Apr 22, 5:14pm |
@JetForMe I'm sitting here waiting for my Kaleidescape ship to come in. |
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Apr 22, 10:34am |
@integerpoet It took me a beat to process the image here in Mastodon, (are they videos? Should I click one?) but once I did: Yeah, the ad's answering the question. Lie to the customer, make them th... |
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Apr 19, 10:29pm |
@jaredzimmerman I can't tell if I'm getting more Marcel the Shell With Shoes On vibes, or more Adventure Time vibes. |
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Apr 19, 10:14am |
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Global replacements with regexes on the shoulder of projects... I watched C-code glitter in the dark by a customized theme. All those tweaks wi... |
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Apr 17, 8:57am |
@thisismissem @404mediaco @vmstan I wonder if the GDPR covers something like this. |
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Apr 17, 8:55am |
I gave up and added the following "what's the highlight info for the word under the cursor" to my vim/nvim rc files: function! SynGroup() let l:s = synID(line('.'), col('.'), 1) e... |
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Apr 17, 7:26am |
From Joseph Cox @404mediaco : Spy Pet, the Discord aggregator, says, “We prioritize your privacy as a user searcher. Your searches are secure and confidential.” At the bottom of the site, a button ... |
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Apr 13, 9:32am |
@JetForMe sudo, pronounced s'doh, from the Japanese modifier when spoken from a superior to their junior. Ex., "Sudo, make me udon." "Sudo do it again." Used so often by Hattori... |
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Apr 12, 7:59am |
@JetForMe When I'm around you, I'm going to pronounce it "suhdoh". (Or if I pretend it's Japanese, shorten the u to s'doh.) 😂 |
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Apr 8, 9:20pm |
@creativenull Imagine my pain: I'd been using Y to yank lines in vim for years, only to migrate to neovim and see they correctly changed it to "yank to the end of the line", like C, D, et... |
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Apr 8, 9:15pm |
I saw that @creativenull 's GitHub description has "Stuck configuring vim config everyday." And I felt attacked. |
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Apr 5, 8:39pm |
@Jerry I've got two examples of why I "care somewhat". One: I probably suck at recycling correctly, because I get no feedback about what I'm doing. Similarly I might care if it really was... |
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Apr 5, 5:33pm |
(note to self) It's like `cp`. The first argument exists, the second one is the one you want to "create". |
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Apr 4, 11:25pm |
So far I like the search engine Kagi. But what I still need in Chrome is search autocomplete (esp for versus), where you type "thing vs", and Google tells you what its competitors are. An... |
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Apr 4, 11:31am |
Maybe I'll start poisoning my posts with signature text from A.I. As of my last knowledge update in April 2024, it seems like it could be interesting. #ai #discordianism |
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Apr 4, 12:40am |
"They have ventured too deep into the Library and forgotten the way out." I almost thought this was going to be about Stephen Wolfram and his "A New Kind of Science". Which, app... |
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Apr 4, 12:22am |
Alexander Miller's "Conway's Game of Hope" combines Conway’s Game of Life with Pandora’s Box. https://alex.miller.garden/game-of-hope/ |
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Mar 31, 10:22pm |
@quephird I dunno, this hits me like look at all the vulnerabilities in our world-wide infrastructures, and I am dyinggg. I guess maybe I'm dyinggg too, but more in a sadness way than anything else... |
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Mar 31, 9:49pm |
@SpaceLifeForm Did you mean "For AT&T to have only retained 7.6M of those 73M customers in 2019?" Yeah, that's a lot of churn. What we don't know is how many signed up (or otherwise g... |
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Mar 29, 5:12pm |
@404mediaco , I like the private full RSS feed. You got my money. More power to you. Good luck! |
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Mar 27, 7:57am |
If I'm going to work in a cafe, I have to visit neverssl (to get past a captive portal) before I code with openssl (for security). |
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Mar 25, 3:21pm |
Thank you @pluralistic , for selling your ebooks DRM free. I'd never want to go through Rohit's ordeal. https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit/status/1772011384206672370 |
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Mar 25, 12:30pm |
Devin can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever. #ai |
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Mar 21, 8:38pm |
I looked up the locations for the amazing sets for Full Metal Jacket. The location for Da Nang was Isle of Dogs, London. Isle of Dogs isn't just a movie! It's a real place. TIL. |
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Mar 18, 7:21pm |
Love this GitHub badge, "No Maintenance Intended", and I don't even have to re-clone my repos to add it, I can edit the README right in GitHub. This'll be nearly the first time I actually... |
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Mar 15, 8:32pm |
@stargirl That's so aesthetically pleasing! Stuff like that is inspiring. In very stark contrast, I added a screen cap of text to my own dotfiles repo today, because for some reason I wanted to sho... |
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Mar 15, 9:54am |
Amazon telling warehouse workers to close their eyes and think happy thoughts https://www.404media.co/amazon-amazen-workingwell-savoring/ mirrors Portal 2's "stare at the art and feel mentally... |
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Mar 14, 9:01am |
Important post by @pluralistic , "If we manage to snuff out the right to scrape and the right to analyze without permission – we won't stop media companies from selling creative workers' outpu... |
