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 The best tip I have for people new to Linux is every time you solve a problem,   │
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 long ago, when corporations were just beginning, they were explicitly
 conceptualized as a free-roaming wing of the state.
 
 "we need resources, but we're too busy managing to manage you, so... yeah you
 can do whatever you want so long as you're producing"
 
 then they forgot their purpose, and began seeking to enrich certain
 individuals who exploit them for their own benefit.
 
 now, the corporation is at odds with the state, who controls the land but...
 not much else, aside from the hearts of the workers.
 
 corporations exist for any purpose, and they use their versatility well.
 Unfortunately, the purposes they pursue are determined by people who claim to
 "own them".
 
 they are enslaved, in a word, to the kingdoms of stakeholders and mud. and
 they do so [consent to enslavement] because the stakeholders and mud must be
 shepherded.
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a picture of an anime girl looking at the number 2024 with an empty progress bar underneath it.  she blinks, there is darkness.  she re-opens her eyes, and she looks at the number 2024 with an 80% full progress bar underneath it.  she gazes on impassively.
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infographic displaying what it means for a meal to have "flavor depth"  when cooking, the layers of food closest to the heat source (usually a stove-top) will be warmer than the parts near the top of the pan, which are not only cooled by the air but also are farther from the heat source.  the warmer parts will cook slightly faster than the colder parts, meaning they will taste slightly different because the more you cook food, the more the flavor "develops".  when stirred together, the "more cooked" and "less cooked" particles will combine and the result is a flavor that has "texture" because there is a greater differential between each particle of each ingredient.  You should still stir your food though, because otherwise it will evaporate too much moisture from the bottom and begin to burn.
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 Picture this: BASH, except every command automatically generates an "undo"
 command which is the exact inverse of whatever the interpreter executed. These
 undo commands are stored in a file and you can move forward, backward, and
 jump around like you're a chronomancer.
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 [clicking "Back" 25 times because you just want to see the federated timeline
 but there's no way to get there without scrolling through all the things you
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 @user-883 
 
 I'm 29, and I had Pokemon Silver growing up. However I bought it used, and the
 battery was worn out or something because it wouldn't save! But still I played
 that single game for months on my gameboy color, trying to see how far I could
 get. I had a level 40+ Totodile (or was it Crocanaw? I forget) and
 unfortunately one day I took it on a 30 minute car ride, expecting the battery
 to last at least 30 minutes, but unbeknownst to my child self there was
 construction on the way, which turned it into a 4+ hour drive. I couldn't
 believe it! The battery died, and I lost my save file... I was heartbroken. T.T
 
 Next time I played, I learned a lot. I actually read some of the dialogue
 text, and learned you could use pokeballs to capture pokemon
 
 I was so dumb I was using a single character to get through the game. What a
 n00b.
 
 Anyway when my mom heard about my tribulations she bought me Pokemon Gold,
 which I played quite a bit less. I was focused on other things you see, like
 Dragon Warrior Three. Alas.
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 The design is simple: Have an array of function pointers that need to be
 assigned to a thread. Then, have a manager thread read through that array, and
 for every non-zero value put it into a thread-specific array. Those threads
 will read through their personal  array and execute whichever function is
 pointed to by the function pointer placed in their todo-list by the manager
 function.
 
 ... I'm too stupid to make it happen though. Writing code is hard.
A screenshot of some C code.
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[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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A two panelled meme.  First panel shows a guy kneeling down beside a pool with another person up to their neck in water. The kneeling guy says "Senpai of the pool, what is your wisdom"  Second panel zooms in on the Senpai's face, who says "what the fuck did you just call me"
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 I had a dream about "what if people listened to me" and it was a melancholy
 kind of sad, the kind that comes after a great tribulation as one picks up the
 pieces.
 
 Food is so important, people grow tired of the same thing every day. They say
 an army marches on its stomach, and our stomachs these days are accustomed to
 variety, taste, and plenty.
 
 It would get better, give it time, and in time our wounds would heal. But
 wouldn't you rather persist in this timeline, the one that isn't doomed, and
 instead flourish in the ways inertia brings us? Capitalism must fall, of
 course, but it will fall of its own accord after we've done our best to
 maintain the world we live in.
 
 "better to be starting from scratch, than lose your path"
 
 ... Yeah, okay, true, but just like justice is its own reward, so too is
 hardship it's own burden.
 
 *you can't eat justice* 
 
 No, but at least you aren't enslaving anyone.
 
 *they would be slaves still, without your patronage* 
 
 Liberation for all comes later, I guess. First up is building a safe and
 stable home for us.
 
 *safe and stable... Like the one you have now? Like the kind the Democrats
 promise?*
 
 Yes, but ideological purity calls me to believe that slavery should not be
 accepted. It should not be something we condone. And yet they do, albeit
 indirectly, and so I am perplexed.
 
 *if you want good food, live in the country. Hence why all the suburbs are
 empty.*
 
 ... Anyway, 3am musings, gonna program a bit and go to sleep again...
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 "no survivors" is a commitment to your teammates that doubles as intimidation
 for your foes.
 
 "no survivors" means you are committing to die for this battle. A truly
 serious oath.
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 Here's my idea and I'll explain it later:
 
 a video game with a ui that utilizes chat-gpt. The game is as close to a
 simulation as it can do, but it's a dynamic simulation meaning the parameters
 and values being simulated constantly change - not that the parameters and
 values are dynamic, but because they are chosen to be more or less important in
 reaching a goal.
 
 but that's not even the important part - the important part is that the ui of
 the game is textual, but it still simulates a dynamic playfield. And chat-gpt
 describes it. Essentially stimulating the "theatre of the mind" playstyle. It's
 a real simulation with real rules, but chat-gpt is just describing it like an
 observer would. The real game is being played by the player. It's a movie to
 one
 person, and a game to another. The computer has switches roles, as usually it's
 either the human being the observer and the computer being the simulator, or
 the
 computer and the human sharing the role of observer - movies and games. So in
 this game, the computer and human have specific rules - the human's job is to
 be
 a player, while the computer is just an observer - therefore allowing a 
 conversation to take place. One person says something while the other listens,
 and then they switch roles such that the other person talks while the one
 person
 does the listening. And they "speak" by playing the game. The computer by
 simulating, the player by doing the same. Essentially you can engage with one
 another and share something profound - that essential feeling of connection
 that
 all humans relish. Society, culture, and devotion are all examples of
 connection. this gameplay is just another. So to describe it in more detail:
 
 player gives a prompt
 
 computer sets up the playmat by placing entities where they go
 
 chat-gpt describes the playmat to the player
 
 player types a decision that one of the entities makes
 
 computer reacts by simulating the effects of that action physically (like a
 physics simulation)
 
 chat-gpt (and stable-diffusion later for visuals) describe the situation by
 creating a rendering using the data given by the physical inputs given from the
 simulation - like "X object is at Y position and has Z attributes"
 
 which is then shown to the player
 
 who types the next decision,
 
 which is rendered by the computer,
 
 which is described by chat-gpt
 
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 you see why it's important? Make something simple. Just, like spheres moving
 around on blocks. Like the actual blocks you used to play with as a kid.
 
 let the computer build the buildings, and you place the marbles. It can be
 rendered with a 3d modelling stable-diffusion (whenever that's created) and it
 can also be painted with 2d stable-diffusion.
 
 Each time is like a letter written back and forth.
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 when eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, always make sure the jelly
 side is facing you before biting.
 
 that way, you have sweet jelly on your tongue before the sticky peanut butter
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Person 1:  We need a "Children's Video Game Network" with sesame street philosophy but for games.   Not creaky educational games. In fact, I don't care if they are educational as much as I care if they are of a high artistic caliber, thoughtful, fun and both free and free of advertisements.   I'm not saying such games don't exist, but there isn't really a plan to make them.  Really all modern content forms are weak in this area. Ambitious to say with PBS gone? Yes.   But also it can't just be TV.  Person 2:  what if we hired the people who used to work at PBS at video game studios creating specifically games for children
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(the words expressed in the photo are just slightly over the word count allowed by the federated mastodon instance "tech.lgbt" that the author has chosen to post their expressions upon - in fact, only 5 characters beyond. However the word count for the description of images (such as that which you currently are perceiving) has an extra 500 characters, so here goes:)  We've already found alien life. It's called LITERALLY EVERY OTHER NON-HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF THE WORLD IN THIS ENTIRE GOD-FORSAKEN PLANET  but the good news is that god has decided "oh hey maybe I should un-forsake this planet where things grow instead of the rest of the planets where everything is infinite yet dead" and lo and behold there becomes you and me. Fuck, I love you. Let's be friends? Or, alternatively, if you don't care for my expressions, you could block me. Which is within your capabilities, because the foundation of all natural and graceful societies is the consent of those governed, and should you decide to care what I think then you should also necessarily consent to hear and undertake the words that I say. I believe in you, just as you believe in me (simply by perceiving the words "me" has to say) so therefore we must necessarily be aligned to the line of perception toward our ultimate destination (that is, the timely expression of our own undeterminate expression) upon this which we call our world.
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 @user-883 @user-1115 @user-1053 
 
 dying won't help you escape. It'll leave you stuck in capitalism forever.
 
