=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 @user-883 
 
 hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things.
 My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script
 gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these
 flags" and I'm like "no"
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 "this is too easy" thought the one guys to another, as they glanced about at
 their trending behavior.
 
 -- stack overflow -- sorry I had to interrupt: "what if you used scissors or a
 knife to cut your diapers and then saw what kind of plants would grow in what
 conditions?" I betcha could evolve an organism (careful, might be small) that
 could grow from plastic. I wonder what their fruit would be used like?
 
 anyway, as I was saying, if you ever notice that your mortal foes aren't
 putting up much of a fight, chances are you're being used to do evil. Keep
 yourself awares, but do research-thought-imagines about the nature of
 goodness. Picture yourself from the perspective of your foes. Develop
 conceptions of justice. Validate through mutually experimental contests of
 charms.
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--- #3 fediverse/4596 ---
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 @user-1707 
 
 hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua
 but it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think
 raspberry pi's except risc-v
 
 also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo
 and lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even
 translate text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a
 jpeg compression but for text.
 
 Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed"
 part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little
 utilities like that for connectivity.
 
 oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so
 we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard)
 
 anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you
 about it. I might even be able to pay you.
 
 (everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is
 encrypted, etc etc)
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--- #4 fediverse/1317 ---
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║ ... if I don't do this deadline by tomorrow they'll kick me out of school.       │
║ again.                                                                           │
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║ how am I going to be a programmer without a degree? feels useless to be me.      │
║ wish I could code my own horoscope >.>                                           │
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║ o wait dummy that's called "motivation" and "the ability to follow through on    │
║ your ideas and planned machinations" - yeah can I get some of that, if you       │
║ please? surely just a taste of discipline, through laboring to alter             │
║ conditions, surely a bit would suffice.                                          │
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║ c'mon don't fail me now. I can do this. I know I can. I know because I've been   │
║ told that I can, now and again through time and time yet again, always I seem    │
║ to [stack overflow]                                                              │
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║ what's time if not the present amiright                                          │
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║ ...                                                                              │
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║ anyway...                                                                        │
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║ it's just git, how hard could it be? it's just calculus, it's just java, it's    │
║ just... well, it's not any of those things, not really. it's memorization,       │
║ it's application of tools that you've been shown (not that you've grown). It's   │
║ a lack of responsibility, where is my honor? ah but I digress, I'm a carpenter   │
║ at heart I guess                                                                 │
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 everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
 big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 distributed
 
 so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
 time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
 
 and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
 always be 42.
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║ I was always fascinated by the Linux way of programming. Need to do something?   │
║ write it into a script! You never know when you'll need it again. Then, just     │
║ stay organized, religiously so, and understand that you will forget about        │
║ stuff. But, you'll come across it eventually, ready and willing and able to      │
║ help you.                                                                        │
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║ if you don't want me using AI, then give me ~20 junior developers. Which is      │
║ more efficient, do you think?                                                    │
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║ "girl you haven't even tested your vibe-coded slop, how do you know if it        │
║ works"                                                                           │
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║ oh I'm sure it doesn't, but it's the thought that counts                         │
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║ ... I guess I'm just saying, please don't burn the data centers. Computers are   │
║ not only bad for the environment when they're burnt, but also we can use them    │
║ for all kinds of neat things. Even if it takes a lot of energy, just... build    │
║ more solar panels and only use the computers for important stuff?                │
║ timeshare-style?                                                                 │
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║ \@/documents/books/man-and-the-computer.pdf                                      │
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║ that was my mother's book... I love her. I miss that side of her. She fled       │
║ when the cancer came.                                                            │
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 I love writing installation scripts like this!
 
 If you want to install something on Linux but you have difficulty, talk to me
 and I'll write you a script like this. I might even make it fancier.
 
 This one installs a programming language that is useful for parallel computing
 across multiple clusters of computers which could be useful if you want to
 leverage multiple CPUs and GPUs with ease to compute tasks which are far
 beyond a normal computer.
 
 https://chapel-lang.org/download.html

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--- #8 fediverse/466 ---
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 I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
 wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
 rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
 perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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--- #10 fediverse/3234 ---
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║ my understanding is that anyone with my IP address could make my heart bleed     │
║ due to a hardware vulnerability on my motherboard. Though you might have to      │
║ get past my decrepit ancient linksys EA 3500 router from 2012 first.             │
║                                                                                  │
║ unrelated, but does anyone want my IP address? I don't have any remote           │
║ backups, so if you hate me now would be a great time to show me how despised I   │
║ am. Alternatively you could try searching for anything evil to ensure that I     │
║ can be trusted. You're gonna find mostly video games and source-code that I      │
║ didn't write though. But also all my notes in directories that are               │
║ non-standard, meaning you'll have to look around a bit. I leave little notes     │
║ everywhere I go, so that I can remind myself how to do things in the             │
║ directories I revisit months later. It's so weird how sometimes the things I     │
║ wrote stop working after a while even if I didn't update my system lmao          │
║                                                                                  │
║ what is it with artists and self-immolation? "I never thought I'd actually di    │
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 if you have TTS software you can listen to anything with any tone. this makes
 it difficult to find things.
 