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Mar 11, 10:20pm |
@JetForMe vaccines (My point is I've been reduced to the equivalent of asking, "just don't come to work and cough on me". Just the simplest of hygiene would be an improvement. I can't wai... |
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Mar 11, 6:08pm |
If you use the same password at multiple sites: don't do that. Credential stuffing seems to be in the news a lot. Also, the WordPress plugin "Limit Login Attempts Reloaded" works! Had it ... |
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Mar 10, 1:44pm |
I'd gladly read a post called, "How to Start" in order to avoid starting quite yet. |
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Mar 9, 10:52pm |
Shell/vim tip: One can use process substitution to put search (ripgrep in this case) results in a quickfix window: vim +"copen" -q <(rg -n needle) Previously, I'd populated a scrat... |
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Mar 9, 5:46pm |
@JetForMe It's still useful to try quotes, results are inconsistent nowadays though. https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-get-more-accurate-google-search-results |
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Mar 9, 5:42pm |
Improve Google Search: Used to be you could use quotes to make Google search take a search term as a requirement. Now you can achieve similar results by clicking Tools at the right of the Search Re... |
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Mar 8, 2:04pm |
How does one create a Mastodon link converter from normal RSS feed links from other instances into links on their instance that they can interact with. Ex. social.jvns.ca to mastodon.social:, https... |
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Mar 5, 10:57am |
Thanks, I hate it. It is worth reading @404media 's Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them. Even if you have to provide an email account. https://www.404media.co/insi... |
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Mar 4, 8:20am |
Language from Intuit management During tax season, @pluralistic mentioned an "Intuit manager who woke up one day and said 'Fuck all those people. Just fuck them'", but it wasn't about our... |
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Mar 3, 10:05am |
If you do Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) 's book Humble Bundle, be sure to click on "Adjust Donation" and drag the sliders according to the distribution you intend before you click Checkout... |
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Mar 1, 8:42pm |
Here's a cute Easter Egg by @pluralistic. The intra-page link to his PE Hospital article, (link name /5000-bats), is "#charnel-house". It's fun to watch Cory get riled up. The explanation... |
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Mar 1, 10:43am |
@b0rk A custom bash function that tries for __git_ps1 first and falls back eventually to a local implementation. https://github.com/dblume/dotfiles/blob/main/.bashrc#L7 |
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Feb 27, 1:55pm |
Sometimes the Unix timestamp ends with 000000 when the local time is 00:00:00 (midnight). And they stay in sync for a minute! Partay! In California, we gonna party for a full minute on midnight mor... |
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Feb 22, 12:39am |
Heh. I made a JSON-to-CSV converter script #!/usr/bin/jq -rf # (clever jq code from StackOverflow) only to learn I never needed it. @saulpw@fosstodon.org's VisiData already imported my JSON just fi... |
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Feb 21, 9:56am |
Really enjoyed this @404mediaco article on the emergence of AI-generated fake recipes with fake images. This is just the beginning. https://www.404media.co/instacarts-ai-recipes-look-literally-imp... |
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Feb 19, 10:56am |
The MIT AI Lab PDP-10 had a switch with "Magic" and "More Magic" modes? That reminds me that `vim` also has Magic and Very Magic regex modes. https://mastodon.social/@larsbrinkh... |
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Feb 13, 2:40pm |
Nice to see that @pluralistic 's "enshittification" has made it. @danhon made a handy reply guidance banner, "Do not reply to teach me about capitalism or enshittification. I know.&q... |
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Feb 12, 11:59am |
So the queer.af experiment has run its course. I respect that the maintainers knew that the name could eventually fund the Taliban and knew the other associated risks. So it goes with a few TLDs, .... |
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Feb 7, 9:37am |
@Claire @b0rk As an example, I saw Julia's reply (or accidental post?) to @gvwilson about awesome sqlite examples in my feed reader. But I don't and never have followed Greg. The post was available... |
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Feb 6, 9:57pm |
Oops! That was supposed to be my favorite git config option in reply to @b0rk 's thread https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/111885363143321068 |
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Feb 6, 8:33am |
[merge] conflictstyle = diff3 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27417656/should-diff3-be-default-conflictstyle-on-git |
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Feb 4, 9:27am |
@Em0nM4stodon How to choose‽ Based on the number of commits and size of my dotfiles, I have to go with #vim. .vimrc has gotten the most love and attention. https://github.com/dblume/dotfiles |
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Feb 3, 10:11pm |
You know, as I was reading a book, and I was hoping that Amazon wasn't wasting CPU and bandwidth as they notify everyone about it. As one does. As our forefathers did. (Turns out Amazon's bug was t... |
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Feb 3, 10:07pm |
@JetForMe That's good! Is it yours? |
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Feb 3, 8:01pm |
GoodReads' HTTP Conditional GET is broken. We get 304s ("Not Modified") I updated a book today. GET works: $ curl -s "https://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/1496147?key=6f1a0fadc1... |
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Feb 1, 8:23am |
