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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

Hmm, libdipshit here is written in ALGOL 68, has a single API entry point called "UR GAY" (translated to ur_gay in the C bindings) and is licensed under BIG BILL HELL'S LICENSE but it saves me from writing precisely one (1) line of my own code so here we go

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I refuse to use github because I'm not part of anyone's "supply chain". When I post source code to use it's for perverts and weirdos to make stuff with, no for big companies to use in favor of paying anyone

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"software supply chain" oh okay so you have a contract and a business relationship... No? You found some shit on github that says "NO WARRANTY" and whose license requires you to affirm that Cirno is the strongest in Gensokyo and you used it without even auditing in production code and now you're mad it broke? Is that what happened? Are you stupid? Yes, yes you are!

I must stress that both the STRONGEST PUBLIC LICENSE and BIG BILL HELL'S LICENSE are real and have been used in real(?) projects, which whips ass

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"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more “natural” than arrays of solar panels. But that field is a biological desert .. sprayed with pest- and herbicides. Put up some solar panels, and add plants that only need to be mowed once a year (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

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in the year 2000, if you were into retro computing, you were playing with the 18 year old Commodor 64 or the 23 year old Apple II, or maybe even the 26 year old Altair 8800

in the year 2025, if you play with 18 year old computers, you're twiddling a 2007 iMac

i'm releasing microDrummo into the wild after abandoning it for a year and running out of interest due to memory limitations of the M5 Cardputer

github.com/Lana-chan/microdrum

I'm reading about the spectacular SpaceX explosion yesterday and jesus fucking christ this company is an absolute shitshow

for reference: the Saturn V rocket - the one that took astronauts to the moon in the '60s - came up and back down on its first flight (Apollo 4). its third flight (Apollo 8) took humans safely into space and back down again.

Musk and company are on - what - nine rockets right now? and they can't even launch one that doesn't break apart on re-entry - if it makes it off the launchpad without detonating.

and they did that in the '60s with nothing but rudimentary computers and a bunch of very smart people doing math and stuff.

and damn if this all isn't a metaphor for "privatization" as a whole: everything gets worse, and the absolute most evil people on earth get richer for it

Even if every energy and permission related issue with AI was solved tomorrow, it would still be incredibly dangerous, as its whole schtick is to sound convincing.

If you ask it questions you already know the answers to, you'll soon find where it very convincingly gives you incorrect information.

But here's the thing: if you're asking, then you probably won't be asking it questions you already know the answers to, at some point it will convincingly give you wrong data, and you won't have the tools to recognize it.

happy spacex blew up their entire texas launch facility day for those who celebrate

Today’s gay knowledge is:

Fuck Tree

The Fuck Tree is a sessile oak tree on West Heath on Hampstead Heath in north London. It is located in an established gay cruising area. It is noted for its slender trunk which facilitates gay sex.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_Tree

@nixCraft

If you're looking for an $EDITOR that isn't sponsored/supported by AI companies, ed(1) is here for you.

Unix Errno would be a great Star Wars character name

Do get an ad blocker.

But probably not one that has less than a 4.0 out of 5 stars in the browser's extension/add-on store.

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One of my customers got completely turned off to ad blockers in general because the ad blocker that came up when they looked for one to install was Total Adblock.

Total Adblock promises to block all ads, but it allows the sweetest malvertising targets in the free edition & nags for payment more often than ads themselves.

I won them back on side by removing it, installing uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill, & showing them how to use it, getting their fully informed consent at each step of the way.

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