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  it's crazy that LLM usage solidly and easily killed Humble Bundle and NaNoWriMo, two organizations which had racked up ridiculous amounts of goodwill and hype before they decided to pee all over their own feet

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  Does anyone in NZ have a homebrewed Wii or Gamecube and would be willing to help me with something? I have an old GC memory card that may or may not have save data from the Sonic Adventure 2 Chao Garden of a Chao I raised with my childhood friend Owen, who died in 2017. I'd really like to safely pull this data out for use on PC, but I don't have a working console that can do so. I know hacked Wiis can run GCMM to copy memory cards to an SD where it could then be emailed to me. I'...

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  i'd rather eat rocks but thanks

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  love that the hypercapitalist death cycle has reached the point where Microsoft is sadly telling you that you can only play their videogames for fifteen hours a month even though you pay them fuckloads of money because the bobot is hungry for more compute

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  hey Fedi, any recommendations for an easy-to-use and ethical-ish framework for surveys/questionnaires? i'm hoping to avoid using Google Forms while also not cursing myself to an endless tinker hole; it would be preferable for it to not be wildly expensive and to be privacy-preserving for the respondents as much as possible :)

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  nothing makes me feel more Computer than when i realize i have nothing to open .doc files and my wife gets to watch in bewilderment as i open up the terminal and get libreoffice installed through pacman

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  @plutarch@gotosocial.plutar.ch @apz@some.apz.fi @FediTips@social.growyourown.services I can't speak to their current policies but a few years ago there was an enormous attempt at getting them to take Kiwifarms seriously, which is a site for people to doxx mostly trans women and try to get them to kill themselves for laughs. They doubled down many, many times on continuing to provide them services.

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  walked into a food court chasing the high of a sign advertising empanadas and the empanadas were TWELVE DOLLARS EACH. this country cannot continue

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116326155409620757 [Alt text: a graph showing the average uptime for GitHub over time, starting in 2016. There is a straight line of 100% uptime until December 2018, which is marked as the date that GitHub was acquired by Microsoft. After this point, the line starts to lurch WILDLY up and down, losing a whole percentage of average uptime in some months.]

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  wow the #Neopets TTRPG got mismanaged and cancelled after YEARS of development :( $228 NZD down the drain as I backed the kickstarter with extra add-ons that I assume will never exist either... https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1rqx6e2/the_fate_of_neopets_ttrpg_is_currently_unknown_as/

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  @peter@thepit.social look, in a normal world this would be a safe bet, but I'm almost certain Musk has a cutout of his Ani!Grok waifu that he strategically positions above some raw chicken breasts he heated up in the microwave