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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.

There’s an entire rant buried in here but, in short, I absolutely agree.

The `new Date()` API is whack as heck. I basically failed most of these questions.

jsdate.wtf/

Sometimes the news is not enough. So I made "No Time to Discourse"—a speculative atlas of (endless) climate disaster. notime.now

Ok serious question, I'm a little spooked because I found out about today's wildfire conditions AFTER I was breathing it. Is there an Android app which will allow me to set a spot in Canada and get like, an Android notification when a wildfire state is entered, an Android notification the night before?

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The city is covered in smoke again. I hoped it was fog but the smell was distinct when I stepped out. Merry apocalypse!

The deal?

Yum! Brands would only by from farms that had signed on to a fair food program with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. They'd pay extra for those tomatoes, and the extra $ would be passed through directly to tomato pickers as a raise.

This deal nearly doubled tomato pickers' wages.

And guess how much this big, ground-shaking deal raised the price of tomatoes?

ONE PENNY PER POUND.

That's it.

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

We should stop calling them “ad blockers”. If a site serves up a few banner ads as images like the old days, that’s fine. I don’t object to a site paying the bills, or seeing a banner ad.

They’re malware blockers and privacy protections. I don’t want a site popping up bullshit and trying to track me across the net. If that’s what a site is serving, it’s more than an ad, and I absolutely want to block it.

please remember that you can get skin damage from the sun even when it's not hot and even when it's a bit cloudy. we're still close to the the solstice, so in the northern hemisphere remember your sunscreen, put on a hat if you have one, wear sunglasses, seek shade.
sun is responsible for the majority of visible skin aging and with the visible aging comes functional aging too. not to mention the risk of skin cancer.

I had this thought last night - in the near future, every single company will be shipping code with AI, super fast. That code will be the fast food of code.

Then someone will open a startup and their motto will be to deliver handcrafted software. Just three people on the company, a client calls them, they visit in person, spend some time at your business, and they WRITE SOFTWARE BY HAND - a software that only you have and no one else, and was done with your requirements in mind. It took longer but it’s damn fine software.

The same way you would have a personal chef home cook you a special dinner and that is a premium service.

The full moon was majestic tonight. Like a second sun peeking through the clouds. Sprinkled with an abundance of fireflies.

Boosting is really important on the Fediverse because it makes whatever you boost federate to the entire servers of all your followers. A boosted public post appears on your followers' timelines, but also becomes searchable to everyone on the servers of your followers.

Instead of an algorithm, the Fediverse relies on human beings sharing stuff they find interesting. This process creates a wonderful chain of discovery.

To boost something here, click the 🔁 or 🚀 button below the post.

#FediTips

i hope the power outage lasts all night so I can get more of that sweet full moon illumination tonight

LLMs are mansplaining as a service, but more specifically that type of mansplainer who googles your question and replies authoritatively with the first result that comes up, despite having zero understanding himself.

Unexpected that I'm not finding any reviews of the 4 online when I search. Has anyone actually used this thing?

The program you DON'T WANT TO INSTALL!

Share and educate people!

From the company that took all digitized content without permission to build their product, now we have a browser.

So the company can use your data and behavior and to lock you in to their statistical parrot (AI)

#AI #privacy

Calling it now, learnable graph cellular automata will be the future of "AI coding assistants" :P

youtube.com/watch?v=ilrl_opwpE

Question for and folks: What search terms should I use to find papers related to transitioning graphs to other graphs. Kinda like graph cellular automata but more the basic operations. I want to think about code AST transforms but would like to learn about general purpose graph transforms first. Boosts appreciated.

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