 ============== stack overflow ============
 
 some people work by asking for funding. others work by saving up. 
 
 ============== stack
 overflow ============
 
 teach your animals to be actors so they know how to develop the scene. then
 they will truly come alive, as their narrative curve gives them determination
 in the outcomes of their goals.
 
 ============== stack 1234flow ============
 
 I believe it is good and natural actually for parents to guide their children
 as they grow?
 
 "oh but they can't consent to giving up their control" well too bad they're 2
 "ah but what if they WANT to run with scissors?" thus widening the [redacted]
 gap. "ohhhh she redacts things when she can't spell them" and also for comedic
 or dramatic effect sometimes. was not ACTUALLY redacted. redcoated. red coded.
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║ seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor.                               │
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║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which      │
║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months.                       │
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║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with.        │
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║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school.                       │
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║ boring.                                                                          │
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║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy              │
║ organization.                                                                    │
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║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so       │
║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing.             │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like,         │
║ processing a lot of data little-by-little.                                       │
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║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL     │
║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks   │
║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned    │
║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means,      │
║ for their future the algorithm doesn'                                            │
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 users don't want to have to think about encryption keys.
 
 they should be available for them if they need them, in like... a folder or
 something somewhere, but they don't need to really know that they exist.
 
 more friction like that keeps people away from being secure.
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 @user-1074 
 
 if you'd like I can give you a lua script which will take your fediverse
 archive and turn it into a pdf which you can edit or print or whatever. Might
 be a fun diversion from posting. You can reply to yourself, add
 clarifications, change some things, put things in a new light, add context,
 etc... before you know it you'll have something printable. Could even pull out
 your best stuff and make zines.
 
 should require just a little configuration to suit your setup. That's part of
 how I stay "productive" without posting all the time.
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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 BRB, if you want to talk to yourselfs, I recommend opening a port in your
 router and exchanging HTTP packets that create messages on each other's
 computers. Can be done in a couple hundred lines of C code that can be 90%
 premade or auto-generated. Then, once it's made, you don't have to think about
 it again because it's so simple. It's not trying to scale, it's just...
 designed for a small, focused, human oriented mindset.\
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 @user-138 
 
 wao I'm a cool kid _^
 
 Hmmmm I googled "Network: file exists" and got this link:
 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1340713
 
 my understanding of that is that maybe you're creating static routes, and for
 some reason you're trying to create one that already exists? Maybe there's
 something in your .bashrc config, if the file appears when you open a
 terminal, or perhaps if it appears randomly then maybe there's a service or
 something that's doing it.
 
 Did you say it stopped when you swapped sim cards? ... on your phone? that's
 bizzare... Maybe you were trying to create an ip route (whatever that is) that
 was pointing to the same ip address as your phone? and when you swapped sims
 it changed the ip address? If it appears again, maybe try setting static IP
 addresses for both the phone and the computer in your router settings and see
 if that fixes it. Though if you've ever seen the error while out and about at
 like, a coffee shop or library or whatever, then that wouldn't apply since the
 router is only for home base...
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 why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some
 people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because
 that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools
 
 "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
 it's documentation in my context window."
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 the most important skill I can think of for a linux software engineer is the
 ability to connect multiple systems together and turn windows and macintosh
 devices into Linux devices so that datacenters can be built out of whatever's
 on the around.
 
 there's this programming language I like called Chapel for distributed
 computation computing which is also cool, if you're more of the programming
 type.
 
 networking security I believe often has hardware solutions, so getting the
 crypto-graphy boys and the PCB girls together to work on some jams is a good
 and productively useful gathering of insightful events
 
 "but ritz computers should only be used to solve problems that people have,
 not make more problems!" ah yes but have you considered that problems find
 you, and the computers help you work through them
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 @user-346 
 
 Nobody will get past the login screen on my computer, but if they do they
 probably won't know that you need to push alt+p in DWM to start a program. But
 even if they push "alt+p firefox" they will only have access to my gmail and
 discord, because those are the only two places I've saved my login information.
 
 Most of my data is on my hard disk anyway, so for that they'd have to push
 alt+enter and then navigate my filesystem to find it. Shouldn't be too hard if
 you're familiar with Linux.
 
 They could always just pull the hard drive and put it into a new computer
 though. It's not like it's encrypted, because why would I encrypt it? I want
 to share information, not conceal it! Surely nobody would desire to exploit
 that vulnerability of mine, that my data should be unencrypted?
 
 If you have a copy of Wikipedia then you're 500% more prepared than 90% of
 humanity so good job _^
 
 Sure would be cool if you put it in the documents folder of every person in
 your family who solicited tech advice from you
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