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Charles U. Farley

@freakazoid@retro.social
mastodon 4.2.20
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They/them. Trying to be less of a professional pond pisser. Queer, neurospicy GenX Irish-American parent of two kids living in #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania USA. No gods, no masters, nobody with >1000 follows. Have a profile and some posts or have interacted with me before requesting to follow.

#anarchism #retrocomputing #amateurradio #space #electronics #c64 #rc2014 #zig

#nobot (including any unsolicited bot interaction) #noarchive #noindex #noscrape #nobridge #noAI

324 Followers
241 Following
26 Posts
Joined May 17, 2018
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A pixel art front view of a tracked robot in gray on blue with black outlines. It shows the width of the robot as 1.0m. From the game "Hacker II".
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A screenshot from Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970). It shows a ceiling-mounted multi-sided scrolling text display with two lines. The top line sys "WARN" and the second line says "THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM" scrolling across the two sides that are in view
Blocked instances:
mastodon.social, mstdn.ca, hachyderm.io, vivaldi.net, cosocial.ca, infosec.exchange, and several other large/techbro instances
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 3mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop @DJGummikuh@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I think it's more likely Google know their court filings are never going to hurt their public image, because the number of people whose minds might possibly be changed by them is tiny. There is not much daylight between "See! Google admit their AI is useless!" and "Google will say whatever they need to to win a case, just like every other corporation out there."
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago
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@artemis@dice.camp "When we said think for yourself we didn't REALLY mean for you to actually think for yourself! We meant for you to let us think for you while you told yourself you were thinking for yourself."
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 5mo ago
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(Network effects don't require that the network provides positive net value to its members, only that being a member of the network provides less negative value than not being a member of the network. It says nothing about the value relative to nobody you know being a member of the network.)
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 3mo ago
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@DJGummikuh@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Fingers crossed!
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 5mo ago
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(Libertarians would of course come up with some excuse for why FOMO by definition provides some kind of value, because libertarians are experts at circular reasoning.)
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 5mo ago
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(The circular reasoning in this case being "humans don't do things that provide negative value to them" which completely ignores the fact that they *started* in the hole because the service exists in the first place. So sure, using it provides short term value; but the fact that their friends are there provides negative value because if they weren't they'd interact with their friends in some way that wasn't being exploited by surveillance capitalists.)
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 4mo ago
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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social I like that the cable is even yellow just like every thicknet cable I've seen. Do you suppose they were a standard color so people wouldn't sink their vampire tap into the wrong cable?
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago
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@artemis@dice.camp Reminds me a bit of my own journey to anarchism, which came from following the values I was raised with that I was told were "western", "American", and "Christian". Turns out you can follow the values or you can follow the state/church, but not both. I chose the values.
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago

Do you s'pose Trump keeps lying and claiming the Iranians have reached out to try to make a deal because he's setting things up to be able to chicken out at any time by saying the Iranians finally offered a good enough deal?

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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago
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@TheSunnyOne@eldritch.cafe Thanks for the reminder.
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago

Just heard from @jaythurbershow@union.place that the weather station at Allegheny County Airport reported a gust of 69mph last night, and that PIT was reporting 4th highest wind speeds outside of a thunderstorm.

Be careful out there!

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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 7mo ago
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@janbeta@chaos.social Ask questions from the 70s so nobody under 60 can look at porn?
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 7mo ago
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@zimzat@mastodon.social Oh, also, in my experience, AI is worthless for review of AI-generated code; it will only catch the same things that it would have caught had the PR author used the review agent themselves, which will in turn be using the PR description the agent probably wrote, and thus will miss the same sort of mistakes the agent would have made to begin with. The result is that if the author is doing the bare minimum that they should be, the review agent won't find any issues.
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago

More wind? Jerks.

#Pittsburgh

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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago

Weird how all these countries Trump has been threatening with tariffs aren't jumping at the chance to help him out now that he's dug himself into a nice deep hole.

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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago

Capitalism is the most effective system ever devised for producing anti-capitalists.

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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago

DLC just notified me my power is back on. 14 hours after it came back on. Gotta love monopolies.

#Pittsburgh

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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago

The US has two political parties: the fascist party, and the fascist party.

Voting won't save us.

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/13/iran-war-democrats-schumer-jeffries/

theintercept.com
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago

Let's all take a moment to reflect on what a blatant example of either willful ignorance or outright lying "If you use X against fascists they'll use it against you" turned out to be, since they will use X against you anyway.

And then remember every single person who ever said it to you.

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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@thomholwerda Anything new or still their "big tent" bullshit around sponsoring DHH?
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 5mo ago

Anyone know a good way to bulk-buy lithium battery packs to charge phones in the US? Unhoused folks need them since opportunities to charge are limited, as is the battery life of the kinds of phones they can afford. Quantity 10-ish, but if anyone in #Pittsburgh wants to go in on a bigger buy I'd be down.

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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 7mo ago
Replying to
@talexb@fosstodon.org As someone with ADHD who frequently stalls out any time work gets tedious, yes, I'm definitely ahead. Would love to be able to work on stuff that's always so fun I don't stall out on it, but sadly I need to actually get paid so I can keep my family fed, clothed, and housed.
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 7mo ago
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@zimzat@mastodon.social Yeah, I'm definitely seeing the pressure. AI -> more review requests + more pressure to be productive -> rubber stamps. We're in a world where reviewing a PR now often takes longer than writing it. And of course it's the person who wrote it who gets the credit. Which is going to need to change; in AI-world, author and reviewer should really get equal credit.
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 7mo ago
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@cwebber@social.coop Did they seriously think using AI meant that they could just skip code review?
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Charles U. Farley @freakazoid@retro.social
· 6mo ago
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@liaizon@social.wake.st wish I could see who responded yes so I can block the bootlickers.
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