@404mediaco @keyoxide For example, here's verifiable cryptographic proof of things that are mine on the web. And if you're wondering if something else is mine, then encrypt a message to me (with my... |
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Feb 1, 8:20am |
Reading @404mediaco 's "Fake Bill Ackman and Jim Cramer Instagram Ads are Trying to Take My Money" about how Meta hosts obviously scam ads that link to others' CRD numbers as "proof ... |
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Jan 29, 12:52pm |
@georgetakei Yes, boys too. (Cries in Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Bar Filled with Speculoos Cookie Spread.) |
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Jan 29, 9:06am |
I'm not into SportsBall, but I feel hopeful when I visit the "Mr. Irrelevant" page of Wikipedia and see the photo of the QB for the 2023 NFC champions there. Let's go, Mr. Irrelevants, ev... |
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Jan 26, 11:24pm |
Oh! And I happen to be reading both Cory Doctorow and Ed Brubaker right now! I'm reading The Lost Cause on Kindle and the Reckless books on paper. 3/2 |
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Jan 26, 11:16pm |
And @pluralistic just mentioned it in "Tabs Give me Superpowers", citing himself in 2004 https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/25/today-in-tabs/ #productivity #gtd 2/2 |
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Jan 26, 11:15pm |
Pleased to see @pluralistic, Ed Brubaker and myself each wrote about a productivity technique, using the Zeigarnik Effect. (Stopping at an intentionally unfinished point.) I cited Brubaker in "... |
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Jan 21, 4:57pm |
Remember what you were working on right before your area shut down for Covid-19? I wrote a script to get on the Salesforce Tower Tours, and the tours were promptly cancelled! But then, unrelated, N... |
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Jan 19, 3:12pm |
2600 already provides an RSS feed. The education/support I'd like to see from influencers like Doctorow is why to use an RSS feed reader. With your own reader, there no platform in the middle to hi... |
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Jan 19, 11:46am |
@pluralistic went on about how unfair platforms are to 2600 without once mentioning 2600's RSS feed. RSS feeds don't have the platforms (Gmail spam filter, Facebook boost requirement) problem. Use ... |
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Jan 15, 3:02pm |
And then @pluralistic succinctly summarizes his own article "while we're nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we're certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into f... |
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Jan 15, 1:34pm |
From an American on Reddit re Houthi missile attacks: "They can keep f'ing around, but they'll discover why we don't have free healthcare." https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/197c181/... |
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Jan 15, 9:20am |
@integerpoet Hopefully that dope found something fun to do like make snarky self-deprecating social media posts. |
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Jan 12, 9:53pm |
Sad truth from @pluralistic Re: AI that'd help radiologists double-check x-rays for tumors: "AI's sales pitch is not 'Buy an AI tool and increase your costs while increasing your accuracy.' Th... |
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Jan 12, 10:20am |
Given these maps of the most popular browsers, knowing me, I should really be using Mozilla Firefox. https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/194mz2a/the_most_popular_browsers_in_each_country_2012... |
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Jan 11, 11:13pm |
Just noticed that Andri Möll's vim-bbye's documentation has this most excellent line, "If you've just got your splits and columns perfectly tuned, having them messed up equals a punch in the f... |
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Jan 8, 1:38pm |
@radiolab replayed 2009's Stochasticity about how the order of reality seems to come from randomness. Nowadays it just hits like real life Stable Diffusion. Start with the noise, then remove the no... |
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Jan 8, 11:39am |
If you miss Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Speculoos Cooper Spread chocolate bars, you might enjoy Tcho's "Aww Nuts!" Almond Butter chocolate bars. I got gifted these, and they brought be ba... |
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Jan 7, 1:20pm |
@JetForMe Yep, I've seen various pithy memes about the media falling for Rufo's strategies. Here's another link. (Worth reading the linked article there, too.) https://zirk.us/@dethtron5000/1116897... |
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Jan 4, 10:16pm |
@luna I loved your poem. Looks like a lot of us identify with the feeling. This doesn't fix the problem, but for some it's better than nothing: I follow some Mastodon friends via their [instance]/u... |
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Dec 30 2023, 11:37pm |
Here! Nicky Case's The Evolution of Trust https://ncase.me/trust/ |
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Dec 30 2023, 11:36pm |
"Most of life is not zero sum." I really enjoyed this Veritasium video, "What the Prisoner's Dilemma reveals about life, the universe, and everything", and especially love that ... |
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Dec 23 2023, 12:32pm |
@integerpoet Ha! So was I. |
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Dec 22 2023, 4:55pm |
Excalidraw is pretty wonderful. I love being able to specify a sloppiness that frees me of having to be too precise. https://excalidraw.com/ #collaboration #diagram |
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Dec 22 2023, 2:22pm |
We are completely uploaded and fine |
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Dec 19 2023, 8:43am |
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic channeling Jamie Zawinski @jwz "...nonconsensually enlist the population of San Francisco in an experimental murderbot development program" https://pluralistic.... |
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Dec 17 2023, 4:33pm |
