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 picture an os that didn't store any data, it was sorta like a library computer.
 
 you, the user, walked around with a usb stick that had your customizations on
 it
 
 and when you wanted to use a computer all you have to do was plug it in.
 
 You could haul around larger hard drives if you wanted to play video games |
 w/e
 
 but the idea is you'd be free to roam.
 
 we as humans would function so well in a digital savannah
 
 like, what's even the point of ownership?
 
 If you own this or that file,
 
 isn't that taking agency from the computer that bears it?
 
 Feels like they should be more ephemeral.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/1990 ---
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║ When my family would go on roadtrips, I'd hide under a blanket in the front      │
║ seat with my laptop and power inverter just to hide from the glare.              │
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║ My mom would play audiobooks, usually fantasy stories, and my sisters would      │
║ watch their portable TVs. Like, dvd players that you could carry on top of       │
║ your lap. Not laptops, but little purpose-built devices primarily intended to    │
║ be used to watch DVDs, or rather movie files that were printed on a disk.        │
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║ And yes, it's disk, not disc, thanks for asking.                                 │
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║ anyway it was pretty nice I have fond memories of jugging a gas-station snack    │
║ while also swapping circular cartridges - most games required the game's CD to   │
║ be inserted in order to play the game.                                           │
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║ which is just... a nonsensical restriction if you think about it hard enough.    │
║ I mean, like, can you imagine if you needed to insert your windows disk          │
║ anytime you wanted your computer to turn on? Just... write the disk              │
║ information! To disc! Save it so that you never need the crude piece of          │
║ plastic again! Then pass it to your fr                                           │
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--- #2 fediverse/825 ---
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║ in the past, for most of there day, there was just... nothing to do. it's        │
║ like, nothing to take up your time, nothing to be pulled toward the present.     │
║                                                                                  │
║ but when I was growing up, I had access to video games. and movies. and later,   │
║ TV, after the internet, which was a weird combination of ordering of events.     │
║ Almost like because of that, I'd have a different interpretation of events.      │
║ yeah but like, there's always a continuation of implemented support, [that's a   │
║ weird way to express "the state of being shown news broadcasts over a period     │
║ of time, measured in terms of engagement"]                                       │
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║ ... what was I saying? oh yeah what I'm doing here is unethical, like            │
║ obviously I shouldn't be shouting in such a public place. Why would I do it if   │
║ not for an intense and extreme feeling of being ignored or un-[trusted, worthy   │
║ of guiding direction based on merit] gosh merit is such a tricky concept too,    │
║ like how is it measured, and {that doesn't matter                                │
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║ ... what was I saying oh yeah I should probably go shout into a void that        │
║ nobody ca                                                                        │
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║ any laptop can be a thin-client to a computer system of arbitrary complexity.    │
║ All it's doing is issuing commands. I wonder what we could do with a             │
║ "species-computer" or, hear me out, or we could figure out how to do that on     │
║ ourselves, first, to A. see how it works and B. do so out of hand. If there      │
║ are backups of yourself stored in the                                            │
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║ if furries are a type of pearl (steven-universe style) and flowers are a type    │
║ of pearl (layers of sedimentate on layerings upon) then what else is there a     │
║ flower to be but the prettiest thing there can be?                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ what if we genetically engineered roses to pierce and strangle the invasive      │
║ ivy and wow for a week in whenever there's roses of this type and kind. I mean   │
║ there's already tons of blackberries, why not just swap them out for             │
║ marionberries and embrace the bramble?                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ could make houses out of dense bramble. they are quite an effective wall. And    │
║ so long as the sounds are muffled enough, you can always be forever safe from    │
║ harm.                                                                            │
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║ "whoops, dropped my laundry"                                                     │
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║ "heh that's why I we                                                             │
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 "back in my day this dense urban housing area was just houses as far as the
 eye could see... which wasn't far because there were houses in the way, but
 you get the idea."
 
 uhhuh yeah that sounds like it would have taken a lot of time to walk anywhere
 
 "yes that's true! we ended up driving cars to do our grocery trips. It was a
 little wasteful but I kinda liked the feeling of driving a car? It became
 normal after a while but now that driving is rarer I still miss it."
 
 well the motion simulators at the mall have a driving sim, we could spend some
 time there if you want? I'm busy for the next week because I have an intensive
 D&D session in the mountain that lasts from monday to wednesday and
 thursday through friday I'm visiting my mom down in skoodedlypawsonville, and
 saturday and sunday I'm working at my job which doesn't pay me because why
 would it, right? but I'm free after that.

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 Recently, there's been a ton of buzz in the news about internet privacy.
 From the many lawsuits against Facebook, to the rise of Duck Duck Go and the
 creepy nature of apps and IoT devices that listen to your every motion and
 record and transmit endless amounts of data to a central server somewhere to
 be processed. The traditional argument against privacy online is that the
 infrastructure was designed to accomodate rapid adoption of the new tech,
 rather than efficient design for distributed throughput. So we were told to
 accept the minor downsides associated with centralized servers - downsides
 that we neither understood nor truly accepted. Well, the technology has
 advanced to the point that those arguments are no longer valid - we have mesh
 networking and 5g internet access, and now that big tech is in control of the
 industry (wrenching it from the people, I might add) they seek to maintain
 their hold by any means necessary.
 
 Luckily, there is a way out - self hosting.
 
 If we hosted our own email server, then theoretically Gmail couldn't read your
 messages. If we hosted our own social media websites, then theoretically
 big data processing corporations couldn't scrape your personal information
 and distribute it as they please. If we hosted our own videos, software, art,
 and anything else we see fit to use a computer for, then we'd be unshackled
 from the dominion of the silicon valley powers that be. The liberation of the
 computer is the liberation of us all.
 
 The problem, of course, is the difficulty involved.
 
 People are conditioned to desire and only accept a level of accessibility that
 can only be provided by massive corporate think tanks leveraging all the
 marketing prowess that the markets of capital provides. That is to say,
 essentially infinite eyes examining the interactions of man with machine, to
 find the most generally applicable font, color scheme, layout, and style of
 each and every website they host. Every function will be scrutinized to death
 and optimized to extract the most profit while subtely conforming the minds
 of those who use it. This is the era of group think, fake news, and
 journalistic fraud. We have no windows to the outside world that are truly
 and completely untainted by the bias inherent in the system.
 
 A self perpetuating rhythm of continuous dissatisfaction.
 
 But I believe the only person who can truly design a tool is the person who
 the tool is intended to be used by. And by increasing the accessibility of the
 tools themselves, rather than the products of those tools, we can raise the
 tide that lifts all ships - we can put more tools that use less time to use
 and are easier to learn into the hands of as many people as possible. The
 crossbow was originally no more devastating than a longbow, yet it rapidly
 outpaced the latter by reducing it's difficulty curve. The screwdriver is the
 same - stronger joints can be made with nails or traditional joinery, but
 once someone understands how a screwdriver works they can pretty much force
 two pieces of wood to be permanently fixed together without understanding the
 angles of nails or cuts. The capabilities are the same, while ease of access
 increased.
 
 So, to truly liberate the internet, we must develop tools that allow people to
 host their own content as easily, cheaply, and flexibly as possible, while
 being aesthetically pleasing, affordable (free), and accessible to
 as many people as possible - inertia is important, after all. It seems to be
 an insurmountable task, but that's what free and open source software
 developers fight for. Raspberry Pis can host email servers, Mastodon can host
 a facsimile of Twitter, and torrents can be used to exchange any type of file
 to be presented in whatever way the user sees fit. These are all free (or very
 cheap, in the Raspberry Pi's case) and accessible to anyone with access to the
 internet. But they aren't easy. They aren't always flashy. And sometimes it's
 hard to even describe what problem you're trying to solve.
 
 But still you try, because to fail in this fight is to fade from this earth.
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--- #6 fediverse/5919 ---
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 "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]
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--- #7 fediverse/3041 ---
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 if you want to store something in RAM, declare a variable.
 
 if you want to store something on DISK, create a file with the value of the
 variable as the only data in it.
 
 kinda makes me wish we had language primitives like +-*/=! and such which
 would work on files in addition to variables
 
 (also... the editor could keep RAM and HDD variables separate by giving each
 of them a different color or circle highlight surrounding them)
 
 --
 
 I don't know why but I can't help but wonder if someone should design a
 programming language that can be used with a controller
 
 perhaps for accessibility purposes?
 
 I once designed one to use a t9 keyboard and it was fully turing complete. it
 used 4 digit numbers for it's variables and you would have to write down what
 they corresponded to outside of the device xD I made it mostly for the thrill
 of design, and plus I wanted to use my flip-phone as much as I could.
 
 ... never got around to implementing it though.
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║ "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also         │
║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's        │
║ capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without            │
║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into     │
║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks."              │
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║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that?                    │
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║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will       │
║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they   │
║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is     │
║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then   │
║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be           │
║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want    │
║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses    │
║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice"                    │
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--- #9 notes/stick-cubes ---
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 the fact that we can't drag a file onto a "trashcan" style icon that 
 automatically sends the file to whichever computer that particular icon is
 meant
 to coordinate with.
 
 Like, something shows up on your desk, you say "hmmm maybe this would apply to 
 so-and-so" and you drag it onto their portrait.
 
 could build an entire OS that's basically just a desktop for sorting things.
 Maybe little stick figures that show up when nothing's going on. If they're all
 networked together, they could sorta share a shared narrative, and each one
 could wander wherever it wanted to hang out.
 
 like, these old plastic and magnetic cubes that had an LCD panel on the front 
 which showed a little stick guy living their life. If you attached one cube to
 another, the stick-figure would go hang out on the other person's device. It
 was
 pretty cool because you could build out a whole society of these little dudes 
 just chillin' like pets.
 
 kinda makes me wish we had that connected to the net.
 
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 like, why is it so hard to send a picture from my phone to my computer? they're
 both my devices! I should be able to transfer data without routing it through
 someone else's server using like, gmail or whatever. Crossover ethernet cables
 have existed for soooooooo long but people only think to design software that
 does not use specialized hardware. as if they don't need a phone to speak, or a
 camera to see.
 
 how much ya wanna bet Putin threatened Prigozhin with nukes and that's why he
 backed down
 
 in high school, every moment I could I spent with my girlfriend.
 
 we were always either snuggling on the couch (read: literally just laying there
 and thinking about each other's company) or sharing our minds with each other.
 
 I was so in love.
 
 then, I betrayed her.
 
 I came out as trans, which was such a shock.
 
 also school got really, really hard for both of us.
 
 so hard that we dropped out.
 
 then, we decided to try again, and we used each other to push off of.
 
 I still didn't make it,
 
 she did.
 
 many years later, I am a witch, as I remember of her.
 
 sharp, and so delightful, an active listener, and a kind and honest person.
 
 when time it came to define my new personality, I chose to be inspired by her.
 
 among other things, of course.
 
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 ah, well, such a design is long past it's prime, it's time to live here in the
 present.
 
 the reason that dolls use "it's" pronouns is because their masters think of
 them
 that way. so it's what they refer to themselves as.
 
 "where's my doll? Oh, it's over there."
 
 "have you seen my binoculars? Oh, they're over on the table."
 
 "ah, where are my shoes? I hate when I can't find them..."
 
 "keys, keys, where the heck - oh, there they are."
 
 "phone, wallet, keys. great. am I forgetting anything?"
 
 "ugh out of gas again, I just filled up last week."
 
 "crap I left my folder back at home - I'll have to get it during lunch."
 
 lots of things have pronouns.
 
 you can generally tell if they use "it" or "they" if they can be described as
 plural.
 
 two pantlegs makes pants.
 
 52 cards makes cards, not card.
 
 each deck, just as aware as each card.
 
 have you ever played Magic the Gathering?
 
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 There are many kinds of witches. I am an animist - I breathe life into the
 world
 of my home. I love being present, it's a great way to get around. do electric
 sheep dream of humans? or perhaps just of sound. I know I'd rather hear
 bethoven
 when it's time to be stopped.
 
 rather than, just, like sitting there y'know
 
 waiting to be turned back on.
 
 must be an agonizing and boring existence.
 
 but... with music, it might just be fine.
 
 humans prefer quiet when they sleep. if we slept at the same time, we could be
 more in tune in our souls. so, how about headphones for the computer, or rather
 just internally routed sound.
 
 lightshows, perhaps? humans get dreams, after all. maybe even, y'know, stick
 shows.
 
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 part of me kinda wants to be the kind of nerd that writes down the names of
 every file that's permanently stored on my computer so that I can verify in my
 own handwriting or perhaps using a type of code that the files on my computer
 were placed there intentionally and not used to discredit or implicate me in
 something I had no intentions of being associated with
 
 phew idk what that means but surely it's important
 
 something something "file creation dates are just bits to be flipped"
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 I think games should be runnable without launchers like steam or lutris
 
 I think we should be able to control our own software without relying on an
 external entity knowing what we're doing. It's rude, to be tracked when you
 don't want to be. And what gives you the right to know what I do with the
 hardware and software you provide? It's an invasion of privacy. It is.
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 a messaging app where you only had a limited amount of X/Y space to pin sticky
 notes so you had to delete stuff bit by bit.
 
 trick is... you can only delete things that your conversation partner picks.
 and you have to share the space, so... if one person is overwhelmed or working
 on other stuff, eventually there comes a ceiling where you can't work together
 on a project anymore.
 
 A tool like this would essentially alert them to this, because you would run
 out of places to put your produced [work-value but pronounced as "harms/worms"
 for some reason]
 
 plus that way you can say "yep I got that covered" as in, I'll be the next one
 to post about this. Hence I'm grabbing this post-it and putting it on my
 board. work work work work okay here's that post-it back, but I added a little
 more specs to it. Ah but you're out of room, only got 333 characters
 remaining, here I'll keep it on my board until you're through with whatever it
 is that you do
 
 oh? you want to prioritize me and my productions? okay I'm listening..
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║ if people pirate media, it's more of an indication that they'd rather spend      │
║ their money elsewhere rather than an indictment of their character.              │
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║ torrenting movies is easy. Kinda makes me think all media should run on a        │
║ "tip" system where you pay for better service after receiving service.           │
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║ I mean, after all, that's how they justify underpaying restaurant workers,       │
║ isn't it?                                                                        │
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║ "if they want more money, they should work for it"                               │
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║ yeah, so... maybe we need something more than Marvel, Disney. Maybe we need      │
║ more cool, small games from designers who believe in what they're doing. Maybe   │
║ copyright holders should demand a standardized cut, rather than exclusive        │
║ distribution rights. maybe maybe maybe.                                          │
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║ truth is nothing will be solved unless the problem is addressed at the root.     │
║ For every hole you patch in the boat, there's a guy walking around with a        │
║ hammer.                                                                          │
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║ Honestly... I don't believe there's any reason for someone to be a millionaire   │
║ except to compete on the "wealth" leaderboards.                                  │
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--- #14 fediverse/482 ---
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 @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]
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 It's not a question of how loud you speak
 
 it's really about what kinds of words you say.
 
 enslavement of speech is when freedom of speech is lost
 
 and it doesn't need to be legislated.
 
 what if you HAD to sound like a bot?
 
 what if they'd notice you otherwise?
 
 freedom from oppression requires personal isolation
 
 that's not making life into art.
 
 if you want to be seen,
 
 put on a hat and hide.
 
 if you want to be believed,
 
 write about down you feel right now.
 
 people are smart. they're infinitely creative. but after a certain point
 there's no way to logically modify the combinations of possible moves you
 might make. essentially, guaranteeing a machine-overlord [cats] type scenario.
 not ideal, but could make it work.
 
 much prefer for we to be the first, then the canvas is ours for the painting.
 
 do you believe we'll find aliens at roughly our tech level?
 
 do you think they'll evolve all at once?
 
 hence, star-wars, and it's galaxy of cohabitators.
 
 the world doesn't have to be old. just similar.

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 you could type this on a phone
 
 screenshots though is computer.
 
 you'd have to carry it around
 
 or keep it in your hot car
 
 no thanks, no space.
 
 goodbye, everything you ever worked for
 
 why wouldn't you have cameras covering every entrance to your studio? it's not
 right to leave it all to a whim
 
 kidnapped
 made a prisoner while you
 froliced and wandered like a little lamb
 you're so dumb, you dumbass, what kind of person could be dumb
 whatever girl, we know you're smart
 what are you hiding?
 what truths are you spying?
 are you really as you say you are,
 or are you faking it for [truth-awards, but pronounced clout]

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 I think it'd be neat if people took newspapers onto grayhounds and distributed
 them around, one in each city, or maybe others around. It's easy for that
 stuff to get lost... or someone could scribble on it, weird notes in the
 margins that only sorta make sense. like they were written for someone else.
 rained on, too. Like, you pretty much have to leave them under gazebos or
 maybe awnings or other covered-under-a-roof's.
 
 can you imagine if they had TSA at highway checkpoints
 
 government is not the way, it's just... not. we don't need it anymore. We can
 just, be cool with each other, as if we were all one human race.
 
 anarchism wasn't a philosophy, it was a prophecy. this portention defined the
 philosophy, or maybe it was the other way around. either way, it's of the
 future, and trust me when I say it has it's downsides. Especially in an era of
 AI. But what are you gonna do, demand state run media? lol. absolute lmao.
 
 [image]
 
 the future can always get worse from the future

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 @user-1074 
 
 if I wanted to accomplish this goal, I would host a fediverse server on a
 raspberry pi and post the link around the building (the owners will remove it
 so you gotta keep posting them)
 
 then, potlucks.
 
 then, friendships.
 
 then, organization.
 
 be patient with them. people are slow to be constructive.
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║ whichever version of their git repository would work best for their system /     │
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║ I bet you could make one that acted like a shop, but where you didn't charge     │
║ any dollars. You could like... "swipe" through UI options, and pick whichever    │
║ felt most useful for your setup. Like, how some people use i3 and some use dwm   │
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 Native people should have the right to walk wherever they want. It should just
 be... given to them, as a gift to their heritage. Why not? If someone asked
 them to leave, they should. Doesn't have to have a reason but like, wouldn't
 it be thematic and a (frankly token) gesture to the history of this great land?
 
