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stevelord

@stevelord@bladerunner.social

I make things, mistakes, mostly. Federation ambassador. 9x Developer. Right To Be Forgotten enthusiast.

FRs welcome but have an avatar, bio and own public posts. Posts licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, delete after 1 week. #nobot #noindex #noarchive #noscrape

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gsuberland, to random
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I am home from EMF. My feet are bruised and blistered, my ankle is still bleeding, I twisted my knee, my hips hurt, I'm sunburned, my lip is split, my hands are covered in bruises and scratches, and it was 100% worth it.

stevelord,
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@gsuberland hope you give yourself the rest you need to recover but glad you had a good time.

stevelord, to vmware
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Scenes from #broadcom's revenue team at the end of the first quarter of new #VMWare renewal pricing

video/mp4

santiago, to random
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I feel an OSX Tiger wave is washing through my timeline.

stevelord,
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@santiago oooh I'm gonna have to search now. I'm also hopefully moving my G4 over to my main work area in the hopes of using it more.

coldclimate, to random
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Anybody at @mcfly Run Your Own Infrastructure talk at @emf running their own photo/media storage that's got value add extra like facial recognition, timelines, etc. looking for recommendations.

stevelord,
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@coldclimate @mcfly @emf have you tried Immich? I have, wasn't quite for me but might tick your boxes: https://immich.app/

stevelord, to random
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New blog post from me about making active decisions about what's important to me around the software I use: What I Want From Technology

https://thedorkweb.bearblog.dev/what-i-want-from-technology/

Kensan, to random
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Inspiring talk by @tante at Re:publica 24. A quote from the Q&A session at the very end is really summing up how all the empty promises of current “innovation” feel like: “The removal of purpose is the removal of meaning”. Many startups are working towards an exit and to offload their stuff to a big company for a lot of money not to solve a problem and build something meaningful.

https://youtu.be/j9ksU67EW6I

stevelord,
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@Kensan @tante Just starting to watch this now, and it's interesting because I don't disagree with the first 2 minutes, but it stood out as the most literal sense of performative slacktivism. Interested in the rest of it, but that front part really stood out to me as extremely online 2020 behaviour.

stevelord,
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@Kensan @tante The talk had some great points (although I think it should've been a blog post). The speaker was the perfect parody of the embodiment of every counterculture stereotype. Him saying "Inspiring is what I'm known for" in the Q&A is chef's kiss indistinguishable from satire. Somebody that man a TEDx talk!

(But on a more serious note, thanks for sharing the vid, it was defo worth a watch)

stevelord, to random
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The future we could've had without big tech.

stevelord, to random
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Hi @mollyim i recently switched from signal to molly amd noticed the same donation request with the "not now" dark pattern. Could you change this to a no or integrate the option to stop it coming back? I dont mind a donation request and i dont mind donating. I just dont like it ignoring my decision nor to donate while i'm trying to use the app.

stevelord,
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@mollyim @abroad_octopus ah ok. Given "not now" is associated with repeat activity, I assumed Molly had just replaced the Signal element with it's own and that it would come back. Given it's a dark pattern, there are probably better ways to do this. I'd be happy to look into it and submit a patch if that's helpful?

santiago, to random
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So bought a used ThinkPad T61 (core 2 duo 4GB ram) for about 111$ + 30$ for a new battery *

I know I could get a faster CPU for that price but that’s not the point. I am a pervert and want a laptop that is slow (but of quality) to fiddle with lightweight operating systems.

  • yes you can get everything at half that price or in trashcan if you’re not in Brazil, I know.
stevelord,
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@santiago ooh IBM or lenovo?

stevelord, to random
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"Educational tool". "Charity". "Open source". If you still think this isnt anything but a corp in charitable clothing youre naive or yoir job depends on promoting it https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/sony-plans-dedicated-raspberry-pi-5-line-ahead-of-ipo/

stevelord,
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@gsuberland I can see the attraction, but I lack the spoons. But also remember a large portion of those enraged fanbois are 3 fucked-over youtubers in a trenchcoat.

stevelord, to random
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Home alone for a week and lots of local people kept asking if I was OK cooking, as thoughi cant. Made bread earlier and spaghetti aglio I olio for dinner with fresh garden parsley. Nobody died, although I'd understand if Italians were upset with my creation.

selzero, to random
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Right wing idiots in meltdown saying they would rather move away than live in a Labour run UK.

Where are they going though.

Not an EU country obviously.

I hear there are some well decorated flats in Rwanda.

stevelord,
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@selzero right wing idiots leaving the UK works for me. Not seeing a downside.

stevelord, to thinkpad
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The t42 SSD arrived, so I installed it, got dos 6.22 working and now win3.11. Office 4.3 is blazing fast. Only issue is no power management so the fan is on full pelt.

stevelord, to ai
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#Slack are feeding your chats into #ai behind your back. Opt-out details in the link, but you're better off moving away if you have the option: https://slack.com/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

stevelord, to random
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Ayyyy

stevelord, to random
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Today in man-made horrors beyond human comprehension: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/16/dead-satellite-space-earth-magnetic-field

stevelord, to RaspberryPi
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Today in the charitable foundation is taking it's for-profit company to IPO: https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/market-news/expected-intention-to-float/16470316

whitequark, to random
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please tell me the most obscure joke you know

(feel free to explain or not explain it, depending on what you find more amusing to think of me reading it)

stevelord,
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@whitequark I could tell you a joke about UDP but I don't know if you'd get it.

stevelord, to esp32
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This looks really cool, an ad-blocking DNS server for : https://github.com/openesper/esper

stevelord, to random
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I love everything about this: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240503-why-you-should-let-insects-eat-your-plants

Our forest garden isn't just for us, it's for all the animals and insects, and plants that live there. We use sacrificial plants and trap crops, not even using organic weedkilling techniques like nematodes or soap sprays.

stevelord, to random
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Some really cool things about hacker ethics, programming and loss in this talk transcript, Programming is Forgetting by Allison Parrish: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/

stevelord, to random
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Looks like a new #nix fork is about to drop at https://aux.computer/. They're still figuring whether to migrate away from github. Hope it works out either way but freeing themselves from the grapple of Github, even if it's using folders would be better than staying there IMHO (which doesn't mean much tbf)

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