muzzle

@muzzle@freeradical.zone

we can screw up everything else, but we really need to fix this climate change crap

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RickiTarr, to random
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I have many issues with 3 Body Problem, but mostly they way overestimate that humanity will care about something that is happening in 400 years, when most people don't even care about the global warming that is happening right now.

muzzle,

@RickiTarr I see your point, but one of the issues with global warming is psychological: the fact that it has no agency, that it's not actively trying to kill us, luls us in a misplaced sense of safety.

That hopefully would not be the case with an alien civilization whose motives we can easily understand.

ErikJonker, to geopolitics
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social avatar

Thinking in scenarios, what would europe / NATO do if Russia decided to damage /destroy most undersea cables which are essential for our internet and networking in Europe? They have the undersea capabilities, it would not trigger a nuclear war. What would/could we do in response ?
@geopolitics

muzzle,

@nicholas_saunders @tness @ErikJonker @geopolitics many reasons were suggested when it happened, on the top of my head:

  • as a show of stubbornness
  • to force gas oligarchs to buy into the war
  • to intimidate Germany

I'm not sure I buy any of them, but some are at least plausible.

muzzle,

@mkoek @ErikJonker @geopolitics that sounds like a terrible idea and may actually play into Putin's hand. The open internet is one of the greatest tool in the hands of the russian opposition.

muzzle,

@mkoek @ErikJonker @geopolitics not sure, but it's not like they haven't tried to suppress access. Maybe because it's also an important economic tool and Putin can't afford to damage the russian economy any further.

sohan, to genart
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    muzzle,

    @sohan I love this, what software, and hardware, are you using?

    It feels like I could jury rig something out of Lego technic, a raspberry pi and a semi infinite amount of time

    RickiTarr, to random
    @RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

    Okay without looking it up, if you meet an Italian guy named Sal, what is his full name?

    muzzle,

    @RickiTarr there are no Italian guys named Sal, at least in Italy. No one would use that nickname in Italian, they would go with Salvo.

    RickiTarr, to random
    @RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

    Here's some Horrible Valentines for those who are less than enthusiastic about today:

    Of course I'd never kiss you For that, you see, is wrong But what is a fair maid to do When men are all so strong
    A cartoon girl being burned at the stake with the text: I'll be burned up, if you won't be my Valentine
    Valentine's Day, Did you say? Remember dear, before we wed How eagerly you read Those tender sentiments of mine Inscribed upon a Valentine Remember how you sat for hours And sighed and dreamed beside my flowers Remember how you used to love The candy I brought you boxes of I know you do and that is why I cringe before your searching eye And wait you comments cold and candid When I show up empty handed

    muzzle,

    @RickiTarr

    RickiTarr, to random
    @RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

    If you could pause body aging, what age would you have paused at, and why?

    muzzle,

    @WagesOf @RickiTarr then do a PhD. I had a few gray strains at 28, and that's a great age to stop aging :|

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What is the hardest you've ever worked?

    If you want to tell me the hardest you've ever worked it, please provide photos.

    muzzle,

    @RickiTarr I was working hard, I didn't have time to take pictures 😉

    aeva, (edited ) to random
    @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

    bonus today is a two-poller:

    This one is for the gallant people of Linux:

    If I were to distribute binary Linux builds of my open source tools and games, which form would you be most likely to use?

    muzzle,

    @aeva why not a conda package? :)

    muzzle,

    @aeva I think it was born as a way to manage python environments, but it's become much more than that. You can take a look at these links:
    https://conda-forge.org/docs/
    https://conda.pydata.org/docs/intro.html
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conda_%28package_manager%29?wprov=sfla1

    DrALJONES, to Israel
    @DrALJONES@mastodon.social avatar

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    muzzle,

    @ComradeGibbon @DrALJONES this is a very poor argument, police and military operations are not bar fights.