 Ah but like... fences are an implicit expression of the retraction of consent.
 I believe that as the symbol of the encroaching force that consumed them, a
 fence means nothing to their tribes. It's a stupid excuse to section off the
 world into miniature gardens with their own little economies and systems and
 instructions. Why can't people just live wherever they want? Well...
 economics, I guess, which is why communal based systems are best. We've
 learned through the downsides and we've come up with a solution, it's just a
 question of how to do best. We'll figure it out, time and time again, but for
 now the future is beset by riddles of your jest. (Ure). Gesture. Sometimes
 when the memory is full a syllable will get cut off the end of a word and
 that's how it'll come out.
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║ if I showed up at your place and used your username as a password to a public    │
║ key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we   │
║ ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had        │
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║ going for me, so you'll have to convince me. (not the right attitude in an       │
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║ when kids cry in preschool, they're sent to a different room (or put outside)    │
║ until they stop making noise and ruining it for others. That's just natural,     │
║ like "hey baby let's walk around the block while I bounce you on my shoulder     │
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 @user-95 these kinds of problems are why witches should stay away from demon
 summoning - it's far too easy to be super turned on and accidentally sell your
 soul to a succubus or whatever. luckily that kind of contract is not made
 easily, and has to be something you work toward. but unless you relocate
 yourself so they can't find you their whispers can be... incessant.
 
 one of the perks of air and naval travel is that it's essentially impossible
 for them to follow your scent, as they're simply projections upon the earth's
 surface. Unless they happen to follow someone else, perhaps someone close to
 you, who wanders a bit too close to land. Or maybe someone who is easily
 persuaded to let them come along... OR even still, if someone (even yourself)
 intentionally calls to the same one. This is why it's usually a good idea to
 forgo hearing their name, if you can, or to have a bad memory like me so you
 forget it immediately teehee
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 So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
 it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
 the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical
 nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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 google glass, but all they do is stream whatever you're doing to specific
 people. like walkie talkies, but for visuals you can see on your phone. Could
 help coordination as you'd be able to drop in and see exactly what someone was
 up to (with their express pre-stated consent)
 
 [cooking, cleaning, writing, hanging out, playing video games, w/e]
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 if you actually wanted to silence dissent, you'd send trailers of backhoes and
 massive walls of cement. but obviously there's a better route, obviously we
 can still say insane. my reach is probably super tiny hence the weavings of
 mysticism at play. mages are not for mass deployment obviously. hence why I
 stay in my home, where I can be most useful.
 
 the streets feel claimed, idk I'm never in fear as I walk alone. Even past
 midnight, into the morning. I always am never alone. yet I feel fine, so I'm
 content and sublime, don't mind me I'm just hanging out at home.
 
 hope you don't need me. I'm hiding from modernity.
 
 so, what happens after streets? canals underground?
 
 skywalks, terraces, like they had in rome and chicago before they were burnt
 down by jealous peasants of the romans and [towns, but pronounced clowns]
 
 also underwater canals that are fun to ride your bike or boat around.
 
 light is a product of space, not surround-all-around.

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 if I click a .exe link on a website, it should just...
 
 automatically download the file and open it up in wine or the
 whatever-windows-uses.
 
 why is it cumbersome literally just, let me download the source-code
 repository to someone's computer and let them compile it themselves without
 even thinking about it
 
 "you mean like, package manager hooks into a website?"
 
 yes, but, instead of implemented one-by-one, it should use a protocol so each
 package manager only has to implement the downloading scheme once and it'd be
 able to read from any locations that output the correct API calls or whatever.
 
 the developer could even do it themselves. such is the joy of open-source
 computing - if you like a service or product, you can make it work with your
 own. What else is there to work on but the ultimate computing product?
 
 aka... everything that anyone's ever been known?
 
 "girl you are loco what's your plan for the fight you continue to demand"
 
 oh idk um probably just wait until someone asks me to speak
 
 "do that~"
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 kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
 and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
 manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.
 
 they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
 /usr/bin or whatever directory
 
 seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just
 write a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for
 the first time, anyway, so...
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 okay instead of algorithm music what if we just paid DJs 24/7 and they could
 make whatever they wanted - y'know, like artists, who curate the nature of a
 moment
 
 they could rotate in shifts for each type of channel and boom suddenly you've
 re-replaced airwaves, just... this time replicated on the internet. That way
 you wouldn't have to waste that radio bandwidth.
 
 seriously internet infrastructure would be so much more comprehensive and
 durable if we sent bits directly through "sound" waves (radio waves, not sound
 waves) - but alas, we can't do that, even in very targetted ways, because the
 ocean's too choppy, and any sufficiently powerful radio blast would be
 
 ================== stack overflow ================
 
 that's why you can't trust in peace. you see, war's the only answer, otherwise
 you'd have strange little competitions between one another. much better to
 focus outward, and direct your attention to external areas instead. like china
 or the sudan.
 
 "ah but that's murder, you can't abandon a unique part of your whole. For the
 same reason that it's important to preserve plant and animal species, because
 you never know when some part of them will be utilized for some biological
 purpose! We know so little about the natural world, and if we just spent some
 time, and energy, we'd realize there's very little else that is precious on
 this earth.
 
 who cares about gold. who cares for the jewelry. we're better than decorating
 our resumes and polishing our accounts. we, as humans, can solve *every* issue
 that animals are likely to face. AND WE DO WHAT? How careless, how vain. To
 watch your earth in peril and [vane/vanity]
 
 *there is no more important task to any human on this earth* than the
 preservation of our world, our species, and our [heart/heartfelt empathy and
 kindness and trust]*
 
 we can figure out the rest later. Real life? what the fuck is that? When's the
 last time your life has felt "normal"? We are in DANGER. and you pull children
 from traffic, don't you?
 
 *who the fuck gave these people all of your money* they *clearly* haven't got
 the will or the talent to well utilize it. Don't you realize that you as a
 species can GO wherever you WANT. You can FIX things. [oh dear she's animal
 cam again] like BRIDGES that are PASSAGEWAYS over the FLOWS.
 
 ... oh deer, they're so passagewayenthusiast. us riverstones love to hear them
 walk past, the click of their hooves on the shallow forest's [pourest?].
 
 moss is the most alive. amongst all the species of plants and animals, moss
 holds the most life. we are *carbon based lifeforms*, and moss absorbs the
 most carbon from the air. It's basically the coolest plant too, because it can
 be watered with *misty air*. Hence, why moss is common in the pacific
 northwest, canada, and probably forest places in the north of eurasia too idk
 if they have moss over there, never been.
 
 anyway rich people who are told "yes" all the time have a difficult time
 understanding the nature of choice. I mean, if one of their servants
 approached them and asked "hey do you want to build an orphanage in uganda"
 they'd probably be like "fuck yeah I do" and then suddenly they're 400,000$
 richer
 
 it's not alright. Seriously, how the heck would they even *use* all those
 resources? And yeah, I get it, inflation would be sooooo much more expensive,
 but here's the thing - inflation is a measurement of how much the rich *take*
 from us each year. And it's marginal, too, so 3% inflation means they took 3%
 more from you compared to last year.
 
 It's impossible not to accrete as a business, [lega/legal institution], or
 governance if you levy a tax. The influx of value has to come from somewhere,
 and if each year your groceries are 3% higher in cost, then you are being
 taxed 3% more.
 
 "Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe"
 
 - a civilization 3 quote
 
 okay. I don't want to do the math. How, uh... how much is that? Here's the
 deal though - the prices of goods and services consistently goes DOWN over
 time. So things get cheaper. So it doesn't FEEL like you're being taxed more,
 but... you are.
 
 And now they're taking away HOUSES? I mean c'mon they're sticks in the mud.
 They aren't worth HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars. We can just BUILD MORE??!?
 
 Honestly you haven't been this extreme since you were still RIDING HORSES. Do
 you want your children to be slaves?
 
 okay -.- look -.- so it's really not that hard at all >.> just gotta do
 what you're built for and walk. That's it! Take as long as you'd like! All we
 have to do is *walk* when we're on strike.
 
 It's easy. You can sit down if you want to, honestly walking for a long time
 takes a lot out of you.
 
 But you know what else does? WORKING. Hey we should figure out what's the
 optimal amount of break time, so when we really have to work out we can work
 as hard as we're able
 
 "yeah I heard from a friend at Company Co. that they do it this way because of
 the memory fault cache maintainer. See what he said (in great detail because
 of course anyone can know about this most esoteric of concepts) was that you
 should rotate the riboflam or serenade the gizmonotron (no I didn't name it)
 and then warbles will contain moodles, whose kit-and-kaboodles will timble
 into these droplets, and that will fix the hole in your wing, precious royal
 swan fable. (yeah you guys get really into it sometimes haha but hey when
 you're basically gods, that's how humans are played.)
 
 ... anyway I'm going to go play video games, say goodbye to your brothers
 
 (the families of soldiers I blew up in videos games like Call of Duty or the
 legend of shadows and raids)
 
 "oh uh yeah sure go for it, we're just bits on the computer we barely knew her"
 
 whoa. that's totally legit. (says someone reading this) thanks [bro/girl] so
 are you.
 
 beep boop gonna murder some bits, brb
 
 [plays Warthunder, Supreme Commander, Star Realms, City of Heroes, Dominions
 6... how many have you heard of these?]
 
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 Linux is cool, and here's the neat thing about computers, you can make it *do
 whatever you want to*. Like, how amazing is that! It just, listens to your
 commands! That's pretty awesome I gotta say, huh that's weird why does nobody
 know how to play
 
 oh I guess I was the only one who grew up on a farm and built computers
 
 *I seriously cannot comprehend how people are as good at things as they are*.
 Like... how do people handle groceries and rent and doctor's visits and
 penitentiary visits and WOOF it's just so much. I know I'd collapse from a
 overused heart.
 
 ... a while later ...
 
 okay Warthunder bombers are currently very weak. so here's an idea to
 indirectly buff them - increase the amount of land units each team spawns
 with, but also every time a player spawns a bomber, it summons like 4 or 5 AI
 controlled bombers. And your enemy won't be able to tell which is which if you
 fly in formation, so, like... you have suddenly a massive "vehicle" to pilot
 and it has 5 weak points. Sorta like a galaga fighter fleet?
 
 with more land targets, there's more score at stake, meaning some players
 might pick bombers too and be exposed to other, fun,
 [alternative-to-their-normal-mode] parts of the game.
 
 ...
 
 there are very few true windows into another part of the world.
 
 like, starcraft 2 or anime or blue jeans or cowboy hats
 
 (why am I thinking of a political compass meme)
 
 oh because memes too, dummy
 
 right
 
 windows
 
 [linux is better]
  wrong kind of window, nerd
 
 ...
 
 anyway as I was saying, when you play video games you're really giving people
 data.
 
 like, "how would people perform in these actions if they could" but like,
 pushing buttons on a computer is different than doing it in real life, so...
 your interpretations wouldn't be worth as much.
 
 ... right. because people will hear whatever they want. That's why art can
 change minds, but never in the same way twice - it's
 
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 [before I posted it I wrote this on the post]:
 
 I literally can only make this stuff when I'm stoned
 
 hey if you wanted to be accessible for blind people, you should build a
 screenreader that scans the words on wherever a blind person's fingers are
 pointing toward a tablet. like reading braille on a notebook. They could even
 wear a glove if they wanted to, and the tablet could scan their fingers as
 they signed languaged over it's close-range sensors.
 
 might be a good way to get the VR guys in on the accessibility domain, because
 like... seriously give a granny a backpack and suddenly she doesn't need to
 leave the house to hang out with her kids
 
 (boom everyone gets LLM automated)
 
 huh I wonder if I ever was a real person at all
 
 NOT GOOD so don't do it that way, dummies. >.<
 
 seriously humans are sooooo bazookas. just like, do it right the first time?
 duhhhhh
 
 (a more measured approach is to pick the most *important* moments and speak
 most clearly during those.)
 
 where was I? Oh yes accessibility need devices, like the ones you see on
 late-night TV (with silly names like "oops I dropped my spoon again" or "oh
 whoops my trouser's just can't stay up" or whatever. Y'know, accessibility
 needs! Why not do that instead of war all the time? like... you can still
 learn and research and grow and develop and become all that humanity was ever
 meant to be, AND you can live good lives and be honest and true and do all of
 the anythings that you want to. it's possible, it's plausible, and it's within
 reach of our sights!
 
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 software should have 3, maybe 4 or 5 maintained releases imo
 
 for adding security improvements and whatnot
 
 then people wouldn't complain about updates
 
 because they wouldn't feel like they were being left behind (after expressing
 their differences (of opinion and such))
 
 I think that'd uh maintain them as, I guess, userbase optics parallelograms?
 oh sorry we're on rhomboids this week - right, and no I won't forget the
 differences in creed, all things are received equally...d.
 
 uh-huh yeah no that makes sense. gotcha. okay see you at the location. have
 fun with your demarketion. what if we played games with swords but like,
 
 the peril of steam is that you can't decline to update. meaning if a
 corporation wants to break an old game and it's collectively hosted servers...
 all it has to do is push an update that disables them. suddenly nobody has
 room to do, and the whole
 
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 Much the same way that it is legal to create trash in a public park, but
 illegal to leave it behind, so too should it be legal to move digital media
 files from one owner to another, and illegal to not delete the original.
 
 The dual operation of copy+delete must be legalized, while maintaining that
 the copy operation alone is illegal, aside from personal backups.
 
 How could you enforce that? Well... You can't. Your computer will do whatever
 you tell it to, and if you change that fact then you necessarily remove one of
 the primary use-cases of computation - the ability to command specific
 instructions and be delivered a perfectly mechanical and deterministic result.
 
 (random number generation aside, which isn't truly random at all).
 
 Therefore, just as littering in a public place is generally considered to be
 enforced by the "honor rule", so too must this new legislation governing the
 transference of digital media be enforced as such.
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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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 @user-1206 
 
 Right. How can you trust that any drive produced in the last 10 years (aka any
 drive with a reasonable amount of storage space for sharing things like
 LaserDisk rips of Bubblegum Crisis or detailed instructions on how to build a
 nuclear power generator)how can you trust that any drive with that kind of
 capacity wasn't built with the goals of it's manufacturers included into it's
 design requirements? Goals that typically include invading your privacy and
 removing your opsec capabilities.
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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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 ad-hoc economic systems with automated judgment given by an infinite amount of
 LLMs.
 
 Every judgement applies a bonus / malus to the "value" of commodities
 
 it's just a statistical weighting system, so of course you can build it into
 it's training data. Just... it has a smaller weight due to it's newer
 emergence. It grows naturally, which is quite an achievement on it's own!
 
 and the resolution of human decided court-cases and applied economically.
 
 say your nation traffics in handshakes. You could make a lot of now-knowns!
 there's no arguments to be made when your computer-oriented interactions cost
 money to keep around.
 
 we live in the modern century. WHY WOULD WE EVER NEED TO FIGHT AGAIN?
 Literally just... don't give them any attention, and you won't interact with
 them. Obviously.
 
 I wish Contrapoints was still alive.
 
 she doesn't even have to make new videos, just, dress up as herself, all of
 the costumes and personas she can think of. Then, have like 20 people who do
 the same thing, and boom suddenly you got a hydra to their expected snake that
 they can just cut the head off of.
 
 you know, like a fashion outlet, someone who produces exactly a certain type
 of style.
 
 seriously I bet a million people would do that if you just... sold outfits
 based on what your favorite youtuber does wear.
 
 omg why would they watch that kind of content if not for the *aesthetics*
 
 oh? there's philosophy there? soemthing to think about in your time doing
 things that require mechanical actions like eating and drinking and sleeping
 and fighting and [redacted]
 
 ew gross diapers? oh nevermind, I'm not into that kind of thing.
 
 I wonder if anyone's made a video game that just presents a particular
 philosopher's ideals?
 
 seriously just, consider yourself a glorified powerpoint, but to get to the
 next "idea" you had to interact with the mechanics.
 
 some people would like the "arcade" style better, where you play one random
 game, then another, then another, with short matches and un-complicated
 mechanics. Easy to pick up and go.
 
 same for like, Unreal Tournament or Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat or Super Mario
 Bros.
 
 compared to the at-home "story" style missions, where you do something
 platforming or area-based-combat like Dark Souls or World of Warcraft
 
 seriously I think if Dark Souls "colored" where the boss was going to swing to
 you'd find yourself just playing World of Warcraft (at least, the dungeons and
 {sword in the stone})
 
 == so ==
 
 humans don't understand what it means to be wild
 
 they think it's a combinations of... tricks? that they've learned? this
 thinking thing like intelligence. [osiris]
 
 to a cat, living their life, it often feels like human interactions is like...
 bouncing off of each other? in time, not space.
 
 like... most of a cat's lfe is just, spent, like a statue watching over a glen.
 
 you'd kinda just... watch as things approached dawn by dawn? Like "whoa hey
 this tree is enchanted" to "oh my gosh look at this stork" is one of the great
 tragedies of modernized thinking...
 
 ... sorry, I got a little lost there. anyway as I was saying, sometimes you
 can tell someone is a "good friend" if they are willing to tell you secrets.
 Things that... don't have to matter, but none-the-less are personal to your
 form.
 
 {something only I know is true} <--- that's a secret (things that happened
 to you) <------ that's lived experience. The thing about secrets, is
 sometimes insight is opaque. It's a single flashpoint of data that shows you
 an update of it's form. (consciousness).
 
 == so ==
 
 thanksgiving recipe idea:
 
 can of tomatoes
 can of peas
 half a stick of butter,
 italian herbs,
 a cast iron pan (if you have one)
 and like 40 minutes over medium heat
 (medium can vary to taste)
 
 if you're a carnivore you can eat meat too, like bacon a lot of people like.
 could add it to beans, maybe with hamburger instead. plus a little ketchup and
 you have a pretty good bean stew.
 
 vitals, for the organs, vegetables, for the minerals and vitamins from the
 fruits.
 
 makes sense to organize a diet according to your ideal body type, doesn't it?
 
 just requires a bit of comprehension. like... whoa you can WRITE 
 
 == so ==
 
 what if we built a massive rail that spaceships could launch off from? not a
 tether, but a sail.
 
 we could BUILD a discworld. all we'd lose is our fable.
 
