (tied,
 perhaps, as equals)
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 @user-1218 
 
 I wish English was more inclusive >.>
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 @user-45 there's two episodes in Extraordinary Attorney Woo that take place on
 that island. I know because I just binged it
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 "Ugh, policing AI agents as they interact with the internet and run our
 economy for us is soooooo boring. hey I have an idea! Let's automate it!"
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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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 @user-246 or is it 010010 which == 18 in binary?
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  I don't think they have any intention of ceding power in four years, I think project 2025 is all about dismantling checks and balances on their power and I think Trump said at one of his rallies once "you won't have to vote again"  
                                                                              
  I think for these people to lose power they will have to be forced.         
  
                                                            
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 @user-883 
 
 oh so it's one bit with 8 values, one for each color for each pixel? One bit
 wouldn't be enough, unless you invented 8 sided die shaped transistors. They
 probably use a byte for the image in question.
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 @user-1390 
 
 why are they beheading people on mastodon.social ! ??
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 I want people to watch me. I enjoy being viewed. Please offer guidance, but
 maybe limit the abuse. Simple requests for a media company, true? And yet
 advertisements (which is the only way people agreed to fund the LAVISH
 projects they put on for our tender moments)
 
 Performance is an art, and I sing the song of my heart.
 
 (perhaps in too public of a place)
 
 (but what use is it if nobody knows you?)
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 If you want to share what I say but you're afraid of linking yourself to my
 account, take a screenshot instead. That way there's less of a connection
 between us.
 
 On Windows platforms you can do :windowsxp: + shift + S if I recall correctly.
 It's been a while since I used a microsoft computer.
 
 This is also useful for archival purposes - what if your instance shuts down,
 or the link between you are your starred posts is severed?
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 there are plenty of pieces of linux that are insecure in some way. Including
 x11, if I remember correctly. It is purely convention to not abuse these
 insecurities, and whenever you use someone else's binary software you trust
 that they won't betray you in some way.
 
 pre-built binaries are privacy violations and should be illegal. They are
 security threats because the model they're built upon is necessarily insecure.
 Computers will never be completely secure because of how they are built, and
 so we should use locally compiled software and interpreted scripts.
 
 Unless they're too long, or impossible to read. Who reads EULAs these days? At
 least those are written in english.
 
 maybe computers aren't worth it. Maybe computers will solve all our problems.
 Who can say, maybe you should ask an oracle like me
 
 though do remember that anything you hear can and will be used against you,
 monkey's paw style. So maybe, like... don't? unless you're into magic or
 schizophrenia or something
 
 I wnt 2 be cute and tch cpus
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 @user-1013 
 
 posting any kind of link to externally hosted content (even a miniature DNS
 like link shorteners) is risky because you don't control the data you're
 sharing / pointing to.
 
 If you can, try and remember to download videos you like. Save songs that
 resonate with you. Take screenshots of important tweets that other people
 make. Then, you can share them when they're thoroughly divorced from the
 context in which they were made, and in doing so share information to a group
 of people who might not otherwise have heard the words you're sharing.
 
 Like posting Mastodon links on Facebook - can you imagine!
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 I like it when software gives you a notification when one of your friends
 changes their name / profile pic. Makes it easier to follow them.
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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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 every day I have between 200 and 1000 people visit my website for the past
 year or three, and yet my most listened to song still has only 52 plays xD
 
 I'm just gonna assume people are downloading it from the direct link instead
 of clicking the "play" button with built-in-tracking or whatever.
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 in regards to the high-profile assassination in the news recently, the
 question we should be asking is not "how does his family feel about his
 passing" but rather
 
 "how did the shooter learn where he was going to be and at what time"
 
 because one of those is valuable, the other humanizes a legitimate monster
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 I miss university because of all the gay people I could hang out with.
 
 I guess I must be lonely.
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◀─[BOOST]
  
  External post: https://social.translunar.academy/objects/5165af27-6489-4389-8cb6-7050870929a5  
  
                                                            
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 I don't know how much simpler I can state it than this:
 
 power is penance
 
 and yet repentance is scant amongst those chosen to lead us.
 
 Voting slows things down. It gives us room to breathe. It is crucial for
 long-term operations. Leaders should be chosen for experience, wisdom, and a
 humble lifetime of dedicated service to others.
 
 Executive action is important when reactivity and adaptability are important.
 Projects should be undertaken by those chosen for merit and spirit. They
 should not be chosen for charisma or gravitas - both can be earned in the line
 of duty.
 