    SuneAuken, to Youtube Danish
    @SuneAuken@mastodon.world avatar

    Ok, I admit it. By now I'm SO tired of youtube I'm actually considering what the alternatives are. How does the whole fedi-videothingy work? Explain it to me like I'm a noob.*

    No, I'm not much of an early adopter.

    • I am, in fact, a noob.

    #YouTube #Fediverse #EducateMe #MastoBrain #VideoChannels

    muzzle,

    @mattwilcox @SuneAuken I may be talking out of my behind here, bet do you think there is a technological solution to the data volume problem?

    was supposed to go exactly that, and there was even a streaming extension to the protocol. It was made obsolete by the rise of the big content delivery services, but the code is still there, and it still works.

    thomasfuchs, to random
    @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

    𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓪𝓻𝔂

    Blockchain: a slow database

    Crypto: an expensive slow database

    NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs

    AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms

    LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way

    Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results

    muzzle,

    @thomasfuchs while I understand the sarcasm, I find your take a bit too partial. LLMs may be lossy JPEGs for text, but JPEGs have their uses.

    Also, by your logic, mastodon is just a less efficient twitter and the fediverse is the 00's internet but harder to use.

    DopeGhoti, to mastodon

    It's pretty darn cool how #Mastodon has built-in translation for posts in other languages. I barely speak a word of French but just had a nice interchange thanks at least in large part to that feature. Never could have done that on the birdsite without popping open a translation service window.

    muzzle,

    @Looping @DopeGhoti keyboard's automatic translation? What KB is that?

    pvonhellermannn, to random
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    Does anyone have any advice here on how to make your Mastodon less eurocentric? I do regular searches, follow people from outside Europe/US whenever I come across them, etc, but it’s quite slow, hard work. I was wondering whether there is a more strategic way - ie is there a list of instances that are not Europe/US based, and from which I could follow one person each or something? Not interested in changing my own instance, just to get more global connections. #Eurocentrism

    muzzle,

    @pvonhellermannn if you are following non-EU hashtags but they return little to no content give hashtag.place a try.

    It provides hashtags-as-bots for smaller/self-hosted instances that may not see a lot of the tagged posts from larger ones.

    https://mountaincommunity.co/objects/16b1f91e-4cac-4e11-aa2d-5944b0a981b7

    RickiTarr, to random
    @RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

    How many of you just have a random box sitting in the middle of your home, because one of your pets decided it was the best place they've ever sat?

    muzzle,

    @RickiTarr me, if by pet you mean children...

    smallcircles, to chrome
    @smallcircles@social.coop avatar

    Think this is a #Chrome-only annoyance right now, so if you don't wanna switch to #Firefox for some reason, there's:

    > #YouTube banned #AdBlockers so I built an extension to skip their #ads.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38327017

    Also a use for #AI mentioned:

    > Yes it's TiVo for Youtube. And this...THIS...is the real use case for desktop AI: Detecting ads and automatically skipping them. Funny how the AI barons never mention how AI can empower normies against them.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38328874

    muzzle,

    @nic @smallcircles pro tip: you can use the libredirect extension to automatically open freetube when you click on a YouTube link

    eniko, to random
    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar

    I hope mastodon doesn't keep losing people. I feel safe here, and I have enough followers to survive* whereas on bluesky I'm slowly working my way up to a 1,000 followers and getting anyone to share my posts is like pulling teeth. If that site becomes the winner somehow I'll probably have to stop making games and educational videos cause I seriously don't see how it could ever sustain me

    *yes "mastodon isn't about that" people, I need to have my work seen to eat and stay housed so i need followers

    muzzle,

    @eniko mastodon is loosing people? I'm surprised, it feels livelier by the day to me!

    thomasfuchs, to random
    @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

    So, uhm, what’s a nice alternative to GitHub for some private and some open source repositories?

