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badrihippo

@badrihippo@fosstodon.org

Co-editor of the 'Snipette' online publication. Also codes when he gets a break from #writing. He/him.

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DaveMasonDotMe, to microsoft
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The deed is done. Debian is installed. Windows is gone for good.

30 years of Microsoft OS experience down the drain, because they can't not be capitalist dicks.

What a waste. 🙁


badrihippo,
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@DaveMasonDotMe welcome to the bright side! Feel free to tag me as a first line of defence if you have any unanswered questions :debian: ✨

(Besides the ones I already missed I guess 😅)

badrihippo, (edited ) to random
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What kind of country do you live in?

If there are multiple matches, choose the best fit 🗳️

#poll (albeit a #silly one)

wxcafe, to random
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lmao this makes me want to die

badrihippo,
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@wxcafe well, this demonstrates your skills at "AI" (which is what companies nowadays want anyway, right?) 🤖

badrihippo, to random
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So the university encouraged the students to build this tool, and then punished them for it? Can it even get worse 🤦

https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-homework-tool-it-paid-them-10-000-to-make/

aral, to Israel
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badrihippo,
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@Jennifer @racingdaily @aral wow, the US really doesn't care for justice huh 😮

bart, to random
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Seriously pissed about this. Offering $10,000 in seed funding for a Deviant Art alternative built on ActivityPub. Q&A below or email your pitch to info@moth.social. https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

badrihippo,
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@bart I'd love to be part of this but I haven't worked directly with ActivityPub before (besides a few half-started backend plans). I'm sure I can learn though, if anyone else wants me to join them 🙃

badrihippo,
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@bart just realised this post was nearly a week ago. Is this conversation continuing anywhere else?

badrihippo,
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@bart thanks! Coming in now 🚀

badrihippo, to emacs
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Just learnt how to use in ! :emacs: 🚀

badrihippo,
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@aru hmm let me actually try 😉

More "how to" than explanation though:

🔑 Press Ctrl-X, Ctrl-( the second one is open parenthesis

⌨️ Make whatever keystrokes you want to record

🔒 Press Ctrl-X, Ctrl-) to save

🤖 Press Ctrl-X, E whenever you want to run the same keystroke sequence, and then keep pressing E to run it once more!

The reason that worked for me though is I've seen people use keyboard macros before (albeit on vi, not emacs 😅)

badrihippo,
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@aru yep, that's essentially it 🙂

And it leaves the cursor wherever it ended up. So one gotcha to watch out for is, if your key combination needs to start (for example) at the beginning of a line, then make sure to put it back at the beginning of a line when you end it (ready for the next round of replay) ➰

There are also ways to name the macro and save it, etc., but I'm yet to get to that stage...

ieure, to random
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Sigh, website for one of the local indie radio stations is now behind "Deflect," a Cloudflare-like DDoS protection thing. Which means their show podcast feeds now serve HTML "Verifying if your connection is secure" pages (which require a cookie store and JavaScript to pass) instead of RSS.

Hate these things so much.

badrihippo,
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@ieure if It has Cloudfare it's not a website ⛔

(If it has something like Cloudfare then something that isn't like a website)

yogthos, to random
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badrihippo,
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@yogthos yes, I'm yet to find an LLM that doesn't have this bias. Shows the power of propaganda?

badrihippo,
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@yogthos ...because LLMs are essentially a regurgitation of the media they're trained on 🤖

What I meant, though, was that all the AI I've seen seem to have this specific bias of being very vague and "it's complicated" when asked about anything relating to Palestine. Which perhaps tells us where the biases of the majority of media lie (or at least lay)? 🇵🇸

janvhs, to random
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Love how learning OCaml and Elixir completely changed the way I write JavaScript lol

badrihippo,
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@janvhs happening to me too, though in my case it happened because of Clojure and OCaml (and right now Elm!)

badrihippo,
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@janvhs no idea if my project is a good fit, but it's a frontend-only program (a game inspired by "find the invisible cow") so I was like why not ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not used to thinking in this way when designing interfaces but Elm keeps nudging me back when I go off so it's a fun struggle 🧗

badrihippo,
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@janvhs ahh okay. Well, hope you get a chance some time!

forgefed, to random
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ForgeFed news 💫❤️

💮 The grant from NLnet has been extended! And @andre 's frontend work is now funded
💮 We're in 2nd review for a new grant, to allow more work thru 2024 & 2025
💮 I'm working on the final piece of the OCAP system vision! Finally!
💮 2 new blog posts! Including a demo!

https://forgefed.org/blog/happy-family/
https://forgefed.org/blog/team-nesting/

We're happy for help renovating the website / joining the frontend team!

Federated forges are coming... 🥰

--Pere

badrihippo,
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@forgefed looking forward!! (With the appropriate amount of patience of course 🙂)

evan, (edited ) to random
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How long have you been on the fediverse?

badrihippo,
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@evan completed 5 years on in Jan but I chose the next option because I identify more with having been 6 years :fedi:

(I was on before that, so if you count that as Fediverse it is indeed "6 to 10 years")

nixCraft, to random
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The twitter block issue is caused by Firfox filters. Firefox is working on a fix. The announcement reads as: Hey folks, we are aware of the Twitter issue and our team is working on a fix at the moment.

In the meantime, disabling Enhanced Tracking Protection or changing it from Strict should fix this issue temporarily. Here's how to do that: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop#w_what-to-do-if-a-site-seems-broken

badrihippo,
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@nixCraft isn't this Twitter's problem? Why is Firefox doing anything about it at all?

badrihippo,
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@ferricoxide @nixCraft yeah, it unfortunately makes more sense practically, even if it doesn't make sense ideologically 😣

Anyway, it provides some consolation to know that it's a small step from "X-faithful" to "ex-faithful" 😉 :deadbird:

badrihippo, to random
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Do we have a for public repos? :git:

Right now my "default" is to go to GitHub, and then maybe GitLab and Codeberg...but that leaves out all the other hosts out there. Once happens we'll need it even more :fedi:

(By the way, I say "git" because that's where most code is, but if other kinds of repos are supported, even better! 🔍 )

badrihippo,
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@farooqkz same; I'll keep it on my list to do someday. Although if anyone's up for stealing the idea in the meantime they're welcome 🕵️ :git:

badrihippo,
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@farooqkz my projects are always "is it even going to happen" so I haven't got to the stage of thinking which ones are better 😅 what you say makes sense though! And now that you mention it, the things I've worked with over a period of time (software or otherwise) have usually ended up being very satisfying 😇

nekohayo, (edited ) to GNOME
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I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! Extremely useful to clean up filenames.

Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.

badrihippo,
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@nekohayo @antoniof wait why didn't I know about this before?? ! 😮

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