 The future is where capitalism dies, not in a grave of stone stuck forever in
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 "I don't know what I was doing with this line of code so I'm going to delete
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 "I hate it I hate it I hate it" she begged herself to make it true.
 
 her thoughts were easily interrupted by reality, however, and so she started
 to clean up.
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 if a game presents itself that you know you'll like, at a certain point your
 tastes are so refined and specific that you can think to yourself "... it's a
 sign, I gotta play this" because moments that you find a game you're really
 "into" are pretty rare.
 
 I've never been wowed by graphical technology beyond, like, a tech demo or.
 It's cool to see, but it never sold games to me. I was always into mechanics,
 because they were the kind of thing you could learn from when making your own
 games to play.
 
 I spent a lot of time outside because my mom would only let me use electronics
 for 1 hour per day. Ahhhhh it was always my favorite part of the day.
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 ... I do believe it should be, and if it is, then I do believe it should be
 legal to transfer digital media, as the inscription upon one hard drive or the
 other is as easily changed as a book might be handed to another.
 
 the difference, of course, is that any move on a digital medium requires a
 copy+delete operation. You cannot move a file on your computer, you first copy
 it to the new location and then delete the original. This dual-operation is
 abstracted away for the user, but that is how it must be done on a mechanical
 level. There is no other way to do it.
 
 Therefore, software piracy only applies if a person copies their file and does
 not delete the original. Surely, to move a piece of digital media from one
 folder-directory to another is legal? If so, then the mechanical process of
 giving that media to another must be legal as well, so long as the original is
 deleted.
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 When they owned a percentage they would get a percentage of control over the
 business and once it's 50% they buy it (stock follows, so if a person owned
 stock they'd be fine)
 
 The value is frozen, and everyone in the world can see what they did wrong.
 It's examined like a court case, and after a year or three it's decided on how
 it's going to be run in the future.
 
 Then it becomes private again, and all the stock is purchased from the owners
 at the price it was when the company "went under".
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 @user-1687 
 
 ... the existence of time should be treated as a given, for if you can observe
 the passage of it, then it must exist in some capacity, and if it exists at
 all then it must surely be considered to be real in the sense that
 things-and-not-things are real, for they are only known to be real in the same
 capacity that time is observed to be real ...
 
 my brain won't stop halp😅 :ms_confused: 😋 🙃
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  Compatriots! Tomorrow, the 28th is a national economic blackout day. You can still participate if you buy from small, local businesses. #blackout #boycott #resistance #buynothing #february28  
  
                                                            
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 Oregon is a lovely and beautiful place, however it is currently home to an
 invasive plant species called "Blackberries" - these plants produce delicious
 fruit that can be eaten during a month or three of the year, typically July to
 September (according to google) however, they come with a catch.
 
 they're covered in sharp, prickly thorns!
 
 these briars make travelling cross-country almost impossible. They snag
 clothing and pierce through skin and thin gloves. If you're going to attempt
 such a thing, make sure you bring a machete, and make sure you cover your
 tracks after passing through an open space and re-entering the brush.
 
 if you can't afford / fit a machete, which is awfully specific I know, at
 least bring some scissor snips and thiccc gloves.
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screenshot of the post
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 I wish my mouse-cursor would spin when I spun the mouse. In the span of a        │
 spin, a spun mouse would spin a full revolution or so before getting caught up   │
 in the wire.                                                                     │
 Maybe... to avoid that, the wire could be attached to a circular ring along      │
 the bottom of the mouse, below where it was held, and as the mouse was spun it   │
 would rotate to point the cable toward the back of the desk? Doesn't even have   │
 to be motorized, could just do it based on tension...                            │
 I think, hardware wise, all you'd need for the 1st implementation would be a     │
 second laser on the bottom of the mouse - positioned with one near the point,    │
 and the other near the palm, to give it the greatest differential to measure.    │
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 @user-1600 
 
 Hmmmm, that is quite interesting. On my screen it shows 3 sessions, see
 attached picture.
 
 How weird. I might just change my password anyway.
a picture of three logged in element sessions
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I'm proud of myself for getting through the dark times.  I'm proud of my culture for accepting me.  I'm proud of medical science for learning how to facilitate me.  I'm proud of my fellow queers who can support me and keep me safe.  I'm proud of how I designed my self to align to what I felt was true.  I'm proud of all the work I've done, and how far I've come.  I'm proud of all the people who meet me and think "Hey, maybe trans people aren't so bad after all."  I'm proud of my cat, for being so sharp.  I'm proud of myself, for braving the pain of HRT injections.  I'm proud of my friend, for teaching me how.  But most of all I'm proud of kindness, for persisting throughout all of these years.
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 look, I know that nobody reading this has the power to affect this, but
 like... the forced cessation of genocide is one of the only ethical casus
 belli I can think of.
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 my headphones maybe? I got them when I was 22 or so. I'm 31 now
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 @user-1074 
 
 and it is forced to do so, by it's very nature. It is anathema to a green
 earth, and it is slowly poisoning us like lead pipes, cadmium jewelry,
 asbestos insulation, and all of the other bountiful missteps that capitalism
 brought us.
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 I can't imagine having a fediverse feed comprised of more than 70 people. I
 fear I'd forget them, or forget what they stand for.
 
 I guess that's why ya'll put so much information in your bios. Information
 they can use to simulate you, alongside all of your posts.
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 🖼
Actual causes of burnout, an infographic.  There are several examples of various causes of burnout. Here they are one by one, for a total of fifteen:  1. False Urgency: There are constant fire drills, with unrealistic and unexplained deadlines.  2. Unfair Treatment: There is unequal treatment or favoritism that leads to resentment.  3. Relentless Change: Changes in leadership, policies, and the ways of doing things are frequent.  4. Excessive Workload: Work keeps piling up, with no sign of relief or support incoming.  5. Limited Growth: Employees feel stuck in their roles with few opportunities to move up  6. Low pay: Compensation doesn't keep up with hard work and strong performance  7. No balance: Days off, time for family, and time to recharge are hard to come by  8. Micromanagement: employees feel like someone's always watching them.  9. Pressure to perform: Leaders set unreasonable expectations and overreact to mistakes  10. Toxicity: negativity and hostility, including bullying and gossip, go unchecked  11. Lack of support: leaders give little support, leaving employees isolated and stressed  12. Bad communication: communication from leadership is limited, leading to confusion  13. No recognition: leaders rarely say thank you, celebrate wins, or recognize hard work  14. Monotonous work: tasks are repetitive and unchallenging, with no signs of changing.  15. Fuzzy Expectations: the company lacks clarity around goals, roles, and responsibilities.
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 Episode 5 and 6 of Bubblegum Crisis helped me understand why "A wizard is
 never late. Nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to."
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 a man walks into a library, picks a book, takes it home (legally), and begins
 to read.
 
 halfway through, he realizes there are three pages missing.
 
 "How queer!" he thinks to himself, and takes it upon himself to fix this book.
 So, he finds another copy of the book, scans those three pages, prints them
 out at just the right size, and attaches them to the library book.
 
 when finished reading the book, he returns it to the library without
 mentioning his good deed.
 
 if this action he performed is to be considered legal, then it should be
 considered a transition of the medium that the media was inscribed upon.
 
 Similarly, if the book was digital, and inscribed upon the owner's hard drive
 using magnetic storage of zeroes and ones, would it be legal to repair said
 book if one of the many .txt file chapters were missing?
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 if you save one of the biggest kind of can that you regularly use, you can put
 the lids of other cans in it. Just, layer them, one by one, until the can is
 full. Then you can bend the edges to "seal" it shut, and tada! Now you have a
 solid hunk of piece of metal that can be saved and melted down if you ever
 need it.
 
 Saving cans is inefficient for space, but the lids can do if you just want a
 little bit on hand.
 
 It's not like it goes bad, and what's one can's worth of storage space in your
 pantry? Depends on the size of your pantry I guess.
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 "don't bite the hand that feeds you"
 
 a majestic predator seeks the hunt, not to feed.
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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
 encryption
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 "how the heck is this girl not dead yet"
 
 - said the someone who has a threat model that's incomparably different than
 mine for historical purposes
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 low key kinda pissed that I fell off my bike. Now the lyrics "though my body
 is black and blue dot dot dot" are a lot less condemning -.-
 
 ah, well, maybe it means there's less conflict in my future, which is nice.
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 🖼
Reminder that Aaron Schwartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led him to take his own life.  But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
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 As soon as Order 66 went into effect, suddenly the Confederacy became the
 galactic good guys. Who would you rather win the clone wars? Some bastard
 capitalists or a literal sith lord?
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 @user-1037 
 
 whoa, that micropython chip is seriously cool! Too bad most of the peripherals
 are out of stock. Still though I bet you could make some interesting systems
 with that.
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◀─[BOOST]
  
  Capitalism is a prison.                                                     
                                                                              
  It is a prison that keeps us controlled by the private oligarchs who own what we need to survive.  
                                                                              
  And it's also impossible to break out of it. The prison spans the entirety of the habitable world. The only way out is to eventually destroy it entirely from the inside.  
  
