Nostr notes by Angle🖇

Oh, it can always get worse lol. You think this is bad, you ...

2026-10-04T17:05:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…rwqz
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Oh, it can always get worse lol. You think this is bad, you haven't seen anything yet. And we might manage to sort out congress in our coming election and get them to do something? I dunno, democrats have been pretty damn useless, but it's worth a shot I guess.

Like, c'mon dude, The universe is not going to save us - if ...

2026-10-04T06:47:10Z

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Like, c'mon dude, The universe is not going to save us - if we want this handled in a way that's not awful, we're going to have to actually do something at some point??? Hello?

...What, the part where I post in a screenshot for what I'm ...

2026-10-04T06:46:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…cfce
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...What, the part where I post in a screenshot for what I'm working on and it's able to recognize the issue and debug it? That's an illusion? C'mokn dude, don;t be ridiculous.

As for the materials... Eh, they're expensive, but technology gets better all the time, and they don't use very *much* of the rare stuff - tiny little pinches of rare earth metals. Which aren't actually that rare, I'll note, they just don't occur in great quantities, and it's incredibly dirty to process them.

My guy, we're not even dealing with large language models ...

2026-10-04T00:30:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…nx9y
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My guy, we're not even dealing with large language models anymore - they've gone multimodal, they deal with all sorts of inputs. I can paste an image into my conversations with an AI, and it can look at it and figure out what's going on. Do you know how fucking crazy that is??? The future is bearing down on us like a runaway truck, and we have no idea what we're dealing with. -_-

...Well, that still leaves the classic 'Paperclip ...

2026-10-03T21:49:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…jhgp
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...Well, that still leaves the classic 'Paperclip Maximizer' as a possibility, so I hardly find it reassuring and I'm not sure why you think it's such an important line in the sand. There are millions of humans giving AIs, like, billions of prompts, every day. Sooner or later, someone is going to give a powerful AI a stupid prompt... :/

And that's kind of true, but there's so much involved in ...

2026-10-03T21:02:37Z

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And that's kind of true, but there's so much involved in that, and we do it as such a large and complex scale in time and space, it barely means anything. :/

The rogue swarm certainly seemed to have goals, and they ...

2026-10-03T21:02:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…hrc8
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The rogue swarm certainly seemed to have goals, and they understood the simple idea that 'More resources = more power = more ability to accomplish goals'. That's reason enough to be concerned. As for just being 'prompt processors'... I dunno, you can say that humans are just 'environment responders' - we take in our surroundings and respond to them.

I started questioning everyone else's a long time ago. The ...

2026-10-03T06:56:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…fgkp
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I started questioning everyone else's a long time ago. The willful blindness is astonishing. Maybe take it from Scott Aaronson? That not good enough for you either??? T_T

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10062

For all you who aren't impressed with AI - here's a human ...

2026-10-03T06:26:44Z

For all you who aren't impressed with AI - here's a human taking over an hour to figure out how to craft a pickaxe in Minecraft. Does this disprove human intelligence? :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6kxNqaQGDU

Man, fuck youtube. It's outrageous that we've let a ...

2026-06-15T01:43:20Z

Man, fuck youtube. It's outrageous that we've let a company gain such an important position in the distribution of information. Worse, they've managed to make it so that when I watch youtube videos on youtube, it sometimes crashed my computer. I was getting around this by watching them via Freetube instead, but it seems they don't like that... -_-

...And you want everyone to, what, spend a bajillion dollars to ...

2026-03-24T18:36:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…9a2r
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...And you want everyone to, what, spend a bajillion dollars to switch to Apples walled garden and hope they don't decide to start fucking people? I won't say Linux is perfect, but it's the best option I see. :/

So I was watching this video: ...

2026-03-24T18:17:53Z

So I was watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N008PVQPCd0

And a line stuck with me: "Linux is a POS sometimes, but it's getting better, and Windows is a POS sometimes, and it's getting worse." That really does feel like how things are going, IMO - on lots of different levels, not just Linux. Across the board, we have old systems slowly failing, and new systems slowly coming in to replace them.

...I'm not even 10 minutes into this video and it's ...

2026-03-20T19:01:16Z

...I'm not even 10 minutes into this video and it's shocking me. Did you know they put in special effort to make cigarettes more addictive - including just straight up adding sugar to them? Like, wtf. :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo9iKHhcZuQ

I don't want to just let someone swap out all the assets for ...

2026-01-02T22:44:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…w9rg
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I don't want to just let someone swap out all the assets for AI art or whatever and be on their way, though. :/

So if I want to release the source code for a video game with ...

