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Last Notes npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Every software developer in 5 years is going to have this interaction: npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Just got the first/only job I applied for out of trade school. Wooo npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦vt8d @nprofileā¦ay7w @nprofileā¦lvgx Doesnāt having inaccessible software, which is also countrary to several laws, also prevent FOSS adoption? You havenāt made a single point about age verification that doesnāt also apply to accessibility npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Iām going to start a publisher/printer/bookbinder/bookstore that only sells shit written by humans. I will make a mint because this AI shit has gone several thousand miles too far npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦l7em so Iām currently in trade school. Not going into debtā¦ because I got scholarships. Most of my classmates are going into debt š I wonder if this guy is gonna pay off their student loans npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Humans are relying on computers to correct their grammar when humans don't even agree on what proper English grammar is smdh npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal We hear "all the text on the internet" and we might think "well, they've sure digitized a lot of classic books, that must be good, right?" but then you realize that all of the books are maybe like 1% of the data. Most of it is like facebook messenger arguments and semi-literate emails. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal "The average of everything on github" isn't badass code, it's unfinished student projects that never worked. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal LLM boosters: This is trained with all of the text and code on the public internet! npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦nmr0 This is how I've felt since Obama didn't undo any of the fashy shit that Bush put through. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Anecdotally, this works so well that I now wonder if all the AI/LLM boosterism isnāt just a sideshow distraction to identify good marks. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Lying is wrong. However. The only fringe benefit I can see from the proliferation of AI/LLM shit is now itās very easy to tell who I can get away with lying to: all the people into AI/LLM may be intelligent, but they lack capacity for critical thinking. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal All Iām saying is the stuff Trump has done in office is way worse, and more illegal than, any of the Epstein stuff. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦pfuj @nprofileā¦dacs It's odd to me that I don't hear more people talking about this. Apple computers are pretty great for programming and especially web dev in my experience: you get a unix-like terminal environment, but you can also use all the corporate software you want. It's a bit heretical to say, but this ends up functionally being linux that will run adobe software natively, which is very useful to some people (AKA, me when I was doing front end web dev) npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦qa6s And we know it works, too, because this is how old-timey train robbers got it done in the steam era npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal For awhile now people have been saying āall this fashy stuff Trump is doing is just a distraction from the Epstein files!ā I have some bad news: The Epstein files are the distraction. Pass it on. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal The fact that tenured professors were fired for posting [checks notes] shit Charlie Kirk said, soon after Charlie Kirk was shot, pretty much tells one everything one needs to know about the state of US academia. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal What are some comic books/"graphic novels"/whatever you want to call them (any language/culture of origin) that you enjoy but rarely hear other people talk about? npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal According to a thing I just saw fediverse has about 800,000 monthly active users npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦hclg I feel like at this point I know two sorts of people: npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal It's hard to convince some folks that our tech has stagnated and in many ways gotten worse since the mid-00's. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal iPods were great for DJs in a way that smartphones haven't been able to mimic. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal It's almost 2026 and I still dislike not having a headphone jack on my smartphone npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal I donāt mean to be dramatic, but non-consensual advertising is literal capitalist psychic warfare and should be opposed as a regulatory part of the whole hell-system of human-misery-reproduction. We are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is telling us to savor the savings ššš npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Also, while Iām on the subject, ban billboards and advertising on public transit. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal To be honest, the main reason I like the internet is adblock software. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Linux is the worst operating system, except for all of the other operating systems that have been developed npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal I often suspected that the year of the Linux desktop would finally come, not because Linux got better but because Windows got worse. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Every time an organization adopts AI, itās evidence to me that their leadership lacks critical thinking skills. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal It is like watching the Emperorās New Clothes in real time out here. People discussing the AI bubble have the energy of minor court functionaries being like āobviously we all have to dress like the emperor now, but what if building magical mills to make invisible outfits bankrupts the empire?ā while some peasant is like ālook man, I can see His Majestyās ballsā npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal If you like AI art you have bad taste and if you like AI text you lack critical thinking skills. Iām sorry to be hard, and Iām sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but none of this is my fault. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦n7x3 Flo mask > all npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal So where are all the new wonderdrugs that AI has come up with? Where are all the cured illnesses, the scientific advancements, where is any socioeconomic effect besides on Nvidia's stock price? This shit has been around for like three years now, what's up besties npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal As if I wasn't already convinced this AI shit is a bubble, all of the billboards all over Seattle remind me exactly of all the billboards hyping dot com startups in the late 90's. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal I really enjoyed reading this. Please check it out: npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Banning social media for those under 16 is unfair to those over 16 who are still gonna have to deal with it npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Whenever someone tells me they made money on crypto Iām like ācongrats on helping organized crime launder their money!ā And the people get awkward npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Augh, today I briefly used a computer with no adblock to access the internet. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal āRecycling isnāt real!ā ā promotes cynicism & disengagement, also isnāt true npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Should we talk about how plastic recycling was pushed as an early form of greenwashing by the plastic industry? Sure. Should we talk about how recycling should be the responsibility of industrial megacorps, rather than consumers? Sure. Should we throw the baby (materials that can be easily recyclable) out with the bathwater? You decide! npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Every product that now comes in plastic used to come in glass or metal, or compostable packaging such as banana leaves. Recycling and composting is what makes this stuff cheaper than plastic. Please. Think about this complex issue for five seconds. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Recycling actually rules and I will kindly thank you to stop posting so much stuff that encourages people throwing everything into a landfill npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal (Also, not really how most jobs work, anyway?) npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal IDK what teacher needs to read this, but homework is classist, especially in high school & later. Not all your students have the same amount of time outside of school. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Anyway, I wish luck, safety, & wisdom to the students in Senegal, who respect themselves & their education enough to fight for it. I feel much more in common with THOSE students than I do with my fellow students here in the USA. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal These aren't even need-based scholarships I'm getting. These are merit-based. I'm a confident writer, but again, I didn't get these scholarships based on the strength of my application. I got them because nobody else fucking applied for them. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal I have offered almost all of my classmates help writing essays and applying for scholarships. Not one has taken me up on it yet. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Being back in school, I have been absolutely cleaning up on scholarships. In fact, I've now gotten so many that I will be finishing trade school having made money, rather than paying tuition. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal In Senegal, students are clashing with police over unpaid scholarships. Here in the USA, my classmates won't even apply for scholarships because they'd rather just go into debt. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal So sick of news websites falling on their swords telling me over and over again "this is not a paywall! THIS IS NOT A PAYWALL!" npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦e4ry ālearning math itās important because itās the same everywhere you go!ā - my lying ass math teacher in grade school npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦z64c @nprofileā¦5l40 @nprofileā¦weex I really doubt spacex is paying you for this so maybe stop reposting disinfo for them. They changed the satellites exteriors in response to astronomers criticizing them; but this is basically greenwashing, and apparently it has worked on you. Most of the problems still exist and they walked back the exterior changes. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal If youāre hoping that the US military will refuse to follow illegal orders, I regret to inform you that the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan happened. So npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal In 2012 some people smashed some windows in downtown Seattle on Mayday. Within a few weeks, Obama had called a federal grand jury that was allowed to suspend the first and fifth amendments. Friends and classmates of mine were held in solitary confinement for over six months. Not very many people cared, and it shredded any confidence I had in the USAās court system. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Free Gasworks Park from the Gasworks that makes like 40% of the park inaccessible & useless. In a city that loves to destroy its own historical monuments, why are we so attached to arguably the worst one? npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal The gasworks itself is far and away the worst part of the park, donāt @ me npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal If the city is going to take an abandoned industrial complex and turn it into a park, they should absolutely take on responsibility to make sure that itās safe. Weird that this is a controversial opinion npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal To all the people saying āthe problem isnāt the old, dangerous, abandoned gasworks left to rot with minimal security, itās these stupid teenagersā listen to yourselves and please stop. You grew up into a bitter adult coming up with justifications for why itās OK that teenagers die on this thing, when obviously the city should have properly decommissioned it decades ago. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal I love Gasworks Park, but it would be even better with the dangerous ruined 19th century industrial relics gone. #Seattle doesnāt need a deadly architectural folly. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal I just saw an article that described "Gen Z as the first generation to grow up with the internet" npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal In the USA, "everybody knows" that the Wright Bros invented the airplane, because they achieved the first powered flight. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal In the USA, "everybody knows" that we "obviously won" the space race by landing on the moon first. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal āLetās boycott to bring down capitalism! Still support small businesses tho!ā Why? npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal If you interpret this as a pro-corporate thing, you missed the point. Iām not saying corporations are good, Iām saying small businesses arenāt any better. Theyāre just as exploitative, sometimes more. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal I donāt care about small businesses. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦3ygv I did NOT predict Trump and Mamdani getting along so well. Surreal. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal omg I just got like $40 from a class-action lawsuit against Meta hell yeahhh lol npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal The thing about "bread & circuses" as a tool of oppression is that you can't give people too much bread. If people have enough bread to live on, you just get the 2020 Uprising. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Iāve never cared about making beds or understood why anyone does it. When you get into bed, whatās the first thing you do, every time? You lift up the sheets and covers and unmake the bed. Making beds is absolutely pointless wasted effort. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal I'm a pretty fast reader. I read a lot of books when I was a kid. After college, I had trouble staying focused on them. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Hm. Masto being super slow today, and lots of double/triple posts. Anyone else having these issues? npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal "In an economy beset by shortages and dominated by large, oligopolistic producers, enterprises found that the best way to maximize revenue was not to invest and re-equip, but to cut output and raise prices." npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal My point being: People can & do still share mp3s online. But what we need is a simple way to share mp3s socially, in person, like copying tapes while listening to them back in the day. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Music piracy is when you make copies of an album and sell them. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal People playing and copying tapes was a huge part of how hip hop spread and became the genre we know & love today. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Consumer electronic product I would like: npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Like frankly, there is no way to make Seattle's transit "world class" in 4-8 years. It would require massive amounts of investment that aren't happening, and would take probably 20-30 years to achieve that title. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Congratulations to Katie Wilson on winning Seattle's mayor election. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal So the conservatives who are constantly accusing trans folks of grooming children are now talking about how it's OK to fuck 15 year olds. Got it npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Just had to explain to some Gen Z folks that no, it was not acceptable for white people to use the N-word in the 00's. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/533/366/506/764/399/original/3df9bdd8a49a4096.png npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal In some ways, there is no greater honor for an artist than to have oneās work pirated. People /need/ my music so badly, theyāre unwilling to pay for it. I think thatās beautiful. Like, āfuck you, youāre culturally relevant.ā The first time I found an album of mine on a sketchy Russian torrent site, I called my mom and told her I had made it as a musician. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal So it appears that the Dems shut down the government for about 40 days and then gave up without achieving any of the things they shut down the government over. Got it. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦fcx0 this is literally me being back in school rn. I have classmates who are like 19 and like āfacebook? Would never use it, thatās where my uncle got turned into a conspiracy theoristā npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦fcx0 itās wild remembering when the internet was actually useful for stuff, just a few years ago! npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal I gotta say, archive.org and archive.ph are superior ways to access most news websites over the actual websites themselves. Fewer popups, no paywaylls npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal The profs at my school are using their own money to have a free food pantry for students and this is where my edgelord anarchist really comes out. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal So apparently a big reason more lawyers donāt do pro bono work is because their employment contracts specifically forbid it. Charming npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦zgax @nprofileā¦7njd @nprofileā¦u25l that isnāt really the central narrative of unionsā¦ craft unionism is a thing. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Like most people in Seattle, I live on the side of a steep hill. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Itās pretty amazing how the Dems wouldnāt lift a finger to prevent Trump from taking over everything before he came into office, but theyāre going so hard against Mamdani. Tells you where their priorities are. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal It also heavily implies that Adams, Cuomo, and the Dem leadership have resigned themselves to a Mamdani victory npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Eric Adams doing everything he can to prevent Mamdani from enacting rent control is fundamentally anti-democratic, and toxically pro-landlord, but I wonāt hold my breath about it, thatās NYC baseline npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal So. MuskBots. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal @nprofileā¦e4ry in a career of boosting hokey tech, Muskbots are surely the hokiest. npub1w384y5ee2rfptxt22ld08ps46pyvcgdvm403w45467h36tn5aa8q3f4rkg sidereal Like first of all, refusing orders is a great way to end up in military prison. There's no presumption of innocence in military court. 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