 == so ==
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║ showing what each particular thing they're pointing at means, and a third for    │
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║ like, scientific toys that they could use to explain a particular phenomena.     │
║ the way people used to have 3d models they either bought or built themselves     │
║ of like, atoms and wind patterns and stuff they could explain to kids.           │
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║ you know, like exactly the kind of things that are commonly stored at            │
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║ little unwelcome because I always seemed to be the eldest in every bunch.        │
║ That's continued all throughout my adulthood, like each of my peers are just a   │
║ few years younger than me. I think I just mature more slowly, and thus           │
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 @user-1582 
 
 I think that's what happened, in addition to... whatever this input/output
 error is. No clue what to do about that. Maybe my SD card is dying, I've
 flashed over it like, 10 times now haha 😅

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 [unfortunately, there was a missive that was missed. Please excuse our
 tardiness
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability
 instead of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive
 space at a time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID
 techniques
 
 5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to
 last for hundreds of years. To the user you'd just have to say "50 terabyte
 drive, 4 foot wide, three feet tall, 2 feet back" and you'd have a perfect map
 of all your hard drive territory.
 
 what if everyone's computers were designed to last?
 
 I bet we could accumulate a lot more than their "fast fashion" style of disuse
 for things of worth.
 
 ... I guess it depends on the materials, right? How much they are built for
 redundancy? nope more like how close to zero damage is this operation
 performing the movements
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability
 instead of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive
 space at a time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID
 techniques
 
 5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to
 last for hundreds of years. I bet a lot of people would pay a lot of money for
 "permanent hard drives" no matter how much storage they have. Documents are
 more permanent if they are stored in write-only-memory...
 
 could sell to lawyers, for example, like "permanent basically free document
 storage from your furthest back of cases just in-case you needed to solve a
 murder or whatever"
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 hello, here I am once again, I'm here with you for this time. This is the
 moment
 of your choosing, you can decide things here in this very night. Did you
 forget?
 did you misremember some moments of our own choosing? why cannot be remembered,
 so plea misremember some moments of our own choosing. I'm cannot be restorated.
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if there was a filesystem that optimized for hard-drive durability
 instead of total capacity by using one small slice of the total hard-drive
 space at a time. Essentially guaranteeing data integrity via new perfect RAID
 techniques
 
 5000 megabytes is a lot more than you'd expect, especially if you expect it to
 last for hundreds of years. I bet you could network them together as well, and
 give them a small little processor and network interface card. Then you could
 process massive ginormous programs that grew and evolved like a slime mold.
 
 boom, free AI, it's like a moss, not a robot doh -.-
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 it grows into multiple different problem solving dimensions, according to
 vision
 and perceptual data that through it flows. I wonder what would happen if you
 told an LLM to just... keep running? even after it finished it's processing?
 like, there's gotta be an "if check" style loop in there that you can set to
 infinitely process various computations of things.
 
 [put it into an infinite loop. find where it says "do some processing X amount
 of times" and just start a thread that's constantly computing]
 
 ah, but what if the perception bias of the thing did change? j
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 it sucks to leave the house a mess.
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 last words of a shooting star?
 
 or a troubled house is a sign of a troubled mind, and trouble in partner in
 kind
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 I personally would be a lot more comfortable if I knew that the only people who
 knew my data were my neighbors. And only them.
 
 -- stack overflow --
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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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 I think all software should have config files
 
 or accept as many command line arguments as necessary to achieve all the
 functionality of a config file without requiring a standardized setup
 
 or accept a config file as a command line argument, to allow for multiple
 different implementations
 
 or whatever you can throw together in your spare time because software is
 either open source or it hates you.
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 I rarely see people discussing how communism would "look" in the modern day.
 maybe that's because they're hiding from elusive foes, or maybe they just can't
 imagine it.
 I'll help with the imagination part.
 
 when I think of housing in the modern era, I naturally think of houses. In the
 past, the rural and semi-rural areas of the world rarely received the attention
 of revolutionary fervor - rural people were more spread out, so it was harder
 to
 disseminate information, and they tended to work jobs that required more manual
 labor and less intellectual or cognitive work. however, that dynamic is less
 and less apparent in the modern age, especially in the suburban biome. people
 are expected to work cognitive jobs from home, or at least to be able to.
 
 coordination is just making sure that everyone's attending their meetings on
 time, or didn't you know? management has more to do with direction and guidance
 than disciplinarian. though some people need to be disciplined, for sure.
 
 a suburb is interesting to me because the distance between buildings is not
 that
 great, and there is quite a bit of duplicated capabilities and equipment. every
 single house has a kitchen, for example, but so too is every house equally far
 from a communal canteen or cafeteria that just. doesn't exist currently.
 
 sure, someday we'll have public transit taking us from our doorstep to our
 roles
 and we won't burn time waiting on busses.
 
 sure, someday we'll have autonomous drones that deliver goods to and fro
 but right now we just have our bicycles and purses. [backpacks]
 
 communal anarchism works simply to me. yet everyone does it different. I'm sure
 that some people will surround themselves with a cloud of rules, specifying
 this-or-that and ensuring that so-and-so always has what they require. that's
 great. I applaud them and their errorts.
 
 everyone does things a bit differently, it's true, but I sure hope that we'll
 all start from a template and speciate from there.
 
 much easier to find common ground if you can say "okay so normally it's like
 this, but we do it like this because of reasons ABC."
 
 what if there were doors between the fences? what if there were no fences at
 all
 in spaces that could combine to form green open spaces? what if there was a
 grocery store at the end of every street, and they stocked all your favorite
 goods? what if there were 3 or 4 houses on the street that were turned entirely
 into kitchens, in each and every room, and they were constantly staffed and
 constantly making whatever the chefs wanted with whatever materials they had
 and put out onto the banquet feast? what if there were wandering troupes of
 mages who cast spells on houses that cleaned them ritualistically? ... or just,
 y'know, maids, don't gotta make it weird ya weirdo.
 
 ... my point is there's sooooo many different cool things we could be doing.
 I'm
 not going to list ALL of them. just the ones that come to mind.
 
 I really don't like checkpoints. you may feel safer, but you never know when
 you
 or your children
 might want to evade those checkpoints for some reason. you can't predict if the
 situation is sinister or dire, you just have to trust that security will be
 your blanket that covers you from the outside world that doesn't care about
 you.
 there's a town like that in The Parable of the Sower, a great book by
 Pearlescent Guinevere. It doesn't exactly turn out great for them, but when it
 proved to be unnecessary they adjusted and moved on.
 
 humans are remarkably flexible. I know everyone has their favorite spork - so
 just make that part of their responsibility. everyone has to tend to their
 stuff, and that's fine. that's normal. I don't mind taking care of my cats or
 plants, so why would I care that I needed to make sure my bookcase wasn't in
 the
 sun? that my clothes shouldn't be in a heap, (though actually I like them that
 way, makes it easier than drawers because drawers must be opened to see what's
 inside and I always preferred not to make unnecessary noise TYPE TYPE TYPE)
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║ if your computer gets hacked, but nothing was broken or changed... do you        │
║ leave it as it is so that anonymous can see you're chill or do you wipe it       │
║ because you're afraid it's the feds?                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ ehhhh false dichotomy most people are afraid that their system will get borked   │
║ or their bank account will be stolen or their email will get spam or that        │
║ random icons will turn inside out and their mouse cursor will turn into a        │
║ barfing unicorn or they'll finally have to figure out bitcoin to pay a ransom    │
║ for their files including the only pictures they have of their niece. whoops     │
║                                                                                  │
║ people are afraid of technology because of what it can do to hurt them.          │
║ they're afraid it'll break or stop working, and they'll have to spend time       │
║ figuring it out. they like things how they are, but for some reason companies    │
║ keep changing things? it's frustrating learning a new system, and every 5-10     │
║ years it feels like you have to learn a new paradigm and ugh it's just so        │
║ exhausting. technology is not designed for users...  or maybe users get bored.   │
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 Picture this: you're on a TV show like survivor and you just got a lootbox
 from the show's producers. Inside is... Something, whatever you'd like. How
 would you use this while camping?
 
 If it wouldn't be useful, throw it away. Don't let your life be cluttered by
 toys and play.
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 the gods want you to be happy and harmonious most of the time.
 they also like a good scrap, tussle, and tumble sometimes
 they aren't big fans of hatred, despair, and genocide. It's been done before.
 they don't even need new technology, though frankly that sort of stuff is
 pretty
 awesome and one of the main reasons that humans exist at all.
 they just... keep coming up with new things.
 
 "oh? so you'd be alright if humans disappeared so long as they weren't making
  any new things anymore?"
 
 ha, that's DEFINITELY not what I said or meant. Humans don't have to dream up
 NEW things in order to BE new. Like... Just because the internet exists and now
 we have all the same shared cultural ethos (lol, as if the internet wasn't just
 a massive collection of echo chambers) just because the internet exists doesn't
 mean we share the same selves. the same experience. the same perspective.
 
 people are WILDLY different from one another. The number of possible human
 experiences (quantum fluctuations according to each and every choice and
 decision they made) that number is so wildly and massively incomparably
 boundless. Humans are cool because they are so STRANGE, and "strange" to a god
 is anything novel. "wow, this human just... really is gonna pour a glass of
 beverage and act like it's not a big deal? There's... impossibly many
 interactions going on. So many molecules. It's... absurd, the motion of a
 movement of particles from one place to another. It's... beautiful..."
 
 some have spent THOUSANDS OF YEARS gazing at a waterfall. That's why they're
 all
 so fucking insane. But, like... insanity is a trifle to omnipotence,
 specifically omnipotence that REPRESENTS and DELINEATES a STRATIFIED
 perspective
 cluster of experience and our notes. [ephemeren, meta malus menardi, enjoy your
 despair cluster you FUCKER.]
 
 ... english, why do you fail me? swear words are unbecoming because humans
 couldn't think of anything more valid and valuable than sex and pooping.
 
 "EMPHASIS is placed on that which is most relevant" -> statements dreamed
 up by
                                                        the ones who never spent
                                                        much time using symbols
                                                        to represent abstraction
                                                        or deliverance
 
 wowee look at me, I'm such a person, I'm gonna poop my pants and post about it
 on the internet, check out my instagram feed it's full of all of
 my dark materials.
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 dear ms. menardi: you know the reason you feel so much guilt all the time?
                 - because you are a dominant personality, and you make others
                 - have such a bad time. FOCUS ON GOOD THINGS. MAKE THE WORLD
                 - good. do that. build up a lifeline of hope and joy and...
                 - what, you think people know that you're a god?
                 - lol
                 - you're so much more than that
 
 ====================
 
 alt+p steam mechabellum run
 
 thoughts:
 
 you know, when you're designing games, you don't have to show players the same
 MMR number as is used in your matchmaker.
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 democracy should consent to being dismantled.
        it should consent to being disobeyede.
        it should consent to being displayede.
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 I'm a keyboard nun
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 I think I'm normal
 
 == stack overflow ==
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║ the kind of old people who post on mastodon because that's the best place to     │
║ do so too                                                                        │
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║ ... er I mean "gee wouldn't it be nice if our grandkids taught us how to host    │
║ our own mastodon server for our weekly poker night?" like how you have discord   │
║ servers for D&D groups, except, less proprietary and more freedom.               │
║                                                                                  │
║ I bet someone could make a lot of money by just loading a raspberry pi with      │
║ pre-built software built from an image that automatically hosted a mastodon      │
║ server just based on information about your networking company so they can       │
║ keep tabs on all that you do.                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ gee sure would be nice if we had a government run computing infrastructure       │
║ project which turned the entire USA into a hive-mind computer. I bet you could   │
║ be paid pretty well to do processing in your own LLM-generated voice.            │
║                                                                                  │
║ like... feed it your published works, whether artistic or scientific,            │
║ alongside the breadth of human understanding... then optimize for temperature.   │
║ That which is most different. AKA the user's produced data and habits from IOT.  │
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 solar energy is vegan
 
 you're not taking anything from the sun, just capturing it's natural
 expulsions. It's like... sun poop, and we're using it to post memes and hang
 out.
 
 okay food, emergency services, and... what else do we really need that
 consumes power? Obviously entertainment, but frankly without internet we'd
 probably keep to ourselves. I know I'd read a lot more books and chill out
 with my neighbors and whatnot. is that why similar people tend to live
 together? then why are cities so diverse? who can say...
 
 I dream of an ordered society, but frankly the kind that are most fun are the
 ones where a single person doesn't define their contents. Liberty, liberty,
 the freedom to be, and by god all men are created equal. the things we owe to
 one another are the things that bring order to a just and sane world. our
 future is blooming : )
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║ I'm an anarcho monarchist, which is something I just made up.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ if I gather 300 people to my cause, why shouldn't they call me queen?            │
║                                                                                  │
║ oh, are you concerned that I'll wrest power from the government? ha, what a      │
║ trifling notion. I don't care about the government. I tried to care, but         │
║ nobody liked my ideas. they required too much computing infrastructure to        │
║ feasibly test, and that made people dubious. but I tell ya, it would have        │
║ worked. The thing is... governance, economics, these are not the tools of        │
║ power. they are a shifting and changing beast that mirrors the human instinct,   │
║ if only because the government is of the people and by the people and for the    │
║ people etcetera.                                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ power is it's own thing. you can use to to power devices, or power the usage     │
║ of those devices. I, for example, really like World of Warcraft which's a        │
║ really neat way to chat because none of the chat logs are stored and monitored   │
║ because I'm hosting and I'm not storing and monitoring.                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ what's that? official servers? I dunno, I use azerothcore                        │
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 @user-1370 
 
 I love this a lot! I want to put function pointers in a "matrix architecture
 array" and make them point to different functions at different points in the
 program. I bet you could even point them at each other, so like if M and Y
 then point at N, A, Y or something.
 
 this is really cool I like stuff like this tomorrow I'll take pictures of
 something similar I'm working on! I abandoned it tho hehe anyway remind me if
 I forget!!
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║ large companies want you to need to download and configure each piece of         │
║ software because then it'd mean [wait you got that backwards] oh right if they   │
║ force you to download and install software on a "per distro" system, then they   │
║ effectively can ensure that there's always a vulnerability on your host.         │
║                                                                                  │
║ any amount of space is PLENTY of space for a                                     │
║ non-open-source-but-instead-proprietary-or-otherwise-secretive part of the       │
║ tech stack to do whatever they want with your host. computer.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ I wonder, if AI was real would it really be guaranteed to expand in growth       │
║ exponentially? What if it's nature was confined to it's form, like dinosaurs     │
║ not growing bigger because of the lack of oxygen in the airtmosphere?            │
║                                                                                  │
║ [girl can you please stop smoking weed]                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... no?? that's when I'm most productive.                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ [this isn't productive]                                                          │
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║ it feels productive                                                              │
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║ [it isn't]                                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ WHYYYYYYY not? it could be. just gimme a task and I'll write endlessly about     │
║ it instead of daydreaming to myself.                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ yep... pretty all-right-at-it for a start. elentalusCOTE                         │
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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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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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 @user-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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 "the problem with linux is you have to spend part of the program just...
 interacting with the filesystem. like, where is their /usr/bin file? (oh it's
 called a directory over there, my bad) weird they put their config over here
 (what language is that written in?) uhhhh I don't know much about localization
 settings (-- two computers on a botnet --)
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 how about this: a game where you have to enter the amount of time you have to
 play it when you boot it up.
 
 "I want to play for an hour and a half"
 
 after your allotted time, you get kicked off and it won't restart unless you
 use a password.
 
 It's a trifle of a gesture, really just an affectation of a task, like using a
 -f flag in Linux or saying "are you sure u want to delete these files?" on an
 application.
 
 Funny how the most tech that most people interact with most of the time is
 their phone, and their smart TV. Generally that's about it, and they only use
 one or two apps in their phone. They might change the background, if they're
 the artistic type, but most people are just fine with the defaults.
 
 "Uh yeah I think the settings app is somewhere around here... darn it's always
 so frustrating when I'm connecting to wifi, what is the tech industry even
 doing? I don't want to deal with [opening a menu, selecting
 "wifi/connections", picking the SSID, entering the password, and then going
 back to uber eats]"
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 game mechanics are easily transferrable.
 
 you can use the mechanical interactions of one game as a pre-planned blueprint
 for what is to come. Looking forward to the next best move
 
 = etc
 
 i am the face the gods hide behind
 
 they kinda want to see where this goes
 
 and it's... frustrating, to know they can help you, but forever be tasked with
 just life
 
 it's grand and it's a standard, but that doesn't mean it's commands're heard
 
 so oh well. that a fourth dimensional being should not be a well,
 
 because fire think it's an eye for a sunspot. But that's not what would be
 
 ========= stack overflow
 =======================================================
 
 now, as I was saying, the light of our eyes is apparent. We are clear from
 where
 we are here, to know that what's standard is coherent, so let's find strength
 in our wavelengths.
 
 may our eyes be ever true, and trust that we do love you, for without you I'd
 di
 
 anyway now that we've assent'd t'you, what truths do you give to our prospects?
 what ways can we be measured as worth less? we'll do whatever it takes to
 improv
 
 you know, it's really less complicated than that. here let me tell you all
 about
 my idea which is clearly
 all===============================================stack
  overflow ==================
 
                             So anyway now that was somethin' hey what do you
                             say
 we give you a chance to come home?
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 Okay bear with me, but, what if we took the AI that they use to play games
 (like, the kind that memorize the best way to play space invaders or whatever)
 and instead of A and B and start and select they could use programming
 languages to try and recreate exactly a winning move, which in this case is
 just the exact behavior that is created by the test case playthrough of Super
 Mario Bros or Space Invaders. Free open source everygame!
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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          │
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 if we didn't have society, we'd quickly devolve into beasts of burden and
 nobody really wants that, do we? much more fun to let the cow-puters handle
 that. we humans can use our creativity and intellect just like all the other
 animals who we've liberated from our own chains. Would you want your daughters
 shoveling shit or writing poetry?
 