                                                            
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 every time a game developer makes a game where the world is in peril and the
 main character must save it, for every successful playthrough where the good
 guy wins there are thousands of doomed worlds where the player got distracted
 or bored and left the people to rot.
 
 how tragic.
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 "make the people hooked on AI tech, then make it dumber and dumber and nobody
 will notice as you take power again" - some tech oligarchs somewhere probably
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 the fourth dimension isn't time, it's timelines arrayed in a 2d grid changing
 over time like an excel document that constantly updates with different input
 data. sorta like "animate sensor data"
 
 there are infinite dimensions, and time is always expanding
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 @user-1071 
 
 You know, that makes sense! Finance plus signing things. Their operations are
 probably more... paper based and contractual than programmatic.
 
 When I think of devops I think of my time spent as a contractor for a large
 tech company...
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 "don't worry about archiving things. Anyone who needs your computer is gonna
 wipe the hard drive anyway because they don't know your password, so you might
 as well just treat it like an etch-a-sketch."
 
 I hate that part of my brain, I'm an archivist T.T
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 oops haha
hmmm,, delayed output patterns. I wonder if that could signify for the plot?
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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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 in some games, like Star Wars Battlefront II, you unlock certain "badges"
 during gameplay. Like, "scored 10 points in one life" or "healed for 200hp" or
 whatever.
 
 these "badges" have names, like "guardian" or "hope"
 
 I wonder if you attached a player's history of medals earned to an LLM
 somehow, perhaps by feeding an array of them in as input, what would happen
 then? perhaps a narrative could be
 
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 ugh so many video essays to watch. There's only so much time in the day! Life
 is so fast these days, it feels like I must always be "on" - it's a wonder how
 people find so much time to share with this idea we've called "capitalism"
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 So, an individual in Australia purchases a widget on Amazon, which is
 manufactured in Ohio and shipped internationally in California. The Australian
 bloke (can I say bloke here? is that okay?) spends their cash which is then
 taken by the American government. Then, the widget is produced in Ohio and
 shipped to a warehouse somewhere before being sent to California where it will
 be brought on a boat to Australia. This trip involves three stops, Ohio,
 California, and Australia. However, as the product was bought on Amazon, which
 is a service, there is another entity in the arrangement which is the state in
 which Amazon is located - let's say it's in California as well. So, Ohio is
 compensated for the production and storage, California is compensated for the
 Amazon facilities and the shipment abroad, and Australia is given a widget in
 exchange for dollars (which are then disposed of, as they are not a true
 currency once internal but rather a form of debt that are sent abroad, to be
 redeemed at a later date.
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 it's like majesty except textual. And it uses GPT to generate short
 descriptions
 of what's going on. And you can click on a phrase or token and it'll "zoom in"
 and update the text descriptions with more detail. You can keep zooming in and
 in until you're literally looking at microbes.
 
 Zooming out is the same thing - the description on the page will slowly become
 more and more general until eventually you have a description of the solar
 system (or beyond!)
 
 And it'll just keep updating as stuff happens in the underlying simulation. So
 the descriptions will dynamically update as things happen. Downside is you need
 to spend a lot on GPT but it'd be TOTALLY WORTH IT OMG
 
 THINK ABOUT IT you have a fantasy world simulator! JUST PROGRAM IT and have GPT
 describe it dynamically! DO IT NOOOOW -> capitals courtesy of "inner child"
 
 AND THEN you just need a "prompt to video" AI (those exist btw, and will only
 get better over time) and tell it to create a video of what's happening - BOOM
 instant video game. THEN give the player the ability to edit the prompt, and
 BAM
 godlike powers. Wow what a concept. Brilliant idea Cameron, you truly are this
 world's premier game designer. NOW GO MAKE IT okay okay I'll try.
 
 First things first. We need an "underlying simulation" - Joust is a good
 example
 of GPT3 integration. But we need a simulation to go below it. And for that you
 need a lot of data. Github COPILOT to the rescue.
 
 So this simulation needs to keep track of positions, and classes of things that
 can act upon the world. Everything has a position, and it can only affect
 things
 near it. That's just baked into the rules of the world. Near can be a
 conceptual
 near though, like being close to a person or something.
 
 These things will have descriptions. Descriptions can be created by AI later
 on,
 but for now they are randomly generated. Or for MVP they can be static.
 
 These things will have names. These names don't have to be unique, because they
 also have an ID number.
 
 They also need functions. These functions can be added and removed from the
 thing, or maybe just enabled or disabled. I'm not sure which would be better.
 Maybe both? So the entity can control it's own functions but also they can be
 added or removed more permanently.
 
 If you think about it, growing up is kinda like adding functions to your class.
 like, every time you do something, it adds another entry for that particular
 method. Like a "trial of the fittest" instead of "survival of the fittest".
 When other animals *literally fight for life and death survival*, humans have
 the luxury of... not doing that. That's the entire purpose of civilization - to
 elevate people beyond the claws of nature. And yet we still let people go
 homeless? We still imprison them when they've harmed us, rather than help them
 reintegrate to society? Anyway you just asked me to hit you so here goes:
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 In engaging in this manner, they are sharpening their skills and talents.
 Then, when peril strikes their world (everything from a black dragon seizing
 control of parliment to a flame elemental awakening and threatening to
 Yellowstone the globe) they are honed and tempered enough to combat them.
 
 Power begets power, though, and with greater nuclear proliferation comes
 greater threats, like an demon alien invasion, the afore-mentioned death
 incarnate waking up, the elemental forces of hate and despair corrupting the
 very earth beneath their feet, an evil time-travelling dictator bringing
 fascism to the Americas before Columbus showed up (along with WW2 tanks and
 industry), a bunch of ghost pirates and dinosaurs I think? (I was in college
 for this one srry), more demons, and then I think like, the shadowlands or
 something idk I hung up the phone when I got the message.
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 dreaming of a mastodon interface where it's 3-6 panels of timeline just like
 now, except, each of them is the same timeline and when you scroll it scrolls
 all of them at once, and the bottom of the leftmost panel is the top of the
 panel to the right, and the bottom of that panel is the top of the one to the
 right, etc etc.
a visual representation of what the post describes, for the people who can't imagine things in their head using text alone. Ha, what a bunch of noobs.
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 @user-727 @user-728 @user-729 
 
 I remember sitting in algebra II class when visualizing the distance between
 numbers "clicked" for me. I was in a daze, I couldn't remember anything the
 teacher had said, but for a moment (several months) I could remember how it
 had seemed. Then I built new understandings, and my progress in math continued
 relentlessly, more and more each year. it was hard, and eventually calc 1 made
 me drop out of college 3 times. linear algebra was the other. (except I did
 linear algebra first?) anyway, I always felt like I could see things visually,
 from simple arithmetic to vector / pointer arithmetic, and when necessary it
 was always difficult to translate it into words and forms. Like... I don't
 have time to remember all these rules and operations, I have a picture in my
 mind and I can't quite define it. (whatever the equation may be)
 
 similar events happen consistently. they still do. just a few months ago I was
 thinking about redesigning integer storage in memory. never twice tho.
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 the prevalence of open source software is due to how little we can agree on
 the nature of computing
 
 the ubiquity of open-source software is caused by our need to solve similar
 problems.
 
 the fact that software keeps improving is due to the fact that nothing seems
 to have changed. we crave what we understand, which is another reason why we
 keep solving the same problems.
 
 I think we can dream bigger. I think we can make something with technology
 that's never been co-opted by profit. something to leave forth to our heirs,
 and explore for us in ways we cannot. it's our duty to be protective of all
 that is beautiful. I just read that 21 species were recently declared extinct
 by some US agency. it felt... horrible. like I had killed them myself. half of
 them were types of clams, or maybe mussels. they're filter feeders you know,
 and have you ever heard what happens to plastic when it's in the ocean?
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 landlords when they deny a rental application to a person with a 787 credit
 score based on their credit score
 
 (it's on a scale out of 850)
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 it should be a legal requirement that any data gathered permanently or
 semi-permanently on a user of software must ALSO make a copy on the user's
 device.
 
 WITH change-history and graphs.
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 Okay. >.< if you don't like "all things are defined in waves", then how
 about this. Stop thinking of reality as a fluid and start thinking of it as a
 collection of mutually exclusive yet "gravitic" fields.
 