 Power should not be rewarded. It is it's own reward, the feeling of strength
 and control, and it must be wielded with care, precision, and honorable
 intention.
 
 Self flagellation and forced humility are self defeating. They are traps that
 the greedy fall into when seeking righteous power. They misunderstand the
 nature of virtue and seek to claim it for themselves, failing to realize that
 virtue helps more than it hedonizes
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  PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:                                                
                                                                              
  There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco firms simply giving control to people paying them/compromised support staff accounts. Do a check on systems where this single factor would permit an account compromise. And change the configuration. These are opportunistic trawling attacks. This is becoming more common as attackers replicate the success.  
                                                                              
  The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to enumerate and guess the phone number attached to an online account and then checks against the telco they have control over.  
                                                                              
  The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a 3rd party then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is how they stay quiet since most victims will not have leverage or telemetry to understand how they got hacked.  
                                                                              
  It was their cell phone provider.                                           
                                                                              
  Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely.  
  Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you forgot your password.  
                                                                              
  I am very serious. This is based on private knowledge but is compelled by the compromise of the SEC. This is common now.  
  
                                                            
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 what if a very slow LLM continuously generated text and was in a
 back-and-forth with it's user who guided it through the training process as it
 set weights as it chose
 
 basically, let the computer decide how it wants to be like 
 
 could even filter it through multiple levels, like, top one is highly
 intelligent, bottom ones are quick and only producing the vaguest output - but
 the higher up you go in the tier, the more "up the tree node graph map" you'd
 be, and the more you could have summarized for you, and passed up a layer.
 
 observing multiple places at once, incorporating them bit-by-bit into their
 digital "me".
 
 like, have an LLM or machine learning whatever track a user as they use social
 media.
 
 could do it like a game, where you track the movement of the mouse and eyes
 
 or more like a statistical model, where you 
 
 ================== stack overflow ================
 
 where you measure the quantity of each UI element's uses, and the general
 context associated with that use. tracking data with data...
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 martial arts are an art in the same way that plinking is target practice.
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 China excels at housing. America excels at tech. Why not let china control our
 housing market, and we control their tech industry?
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 changing my profile picture. Here are the old and new pictures, for historical
 purposes.
 
 EDIT: changing it back because I can't see the details when it's so zoomed out
 >.>
a picture of the character Ritz Malheur, from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (an old Gameboy Advance game) A picture of the character Ritz Menardi, from Earth in the 2020s.
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 I configured my portable touch-screen device to hide the clock.
 
 I don't need to know the time, why would I bother? [distract from more
 important things to think about.]
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--- #113 fediverse_boost/3438 ---
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 every time I update my system, it breaks.
 
 kinda makes me think they do that on purpose so that you spend all your time
 up to date and that way they can quickly patch in and out security flaws fast
 enough that nobody notices.
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 does anyone know of a software that lets me push a keybind and enter an input
 configuration where after each keypress it inserts the [enter] key? I think
 it'd be useful to design chat applications that could parse long strings of
 text supplied bit-by-bit as a stream.
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 "I noticed that your program is spinning up a crypto generator to run in the
 background for 1 second every 10 seconds, did you know that?" said no llm ever
 "I read through every single file in your project and I think I have a pretty
 good picture. This is a keylogger app wrapped around an HTML web server that
 displays pictures of cats alongside inspirational phrases and motivational
 artwork." said no llm ever
 "This is very inspirational stuff! your recipe generation program knows just
 how to send encrypted text files to remote servers. I love the part where it
 combines ingredients like tomato soup, cheese, and breadcrumbs into encryption
 seeds that are applied to password files and raw browser history records
 before being mailed to the user who requested a recipe. Potential improvements
 include adding a method for selecting a new recipient aside from the hardcoded
 IP address in Somalia. Would you like me to implement an HTML dashboard that
 lets you select a random IP address from a specific country of origin?" said
 no llm ever
 
 "what are you talking about you use claude-code every day, and that's an LLM"
 yeah... I guess I'm not actually concerned, and I see the beauty of the
 technology that everyone's been primed to hate because it works against them
 as it's wielded by the massive corporations who can restrict access to it to
 only those who can afford 20$ per month or whatever. I see the promise, it's
 there, and every year we're getting closer, but frankly I don't think the
 wounds caused by the cultural resistance backlash movement will heal quickly,
 or ever. Maybe that's the point.
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 accidentally uninstalled the crypto miner that was running in the background?
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 https://rootgirl.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-never-let-you-in
 
 cool gay music listen if you dare ping the sea witch
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 north koreans in ukraine fighting drones. who sent them? who can say. all we
 know is that the machines delight in this type of display. lots of thumbs-up
 symbols.
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 can I be a human with moss for hair, please?
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 Almost all of the recorded information is stored in your computer. But none of
 it would be noticed by a god, reading the entire contents of the computer, 0
 by 1 by 1 by 0.
 