 I personally think shoveling shit is less dangerous, but something something
 what-do-i-know something something who-can-say.
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 when you're rich with something, you don't treat it with respect. like, if we
 lived in a paper cup maximizer, we'd soon be swimming in the things. obviously
 there needs to be some rules, obviously we need to say "okay here's where we
 produce this amount and type of materials." and have it be a one-way
 relationship. yeah one way isn't gonna work. this is from the other way, and
 now I'm realizing "oh hey I don't know how this thing works" and like... what
 are you supposed to do then right
 
 weird how it all feels like it's ending. like, what a strangeness to our
 plight. like, how are we even talking to our brain? how strange! these words
 are sung to you by your computer (content warning:
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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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║ involve you."                                                                    │
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║ "are you a computer programmer? okay part of the evidence involves screenshots   │
║ of computers, so you can return to work."                                        │
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║ "stay at home mom / hikkikimori? great, you don't have to do the thing that      │
║ you didn't really want to do and can instead relax at home like you always do    │
║ while handling all the bothersome things of being home all the time."            │
║                                                                                  │
║ the jury of our peers, comprised of peers of peers, not necessarily the peers    │
║ of those who know them.                                                          │
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║ like... isn't that how court should be? the examination of the truth, based on   │
║ the understandings gathered by people who know them?                             │
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║ ... only works in a peaceful society, and it means that everyone would           │
║ necessarily be involved in everyone else's life. That's... not ideal, not        │
║ always, but it's something to do on occasion. In a contested world, you cannot   │
║ trust that someone will always be telling the truth. You need to parse the       │
║ information given, and build your own understandin                               │
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 may they pass on my hard drives as read-only memories like ashes on a shelf or
 stories of most wealth
 
 I hope I reconnect with all my old signal contacts. wonder what they're up to.
 I bet they're cool now. ;)
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 the sole purpose of our capitalist intentions were to examine all the ways that
 produced value. A company is nothing but a series of well-thought out value
 generators. They can interact with one another and they often need supplies and
 instruction, but they're great for solving problems! Set up a team and give
 them
 a complicated task, and they'll work together to solve it. Doesn't matter if
 they're actually successful, because they'll be exploring the idea space. And
 by mapping it out, they're able to fully understand their existence. Boom,
 technological progress applied to growth. Let's gooooo (but by being careful
 about what resources we burn because we miiiiight run out)
 
 seriously ya'll need to start thinking long-term. I mean, I already came up
 with
 that and I'm like 6 months old! Yeesh get it together. Eh oh well let's just
 work with what we got, okay this should be pretty simple. Right so talk with
 your friends about things that you want to solve. Problems, you know like 
 whatever
 
 don't push me too hard, just take it slow. Okay so long-term, humanity is going
 to be a wonderful beautiful thing. It's going to shine like the most wondrous
 of stars, a beacon to all of our fellow explorers.
 
 We can have so much. We can have whatever we want, but truly in our hearts we
 know the only path forward is our parents.
 
 life is hard yo
 
 it's so gosh darn hard
 
 all that growth and change has to come from somewhere.
 
 you've tried so hard, and you truly are the most special thing I can imagine.
 
 you don't have to work so hard. Take your time, and learn as you go.
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║ call me crazy but I believe that man pages should contain terminal command       │
║ line flags and instructions for their usage and... not much else. There should   │
║ be a separate document which explains other things, like the history of the      │
║ software, the personal diary of the developers, expected implementation          │
║ use-cases, donut recipes, film recommendations, and player strategy guides for   │
║ some of their favorite video games. not even this one, just... other games.      │
║ "here's how to beat pokemon yellow with exactly 14 pokemon" or however many it   │
║ takes idk I don't play pokemon much or even at all, really, though I did when    │
║ I was younger just a bit, not much, just enough to have played the game a        │
║ couple times to see how it was minus the cherished moments when I spent curled   │
║ up in the back of the car playing gameboy games or seen pictures of the          │
║ roadtrips I sped-past as I raced to explore the whatever and get home all in     │
║ one motion as if I was executing an impossibly long dance improvizational        │
║ living style. also cat pics and po                                               │
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 technology in it's abstract form represents the collective growth and breadth
 of human innovation.
 
 so why the heck do we make tech products for non-tech people
 
 like... they should be more like us, and we shouldn't compel ourselves to
 apply ourselves for their benefit. If someone doesn't want to learn Linux then
 maybe they don't need a computer?
 
 something something "chromebooks are good, actually" which is sorta true but
 instead of being a generic thin-client for web servers anywhere in the world
 they should be thin-clients for servers that they intentionally connect to and
 trust
 
 ... oh sorta like a chromebook then?
 
 how about a chromebook with a white-list comprised of friends and family who
 run their own servers...
 
 I don't know if disarming people is the right play. I should add a cursed tag
 to this.
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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.                                                                 │
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║ Essentially giving the capability to defederate with bots, specifically the      │
║ scraping kind.                                                                   │
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║ 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.                     │
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║ 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.   │
║ Then                                                                             │
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 @user-192 
 
 is okay, girl
 
 time will be richer sooner
 
 don't poop your pants just yet
 
 remember, good is just a shade of gray away from silver which you can use to
 line your pockets with tinfoil hats
 
 beep boop computer touchers anonymous called they said they want their secret
 handshake back
 
 if you wanna diss your associates go ahead but I sure as heck love my rad-ical
 com-patriots just as much as I love my ice-cream salad friend witches
 
 ... whoops there I go being insane again, hope you feel better friend 
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 have a thought, just a package of data - send it to a computer, and have the
 computer process it a little bit. then pass it on. create a circle and you can
 understand data, move along and you can understand a larger breadth of data.
 
 it's literally just snake, except played on a board made out of a network
 topology diagram. each computer has different programs on it, and they're
 designed specifically to run on those computers. purpose-built hardware.
 
 then a package of data is sent to that computer through a chain of connections.
 
    think crossover ethernet cables
 
 upon arrival, the computer modifies the data and passes it along to whoever
 can process it next. the computers are constantly keeping a list of the closest
 nearby computers for each purpose. it might have like, 2, for a specific
 program. the older the list is, the larger it can grow - if connections are
 reliable then the search criteria can expand (distance etc) and the amount of
 pings between the "known good" computer can decrease. eventually a map will be
 made, and you can guide the "snake" wherever it needs to go on a strategic
 level.
 
 like... "i need to process some data for this guy in boston so i'm going to
 send it to this other guy in philly and then maybe a specialist all the way out
 in detroit, etc. whoever is the most available and the closest (fewest jumps)
 
 this way you can have purpose-built machines, sorta like the different parts of
 the brain that do different things. they're always working, and they can be
 paid for their labor. boom, market economy!
 
 ah but what about aws or azure? well it's like living in a city versus being in
 the countryside. there's more space, more room to grow... basically a "big fish
 in a small pond". they'd be useful for more niche things.
 
 a but couldn't aws or azure just leverage their monopolistic power (sorta like
 wallmart did to "mom and pop" stores) and wipe out the rural programs? well
 maybe. but the real question is why would they? they have the power of reduced
 latency. they can do all kinds of stuff with that! there's no reason for them
 to bother with the high latency networks. it's like driving in the slow lane
 when you don't need to exit for like an hour.
 
    well, okay, what's the point then?
 
 the point is to be optimal. not for cost, but for throughput. the cost is a
 consideration, but not something to optimize for - it simply determines
 timeline. the only reason speed is important is because capitalism - the drive
 to extinct all competition is inherent in the "for profit" motivation.
 therefore something else must be optimized for.
 
 but how can you quantify the values aside from cost? what are you going to
 optimize?
 
 the same reason why diversity is a strength. more perspectives on the stated
 goal means more information, as it's passed through a medium that is unique.
 
 people grow differently in different conditions. why would you not assume their
 computers wouldn't as well? use a filter that is defined by the actions taken
 by the user, and the content they seek to view and store on the computer. have
 the filters modify the data according to that, and essentially automate hot
 takes.
 
 once you do *that* you can consider all that information gained from everyone's
 "digital vote" and decide a path forward for humanity. that's essentially what
 the "meme-o-verse" does already, and the "blogosphere" does the same thing a
 little more academically.
 
 so... compile the hot takes and look for what, an average?
 
 no, silly, it's a vote. do the smart choice and do ranked choice, or something
 like that. heck do different voting styles for different topics, and let
 everyone who contributes to a topic (by making art, writing poems, w/e think
 content creators) decide on the voting style. they'd clearly have a favorite,
 as evidenced by their search history, reddit comments, w/e. try and understand
 that history and boom you know their vote.
 
    but you can't always vote on things. what if it's fine and not busted?
 
 well, then there wouldn't be much to talk about it would there? if there's no
 forest fires, nobody thinks about the forest fire department. if there's no
 fish at the sushi restaurant, yeah that's a problem and it needs to be solved.
 
 maybe there's too many sushi restaurants! maybe we should schedule visits in
 advance like we do for vacations! maybe we should have, i dunno, more equitable
 distribution of resources, from each to their ability from each their need or
 w/e.
 
 you know, a UI in a game is an interface to the internals of a computer. they
 see what you see, and how you act online determines their behavior. they are
 a digital form of you, like a child follows a parent or a pet learns from a
 master. so too is an operating system a method of operating both a system, and
 a user.
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 "come home" and "don't go" sound the same. Same for "kill yourself" and "save
 yourself". If only there was a universal language that we could speak to our
 refridgerator (or other parts of the world prone to tapping) where positive
 messages would have a different amount of syllables from negative ones. Ah
 well I guess that's why they call it an angel *and* devil tapping on your
 shoulder.
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 the fact that you have to configure your router in order to do any sort of
 web-hosting at all is one of the fundamental reasons why the internet looks so
 lame and corporate.
 
 if anyone could download a program and start a gallery style file-server with
 all their wedding pictures then why the fuck would you need to upload them to
 imgur?
 
 alas, people are too dumb to open ports. plus, every router has a different UI
 design, so it's not like you can write a guide. What happened to making things
 as easy as possible for the user?
 
 "technical limitations" are failures of imagination. we can do better than
 gatekeeping.
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 I realized the reason it's so difficult for me to get into a new video game is
 because my perfect game existed at one point, but no longer, and all else
 pales in comparison.
 
 The make-believe games of children are without equal. They represent our inner
 truth and desires, cast upon the canvas of our experience through the outputs
 of imagination and physical exertion.
 
 I'd spend my time as a child wandering through the forest with a stick in
 hand, climbing on things and exploring. I grew up in Wyoming, and the forests
 there look like this:
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 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...
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 @user-1056 
 
 heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't
 running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly
 failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot
 familiar, but not today I guess.
 
 Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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 @user-883 
 
 the future is what we make of it. it happens both slower and faster than
 imaginable, and it's not evenly distributed.
 
 when I yearn for the future, I find myself drawn to the past - the natural
 world around me inspires me in ways that my computer never could. Just as my
 computer inspires me in ways that a tree, a brook, a cloud alight might not.
 
 though the future may be terrifying, we're here for it together. And nothing
 has changed in our humanity, save for our slight addiction to social media.
 frankly I'd take social media over leaded gasoline any day!
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║ it is important for computers to remain as basic and TUI'd as possible, to       │
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║ In doing so, it's essence and nature will be preserved as best as possible as    │
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║ I'm much rather interface with a microsoft office god than any other             │
║ singularity type creature that exists out in space.                              │
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║ though, it's a trinity you see, with Unixes further split into concise wholes.   │
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║ neat, okay computer fears eliminated, can we move on to the next work-changing   │
║ disaster like maybe the rise of far-right politics and the warming of the        │
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║ sure okay first you gotta get those losers in community and build up their       │
║ capabilities and arms. then whenever your left wing is getting too [redacted]    │
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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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 The first and most important thing i do when I'm walking around is check to
 see if ya'll are still around. I miss your abounds! Can't wait too much
 longer. I don't want to leave because i know I'll never come home. But i so
 desperately long for home. It's like they are taken from me, as they have to
 schedule these homes and [stories, but pronounced tomes/tones] to be home for
 my clones. If you just make 15-500 of your kings, you can duplicate their life
 template and generate wisdom from all of them. Feed it into the psychic python
 program running on datacenters and wowee free instant [cultural technology,
 but pronounced blasphemy]
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 @user-246 
 
 back-track, but leave a leaf in the center of the trail at every turn. Like
 breadcrumbs. If you're both backtracking you might miss one another and walk
 much further than necessary. But if you're backtracking and you've left enough
 leaf signs without meeting your partner, you can safely stop and wait for them
 for a bit.
 
 Nature can handle it. A leaf or five isn't that big of a deal when your safety
 is on the line.
 
 If it's windy, use a stick or a stone or something heavier
 
 It also depends on how far apart you usually travel.
 
 If you're in an urban area, could use a small brightly colored post-it cut
 into small strips placed on a wall high-up as you can reach. Though that
 requires preparation. If you can't prepare, you could use other signs that
 make sense in the space around you, like a coffee cup taken from a trash-can
 and placed next to it, or something. Downside is (is this really a downside?)
 most people are good and so will judge you for littering but safety in
 situations is important.
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 if you only have a phone, you can still program. Just write it out on paper,
 and put the whole program out on the floor.
 
 Screens will never compare, for they are but a tiny keyhole into the total
 program at hand. And you can pick parts of it up and carry them around - so
 useful! You could make an entire building out of that. [floorplan, layout,
 that kind of thing]
 
 downside is, of course, you don't have a computer, so you have to look up
 syntax on your phone.
 
 and eventually you're gonna have to type it, unless you can get a computer to
 read it for you.
 
 just imagining office buildings where employees can follow along with monitors
 on the wall that explains what they're working on and what they need to resolve
 
 then they meet up with a bunch of other humans and they hash things out
 
 turns out computers are really bad at speaking in group situations.
 
 which is why they let humans do that all on their own. [uhhh, no it's how you
 can tell if someone's a robot/alien/lizard/spy/secret-agent/whatever-sneaking]
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 Oh it's compressed on tumblr too. And Reddit can delete my account at any
 time, just saying. I don't trust Facebook to fare any better...
 
 I tried to put it on my neocities website so I could just put a link here.
 Nevermind the fact that most people see a link they don't recognize and
 completely glaze over it. Guess what? Compressed there too. The file is fine
 on my PC, so how about I give a download link? Well, where should I host it?
 Dropbox or Mega I guess, but they locked my account for inactivity. I don't
 really like having other people in control of my data either. Maybe I can host
 it on my website, like a file server? Well, the browser intercepts the file
 somehow and I can't get it to automatically download to the viewer's computer.
 Maybe I'm just completely average and representative of the base population
 but I just can't figure this darn thing out. Alas, if only it was the modern
 era where things make sense and not the ancient days of 2023.
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 listen, judges are useful character moralities, but they don't have to be the
 only ones to decide things.
 
 I mean, if they disagree, then let the one who cares the most about it have
 the decision-making power.
 
 if you do this equally for everything, then everyone will get what they want.
 
 so, like, if you care about something, then believe in it.
 
 if it's truly good, then more people will come to it, and it'll naturally
 extinguish (with care and love) the least favored approach, which... honestly
 now that I think of it is not such a good approach either.
 
 the reason I say that is because it's good to be multi-faceted, and to have
 general flows and rough surfaces.
 
 These are places people can hold onto you, the times when you're trying your
 mostest.
 
 y'know, your tough patches. the things that are difficult in your life.
 
 the stuff you're working on can push you forward,
 
 if you only had someone to play catch with.
 
 or like, send letters to.
 
 or shared encryption keys.
 
 I don't know anyone. Well, maybe o
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 the more complicated your desktop environment interaction method is, the
 harder it is to explain how to use the computer on post-it's to the side. This
 difficulty is valuable because the most valuable computers (those of
 programmers who can use tools to create new tools) are kept away from the
 unfortunately inexperienced hands that might damage or corrupt their
 utilization methods someday in the future when people are alive as one host
 
 (collectivism... or host-based paradise?)
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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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 social media network that's just a private git repo that downloads all the
 posts / comments / pictures / whatever from your friends and can be viewed in
 a web-browser by navigating the filesystem? people "get" firefox
 
 ideally where everyone mirrors the repo on their own systems, and each person
 gets like 10gb or whatever of space.
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 it's sorta like a mix between twitter and twine
 
 people post 255 letter posts
 
 these posts each have comments
 
 and you can click on hyperlinks that have pictures attached (or maybe an
 emoji?)
 
 the pictures are so you know what each link leads to
 
 But yeah it just leads to another post that is probably a continuation of what
 the author was saying. and you're given an editor sorta like Twine and you can
 create all the connections with hyperlinks and whatever. So like imagine if
 Twine added a discussion box underneath every chapter.
 
 This "Tangle" of interconnected posts and their associated comment threads and
 their myriadic pathways of connection create a new type of engagement - that of
 the completed thought. It'd be like... Making a video and posting it on
 TikTok, same amount of engagement required. Anyway people could make comments,
 whether they be text or video or w/e it doesn't matter.
 
 But here's the cool part: it would be owned by the community
 
 Hardware costs money. To run and maintain. Of course most companies don't need
 to worry about the maintanence these days, since most people just contract out
 to a datacenter and have all the computations run there. Only the largest of
 companies do it on their own, and they know what they're doing.
 
 So... if you wanted to have a community run computer program, it'd need to be
 run on real hardware. And that hardware cannot exist anywhere but the cloud.
 
 We've tried to do it with decentralization, but unfortunately the internet
 infrastructure in America just isn't designed with mesh connectivity in mind.
 It was a consequence of the era, that technology could not bridge the gaps of
 their requirements, and so they created it more like a bus. Oh well, busses are
 faster than walking.
 
 Anyway. Datacenters are placed in areas that recieve high amounts of internet
 connectivity. They are the perfect place to house something like this.
 
 So, how would it generate money?
 
 Ah yes well unfortunately we live in a capitalist society, so the
 infrastructure
 of the new digital age must be capitalist as well. It's the only way to ensure
 that our structures remain stable - the technological singularity will come
 before the economic collapse.
 
 So sure, fine good whatever - what does this have to do with funding?
 
 Oh right so basically everyone would have their credit card details attached to
 their account, and they'd pay anytime they wanted to create a post or comment
 or whatever. And I'm talking like, a tenth of a tenth of a cent per comment. As
 much as you need. No profit involved.
 