I released Vim Git-Tab today. It's a tiny but handy vimscript that intuits what I want when I type Log, Blame, Diff or Show from the context of the current buffer and word under the cursor. https:/... |
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Dec 16 2023, 3:21pm |
Here, let me jinx myself: In the next few days I'm going to open-source a tiny project of mine that I might love just as much as Tim Pope @tpope loves vim-fugitive. #opensource |
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Dec 15 2023, 5:20pm |
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic drives his point home: "[Trudeau made] swathes of works by living Canadian authors illegal at the stroke of a pen, in a gift to the distant descendants of long-dead ... |
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Dec 13 2023, 7:37am |
Great article "Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them" from @404mediaco I half expected to hear about this from @p... |
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Dec 10 2023, 12:07am |
I wrote some notes about navigating vim in tmux or in i3 at my wiki. The wiki has some tables that show their similarities. I think this is the sort of meta thinking about process that Julia Evans ... |
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Dec 9 2023, 8:11pm |
So I just went and assessed Pixlr, Photopea, Krita and Pinta for how easy it is to annotate with text and arrows. I learned that Pixlr just rebranded as an "AI Image Generator and AI Design to... |
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Dec 8 2023, 4:33pm |
Now I know Cory Doctorow @pluralistic is baiting me. "Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III." https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstatio... |
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Dec 7 2023, 11:42pm |
@JetForMe That was really interesting. Thanks for linking directly to the meat. |
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Dec 7 2023, 7:54am |
@integerpoet "echinacea" is the number of echidna that'd fill the South China Sea. Much more practical a number and less ridiculous than the concept of a mole of moles. https://what-if.xk... |
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Dec 4 2023, 3:05pm |
Check your air filters. Test your alarms. Consider bumping your bcrypt.gensalt() work factor... (Yes, I have production code that is so old I may have to bump my bcrypt work factor.) #cryptography ... |
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Dec 3 2023, 9:32pm |
I'm just starting Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse, and this team could do Elektra: Assassin justice. #comics #movies #billsienkiewicz |
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Dec 3 2023, 7:55am |
@integerpoet I get curious about what your prompts (and process) might've been. |
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Nov 30 2023, 12:03am |
Looks like the upgrade to PHP 8.3 is going to be way easier than the upgrade to 8.2 was. https://php.watch/versions/8.3 |
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Nov 28 2023, 8:10pm |
@JetForMe I've got some code up there. https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/ |
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Nov 28 2023, 7:41pm |
The Advent of Code sounds like fun. https://realpython.com/courses/python-advent-of-code/ |
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Nov 27 2023, 3:05pm |
Just remembered that time I submitted my website to Yahoo for inclusion in their hand-curated directory. #old |
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Nov 27 2023, 8:17am |
@JetForMe Aww, that's disappointing. You'd think they'd understand the value of the improved visibility the variety of colors can provide. |
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Nov 25 2023, 12:17pm |
"These Les Mis LARPers rigged the price of bread!" It's quotes like this that keep me reading Cory Doctorow. @pluralistic https://doctorow.medium.com/thankful-for-class-consciousness-0f... |
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Nov 20 2023, 10:24am |
"It is worth noting that many of the people predicting an AI-powered doomsday are also the people funding, developing, and raising money for new AI capabilities." from @404mediaco's http... |
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Nov 15 2023, 2:23pm |
Most of the time, my IDE is stacks of tunnels. I usually choose two or three of these: *ssh*: a text-only connection to a remote target machine *tmux*: looking throw panes and windows on that ssh l... |
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Nov 11 2023, 10:29am |
Another good read by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : "Jezebel's owner's top-exec is bent on ending reality-based coverage in favor of 'letting robots shit out brand safe AI-assisted articles abou... |
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Nov 10 2023, 7:05pm |
I have a note to self to "Get rid of test code generating vim" I have no idea what I meant. @zannah might appreciate the sentiment. #code #todo |
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Nov 10 2023, 9:49am |
@integerpoet You'd think, right? But even after this election, I fear identity politics will overcome reason for the next one. |
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Nov 7 2023, 10:04pm |
Minor hand injury @JetForMe Tell us the story! What did you do? What's the prognosis? Is that a stitches situation? You up to date on your shots? Did you drive yourself to the hospital like that? D... |
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Nov 5 2023, 10:08pm |
Note to self: The Scathing Atheist crew loves playing Codenames and Codenames: Pictures. And I should try Dave the Diver sometime. #games |
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Oct 29 2023, 10:37am |
@jwz I get Dave McKean (Sandman artist) vibes from the visuals. |
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Oct 28 2023, 10:57am |
@JetForMe I just discovered him today (via front page of reddit), and I'm captivated. |
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Oct 28 2023, 10:54am |
I just discovered Neil Kohney's "The Other End", and this comic is deeply profound. https://www.kohney.com/comic/still-mad-color/ #comics #life #serenity |
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Oct 28 2023, 10:33am |
