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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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@dgar "A computer cannot wreck a hotel room, therefore a computer should not be allowed to make music."
@ozzelot I don't know how to break this to you, but your phone... it's no longer your phone.
a while back it was decided that microcode running on dedicated chips was no way to make phones, and now there's a small subsystem of what you think is your phone which is still just those parts.
Like a vestigal organ, it is retained for now.
the actual device you think of as your phone is now a fully fledged computer, even down to virtualisation layers.
the tiny computers, they yearn for the RAM
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a great video from #Veritasium about #Markov chains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZeIEiBrT_w
I have played with them myself and I used a number of them here http://bleepbloop.net to simulate a computer operating system that is failing and constantly rebooting. Everyone thinks it is using artificial intelligence, but all of the prompts are loaded in from .txt files and Markov chains remix that content when a prompt is required.
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Rather enjoying the beauty of the web slowly fading to black as site after site ramps up its invasiveness. They say I need to disable my script blocking, give up my privacy, my data, my bandwidth, my time to read their probably-AI-generated crap. I need to suffer their ads, popovers and auto-play video promos - just no. Calmly and without any anger, no. I know they finance themselves that way, but we are all free to make choices. My choice is no.
I just shrug and move on. Yet another site is dead to me - nothing lost.
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HOLY SHIT I can't believe how fun that set was. it's 2.10am and I'm still buzzing.
my absolute honour to close out Nullsector and, I suppose, #emfcamp as a whole.
massive thanks to @solexious and @DanHatesNumbers for running lighting and lasers for it, the visuals looked incredible.
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#nullsector, it was my absolute pleasure to draw pretty patterns in the air for you all tonight while @gsuberland absolutely smashed the closing set of #emfcamp at nullsector tonight! What an incredible experience 🥲😁
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8 Apple II classic games. One floppy disk.
Enjoy the latest programming miracle from 4am and Qkumba.
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@ozzelot you lost focus ;)
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or rather "cameras have arbitrary genders and you believe it's somehow less arbitrary in people? get outta here"
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the flexaret (in czech, a masculine word) has at some point become widely known as flexareta (feminine) thanks to some marketing slogan
come to czechoslovakia. we have trans medium format cameras.
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116944318046104194
It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do.
It really makes you realise how much recency bias there is in most other systems, including most web forum software. Sometimes that’s useful (I don’t want obsolete solutions to be highlighted in preference to the ones that actually work), but it also makes writing there seem ephemeral. Here, a conversation can start up after two years of silence when someone comes up with something new to contribute. And that’s incredible.
@jbz sure the computers can still use kids, but they'd be existing in a state of constant fear of them too
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What if we ban computers from using kids instead?
@jbz how about we *remove* compulsarily-added root/admin privs for users only on reaching adulthood?
problem will resolve itself with either dead systems, engineered-in security of unheard of ability, or platforms requesting "no kids" for themselves.
favebook wants 14 year old kids to have accounts? nice system you used to have there, Meta...
X wants early-life proto-nazis joining? excuse me while I bulk-order me some popcorn
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RE: https://crispsandwi.ch/@JauntyArt/116939642990460143
Now available as a single panel comic T-Shirt on my website
https://jaunty.art/product/old-macdonald-had-a-theremin-unisex-t-shirt/
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
