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secretgeek

@secretgeek@mastodon.cloud

Owner/occupier of an ever-hungry brain, feasting on the flesh of thoughts. Bleeding heart. He/him. Strongly support lgbtqia+ community 🌈 and first Australians.

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secretgeek, to random
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The reason why Microsoft Recall attracts huge amounts of hate, while TimeSnapper.com has generally positive customer interactions comes down to 3 things:

Motive Weapon Opportunity.

I don’t have a motive to surveill the world, Microsoft have shareholders, middle managers etc.

Weapon - We both write software that could be used for harm. But we’re genuine about user’s informed ongoing consent, having filters etc.

Opportunity - we don’t have enough servers to spy on people. MS do.

secretgeek, to random
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No gods no masters

https://www.ign.com/articles/kabosu-the-dog-behind-the-doge-meme-has-died

secretgeek, to random
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Microsoft's "Recall" is similar to "TimeSnapper", that Atli and I have been developing and distributing for the past 17 years or so.

I'm fascinated by the reaction that Microsoft get, compared to what we receive at TimeSnapper.

People are naturally curious about performance impacts, and hope to keep all data local. But when "we" (TimeSnapper) say the data stays on your machine, customers just believe us.

Microsoft, meanwhile, is emphatically not trusted.

They earned that reputation.

secretgeek, to random
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Found him! Every time I see this album in a second-hand store, if no one else has circled Wally yet, then I circle Wally with a sharpie and write “found him!!” in a sort of fun “Bugs Bunny” style hand-writing font. Most of the records around town have it now. #whereswally #whereswaldo

secretgeek, to random
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Every now and then I play a game of “DevShop” - something I made a few years ago. And get hooked right in.

https://devshop.secretgeek.net

film_girl, to random
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The only time I’ve ever been what one could call a “responsible” consumer in my entire life was my refusal to buy an Apple Vision Pro. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/27/24142810/apple-vision-pro-ebay-low-prices

secretgeek,
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@danhon @film_girl @marcprecipice It's like they deliberately create products where early adopters can skip the "hype" cycle, and go straight into the trough of disillusionment, as if it means they'll cross the chasm sooner.

secretgeek, to random
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“Our last common ancestor was a worm-like creature, over 500 million years ago.”

This is true of
the octopus and chimpanzee
but baby don’t you see?
it’s also true of you and me

anathema_device, to random
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Arj Barker and a ‘gurgling’ baby: comedian’s request for mother to leave Melbourne show sparks furore

Trish Faranda claims she felt ‘humiliated’ when asked by the comedian to leave but fellow audience member says child was disrupting performance

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/22/arj-barker-melbourne-international-comedy-festival-mother-with-baby-leave-show-trish-faranda?CMP=aus_bsky

secretgeek,
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@anathema_device looking forward to the 16 part Netflix series on this -
In the meantime I hope a few aussientrue crime podcasts can get some in-depth coverage
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/dedicated-news-channel-arj-barker-crying-baby/

secretgeek, to random
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Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web.

First they help you find good content, so people visit and use and enjoy and participate in good web sites.

Then they insist on scraping every piece of value they can, and presenting it to the user such that they never have to visit the websites at all.

Then the websites die, having been choked to death by the strangler fig, and people blame the websites for dying, not the strangler who bled them dry.

gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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discovering that fewer cybertrucks have been sold than Sinclair C5s has amused me greatly. and honestly, if you want to drive a weird vehicle, the C5 is far more fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

secretgeek,
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@gsuberland I’m still waiting for the “GM Lean Machine” I ordered in 1982.

https://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1982_gm_lean_machine/

eeeps, to random
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h/t @Meyerweb

A TikTok reaction video that has had some text overlayed. A person (labelled "me watching React devs") watches someone else's hand put a series of shaped blocks into shaped holes. The holes and shapes are all basic and recognizable: square, triangle, circle, etc. The holes are labelled after HTML elements: "div", "button", "li", "table", "input" and "a". The hand takes a square block, which is labelled "generic block content"; The person excitedly says "square hole" (which is labelled "div") and is excited when that's where it goes. The hand then picks up a longer square block (labelled "element group"); the person also gets this one correct (also goes in the div hole), and is excited. The hand then picks up "tabular data"; the person wants it to go in the "table" hole, but no, the hand says it goes in the "div" hole as well. Person gets increasingly upset as blocks labelled "list item", "perform an action", "user input", and ultimately, "a hyperlink" all go in the "div" hole, and not the more appropriately shaped holes/elements that they are correctly calling out, each time, at the end – when "a hyperlink" goes into the "div" hole instead of into the "a" hole – almost though tears.