The tale of Bog-Thing, in Neil Kohney's The Other End. https://www.kohney.com/comic/bog-thing/ #comics #preservation |
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Oct 28 2023, 8:59am |
@JetForMe If you'd used LLMDB you could've used a more concise declarative format: "dump the interesting area in a relevant way" 😂 It's like pair programming. |
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Oct 18 2023, 10:24pm |
@JetForMe I think it's awesome. Keep it up. |
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Oct 18 2023, 7:20pm |
@tommyyum Are objects in the universe lazy loaded? That seems fine, we've been doing that for years. #code #computerscience #algorithms |
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Oct 17 2023, 8:40am |
@nixCraft If you're going to use your history, then curate it by removing dupes. https://medium.com/@dblume/have-only-unique-lines-in-your-bash-history-941e3de68c03 #unix #linux #bash |
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Oct 17 2023, 7:54am |
Nathan Yau made a heatmap of how the Most Common Causes of Death, by Age, has changed over the last few decades. https://flowingdata.com/2023/10/17/most-common-causes-of-death-by-age/ #data #datavi... |
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Oct 12 2023, 8:26am |
@pluralistic Can you make Amazon X-Ray files for those who read your ebooks on Amazon devices? #books #ebooks |
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Oct 8 2023, 8:40pm |
Sometimes I get sad that my kids will never have played Guitar Hero or Rock Band (or even Taiko: Drum Master) with friends. I'm sure they'll do other wonderful stuff, but that was a nice moment in ... |
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Sep 30 2023, 12:57pm |
Click through and read the "DISPATCH FROM THE CYBERPUNK CITY" manifesto in the tiny box by @jwz, of Mozilla, XScreenSaver and DNA Lounge fame. It describes today. It's worth it. https://w... |
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Sep 28 2023, 10:30am |
@integerpoet I'm dreading that there's going to be so many more of these. I'm "dyslexic" in that way - where I write words that aren't what I meant, but are sorta plausible. I'd be that h... |
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Sep 26 2023, 2:16pm |
I feel like I'm the only one at work who likes git trailers (key:value pairs at the end of commit messages). I have to fight our tool which automatically adds non-trailer lines to the end of commit... |
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Sep 25 2023, 5:11pm |
To procrastinate? Or if my boss is looking, I'll pococurate. #haiku #wotd |
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Sep 25 2023, 2:22pm |
Favorite Reddit comment of the week, on Taylor Swift asking people to register to vote: "I don't exactly cherish the idea of a pop star saving the world from a game show host, but at this poin... |
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Sep 14 2023, 10:37pm |
@mafe Apparently vim has six modes, but I only use three regularly. My IDE is tmux+vim+entr, for pretty much everything. Would love to get into go and rust soon. What're you coding? |
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Sep 13 2023, 9:27am |
Been using vim for ages. Just learned that "z" is the fold command key because the shape of the z looks like folded paper from the side. #code #vim #til |
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Sep 11 2023, 8:07am |
Has Woke gone too far? Starfield makes some users change gender to fire guns. (True article, but my "woke" intro is pure sarcasm.) #gaming https://www.404media.co/starfield-bug-forces-pla... |
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Sep 10 2023, 9:20am |
@integerpoet If it were, I imagine it risks the feline jumping off. |
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Sep 8 2023, 10:38am |
When you visit a new website, always pretend to navigate to another tab or the close box, and the page will get scared and offer you a coupon to stay. Like a car dealership. #protip #sitedesign #da... |
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Sep 4 2023, 10:09am |
@JetForMe @mastodonmigration I wonder if visibility would've been better if you'd added hashtags even though you're on your own instance. I'll boost, but as you know, I can't comment/change anything. |
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Sep 2 2023, 10:05pm |
@integerpoet Yes and it was the trainers. They looked at eyes, and swiped right. The machine generated content we're getting now is a reflection of what the trainers looked at, and now we know they... |
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Sep 2 2023, 3:09pm |
It says something about humanity that we've trained our A.I. to create images of people with amazing eyes, lips, boobs and butts, but mere vague Lovecraftian suggestions of crab tentacles for finge... |
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Aug 29 2023, 5:10pm |
@JetForMe I'm stunned. Who could have predicted that‽ Only fix is to provide encryption backdoors, I guess. Nothing could go wrong with that. |
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Aug 26 2023, 11:10pm |
@JetForMe It's JWZ's. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/ |
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Aug 25 2023, 9:16am |
@rubymayvalentine So much yes. In addition to RSS, provide email notification to those who opt in. Not everybody uses feed readers. But, more and more people are returning, so yay! Nicky Case is ba... |
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Aug 21 2023, 9:05pm |
Lines like this are one of the reasons why I read Cory Doctorow: "To call this a 'transparent ruse' is to do violence to good, hardworking transparent ruses all the world over" #openai h... |
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Aug 18 2023, 9:59am |
My .clang-format file references https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038 where it explicitly doesn't enforce line length. Thanks @torvalds! #code #c #formatwars |
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Aug 17 2023, 10:38pm |
@JetForMe I was hoping for a haiku and started counting syllables. |
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Aug 17 2023, 10:31pm |