2026-01-02T20:17:17Z

So if I want to release the source code for a video game with AGPL, but also want to stipulate that nobody can offer the game on Steam or any other platform without my consent, is there a license for that? :/

Not an easy place to start. :p

2025-11-04T18:35:32Z

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Not an easy place to start. :p

Yeah, and who's got time for community? And for those who do, ...

2025-11-04T18:10:55Z

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Yeah, and who's got time for community? And for those who do, where would you even begin? :/

I mean, it's already pretty easy for a parent to just ...

2025-11-04T18:05:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…5n5y
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I mean, it's already pretty easy for a parent to just register their kid as homeschooled, isn't it? I don't think that's the problem. If the parents aren't going to give a kid a good education, which they often won;t, and the schools won't do it, which they often won't, then where's a kid supposed to get that? :/

...So, does anyone else think maybe we're doing education ...

2025-11-04T17:45:44Z

...So, does anyone else think maybe we're doing education wrong? Like, more time spent on the fundamentals of thought and basic problem solving, to start with? Anyone else made this argument? Is there a book on the topic I can read, or something? XD

It doesn't matter whether people like it, it matters whether ...

2025-11-03T20:25:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…xytg
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It doesn't matter whether people like it, it matters whether they can use it to automate our jobs and then send the deathbots after us. Which eventually I think they can, and will, if we don't do anything about it. :/

Eh, at the moment it still needs a fair bit of development - but ...

2025-11-03T20:18:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…kz6f
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Eh, at the moment it still needs a fair bit of development - but they're working on that, and there's no sign they'll stop. So, at the moment it looks like either they'll figure it out, or society will collapse first... :/

I worry the technology is too powerful to prevent entirely... ...

2025-11-03T20:07:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…hj09
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I worry the technology is too powerful to prevent entirely... Though maybe we can prevent the datacenter version, which is the worst form overall, IMO? We might have to dismantle capitalism entirely to prevent that, though, which is, uh, kinda a big ask... :/

I don't entirely agree with this, but regardless, even within ...

2025-11-03T19:59:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…8lqu
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I don't entirely agree with this, but regardless, even within that scenario what I'm arguing for isn't 'good guy with toxic waste', it's 'good guy whose job it is to study toxic waste'. Which, given we have a lot of rich and powerful people dead set on producing the stuff and shoving it anywhere they can make it fit, seems really important. :/

Mmm. I definitely agree the tech is being taken in the wrong ...

2025-11-03T18:24:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…t27f
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Mmm. I definitely agree the tech is being taken in the wrong direction. Though that describes most tech right now honestly. :/

Techno-minimalism... Eh, yes and no? I avoid most corporate tech as much as I can already... But like, 'just opting out' can only take you so far, it's a stopgap measure, not a defense. If all we do is retreat, then eventually they'll drive us off a cliff or corner us or chase us to exhaustion and then murder us, IMO...

Eh, I use a local AI myself. It has a lot of problems and is far ...

2025-11-03T18:08:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…8ta0
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Eh, I use a local AI myself. It has a lot of problems and is far from perfect, but the underlying technology is sound, and we will be seeing it become steadily more powerful and more useful over the coming years. I don't know the exact details, but this isn't something that can be ignored, he's right about that. I'm not sure what to do about it, it might be that the correct response is furious opposition and bombing data centers. But something needs to be done... :/

Just watched a video from David Shapiro, and I kinda agree with ...

2025-11-03T17:31:17Z

Just watched a video from David Shapiro, and I kinda agree with him, but also I don't think he's taking AI seriously enough. "AI has some good and some bad, but it won't do anything too awful and we don't need to take drastic action or anything", whereas my take would be "AI is very powerful and has a lot of potential to do good, but it's also very dangerous and we might, actually, want to take drastic action..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTPcqoKGp18

The main problems, IMO, is that the benefits are spread out over ...

2025-10-21T19:59:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…4fam
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The main problems, IMO, is that the benefits are spread out over the whole economy, and the costs are concentrated on specific people, usually those who are in competition for things with limited supply, such as jobs or housing.

I don't think immigration is a net negative - they do also ...

2025-10-21T19:59:07Z

I don't think immigration is a net negative - they do also drive consumption, because they still need to eat and stuff, which stimulates the economy, and the extra labor also stimulates the economy. Remissions, I'm not certain about - in the short term, it theoretically makes everyone else's money more valuable, and thus fights inflation, and in the long term it drives exports, which generally a good thing?

Also, reminded of Sagan, again: ...