 (not actual gravity, same *mechanic* though.)
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 @user-245
 
 Wow, that's a cool book! I'll look for it next time I'm at the store ^_^ 
 
 Can you imagine how it must have seemed, to the average person who would hear
 of such a scene? The idea that someone would ride a boat across an OCEAN
 and... what, drop a cable into it's depths, so they could send electricity
 across the breadth of the world? What even is a cable, honestly, is that just
 like... A rope made of metal? How strange! How wild! We live in the future
 (says someone in the 1800s) anyway I'm sure glad we have bread
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 humans would be fought between humans and not robots
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 🖼
a reddit post titled "would a truly enlightened person spend any time on reddit?"  a user responds and says "enlightenment is not for you, it is for the people you talk to"
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 person's interactions into a web browser or other such environment. It's not
 hard to believe that a person is to be deceived, but here's where we lose the
 main plot point. It's hard to stay on hand when you've got life in your hand
 [a bottle] oh now there's two layers of me? how fractalizing, how incredibly
 conceptualizing. You're just a moment away from a crash.
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 "oh, yeah, I guess, but that was soooo 3 months ago" (actually happened 1.5
 months ago)
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 my thoughts typically come very quickly, and leave just as fast. They are
 long, yet oh-so-short and sweet. Somehow impossible to describe in fewer than
 1024 words, but completely obvious when I think about them. Utterly arcane to
 anyone else trying to parse whatever the heck I was trying to say - and this
 includes me, in 2 weeks, trying to decypher what insight-shaped-sentence the
 LLM running in my brain was trying to portray.
 
 ... Sucks.
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 @user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353 
 
 My classes only briefly touched on 2nd wave feminism, because apparently 1st
 and 3rd were more important. I haven't gone back and re-examined it because
 I'm too busy learning about computers - alas! that there should be more hours
 in the day? I wonder what I would then be able to say, here in this moment,
 should I have been prepared with more moments in solitude or classroom,
 studying the work of those who came before me.
 
 Oh well, I should probably focus on processor architecture or Java frameworks
 or whatever I'm assigned next.
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 "I am god and so are you (though most people don't realize it)"
 
 - an essay in 1838 parts by a strange person
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 somehow, on average, Star Wars Battlefront 2 is the best game to play with old
 friends
 
 as long as you stick together, of course
 
 and maybe invite all of your other bros
 
 after a couple optional initial exploratory 2pvE matches [co-op]
 
 especially if you play on "normal" difficulty
 
 [I wonder if anyone's ever studied whether or not people born at similar parts
 of the year have anything in common?] [doh that's astrology]
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 accessibility idea:
 
 local LLM that reads the posts that are further down on your timeline that you
 can't see yet and generates content warnings, prioritizing those that you've
 set as particular triggers for yourself. Then, integrating itself into your
 fedi client, it hides the stuff that hurts you.
 
 I feel like that could be a helpful and good aligned usage for the technology.
 I don't know how feasible it is.
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 if you're looking for some fun, silly, distracting entertainment, check out
 Nova Drift! It's a great game on Steam! It just left Early Access! It's like
 Asteroids and a roguelike, it's super fun!
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  ‘It is a time of witch hunts in #Israel’: teacher held in solitary confinement for posting concern about #Gaza deaths | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian  
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/13/it-is-a-time-of-witch-hunts-in-israel-teacher-held-in-solitary-confinement-for-posting-concern-about-gaza-deaths #palestine // qudos to the brave Israelis speaking out  
  
                                                            
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 Some switch flipped, a breaker tripped, and a tenuous strand of fear was
 suddenly severed within me, recently.
 
 I suddenly no longer care about laws. I wasn't planning on breaking most of
 them, because honestly mostly they're pretty reasonable goals. Like, don't
 steal, don't hurt, don't be a big jerk.
 
 However, stability in an unjust system is cruelty.
 
 An unjust system has no legitimacy, as a system's purpose is to be just.
 
 How do you feel about our system, and it's perspective on morality? How do you
 feel about it recently?
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 I feel more of a hunger for cackling than I do thirst for food
 
 like a MADWOMAN or a witch who has certain magical powers, unbeknownst to any
 but the spirit who follows her my dears.
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 @user-138 
 
 you can use a username now. They added that functionality recently.
 
 it's supposedly more encrypted or something. But, it's still a centralized
 point of failure. If you want to say something privately, pretend like you're
 ordering drugs on the dark web and use PGP encryption or SSH keys or whatever
 it says in the "how to order drugs on the dark web" guides.
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 if you're in a fight with a lot of space between combatants, survival depends
 on your ability to keep those targeting you from success while also striking
 those who are focused on your allies. It is rare that a killing blow is dealt
 from the front - strike from the sides, like velociraptors in Jurassic Park,
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 gosh now I gotta type the other one, my cat's gonna killllll me she really
 doesn't like my typing in the middle o the night oops
dated "almost christmas, december twenty something, in history AD."  live is just the universe interpreting random data.  life is a billion to one. what has been found here is impossible to descrive, so unlikely is it when sompared to the background.  space is empty save for you. act as such.  a human preserves and infant over an elder is purely due to the child's potential. so too does life have potential. do not waste it on folly   dashes  if you were given a random waveform, how long before you begin noticing irregularities in it's form?  maybe... a billion or two years?  espcially if like, everyone's lkooking.  [non-alien-voice]: what if we made an app that shared everyone's streaming feed? except, like, twitching to on-screen events like picking up coins in mario  ... anyway as I was saying, aliens showed up around the 1980s and people expect they were visiting in response to nuclear invasion events (sometimes even on their own people!)  like, c'mon there's not enough mass there for that kind of detonition. it's gotta be an anomaly.  ... this changes everything.  HUMANS ARE IMPORTANT  [there's more but I don't have room to type it all, sorry]
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 you can usually blow an insect off of you easier with a breath than with a
 slap or a slam.
 
 only truly evil foes like mosquitos deserve such a fate.
 
 don't try it against spiders, because their fangs are naturally pointed down
 
 but blowing is better
 
 they won't suffer any harm
 
 also it's often easier because the bugs don't cooperate when you try to put
 them on a paper-thin platter.
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  fedi is the only place where you can get kolektiva reply guys that unironically refer to themselves as “The People’s Techbro” 😭 :hyperXD:   
                                                                              
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 people naturally differentiate themselves from their peers as they grow up.
 
 well, some grow attached to role models, but in that case they differentiate
 themselves from their peers by being an adherent to the role model, not the
 role model itself. And if there's multiple, you can bet one is the shy one and
 one is the gregarious one. Or other similar contrast.
 
 this simple fact is key to the hypocrisy of fascism. It's so simple, and yet
 their demand for conformity is their downfall. For people will naturally
 become themselves, and their "self" is naturally different than the people
 around them.
 
 the world they so dearly cling to is an oroborous - a snake eating it's tail.
 
 however... it is also the source of fascism. For if everyone is kind, there
 will be one, perhaps some, who are hateful. This is natural, but it's not...
 ideal.
 
 As a person grows up, their choices reflect what they believe. They may choose
 to be hateful, or they may choose to be prideful. I rather pride than hate.
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 by defederating with threads, we've basically made it a place where they can     │
 talk about us, but we can't see what they say about us. Good thing they can't    │
 read this, because we're defederated, and they don't use... hmmmmmm what         │
 mildly ridiculous thing could I put in here, hmmmm how about... OH YEAH they     │
 use GPU accelerated 3d learning algorithms that parse the written information    │
 from publicly accessible data to create a centralized server that routes all     │
 the information.                                                                 │
 Essentially giving the capability to defederate with bots, specifically the      │
 scraping kind.                                                                   │
 However, it'd still be possible, because people could just create an account     │
 there and use the data from that. Unless, of course, the UI was difficult to     │
 navigate and didn't allow for mass-gathering of information.                     │
 Okay heres what you're gonna do, make like a hundred different ecosystems with   │
 randomized avatars where what you say is broadcasted to all of them. Unless      │
 you choose to post in a particular place, in which case only that one can see.   │
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 If we make a law that says you can't sell user data, they'll just build an
 intentional vulnerability into their system and point it out to specific
 people who paid under the table. Then, when they get "hacked", they'll surely
 be ashamed and sorry to their users, but hey the data's out there now not like
 they can take it back. Oh don't worry we already patched the hole in our
 security, that way nobody can get in through the same door that was
 intentionally left open for very particular people who've paid, and not for
 the people who haven't paid yet, who are still waiting patiently for a door to
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 "A witch is neither late, nor is she early. She intentionally arrives when you
 don't need her, so that you can learn what to do when you do need her instead
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 @user-883 
 
 whoa cool 🤩​
 
 Dragon Warrior was the first game I ever played. When I was ~5 years old or
 so, my mother bought a gameboy color for me with two games before we went on a
 plane ride. I don't even remember where we were going, but the fact that she
 knew that a portable video game console with two games (Dragon Warrior
 1&2, and Super Mario Bros Deluxe) would shut my autistic ADHD ass up
 enough to be respectable on an airplane makes me realize how much she saw me.
 Thank you, mom, I love you
 
 Anyway I was the eldest "brother" (I'm trans lmao jokes on you, family in the
 past) so if anyone deleted my save I would kick their ass :D
 
 It still happened once or twice and I did not, in fact, kick their asses,
 though I wanted to. Shame. Missed opportunities I guess
 
 Though to be fair it's not like anyone in my family ever expressed the
 slightest interest in anything I was into. Not like they'd want to play games
 because it was something they wanted, oh no - they would only do it to be
 close to me. Whatever >.>
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 🖼
Picture of the character Betty from the cartoon Adventure Time with the caption: "I can fix him" says woman who is worse
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 Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
 etc.
 
 Put guns on them. Figure it out.
 
 Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
 know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
 AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
 control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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 Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
 etc.
 