secretgeek,
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@eeeps @Meyerweb bewdiful! now do “choosing a type for your data” with boxes for int, float, Datetime, guid etc and a square shaped hole called “string”

seachanger, to random
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I know this is really obvious to most of us but as someone who witnessed the rampant racism, sexism, anti-gayness etc of even the 80s and 90s, it’s pretty clear that the current culture war is just a response to us emerging from those patterns! watch any movie from 1990 or around there and it will blow your mind what was common & totally acceptable. We are waking up from a very deep sleep, and some folks can’t handle it

secretgeek,
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@seachanger I agree that it’s a backlash but I’m not confident that that alone means it will be overwhelmed in time. When “power” rests and is vested/locked in the wrong hands… it can stay that way for a very long time. (And i expect you’re way more knowledgeable on this topic than me 🙏 )

secretgeek, to random
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The so called Y2K “millennium bug” was NOT a millennium bug. It was a century bug. Had computers been created in the 1850s the same bug fixes would’ve been needed for the turn of the century. The century handling was wrong.

secretgeek, to random
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@mcc i've been trying to find that toot you wrote the other day about liking a an interesting thing... and then it become hyped/toxic/scammy, such as:

cryptography, content generation, and many other great examples.

That was eery in its insightfulness, kind of devastating really. I've been thinking about it since. I want to quote it / discuss it on my wiki (https://wiki.secretgeek.net/about)

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay now, pick this up and eat it like a sandwich. I want to see it eaten like a sandwich.

secretgeek,
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@RickiTarr can I defederate just this specific thread??

secretgeek, to random
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Just watched Oppenheimer and my initial reaction is that I feel ashamed for Christopher Nolan and every last person in Hollywood that cheers for that kind of art wank Rorschach test being made about a serious topic. If they had a point — make it. Don’t fuck around. We are so doomed. Amused to death.

secretgeek, to random
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Quince with a bit of lichen

bagder, to random
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The value of OSS today?

"from $1.22 billion to $6.22 billion if we were to decide as a society to recreate all widely used OSS on the supply side"

"from $2.59 trillion to $13.18 trillion, if each firm who used an OSS package had to recreate it from scratch"

"5% of programmers are responsible for more than 90% of the value created on the supply- and demand- side"

The report: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4693148

secretgeek,
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@bagder pffft! (With love here) …”to recreate all widely used OSS on the supply side” — just takes a bunch

git clone

commands.

shanselman, to 3DPrinting
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    secretgeek,
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    @shanselman in an honest loving way — you’ve got to feel sorry for them though. Imagine that’s your gift to the world, commenting negatively on other people’s output. I saw horrible if only slightly negative comments toward a creator on HN today. Poor commenter.

    matthewskelton, to llm
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    "the real-world use case for large language models is overwhelmingly to generate content for spamming"

    Excellent article by Amy Castor

    #GenAI #LLM #Crypto #Scam

    https://amycastor.com/2023/09/12/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/

    secretgeek,
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    @matthewskelton an intelligent, hard working, and committed sociopath with a powerful set of ML tools, can do a heck of a lot of damage.

    glyph, to random
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    New release of DateType today, since apparently (oops!) I forgot to include year, month, and day attributes on DateTime:

    https://pypi.org/project/datetype/2024.2.28/

    secretgeek,
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    @glyph nice day for it.

    secretgeek, to random
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    Imagine being a http request.

    secretgeek, to random
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    We’re at a point where software is getting slower faster than hardware is getting faster.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Why do my adult friends keep making me watch Bluey?!

    Nice try guys, Mom and Dads aren't that nice. Bluey is going to get 17 time outs a day.

    secretgeek,
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    @RickiTarr Dave McCormack who voices the dad, Banjo, is one of my favorite people. He’s in a band, Custard, that originated here in Brisbane. A genuinely decent and relatable fella.

    Just before Christmas he did a solo gig here, and his ex girlfriend (of 25 years ago) Maureen Hansen got up and performed a bunch of songs with him. As did other local musos from that era. Such a sweet gig.

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

    secretgeek,
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    @RickiTarr I don’t know but it sure ain’t 47.

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