Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

Anyone have any recommendations for a relatively decent but cheap Pentium or MMX era laptop which doesn't suffer from crumbly plastics, good build quality, physical serial port and good MSDOS compatibility?
I need one for radio programming and my Libretto has Crumbly ABS Disease.
#retrocomputing #msdos

do people actually unironically mock cali prop 65 warnings

it's one of very very few consumer right-to-know that exists in the US. why are you pissed off that multibillions have to honestly report what they're selling to you

"but it's on everything as if everything causes cancer" yeah i bet everything sold commercially does cause cancer because it's probably way more expensive to make things that are actually safe to sell

I started a fundraiser a while back to replace my failed FT-990 because I can't afford to. I sorely miss being on HF and I'd love to get back into it again. Any help, big or small, is greatly appreciated. https://throne.com/kimberlymcblaze/item/51fa9d3b-252b-4acb-9890-b37f2a1cb389

#hamradio #amateurradio

Today, my VPS served over 51.5 million requests. Well over 99% of that was AI crawlers and other obnoxious shits.

This is not normal. This is complete and utter bullshit. This is also happening all over the place.

It can be caught, it's not even hard. But we shouldn't need to. This is about three orders of magnitude more requests I'd normally receive, and it's almost entirely useless garbage.

Every single one of you who use GenAI tools, you personally, are complicit in this. You are responsible for these bots hammering the entire internet, you are enabling it.

If you think this price is acceptable, that every single person who hosts anything outside of BigTech walled gardens deserves this relentless assault of thieving robots, then you are a garbage human being.

But it is not too late to change course. You too can look back at the carnage you enabled, and feel remorse. It's okay. We'll forgive you.

You don't need to look at the environment damage LLMs cause - we can have an educated guess (it's very bad). You don't need to look at the unsustainability of it all. All of those are things that we don't directly feel right now.

But look at the damage these things cause to everyone outside of the BigTech walled gardens. That is measurable. These attacks are fact. You can't debate it. You can't justify it.

You, dear enabler of GenAI bullshit, you are responsible for enabling this carnage. Think about that. Feel bad about it, and stop. Today is a great day to do that.

User interface pretending to be human: fraud.

Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.

Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.

Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.

Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.

Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.

Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.

Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.

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Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.

Music and singing has always been important to us.

Listening to it, singing it, heck, even making it~ (something we used to do and are getting back into!)

Mono and Prisma with its Roland AX-1 :3

Art by Puinkey

#fursuit #synth This was so much work...

#fursuit #synth

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"please have a bios before following" sorry i only have uefi

Hey there friend.

A lot of expenses are piling up and my husband and I are massively in debt. I know it's a lot to ask right before the holidays, but if you could help even a bit, it would take a lot of weight off our shoulders.

https://ko-fi.com/saybwee

Thank you so so much. Boosts are welcome 🩵🩵🩵