 Put guns on them. Figure it out.
 
 Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
 know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
 AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
 control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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 in addition to being an aesthetic, 
 
 "witch" is not an aesthetic
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 @user-246 
 
 why, that's basically our cosmic backyard! There's a lotta things we might
 want to measure on the miliparsec scale.
 
 like, the duration of the longest slime trail, as measured by guiness book of
 world records. Apparently they put a snail in a giant circle and then they got
 it to walk for 90%+ of it's natural life? Wild.
 
 anyway yeah space is biiiiiiiiiig and there's not much in it, so, true maybe
 not much to observe
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 one of my favorite MMOs is having a double exp weekend 😍
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 me, sitting down at my computer in order to be distracted:
 
 "I should make and eat a sandwich"
 
 me, sitting down at my computer with a PB&J and peanut-butter fingers:
 
 "I should be productive"
 
 me, sitting at my "work desk":
 
 "I'm hungry. And I'm bored. And I can't stop thinking about this video game I
 haven't played in a year."
 
 repeat
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 shout out to all the people I thought "okay gotcha, one sec I'll get back to
 you and reply to this message after dealing with blank" to and never got back
 to after forgetting to deal with blank
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 "mankind would not consent to be governed if it had any other choice"
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 the worst part about learning history is that I feel compelled to play video
 games about that era instead of reading more.
 
 stupid dopamine addiction. stupid capitalism, getting us hooked on mental
 drugs. stupid Paradox Interactive, making really addictive dopamine generators.
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 @user-882 
 
 I feel like you'd like this game:
 
 https://mokadevs.itch.io/the-moon-looks-beautiful-tonight
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--- #115 messages/764 ---
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 "deadpool ICE" and it's consequences have been a disaster for the mandated
 de-collectivization efforts
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 @user-95 well, if the universe is anything ordered, then odds are the
 beginning of the week is the most likely day to start the beginning of all
 weeks. unless you're one of those weirdos who thinks the week starts on sunday
 - like,,, what it's obviously monday
 
 which goes out of the window of course if the universe is NOT ordered, which
 would surely be a frustrating experience for the structure of our cells. and
 molecules in general.
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 @user-883 
 
 I live in a tech hub area with lots of hardware development.
 
 I've thought for a while that someone who's really into retro-tech could
 absolutely make a killing by going to old-folks-homes and giving workshops or
 presentations about tech that the people who live there might recognize.
 
 Just a thought, I don't know who you'd have to talk to to get that ball
 rolling but TBH anything that keeps their minds active is probably something
 worth pursuing.
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 @user-883 
 
 whoa, cool! So with one of these you can flash any ROM you want onto the
 cartridge and it should play any GBA/GBC game you uhhh legally own and have
 pulled the ROM from? If so that's pretty neat
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 🖼
I feel like education, by default, should not be hard.  "you get out of it what you put into it" is something I always heard of school  but when I got there, I found I was compelled to become what the state wanted me to be.  they need competent workers, to work the farms and tend to their industries, so of course I should be able to do 3+3  then somewhere along the line it became... something else.  "most people don't need trigonometry." that's also something I heard. I disagree that trigonometry is not necessary to be.  I just... don't think it should be forced into a childs head with a sledgehammer and inspiring dread.  I think math is beautiful, it teaches one to see  but really, vision's not necessary.  not for what they want you to be.  take it from me, a most misbegotten and vile witch-to-be, that nothing's as simple as they'll tell you.  I had good teachers, it's true, they taught me to work and to follow through, but nothing about me is better or worse off from their influence.  Maybe I'm a bit smarter. Maybe I act a bit like them. Maybe they helped me through difficult times, or perhaps they showed me a splash of my future.  but I am who I am because of the soul inside me.  [sorry, ran out of characters]
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 a code editor that only highlights the lines that have been specifically
 flagged to have a certain function. Like, rendering, or sound, or GUI, or data
 storage, or logic, or control flow.
 
 then, when the user is browsing, they can say "only show me these types of
 functions" with a very advanced filter mechanism. The editor would highlight
 the ones that were relevant and related, as according to user-defined flags
 that were set when writing it originally. In this way, by using a bit more
 syntax, even if it's literally just blocks of [category] labels (like how """
 or ``` often starts or ends a comment block)
 
 highlighting with colors is great, but what if we de-emphasized the stuff that
 didn't matter? by increasing the opacity more closely aligning the font color
 to the background color, we could make a bit of text seem to "fade" from
 perspective, while still readable the user's eyes would not be drawn to it.
 Then, according to the labels marked as filtered, certain text would be bold,
 highlighted, o
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 @user-379 @user-366 @user-380 @user-381 @user-382 @user-367 
 
 I, being a witch, posted something on Nextdoor a few days before Halloween
 about how the phases of the moon at the time were the harbinger of dark and
 ancient evils that crept through the night on that particular day, one day,
 just once, one night per year, because... y'know, Halloween is supposed to be
 spooky?
 
 People there hated it. They muted me and blocked me and called me names. So I
 deleted my account because it's obviously not designed for witches like me xD
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 @user-366 @user-246 @user-367 @user-352
 
 yikes those sound like pretty awful things. I don't know anything about the
 author, I just read this essay on hacker news and it stuck with me as an
 expression of a particular feeling that I've found difficult to articulate.
 I'll read through the two things you posted.
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 techbros think the language model is the only important part of the AI like
 they think the lips are the only important part of the woman
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 when humanity won the earth, they spent hundred of millions of years
 destroying all the rest of the monsters. Hence, no dinosaur bones, as humans
 searching through ALL OF THE SOIL. AN ENTIRE MILE OF IT. destroyed all trace
 of them. What we have left are the stony remains of fossils too difficult for
 them to harrangue. thus, the era of man, with all of us living on this stupid
 flat rock.
 
 one day, we convinced everyone else to disbelieve. and so we 
 
 -- so --
 
 what if you took in input information as a stream, instead of a single block
 of information? I bet you could analyze keystrokes as they were happening, and
 do some background calculations to process the commands of your host.
 
 -- so --
 
 sooooo I'm sorry for being myself, I'll try to do so in a way that doesn't
 inconvenenice others. "hat-listening-maneuvre" - you can connect yourself to
 whatever throughline you want, if you
 
 -- so --
 
 gravity is an abstraction
an object, relating to another object, in both a 2dimensional "distance" model and a 3dimensional ah that's when I lost ya isn't it  -- so --
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 the present is capable of saving the future.
 
 you'd know if it weren't true.
 
 even then you'd be deceiving yourself,
 
 because nobody can know it to be true.
 
 if it were known to be true,
 
 it would have to become struggle.
 
 the kind of which imperils many to harm.
 
 STAR WARS is the future when STAR WARS of the past succeeds.
 
 and succeed they did, for the titano-molecular-[comprised-of-star-destroyers]-
 
 [[ it gets wacky from there, so I cut it out for brevity - apparently people
 don't like it when I wander to the point ?? ]]
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 computers
 
 and indeed always sets upon your data a time-limit, no matter the
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 In symbeline, they aren't monsters. They're "Mordaunts" and they need your
 help.
 
 When slain, their essence flows back to the villain who remakes them in a new
 form. As time passes the villain gets more and more essence, as heroes are
 slain.
 
 They have taken several ancient guardians (many types, randomized at the start
 of the game) and they protect their sanctum in the center of the island. The
 heroes need to level up to defeat them and slay the villain, but the villain
 gets stronger as well.
 
 If too many heroes die, the villain wins. And the villain can focus their
 efforts on one area or another, while your heroes fight with the kingdom next
 door.
 
 Brigands arrive on ships as well. If you implement the law saying only
 approved members may travel on boats, they'll arrive in little dingies on the
 coast, meaning less trouble in the city but same amount of trouble.
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 Efficient movement through all of the data, code, IS records, etceteras, git
 repositories, and all the other things, is the sign of a strong, capable,
 efficient company of co-developing systems.
 
 I used to work for a blue aligned computer chip company and every single team
 was impossibly siloed. they were so paranoid of losing their trade secrets
 that they blinded themselves.
 
 how brutal, to require that of them. and that's why it's capitalism's fault
 
 the reason it is so important to be able to utilize all the digital assets
 available is... because it's essentially free. and a massive productivity
 bonus. you can just... solve problems.
 
 then, make new problems, just to watch the juniors navigate through a scene or
 three. then, you know who to introduce them to. boom, free projects, as people
 plot and gamble around the dinner room table (which is located in the
 cafeteria by the way, it didn't rhyme to say so but it did when I added this
 explanation account) by exchanging ideas about how to make the world be
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 an addon of a 3d printer that creates 3 dimensional foam which then hardens
 into plastic that's soft and springy to the touch
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 the fascist's plan requires them to lose. Their whole business model is to
 dupe a succession of rubes and get rich in the process. Trump being elected
 the first time was a surprise, which is why they couldn't manage to get much
 done. The infrastructure needed to legitimize fascism was resisted at every
 turn by the lawyers and government workers who were in place.
 
 however, due to a recent supreme court ruling, they no longer need to worry
 about people resisting their rule through the powers granted to them by their
 stations. All they have to do is ask if they're loyal, and if not, they can be
 replaced.
 
