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Mauve 👁💜

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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Up to 15 words per minute on my

Got a grip on numbers and some more special characters.

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Hooefully my next car will be electric. And hopefully it won't need an app or a subscription service to operate.

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Chris Petrilli

Think of it as "a kindly old woman down the road gave me a nice piece of software". Are you going to demand she fix it for you to? Are you that big a jerk?

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DWeb

Call for Expression of Interest 👀

DWeb Camp Brazil is back!

It will be the final celebration of the year-long process to research and build agroecological tech that is designed for and with farmers. It will showcase the built prototypes, as well as share the lessons from its co-design process. 🌻

Interested in joining? Fill out this form: biblioteca.fractopia.org/o/lab

#DWeb #DWebBrasil #DWebCamp #DwebCampBrazil #Brazil #AGtech #

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ash :neodog_flag_gf:

normalise "my liege" as a nonbinary honorific

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Mark T. Tomczak

In the Starfleet Technical Manual, there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar changes; eventual retraining is part of their job, but the flexibility allows them to take the retraining at their own pace.

I think about this from time-to-time and how this is still a sci-fi idea that is seen all too rarely in how we do actual computer UIs.

#StarTrek #LCARS #UI

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What's cool about is a server could auto delete posts by sending delete activities to all known servers while keeping the original private and letting the owner keep their memories.

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Piko Starsider :verified_paw:

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-a

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19. this mouse thing is also interesting. It's expensive for what it is but I could see it complementing my twiddler for navigation while I type. proloring.com/products/prolo-r

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if I become a dictator, the advertising industry is in the top ten for reeducation

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Went to the movie theater and I really don't miss these unskippable ads blasting at full volume. 😵

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Bimbo

Given current ongoing situation there really should be a movement for more domestic software development and a wider boycott of data exporting to America.

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Boo hoo hoo, I want some fancy instant noodles but I am all out and the grocery store is closed. Booo hooooo. 😭

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Becky Yoose

You know that little M$ registry tutorial to turn off Copilot that was floating around some time ago?

My laptop battery before the registry change - fully depleted from 100% right before the 90 minute mark 🪫

My laptop battery after the registry change - only dropped 15% from 100% after 90 minutes unplugged🔋

Edit - h/t @theashtonstarr, the policy in the tutorial is marked as depreciated.

It's been a week after I made the change, but I plan to keep tracking 🔋 usage to rule out coincidences.

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Existential Comics

Okay, well....first of all every year is the Year of Linux Desktop if you are a massive nerd.

So jot that down.

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Managed to get my LLM to rephrase some boilerplate code but now I kinda want to refactor it to have less boilerplate. Should be easy with my new JSDoc powers

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Looking for loopholes in this replication code to try to force them to send over their bitfields 🤓

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Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

You know, I think that the LLM bros have it backwards.

Which, yes, so many things. But especially about usage.

See, if someone uses LLMs a lot, then there's really no need for -them- to be in the org at all; you can dike them out of the situation and leave the LLM instance "contributing" the same as they would.

So ideally, you should fire all the headcount that makes extensive use of LLMs and replace it with diversity of talent that does NOT use them, to give you the largest possible skills pool.

It's only logical.

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

@0xabad1dea Does Silicon Valley understand consent?

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Grace O'Malley

The fact that opening a Mastadon link can send you to a Bluesky link, which sends you a paywalled subtack post is abusive

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