    Maybe something that pledges no AI bullshit ever, just, you know, repos, issues and integrations with stuff?

    https://aus.social/@TheMartianLife/111377920682670147

    muzzle, (edited )

    @thomasfuchs I've heard good things about https://codeberg.org/

    Apparently many FOSS developers are moving to it.

    jenn, to random
    @jenn@pixel.kitchen avatar

    developer pals: what kind of corporate merch do you think is the least uncool

    muzzle,

    @jenn It depends, here is a list of merchandise I kept around and use to this day:
    Good wooden chopsticks
    Espresso cups
    A scarf
    A wool neckband
    Reflectors to attach to backpacks, bikes, or jackets
    Led lights that can be easily attached to/mounted on stuff.

    mjg59, to random
    @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer avatar

    Tag yourself I'm the third frame

    muzzle,

    @mjg59 "This is not a place of honour..." is basically the long winded version of "fuck around / find out"

    Wander, (edited ) to selfhosted
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    The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?

    Wait, what?

    Think about it. At some point everyone has had an old phone lying around. They are designed to be constantly connected, constantly on... and even have a battery and potentially still a SIM card to survive power outages.

    We just need to make it easy to create APK packaged servers that can avoid battery-optimization kills and automatically configure an outbound tunnel like ngrok, zerotrust, etc...

    The goal: hosting services like #nextcloud, #syncthing, #mastodon!? should be as easy as installing an APK and leaving an old phone connected to a spare charger / outlet.

    It would be tempting to have an optimized ROM, but if self-hosting is meant to become more commonplace, installing an APK should be all that's needed. #Android can do SSH, VPN and other tunnels without the need for root, so there should be no problem in using tunnels to publicly expose a phone/server in a secure manner.

    In regards to the suitability of home-grade broadband, I believe that it should not be a huge problem at least in Europe where home connections are most often unmetered: "At the end of June 2021, 70.2% of EU homes were passed by either FTTP or cable DOCSIS
    3.1 networks, i.e. those technologies currently capable of supporting gigabit speeds."

    Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/broadband-coverage-europe-2021

    PS. syncthing actually already has an APK and is easy to use. Although I had to sort out some battery optimization stuff, it's a good example of what should become much more commonplace.

    cc: @selfhosted
    #selfhosted #selfhosting

    muzzle,

    @Wander @selfhosted Sounds like a great way to kill you phone's battery. But maybe if you created an ad-hoc stack... Have you ever heard of @veilidnetwork ?

    djlink, to random
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    recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

    video/mp4

    muzzle,

    @djlink Yes, it's way to fast compared to the real thing but, more importantly, where are all the clicking and whirring noises?

    jerry, to random

    I would like to take a moment to orient people to a brand new and highly innovative feature that was recently introduced in mastodon and many other fedi-apps. This feature enables you to not have to see posts from or interact with people whose posts you don’t like, don’t agree with, or are otherwise offended by.

    I like to call it the “block button”.

    Does someone on the fedi support the “other side” in the Israel/Hamas conflict? Instead of asking your moderators to figure out which side is objectively right in a no win situation, BLOCK! It’s amazing!

    Did someone just say that they are frustrated that they got Covid after having gotten all the vaccines? That’s not disinformation, it’s an opinion and you can block them!

    Does someone seem a little too happy that one of Biden’s staff got in trouble or that a democrat is getting charged? BLOCK! It’s amazing!

    Did someone use the word Nazi in a way that offends you? Yep, you guessed it! BLOCK!

    I have no idea what the median age of people on the fediverse are, but it’s disappointing that moderators are effectively having to act as camp counselors for 13 year olds who are having a disagreement. Yes, the substance of these disagreements tend to be much more consequential, but the pettiness is about the same or perhaps worse.

    If someone is harassing you or otherwise violating your instances rules, please do report them, but try to apply some perspective.

    muzzle,

    @jerry Reminds me of the alt text from this evergreen xkcd comic https://m.xkcd.com/386/ "What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!"

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