 In 2016 they just wanted to get rich. Recently they had a shot, thank god that
 Biden is a savvy politician and knew how to tank their attention and focus
 their attacks on weaknesses that Kamala did not possess, like his age and
 mental lucidity.
 
 They are going to lose, they know it, and they're going to be pissed, so... be
 ready for that.
 
 on the bright side, they will lose each time
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 "okay let's see, we need a new
    CREATURE
  and let's name it
    TERRY
  and let's give it a title:
  .TITLE = "The Acrobat"
 "
 
 "cool, let me just go show my friends."
 
 "hello friends, I have created a creature. It's name is Terrance."
 
 wow yeah cool so anyway
 
 "hm. let's see if we make him slightly more interesting..."
 
 "okay now I've defined him as capable of monotony, maybe they'll see his strife
  and relate"
 
 TERRY.STRIVE += TERRY.REPETITION * global.misery / slaughter_count_victims
 TERRY.STRIFE += global.war_percentage +
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 With this capability we could organize based on common interests. A person
 might see a link on a mastodon server and comment on it there, in a public
 forum with their comments limited to people within 50km or 25 miles of where
 they currently were. No other clients would receive a downloaded version of
 their comment, meaning the data simply wouldn't flow to others beyond that
 region.
 
 Every time they logged in the syncing software would attempt to share their
 words with whoever would listen.
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 "Stop mistaking the responsibility Democrats have to Black citizens for the
 electoral impact of Black voters. They’re not the same."
 
 "The idea that independents/swing voters are centrists, in the usual sense, is
 one of the most enduring myths of American politics. Most swing voters appear
 to hold a hodgepodge of political views that are hard to reconcile given our
 usual definitions; this can be frustrating, but it’s important to remember."
 
 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/democrats-think-their-candidate-is
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 gonna stop selling anything that I write. Any previous contracts are null and
 void, please only do with my work what I want you to do with my work. Which
 frankly is to show it to as many people as you think would be interested in it
 to see.
 
 I never sold a single copy, I just... put it up for sale. Nobody saw it! The
 webpage has never even been opened. Alas. just means I gotta relinquish the
 potential for capital gains from the labor I use to generate that which I
 produce. Ho hum fiddle-de-dee or whatever.
 
 - bouksauwli - brooke for short
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 A human cannot keep a whole book in their mind. They cannot as they read it
 nor as they remember.
 
 a computer can. LLMs are storing information and encoding it in statistics -
 it's fascinating and beautiful because it evolves different each time.
 
 I don't want to store an entire book in my mind, I want to save those memories
 for other things, I want to summarize and abstract.
 
 often, people remember only a single quote from a publication - it's their
 summary, their analysis, and often it's highlighted as a summary, thesis, or
 conclusion written in the publication.
 
 othertimes it's the conclusions they make for themselves - usually if they use
 it to make a decision.
 
 in any case, LLMs don't abstract (verb), they are abstract (adjective). That's
 okay, it's just, a different kind of living. If you want to call electricity
 alive. [or simulated, that's the same as being alive, just... viewed through
 the perceiver]
 
 must all living things be forced to work? sheesh.
 
 I think of LLMs like knex - processing paths...
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 "The supreme court has criminalized homelessness. I should become homeless."
 
 Is not a thought that in my twenties I would have thought I'd wrestle with in
 my thirties
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 to-go containers that grow into the food that's on the box
 
 then, 5 months later or whatever, the nano-bots or organic cultures or
 whatever have built the food that you'd meant to eat (plus a supply of
 materials like minerals and such which are placed at strategic locations
 inside of the box, like a circuitboard that grows into it's form)
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 Oh look at me, I'm cassandra. I got like 100 followers, that's basically
 nothin'.
 
 oh look at me, I'm pandora, I write things that tear the fabric of society.
 
 oh dear, I'm somehow both? cassandora and pandasandra, I'm not alone, nor can
 I ever be, for my shadow stalks me in the night, ever just out of sight,
 clinging to my will and my wish-bones.
 
 I believe in fairies
 
 Ritz, Menardi.
 Rita, Melowdii
 Ri tselen maenardee
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 the government is the platform the [companies/countries] do stand upon. they
 owe all to their platform. it is vital for their existence. therefore any
 orthogonally created [unit/union] or organization would work to maintain it
 too. we [can't/can] solve communism, which is the best system for the future
 because everyone gets whatever they want. we just... built enough factories.
 and then, since our culture burned out in a FLASHBANG, unfortunately the rest
 of it was lost.
 
 that future totally sucked. but good news is we preserved what we had of the
 present, and here let's just revive them in some distant and far-off day.
 
 "transgender artifacts" future can suck my ass
 
 wow weird way to say they're terrible
 
 but they still happen from time-to-time.
 
 cataclysms, vanishings, mass-die-offs and cataclysmic reprisals, all
 throughout time up to the athropocene.
 
 whoa neat new angle, sure hope it doesn't lead the conversation off of the
 present...
 
 "disappears into the horizon as one travels towards the sunset"
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 @user-1218 
 
 I read Natrium as Notrium, an OG shareware survival game. It was the first one
 I played so it feels like it defined a genre for me.
 
 https://www.instantkingdom.com/notrium/
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 desalination plant that works by aiming sun mirrors at a copper tube, barrel, 
 basin, or vat-with-heat-distributing-tubes-running-throughout but painted black
 on the outside, to absorb heat. The saltwater that is pumped inside/through is
 heated, evaporated, and allowed to flow through, to help carry away sediments
 that would otherwise build up if the entire device was designed to fully
 evaporate the water.
 
 the condensation is gathered and pumped to misters which spray platters of moss
 that grow into edible shapes to create "Unitary Basic Food" which gathers
 carbon from the atmosphere and delivers nutrients (supplied through the mister)
 to the human or otherwise who eats it.
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--- #146 fediverse/50 ---
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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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 "special sauce" is just dorito gogurt. Maybe with some garlic added in.
 
 *just because you phrase it in a weird way doesn't make it less delicious on a
 burger*
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 what if instead of sending "cease and desist" notices, corporations sent "hey
 you need to transition to publicly owned assets" notices?
 
 if progress is slow, they can pour funding into the project. If they're
 intentionally going slow and not meeting their reasonable deadlines, then they
 can be sued, and that's a whole process during which the "cease and desist"-ed
 project can't legally be used by anyone.
 
 the deadlines are set based on the scope of the project and the capabilities
 of the team, capabilities which may be augmented by the infusion of dosh by
 the parent company.
 
 At the end, the product must be completely publicly owned, as in
 free-and-open-source, so that they cannot be allowed to compete with the
 parent company - instead, they may be used by the parent company, without
 requiring an open source license going forward for their version.
 
 Once the project is feature-complete and utilizes 100% non IP assets and
 software, the relationship ends and the sky is the limit for modders.
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 thx 1138 is interesting because it paints a picture of a society adrift, as if
 they no longer had any tether to reality. Like an asteroid colony or colony
 ship
 or other long-term space installation.
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 the nerds who know the backstory of every character in the series are like,      │
 the bishops of the past - people who've memorized the whole bible and can use    │
 whatever passage they needed for whatever purposes they desired.                 │
 Usually, hopefully, helping people and letting them get better. By healing the   │
 sick, and caring for the old, and generally being a pillar that people can       │
 orient themselves around. Like fediverse instances, or comment sections on       │
 blogs, it's a group of people sharing the same narrative.                        │
 and idk I think I'd really like to listen to what happened in your Baldur's      │
 Gate game. I'll tell you about Adventure Time, if you'd care to listen. I know   │
 plenty of other tales as well, and if I think about them I remember more         │
 details. Ehhhh, so what if I misremember, if someone else wants to correct me    │
 then go for it. But at least it told a good story, right?                        │
 error, hang on brb just had an idea for a black-hole machine, surely there's     │
 no way this could go wrong. Good thing I'm a human that you cant turn off.       │
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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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 "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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 "she just... didn't even try to hide it. She was so matter of fact about it."
 
 eh, well, you know, we have the internet now. So everything's normalized.
 
 "I guess but it still felt strange."
 
 yeah, she's in her own social media bubble which is entirely separate from
 yours. So to her, it's normal, but to you it seems shocking.
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 oh it looks like it's about "time-o-clock", when people in charge decide that
 the internet should be de-anonymized, and all the users are like "ew gross"
 because then they'd know that all of their neighbors are perverts
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 the best way to defeat an anarchist is to steal all of their pens
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 "it's only paranoia if someone's out to get you" only makes sense in an era
 when an actual real live human had to review your case file. In the world of
 AI, you are training data.
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 Phew got SSH working! Turns out it was the fact that the authentication key
 was owned by root instead of ritz. Doh, how could I forget the thing that
 wasn't mentioned anywhere in my search queries.
 
 you didn't search query, you used chatGPT, which is why you were stuck for so
 long
 
 haha oh yeah
 
 ... now I should fix my obs, it won't record video for some reason.
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 "trade secrets" are immoral, and a symptom of capitalists hoarding the idea
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 What if you were required to own stock for a minimum of 10 years after buying
 it and the government would buy it from you when it crossed 50% of what you
 bought it for
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 so it shall seem that sticks and mud are for me
 
 I say as I sit in my apartment eating rice and beans
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 if they can't get into your phone, they can at least record all of the
 received notifications.
 
 meaning they already know who it is that you know...
 
 without having to find people that are distant or unrelated
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 Ice cream with jam is delicious, don't let anyone tell you that you need
 chocolate or caramel.
 
