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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.

Ever since the Matrix was released in 1999, cell phones have been steadily replacing landlines - which were shown to be the only way to escape.

Got that jetlag insomnia and I'm using it to make a tutorial for how to scrape web pages with @agregore for offline use. One neat thing I'm trying out is to show folks how to prompt the local AI to generate code snippets for you as you build the app. The goal is to help folks new to coding get started while still getting them to write and understand the code and the approach to making an app from scratch.

beyond just the education context… there really is a kind of abuser logic to these products. the goal is to isolate you from social support. I think this is probably a really important thing to worry about; I feel like i have not seen enough worrying about it by comparison with other issues (like not working/being wrong)

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Time to sieze the next 14 hours or soon 4 hours of sleep. Travel is a resource management sim where you juggle sleep deprivation and caffeine. 🤪 Glad I get my weekend to recoup

A situation that appears more and more, though, is that "with great power comes great responsibility." When using Free Software, you might only have yourself to rely on to maintain the software you use.

Don't get me wrong, most maintainers will go through great lengths to help their users, but that's from being kind and decent human beings, not from being contractually required to.

When using Free Software, it's also "free as in puppy": no upfront cost, but maintainance is on you.

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How much more of this sort of thing could a cooperative of buyers help bootstrap, even simply by having the first thousand customers pre-signed up?

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

But a radical consumer co-op could foster the new business as a worker cooperative.

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“Contrary to common sentiment, the data also shows that businesses benefit from cycling infrastructure. If well-designed, a proper cycling network drives far more people to businesses than cars do.” Bike-lanes mean business. Via @dailyhivevancouver.bsky.social

Opinion: No reason why Vancouv...

The best part of travelling (other than cool food) is putting my offline-first setup to the test. Fitting that I'll be working on refactoring an offline transport for our sentry setup at work.

anyway 'Describe for people who are blind or have low vision' seems to me a shit-assed prompt for image descriptions. putting it like that only invites people to other the end-user of the image description. if it was, say, 'Describe what's in the image and what it means' that would be both useful instructions (many people seem confused as to the purpose of image descriptions and end up writing captions like 'Funny meme', which tells nothing) and invite the user to put themselves in the position of someone having to interpret an image solely thru its description

I need more electronic gizmos to wear around to up the cyberpunk aesthetic.

My larger serpent rejected it's meal. Be weary of rushing in to new exciting prospects this month. You may fare better enjoying what you already have.

@jd

Canada's English language papers, big city papers, small town papers, provincial papers, national papers are all owned by an American Republican who bought then all, bought 98% of papers, for just this reason. To subvert Canada.

Vancouver Sun same owner 🇺🇸
The Province same owner 🇺🇸
Calgary Herald same owner 🇺🇸
Edmonton Journal same owner 🇺🇸
All SUN papers same owner 🇺🇸
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98% of 🇨🇦 papers have the same US Republican owner including your small town.

#cdnpoli #canada #canpili #invasion

I don't need to import the delay module or write little helpers every time I want to wait a bit in a test.

```
import {setTimeout} from 'node:timers/promises'; await setTimeout(1000);
```

So much cleaner!

I'd be extremely impressed if an AI could track down this bug that spans several threads and 4 different modules and 3 different build systems. I kinda doubt it though.

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A programmer is a entity used to create race conditions out of user stories.

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