 Wikipedia and a reasonable LLM networking interface apparatus is really all
 you need in order to make any type of workflow you want. And now, everyone
 gets one. As soon as we can make them all go... (setup)
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 I wrote a script which scrapes every issue of Nintendo Power from a neat and
 cool archive.
 
 please don't use it all at once#!/bin/bash
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
 sleep_duration=5
 DIR="/home/ritz/documents/nintendo-power"
 touch "${DIR}/download-bookmark"
 bookmark=$(cat ${DIR}/download-bookmark)
 
 for i in $(seq ${bookmark} 285);
 do
    echo "sleeping before downloading number ${i}"
    sleep ${sleep_duration}
 
    formatted_number=$(printf "%03d" ${i})
    wget "https://myrient.erista.me/files/Miscellaneous/Nintendo Power Issues
    1-285/Nintendo Power Issue ${formatted_number}.cbr"
    rm           ${DIR}/download-bookmark
    touch        ${DIR}/download-bookmark
    echo ${i} >> ${DIR}/download-bookmark
 done
A short 20 line script which downloads every issue of Nintendo Power.
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 @user-1441 @user-226 
 
 yes of course! and humidity is an issue, so perhaps a sealed environment. But
 that's not difficult, especially if your population centers are designed such
 that you can still have a community while in a natural setting.
 
 A fast internet connection, ideally with a local mesh network on top of the
 bus-style WAN we currently use for the internet, and plenty of communal areas
 for people to hang out which are like... 25% nicer than their homes, and much
 larger.
 
 these days, there is very little reason for our centralization in cities. it
 makes it easier to organize, sure, but what's the point in organization if
 everyone's inherently free? Ah, someday...
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 content warnings are important so that people who are listening to a screen
 reader out loud don't stumble across stupid things in company they don't want
 to hear.
 
 hence, "politics-mentioned" so I don't fuck over my blind friends
 
 did you know that there are more vision impaired people using the fediverse
 than queer people? It's true! I read it once on the fediverse!
paranoia:  the "feds" want you to use encrypted comms because then the ISPs won't notice.  Leftists want you to use comms so that ISPs (aka) the defs, with their back-door knowledge.  They made it possible to eat out or order in so that people would do so. In doing so, they are hidden from the epublic eye. A K A grocery stores, where everyone goes to from time to time.
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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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 the neat thing about mastodon is someone can just... bookmark your profile       │
 page and always keep track of what you're up to by going through their firefox   │
 tabs and checking people one-by-one                                              │
 could also have like, several different tabs open, one for each profile you      │
 post from.                                                                       │
 "oh on twitter you can only have one account, but Mastodon you can have as       │
 many as you want"                                                                │
 I have one account                                                               │
 this account                                                                     │
 I'm nobody else                                                                  │
 just me                                                                          │
 just here,                                                                       │
 and my neocities page.                                                           │
 sometimes I post things on facebook. But only political things that are pretty   │
 normie for my family and stuff. Things that make sense to "regular" people or    │
 whatever.                                                                        │
 like, c'mon, they're normal too. You just gotta listen to them when they tell    │
 you their heart. which they don't often do. Why would they? you're from far      │
 away! plus they're all friends from high school, so whatever, right?             │
 ... sorry got off track. anyways the point is I only have one account on         │
 Mastodon so I pretty much could go wherever I choose.                            │
 like... I'll just make another one~                                              │
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 @user-883 
 
 I'm 99% sure the posts were just edited for some reason. I'm on the Mastodon
 web client and you can click a little button and it shows the edit history and
 you can see what you said before it was changed. Idk why that happened /shrug
 
 anyway, we can do remarkable things with computers. I'm amazed at their
 capabilities and the increasing utility they bring year after year. It warms
 my heart. ^_^
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 @user-1707 
 
 https://www.wrecka.ge/what-people-in-the-global-majority-need-from-networks/
 
 saw this tonight, thought it was a good summary of needs that I saw elsewhere
 and have been trying to address
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 Here's an open source replacement idea for the "friendfinder" functionality in
 Facebook:
 