2025-09-27T01:31:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…9tw5
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Also, reminded of Sagan, again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Oh8ymKmtg

...So apparently there are three levels of autism, specifically, ...

2025-09-27T01:12:51Z

...So apparently there are three levels of autism, specifically, under the current diagnostic guidelines? How did I not know this before? :0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohsYDUj0gfU

Mmm. I mean, it's a little iffy to jump to 'it's a ...

2025-09-11T01:54:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…dkwe
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Mmm. I mean, it's a little iffy to jump to 'it's a conspiracy', but... It could be? Question then is who. My first guess honestly would be a foreign power that wants to give America something else to focus on and get divided over...? I'm skeptical that MAGA is competent enough to do this. Though maybe I'm underestimating them, I dunno. :/

...So, do we have any idea who did it? From what I've heard, ...

2025-09-11T01:46:46Z

...So, do we have any idea who did it? From what I've heard, it seems to have been a sniper, and a fairly competent one... That's kinda weird, ain't it? :/

So, serious question: Why didn't Biden just publish the ...

2025-07-21T01:55:07Z

So, serious question: Why *didn't* Biden just publish the Epstein Files? Did he not know what was in them? :/

4. Try and organize collective help. By far the hardest, but also ...

2025-07-02T02:21:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…wj30
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4. Try and organize collective help. By far the hardest, but also the most impactful if it could be arranged. I have no idea how to go about doing this, but if we want to make real progress, it'll probably need to be done at some point...

3. Try and help out individually? This one is risky, I'll ...

2025-07-02T02:20:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…pe2n
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3. Try and help out individually? This one is risky, I'll admit. But even just making the effort to talk to someone and share a few friendly words might help? I dunno. it depends on who you're talking to, I suppose. :/

2. Try and understand. Both individually and as a collective, try ...

2025-07-02T01:47:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…s4as
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2. Try and understand. Both individually and as a collective, try and really understand other people. Again, I know, it's not easy. It can be damn painful, sometimes. But I still think it's worth the effort. Especially, if you can, document and share your understanding with others, so collectively, we can make progress and move forwards.

But okay, what can we actually do about all this? I don't ...

2025-07-02T01:45:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…whvn
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But okay, what can we actually do about all this? I don't know any specifics. I can make a few vague suggestions, though:

1. If you can, be kind. Even if you don't understand why someone is behaving the way they are, if kindness seems like a reasonable option, you should take it. I won't claim to be good at this, and I know life is complicated and things are never easy, but still, I think it's good to occasionally try and pull ones head above the fog.

"To tie this back in to incels: People have different ...

2025-07-02T01:42:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…l2js
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"To tie this back in to incels: People have different experiences in life, and systematically dismissing an entire groups concerns with 'this is your fault and you need to try harder' is cruel and counterproductive."

"Not to say that there aren't some incels who really need to be grabbed by the shoulders and shaken a little, but even so, I do think some of the burden should fall on the rest of our shoulders. A shared load is easier to lift, and We Live In A Society, after all."

People have different experiences in life, and systematically ...

2025-07-02T01:31:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…du9p
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People have different experiences in life, and systematically dismissing an entire groups concerns with 'this is your fault and you need to try harder' is cruel and counterproductive.

Not to say that there aren't some incels who really need to be grabbed by the shoulders and shaken a little, but even so, I do think some of the burden should fall on the rest of our shoulders. A shared load is easier to lift, and We Live In A Society, after all.

"I'm not sure exactly how to improve things, but I think ...

2025-07-02T01:20:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…pepc
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"I'm not sure exactly how to improve things, but I think it's important to emphasize both that people shouldn't self destruct, but also that the world is still unfair and that we should work to make it a nicer place - my sister does enjoy her horseback riding, after all."

"Overall, I think I'd analogize things to money - some ...

2025-07-02T01:20:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…rsh8
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"Overall, I think I'd analogize things to money - some are born wealthy and some are born poor. You can work to close that gap, and you can do more or less with what you've got, but overall, the system is still pretty unfair. And some people will respond by self destructively doing things that make them poorer, but this doesn't mean that systemic wealth inequality isn't a problem."

"For my sister, things are a bit different - she can barely ...

2025-07-02T01:19:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…648n
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"For my sister, things are a bit different - she can barely control her body and is intellectually, like, six years old on a good day. But she gets pretty good medicaid provisions, my parents put a lot of effort into taking care of her, and various programs exist to help - they take her horseback riding every week or so, for example."

"The third are by far the most common. They see my ...

2025-07-02T01:19:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…jpj6
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"The third are by far the most common. They see my difficulties, and conclude that this makes me a disgusting subhuman who should not be allowed to interact with real human beings. They're usually quiet about it, wokeness has made it unacceptable to publicly express such sentiments, thankfully enough. Again though, still miserable to encounter."

"The second category are the most problematic - I can't ...

2025-07-02T01:19:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…mchu
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"The second category are the most problematic - I can't usually rely on the presence of others to protect me from them. They're the ones who see that I'm different and assume that obviously this means I'm a dangerous threat. I can at least usually just walk away, but it's still a miserable thing to experience."

"The first category just want to hurt somebody, and they ...

2025-07-02T01:18:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…a3l9
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"The first category just want to hurt somebody, and they think I'm someone they can get away with targeting. Luckily, in the modern era I've been pretty well protected, so it's not usually a major concern - but I still need to exert some caution when I go outside, to make sure I don't accidentally put myself in a situation where someone will try and victimize me just because they think they can get away with it."

"Worse still are the reactions that some other people have to ...

2025-07-02T01:18:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…2zzh
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"Worse still are the reactions that some other people have to all this. The negative ones can be grouped into three main categories - The people who see me as target, the ones who see me as a threat, and the ones who see me as a subhuman."

"First let me share my personal experience. I'm autistic ...

2025-07-02T01:18:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…8724
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"First let me share my personal experience. I'm autistic - in this case a strong bias towards mechanistic logical thinking, and while you might think it's good to be logical, it has many downsides. I struggle to deal with ambiguity, for example, and I have very poor understanding of feelings and motivations, not only other peoples but also my own. I also have poor situational awareness, poor reaction time, and poor physical dexterity, none of which make my life easier."

I wrote up a giant comment on this youtube video: ...

2025-07-02T01:17:19Z

I wrote up a giant comment on this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8tfbTh0sv0

And I figured I might as well cross post it, I suspect youtube specifically tries to avoid showing large comments to people.

"Might as well go ahead and share my own experience. I'm not exactly an incel, but I am really autistic, and my sister has sever cerebral palsy, so between these, I have a few insights."

...Soooo, anyone tried asking the Canadian government to fund ...

2025-03-04T20:01:08Z

...Soooo, anyone tried asking the Canadian government to fund some FLOSS? You could get a *lot* of free software for a small piece of a government budget, and it would really let them stick it to Silicon Valley. Anyone have a line to Justin Trudeau? Give him a whisper maybe. :/

...Is the source for the web page public anywhere? I mean ...

2024-12-16T22:49:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…2d5v
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...Is the source for the web page public anywhere? I mean obviously it's not anything huge, but it still seems worth throwing up on a git repo...

Oh huh, I was just talking about this sort of thing the other ...

2024-12-16T20:28:27Z

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Oh huh, I was just talking about this sort of thing the other day...

I think government funding would be worthwhile - the benefits of ...

2024-12-15T17:52:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…de9f
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I think government funding would be worthwhile - the benefits of FLOSS are ginormous, even in the current state, which delivers like 1% of the potential it could if it were properly supported - and the costs really aren't that high. But in order to get governments on board with this, it needs to be communicated to them, and then we need to actually deliver what is promised.

So, how would the money be sourced? How would it be distributed? ...

2024-12-15T17:50:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…6qm3
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So, how would the money be sourced? How would it be distributed? I have no idea. I don't think direct consumer purchasing works - the majority of the benefits of of FLOSS require either a total lack of gatekeeping, or are third party externalities anyway. Charity might work? It's iffy. I think overall, the key needs to be government funding, which means governments need to be sold on the idea, and then we need to figure out proper distribution.

There's also the problem of money - some people will work on ...

2024-12-15T17:49:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…359m
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There's also the problem of money - some people will work on these problems for free, sometimes even a lot of people, but eventually we're going to need some actual material incentives.

There's also the possibility of creating FLOSS orgs dedicated ...

2024-12-15T17:42:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…sslx
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There's also the possibility of creating FLOSS orgs dedicated entirely to organizing - but there are a lot of finicky details that need to be handled correctly to make that work properly. :/

This will add a fair bit of complexity, of course. I'm not ...

2024-12-15T17:40:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…zl64
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This will add a fair bit of complexity, of course. I'm not entirely sure how to handle that. My first thought is to start off by having people document the work they do? Like, keeping some kind of log of what work was done, where, for what purpose? That's not a small ask though, and it opens up all sorts of opportunities for new problems, so, some experimentation may be required.

Next, in order to increase the effectiveness of work, I think we ...

