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dblume

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A rock-climbing father of two and software developer. He/Him

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dblume, to random
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On AI art, @pluralistic writes, "AI doesn't have a mind. It doesn't have an intention. The aesthetic choices made by AI aren't choices, they're averages." https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/

dblume, to Discord
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From Joseph Cox @404mediaco : Spy Pet, the Discord aggregator, says, “We prioritize your privacy as a user searcher. Your searches are secure and confidential.”

At the bottom of the site, a button indicates people can “request removal.” After clicking that, a clip from Spiderman 2 (2004), in which J. Jonah Jameson laughs at Peter Parker, automatically plays.

“You’re serious?” Jameson says.

https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

dblume, to random
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Important post by @pluralistic , "If we manage to snuff out the right to scrape and the right to analyze without permission – we won't stop media companies from selling creative workers' output to AI companies. We won't stop them from using AI models to suppress our wages. We will kill all the beneficial uses of scraping and analyzing." https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/13/hey-look-over-there/#lets-you-and-he-fight

dblume, to books
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If you do Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) 's book Humble Bundle, be sure to click on "Adjust Donation" and drag the sliders according to the distribution you intend before you click Checkout. #books #eff #donation #humblebundle https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cory-doctorow-novel-collection-tor-books-books

dblume, to random
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Nice to see that @pluralistic 's "enshittification" has made it. @danhon made a handy reply guidance banner, "Do not reply to teach me about capitalism or enshittification. I know." (And it teaches you "enshittification" in other languages.) https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/111925729579825138

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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does anyone know where Mastodon’s rules for exactly when a post gets put on the Home timelines of the people who follow me, and whose timeline it gets put on are documented?

the rules can't be that every reply I make gets put on the timeline of every person that follows me, right? (??)

Often I reply to people and they seem to get put on the timelines of a lot more people than I expected, I feel like the rules are different from Twitter's rules in a way that's confusing to me

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dblume,
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@Claire @b0rk As an example, I saw Julia's reply (or accidental post?) to @gvwilson about awesome sqlite examples in my feed reader. But I don't and never have followed Greg. The post was available at https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk.rss but is not there now. N.B. I'm sure it wasn't the "with_replies.rss" URL. I checked. (This post is supposed to be a reply.)

dblume, to productivity
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Pleased to see @pluralistic, Ed Brubaker and myself each wrote about a productivity technique, using the Zeigarnik Effect. (Stopping at an intentionally unfinished point.) I cited Brubaker in "Leave the Last Panel Blank" in 2009 https://david.dlma.com/blog/leave-the-last-panel-blank 1/2

dblume, to RSS
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@pluralistic went on about how unfair platforms are to 2600 without once mentioning 2600's RSS feed. RSS feeds don't have the platforms (Gmail spam filter, Facebook boost requirement) problem. Use RSS feeds people. This is one of the first times Cory Doctorow frustrated me so. https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/

dblume, to random
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Sad truth from @pluralistic Re: AI that'd help radiologists double-check x-rays for tumors: "AI's sales pitch is not 'Buy an AI tool and increase your costs while increasing your accuracy.' The pitch for AI is 'buy an AI and save money by firing workers.'" in "The Real AI Automation Threat to Workers" https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/

dblume,
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And then @pluralistic succinctly summarizes his own article "while we're nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we're certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." Good series of posts, so far. https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/15/passive-income-brainworms/

dblume, to random
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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic channeling Jamie Zawinski @jwz "...nonconsensually enlist the population of San Francisco in an experimental murderbot development program" https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic drives his point home: "[Trudeau made] swathes of works by living Canadian authors illegal at the stroke of a pen, in a gift to the distant descendants of long-dead foreign authors" https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mouse-liberation-front/

dblume, to random
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Now I know Cory Doctorow @pluralistic is baiting me. "Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III." https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/

dblume, to random
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"These Les Mis LARPers rigged the price of bread!" It's quotes like this that keep me reading Cory Doctorow. @pluralistic https://doctorow.medium.com/thankful-for-class-consciousness-0fea327f9e37

dblume, to random
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Another good read by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : "Jezebel's owner's top-exec is bent on ending reality-based coverage in favor of 'letting robots shit out brand safe AI-assisted articles about generic topics'. ... Reality isn't brand safe. Brand safety should be your sworn enemy." This is another reason I follow @404mediaco too. https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/11/ad-jacency/

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Bash history https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Recalling_command_history

dblume,
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@nixCraft If you're going to use your history, then curate it by removing dupes. https://medium.com/@dblume/have-only-unique-lines-in-your-bash-history-941e3de68c03

dblume, to vim
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Been using vim for ages. Just learned that "z" is the fold command key because the shape of the z looks like folded paper from the side.

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Open Circuits; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/14/hidden-worlds/

#Pluralistic

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dblume,
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@pluralistic @medium Re: Medium, I noticed that if you try to use 12ft.io to share the members-only article, it exposes up to the first dinkus, but doesn't give a clue that there's actually more still hidden.

b0rk, to random
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behind "hello world" on Linux https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/03/behind--hello-world/

dblume,
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@b0rk It's not just me! I have re-written things I'd thought would be interesting without realizing it too. (Proprietary work scripts so can't share.)

dblume, to scifi
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My most secret not-a-secret is I host an online glossary for Neal Stephenson's "Anathem", and not only that, I created a Kindle .mobi glossary for in-situ definitions when reading the book. https://anathem.dlma.com/

I've been afraid to upload the glossary to the Amazon Bookstore, because I'm unsure of the rules about something like that. But it's really handy.

StillIRise1963, to random
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The U.S. government needs to leave Twitter and state that privately owned social media is unreliable, prone to corruption and full of misinformation. It should open its own instance in the Fediverse and tell citizens they can find reliable information there.

dblume,
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@StillIRise1963 I'd settle for just official blogs with RSS feeds from the government.

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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what's a popular command line tool (other than git) that you wish had a clearer / more intuitive UI? I'm thinking of tools like dig which has this IMO pretty arcane output format

dblume,
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@b0rk Related, you can usually tweak your shell's history settings to only keep unique and interesting commands you've executed, so it's easier to find them. https://medium.com/@dblume/have-only-unique-lines-in-your-bash-history-941e3de68c03

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