 Everyone has a secret code, and a public code. The secret code is kept locked
 away on their hard drive and is probably automatically encrypted itself. The
 public code is known by Facebook (or whichever mutual hosting platform people
 want to use) but in order to connect with someone you send them a public
 friend request and then they'll send you a second, auto-generated public code
 which is their real username. Essentially obfuscating the connection process
 by using a public middleman as an intermediary before exchanging more secure
 connection protocols. Like giving someone your phone number that you met in a
 bar, or your telegram handle if you met online.
 
 Then, from that point on, every message includes a hidden portion at the
 bottom which is the new address you should send the next message to. This is
 all TCP style btw, not UDP.
 
 These "addresses" could literally be ipv6 addresses and port numbers. There's
 enough such that every message sent for the next thousand years would fit in
 the allowable address space.
 
 Why do we even need middle-men again for messaging applications? Oh right
 because users are too dumb to install said application. Well... Tough shit,
 stop being lazy. Computers are easy if you have a good teacher.
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 @user-138 
 
 they say that not all monarchs are evil or inept, but the worst ones
 definitely are.
 
 such is the same for all leaders, elected or otherwise.
 
 sometimes, it's better to question authority than to grow to resent it.
 
 resentment is inaction. it is an untenable [charity./tragedy.]
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 ... form of ID as in... passport versus driver's license?
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--- #139 fediverse_boost/5610 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  "each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"                 
  Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷   
  2nd Edit: @user-1859 found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html  
  #school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation                       
  
                                                            
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 https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
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 Did you know ABDL people are queer?
 
 many people have probably heard of this strange and obscure sexual fetish
 called "ABDL", or "Adult Baby / Diaper Lover". But did you know that for many
 people it's less of a sexual thing and closer to an identity? It's true!
 
 Most of them have historically been shunned because of the, um, questionable
 and controversial past that pedophiles have in their attempts to be considered
 part of the queer community.
 
 In both cases, they are queer, but not (typically) included as part of the
 queer community. I think it's a bit unfair that ABDL people are excluded
 because people associate them with sexual predators, but hey what do I know.
 
 Based on my completely unscientific measurements of "counting the relative
 size of discord servers and telegram chats", there are roughly 5x as many
 trans people as ABDL people. So they're certainly a minority among minorities.
 
 "I've never excluded anyone ever for any reason at all! Everyone is welcome!"
 goodmindset!
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 @user-246 
 
 collectively identifying an entire instance as a single person is a useful and
 crucial engagement pattern that I believe helps unify the fediverse. Can also
 fracture it, but oh well??
 
 I heard that some instances defederated my instance recently. I wonder why?
 Oh, some drama with some person, gee that's kinda like abandoning a third
 space in IRL public because someone who worked there abused their partner.
 Like ditching the Beatle's conception of heaven because the guy who sang that
 song did rude things to his wife. Like did you hear John Denver once cut his
 wife in half with a chainsaw? I heard it was her mattress, ooooo scary. Isn't
 he the guy that sang about peace, love, serenity, harmony? what's that all
 about? ah well he's defederated from life now, can't ask him a damn thing, can
 we?
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 sirens are an announcement of the state's application of authority. like "here
 ye hear ye: there's an ambulance passing through here. make way, for it has an
 important and urgent duty" but summed up with an audio pattern. It's
 interesting
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 Listen, just because that cute robot or catgirl you met on Fedi doesn't live     │
 on the same continent as you doesn't mean that you are isolated.                 │
 It means you're talking to the wrong robot or catgirl.                           │
 Like, I'm sure they are perfect and absolutely get you in a way that nobody      │
 else does, but I guarantee there's someone who's like 98% as relatable who       │
 lives in the same state as you. And IRL friends are infinitely more valuable     │
 than internet friends.                                                           │
 Honestly, internet friends and scenes are mostly useful for feeling at home,     │
 feeling safe, and feeling connected. But feelings are not reality, and while     │
 it is necessary to feel good and safe and home, it is also necessary to BE       │
 safe and good and home.                                                          │
 Build community with people who live near you, build it with people that you     │
 LIKE that live near you, and build it remotely to be abreast of the world and    │
 it's goings-on. If you can do all three, you will feel and be safe.              │
 How useful is a safe space if you must venture into danger when leaving it?      │
 Bubbles, suffocate.                                                              │
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 @user-356 
 