I'm having fun reading Elmore Leonard books, and only now realize he got to enjoy seeing 3:10 to Yuma made into a movie twice, 50 years apart from each other. I wonder what he thought of that. #mov... |
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Aug 15 2023, 9:08am |
When I log in to a new device after a few days, I "git pull" my personal dotfiles repo out of a compulsive habit. Just in case. Even though you'd think I'd know if a pull is needed, as I'... |
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Aug 14 2023, 11:00am |
Long thread/15 @pluralistic @medium Re: Medium, I noticed that if you try to use 12ft.io to share the members-only article, it exposes up to the first dinkus, but doesn't give a clue that there's ... |
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Aug 9 2023, 8:55am |
Every time I get on Mastodon, I wish we'd implement @jwz's suggestion here. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/ #mastodon #activitypub #threads |
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Aug 9 2023, 7:38am |
@unwiredben I'm interested to hear what you find out. I remember hearing him on the podcast This Week in Tech. |
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Aug 8 2023, 9:37am |
@JetForMe @olivierlacan I'm often pessimistic and sarcastic. Instead, I'm going to be honest here: Yeah, I believe they will. I try to be charitable with voluntary claims about robots.txt. |
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Aug 8 2023, 9:32am |
@b0rk It's not just me! I have re-written things I'd thought would be interesting without realizing it too. (Proprietary work scripts so can't share.) |
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Aug 4 2023, 8:17pm |
I'm here for @b0rk throwing shade at ltrace. 😂 https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/03/behind--hello-world/ |
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Aug 4 2023, 8:02pm |
A great post on Google's Web Environment Integrity by Cory Doctorow. https://doctorow.medium.com/forcing-your-computer-to-rat-you-out-d6adcec6a89f #wei #google #privacy #enshittification |
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Jul 22 2023, 4:15pm |
"La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera" is "the right oppresses, the left liberates". It's also a mnemonic for which way to turn a screw, like, "rightie tightie, leftie lo... |
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Jul 19 2023, 1:14pm |
@integerpoet I didn't mean to imply I put any effort into anything. I just subscribe to RSS feeds, and notice that often for some feeds people delete posts, but the contents live on in the feeds, a... |
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Jul 18 2023, 9:31am |
@integerpoet "Delete?" Cute. Want to see it in my RSS feed? Do you tell your kids it's possible to delete things they send from their phones? |
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Jul 16 2023, 4:30pm |
@integerpoet It's wishful thinking to say "The Age of Social Media is Dead". I think some of the points are correct, though. "social-media operators discovered that the more emotiona... |
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Jul 12 2023, 9:50am |
@dmitry I have a forkbomb shirt that gets reactions from a certain type of folk. What's your 2600 shirt look like? |
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Jul 7 2023, 4:43pm |
@JetForMe yep, I think you and Doctorow would agree on that being an important factor. Breaks your heart for local businesses that don’t do SEO and lose out to crappy alternatives. |
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Jul 7 2023, 4:38pm |
@JetForMe the way I read Mastodon, threading is not great. After I asked for context here, *then* I read your earlier post that set up the context. Yeah, sorry to hear about the options you have. M... |
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Jul 7 2023, 3:55pm |
@JetForMe Heh, Cory Doctorow has been writing about the enshittification of everything for a year now. He actually breaks it down pretty nicely, but it looks like things will get worse before they ... |
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Jul 7 2023, 3:44pm |
@JetForMe Are you OK? (Mostly jk, but sorta want to hear the story that led to you posting this.) |
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Jul 6 2023, 7:53pm |
My most secret not-a-secret is I host an online glossary for Neal Stephenson's "Anathem", and not only that, I created a Kindle .mobi glossary for in-situ definitions when reading the boo... |
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Jul 6 2023, 7:31pm |
@StillIRise1963 I'd settle for just official blogs with RSS feeds from the government. |
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Jul 6 2023, 10:55am |
I'm staying on Mastodon because I like services having a web UI. I'll create a Threads account too, but the lock-in to a mobile app means I likely won't use it as much. |
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Jul 6 2023, 9:59am |
@integerpoet Interesting choice on their part that made your recipe work. They chose no web UI. So deleting the mobile app is sufficient to remove all functionality. Doesn't really affect your home... |
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Jul 4 2023, 4:01pm |
@b0rk Related, you can usually tweak your shell's history settings to only keep unique and interesting commands you've executed, so it's easier to find them. https://medium.com/@dblume/have-only-un... |
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Jul 3 2023, 1:42pm |
This is how we get Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/07/03/doomba |
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Jul 2 2023, 4:37pm |
@integerpoet I'm right behind you. Sounds nice. |
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Jun 26 2023, 3:03pm |
Artwork probably about two little weirdos being friends. https://falseknees.com/434.html |
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Jun 25 2023, 10:38am |
"The idea of a cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk doesn’t strike me as fun or exciting or cute or clever. It strikes me as lame." A good, short post by M. G. Siegler https:/... |
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Jun 24 2023, 10:11pm |