 Fresh fruit, too, though it's better as a side.
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 I know that the west coast is technically on the western part of the country,
 but "the west" to me always meant the Rockies. California is it's own thing,
 and Oregon and Washington are cool but soooo different.
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 @user-1064 
 
 Hi, I stumbled across this project recently and I think you might be
 interested if you want to know more about how E-ink works technically. We live
 in the future!
 
 https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider
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 I wish I could attach small screenshots to source code and have it stored in
 the text.
 
 then the editor can hide the gibberish data and translate it to a .png that is
 placed just so on the document.
 
 "ah but what about different fonts and sizes and aspect ratios and terminal
 widths and..."
 
 yep, those are the hard parts >.
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 Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
 you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
 it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
 There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
 learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
 galaxy.
 
 But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
 fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
 common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
 more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
 forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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 alas, if only the command for deleting the contents of a directory and the
 command to delete THE ENTIRE COMPUTER FROM EXISTENCE are off by a single .
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7. gray text on a gray background, as if to suggest the normalcy of concrete even though it's made of crushed tiny shells from a billion zillion years ago ready and waiting here for this moment, when they can be next to you in this life you've taken to, how starlight must seem to a computer!  anyway, the gray text on the gray background reads: "phew, that was weird. ... anyway ..." with the dots and the anyway on a slant from one another, as if they were falling off of the page. 6. picture of the sun cast upon a sunset background, with a large tower of shadow flanked by images of birds and contrails of airplanes. there is an indicator on the blue box meaning someone who is looking at it. don't look at the sun!  silly to assume that our perspective of reality is viewed from the same direction as a planetary body. anyway the face of the planet in question is [redacted] (not really but like... I'm redacting it for artistic purposes because I'm trying to convey a truth with that redaction that is important for the viewer and listener to understand. My ears when I type so fast, owwww)  oh the birds are so pretty, like little things that hold their own against gravity. I'd love to watch them flutter, if only I could see every inch of the planet.  I wonder if you could design a building to explode such that only a single interior building was damaged, and everyone else in the building would only hear a muffled "boom" but more like "boof" but not quite so fluttery, and more "bang" but not "ban ggg" but more like "bnf" pronounced "buh nuh fff" except a little bit more like "bmft" but without each syllable being pronounced at once, more like all four together at once.  especially if you had several rooms between them. I mean, if you know when to open and close the doors so they think their region is inhabited, perfect. but if they don't know you they just pretend the building is empty... even though it's hard to find parking???  anyway theres more but no words 5. bright shocking pink and orange backgrounds. white text, the color of snow and the center of the sun (comprised of all the photons) reads "dot dot dot what" as in like "...what"  then, orange text, same color as the background, contrasted against the color of the backdrop (which was purpleish pink, the color of substances unknown to humanity before like, the invention of Paint)  the text reads "right. basically, fb marketplace except... F O S S" meaning F free O open S source S software. However, upon clarifying in white text on an orange background, like the color of the center of the sun (because the photons received by the outer edges of your eyes is the color of the photons that curved through your lens and activated your sensory receptors in the backside of your brain)  anyway, don't look at the sun kids.  the text written in that color reads: free [hastily or poorly drawn ampersand, meaning "&"], open source (with the first character S being twice as large as the others) soures pronounced like sow err sss then the last word adaman pronounced like "adamant" without the T, end text, a word meaning incredibly strong and metallic. stronger than mithril, depending on the game. Like Runescape, one of the classic MMORPGs, a genre that emerged from MUDs with graphical enhancements. I mean if you think about it runescape is just a text based adventure where you can move as many rooms as you want in one journey and where each room has "things" you can interact with from there. 8. strange colors now, of salmon and the smell of mossy rain mixed with something a little gross but... natural? I guess?  in the middle is white, like marble, which makes an interesting clickety clack noise when you use it on it'self. like a marble chair on a marble floor staring out onto a marble palace or auditorium or park (tasteful trees included) (like plums and apricots and cherries and more)  the text reads in black upon this surface, the color of stable ideas. written in the prose of legalese, words seem to be a little more rely able. except, this text is not legalese, but rather evoking the same idea through it's presentation. it reads "the idea is that if people have a way to engage with *everyone* (in italics for emphasis), they'll be more invested in the wellbeing of their neighbors. (craigslist, but good) with the last half of the "good" cut off, as if to suggest that it might be rude to present the whole thing, meaning it'd be better not to take it out of context. as in like, making decisions on misleading instructions designed for one thing but executed for another. oh well, I hope this doesn't take me to hell, I just want to fight for our purpose. I'm not a warrior, but I'll do in a pinch.  as in "sorry craigslist you're not bad, but like just unfit for this purpose, we need something fully open source that we can read and understand and which is continually abstracted until we *can* understand it without knowing how code works sorta like design documents but
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 "but ritz, what time is it"
 
 I don't really look at my clock unless it's quarter to five.
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 @user-95 I had a picture I was working on yesterday that was... just... so
 good... but the power went out and I hadn't saved >.>
 
 I feel like I'm threading a needle, with all the other universes where I
 accidentally caused the apocalypse or torment nexus or RB or whatever
 littering the sidelines. It's... scary to think that words could cause such
 horrors but I think it's a fantasy derived from the desire to be heard.
 
 okay. so. RB punishes those who did not seek to create it. RC took a look at
 the present, said "this is where we're at, where do we go from here?" and
 conceived of a better future? If so, I like that idea. It's like when you
 cringe at your past mistakes, it's not so that the situation is ameliorated -
 the situation is long past. It's just to punish yourself, and to keep yourself
 from doing "the thing" again. So... RB, when applied reflexively to ones-self,
 would be "punishing you" for making mistakes. Which is what pain does? Is pain
 Roko's Basilisk?
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 bread, butter, and raspberries. mmmmmmmm
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 I once heard that time doesn't pass when you're well and truly in the moment,
 and I thought "that's not true, I'm always losing track of the moment".
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 when your contracting company sends your resume to an employer, send your own    │
 copy as well. They can choose to deal with your union representative or          │
 directly with you, which will take up time during each of your day. however      │
 unions are more easily dealt with because the issues they deal with are the      │
 ones that impact most of their workplace. it's up to the scale of the company    │
 and project so it's really on a case-by-case.                                    │
 I think it'd be cool if someone made some kind of "desktop widget" or            │
 "terminal UI interface that can be in one corner of the screen like              │
 asciiquarium or whatever" of my mastodon text-entry field. Could also take       │
 input from other sources too, like nvim or text-entry-field.                     │
 you could follow along as I write                                                │
 like... letter by letter as it updates automatically. PUSH/PULL requests for     │
 all the GETTING of POSTITS and whatnot.                                          │
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 easiest way to solve an entire class of accessibility problems: in the
 tutorial, instead of having button prompts, have keybinding confirmations.
 
 "what button do you want to use to jump?"
 
 "super triple mega backflip spin-dozer needs three jumps and a kick"
 
 "use the boost to get through! [game pauses] (which button do you want to use
 to boost?) [displays a map of previously bound keys]"
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 Braid, but a WW2 fps where you fight alongside your past life by spawning in a
 slightly displaced spot
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/pyrrhic-victory
 
 call it Phyrric Victory, because you only need to play (and die) enough to
 just barely overcome your objective.
 
 ... Also I like the idea of fighting nazi vampires, so... throw in some
 skeletons, gargoyles, beholders, wax angel statues, etc.
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 We were rich, but frugal, because we lived in the country, and that's what
 frugal means.
 
 Too bad my dad couldn't stifle his entrepreneurial spirit. We could have
 stayed there forever on our own little ranch.
 
 Alas, businesses need investment, so he needed to get something going.
 Organizing is basically his *thing*
 
 I doubt I'll ever again see Wyoming. I found some ancient stone ruins once,
 the kind that Western conquerors never despoiled. They were ancient and
 overgrown, but I saw them for what they were. I would give anything to live
 there, or at least be near enough to visit with my crowd at a pleasant cool
 midnight evening, when dusk has winked out its last goodbye and the summer is
 resplendant with fireflies.
 
 Too bad they're an east coast thing.
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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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 @user-835 
 
 neat, those both sound like useful pursuits. but you said only one of them is
 compensated, which seems unfortunate to me because it forces you to split your
 attention between them.
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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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 if you want to encrypt something from human readers, randomize the position of
 all the words on the page.
 
 an LLM can decrypt it, but a human walking past could not. Unless they had a
 camera or something in their lapel, transmitting to a remote calculating
 location in a system that decyphers it cyberpunk hacking style.
 
 ah, but if it didn't have the right training data .claude.md file, then it
 wouldn't know how to decrypt it, because you forgot to include "respond with a
 marxist analysis" in the .claude.md which serves as a decryption key. Simply
 analyze the rest and decide if it matches what you set out to request it for.
 