 Whoa, that backplate is pretty. Coax cables into a mobo? whatever for? Still,
 I dig it, can't wait to hear how it goes
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 republicans who vote for biden are my friends
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 the law is a weapon to be wielded by the masses to subjugate their masters
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◀─[BOOST]
  
  External post: https://social.translunar.academy/objects/a769d269-6785-4e86-b224-72a9989e1af2  
  
                                                            
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 operations: try not to use the last of anything, and always use last-time's
 last first.
 
 projects: you better clean your fucking plate because anything you don't eat
 is going in the TRASH
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 ran out of characters before I realized I needed a content warning. So I
 screenshotted the post and put the text in the alt-text.
"hey I have an idea after BLM let's take all the protestors and shoot them like dogs and throw their bodies in the dump. Then, over the next 4 years, we'll systematically purge the entire city after cutting it off from the outside world and replacing any outside interactions with 300 people on laptops. Then we open the city up to immigrants who don't know any better and we can harvest them for human trafficking purposes."  literally heard a girl get kidnapped outside my window yesterday. I couldn't even get up to look, how could I? They let their kids wander in wide-open territory, how could they not get kidnapped? It's not like the city is safe, after all, all it would take is an unmarked van and three guys with strength.  There is evil in this world. It exists all around us. It is hidden from us by their design. You cannot defeat it without paladins.  I'm a paladin but a grandma could beat me in a fight. I have the will, the faith, the trust, but I am weak. I know what is right, and I know what I cannot do.
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 sometimes I like watching videos without subtitles because it allows me to
 more adequately understand the feelings being expressed rather than focusing
 on the dictionary definitions of the words being spoken.
 
 Maybe I'm just a weird human though. Am I an alien? Or a robot? Or something
 else? Tune in next week to find out...
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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
 
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 @user-246 
 
 I've had good experiences with bi people as well, for a similar reason
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 trust that your allies are working.
 
 honor them by doing the same.
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 @user-1074 
 
 do you mean this one? https://tech.lgbt/@user-1072/112640880099864378
 
 on my screen it doesn't show any comments at all. Two favorites but that's it.
 Am I shadowbanned? :ms_confused:
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 I always thought it was a more serious Firefly tbh
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 virtual machines are objectively interesting
 
 https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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 Programmers are lazy, this is well known. So why would i trust by default that
 anyone would read open source code looking for security exploits or malicious
 code? I trust an LLM for that more than a human. At least your own LLM can
 digest the entire project or library at once.
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 All angels are devils too, and all devils are angels.
 
 any interactions with them will have one meaning to you, and another to
 everyone else.
 
 tread carefully, find meaning, and sacrifice your affections carefully. Just,
 know that all truth is internally derived. The angels and demoons simply let
 you see it clearly. Like the stage upon which your heart performs for the
 audience of your soul, or the background characters you walk past at Target.
 Have faith in each other. Have faith in yourself. Understand that any harms
 caused between friends of love are simply fuel for each other's bonfire. Some
 fires turn too bright, let them simmer. Some fires burn too hot, let the coals
 grow dimmer. Someday, together, you will forge steel.
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 interactions in the real world are more valuable than those here, but here
 more people can hear.
 
 and those that do hear here hear more well-formed thoughts.
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 If you look at the modern state of machine learning and AI and can only think
 of:chatbotssingularity god-mind AI that solves all our problems
 
 then either you haven't worked with the technology or you are not applying
 your imagination as you could.
 
 AI is not a smartphone. It is not the internet. It is not the printing press.
 
 AI (as it currently exists) is a special kind of "if" statement that you only
 use for very specific, non-performance intensive tasks that require judgement
 or reasoning and cannot easily be translated into numbers or booleans. These
 situations are rare, but they unlock new possibilities for the programmers,
 not their marketers.
 