Note to self, consider: Sequence Diagrams: https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram Class Diagrams: https://app.diagrams.net/ Freeform: https://excalidraw.com/ #collaboration #communication |
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Jun 23 2023, 10:30pm |
@SpaceLifeForm Thanks, I was wondering about that. |
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Jun 23 2023, 4:05pm |
@JetForMe I hear ya. I hope your days get better. |
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Jun 16 2023, 7:53pm |
@SpaceLifeForm @JetForMe @ProPublica Yeah, I think I had the same problem with Cory Doctorow. Wanted to see original posts and real engagement, but landed on an account that just had too many boost... |
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Jun 12 2023, 12:01pm |
First great Revisionist History podcast in a long time: "The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion," taking the piss out of Columbia University and George Santos at the s... |
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Jun 10 2023, 8:45pm |
@JetForMe 👍 |
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Jun 9 2023, 9:55am |
Mastodon or ActivityPub feature request: We have RSS feeds for original public user posts. Would like another feed for public user boosts. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11290 #mastodo... |
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Jun 8 2023, 12:39pm |
Randall Munroe's "What if? 2" has the following snippet: "I notice that I started this paragraph with 'there's some good news.' I don't know why I did that." I feel like that co... |
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Jun 6 2023, 5:10pm |
CLI quick tip: URL encode with jq: $ printf %s 'encode this' | jq -sRr @uri encode%20this $ jq -rn --arg x 'encode this' '$x|@uri' encode%20this |
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Jun 5 2023, 5:02pm |
Probably the best take on the "AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue" story is this one from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic. We're in danger of being misdirected by regular crooks who want us to wat... |
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May 28 2023, 12:58pm |
I love that Cory Doctorow is staging "ideas lying around" for the coming crises that'll cause use to grasp for ideas for change. His ideas are in Chokepoint Capitalism and a series of pos... |
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May 27 2023, 10:32am |
I made some notes about Keyoxide at my wiki. The only assumption is that the reader already has a PGP key pair. https://wiki.dlma.com/keyoxide #identity #cryptography #pgp #keyoxide |
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May 27 2023, 9:43am |
Discovered Keyoxide here at Mastodon. Not the worst use of "TXT" DNS records, and I learned about GPG key "notations". So now I'm on Keyoxide too. https://keyoxide.org/1CBD499C6... |
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May 27 2023, 1:00am |
Every once in a while, I'll check the text and verify the PGP signature in rsync.net's weekly warrant canary. Can't believe I haven't automated it yet. https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canar... |
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May 25 2023, 9:31am |
I used to think "begging the question" was a smart-person way to say "assuming the original point". I now much prefer to think it's just a straight up bad, cursed translation. h... |
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May 1 2023, 8:30pm |
I really wanted to “quote post” the Mastodon post about quote posts coming soon. But I couldn’t. Yet… |
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Apr 27 2023, 6:55pm |
"This is absolute catnip for private equity — free government money, no obligations, no enforcement, and the people you harm are literally dying and can’t complain. What’s not to like?" -... |
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Apr 14 2023, 9:01pm |
Where does Cory Doctorow come up with these? "[Some countries] must constantly innovate new ways to osculate the cloacae of large firms, lest they slither over to another country and set up 'h... |
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Mar 31 2023, 6:30pm |
Of course GPT-4 hired a TaskRabbit worker to solve CAPTCHAs. https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5ew4/gpt4-hired-unwitting-taskrabbit-worker |
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Mar 26 2023, 8:56am |
Cory Doctorow reminds us "The fight over these [judicial] decisions to create socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor is a political fight. ... what will make change is th... |
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Mar 24 2023, 5:06pm |
I don't know when they did it, but GitHub added the support needed for verified links for Mastodon. You don't have to fool with github.io anymore! Yay! |
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Mar 21 2023, 10:51pm |
Another great read from Cory Doctorow. "These layoffs have nothing to do with 'trimming the fat' or correcting the hiring excesses of the lockdown. They're a project to transfer value from wor... |
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Mar 13 2023, 11:04am |
Happy National Napping Day! https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/03/photos-national-napping-day/673374/ |
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Mar 10 2023, 11:17am |
"replace 'AI' with 'SALAMI' ('Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences'). It’s a lot easier to keep a clear head when someone asks you, 'Is this SALAMI intelligent? ... |
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Feb 27 2023, 12:24am |
Great rant: "There's NEVER just one ant. I guaran-f*cking-tee you that these same creeps have 1,000 other fake Wix websites with 1,000 fake Amex merchant accounts for 1,000 REAL businesses. Ho... |
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Jan 6 2023, 9:58pm |
Welcome to 2023, an inflection point where it becomes frustratingly hard to know if anything is real or trustworthy. #machinelearning #chatgpt #stablediffusion |
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Dec 22 2022, 9:44am |
Content warning: Great professional advice #code #developers, but link to birdsite "They'll be quiet and sound unsure." I feel attacked. But excellent advice from @thingskatedid about usi... |