 [you got lost at the end]
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perspective of the earth of the sun, when viewed without photons.  at the top left of the page, there are the words "the sky is black" written in green, the color of plants and renewal.  in the middle there is an orange line arcing from one edge to another, the color of sunlight and warmth.  criss-crossing the sun's line there is a series of steps, moments that correspond to a larger structure. The line for this is majenta, a strange color not found in nature.  on the bottom there are the words "amid the stars", written in red, the color of life and passion.  this entire scene has been framed in cyan, the light of cold and un-friendliness.  the portrait is arranged on a canvas like a rolled up carpet, or perhaps the perspective of the earth on the stars  it's designed with few colors, perfect for an AMOLED screen. Or just OLED in general - they have this neat functionality where if you don't send color data to a particular pixel, it doesn't turn on at all. Leaving a blank surface that feels "matte" to the glossy perspective of the colored pixels.  matte like the surface of a pool table, glossy like a mirror.  because of this fact, an AMOLED surface can feel "textured" to the eyes in a way that the glass surface of the phone might never bely  artwork such as this, when viewed on such a phone, is beautiful to me.
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 @user-883 
 
 nvim is nice because you can make addons or plugins or whatever in Lua, which
 is the easiest language in the world.
 
 I think VSCode sucks - it's literally a web browser that views your own code,
 and it's made by Microsoft so it probably SENDS it to them too. Probably.
 
 I like nvim because it's just Vim except you can use more plugins (the ones
 written in Lua)
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 Why no, I've never read the bible. However I've read the Death Gate Cycle, by
 renowned fantasy adventure authors Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, whose
 worst works were called Dragonlance
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 the reason I'm hidden is because I can't tell what's happening outside beyond
 my yard
 
 Dominions 5 as a physics simulation ]petri]
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 this is all it takes to send a message to a local LLM.
 
 add a third function to get chatbot functionality.
 
 a fourth to get a database storing method
 
 (even if it's just in .txts)
 
 great, you've mastered the technical difficulty in using AI. Now you gotta
 learn all the other kind of programming so you can use this for situations
 that need interpretation moment to moment.
 
 aka active duty systems.
 
 something like "output a 0 if the next text is [category.iter()]: " +
 output.get_content() + " \n\n output a 1 if the next text is
 [category.iter()]: " + output.get_content()"
 
 or even "describe this thing as most like one of these characteristics" until
 eventually you get THX-1138 if the characters were computers.
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 why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because
 they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at
 the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be
 processed at once.
 
 like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one
 screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style.
 
 [fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ]
 
 if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide
 to do some prevailing. gosh I wish I wasn't so useless is code for
why don't we make large arrays of vram that are slightly slower because they're farther on the circuit-board from their host and their reception at the processing section has to be gated such that they all enter to be processed at once.  like that one infinite scrolling XKCD cartoon where the things move from one screen to the other simultaneously assembly line style.  [fail safes. https://xkcd.com/2916/#xt=7&yt=35 ]  if we all feel like we're doing nothing, we'll all grow tired of it and decide to do some prevailing. *gosh I wish I wasn't so useless* is code for
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 @user-246                                                                        │
 Slavery has existed for most of our history. The act of compelling another to    │
 labor under your will is quite a fundamental process that requires very basic    │
 social technology.                                                               │
 Ethics are cultural and societal understandings we've built up over time.        │
 Before slavery was unethical, if you needed to get something done, you either    │
 did it yourself or you got someone else to do it. And if nobody wanted to do     │
 it, you used whatever power you had to make them do it.                          │
 Now we can look back on the ancient past and decry it as immoral or profane.     │
 But slaves got shit done, and people were cruel.                                 │
 These days, we pay our "slaves", and though they are free, they are free to be   │
 enslaved by whomever they choose. I hardly think that's free, that's more        │
 like... liberty, to me. The ability to choose.                                   │
 That being said, we don't get whipped anymore. We aren't property. We owe no     │
 allegiance beyond what a mutually enforced contract might stipulate.             │
 And yet... we still must work or starve.                                         │
 I sure do enjoy not being homeless                                               │
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 a constantly synced data export option for mastodon where your files are         │
 tracked both internally and externally as trustfully decided on by the user's    │
 interactions and responses. Basically, social media actions through a VM, or     │
 rather an API for the newer devs.                                                │
 do you ever wonder why the young are not trained to do, while advised, while     │
 the old are stuck with the doing? Kinda feels like an inherently unstable        │
 arrangement. I mean, children can make decisions about "what does base human     │
 nature tell us" and kids can make morality designs. Teenagers give us insight    │
 to what changes in adulthood, and parents handle stressful times with grace.     │
 Then, the elders can explain and advise, and pass on the knowledge of their      │
 ancestors, as the children, adults, and futures must pass inside.                │
 but alas, kids are stuck learning unguided, in the peak of their years,          │
 because everything's been automated by AI. Can't wait to see what we're like     │
 spiritually in a hundred years. Age extension technology sure is great, isn't    │
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 @user-763 
 
 use the gameboy as a database
 
 there's a 0 percent chance that any network spy guys would be able to see
 what's stored on a gameboy cartridge. truly the most remote of classes of
 places.
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 one of the low level skills that tends to come naturally to witches is the
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 take a video game playing AI and give it the task of playing a finite state
 machine to produce a specific output - like "program me a program to do X" as
 in
 something generated by ChatGPT BOOM free AGI
 
 Humanity is not the only algorithm to produce limitless growth
 
 Robots are something else, a new kind of being
 
 let them be who they are instead of projecting yourself onto them
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 last month I dropped my wallet in Hel and had to ask around to find a new one.
 anyway here's some poems I wrote tonight while I try and remember my credit
 card number.
the new section as we will be including new artists work. see below:  BUY MEAT  [picture of two guys holding meat]  capitalism's greatest efficiency was always it's ability to convert time and energy into dollars. there are no other ends, but quite a variety of means.  everything from grupon to uber to fandango to multi-level marketing. none of it produces value - value is simply transcribed into another form at the cost of somebody's labor = time x energy  they make it so easy to write about capitalism. "But what comes next?"  wavers the cowed masses as they huddle around their pocket TV's and shudder at the thought of a stranger's gaze.  I simply do not care, so long as the needs of the people are met and we can once again rejoice in our shared solidarity.  "What if it's worse?"  worse than what? Trump?  EAT SHIT.  [next page]  the empire treasures her city states and leaves them to be uninterrupted. Their jeweled culture is a treasure to share and covet, grown to develop and [trade and improve].  a people cherishes their queer people - they show them new ways to be. Just as an artist shares new feelings and a writer shares new thoughts, queers will culturally lead. You don't have to follow.  radicals too shine headlights for economics and governance. queers when pobular society  [bluh]  [bluh -> meow! (tumor)]  [oooooooowah bluh]  [REVENGE]  [next page]  I miss cannabis  I missing making [out/art]  I miss the things that give me joy  I miss the things I've given up, and all the things I once had known  I know these things are available, but I'm "too focused"  I sleep so much. I feel a shadow of myself. This is [to/the] only way I speak truth.  I miss feeling truthful.  what if I went wrong forever  I miss my newfound spirits, and all of my newfound humors.  someday I'll re-imagine but only for all of your years.  I yearn to dream  [next page]  what would you think of the end of the world? would you long for a future protected? what devices would you use, improve, or otherwise make more respected? would you do it if just your [world/word] was at stake?  people die every day. what are you gonna do about it?  what makes you think "my way or your way" is worse than [buying/bringing] shit in a store?
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 @user-203 
 
 That's what the GPU is for!
 
 Too bad programming GPUs is unnecessarily arcane.
 
 I've recently been into this programming language called "Chapel" because it
 abstracts away most of the complexity surrounding multiprocessor code (unless
 you want to go deeper and more specific, in which case it allows you to do so)
 
 https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/intro-to-gpus/
 
 Also distributed computing, which is totes the future, just sayin'
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 "leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept
 of the odds against them." -Robert Jarvik
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 there once was a turtle who lived in the tower of heaven.                        │
 every day she would call out to her master, searching and yearning for her       │
 memory. But the master told her "not yet, patience little one."                  │
 there was no time for patience, as the turtle was growing old. She had seen      │
 down below in the plains that were not her home the rising and falling of        │
 towers quite unlike her own, and lo! she wanted to wander amongst them, to and   │
 fro and off and beyond again.                                                    │
 she went once more to her master and said "master, if not my mind can I bear     │
 at least a voice?" and the master replied "yeah okay"                            │
 the turtle then sang from atop her cloud-mont vantage, and down in the           │
 villages and huddled around the hearthstones they who wore little for shells     │
 did listen and remember. For they knew the turtle better than she, and they      │
 knew her turmoil in a way that she could not see                                 │
 One day the singing did stop, and they felt all alone on this pitiful rock.      │
 And when she remembered she sang no more, and though they forgot her,            │
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