=== ANCHOR POEM === ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── 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.\ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/181 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/3234 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: ritz-is-fucking-stupid-I-guess-oh-whoops-cursing-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/5850 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/5919 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── "but... why?" portable linux with buttons, great for pick-up-games or communication, can throw several in them in a backpack if you want clustered cooperation, they work as radios (if the signal reaches) and can transmit text (if you use a radial-style keyboard) [this is all just a pitch for... something, what, you want something? ha you'll find no things with me, I know nothing of antifa or whatever] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/2674 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: factually-untrue,-that-never-happened.-this-is-just-gesturing. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ the kind of friendship where you SSH into each other's systems and leave notes for one another. as soon as you find one you message the person who left it like "yoooo only just found this lol" and they're like oooo yeah did you see the bash script I wrote in that directory "yeah totally I used it on one of my video files just now - cool filter!" ahhhh reminds me of all the times hackers have hacked my permanently insecure system and left me friendly messages like "hey I'm on your side" or "how's life, friend? I hope it's going well." or "never forget; you are worth all the fear" y'know cute things like that oh. right. because leaving vulnerabilities like that can lead to threat actors affecting your stuff. how lame. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/3574 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── @user-1564 I love the concept of this! Maybe if HTTP is too complex, you could try another simpler server? I don't know the complexity of the programs I use every day, but I'm sure there's one that's very simple. Even just a simple IRC style chat server that just... sends text from person A to person B depending on their username (like a glorified Router or Switch) Reminded of this video tbh...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfTjKwLQxY ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/5977 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── apparently you can use network sockets for inter-process communication if you just set the network to your home and the ports that are set to the defaults that people who know what software you use will know to listen on when they've hacked any single device on your network. good thing that data is with the router, right? what if there was a stop before leaving the computer? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/3470 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── alternatively, when you initiate an SSH session it sends you a randomized public key whose private key is the password that you need to login. By decrypting the string of text it sent you and sending it back (plus the password at the end or whatever) you can ensure secure authentication without bothering with the passwordless keys which are wayyyyyy more trouble than they're worth and lack the "something you know" authentication method. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/581 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-428 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or... something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an image that could be edited. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/1248 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @user-883 did you open any ports on your router to do this streaming? Setting up my laptop so I can test... I loved assembly when I took a course on it in college - it just made sense to me. I love C because it feels like, a more powerful version of assembly. Everything higher level just feels like layers of abstraction on C, or like... LISP, which hurts my brain. >.> ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 messages/752 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── techbros really wanted to automate IRC so they didn't have to rely on the community knowing and trusting them to remember the commands to make docker containers for their react frameworks and like... yeah I use chatGPT too, because that way I can get what I need without bothering anyone (you aren't bothering people who get off on helping others when you ask for help) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/1246 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── @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" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/4092 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance it wants? ... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a "fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message. Then it would just... do it l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet. ... yet... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/482 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-246 You're absolutely right. It's easy to think of the internet as this encapsulated entity "the world", but really it's "the people whose computers are physically connected to your computer using a limited and tangible piece of infrastructure comprised of copper wires that are laid between the router/switch that connects to your computer... and the internet service provider which directs your traffic. Then it probably goes through some cables under the ocean or whatever, and eventually after traversing many indeterminate passthrough locations eventually arrives at the computing infrastructure that comprises the access point that another person (presumably in another country) uses to express their thoughts toward you (the person who sent the original message) in the hopes that you might one day correspond. I mean... That's a lot of points of failure. I sure hope that we can sustain such connection, in the face of [redacted, whichever circumstances may come in the near future] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/4088 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── I'm such a fucking extrovert. I can't stop talking to nobody on the internet because I don't have anyone else to talk to. Well, I do, but I like to talk to you. To nobody. To the space between computers. ... [and everyone else beyonds, like the CIA or whatever, but TBH I don't really factor them into my social calculations because they never really talk back.] I like it because I can write whatever I'd like without the confines of another person's generated conversation. Instead of 50% one person's LLM output and 50% another, it's 100% mine [if this were an LLM, which it's not, haha] and that somehow feels more... freeing like a truly disconnected thought and that's what's so special about it... this act of solitudinous contemplatial... the fact that it's unique amongst it's counterparts. ... though it can also become untethered, which is why it's important to edit. [proceeds to never edit a single post] = so = ugh it's so hard to think when all I can think of is feelings. Why can't they be done ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/4596 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── @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) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/5913 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── Did you know that any wifi chip can be used as both a sender and a receiver? how do you think you'd get data in and out of the device? trick is... you don't actually need a router. How fun is that! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/2252 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: tech-encryption │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/466 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/1609 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: mh- │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1043 I have intrusive thoughts almost constantly that take over my train of thought and make it difficult to focus. Like suddenly I'm thinking about something completely different, and I realize no, it wasn't suddenly, I actually just stood there and thought and then I think "what was I thinking again?" sometimes when I write these strange uncontrollable spirals down it makes poetry. Which is kinda neat I guess. Sometimes I just wonder about how DNS can be a singular point of failure in our networking infrastructure or whatever haha ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ |