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  @annaleen@wandering.shop @charliejane@wandering.shop I already own a few of these and this is *still* an amazing deal. Thank you so much!!!

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  I'm not sure I want my life's work to be making some digital elf churn out "product" This was never what I signed up for and it's eating at my soul.

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  I'm "dinner at Applebee's" down today.

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  I am an old school UNIX Systems administrator. My first "technology" job was Radio Shack, then a repair shop, then call center. My first professional UNIX job was as one of Chicagoland's first Linux admins at an ISP that predominantly ran Solaris boxes/hosts. I've had various roles in that neighborhood, both in hosting and enterprise support, working on Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, HP/UX, and others too rare or niche to mention. When I say that the industry has ch...

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  I truly wonder what computing and technology for people would entail. Something genuine, something helpful. Something that makes a net positive. Something that, if done properly, offsets the environmental impacts of the technology and builds (rather than replaces) people.

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  Watching Attack of the Clones and listening to Darth Incel deliver creepy lines to Padme.

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  Me, a few days ago: What I love about Angine de Poitrine is that their tonality and time signatures are so odd, I'll never get them stuck in my head. Me, today (after days with two of their tunes jammed in my brain): Holy shit my brain is still trying to figure out what to do with those notes.

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  @cbleslie "It was Biden's fault!"

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  This is my last week at my job. I have worked there for three years and four months. I was recently shifted to a different group. The company's focus has become AI first. We are being required to use AI tooling. We are hosting AI companies you've heard of. Meanwhile, people are losing their jobs. AI isn't about helping people. It isn't about solving real problems we need solved like the environment, energy, inequality, or war. If anything, it's making a...

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  Occasionally I turn off my ad blocking to see how things are "supposed" to look... and holy shit how does anyone put up with that shit? :barf:

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  This is vague because: - there's no value in calling out who inspired it and - it's true to any situation it applies to It's offered at least in part to help people realize it's better to work on yourself than get mired in stupid Internet blame games.

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  @fluidlogic Vic 20, C64, C128, PC 8088/8086, Atari 1040ST Apple IIe if you count the computers at school.

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  Someone (maybe a human?) sent me a follow request on an alt. The stuff of theirs I read to do a little "recon" verged on unreadable and set off my bullshit detectors. There were so many big 'ol obscure words strung together that it turned into semantic noise. I was immediately reminded of the "Inkhorn Controversy" in the 16/17th century. People were bringing in words to make English sound more smarter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkhorn_term But s...

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  "A turnip cures Elvis" Thus begins what is (imo) one of the best hacker movies of all times: Sneakers Apologies, @thegibson

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  Here's a question for everyone posting their takes, usually "against", on LLM/AI here? Who are you trying to convince? Who do you think is actually listening? Do you think you're informing anyone? #llm #ai

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  Tonight's question on top of mind is how to be open, as in open source, free as in liberty, without feeding a training model that will be the demise of that community.