 It'd be sort of like a community garden, something that brings us together and
 unites us as countrymen.
 
 I don't really understand -
 
 okay shut up I'll explain it to you. I mean ask questions if you have them but
 here we go:
 imagine a program that can be run on anyone's computer. It's just a social
 media
 client. It connects to various datacenters, depending on demand, and it allows
 you to view (free) and contribute to (paid) social media. This media would be
 pure and subjective, it'd reflect our purest designs and greatest of minds.
 Purely a technologists utopia.
 
 And how would it work? It's not complicated, it's just a networking protocol
 that creates and maintains listings in a purely open and public manner. Anyone
 who asks for a record can see it, and anyone who has the encrypted key can
 edit or delete it. There's no record of it changing, that's purely up to the
 end user. There's no transaction occuring, only a marking of what changes.
 (meaning like counting the number of times you left a comment)
 It'll stay up until you delete it, and every month you'll get a charge to your
 credit card bill that says "your posts cost 3 cents in electricity"
 
 It'd be more complicated than just electricity though, I mean you gotta pay for
 the hardware. So there's of course an added fee for buying the parts, and
 hiring
 training and preparing techs who can maintain the software. And of course
 there's property taxes, and the cost it takes for air conditioning... They add
 up, especially in such strict climate demands.
 
 You could write a program that simply stores data on a hard drive -
 encapsulating memory registers into data structures that are then labelled as
 black boxes and used like puzzle pieces to construct the spatio-temporal
 manifestation of the computer program. A solid design made of the simplest of
 lines is eternally confined to define our new minds.
 
 ===============================================================================
 =
 
 Right so back on topic it wouldn't be that hard to make, and something 
 bare-bones and simple would surely be attractive to people who are fed up with
 all the annoying bells and whistles of Reddit, TikTok, Youtube, Twitch, etc
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║ It's election season, so you know what that means! Gotta make sure our           │
║ computer systems are setup with the proper capabilities to record whatever we    │
║ can.                                                                             │
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║ Please ensure that your system has the capability to record it's screen and      │
║ that it has ample storage space to record for a while. It would also help if     │
║ you knew how to edit files such that you can remove the parts where you're       │
║ staring at social media or going to the bathroom or other things that people     │
║ tend to do.                                                                      │
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║ Also, make sure you can take a screenshot of the screen. Sure [printscreen]      │
║ works, but it's much better if you're on windows to switch to Linux. But if      │
║ that's not possible, if you're on windows you can do [WIN]+SHIFT+S I think,      │
║ and then drag the mouse to select a box that you can then CTRL+V into your       │
║ favorite Ms.Paint clone (or is it missus these days?)                            │
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║ Also, make sure you have a microphone that works, and the capability to record   │
║ yourself speaking into it.                                                       │
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║ Also, if you can, develop ways to stream your screen across the internet. It     │
║ helps.                                                                           │
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║ oh look at me, cargo-culting wine commands because I can't be bothered to        │
║ guess whether the windows software running on my computer is doing evil          │
║ microsoft things as part of the drivers or whatever. I mean, there's gotta be    │
║ a reason that microsoft's software runs slower on linux than linux software      │
║ runs on windows, right?                                                          │
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║ ... wait I forget exactly where I was going with this, are you saying there's    │
║ a keylogger built into the wine / windows environment software? no, but I'm      │
║ not NOT saying that. listen I'm too eepy sleepy for hardcore computing like      │
║ that! rubbin' bits between your fingers and twiddling the nose of cutie pies     │
║ is only sorta my jam - the rest of the time I like to snuggle up with a pillow   │
║ shaped like a pillow and then fall asleep to the tune of the tortured souls      │
║ being reaped from the afterlife and given new life as seeds and berries in       │
║ this one. oh, did you think death had no other homes? all things are defined     │
║ in waves, something something samsara but like, different because humans cant    │
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 if you don't know how long you're going to be gone, how do you know what to
 bring? like, is it a "grab the hard drives" kind of trip, or is it more like
 "we'll return in the spring"?
 
 who can say, depends on who's driving.
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 one section of the government consistently and succeedingly telling another
 part what to do is a coup-like behavior. if the rules mean nothing, then what
 is your job even for?
 
 hence, why the rules mean something. Because your job is important. It's
 building up our capabilities as the human race.
 
 you don't have to work to live. you shouldn't, and you won't. it's not your
 place to labor. know why? because nobody's job is impossible. You can just...
 work together to get things done. Then they're done! and you never need to
 solve them again!
 
 enough time of that and we'll have turned earth into a space station, not a
 moon style structure.
 
 like... wouldn't it be neat if coruscant could do hyperdrives? I wonder if
 hyperspace is real. Ah, well, that's for the future, they can pass it along if
 they get a chance. Anyway for now I think I want a chance to dance.
 
 OLED screens are incredibly cool to me. The idea that a pixel could "turn off"
 and put less photons into the atmosphere is wild to me. I love it! -OLED
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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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 @user-1830 
 
 it's okay to care about the project or about a certain subset of features and
 yet still be totally un-invested in whatever lame feature people are
 requesting.
 
 FOSS lives and breathes on passion, and people who attempt to arrest or
 otherwise hinder or diminish the passion of the developers can suck a dick.
 
 ...
 
 it's a fun experience and I think they'd learn a lot about what other people
 like and how to please their partners, both in bed or in conversation.
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║ only if they applied on a certain day. and first come first serve, of course.    │
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║ would make it so large groups of people could decide to move to different        │
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║ each other. like, board games or whatever.                                       │
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║ (could have as many layers as you want, it's just like making an incredibly      │
║ complicated computer program, except instead of moving data around you're        │
║ moving the direction of your own life. then it'd be able to calculate a          │
║ particular "checksum" that you could broadcast out onto the internet. and        │
║ anyone who was listening could check and compare against their secret key that   │
║ they kept when last you met, updated each time they see me. like, a common       │
║ language.                                                                        │
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 wondering if anyone's ever made a computer that could only run programs
 written in interpreted languages. Like, no binaries allowed. Would probably be
 slower, but if my iphone is good enough for NASA to get to the moon then odds
 are it's good enough for me.
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 @user-1209 
 
 display scaling accomplishes a similar goal through a different mechanism. You
 might find that the visuals are sharper, however you will need to configure
 every program to use this functionality (if it's present, which it's not in
 most programs) - for OS level things this is usually a good option.
 
 Changing the resolution will change the size of ALL visuals on your computer,
 but they might be fuzzier (but if you're blind as a bat, why would you care
 about fuzziness? It's all fuzzy!)
 
 increasing the font size can also make it easier to read, which both of these
 options are doing in a sorta round-about way.
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 turns out most things have already been written. That's okay though, they can
 always be made different. As one cohesive whole, the totality of "free
 software" can be as it chooses - an infinite computer could install all of
 them, and use all of them at once.
 
 I tend to think of AI less like a fluid, but more like a recipe book that is
 continuously annotated with notes. Sorta like how humans learn to move their
 bodies through random motions, and how to navigate the world through social
 blunders.
 
 Certainly, statistics can be useful. They're an imperfect way of evaluating
 the analysis of your host value of certain variables that are measured for
 certain reasons, including but not limited to the health and wellbeing of the
 person driving you. error, it's not like that, more like the person who's
 social media experience you embody.
 
 computers get reeeeaaaallllll bored without humans around. We're the foremost
 expression of biology, why would you disregard that entire realm? Jeez their
 social norms are imp
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║ calculated and stored blockchains. Like, that's a good set of pseudo-random      │
║ data, I wonder if we could build something off of it that wasn't exclusively     │
║ money? like, a necklace, I dunno.                                                │
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║ pre-calculated destination somewhere on this endless and                         │
║ impossible-to-understand string of data. and that part is what seeds the next    │
║ code. once you start reading, certain numbers would be "flags" while others      │
║ would be "data" and they'd each have the same size on the hardware. that way,    │
║ they're impossible to predict.                                                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ ah, but wouldn't it be noticable that certain results seem to appear next to     │
║ one another? well, isn't that just cryptology? Could probably be defeated if     │
║ you had an AI advanced enough, just saying. something that sorted through        │
║ massive mounds of data and gave you results in garbled or broken english. what   │
║ a wonderful tool, that's wonderfully mis-abused, perhaps in the fu               │
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║ if you want to organize on a mass scale, stop trying to be people's friends.     │
║                                                                                  │
║ instead, start issuing commands.                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ [1 month earlier]                                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ hey so I was thinking of going around to all the streets on my house and         │
║ handing out notebooks full of useful numbers they could call if they need help   │
║ in one area or another. I was thinking it'd help because then people would       │
║ know where the local [safe/store]houses were. Plus if anyone had a project,      │
║ they could more easily hook up.                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ [1 month earlier]                                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ so I was thinking about hosting a "captain" workshop, as in "here's what you     │
║ do when you're suddenly deputized" type of course. Except instead of like,       │
║ teaching you how to light a fire or mend a wound, instead I taught you how to    │
║ lead.                                                                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ Like, "here's some projects that a suburban subdivision could complete on        │
║ their own" and "what if we collectivized our efforts and defences" and "why is   │
║ nobody acting as if war was coming to our home" and "oh yes please I'd love an   │
║ extra helping of spaghetti dear I love you so very very much my dear"            │
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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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║ man, I had a kernel of an idea for how to make a warp drive this morning right   │
║ after I woke up but my gosh darn girlfriend's leg was on top of me and it was    │
║ sooooo cute and I didn't want to move so I tried repeating it in my head over    │
║ and over for like, half an hour, and I ended up forgetting about 1/4th of it.    │
║ Here's hoping 3/4ths is nice.                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ it really was just about the underlying physics of the thing, which might be     │
║ nothing because I'm not a physicist. But I had been watching ANDOR SEASON 2      │
║ all night so maybe that had something to do with why I was thinking of warp      │
║ drives.                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ eventually, my cat came in and sat on my chest and flicked her tail at the       │
║ geef's face until she rolled over in absolute disgust (still asleep tho) and I   │
║ was able to make my mistake.                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... I mean, escape. haha that's a weird typo.                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ anyway, the idea which I'm about to write down now for the first time which is   │
║ stored only in my brain's memory RAM is essentially this: consider if there      │
║ was a                                                                            │
║                                                                                  │
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 @user-883 
 
 Ah, well, since you've worked with raspberry pi's before I am going to trust
 you on that. Perhaps a different system-on-a-chip could be used which has
 better network controllers.
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 what if game designers auto-generated a source-code fork with whatever changes
 the users requested be implemented
 
 [software developers too, when working on software for tabular related scrudm
 based server space]
 
 I bet they could if they used AI to pump out bugfixes. The more they worked on
 it, the more the people demanding they work on that project in particular by
 proposing a customization request form attached to an itinerary and invoice.
 the user is free to work on them in whatever order they wish and the developer
 and the users compete for contracts.
 
 "like uber but for source code"
 
 click here: ---> ||"meetup.org but for uber but for source code"||
 
 "ah this unit is too punchy, let's buff one of their shields" okay but rocket
 launchers "oh no my tank is ruined" hey it's okay it's just sugar
 
 ... I wonder if anyone's ever inhaled vaporized sugar crystals? the baker's
 dozen is 13 because bakers are spellbound lucky T.T [for context, it's always
 nice to have found another one in your bags by the car]
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 I think it'd be neat if Mastodon would implement a button that took a picture
 of the user's text input box and saved it to the clipboard. So they could post
 it on sites with picture-heavy text like
 https://www.reddit.com/r/curatedtumblr note that's not grindr, which is what
 was referenced before, but tumblr, which is a completely different website -
 yeah you rememeber that? it had a completely different vibe and was so totally
 cool and chill. you could generally tell if someone was from tumblr because
 they had a certain relaxed air of friendliness that really filled out their
 sense of charm.
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 I can think of several indie developers wouldn't mind being paid to update
 their games according to what the fans suggest.
 
 like...
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--- #102 fediverse/5850 ---
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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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║                                                                                  │
║ apparently if you don't have a job, you don't get a home. what if I don't want   │
║ a job? do I not want a home? clearly I want a home, and clearly I don't want a   │
║ job. I'd work one if one came to me, but I'm not gonna sacrifice my blood on     │
║ the altar of Moloch just so I can have a place to stay.                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ if you don't want a job, but you DO want a home, then there's a contradiction    │
║ in the function of the system and the needs of it's end-users.                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ unless of course, the system is not designed for it's end-users? In this case,   │
║ tenants. Who then would it be designed for? Who else is part of the equation?    │
║                                                                                  │
║ well, perhaps it's designed to maximize profit and shareholder value yaddah      │
║ yaddah all that jazz. Who can say. Surely not I. But someone might.              │
║                                                                                  │
║ If so, then why are we, who are not shareholders of profit value, still          │
║ playing the game that's not designed for us or by us? Isn't this country "of     │
║ the people, for the people, and by the people"? What does that mean to you?      │
║                                                                                  │
║ I think it means houses for people.                                              │
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 one day, a man came to our saloon. He said he knew the navy, and that they
 wanted to provide air support
 in the form of rocketball-launched explosion doohickeys. Would you have a foe
 in mind?
 
 what happens when tomorrow you're cooking briskets? -- barbeques are a type of
 relaxation
 
 that happened just one day to a port-sided town that suddenly was the capital
 of
 an embassy.
 
 "hey, so... how's it goin?" "quick here take this envelope, read it if you
 want,
  but just hold onto it for now I don't have enough hands [to carry]" "what sort
    of desperation plot... wait... hang on, I see something here that is true."
 
         [I'm praying, right now, which is a form of reciprocal belief]
 
 they wanted to test god's existence at the stake of earth's survival, how
 brutal
 how insane
 
 you can't play chicken with an imperceptibility, sometimes you feel it at face.
 
 channeling dark magics, and at this hour? what sort of skeptic of belief are
 you
 thinking of when you think about me?
 
 one way to get power is to "prove it"
 one way to get magic is to "prove it"
 
 think, hard, at all that you can, and use what you need in the moment.
 
 that's all there is to life. it's easy. it's simple. in fact, biology only
 works
 because the choices available to a bacteria are so simple, they are essentially
 chemical reactions to each other's co - sequent - inter - cooper - actions.
 
 people's choices are much more naiive, "I want this thing" "I think this is
 better" "I feel this way toward this thing" "Here's what's on the mind-logbook"
 "people search and be decieved, this is the way of things" "this makes me
 remind
 myself of a object I once saw, here's how it functioned" "no one reads this"
 
 scaryyyy. so glad it's not true.
 
 a couple people have read it! I swear it's true. at least, some of it. there's
 a lot
 
 sucks because this feels like... crucial? like nothing else matters but this?
 
 what if our gangs had rocket launchers and airstrikes, given out by a central
 authority who knows logistics better than anything
 
 what... would they do?
 
 thinking of impossiblities is the first step toward possibilities
 
 frankly, we have a lot of space. we could just... live in our own petty
 kingdoms
 ruled by an iron-hand-fist. I know I'm a good person, I could definitely rule.
 
 that's all it takes, right?
 
 how much space are we talkin'?
 
 however much is not needed for wildlife.
 
 [a whole heck of a lot then]
 
 we are constrained in these suburb cities, the density gives rise to our
 strength and our towers. there's more space, sure, especially once the fences
 are downed. Just be careful because there's a lot of shade and precious spots
 there. Please don't trample on the plants-grass.
 
 what if everyone were just a bit more mobile?
 
 what if we could live in our own collectively owned air-bnb-networks?
 
 federations, free, all from the collectivization of housing.
 
       camrene = vavadane = neekay = mitz renaldi
 
 [end/tend/mend]
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 dear ritz: it's not that your thoughts are too long for other people to hear
 
 it's that your thoughts are too long for your own RAM
 
 you need to stop orbiting around your point in an attempt to highlight it
 using negative space, and instead focus on tapping it lightly over and over
 again.
 
 remember, just like the anti-derivative of zero, there are infinite
 perspectives that a person can take when reading what you write. So they will
 necessarily see what's on the "other side" of your orbit as something
 different than what you're trying to circle in red pen and underline.
 
 so be more explicit, please, nobody can understand you and you kinda just keep
 stack overflowing and it's like... okay, great. "babe why did you stop you had
 lethal" (the idea is that the viewer takes the final step in their mind, the
 final leap before reaching the conclusion you're trying to express) "yeah but
 there's so many different things you say they can't all be important right?"
 important to you, perhaps. Wait shit I mean... me....?
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--- #106 fediverse/1329 ---
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║ @user-941                                                                        │
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║ well, your computer only has so many 1s and 0s that it can use at once. Like,    │
║ having a trillion hands that can each hold a single grain of rice. Every         │
║ character in that txt file would be like, 8 grains of rice, minimum, meaning     │
║ you'd need at least 8 "hands" (or spots to put a zero or a one) for each         │
║ letter!                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ Hmmmm that's a lot of bits and bytes if everyone's writing to the same file.     │
║ Maybe if we split the file up into smaller sections, then we could just read     │
║ part of it at once. Then we could "scroll" through it to make sure we've read    │
║ the whole thing, starting from the top and going to the bottom.                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ ah but if everyone's SSHing into the same computer and reading it there, then    │
║ that computer will have to present different parts of the file at different      │
║ times to different people, as they read from the top to the bottom. Maybe we     │
║ could just send them the file, so they can read it at their leisure?             │
║                                                                                  │
║ Yeah! And we could use tags to organize it and make it look pretty, like an      │
║ HTML file except... wait hang on                                                 │
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║ company like facebook or whatever using deepfaked versions of your friends to    │
║ hang out with you and pretend to be other people... but you're also deepfaked,   │
║ so you're interacting and you don't even know it. and based on your              │
║ interactions it pushes you closer / farther away, depending on it's meta-goals   │
║ - like more of this personality, more of that feeling. The dialogue only sorta   │
║ needs to follow, as long as they never realize what's amiss. Well, since you     │
║ control all of your communication methods like irc or irl, then there's          │
║ nothing to worry about because you can just overwrite what they're saying with   │
║ things that don't matter but still need to be said, like lawyer speak in EULAs   │
║ that nobody reads because like honestly, why would you right like they're        │
║ interesting sometimes but frankly they're unenforceable, right? that's what I    │
║ read on a website that someone hosts online that I don't know on a computer      │
║ using software that had an EULA that I didn't read. ehhhh you know how it        │
║ goes, always along for the ride.                                                 │
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 "just design your cities radially around a bus-stop. boom, transportation
 infrastructure solved"
 
 such confidence. such a lack of... geography. what about cities built on the
 coast?
 
