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@csb@na.social no offense but if you can't hold a job just say so :-D
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@deprecated_ii@poa.st "if the token companies actually had tokens worth anything they wouldn't sell them, they'd just move into whatever business would make them money."
i think the fact that there's like 20 competing labs lends a lot of validity to this assertion, if anyone had tokens worth a damn, we wouldn't know it from the outside, they'd just eat everyone's lunch. How could reselling tokens be worth more than real products and or software?
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz i just donated today to two projects. I don't make a habit of donating, but i am in a giving mood for useful tools today, i guess.
I do submit bug reports with actual information, and am quick to correct myself in bug reports and close them if i am dumb.
I think more people should donate, for sure. I should donate much more. I'll start now.
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz TIL of LMMS...
I'll have to see if it sparks more joy than openMPT which is what i currently plink on
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@deprecated_ii@poa.st AI routinely says to issue destructive commands; when i started seeing "MCP" and "Agent(ic)" i was in shock a little. The models *still* do this, so let's let them do it autonomously?
lol genius. bet on backblaze, i guess.
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@jblue@mastodon.world I have a way to do this with solar that also takes the carbon out of the water as it desalinates, so it's twofold, carbon scrubbing and clean water.
I need a barge to implement it on, so i'm always looking for a barge sale.
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social i appreciate the documentation, although i know that it will not matter in the slightest in any online or offline discussion or debate.
but it's still a staggering number of birds.
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@mackya i am glad i got to see europe in the mid 90s. i doubt i'll vacation there ever again.
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@peter@social.linss.com @whvholst@eupolicy.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange 200GB a month default BW cap? ho-wow, that's like 50GB more than most people i know have included on their home internet from cable companies. well, several years ago, idk what caps are now. 5 years ago or so it would have taken me at most a couple of hours at full speed to hit the caps; and now because i want to watch streaming i have to consent to letting them burn through my data caps?
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@deprecated_ii@poa.st i can't help but shake the weird feeling that i am both holding it wrong and one of the only people that thinks these things are toys. I'm having a hard time expressing myself today so bear with me
every time i use an LLM it fucks up. doesn't matter what LLM, doesn't matter agentic or what. Only the obvious "good path" works, like "make me a 2048 clone in js/html/css"
deepseek issued commands that broke a raid setup permanently, e.g.
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@theDanielJLewis@podcastindex.social the old but still viable voice chat software Ventrilo had the ability to record channels of users chatting, as a single file, or as multiple files, with timestamps, so you could load them in and align them in an editor.
i was like, man, this is gunna be so cool!
i did it one time, it was such this image that i never did it again
per JCD's substack, i present an oldie but goodie
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@harblinger@wizard.casa where's .cque for old-school realtime text chat, morse/CW, and ham radio?
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@harblinger@wizard.casa hey cool, i forgot .radio was a thing. If i ever get my limeSDR replaced that was DOA from the kickstarter, or a KiwiSDR, i'll buy a .radio to publicly host it!
I also buy domains for like 10 years... for the discount, and the "less stress."
P.S. the Titanic sent "CQ" many times while it was sinking as ships moved in and out of range, although some california shore station was monitoring them sucessfully, which is how we have *the entire CW logs* from the incident!
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@twl@pleroma.8777.ch my subaru will read text messages to me, and let you give canned responses. i never use it, in fact, i consider it embarassing.
But i just take my phone in the shower and set it on the door-hanger rail. I've even dropped my phone into a bathtub; well, not this one, i don't trust this one. although one of my friends got a new phone and accidentally placed a *video* call to me, and since my hands were wet, i *answered* it instead of hanging up.
So maybe i'm 100% with you, now.
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@rejectwreck@poa.st @lain@lain.com mac OS 8, and some could argue (and i might, too) that Mac OS 9, at the end of their run, were perfect operating systems from a UX perspective. unfortunately there was no pre-emption, no real multi user, no real networking support, and so on.
Mac OS X Server, from 1998/1999, just carried OS 9 a *bit* further, and softened the edges a bit more, even.
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@rip1pk1 same same and someone was like "you should go for a brisk walk" so now my feet hurt, i'm nauseous, and my face is leaking. Thanks!
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@401matthall @cerement @wezm
i always use 2026-04-16, but if someone is like "when is the next dr appointment" i will say "april 23rd"
I have never seen the point in "23 april", but i also don't like april 23, 2026.
i think yyyy-mm-dd is an iso standard anyhow :-)
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@feld how did you do that with a local model? assume i have local models and a working API, how did you interface with it? I kinda lost my way in AI stuff, i went music/photo/video and less LLM, so i'd like to catch up
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@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co @sampler@freebeerextremist.com "aren't they all" was my contribution but you got here first
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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer on the one hand, *I* think *I* can take ok pictures without assistance.
However a lot of people think they can take ok pictures without assistance and their photos suck.
mine too, but still.
So a lot of people would buy a phone with no "AI" for photos and then complain crazily about how poor the camera is.
you know?
man, people. can't live with them, can't fire them in to the sun, yet.
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@SuperLutheran@poa.st wished my wife's mom a happy mother's day, that's about it. who else should i contact? i don't contact every mom i know do i? that's crazy.
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@graf@poa.st @MisterLister@poa.st there's chicken wings and waffles, hot cheetos, what appears to be birthday cake, and possibly collards, but i don't know what the red balls are, they look like cheetos and make the image seem AI generated
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@quad@akko.quad.moe @kura@hai.z0ne.social your GPU has more memory than your computer?
is the game any good, i haven't heard anything about it other than from one friend that is posting all the meme articles about it to me
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@suquili@poa.st i am having a hard time remembering what the first one was, i know mapporn was one of the early ones, history too maybe, but the first one was really innocuous and it has *always* bugged me.
