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  of all the reasons to avoid becoming dependent on LLMs, an important one i don't hear as much is "sam and dario get to unilaterally decide what you're allowed to do" https://www.404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-ai-companies-crack-down-on-the-coolest-thing-people-were-doing-with-ai/

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  i wonder if there are coyotes

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  maybe this is software's quartz crisis. mainstream software will become cheap and disposable, but you'll be able to buy a luxury computer with artisanal handcrafted software that lasts for generations for only a few hundred thousand dollars

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  RE: https://oldbytes.space/@distrohopper39b/117587577742942358 the true year of the linux desktop will be when apple replaces their "industry standard PC" icon with a systemd BSOD

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  UI Hall of Shame successor blog titled, "Get A Load of This GUI"

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  instruction set where loads based on a null pointer don't trap but instead produce all zeroes, and stores are ignored

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/117587151823484665 i'll have the makhanwala heatsink

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  behold the power of this fully armed and operational UNIX workstation

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  remember ladies, California is a community property state. so if he gets rich after you seal the deal, you can get 50% when you divorce him https://indieweb.social/@jbz/117582388719564274

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  ok i give up. where do i surrender my underutilized ram

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  helpful thread on how to realign a Macintosh floppy drive https://mastodon.social/@arroz/117581069640968002

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  the period between when a new macOS version is announced at WWDC and when it gets released is the incumbent version’s “lame Dock” period

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  banned from netbsd for feeding illegal numbers to dd

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  hacked up a little script to "declaratively" cobble together an immutable root filesystem from NetBSD sets and local modifications for my pomera

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  Type of guy who puts “please be patient student driver” bumper stickers on Waymos

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  there are two kinds of editor: vi and emacs. nano is a vi. vim is an emacs. mg looks like an emacs but is actually a vi

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  “Unlike Unix, Plan 9 was designed with graphics in mind” the graphics:

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  none pam with left musl

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  Convert this file to YAML. Make Norway mistakes.

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  why hasn’t anyone made a multithreaded typesetting program named MuTeX

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  not a lot of great news on the California election front, but at least there’s this https://www.kqed.org/news/12107133/death-spiral-averted-bay-area-transit-taxes-rtm-and-prop-h-declare-victory

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  money in politics is a massive corrupting force, but it’s also extremely funny when billionaires sink a fortune into elections and lose anyway, so it’s impossible to say if it’s good or bad,

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  C++ Dis fails, leaving the standard in C++ Limbo

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  apk add libout

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  🫩 criss-cross applesauce 🧐 christopher chrostopher applesauçtopher

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  we would've never needed javascript or xslt if web browsers just ran m4 over the html page

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  vote for richard barrera as state superintendent. his opponent is a transphobe

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  picking up some sarcasm from this year's "i voted" sticker

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  planning my next fundraising round