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I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.

I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.

I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.

I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅

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Thread of stuff I wanna buy. Will "like" my own toot if I get it.

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I'm gonna use this yhread as a way to keep track of links to read and like my own posts when I get around to them.

The rain brings a moderate overtone of "wet dog" to the smells of my building.

lmao lichess gives you a full tutorial for various ad blocking options on the modern web

lichess.org/ads

TIL that bird.makeup also has Instagram and Hacker News support! I really want the insta bridge so I can ditch the insta algo and have my usual cross app lists like I do with Matrix chats.

patreon.com/birddotmakeup

"LLMs allow dead (or non-verbal) people to speak" - spiritualism/channelling

"what happens when the AI turns us all into paperclips?" - end times prophecy

"AI will be able to magically predict everything" - astrology/tarot cards

"...what if you're wrong? The AI will punish you for lacking faith in Bayesian stats" - Pascal's wager

"It'll fix climate change!" - stewardship theology

Turns out studying religion comes in handy for understanding supposedly 'rationalist' ideas about AI.

Thankful for the posters on normal.style keeping my feed unhinged 💞

I think many people misunderstand the purpose of code review. The purpose of code review is not for the reviewer to find bugs, and certainly not for them to ensure that the code is bug-free. Anyone who depends on code review to find bugs is living in a fool's paradise. As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code.

The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be _hard to maintain_. The reviewer looks at the code and tries to understand what it is doing and how. If they can't, that means it will be hard to maintain in the future, and should be fixed now, while the original author is still familiar with it.

Im making a blog for #sciop because we keep doing dope shit and not writing it down. Putting a call out for guest artists who want to contribute fake GeoCities era banner ads

Started using mastodon lists to better curate the vibes I want at a given moment. Unsurprisingly the "teh posters" list is the most active by far.

I just default to doing lazy prompt injection attempts in every public forum now

Switching to Linux, an analogy 

@kianga reading this as someone that has never managed to run Windows for more than a few months and runs Linux ever since they started using computers (not counting macOS for a year) is very weird

I like, to use the same analogy, enter the apartment, spend the whole time trying to make the lights change to the precise color I want by hooking into its wiring and then giving up after a week of failure, installing like 20 locks on the door to make the landlord stop coming - after the previous 19 locks were broken, there's now a laser trap and a trap with hungry sharks and the landlord still somehow manages to get in

When I get tired of this and the electricity dying in the middle of me working or cooking and shutting down all of the lights and everything, spoiling the food in my fridge, I give up, blow the apartment up and move to my cozy cottage in the woods, which is currently resembling a Hello Neighbor house moreso than anything else, and some random thing collapses in an on itself every few days, and the breakers pop every month, but at least I can cook and work in peace. Mostly.

For anyone interested in contributing to an web browser, check out our "good first issues" project board to see if there's something you'd have fun working on.

github.com/orgs/AgregoreWeb/pr

If web browsers were good they'd add native options for sorting to tables instead of every website importing megabytes of JS each time.

Logged into twitter for the first time in at least a year and it was neat to see who was still posting regularly. Out of the hundreds of accounts I still followed only 4/5 posted this month, two were "popular" accounts that were now getting way less engagement, and others were folks that seem locked to specific communities (VR/Crypto)

Does anyone have a thermal receipt printer they particularly like?

I want to start printing little thermal-printed versions of my blog posts to staple in my journal. But I don't know much about what good brands are and the like?

I preferred the declarative nature of AppCache manifests over the code heavy Service Workers. Now we have yet another feature that cannot be used without JS. 🤷

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