@mauve There's also the space bar that would scroll down a whole screenful when pressed. I remember the times when browsers would try to make the top window edge align with the start of a line. But now websites have all these overlays and scrolling gimmicks that it rarely ever works. :(

What do folks with physical needs do about apps that seem to only scroll reliably with a mouse scroll wheel? I feel like a lot of them entirely ignore page up/down keys and overrload arrow keys to do more than scroll one line at a time. Mastodon web is pretty annoying for this.

I just want sugar free beverages without the artificial sweeteners. Gimme the raw chemical soup.

I love when the keyboard shortcuts fall into unconscious actions. Opening and navigating my desktop are mostly automatic with my one handed keyboard now. Sadly typing text still takes some focus unlike my thumb based keyboard on my GPD Win 4

@mauve Perhaps the observer effect in quantum physics can be explained by archaean ad tracking systems 🤔

In the algorithmic world, the act of interacting actively reshapes the systems associations closer to your embedding within them. Regularly listening to obscure tracks adds a bunch of my faves to their "recommended next" lists.

@Colophonscrawl 'i had an archon come to me, huge guy, made of an infinite hellscape of rotting insectoid bodies, had tears in his eyes, and he told me, sir, with you in the universe b, we could be unfolding bigger and more beautiful ruin than anyone's ever seen. i believe it! and perhaps you would all need to be given new eyes to comprehend the horrors we will, maybe we will be unfolding in the future, who knows'

I feel like this whole Anthropic export ban thing should be a wakeup call to anyone outside the US that if you've been newly developing a dependency on a proprietary US cloud service the government could decide to restrict export access to at any moment, you've made a strategic error and should probably reconsider that.

Even though I don't have implants I can feel myself being a sort of cyborg already. The digital extensions of my self are similar to physical tools, but they're always there. More like a clothing item or sensory organ than a hammer I only bring out when needed.

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Then I had the horror where the only place I could express this thought aloud was down because I was out of disk space again. 😭 A whole other severing of my exoself.

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I was out without my bluetooth headset and it genuinely felt like I was missing a body part since I was disconnected from my data stream and couldn't pause/play my ebook reader on reflex like I usually do.

My mastodon server has been down since friday 😎👉👉

These 30B-A3B models really act like 10 3B models trying to yap over each other at the same time instead of one more competent model.

remind yourself of who you are.

remind yourself of what you want.

remind yourself of what you're doing.

remind yourself of what you carry with you inwards,

and what you carry out.

and most importantly

remind yourself of the difference between your self and other, because if you let the other past that difference, the self will be lost.

then seal your intent and your purpose, and then you can engage with the demon summoning or whatever the fuck horseshit you're wasting six counties' worth of electrical output to do.

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Is it too much to ask for a petabyte of storage in a convenient and cheap package?

@mauve Yeah, it's on GitHub: github.com/trypsynth/paperback and the official site is paperback.dev. I create these things called markers, that form a tree of where headings, links, images, tables, etc are. It also ships with a CLI tool as of late, so you can get all its parsers (legacy/modern word, legacy/modern powerpoint, chm, rtf, epub, pdf, f2b, daisy, etc) from the CLI. Or, just pull in paperback-core and call into the parsers directly.

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Phrased backwards, if 98% of people with elite skills fail financially on the basis of having elite skills, financial success as a metric of quality is wrong about a hundred percent of the time.

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