i think from now on when people tell me i'm misremembering something, i'm going to say "bernstein, bernstain" in the same way you would say "tomato, tomato".
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mastodon 4.7.3open source roustabout, Butlerian accelerationist, and world music lover (he/him).
🇨🇿 Učim se Česky, ale neznam mnoho slovo.
"Savor the fruit of life, my young friends. It has a sweet taste when it is fresh from the vine, but don't live too long. The taste turns bitter ... after a time." --Kor, The Dahar Master
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sometimes you just wake up and hate your employer.
the small mindedness of people never ceases to amaze me.
sending love to the people who need it now. ♥️
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@llorenzin i keep complaining about the loss of the pipeline, but i'm just some greybeard who's probably long overdue for the firing squad.
the worst part is i meet young people every day who have the same excitement and zeal that i enjoyed at the beginning of my programming days. they are curious and inquisitive about the world of computers, and the best leadership has for them is becoming prompt engineers and review farmers.
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@cwebber@social.coop i've never felt so good about failing to learn haskell multiple times. XD
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A bit of a rambly ranty post about AI/LLMs, Linux, and people
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@ffmancera exactly. i can't see how they made this decision any other way.
so much for "courage" as a core value.
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@mosssupply i feel like we are doing this with old 8/16-bit micros too.
/me looks at pile of commodore 64s and amiga 500s
i dig this vibe.
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@infosec812@foojay.social in my experience, evaluating things critically takes time and effort that not everyone is willing to expend.
i tend to agree with your general notion that spending the time and expending the effort is worth it.
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Honestly, I'm to the point of telling young people excited about coding to go learn a trade that will pay their bills, and find an open source project to be passionate about in their free time...
@llorenzin@infosec.exchange that sounds like a tough conversation to have. i know it would be for me. 😢
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@Ashedryden even without having a similar diagnosis as Kenneth, this hits way too close to home.
i also agree about the vulnerability, and i think writing this piece shows incredible courage. i applaud Kenneth in the strongest terms and wish him health for the future.
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@giorgiolucas@techhub.social i have absolutely been through that song and dance. eg good company being shuttered by big company.
@infosec812@foojay.social @palendae@linuxlab.sh @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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@inecas@mstdn.social i was thinking something similar, although in mind i was picturing lemmings. XD
@infosec812@foojay.social
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@lynn when i think about a "cyberdeck" in the classic 80s/90s fiction sense, regardless of functionality, it looks like this in my mind.
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@ixtlidekami i only respect this style of management when the user puts everything in the desktop directory. oh the horrors i've seen... XD
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net totally agree.
this initiative had a lot of press early last year, and while it is specifically focused on computer games, i think the effort is worth it to push this thinking forward.
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
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@bvibber@wikis.world i'm sad that we are wasting computing resources on having LLMs generate hate blogs.
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@killyourfm@layer8.space @tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org i'm still learning at this point and i can't commit to anything larger.
i mostly want to see if this is viable in my metro-detroit community and perhaps meet others who are already doing this or want to do it locally.
i appreciate the zeal to get it going on a wider level, but i'm not sure i can commit to that.
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It's fun when you do this to someone on purpose, just to make them suffer…>=)
@ixtlidekami LOL, that is cruel. XD
i like the other way too, where you take a picture of their desktop, then replace the background and hide everything.
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@drmorr nothing good, i assure you...
(can't quite talk publicly about details just yet)
the funny thing about Michael Moriarty's accent in the The Stuff is that it's essentially the same as his accent in Law and Order, lol. #Monsterdon
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@orhun@fosstodon.org you have absolutely helped me find a ton of new projects, good on you for helping the community as well as the core project!
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social the major media outlets are not covering what is happening on the streets here. one example, https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/22/the-scale-of-ice-protests-in-minnesota
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net i don't like it all, and as much as i express my opposition to things like this through my voting and communications with my elected officials, we can all see how feckless our actions have been over here.
i want to see more decentralized and community run services and less monolithic services.
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@killyourfm@layer8.space likewise! and i am more than happy to stay in touch and share whatever i learn and could learn. =) @tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org