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by jtode 4y ago
>There was a Southpark episode about this. Well, not Twitter, but Walmart. Same problem. Everyone in town was convinced to stand up to the big-man and riot against Walmart in favor of the little stores that had more integrity. Walmart wa
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by jtode 4y ago
>The most important people in the world (culture icons, heads of state & companies, and subject matter experts) congregate there to share their thoughts. So like TV, circa 1980. Funny how a lot of us are kinda pining for something li
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by jtode 4y ago
The good thing about a protocol (which ActivityPub is) is that it's not so much a matter of one person's bad software crashing my good software somehow, as it is a question of either forming your packets correctly, and getting goo
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by jtode 4y ago
I am the furthest you can get from an Elon Musk fan, but damn if I ain't gonna watch this show.
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by jtode 4y ago
'87 BBS kid here, started out at 300baud on my C64 and worked my way up as things progressed. No leap in speed was more visually impressive and delightful than going from 300 to 1200 at 40 columns. Going from 1200 to 2400 at 80 columns
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by jtode 4y ago
It makes you faster at everything else you do, though, because you no longer have to think about it, so it's kinda fast. What it's not, is fashion. It's amazing how the brattiness and the loudness of punk has virtually taken
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by jtode 4y ago
I worked at Tangent Animation, now defunct - we used Blender as our primary render software, and produced several feature projects, two of them still running on Netflix last I checked. We were not major, but it has been done. The reasoning
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by jtode 4y ago
If they're paying them less than living wages - specifically, if they are paying them less than anyone else doing the same job - it's opportunistic. If they are making a point of hiring ex-inmates and giving them all the same pay,
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by jtode 4y ago
Been meaning to allocate funds for one of these since forever. Basically all the best Linux-based noisemakers in a tiny box.
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by jtode 4y ago
The people who contribute daily to making our society that way are all indeed culpable. However, the people who opportunistically turn a profit from society being that way are the worst of that collection of people.
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by jtode 4y ago
Unless an out-group was being kept in a low social class on the basis of their ethnic identity. The entire residential school system was about ethnic identity - removing theirs and making them take on ours, by taking children away from thei
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by jtode 4y ago
Minority governments are great, though. Keeps the gov from getting too crazy, and they have to make deals to get shit done.
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by jtode 4y ago
When the politics of the day, though, are to forcibly modify the rest of your life by using your biology against you, this is clearly about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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by jtode 4y ago
Pretty good actually, a Terry Nation show as I recall (the guy who invented the Daleks). Attempts to take the subject seriously and realistically (no zombies or daleks), with reasonable success.
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by jtode 4y ago
Thanks for posting this, I'm an Evans fanboy and I would not have seen this otherwise.
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by jtode 4y ago
Cheers. I actually think that we all agree a lot more than not on most things, but the algorithms make line go up when we're fighting. Line must go up.
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by jtode 4y ago
I dunno man. Like I said, back then, we were all just occupying our spare time on MUDs and whatnot. Pretty sure everyone I interacted with could pass a turing test, back then. Bots were things we used to maintain our irc channels and get op
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by jtode 4y ago
Eh, I'm left wing, that's all, and let me say that I come here to get points of view that are not my own as a way of not existing purely in echo chambers. So I'm not saying this place is bad in any way, in fact it's one
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by jtode 4y ago
I have also noticed a kind of implosion happening - an emptying-out of real human-generated thoughts and content. I have hypotheses but they would be considered highly "ideological" in this forum.
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by jtode 4y ago
I remember feeling very excited about Spotify at one point - I figured there would be ways to get exposed to new and interesting artists. As it turns out, their algorithms, at the paid behest of those reliable old villains, the majors, are
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by jtode 4y ago
I got, like, FOUR Arduinos in a bin out in the garage somewhere. I'm gonna be rich!
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by jtode 4y ago
I built a copy of the dreamachine once - I had a Re/Search book about Burroughs, Gyson, etc, and there were lots of pictures, possibly there were even measurements, I don't recall. Anyways, I just got some thick paper and cut out
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by jtode 4y ago
I feel like I just got tricked into taking a test to measure Sunken Cost Fallacy quotient or something.
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by jtode 4y ago
Get a few RGB bulbs and install Home Assistant, instant disco! https://www.home-assistant.io/
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by jtode 4y ago
[an 80% reduction in smoke-related damage] [is a huge public health risk] Interesting.
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by jtode 4y ago
Perhaps we might get a clue if we look up which country currently has the highest incarceration rate?
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by jtode 4y ago
My level of engagement with this: I was accepted into the technical preview of CoPilot, and while I did generate a few functions and messed around a bit, I don't do enough actual programming these days (because reasons) to have made go
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by jtode 4y ago
I've been thinking for the last few years that ships moved tons of goods using just the wind for centuries, and that nowadays, autonomous schooners that cross the ocean are more of a basic engineering challenge that would require no mi
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by jtode 4y ago
Anecdote != Data || Philosophy
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by jtode 4y ago
Karl Popper, "The Paradox of Tolerance."

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