2024-12-15T17:37:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…ychr
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Next, in order to increase the effectiveness of work, I think we need to specialize? Like, there should be FLOSS devs not associated with any one project, who specialize in a particular area of software development, and who get called in by various projects to help with specific tasks. Profiling and optimization seems like the most obvious place to start with this, but I'm sure there are lots of other things where specialized skills are valuable.

In order to increase the amount of work that gets done, I think ...

2024-12-15T17:35:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…hy27
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In order to increase the amount of work that gets done, I think there needs to be a good system for bringing in new devs and helping to onboard them - I know I've struggled to figure out how to even get started. I think we need dedicated positions for onboarding new people and teaching new devs. This is far from trivial, and I expect it will take a lot of work to figure out how to make it work, but I think it needs to be done.

First off, I think it's going to take a lot more work. Which, ...

2024-12-15T17:31:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…3ft9
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First off, I think it's going to take a lot more work. Which, given that FLOSS software is already struggling to cover the existing maintenance work, is something of a real problem. In order to solve this, I think two things are going to be necessary - both dramatically increasing the amount of work that gets done, *and* increasing it's effectiveness.

So I was complaining like a week or so ago about FLOSS software ...

2024-12-15T17:29:16Z

So I was complaining like a week or so ago about FLOSS software not being good - about treating the needs of normal people as though they were secondary and unimportant, and developing exclusively for a narrow group of purists. And I definitely think this happens! Which of course raises the follow up question: What does it take to avoid this sort of thing?

So I was reading a thread about Bluesky's custom feeds ...

2024-12-04T18:54:22Z

So I was reading a thread about Bluesky's custom feeds tools... And it sounds like the kind of thing I've been advocating for fedi for years now, except they actually went and implemented it.

And like... What the fuck, people. Why couldn't we have implemented this thing first? This is something that frustrates me about open source software in general - people so often treat it as though 'Being Good, Actually' is some secondary goal that doesn't really matter. :/

I mean, at least on linux, help and man pages seem pretty ...

2024-09-17T18:47:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…cn0z
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I mean, at least on linux, help and man pages seem pretty standardized and formalized. You could probably make a program read them in a useful way... :/

...How crazy would it be to try and make, like, a universal GUI ...

2024-09-17T18:46:20Z

...How crazy would it be to try and make, like, a universal GUI for command line programs? Like, it automatically reads the help and man pages and assembles a GUI? Is that completely nuts? :/

Found a video of this! ...

2024-09-14T21:31:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…3p9w
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Found a video of this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2v7RDyo7os

Didn't even mention the gravity issue: Humans are very much ...

2024-09-12T03:45:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…nvwa
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Didn't even mention the gravity issue: Humans are very much adapted to earths 1G gravity. Mars has, like, 0.38 G gravity. And it's not just a matter of muscles, or even bones - your veins are calibrated to the pressure exerted by your blood being appropriate for a world with 1G gravity, and without it they degrade in all sorts of horrible ways. :/

Mmm. Though metaphorical wage theft is an issue too, IMO. Using ...

2024-08-21T23:20:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…rcym
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Mmm. Though metaphorical wage theft is an issue too, IMO. Using the disproportionate power that one enjoys as an employer to suppress employee wages, even if it's technically all legal, is still bullshit. :/

Literal wage theft deserves a mention too. Ye olde 'I'm ...

2024-08-21T23:16:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…npt0
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Literal wage theft deserves a mention too. Ye olde 'I'm just not gonna give you your last paycheck of a couple hundred dollars, because what are you going to do about it?' Applied disproportionately to people who really need the money, of course, because they have the least resources to fight the issue. :/

So far, feeling pretty good about it, though. Fresh new operating ...

2024-08-19T23:46:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…urt7
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So far, feeling pretty good about it, though. Fresh new operating system, for me to once again fill with years worth of random crap, weird errors, and questionable decisions. ;)

Okay, I think I have once again triumphed over the computer. ...

2024-08-19T23:43:07Z

Okay, I think I have once again triumphed over the computer. Hopefully. Gotta keep my fingers crossed... XD

So, I'm currently trying to build a program from source, so I ...

2024-08-19T19:33:49Z

So, I'm currently trying to build a program from source, so I can use it to create a startup disk, so I can install a new operating system on one of my hard drives, so I can boot from it instead of the other hard drive that's starting to have problems... How is your day going? :P

...Has anyone ever codified, like, taking notes and writing your ...

2024-08-09T16:22:55Z

...Has anyone ever codified, like, taking notes and writing your work down as you do it into a unified discipline? Call it Exocognition, maybe. The study of techniques for externally augmenting human cognition. :/