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aburka

@aburka@hachyderm.io

Engineer (robotics, embedded), contra dancer, nerd

Black lives matter | Trans rights are human rights | VOTE

I toot/boost stuff about robots, space, science{, fiction}, programming, US pol, etc. Also puns/memes. (Most deleted after 2 years.)

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Toots w/o boosts: https://justmytoots.com/@aburka?public_only=true

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aburka, to random
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It's a very short line from "Zoom CEO wants a deepfake of you to attend your meetings" to the situation @ZachWeinersmith predicted over a decade ago https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-11-01

aburka, to random
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Microsoft Recall is horrifying for many reasons but it's also really funny to me that the operating system, processes, window manager and desktop environment all cooperate to render text to the screen, so the computer knows what it says (that's how screen readers work after all) but then we're going to use AI to OCR it back out of screenshots because, just like, fuck it why not. It feels nihilistic in a way.

aburka,
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@danhulton @joby yes as I just saw someone else point out, it even captures other people's screens via Zoom screen sharing

ottaross, to macos
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I've used for my day-to-day work for a good 35yrs. I've had a couple of brief clusters of years where I had to use a Windows at work (but still had MacOS at home).

I've installed on many old machines to extend their lives a bit, sorting through distros, finding one that would work on limited resources with good results. Fun stuff.

But I'm curious to ask a QUESTION about new computer purchases…

aburka,
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@ottaross there's System76 of course

Alice, to random
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This shrimp cocktail is the worst. It's virtually impossible to drink with a straw.

aburka,
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@Alice

Nifflas, (edited ) to random
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UI design take: Software synthesizers are often still in the Skeuomorphism UI paradigm.

And you know what? The ones that use it are most of the time much, much more readable than those with modern minimal flat design.

aburka,
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@Nifflas I still don't understand why skeuomorphism is bad!

aburka, to random
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Of course #xkcd predicted LLM-based pig butchering scams 15 years ago https://xkcd.com/632/

From a quick search, a few people (including Randall himself) put up VK Couples Testing sites after the comic, but they don't load anymore. Thinking we need to bring this idea back.

aburka,
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@skyfaller That's definitely true afaik, but I have seen reports of things like the Rabbit R1 failing to book an Uber because of a captcha, so 🤷‍♀️

ottaross, to kicad
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Expecting some circuit boards today maybe. Exciting - my first use of right through to actually producing PCBs, though I've worked up a few schematics in the past, and one other PCB layout.

Haven't bought any new boards for a project in a couple of years either, so it's nice for that reason too.

Happy to have dumped from my tool set.

aburka,
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@ottaross ah yes the sweet smell of cancer

jonny, to bsky
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You might be having a bad day, but at least you didnt spend like a decade developing a social media protocol that was structurally incapable of DMs so you needed to make a whole second E2EE protocol

aburka,
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@jonny isn't there bridgyfed?

vwbusguy, to ChatGPT
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failed hard on this one.

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aburka,
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@vwbusguy I like how it tries twice and then it's just "oh I'm wrong? well then nobody knows", like I have definitely met this guy in a grad school seminar

Viss, to random
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they put ai ...
into the ssh terminal.

aburka,
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@Viss really going for that nostalgia everyone has for.............. clippy. ok.

aburka,
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@Viss can't believe we spent DECADES telling people not to copy/paste sudo rm -rf * from forums and these chucklefucks put a goddamn "run commands automatically" checkbox on their random command generator

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

aburka,
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@mcc I love their recent innovation where pip refuses to install stuff, refers you to your package manager which of course doesn't have it, so you just have to type --break-system-packages like I'm opening the freaking Marauder's Map

aburka,
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@mcc yes please

aburka,
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@mcc unfortunately not a complete solution because it's just for installing binaries, not library dependencies

thisismissem, to random
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TIL: Mastodon has a /api/v1/annual_reports API that gives some sort of annual report for a given user account?

Was added by @Gargron at the start of the year, but the PR just says MAS-213 (so this API is currently unreleased, iirc)

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/28693

aburka,
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@thisismissem @Gargron Mastodon Wrapped?

aburka, to vim
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and chose opposite conventions for the meaning of "vertical" and "horizontal" splits and it will be the death of me

vwbusguy, to random
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17,344 steps is what my watch clocked me at yesterday.

aburka,
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@vwbusguy well, your watch clocking you is better than your clock watching you

fasterthanlime, to random
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good morning

aburka,
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@fasterthanlime careful, that's the load-bearing charging cable

aburka, to random
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Choosing a new Linux distro for my old MacBook, purely based on the functionality of the wifi drivers available on the live CD

aburka, to random
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Did the plot start yet? I think I missed it.

ottaross, to random
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Okay I'm thinking the plethora of clones is probably not in the original Jules Verne manuscript.

#Monsterdon

aburka,
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@ottaross is... is that gonna come back into the plot, or was it just a one-off gag about "don't tell Otto about the interesting thing" #monsterdon

aburka, to random
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Now what shall we buy at the Chekov's Gun Store?

molly0xfff, to random
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i...

aburka,
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@foone @molly0xfff so, it would survive the same way the fried transformers survive, in that they would still exist, but they wouldn't do anything anymore

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