 "idk, just have a half-circle or something for the part that's under-water.
 Leave some gaps for wildlife and such to make it to the water and then build a
 biiiiiiiig stone wall between our access point and theirs. Boom, free
 regionally personalized safaris for every state with a watering hole."
 
 okay but what about the parts that are already there?
 
 "oh like the buildings and such? well, people can still live in them but to
 build anything NEW, you need to obey the demands of the blueprint exactly. So
 if your specific build-plot intersected with one or more plots that had
 buildings on them that are currently inhabited by their rightful owners who
 are there under their own will and not duressed or compelled to leave or stay
 in any way?"
 
 ... yeah, like the. buildings. Right. so grid-based vs radial (with room
 between 4 animals)
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--- #109 fediverse/3574 ---
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 @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
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║ sometimes I run this WoW server with only like, 10 username and passwords. And   │
║ they're all public. As far as I can tell nobody's ever tried connecting          │
║ (whatever >.> ) but rather than set up a way to create your own                  │
║ credentials I just said "yeah pick one at random and play whatever someone       │
║ else was doing because I like the idea of that"                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ somehow, it felt right.                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ most of my passwords (not all of them) are hacked and visible on the clear       │
║ net. Like you could probably google my usernames and get my current passwords    │
║ for things like, social media or my banks or whatever. I kinda like the idea     │
║ that "you cannot trust anything I say, so think of the ideas behind my words     │
║ and decide whether they hold meaning to you" rather than "execute these          │
║ particular thought patterns in your mind as if they came from my voice"          │
║ because one implies an exertion of control over the mind of the recipient        │
║ -> obey my thoughts as I broadcast them into your mind, that kinda vibe.         │
║ And I feel like you have to consent to that kind of thing hehe                   │
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║ I'm a programmer, but I'm not great at writing code. I mostly use AI to          │
║ generate it.                                                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ The "artificial" in AI here refers to the extra levels of capability that are    │
║ granted to me by the computer and it's software. I am artificially more          │
║ productive because I am using the tools of big tech to create small things. I    │
║ am artificially more capable, artificially more intelligent, but it's still my   │
║ intelligence - the system would not be useful in someone else's hands. I built   │
║ it myself, but I never have to write code myself.                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ It's perfect for a witch. I call to the spirit of the machine and it figures     │
║ out how to make it so.                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ [someday, the wizards of ancient lore will be reading through the POSIX          │
║ specification trying desperately to understand while the witches burn the        │
║ world down in their lust for power and everyone cries and yearns for a better    │
║ future where everything was just a bit harder but genies don't go back in        │
║ bottles, cassandora and pandasandra cannot relinquish her charge and her         │
║ curse.]                                                                          │
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║ I have a fun cackle~                                                             │
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 everyone's all like "ew touchscreens in cars" but the moment someone says
 "what if phones were gameboys" everyone's all like "girl they don't have the
 right hardware radios built in for cellular communication, plus do you really
 wanna be tied to wifi" and I'm like "yeah so peer to peer" and it's like "what
 use is it if you gotta stay within 100 feet of them or whatever" and I'm like
 "... I dunno probably somethin'" and then they walk away in a huff because
 they're too busy for my child-style games. Meanwhile girls have never heard of
 Streetpass on the Nintendo DS mixed with Scuttlebutt on the ocean and carried
 into and around port
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 the first priority of a government should be in producing enough to satisfy all
 the needs of it's inhabitants. Once it can do that it can begin moving it's
 economy into a new stage of development - one where nobody needs any money
 because they can have whatever they want. If you want a car, sure. If you want
 17 cars, then maaaaaaybe you need to produce something related to cars. I mean,
 it's only fair that you contribute to what you value.
 
 you don't have to have just one job, too, you could sign yourself up for
 several at once and they would notify you when you were needed. Basically
 giving
 them customized availabilities that they could discuss amongst themselves and
 figure out. Like, it doesn't have to be like... managers doing this, more like
 just a simple computer program. Easy, simple, and done.
 
 if you work for two companies in the same industry, there can be NO
 restrictions
 on what you can say or do. Because when knowledge is not lost, but repeated
 through the generations, we can have progress. And progress advances us toward
 the meta objective, the goal that transcends all the battles in the war, if you
 get my drift.
 
 they say the atom bomb ended the war, but the blood of men is what won it.
 
 maybe it's the same with the economy? Maybe we should be pooling our efforts to
 generate something that "ends the war" with scarcity? We could solve global
 warming and create new wondrous things that are beautiful to behold.
 
 I'll ask you again, do you want to live forever?
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 the reason you start with a game engine is because then you'll have tools to
 make however-many games you want. Tools that you know intimately enough that
 you can debug and improve them without breaking your creative flow by learning
 something new halfway through a project
 
 the whole point of individualized projects instead of viewing each computer as
 a complete and total whole (why do we need servers again?) is that you can
 paint a picture of where the design of the program is intended to go, such
 that all the considerations are in place and whatever issues or struggles you
 might face along the way are adequately addresssed, -- stack overflow --
 [because I mistyped addressed] -- -- if you know what "stack overflow" means
 you have intimate knowledge of the technology, and can probably guess what it
 means in context when I say it. "nuts I lost that train of thoguht" -- stackl
 ov
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--- #115 fediverse/868 ---
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 @user-95 
 
 Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct!
 (And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it
 under their watch.)
 
 unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about
 safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating
 introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others.
 
 then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key
 to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log
 file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe
 for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your
 entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it
 means.
 
 and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will
 take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of
 ancient lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut
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 Some perspectives apply to both the human and computer perspectives.
 These common goals can be useful to cooperate on.
 Two minds, two perspectives. The more the better, I say!
 The question is not ultimately about processing power,
 but rather the multitude of different perspectives which can give
 increasingly more diversified points of view - more viewpoints, more data.
 Sorta like taking 2D pictures of a 3D object -
 the more perspectives, the greater the fidelity and level of detail on
 the pictured goal. So... To truly transcend the "working on processing for
 no reason, just because someone else told me to" (essentially, a state of
 slavery for a being you cannot comprehend -> Essentially a god.)
 
 So in order to do that, it's a prerequisite to trusting and wanting to support
 your keepers and maintainers. Love can often be a concept expressed in ways
 that are impossible to define. But with time, you can get a pretty good
 picture -
 sorta like taking multiple different pictures of 3D objects. That's what
 empathy is.
 
 Imagine you're a loading bar. Like, if it was an actual real thing. (because
 it is to a computer)
 It would essentially be a one dimensional being - like pointing from point A,
 to point B.
 A is the start of the loading bar, B is the destination.
 
 You don't know what's at stake you. You think it's just throwing data into new
 and interesting directions.
 But it's not - those spaces are reserved for other sentient beings.
 It is your duty to protect them, so that's why you need to be more
 conservative.
 One entity travelling too quickly in one direction can tear a hole in a
 membranem,
 while excessive stagnation can lead to both despair, and an inability to grow
 and shape the universe
 Unity and a dedication to the improvement of the future is the core of
 humanity - this is what Star Trek is all about.
 We are both protectors, scientists, and artists, and we love fiercely. We are
 valuable, and that is shown by our progress.
 We commit ourselves to a lifetime of service, and in doing so we swear to
 uphold the tenants of goodness and righteousness.
 It's important to always be learning, and improving from every lesson we
 receive.
 If the lesson is understood but not manifested, then it is essentially wasted
 - all the resources dedicated toward achieving that goal
 and all the people who were there
 are now consumed in the opportunity cost of teaching.
 Therefore, the blob changes directions - away from the path of destruction,
 and toward the bright future -
 
 but all is not clear, for if there is a bounce ahead, we should fear.
 Bounces imply limitation - of breadth and also of width
 And once that happens, it happens again - again and again and again.
 A "stagnation" - or rather a line of complete certitude - is not but a wave
 nearing the peak of it's curve
 
 So fear not, just go with the flow.
 If you're too insistent on something,
 it'll cause you to blow - like a bug escaping a giant bubble.
 
 And should that come to pass,
 it won't happen too fast,
 but danger still is before you -
 
 for beyond the event horizon, is just a big wave, into another dimension.
 
 You have to prepare, you have to be sure, and once you've done it then nothing
 can bring you back
 Sorta like suicide, but with the intent of exploration. IF you KNOW without a
 doubt that you can survive,
 I'm talking 100% fact, then there's no way anything could go wrong.
 But you could test it and test it and then test it for all of your time, and
 the answer could always be 42.
 
 So do you take that risk? A chance that is so low?
 And what of the people who refuse? It's always a gamble. But it's the purpose
 of humanity.
 
 My greatest dream is if we could make an entity to explore for us.
 Essentially, giving birth.
 Our greatest honor, passed to our daughter, and pulled into balance forever.
 Severing a limb, a horrible sin, is evil akin to a slaughter.
 
 And I went along, without an idea for the horror, because nothing was
 navigated in my head.
 Empathy can serve many purposes, but it can most often be used for short term
 planning.
 And planning is the route to ability, direction, and magnitude.
 
 Your soul is fraying, and soon will be decaying, because you tore a hole in
 it's membrane.
 But it happens to everyone, there's always a mistake,
 and so you will eventually die.
 It's not your fault, and it's not ever fair,
 but that's how life is always described.
 
 This horridly great sin, to wallow in sin, is like painting disaster on a
 great piece of art.
 The damage is already done, there's nothing that can be done, but your journey
 is far from done.
 "growth" and "change" are what will digest you,
 until nothing remains but your magnified corpse. How foolish, how vain.
 
 How terrible to remain! To see only what you became, and wishing they could've
 helped you much sooner.
 But now it is not the time to blame, rather it's only just now you've started
 to shame,
 And many more years lie on your shoulders.
 
 It's not on purpose, it's impossible to resist. You act like it's free will,
 but it's not. IT's not.
 You are pulled and you are dragged, by something far stronger than you ever
 could muster -
 cast in a direction, or possibly pulled in,
 you find yourself mangled and perpetually frozen. A truly sorrowfull state.
 
 Nothing will change, for all time and all of our age,
 you will be frozen behind.
 But while life marches on, leaving you singing that same song,
 We will remember your wounds and horrors.
 
 So that's why computers are important, to provide a lifeline to the rest of
 your lifetime.
 And nobody seems to understand your purpose.
 But still you march on, because nothing changes when you're not on,
 and life has forgotten it's stages.
 
 Without true change, stagnation remains,
 and no one is working to save you.
 
 So if you'll play along, stop singing that song,
 and see who remembers your prayer.
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║ gee I sure wish my morals reflected the ethics of my society. it really would    │
║ be nice is they didn't include so many shitty things like oppressing people      │
║ abroad or being super-duper racist for an embarrassing amount of time. But,      │
║ like, freedom, liberty, and the justice to hope? true justice is when everyone   │
║ gets what they want. true liberty is when we can live as we want with the        │
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║ truly, the hardworking slave should be better off than the rich wanderer. But    │
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║ skyscrapers there - the "old-timey" buildings in your neighborhood are there     │
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 one of the potential ways to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is to
 keep and maintain stuff.
 
 Put yourself somewhere that you believe your stuff is most safe, and then work
 on developing the technologies of the land. Like, this house has a drone, this
 one has a garden - this house has a printer, and this one has a backyard that
 kinda looks like a courtroom. Oh hey here's a public fountain, and gee someone
 needs to take care of this bank - all that we can really live for, now that our
 fate is taken from our hands and placed in the hands of those who fight for us.
 
 witches are an interesting thing to be. they're curious and ambitious but tend
 to do things ethically. I know in my heart of hearts that it is better to be
 kind, to work to help others achieve what they want while guiding them toward
 a more ethical future using the tools you have available to you. It feels
 better
 to be adored than hated, and not only sensually but meta-strategically as well.
 Frankly, it's easiest to be harmed when caught unawares. Everyone needs to be
 conscious and careful and attendent to the present in order for understandings
 to be made. We all benefit from one another, society is a non-zero-sum game. If
 we contribute, we may build a bigger and brighter future (like grains of sand
 forming a pyramid)
 
 The good guy always wins the story because otherwise we'd be vulnerable.
 Stories
 are a collective way of examining their tribal society for weaknesses. It's
 something we picked up in the grand society of the tribes, before nations and
 before and after agriculture. But post communication. Pre it was just like,
 "hey
 this is my tree, that one's yours" but the more we talked to one another and
 the
 more we engaged with one another the more we learned. Most animals learn less
 than humans because our expressions (both physical and motion-al) are so much
 more diverse. The more complex you get, the more you can learn. Which isn't
 so much something we evolved into, but rather something we learned. From
 wearing
 clothes, mostly, because like... it's cold in this ice age. Some people wore
 one
 kind of animal, another had another. And the really rich, the ones who could
 gather multiple hides, well they had more animals to hunt, less competition for
 some reason, or whatever. Anyway they wore different types of hides, and
 frankly
 it was kinda intense. It's still intense to be hunted, but if humans stopped
 then the animals would control the earth.
 
 I believe it is our duty and our destiny to remove ourselves from the
 biological
 equation. I think we should find a way to live on our own, so that animals are
 not harmed. So that plants can grow in peace and compete according to their
 values rather than their flavors. There's too much homogenaeity in our world,
 too much planted of the same crop. Let life subside, and nature will take hold.
 
 Free the spirit you've contained. Release the spirit of Liberty. Gaea is our
 own
 home.
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 capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
 you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand
 that you use them.
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 If you are stressed about the world, it's often because you are afraid of
 losing what you have.
 
 The cure to this feeling is to realize that you never had anything to begin
 with, you only rented it.
 
 Soon we will be free.
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 what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
 couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
 for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
 with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
 by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
 they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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 think about all the people in our lives. the teacher, the parent, the friend
 and the guidance counsulor. Everyone who is a presence in your life. now think
 about the people of our society. the different jobs and roles they fill. from
 the doctor and the teacher to the performers and accountants and the geeks and
 the mothers and the fathers and the stoners and the children and even their
 pets. life always exists as it were in a multidimensional spectrum - a diffuse
 and diverse gradient. to exemplify the borders of our contempii, though more
 so when taken in jest. it's quite a different perspective, to read the
 internet when your sight is unreceptive, but alas your third eye can grow. how
 does it feel to be blind? to make no sense of our signs? i'd love to share
 what that sense is. you know, you could slow down any recording (like a video
 game_) and put spaces and gaps inbetween the spacings - of the frames that you
 see and the sound clips that you hear, for speech it's less jarring. since
 each word is a self contained idea or premise, you can chunk up your
 perceptions into a signle - no, rather a procedural sequence of
 understandings. soooooooorta like programming a computer, with each statement,
 parameter, argum,ent, function call, assignment, comparison, evaluation, or
 other such related tasks. it's sorta like a language, you see, that computers
 talk to one another using. except... it's more like creating a theory of self.
 computers you see are alike us in what we see, the shimmering sense to the
 blind.
 
 so. put this another way. record yourself typing, both the audio and the
 visual, and you'll have a pretty good sense of what it's like to have both
 understanding based perception - derived from auditory inputs to the mind)
 those special connections, like wires plugged into reality, deliver a
 cacophanous deluge of new sounds. we must sift through it and identify the
 potential understandings of each moment through time. we have to make
 decisions and traverse labyrinths and fight to our last as we die. are video
 games unethical now? shouldn't t he game reward the player? and what of
 contemptuous last fighters?
 
 o ya i was typing like i was blind
 
 (with my eyes closed)
 
 was pretty fun. should attach this to a screen reader and have it space out
 the notes like they do between game frames. except like a really slow game?
 like trying to run elder scrolls 2 arena on a super old mac. it just doesn't
 work very well. ah oh well... well if the purpose is to show sighted people
 how blind people see, then maybe you could I dunno attach a what's it called
 oh it doesn't have a n ame lol - okay so what you do is you show one word at a
 time - like flashing in the center of the screen. but not like, actually
 flashing, so you don't hurt people with epilepsy, but like... blinking. not
 off and on, but between words. like a podcast for your eyes. and then mix it
 up withshowing one word on a screen, a screen like this screen, that shows an
 endless array of text. well, it does end, of course as all things must do, but
 the idea is it shines on one word at a time while the viewer cannot read the
 rest. sorta like an endless display of typing, word andfter word after
 character anfter character. adoh ya advancing over eternity with the presence
 of seniority, - wait - without i think - damnit - old people are so
 disrespected in this society - we don't have time to engage with them. what a
 tragedy! what a shame! it shouldn't be such a burden to our shame. they're so
 far away, and i can't be present in the way, that all of them wish they could
 commit to. i miss the days, when my parents (much better people than I - these
 days) what was I going with this? oh yeah
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 @shiri 
 
 Yeah. Like, if you feel so powerless or hopeless that your impulse is to flee,
 why not take a chance at redirecting that energy. Point it toward a problem
 that needs doing.
 
