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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.

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22. Now that I have my setup with tge Khadas Edge 2, I kinda want to get a small screen for it for the times that I don't want to wear a screen on my face. Apparently the touch screen works on Linux?

aliexpress.com/item/1005010177

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Oestrommunism

On the Apollo missions the computers were very complex but limited. The onboard memory, rope core memory, had to be cleared manually from the last preserved bytes (b-last). This was referred to as " blasting ropes"

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Anyone else immediately turned off when a project uses linkedin style biz-speak? "$Project_Name turns context into execution." just makes me want to run away as fast as I can.

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dansup

What if ActivityPub software came with a special (@)moderators account that could support instance to instance moderation conversations, as well as a public inbox that anyone could message with reports or related activity.

It would even come with a gorgeous admin dashboard to track reports and conversations with custom labels for organization and webhooks for 3rd party integrations (like getting notified on slack or discord)

🤔

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[GRS] Kate Shrike

GitHub is getting very close to zero 9s of uptime

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witch hat hacker :verified_dragon: :vt1: :vt2:

seriously like all the malware google claims to be stopping with the app verification thing is actually on the google play store. i don't think i've ever seen malware on f-droid, but you can simply go to google play and search "flashlight" to find tons and tons of malware

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Switch your keyboard layout to something like azerty to make your key smashes less predictable

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Type "Script"

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Scott Murray :neurodiversity:

RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/11628071

I think someone at Apple deliberately released this exploit because no one wants to update to “liquid glass” 😤

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Lmao the AI in The Amazing Digital Circus is canonically written in

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Dave Rahardja

I saw a post recently wherein someone used LLM tools to analyze someone else’s software, which eventually led them to a conclusion that was essentially completely wrong. Not only that, the LLM drew conclusions about the *authors* behind the code that were borderline character assassination. Nevertheless, this person posted this output as though it were some kind of deep insight.

These LLM outputs are not independent thoughts. The LLM probably ingested hints of (maybe unconscious) biases in the user’s prompts within its context window, and regurgitated something that confirmed those biases. The user was pleased that their biases were confirmed (Independently! By an impartial LLM!), and they posted the output, maybe as vindication of their insight.

These models’ sycophancy can be subtle. They don’t have to state “You’re absolutely right!” to blow smoke up your ass. Sometimes they seem to confirm your preconceived notion after they supposedly “evaluate” information “independently”.

#ai

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Sometimes I browse my global list of matrix channels instead of the heavily curated spaces / subspaces. And it's like "wtf is some of this shit". Channels I may have never fully read, full of god knows what. It's fun~

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Learned to get around the elevator delays at the con hotel by noclipping into the backrooms and taking the service elevators. 😝

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Autonomie und Solidarität

#Surveillance #SurveillanceCameras

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Hotels are often so inaccessible despite them ticking off a bunch of boxes. Random stairs without elevator or ramp options. And when there are ramps they're too steep to wheel up manually without a lot of strength. 🥲

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fuck me just found out ny hotel booking update didn't take after all only when I arrived on scene 😭

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Dave Alvarado

How (racist/sexist/whatever) harassment on Mastodon works:

1. Harasser replies to their target's post, with the reply set to "followers only", saying the most vile stuff you can imagine.

2. All the harasser's followers join in on the harassment, posting more vile stuff.

3. Nobody but the target and the harassment crew can see the vile stuff that was said.

4. Target is traumatized. Nobody else can see why.

5. Everybody says "I don't see it so it's not happening."

community.hachyderm.io/blog/20

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The Ware Tetrology by Rudy Rucker is quite a trip.

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Nazo

@ai6yr "The major cost of most corporations is labor."

*HARD* disagree.

The cost that they perceive as "disposable" is labor. The highest actual cost, by far, is the people at the top, most of whom do practically nothing (or even make willfully bad decisions like integrating fake "AI" into systems that shouldn't be using a LLM and will ultimately present a huge loss later) while being paid many many millions...

And those are the positions most disposable and that a LLM could fake best...

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Janek @ IndieDev.site

WHAT

ARE YOU INSANE, GOOGLE

CAN WE PLEASE START SUPPORTING ALTERNATIVES LIKE SAILFISH OS PLEASE

#google #android #privacy #opensource #sailfishos #jollaphone #enshittification

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