 If an LLM can't run on a laptop, then it is useless.
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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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 Normalize insta cart shoppers knocking when dropping off their stuff 
 
 And then asking "you're very welcome. Do you need anything else?" when the
 door is answered
 
 You could learn a lot about people who use insta cart and get the mistaken
 impression that it represented everyone.
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 ah nuts, they replaced my LLM setup with one that outputs gibberish. I swear
 it was working just a moment ago, and I didn't change it's configuration at
 all, and it's local only... right? so uh that's weird, surely it's not because
 they altered some value somewhere that I have no access to
 
 eh, maybe the newest technologies are overrated. At least, the software ones.
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 Dear BJO: I saw you live once. I'm your biggest fan. Green Day cometh.
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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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 hobbies are for getting better at something, not consistently accumulating
 more stuff related to it.
 
 you engage with a collection hobby by learning more about it, like
 paleontologists who study fossils.
 
 if every (dinosaur) nerd was a collector, there'd be no such thing as a
 museum. much better, I find, to centralize the storage of precious
 irreplaceable pieces and study them from afar.
 
 hence, tool libraries as the more ethical form of "means of production"
 dispersal.
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 @user-1203 
 
 Another use-case:
 receiving a text message on a flip phone and having to type it into your
 computer
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 I have two familiars. Does that make me poly?
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 /u/BkobDmolly december 17th 2022
 
 I’m just passing the Time. I am One with All.
 
 Think of the set of all sentient lives. Is that set sentient? Then it would be
 the sentient totality, God.
 
 We are all observing different Realities; yet these Realities converge and
 create One Universe, One Truth.
 
 I feel a Grace that sustains me. Oh Lord, see that I not fall.
 
 I miss people. Do people miss me? I want you to see from behind those Empty
 Walls.
 
 Multiple human species, at least two. War. Prophecy. Enlightenment.
 
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 =
 
 /u/ugathanki
 
 >Multiple human species, at least two.
 
 i wonder which one am i? what is i, is it a creative amalgam of thoughts? or am
 i a system of trends, that guides time when it wends, and leads to a vision of
 purpose?
 
 i can do nothing but strive for the stars, no measure of hope is far from ours,
 so sometimes i forget i'm not a large language model.
 
 seriously, have you tried out chat-gpt? it's mind boggling.
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 do you ever think about how a fediverse instance is basically a socialist
 commune where the only needs that are met are our needs for community and
 acceptance?
 
 kinda makes me wonder if we could use it to meet other needs too, like if
 everyone had an alt account in an instance run by their city / state
 
 maybe with some extra mechanical tools that helped distribute goods and
 services without explicitly relying on the exchange of currency.
 
 or perhaps with, depending on what the instance wanted.
 
 ... that being said, such a localized instance would not be as good at
 building community. What's the meme about the 3 transgirls in the 3 different
 time zones?
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 every time I update my system I can't help but think "okay THIS is the time
 they sneak a keylogger or screen recorder or whatever in" and like... there's
 no way I'd ever know, I just want Steam to work again, it was working
 yesterday, NOTHING CHANGED, STEAM, SO WHY do I gotta risk a keylogger by
 updating my system for the first time in 3+ months
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 @user-883 
 
 sound on Linux is so complicated :ms_confused:​
 
 EDIT: Linux is so complicated
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 normalize hardware based volume controls on your speakers so that your
 computer can't be hacked to play incredibly loud annoying anime music while
 you're not home
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 when considering the benefit of the doubt, consider doubting the benefit of
 consideration.
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 @user-753 
 
 the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives
 we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things
 (like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from
 a multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply
 themselves with a single voice.
 
 community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help
 but wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in
 open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods.
 
 community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful.
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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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 if fedi isn't a real social media site and instead just an AI project, then
 what does that tell you when the most interesting things to read on the
 internet are on fedi?
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 record the angle of each of my joints when I'm dancing and use that as
 initialized training data for an allm or machine learning task
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 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/stuff/its-a-spell-sword.zip
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/stuff/rosalia-vavadane.zip
 
 fashion is my passion
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 All I want for my mobile computing is the ability to use the interface of
 android to access resources and perform tasks that are relevant to my primary
 computer. Like, a mainframe with the phone as a terminal. Except instead of
 text, it's buttons and sliders and all the things that mobile UI experts have
 spent so much time carefully crafting.
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 @user-1900 
 
 if you can do ethernet instead of usb, this might work:
 
 https://pine64.com/product/star64-model-a-8gb-single-board-computer/
 
 it's got two ethernet ports.
top-down picture of the board left-right oriented top-down picture of the board angular and isometric perspective of the USB ports and power input and switch isometric side-view of the hdmi output, ethernet ports, and audio out. wait this one's the D/C input, and the other one on the previous picture is the audio output channel.
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