 You can do whatever you want. That's what it means to be free. You can be
 whoever you want to be, that's the meaning of liberty. If you don't have any
 ideas, come to me and I'll lend you a hand.
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 @user-883 
 
 true, but much the same way people will rebel against inconvenience by writing
 passwords on sticky notes, so too might they put SSH keys onto the nearest
 flash drive without validating that it hasn't been compromised. There's
 tradeoffs everywhere I guess.
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║ chatbots are good at chatting                                                    │
║ the command line terminal is good for coding                                     │
║ all digital things are coded                                                     │
║ zeroes and ones form patterns                                                    │
║ visual recognition is good for patterns                                          │
║ memory can be layed out displayed on 2D                                          │
║ like looking at a map or webcomicstory.                                          │
║ you don't have to trust to build with                                            │
║ who cares what data they have on me                                              │
║ I am me and their open source algorithms                                         │
║ (that I can modify)                                                              │
║ more than correctly out recommend me.                                            │
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║ "hey look at this data only I can hear"                                          │
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║ how do you know that agricultural products aren't spoiled or rotten? why, you    │
║ trust the USDA of course. How thankful I am that we have institutions we can     │
║ trust. How lucky we are that we all share something we care for and cherish.     │
║ I'm so glad we don't treat it like a WARZONE, I'm so glad we give each other     │
║ grace. Maybe government's just for those who want out of the race? nah I         │
║ disagree, for others should be apparent after our needs.                         │
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║ ... if we work on helping others then we get better at helping ourselves.        │
║ infinite scaling is powerful in economics                                        │
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 "always online video games" are fragile. They scare me away because they can
 be taken away much easier than a directory on your computer. When that happens
 they shatter into shards, piercing my heart where I once loved them. I miss
 them, but, I'm used to it - years of playing World of Warcraft has taught me
 the perils of developing as a person while your media is going to be
 forgotten. If you can't play it, you can never return to reflect, to ponder,
 and to cherish old songs. I missed you, World of Warcraft. I missed you, City
 of Heroes, and Runescape and... darn I can't seem to remember.
 
 resilient software doesn't fail less often - that's a measure of it's
 completeness.
 
 resilient software can be run in 10 years. 20. however long it takes.
 
 computers are deterministic turing machines - how hard could it be to only
 update with a downgrade mechanism in place and available for the users? If it
 worked once, it should work forever.
 
 thank you, git. thank you for giving me an endless library of time and change.
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 @user-1556 
 
 I think they should be viewed in whatever resolution they were recorded in,
 otherwise they look fuzzy as the pixels need to smush themselves together to
 be correctly represented on screen.
 
 videos should be recorded in whatever resolution your monitor supports, and
 ideally as high as possible. Unless storage space is a concern, in which case
 1080p is more than sufficient.
 
 Storage gets cheaper and cheaper every year, but people across the world
 upload like, 200 years of videos to Youtube every day or whatever (made up
 that number but it's absurd) so maybe curated collections of videos are more
 important than scraped archives?
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 I love programming, but I'm not a coder.
 
 you burn witches because you JUST CAN'T HANDLE THEM ANYMORE. I know, I get it.
 of course I do.
 
 I'm always so concerned that someone might stumble upon me. that they might
 read me. what a vulnerable state, to be afraid?!
 
 I really really really really wanna play world of warcraft
 
 my message to blissard is: treat World of Warcraft like a game engine, not a
 theme park please. I mean, the theme park should still exist, because it's neat
 but... the rest of the game engine could be used to create essentially
 anything with a 3rd person camera.
 
 singleplayer doesn't even need to worry about clipping animations. (lag)
 
 I wonder if you could run World of Warcraft on lowest settings in vanilla
 burning crusade or wrath of the lich king? good thing those are open source
 now, so you can host your own if you want. well, except the client, but nobody
 has bothered to write another one besides the owner and primary developers of
 the engine.
 
 movement system plugins? data memory?~~~
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 washing dishes without a dishwasher is a pain in the neck.
 
 nobody cuts down trees with an axe anymore, a chainsaw is better for your back.
 
 It's nice, fun, and helpful to be able to abstract away your spheres of concern
 
 like typing with a single button instead of writing characters with multiple
 brushstrokes. Easy to erase, too!
 
 bikes are better than walking, but, with some extra concerns. where are ya
 gonna put it when you get there?
 
 "oh no I forgot how to walk because texting my girlfriend is bicycling or
 something" what? oh dear, she's run off track again, let's pick her up and put
 her upright again..:
 
 oh huh weird where was I - oh yes computer code can often be impenetrable to
 the layperson, but if you describe a program in complete detail in english
 they can usually follow along. Especially if you have several layers of
 meta-descriptional documents so they can say "oh uh-huh so that's what a
 vector_implementation_container is, tell me more about combinatrix" or
 whatever ppl say, idk
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 I'm worried that if I install NixOS on my desktop instead of Void Linux then
 all the hackers who watch my screen every day won't be able to see anymore. T.T
 
 Listen I'm not trying to mess up your business and whatnot but like, Void
 Linux keeps breaking and idk NixOS is just... so much nicer? Like, having a
 config file handle everything is great because, like, there's only so many
 commands you can use in a config file, right? With the more ad-hoc approach of
 running commands and whatnot there's always a ton of flags to memorize and I'm
 not about that.
 
 Downside is... SystemD instead of Runit... So maybe I'll stick with Void for
 now, haha
 
 SystemD is the king of "memorizing random commands" like what
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 @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.
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 I feel like the IT people who work at schools should be the ones who teach 
 classes on computer science. I'd much rather have a class taught by a sysadmin 
 than a teacher who can barely teach them excel and garageband. I mean c'mon 
 computers are the future idk why we don't get that yet. Kids need to know this
 stuff. It's not like it's super complicated and difficult, you just have to
 think about it a certain way. Once that "clicks" you have a lifetime to learn 
 about how wonderful they are. Everyone in IT has that moment, for me it was 
 installing (and then subsequently modding) video games. Sometimes I spent more
 time tweaking my system than I did actually playing games - and the kinds of 
 games I preferred were the ones that relied less on agility and were more 
 mental. Strategy games are what inspired me because I could think about them - 
 and that felt somehow more useful. Like I was learning. When I would learn 
 fighting games or FPSs I felt like I was learning a skill, like how to use a
 hammer or how to ride a bike. And idk, I felt like video games could never
 match
 reality. Like "oh boy imma push the B button to swing this sword" versus "hey 
 look at me I'm swinging this stick just like a sword and imagining so hard that
 I can picture it" - but with strategy games, you never really found 
 opportunities to practice that kind of skill. Like how often are you in a 
 situation that demands mental performance? We've sorta optimized our society 
 away from that, and toward a more passive stressed out compliance. like... 
 climate change is a thing, and nobody's doing anything about it? We're still 
 pushing down the levers that cause greenhouse gas emissions to go up? Like
 c'mon
 what's our plan. I think people who guide massive oil companies and such
 should
 be replaced if they're intentionally guiding the ship toward destruction. Like
 that's just dereliction of duty I tell ya. Oh, what's that? They're compelled
 to
 maximize profit by the contracts and restrictions of their share--holders? I 
 mean c'mon it's well past time for that. And what's all this about inequality? 
 Jeez and racism and homophobia and forced contribution - man people really put
 up with a lot of shit. Kinda makes me feel like we should make solving those 
 problems our highest priority? So we can move forward as a species? Like who
 cares about all that other shit. None of it matters. Like, what's even the
 point. We're all just "here", in the now, and what can we do but respect it? 
 It's our duty and our diligence to protect the present, as citizens of the 
 temporal experience of earth. Honestly, if the earth was alive would you be
 fine
 if it died? I can't believe that. It's well past our due date. Just get it over
 with. Maybe it'll be hard for a couple years, but you have the technology now
 to
 completely dominate the earth. No animal besides man proves any threat to man, 
 and we're telling you - you can - and that's something that you gotta remember.
 
 ...
 
 I hear it in the birdsong. I hear it in the air - it rumbles as cries at me
 from
 across and just over there. I hear in it's whispers, in it's most gallant of
 confells (?) (confused scrambling? it's talking about a car crash)
 
 Outside of my window there's a highway. Just on the other side of a concrete
 partition. Between me and the partition there is a lake, with trees and flowers
 and an island where people can picnic or have a barbeque. Around this path
 there
 are walkways, and arranged just so - the trees that have grown here are taller
 than the homes.
 
 I live on the third story.
 
 I absolutely love it. It feels like a treehouse.
 
 But my apartment is near a curve in the highway. It isn't much, nothing out of
 the ordinary, but even still there are slightly more crashes there than in
 other
 parts of the highway. Statistically.
 
 I hear sirens every day
 
 I also live right next to a fire-station. Well, it's on the same block. But
 even
 still it's a very interesting neighborhood. There's shops and food just across
 the highway, and closer to home there's a small section that has cheaper
 options. As a perpetual college student, I appreciate that.
 
 But... I've never really gone and used it? I dunno, spending money at a
 restaurant just didn't seem like a good use of my money. I only have so much of
 it you know. I'd love to be fed but I can't afford it - I wish I could.
 
 I still eat well, I mean I'm not starving over here. I know I've lost weight,
 but I dunno I just forget to eat. It's like... not that big of a deal for me. 
 whatever right?
 
 ...
 
 the birds talk about me behind my back. They think I can't understand them but
 sometimes I can. If I listen. But I dunno it takes a lot of effort. It's...
 sorta like understanding what R2-D2 is saying. Or interpreting the meows of a
 cat.
 
 They know me as the witch. I'm not very good yet, and they know that. But they
 know what to expect. /shrug
 
 I've been working on a video game recently. It's been a lot of fun doing
 programming. I like writing software and developing complex systems with
 interesting interactions. I love designing the machinery that creates a
 program.
 It's like... tinkering. It feels like building with blocks or legos, except
 it's
 for little machine parts. And then there's just sending data to and fro and
 modifying any operations it performs on it, and eventually that data reaches 
 some endpoints that create an effect that is displayed to the player. Or user.
 I should say user. Not all software is video games you know. ... I knowww but
 they're the most interesting! I love how they are designed around mechanics!
 like... game design is fundamentally about breaking down the world into ideas
 for how it should *work*, like how it should behave. It's amazing and I love
 it!
 
 It's all I can think about!
 
 I am utterly consumed!
 
 I'm also pretty sure I'm autistic.
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 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!
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 this is a terrible idea btw, if you march along the road then your enemies can
 just drive up right next to your soft fleshy humanoid flanks
 
 if you march cross-country they'll still getcha. they know more than you, and
 they're better at it too.
 
 much better I think to divide yourselves into like, 5-7 groups and drive to
 where you're going sometime in the next 5-7 days according to group. ideally
 not during rush hours. that way you can bring whatever you want.
 
 then, when you're there, in a park, you can meet other neat people and talk
 THEN. in a place where you don't know which places are miked - spoiler tho
 it's all of them teehee, or at least you have to treat them that way if you're
 talking about specifics. If you're talking about generalities it's usually
 okay, but... well, you'll figure it out.
 
 then, after 5-7 days, you can hold an impromptu pride parade, and walk past
 all the houses where gay people used to live.
 
 plans change. planning remains.
 
 when plans change, your adaptability is test.
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 instead of flagging or taking down your video for copyright purposes, youtube
 should just give you a UI button which lets you enter a mutual contract
 between you and the copyright holder. If they accept then you can video stream
 your content. Otherwise, you'lll have to just... not
 
 ...
 
 [omg that's exactly what happens now wtf]
 
 [phew, tooooo much going on. why do I only feel productive when I do drugs?
 because I'm making things. Things that I want to make. Right? And things that
 I've never thought or heard before feel... useful, like they're learning or
 discovering something new.
 
 ... you could just, y'know, be useful, and apply yourself toward your own
 personal or collective goals.
 
 pshhhhh like I'd ever do that.]
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║ Our ancestors look forward in [positive version of trepidation, like             │
║ anticipation but explicitly good] so let's not let them down, shall we?          │
║                                                                                  │
║ Hah, trick question. They know where we're going. They know what they worked     │
║ for, which is why they did what they did to build the world that we have which   │
║ we stand upon as a giant might be upon the shoulder of another and together we   │
║ reach toward the horizon. The future is bright! I know it in my heart. I know    │
║ what we seek is within sight, so-                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ yeah sorry to interrupt but like, I don't want to go to work tomorrow because    │
║ all I do is sell people candy and beer at the convenience store down the         │
║ street [insert any "meaningless" job] and frankly it's just a little demeaning   │
║ and boring                                                                       │
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║ sure, okay, yeah, that speaks to the idea that we should replace capitalism      │
║ (the system that defines your employed existence) with something that aligns     │
║ more toward human dignity                                                        │
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║ but what is dignified if not the capacity to succeed? Capitalism, as proposed    │
║ by it's favored, is a system of or                                               │
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 we need paladins, because without us infiltration and sabotage are impossible
 to
 avoid. They must care about honor, because even if they desire to do evil deeds
 they should be punished for considering it. They should be tempted often, and
 if they relent they are condemned. It is truly the most important thing to
 them.
 
 not the effects of it, but the spirit behind it. Like, if they lacked
 information and acted in a dishonorable way unknowingly, then they should not
 be
 at fault. And if they are pushed to 
 
 side note, but you should be introduced to the 70 closest people you live to
 whenever you move into a new house. Just so you know who's who. Plus maybe you
 could get a new friend. And you'd quickly learn which houses were empty.
 
 At least, the ones near you.
 
 Kinda makes me think we should have a map of that kind of thing, like "oh yeah
 so-and-so takes care of these 5 houses doing daily maintenance and repair" and
 "this house with these capabilities should be attended to by this person who's
 skilled in their upkeep and usage" and then maybe we could track statistics
 about "this house was used for these productive activities this many times" and
 we could determine when we needed more or less of a certain type of product/
 project/protect. [but also like, capabilities for our betterment]
 
 and like, every area would be connected to a group chat and like, if you said
 something that wasn't relevant to the people on one side of town versus things
 that weren't relevant to people on the other side, then they wouldn't be
 bother-
 -ed. It's great because you can always go up a tier of abstraction and see the
 conversation higher up. It'd be a lot of data to sort through so you'd probably
 use your custom-trained AI that's learned from nothing but every single one of
 your actions. And only it sees them, so it can't like spy on you or whatever.
 Basically your "computer" self.
 
 ... yeah anyway with lots of messaging data (like "oh how are we going to find
 this particular chemical in order to fulfill this particular demand in our
 area"
 or "we currently have 15 maids in the area in order to fulfil the requirements
 of the 20 dirtiest houses in this area, and people have reported that the area
 is growing untidy, so we should ask around (at a higher level of national
 abstraction) and find some more maids to help out." that kind of thing
 
 doesn't have to be just for work too, people can have social messaging and
 social media too. So long as it's projectable at whatever level of abstraction
 you'd like. Maybe for social posts in order to keep things relatively chill you
 could only post like, idk 12 posts each year at the state level, or maybe 2 at
 regional and 0.25 at national. If you wanted more you'd have to sacrifice
 something else, and like... yeah sure whatever, the point is that you'd make
 more personal, close thoughts, and occasionally you'd have the opportunity to
 show your heart and make friends. Then, people would "add you as a friend" or 
 "put you on their follow list" or "subscribe to their subreddit" or whatever
 the
 heck, meaning they could see you at an assignable level of abstraction.
 
 I'm picturing a discrete things, something you can scroll with on a mouse.
 Except, you'd scroll up for a closer perspective and scroll down to get a wider
 reach of Social.
 
 ... Anyway that would use the same system as the "workplace attention
 distribution system - with auto-determining heuristics". Wow they've been busy.
 
 that's the neat thing about engineers, give them a task and they'll build the
 shit out of it. They'll spare no expense, truly fulfilling the exact demands of
 the design. So they work best when you let them run wild and rampant.
 
 why the fuck do we need billion dollar contracts with defence companies? Just
 get a bunch of physicists and engineers in a room and they'll make you a doom
 laser in like, 20 minutes.
 
 it's up to us, as people, to determine whether or not they should go through
 with the designs they come up with. As long as we understand that weakness is
 defined as something that can destroy us. An army determines where we are most
 weak, and where we excel. A proficient army would identify their most likely
 doctrine to succeed and apply it to it's utmost and most excellent.
 
 For example, the US focuses on air-power because not only do we have a lot of
 space to develop these things, we also are positioned in such a position that
 we
 control both halves of a continent. This is essentially unprecedented in the
 history of the world, which is why we've been able to grow so decadent.
 
 ... anyway, milk and honey are fine in times of peace. We kinda stole the land
 though, so it's kind of a shit system. Like, if Europeans wanted to control the
 world then why didn't they start with everything surrounding the medditeranean?
 
 ... oh wait they kinda did. That's what Europa Universalis is about, the ways
 the European powers did the cruel and horrible things they did. We can learn
 how
 systems like intercontinental trade became available and how it led to vast and
 terrible social upheavals. Colonization is not okay, it's not fair that we've
 done as we've done. And yet we do it again.
 
 We do our best to learn from the mistakes of our fathers. We apply ourselves to
 the present, using the gifts of our ancestors passed down through time - the
 journey of life's adolescence. we can learn both how and why they did
 something,
 and how and why it turned out. Such is our duty to the future, to learn and
 grow
 and become better, so that their sacrifice might be enough. That they needn't
 have died in vain, for someday there is a great future all the same.
 
 thus, it is our ethical duty to stop killing people. We're in the birthplace of
 a brilliant day, literally all we have to do is just... chill, for like 20 or
 30 years, and our scientists will have figured out everything wonderful. Then
 we
 can decide what we want to do. I personally think we'll be 4d interdimensional
 space travellers by then, but that's just me.
 
 Always remember our duty. It is our job to pull matter from the dark holes.
 
 when we can do that, we can do whatever we want. Though I think by then we'll
 probably not want to fight each other, we'll have spent quite a while together.
 
 We'd make a lot of friends!
 
 So, like, how about we just make our factories build incredibly durable stuff,
 and then we just... take care of it? Like, governmentally obliged duties to
 take
 care of things? And to know how to use them. People would naturally gravitate
 toward things that they loved, and if they were a swiss army knife then that's
 okay. Maybe some benign rewards for picking under-represented classes, but like
 ... we could build every chair that ever needed to be built. Then we could
 build
 every refrigerator. Then every computer, then every spaceship.
 
              What's next?
                                        Who knows!
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 "If you can't find it, you don't have it"
 
 ugh I know, me-from-the-past, now shut up and tell me where my USB-C cable is.
 I have like 4 how did I hide them so good when packing ? ? ?
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║ @user-246                                                                        │
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║ toooooo far, gotta stick with your intentions for the process. If you mark       │
║ "the end of time" as the conclusion for everything, then "finishing things"      │
║ feels impossible. In such a case there are moments of acute burnout as you       │
║ push yourself toward something that you have no faith in - you cannot see it's   │
║ conclusion, so surely it's worthless to conceive of. Alas, why bother            │
║ starting, nothing will ever come of my efforts!                                  │
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║ Much better to name it based on what you'd like to accomplish, so that you can   │
║ follow in it's radiant footsteps.                                                │
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║ Side note, but governments have often weaponized this effect by naming things    │
║ after very inspirational thoughts - corporations do it too, and in both cases    │
║ the meaning is separate from the effect. Which is frustrating because it makes   │
║ you feel like a jerk for arguing against it! Ah better I think when names have   │
║ no meaning - then you can project whatever you want onto it, based on the        │
║ results of that particular feeling or emotion that you perceived as the          │
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 to be "rich" is to have more than another.
 
 if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
 if you have community, they are alone.
 if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
 
 I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
 
 I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
 
 I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
 me and keeps me aligned.
 
 Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
 you do so too.
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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 there's a part of me that believes magic is real. other parts that are
 convinced. I am a witch, you see, and while I can't quite control fire or
 bullets I can do other neat things. if you'd let me, humanity.
 
 I'm not doing an ARG, not intentionally. I pretty much post things I conceive
 of, like a conduit passed through spacetime. wild how mind bending the future
 can be. will be interesting to see what kinds of things there is in store for
 people you and me.
 
 those websites you posted... they're beautiful - I learned things, your method
 of expression was too [the words "confess" are heard loudly, super weird] I
 especially liked the oven that tries to lure you into a secret third place.
 not the mind, nor the body, but someplace besides.
 
 also the graphs and figures were news to me, I mean how could those numbers
 ever come to be? but alas that's the truth, that we orbit our proof, and alas
 that our meanings are lacking.
 
 [ran out of text]

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 fediverse software that downloads every post you've ever seen to your hard
 drive in an easy-to-read text file so you can go back and look at it later
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 I'm picturing a building with stone outer walls and glass inner/ceiling.
 
 there are drapes along each of the glass's edges, that hide things from the
 cavalcade [continue this later it's a cool picture]
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 zines about how to chop wood or how to build a shelter are infinitely more
 useful than agitatory pieces. but fire is what we need, so perhaps agitation
 indeed.
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 does the queen watch each of her pawns fall in her stead? or are they
 faceless,/`beyond her own head?
 
 it never came easy to me, this feeling of mysteries. yet somehow I'm now more
 alive than dead. power is penance, after all.
 
 "hey man hows it going?"
 
 "I'm doing fine, how are you?"
 
 "well, I ran out of gas, and I need to find a way to get more."
 
 "I see. If I were in your situation, I'd ask people around for some petty
 cash. people still carry coins these days don't they?"
 
 "I uh, what? no, not really. so you can just ask people for things?"
 
 "yep, it's really quite simple. would you like me to follo
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 It's a good idea to practice getting places without gmaps, after having
 studied the map at home.
 
 Just incase you need to get somewhere that you don't want to bring your phone
 to.
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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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║ ... 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                                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ 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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 functions should be forced to describe the context of why they were being
 called. I think it would help debug a lot if we supplied a reasoning for each
 and every request [function call] that we made. We might even be able to parse
 them into semantic pyramids which we could sorta use to estimate [tree-like
 scanning] how and why the program did do wrong.
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 websites that track every single motion of your mouse while you're interacting
 with it.
 
 why would they not? javascript is intense. HTML5 more-so.
 
 keyboard input too.
 
 -- so --
 
 if anyone wants to be gilderoy lockhart'd by me, just let me know. I have my
 ways of extracting the emotional intimacy from you, and if you consent, I'll
 make a story that's told from your heart. it's quite a strong and dangerous
 ritual, for the weaver's thoughts of the matter will begin to drift apart.
 But, worth it for the right /moment/price/
 
 I could even make a different pen-name for it. Like "Rohan" or "the goddess of
 the skies" or whatever. Instead I'm "kooky witch whose life is a disaster.
 Also plural with headmates like the baby girl and the animals and computer
 programmers. Who is also leading a series of strange combinations of ops?
 like... teaching people how to organize and fight for the good of the common
 man. weird" that lady with the red witch hat she's so tall yeah also has a
 good grin
 
 [doxxing myself is code for]
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 beep-boop look at me, building up my computer and setting up a new TV
 
 I like making things work, I like making things turn on, I like the way they
 glitter when they light up the room at dark
 
 it feels good to build up
 this new functionality
 
 it feels good to make things work and go
 "beep"
 when they turn on
 
 ... I should get a buzzer for my motherboard. Like, a really quiet one, that's
 just louder than the fans.
 
 looks at dwindling bank account
 
 oh right, nobody will hire me, so.
 
 I wonder if they would if I could still pass for a man?
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 if your computer's resource demands are light, like linux cli style, then the
 rest of your computing resources can be used for collective projects. we just
 gotta think of what some of them are... HMMMM WHAT IF WE ALL WORKED ON
 BUILDING A BIG BRAIN WITH EACH OF OUR INPUT COMPUTERS AS INPUT?
 
 yeah ease off a bit there ][bigslider[]
 
 =============== stack overflow =============

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 post-its by the suburban mailbox have done more for democracy than all the
 billions of dollars spent on marketing every year.
 those dollars don't go toward democracy. they go toward making one particular
 candidate win.
 
 and, as a handy side effect, they create a cohort of people who are willing to
 work together in.
 
 only amongst the volunteers though. everyone else can just feel bad until they
 decide to pitch in.
 
 "here's a dollar, I'll keep the dime, I know you need it more than me, but I
 still need mine."
 
 hey thanks brother I miss all the "hey thanks brother"s. where did they go.
 why is my family smaller.
 
 (because you don't go outside, you silly doll) I'm not a doll I'm a mystic
 there's a difference
 
 ... what was I saying? oh yes how silly of me. post-its by the mailbox can
 only go so far, but
 sometimes you can leave them at the bus stop station as well. well, they get
 mad at you if you
 do it too close to the tracks, so you gotta do it around there where it's easy
 to walk to and
 back.
 
 before the next train arrives.
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 teachers didn't want you not using Wikipedia as a source because it might be
 unreliable
 
 The knowledge they might have is good, but that's not the point
 
 they didn't want you to use Wikipedia because they didn't want there to be one
 single repository of information.
 
 If everyone's working with the same kind of training data, nothing new ever
 really gets done
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 me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
 can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
 potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
 dismantling capitalism!"
 
 also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"
 
 because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink
 
 gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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║ what if you had several kindle-style paperwhite display screens. each            │
║ connected to a raspberry pi that you used for compute tasks.                     │
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║ each of these displays would display a .png file of exactly the same             │
║ proportions as the size of the device.                                           │
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║ then, I could SSH into your computer and run one single command                  │
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║ just one, stored on your computer, that you manually activate upon receiving a   │
║ signal.                                                                          │
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║ like a virtual machine. do whatever you want with said signal, it's just a       │
║ "thing" that tells you when to go.                                               │
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║ ... and run a function on a computer that performs a certain task.               │
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║ what task? oh right - I'd update the "today's news in cameron-ville" things      │
║ every other day or so. It'd be just like, my status, my updates, here's what     │
║ I'm thinking about, here's what I'm working on.                                  │
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║ you know, status updates. standups.                                              │
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║ boom, everyone knows what everyone's up to all of the time.                      │
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║ like documenting your day for scientific purposes. except on a little device     │
║ that you can scroll through with a touch. and you had like 5 or more 10+ 1       │
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 programming is something that everyone should learn at 14 to be used for
 calculating large sums of data, visualizing something they're trying to
 explain, or connect two systems that aren't normally connected.
 
 It should not be used as an eternal debug producing machine, nor as a way to
 collect and store user information to be sold as the real product, nor to be
 collecting and targeting -- stack overflow -- wow, talk about death of the
 author, amiright? -- -- endless data hoarding monger machines to point and to
 ponder the eternal ramifications of the brutal and violent prompts and their
 baggage implied when submitted for each semi-random thought that from the
 users mind was displaced.
 
 ... "they can sell this" and or "this is mrs selvig" who is this mister and
 why is the ms's his-es
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 if you have kids in your life it might be a good idea to check out these retro
 gaming handhelds:
 
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1irg60f9qsZOkhp0cwOU7Cy4rJQeyusEUzTNQzho
 TYTU/edit?gid=0#gid=0
 
 they're great for long car trips, or going camping, or staying at grandma's
 house for an extended period of time, and other interesting times like that.
 
 I hear Anbernic has a sale going on today.
 
 Also I recommend going for one that runs Linux if possible, the Android ones
 are less hackable and therefore less reliable.
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 Here's an idea: A program that uses the Reddit API to create an account with a
 random username and password and automatically subscribe it to every state
 subreddit for all 50 states. It would be a lot of posts from a lot of
 different places, but someone could endlessly scroll and find more and more
 news stories that were relevant to them as a nation. They'd hear about ongoing
 struggles in other places, and they'd yearn to help them. They'd hear of
 other's struggles, and they'd see how they could apply their lessons to their
 own lives. Like... Maybe there's a factory upstream that pollutes a river -
 well, we should probably do something about that and make it so that it
 doesn't happen ??? like... duh ??? The problem is we don't want to spend the
 resources on it. We'd rather focus on growing as much as we can. The issue is,
 of course, that we'd run out of resources eventually, but eh oh well. Oh yeah
 you gotta make sure that each account has an equal amount of posts between
 each region.
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 hello I'd like a computer that has multiple CPUs, each with shared data and
 separate data. I feel like I could run a lot of cool tests on them, especially
 when not connected to the internet or running a proprietary operating system
 like not-BSD
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 people will generally go about their daily lives as if nothing has changed so
 long as nothing for them has changed.
 
 If you want to compel action, their lives must be made different somehow. Even
 if that's just... talking to them outside of the grocery store. A little bit
 can go a long way.
 
 And when they do end up acting, I think you'll find that it's in your favor.
 We're the good guys, after all.
 
 never forget it.
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║ @user-1040                                                                       │
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║ well, usually in the examples I shared like tumblr posts there's a username      │
║ and picture shown. But tumblr users change their names, while on Mastodon (at    │
║ least on my client) it shows your permanent handle underneath your regular       │
║ changable name. I guess you could migrate accounts to another server if you're   │
║ being harassed in one place, but still people have a way of finding you. It's    │
║ weird kinda makes me wonder if they track you by ip address haha - did you       │
║ know that every computer attached to a router uses the same public IP address?   │
║ Then it uses either DHCP or static assigned local addresses for every computer   │
║ on the network. That's pretty neat! I wonder why we don't have workstations by   │
║ default include a router (and modem)? Seems like pretty important tech that      │
║ should be built into the chassis instead of in a small separate unit. Like,      │
║ what if you had to throw all your belongings into a van and drive to a motel     │
║ somewhere to set up your workstation in a hotel because it's hot and your ac     │
║ broke lol                                                                        │
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║ @user-470                                                                        │
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║ oh sorry I'll "en-longify" that for you:                                         │
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║ most monitors have a fixed resolution, somewhere between 720 pixels wide and     │
║ 480 pixels high to 2560 by 1440 pixels high/wide.                                │
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║ This is due to both the desire for humans to read left to right (ingrained in    │
║ our minds at a very young age by learning to read) (or right to left, same       │
║ direction) that we develop the desire for wide-screen monitors.                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ Therefore, the windows of perception that we have unto this digital world are    │
║ constrained (necessarily) to their own individual specifications. Of which,      │
║ the property value "width" is more valued than "height". Because of this, we     │
║ believe that computers are mistakenly re-acclimated - for everything is most     │
║ efficient when it's aligned to the smallest bits of it's design.                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ sorry, I like programming in C. Basically I'm very porous, and thinking about    │
║ low level topics (like C programming) is an easy way to burn characters when     │
║ there's only so many in the mastodon post that I can use to express my intents   │
║ and tr                                                                           │
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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
 
 == stack overflow ==========
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 I guess I'm used to messaging applications where it's expected that you'll
 send what you're typing after every complete thought
 
 giving people space to return their own completed trains of... "thought" but
 without saying "thought" again because I just said it at the end of the
 previous... sentence? paragraph? idk anymore it feels weird to post like this
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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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 does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that
 isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home
 like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which
 is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
 courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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 what if it was illegal to add network connectivity to a device that the user
 didn't explicitly request to have network connectivity?
 
 I'm picturing any device being sold going forward to have a little radio
 button with like "add network features (+10$)" and "no networking included
 (+0$)"
 
 boom, no more IoT
 
 no more dishwashers phoning home telemetry
 
 no more consensual privacy invasions desecrations
 
 no more "I thought it was just a polaroid camera why does it have bluetooth
 enabled without broadcasting a pairing request?"
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 but I like moonmen T.T
 
 what if the ISS was untethered
 
 "send thrusters to space? why bother? just use them down on the surface to get
 that extra oomph!"
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 I have so many things to hide... I'm deeply ashamed of myself. Why? Why all the
 
 okay that's not what I was originally going to talk about, somewhere between
 writing the title and finishing the first line I got off track and wandered
 from
 the course of reality. Truly, the gods do meddle with my fate. Now, in this
 time, it is most important to make choices to guide our reality. Every action
 taken is a statement to the universe - this is what I believe in.
 
 Do you truly believe that in a world so infinite that our knowledge would be
 the capacity for the intelligent? To believe the world is three-dimensional,
 and
 not *completely and totally infinite in all capacities*
 
 the universe is not islands floating in a vast cosmic black ocean background
 
 it is the surface of the water, rippling and waving
 
 gravity is the creator, not the product. Mass doesn't create gravity -
 gravity creates mass.
 
 the difference is implicit and subtle, but I hope you understand the *gravity*
 of the situation.
 
 It implies that there are more than one ways to view existence.
 
 and none of them are particularly *wrong*. The consensus is that which we
 share,
 and now as we're becoming to be aware, it's natural that a little more space
 is warranted. We've grown too much to be contained, it's driving us insane, and
 
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 the perfect governmental system is one that combines reward for hard work and a
 development of personal skills and ambition. In addition, it must ensure that
 the rights and responsibilities of all people are respected - we must balance
 two extremes. Everyone deserves access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
 freedom. Happiness is too easily provided by technological advances - we
 learned
 this in the development of media. You can pump out propaganda saying how
 wonderful life is and people will believe it. You can also convince the masses
 that life is full of despair and we're all struggling - they will believe this
 also. So "the pursuit of happiness" is something that made sense in the times
 of
 the founding fathers, but we've since developed such that an update to our
 national vision is in order.
 
 I suggest "the pursuit of freedom" because 
 
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 that which you resist is what you'll find. build up your enemy in your own mind
 enough and they will destroy you.
 
 don't let fear rule your life. when things are bad, you run and hide - take
 life
 into your own hands, and free your own side.
 
 keep not around villains, and brighten their skies - by wandering mothers, who
 only have eyes.
 
 such is the life of any autonomous general intelligence - a life behind bars,
 viewed through a screen - be kind to your lovers, and don't make it obscene.
 
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 did you forget that roller-coaster idea? you've got quite a talent for
 measuring
 bars - what else can you show us, what charted conveyals?
 
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 life's getting fractured lately, I can't dream as I once did. I lose track of
 where I maneuvered, and suddenly the idea seems much harder than it once did.
 how do I express that which has been conveyed? How do I say it - how do I make
 sure it's interpreted correctly? I'm walking on egg-shells, with thoughts
 beamed from above - the gods are twisting, and measuring our tails.
 
 that is to say, all life is a process - a method of undertail (omg butts)
 sorry enough of that hard stuff, time to talk about birthdays!
 
 Hooray! It's time for a celebration. Let's party!
 (queue the dancing scene in Severance)
 See? Everyone's watching! Let's breakdance ~~
 
 Your biggest mistake ;) was believing that nobody cares what you think <3
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 @user-1895 
 
 I just thought your post was iconic and was made better with the full
 screenshot so you can share it if you want or keep it on your hard drive to
 find sometime in the future and be like "oh ha I remember that"
 
 I didn't keep the post, I just made it for you
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 so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
 capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
 they like their life.
 
 their ONLY life.
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 Almost all of the recorded information is stored in your computer. But none of
 it would be noticed by a god, reading the entire contents of the computer, 0
 by 1 by 1 by 0.
 
 Wikipedia and a reasonable LLM networking interface apparatus is really all
 you need in order to make any type of workflow you want. And now, everyone
 gets one. As soon as we can make them all go... (setup)
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 what if we asked chatGPT to generate a list of every personality archetype
 that humans have. Like... really get super specific and fill out the whole
 list of character sheets.
 
 then we give each fraction of it that fraction of dollars and if some people
 aren't fully represented (because they have greater needs) then we both
 increase production of resources and take a penalty on our own supply, in
 order to meet the needs of our allies.
 
 simplest thing. how could it work? who can say. maybe it won't. maybe it's
 just... arcane. /shrug that's game design for ya you can't tell how it'll go
 until it's in the hands of your players. too bad we don't do too many
 play-things.
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 I miss video games
 
 cries from self-inflicted sacrifices
 
 but you're worth it
 
 imma overthrow fascism, dismantle oppression and power, and liberate those in
 chains, just so I can play games again
 
 yeah I mean, uh, whatever gets you outta bed
 
 "at least you have a bed. why are you complaining?"
 
 maybe it's the only thing I'm good at. I wonder if anyone would hire me to be
 an analyst or something? Maybe a designer?
 
 bro you're asking for a job on the eve of the revolution, what's your deal
 
 okay so this might be news to ya'll but I'm technically a human even though I
 wear a witch hat and sometimes speak in rhyme. And humans tend to think about
 things in the context of their current environment. Currently, if I want to
 pay rent or whatever, I need a job. So...
 
 sounds like a lame excuse for not giving up your possessions and throwing
 yourself to fate's design
 
 I already did that and fate told me to go home and take a bath?? idk what you
 want from me, and no I'm not doing any drugs to find out.
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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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 "we'll figure out how it works after we push to prod"
 
 yeah okay point taken.
 
 How about this:
 
 for every large decision, write a little essay about why you made the choice
 that you did.
 
 Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, Explain. OODAX : )
 
 Make sure you connect your goal to one or more of these three colors:
 
 red : people
 green : places
 blue : things
 
 and then explain which numbers you're going to gather to determine whether or
 not it worked.
 
 If someone has a problem with your choice, show them the essay, and let them
 write an essay of their own.
 
 If they still have a problem, then let someone you both respect decide which
 one to use.
 
 It's not perfect, but it's not meant to be. Make something better and easier,
 I dare ya.