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Really excited to get into using this EEG for stuff. Might just start by using the gyroscope for somethin or other.

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The only thing I like more than weird shaped computers is weird shaped input devices 🥰

8. This funky bluetooth mouse that's made to be thumb controlled.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZzS_3HB1dy

My hand pain has been really bad lately and this could make it easier to use my phone. A bit more pricay than I usually risk on bluetooth stuff tho.

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Human interaction is so much more complicated than information system design and programming. I feel like Bunny The Dog sometimes out here conpared to the ease with which I can dig into an applications data flow. 🤪

I got “redundanci’ed” from my $day-job and I’m looking for a new one starting in February. Ideally Rust, Haskell and/or compilers, dev tools. Let me know if you know something or someone! 🙋🏽💞

My favourite thing about arch linux is the AUR wrapper yay, so every time I want to find some software I get to do a little exclamation of joy over it

Got myself a Muse 2 for xmas. Gonna figure out how to make a neural net to interpret gestures with my brain. Gonna use this as another input device for controlling my computer.

@jonny Know of any IRC/Matrix/Discords where folks are chatring about EEG based BCI or some such? I recently got a Muse 2 and wanna chat with folks about approaches but don't know where to go. :o

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

A blogpost on @spritely about why we're launching our first ever supporter drive spritely.institute/news/sprite

We could really use your help! We're a small nonprofit, and everything helps no matter how much you give. We just crossed $15k but we have nearly $65k left to raise to meet our goal this campaign. Anything you can do to help is appreciated! spritely.institute/donate/

I woke up to see the @spritely campaign bar moved quite a bit overnight!

We're off to a really good start! But we've got a long way to go. If you're thinking of donating, we could really, really use your help!

spritely.institute/donate/

My hot take is that Yi Long Ma on tiktok is hilarious. But only if I see him like once every three months organically. More than that and the magic gets lost a little for me.

I wonder if there's any people that like ai generated ads out there. I mostly hang around artists that hate them but I kinda assumed that it was the general sentiment. Seems it's mostly used by spammers and scammers and cheapskates and makes products seem unprofessional.

Seven years ago, I posted "So-called 'Big Data' is just Taylorization applied to every aspect of human existence and, in the long run, just as destructive to human values."

Tried generating APL but I think I can't trust any code that I can't audit :P

Might make more sense to practice my "write comments and prompt to convert to code" approach instead so I'm still the one "solving" and leave the syntax to the LLM.

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At the same time, people are generally boring, admins are generally ethical, and snooping takes *work*. I've dug into the database to look at DMs once (?) in five years, and that was at the specific user's request. I've also been inside the surveillance capitalism sausage factory: corporate snooping is both far more invasive than most people realize, and also *ridiculously* lossy/noisy. We don't have the resources to fight a subpoena, but also no government has *bothered* to ask for our data.

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