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JA Westenberg

Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."

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Trevor "Dust Mouth" Flowers

The best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent.

Don't subscribe. Don't lease. Don't use their cloud. Don't slip down the freemium slope. Don't create accounts on their services.

Buy it once. Run it local. Avoid commercial software.

It'll be a huge pain and you'll be an outsider but it'll be endless, interesting, and hard fun that'll pay you back with a curious mind and an understanding of the fabric of our intellectual infrastructure that will make you light-years more capable, useful, and healthy than the "AI" zombies.

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e. hashman 🇵🇸

Someone said something about ingesting libc and this is what popped into my head

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@atax1a I'm an even bigger idiot than that. I just remembered I have /.zfs/snapshot/(most_recent_name)/var/db/pkg/ to compare against.

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@atax1a UN_GPART_ABLE

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Covid and AI 

I recognize your right to get infected and suffer. Knock yourself out. Permanently, if you feel like doing us that favor.

But you have no right to infect others. Yet here you are, trying to poison us as you've poisoned yourselves, and you dare to wonder why we're so desperately resisting you, fighting you, and cutting you out of our lives one way or another.

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Operating systems, Web browsers, and websites are giving some of my customers weather forecasts for cities or states in which they don't live by default, implying that they somehow aren't where they really are.

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Nora, of the E-gemony :spinnycat_trans:

Not a little bit trans, not just trans, not very trans, but actually, legitimately, GIGATRANS

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I had to `rm /var/db/pkg/*` and re-bootstrap pkg to stop my installed ports from being randomly uninstalled. I did that a few days ago, and it worked.

Now I have my most needed ports reinstalled (installed anew, according to ), and my system is back to mostly normal again.

But because I wiped out my pkg database, I have a few thousand now-untracked binaries that I need to sort through, finding out the hard way which ports installed them.

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@mavica_again Pretty awesomely negatively impressed, oof. Brains make lots of bad things easier than it should be.

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Heil Seitan

Look, Nazis know they’re fucking Nazis, they just keep telling you they aren’t so you’ll argue with them about it instead of stopping them.

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Inspirational Skeletor💀
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AI dystopia 

The real AI revolution will come when sloppy programming makes it dirt cheap and idiot easy for random activists to hack war drones mid-flight and redirect them to LLM datacenters.

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[object Object]

ethical AI? of course! it’s always ethical to bamboozle an elderly CS legend into releasing a paper about LLM coding that doesn’t stand up to even basic scrutiny, instead of spending his limited remaining time on this planet finally finishing his book series on algorithms.

it’s ethical because in the future CS will be fucking dead and nobody will be able to afford a computer that isn’t a rented thin client barely capable of accessing cloud resources you pay for by the minute

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[object Object]

ethical AI? of course! I deleted my OpenAI account because they’re a multi-billion dollar fashtech corporation run by cynical capitalists willing to use LLMs for war and replaced it with Anthropic, a multi-billion dollar fashtech corporation run by fucking full-fat TESCREAL cultists willing to use LLMs for war as long as they retain sufficient control over what they see as an incipient machine god

why aren’t you clapping

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Mozilla's instructions for installing on ChromeOS don't mention Firefox ESR.

I forgot that this kind of ESR was an option.

`sudo apt-get install firefox-esr` works just as well as `sudo apt-get install firefox` does. Today, it installed Firefox ESR 140.8, and it seems as stable as 148 should've been.

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@atax1a True. But its sloperator is the very small shellscript.

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@atax1a The slop machine convinced them that replacing themselves completely with a very small shellscript was anything better than an insult.

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Alexis

Any hug from a plural system is a group hug.

The more you know.

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