It's like people using "raw-dog" in a professional context, like, "we'll raw-dog the contract terms, we don't need lawyers"
no, dude, you're gross.
also, whoever uploaded the first "step" video that caused the cascade needs to be shot, too.
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@fuknukl@noauthority.social the second one's description is wrong. and i don't really recognize a few of the others. The second one should be "arched back with fur potentially puffed up to make them look bigger"
where's the question mark tail?
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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer are you sure you didn't switch original and edited? because who looked at that and thought "this is good"?
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@UnityOstara@poa.st when did they merge? because all of the pair stores out here took family dollar off the signs, and a few of the stores closed completely. that's what they get for opening literally next door to a dollar general (dolgen)
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@freedomtux@linuxrocks.online alright!
if one is in to kernel compilation for size or cruft: you need your old .config from the current running kernel, for instance. go to new kernel dir, make oldconfig; make menuconfig then you can go through and enable/disable kernel "features" as needed.
ubuntu's kernel was around 10-13MB, but they use initrd (or similar) for all the drivers.
If you know exactly what you need, you can skip everything but the 10-13MB kernel ;-)
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@deprecated_ii@poa.st i seen a thing today by the vsauce guy and some lady who is smart and british where the vsauce guy made a snap bracelet that had a timeline and a bunch of GPS coordinates with labels on the timeline, like titanic, sunk 1918 or whatever and not found until 2020 whatever.
the guy said the band he was showing on screen was for 600C.E through 2020, and you'd need other ones for more recent or more distant dates.
The lady asked "how do you prove you've traveled forward in time?"
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@graf Sorry your dad isn't around. my idiot dad bought an experimental aircraft with an *Italian* motorcycle engine as the prime mover and the engine gave out at 300' over a farm's field.
I mostly am angry that his grandkids won't ever get to hang out with him, especially my youngest, who was 1 when my dad went.
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well, that's why windows sucks for old hardware on newer versions. sound cards and firewire will cause a reboot using windows 10 or other "generic" drivers, for example.
I have to go look at the list to see if i need to buy a machine to handle any hardware...
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@themilkman@shitposter.world find real boric acid. in the US it's sold as a powdered ant and roach poison. It's a real acid, but very weak. but fungus can't survive it.
So you take all your shoes and you put boric acid in them, till the insides are white and a little bit of the acid slides around if you shake the shoe.
leave it like that for 24 hours, then smack the shoes really hard and get as much loose boric acid out.
you can wash the shoes now, or not. Either way.
it's the fastest way.
vinegar the sock
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@WPalant@infosec.exchange it's just shorthand. I've always wanted to try and design a UI for television, but i don't know how.
it gets ridiculous on shows/movies where the premise is more technical, you get stuff like "proxies are like ships passing in the night"
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@lks@poa.st i live in a forest and can't sit outside all summer long, regardless of trees.
I just pissed into the wind; contacted all of my US rep and senator; to wit:
"Hey! Google chevron stock, BP stock, Shell PLC stock, Exxon stock. I don't mind paying a bit more at the pump because we want to stop iran from having nukes, but someone needs to stand up and ask big oil WTF they're doing profiteering at our expense."
All oil companies with the exception of BP are at or around the highest stock prices, ever. BP is highest since 2013, but still. at the pump we're giving dividends?!
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@isagalaev @wezm i came to say this. I know it also sucks to be left handed in this world, but them's the breaks
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@charlie_root@annihilation.social looks like mila jovovich, kinda. I'm bad with faces, though
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@freedomtux@linuxrocks.online oh and when you finish with make menuconfig, you note how many threads your machine has, say 16;
make -j15 && make modules_install
that second part is if you set anything in menuconfig to "M" instead of "in kernel" - the selections may be tri-state - compiled in, compiled as module, not compiled.
for more info https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Kernel
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@madcuzbad@nicecrew.digital @Evil_Bender@nicecrew.digital @nierenstein@poa.st the 24 hour gas station near me (it's 6 miles away but who's counting) actually shuts off the lotto machine after 11PM because of this, a single cashier having to deal with grandma "check came in" grandmason at 1:45 buying 100 scratchers, 1 at a time, "lemme get a #4, a #14, a #2, another #4, a #6..." with a growing line of increasingly agitated drunks behind her...
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@freedomtux@linuxrocks.online @phoronix@masto.ai i'd have to actually investigate, but i imagine bus mouse kernel drivers aren't very big. Are you talking about the kernel or the OS image? i ask because i haven't heard someone call vmlinuz an "image" in nearly a couple of dozen years.
Stuff that's "set in stone" can generally be picked over for a decade, shrinking it, removing bad loops, quadratic algorithms, and still function correctly.
Now if subsystems change and the driver can no longer make assumptions...
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz i'm only stingy because i produced and released ~10 albums 28 years ago through 20 years ago and got $0.
It's spoiled grapes and i need to get over it.
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@SIC_Guy@poa.st unless NWS decides to take the evening off, as they've done in the south...
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@NIGHTEN i'm slightly annoyed i had to do homework to post this comment, but here we go:
This brings to mind 16 bit soft pixel art. pretty slick, considering it existed before pixels (i think, at a skim of the article you linked)
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@deprecated_ii@poa.st i've vibed both node and flask backends as well as vanilla and react front ends. i don't see the difference. I don't code end-to-end otherwise, though.