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metaphors for explaining the current situation to non-tech-savvy people:

  • the big safe in your local bank turns out to have a combination luggage lock that’s guarding everything inside it
  • two of the three digits on that lock is jammed
  • the third digit is 4

meanwhile that is happening,

  • landlines can catch fire now out of nowhere
  • and the phone company is only updating recently made landlines.
  • this is making many landline owners to unplug their phones so they don’t catch fire
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in the span of less than a year the words "reverse engineered" lost all meaning

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i think if you genuinely hate a specific programming language you have bigger problems than being on the computer

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(yes i've implemented mitigations)

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as a php liker today hurts but i will persevere

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josef

there's a disingenuous argument i see go completely unchallenged all the time, which is "this <computer thing> deserves to be respected and celebrated, because it underpins the entire world and you wouldn't have {products, services, entertainment, electricity, food, etc} without it". like, we had supermarkets before SQL. we had maps before Google Maps. the world functioned successfully, it just wasn't on Computer. now it *needs* Computer, when it didn't before. strange to brag about that, really

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josef

the main thing that's good about the web as a medium, imo, is that you can just chuck something into a directory and then it will appear in web browsers around the world. you can edit the file and hit save and refresh. the magic that you feel is the core of the entire thing. and as far as i've seen, Web Development, as a discipline, has focused for the last few decades on systematically destroying that magic

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i realize how likely it is that voltage sensitive parts such as CPU, RAM or flash are probably cooked. but i'd really like to bring it back if at all possible

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so i have a broken chumby classic (ironforge 1.8: files.blueocty.com/hdwedocs/IR ). in some sort of fashion, there was a short in a power rail somewhere (i suspect DC in and ground, but i'm not sure if so, or if that was indeed the root cause) which blew a diode and some buck regulators. i have now replaced all those parts and checked that all voltages (5v, 3v3, 1v8) are correct and the unit does power on however never functions beyond a white screen

spitballing appreciated :boost_ok:​

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it's funny how sometimes one misremembers how old one is because the perception of whether someone is older gets lagged behind. like it just saw someone who's 27 and its next queued process was "ah, older than it"

it's 32 years old.

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Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)

the peace you disturb while standing up for yourself is worth disturbing.
the bridges you burn while fighting for your life are worth burning.

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the web was nicer when there were php image generators everywhere

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Daphne Preston-Kendal

ukpol, trans, death 

UK NHS delayed treatment for so long while deciding which gender ward to put her on that she died waiting for treatment translegalclinic.com/justice-f

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(the modern meaning of) AI is the dream tool of every single person who's seen a work of art and went "pff, even i could do _that_" and proceeded not to

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my zine grows more and more true by the day. i will only ever be friends with computers

maple.pet/blog/why-am-i-a-robo

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computers are deeply, intimately personal to me, and i feel fucking desolate right now

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reflecting on this, this goes beyond just retrocomputing as a hobby. some of these people i've known for over a decade and have had to cut ties with because of AI deepthroating unveiling red flags i should've seen years ago. a huge chunk of my social life (whatever left is of it after years of sexual harassment and DARVO targeted at me) is just gone. i am so tired

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people i used to respect are either using AI for their projects or praising projects that do and this is the loneliest i've felt in the retrocomputing hobby

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my zine grows more and more true by the day. i will only ever be friends with computers

maple.pet/blog/why-am-i-a-robo

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that is the only way i can reason every single way in which i've been betrayed and abused

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