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howtophil

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I am as I have always been, I am always changing.

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ryanhoulihan, to random
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Technically they could put anything in the frame when you buy it and they choose to make it weird garbage

howtophil,
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@ryanhoulihan Photos of strange trash might actually be interesting

howtophil,
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@ryanhoulihan

  • insert required "Why are you pointing a camera at me now?" joke here *
18+ spinach, to random
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girl things who use Linux are hot

howtophil,
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@root @spinach Goes well with the statement "Check out the STEMs on her!"

mcc, to random
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Somebody should make an OS-agnostic program that searches the hard drive and returns a count of how many versions of Python you have installed

howtophil,
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@mcc There's probably one written that only works in the version of python you don't have installed

howtophil, to random
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Maybe it's not "the unions" raising the prices on stuff. Maybe, just maybe, it's the douchebag taking a trip to space for kicks and shits...

howtophil, to random
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Basically, any forum that destroys itself by using Discourse instead of phpBB is dead as far as being a proper forum goes. Bulletin Boards DO NOT need to be more like other social media shit. They NEED to be their own thing.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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Product placement in an action sequence from an animated X-Men show has me shaken to my core. Is everything an ad? Is this post an ad? Am I an ad?

howtophil,
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@ryanhoulihan Wearing anything with publically visible branding?

howtophil,
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@ryanhoulihan Safe for the moment then :)

howtophil, to random
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If you think the USA does not have an "Oligarch Problem" then the people the oligarchs have hired are doing their jobs well

nixCraft, to linux
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say goodbye to the sudo. a sudo replacement called run0 that will be part of the upcoming systemd 256 release. #linux https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/run0.html

howtophil,
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@nixCraft FFS no.

howtophil, to random
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Bravery is not the lack of fear.
Bravery is overcoming fear.

profoundlynerdy, to esperanto
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I realize as a language movement is decentralized but is there anything like an "upper crust" within it?

howtophil,
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@profoundlynerdy All I really know is I like using Esperanto as the "magical language" in my stories with magic :)

howtophil, to random
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Remember those "upload your face and the robot will tell you which celebrity you look like" things? For a while, they kept telling me I look like Morgan Freeman...

howtophil,
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Here's a relatively recent photo of me...
I think maybe... just maybe... we don't need to worry about AI too much

gsuberland, to random
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"I want to make my own resistor": get a piece of wire. you are now done. this will perform perfectly well.

"I want to make my own inductor": get a piece of wire. wrap it round a stick. you are now done. this will perform perfectly well.

"I want to make my own capacitor": here is a twenty page essay on building a foil capacitor. follow these steps. it will perform like dogshit.

howtophil,
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@gsuberland Can I just skip the 20 pages and use dog shit?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Computers as tools for humans are so useful exactly because they can’t think and do tedious work like calculations or information storage and retrieval for humans in a deterministic way.

It took like nearly 90 years of digital computers to make them powerful enough to run a wasteful algorithm that pretends to think (but doesn’t) and to deliver bullshit non-deterministic results while using absurd amounts of computational and environmental resources.

howtophil,
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@thomasfuchs I'm surprised more work with rat brain cell matrices hasn't already happened

howtophil, to bbs
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The #UnderNet is not the "dark web."

Rather, it's the space full of little #telnet #BBS, #gopher, little websites, game servers, mumble servers, IRC servers, NNTP servers, etc running on home boxes and such.

It's underneath all the cruft. Blinking and chugging along and existing nicely.

howtophil, to random
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  • xz backdoor. Only affects unstable builds *
    Uninitiated: LINUX IS DOOMED FOREVER!!! FOSS IS DEAD!!!
    Old Sys Admins: This is why unstable builds exist. To catch these things. This is the system in place doing it's fucking job :)
howtophil,
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@tschenkel It's also got a slew who think "Open source is based on trust and this just shows that trust is bad" out there...
Trust with open source is proper and good. This isn't a "wake-up call." This is business as usual... /sigh

howtophil,
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@tschenkel Right. I mean we can only be safe if we all hide our source code under mattresses and buried in jars in the backyard. /s

lol

Viss, to random
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fantastic
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

howtophil,
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@Viss Every time I see "A.I." without the punctuation, I think "Al... Bundy"

ryanhoulihan, to random
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X-Men is an animated superhero show with only one other peer to match its quality (Batman) but words cannot express how boring the Morlocks are. I’d rather hear more Savage Land lore and that’s saying something

howtophil,
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@ryanhoulihan Never been too into "stern dad" types but to each their own

howtophil,
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@ryanhoulihan Yeah, though many choose to ignore it, fantasy and reality are different things.
Many also don't get that "sex play" is also just that, play

howtophil,
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@ryanhoulihan How do people find time for relationships between writing, biking, speed reading, normal reading, learning new programming languages, brushing up on old programming languages, learning people languages badly, learning about people, practicing with a 3d printer pen, painting, drawing, tinkering with old computers, ham radio stuff, gmrs stuff, researching swiss army knives, getting a "folding/hat-wearing/sliding/travel" scissors habit, window shopping travel options... etc?

whitequark, to random
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Never touch the catgirl.
Please don't. Cause of failure
This may be the cause

howtophil,
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@whitequark
"That's a love bite"
"You're bleeding!"
"The cat loves me a lot."

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