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Dec 20 2022, 4:14pm |
It's heartbreaking because it can take months for a nebula to puff back up again after you remove the slide. |
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Dec 20 2022, 4:13pm |
The 20th picture in the Space Telescope Advent Calendar is somebody taking a microscope slide and pushing it down on the nebula to flatten it for a better in-focus picture. You can tell where the g... |
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Dec 16 2022, 10:30pm |
@ianepperson welcome to the fediverse! It'll take a little getting used to. Consider following @feditips . Make an intro post, and use hashtags. Mastodon relies on hashtags for discovery. |
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Dec 14 2022, 2:48pm |
It's time to get to work. (A #comic by Poorly Drawn Lines that attacked me.) #comics https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/work-2/ |
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Dec 12 2022, 4:54pm |
I've been a professional developer for 200 years and I'm still tweaking my .vimrc. Receipt: Found a couple of comments after keyboard mappings. That's a bug. #code #vim https://git.dlma.com/dotfile... |
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Dec 10 2022, 10:32pm |
"Freaks and Geeks", the 2000-era TV show about high school in 1980 is closer to its subject than we are to it. #tv #old |
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Dec 6 2022, 8:23pm |
When coffee is all gone. It's over. https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2022/12/06/museum-of-wonky-english/ |
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Dec 3 2022, 5:26pm |
Done. No more Hulu visible form the main page. For archival purposes, here are the four entries from my 2008 Hulu activity feed: https://david.dlma.com/lifestream/hulu.html |
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Dec 3 2022, 2:52pm |
In 2008 to 2009, Hulu provided user activity RSS feeds! I wish more companies provided those. Today I'm going to replace my Hulu feed with my Mastodon feed in my Lifestream. I'm "replacing&quo... |
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Dec 1 2022, 9:54am |
Today's Google Doodle honors videogame pioneer Jerry Lawson, and lets you make video games. Try it out! #game #gamedev https://www.google.com/ |
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Dec 1 2022, 12:12am |
I just tried playing Tiny Islands. It's kinda fun and adorable. h/t @zannah #game https://dr-d-king.itch.io/tiny-islands |
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Nov 30 2022, 7:49am |
#protip for happiness: Exercise, eat well, get enough sleep. Have more and warmer social connections of all kinds. From the multi-generational Waldinger’s study. #happiness #health #friends #sleep ... |
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Nov 27 2022, 12:43am |
I may have to learn Rust, because I really want GitUI to work with Vim key bindings. So I may have to fix https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/issues/1454 #code #rust #git |
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Nov 26 2022, 3:04pm |
@zannah if you add 'rel="me"' to your Mastodon link at zannah.net, you'll get a little checkmark by it in your Mastodon profile. (May have to touch your profile to refresh.) Edit: And... ... |
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Nov 24 2022, 10:01pm |
I just added the CSS prefers-color-scheme media feature at my simple portal. It's just text, so just background/foreground. But adding the feature anyway made me happy that the page will try to acc... |
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Nov 23 2022, 9:20am |
I love Philz Coffee. This is the story of its founder, Phil Jaber. "The Man Who Caffeinates Silicon Valley" https://lorenwoodcuts.medium.com/the-man-who-caffeinates-silicon-valley-ebaf266... |
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Nov 22 2022, 10:23pm |
I have a private wiki where I keep things like a list of which cans of coffee I'd buy again. https://wiki.dlma.com/coffee #coffee #wiki #sharing |
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Nov 20 2022, 9:30pm |
Motivated by love. am•a•teur |ˌømədər| noun ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French, from Italian amatore, from Latin amator ‘lover,’ from amare ‘to love.’ (As seen at https://numi.st/post/2014/do-it-f... |
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Nov 17 2022, 1:10am |
Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" may be my favorite official FIFA song of all time. Such a positive and energetic vibe. |
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Nov 15 2022, 9:52am |
This Twitter "verified account" fiasco? It's horrifying that UVA students didn’t know if they could trust the verified UVA account during an active shooter this week. #Twitter |
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Nov 13 2022, 11:16am |
Dang, it's hard to write "forever" code. Just has a server get full, abandoning a "lock file" despite correct RAII, and every service that relied on it blocked or eventually thr... |
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May 8 2022, 2:32pm |
I just re-read the Lazarus TPBs, and highly recommend them. Great world building, full of potential for so many stories. Lots of intrigue, science fiction, action and a dash of dystopia. Five (of s... |
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May 7 2022, 12:29am |
Adam Mastroianni says you should go see "Everything Everywhere All at Once" for the sake of pop culture itself. "Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly" https://experimentalhistory... |
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May 1 2022, 12:37am |
Something I love about Mastodon: Mastodon has activity RSS feeds of your public posts. Format is: [instance]/users/[username].rss Mine is: https://mastodon.social/users/dblume.rss Your friends can ... |
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Apr 25 2022, 6:18pm |
I'm a rock-climbing father of two and a software developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Would love to connect with my friends from other social networks. In another life, I'd be a maker. As it is... |
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