neandertall, 1 month ago

@xgranade milkshake duck milkshake duck go

mcc, 1 month ago

@xgranade Ahh, the weasel wording of "never saved"

xgranade, 1 month ago

@mcc Perfectly immune to auditing or verification. Weasel words indeed.

xgranade, 1 month ago

If anyone needs me I'll be wrapping everything I own with an antenna, a battery, or a power supply in concrete, dumping them in the ocean, and moving into the most remote wilderness imaginable, never to be seen or heard from again.

xgranade, 1 month ago

Have you considered typewriter?

• Never uploads your work to someone else's cloud.
• Works during power outages.
• No subscription needed. Buy once and it's yours!
• No microdots!
• True zero-latency wysiwyg writing!
• Won't plagiarize your work!

shalien, 14 days ago

@xgranade Use proprietary blob...

shalien, 1 month ago

@xgranade Need propriertary spare parts and components to work

ottaross, 1 month ago

@xgranade Give someone five minutes, and they'll be buying up all the used ribbons, and scanning the text into a LLM for training.

Canageek, 1 month ago

@xgranade As much as I hate the spying, I know people who had to type their PhD thesis on one of those, and I think Word2.0 (the windows 3.1 version I used growing up) is as far back as I can go. Possibly I could go back to WordPerfect on DOS if pressed

xgranade, 1 month ago

@Canageek My mom wrote hers in WordStar, back in the day.

(And yes, it's a shitpost. I definitely don't suggest typewriters are at all practical for most uses these days.)

Rastal, 1 month ago

@xgranade And no printer required 🎉

aud, 1 month ago

@xgranade Soviet Union: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm-selectric-keyloggers-to-spy-on-us-diplomats/ "yes... ... precisely."

xgranade, 1 month ago

@aud Touche.

eribosot, 1 month ago

@xgranade George R.R. Martin writes his books in WordStar 4.0 on an old PC, offline, running DOS only so he doesn't get distracted.

peachfront, 18 days ago

@xgranade

i... had a typewriter

trust me

you don't want this

(flashback to a traumatic experience where it took 45 minutes to change a f'n ribbon)

xgranade, 18 days ago

@peachfront That photo is of my typewriter on my desk, where I use it every day. They have their pains, I agree, but I do love it on the balance.

nblr, 14 days ago

@xgranade

• Emits a pleasing [ding] after every line as a reward.

hhf, 14 days ago

@xgranade @nblr I see your typewriter and raise a…

xgranade, 14 days ago

@hhf @nblr I've seen some of those before, over in Bremerton, WA — turns out, there's a lot of really unique and wonderful typewriters there.

Anyway, that's really awesome. ♥

santiago, 1 month ago

@xgranade And yet the people who own fuckfuckgo.com still haven’t provided a viable alternative. I’ll wait.

wolfcoder, 1 month ago

@xgranade yeah I'm a computer scientist and that just makes this AI fad even more gods damn annoying to me, you take the time to be clear on the capabilities and limitations of technology just for Silicon Valley to completely ignore you

xgranade, 1 month ago

@wolfcoder Also a computer scientist (of sorts, by way of quantum computing), and yeah... that's a big mood.

Thad, 1 month ago

@xgranade Firefox and DDG seem increasingly unclear on why people use them instead of the other guys.

FavoritoHJS, 1 month ago

@xgranade
even you duckduckgo? for shame, between this and Firefox having an ai assistant now, can there be a single tech anything that doesn't have AI in it

Ten, 1 month ago

@FavoritoHJS @xgranade I found something that Mozilla is using AI, but couldn't find anything related to Firefox :\

xgranade, 1 month ago

@Ten @FavoritoHJS I don't know of a concrete source, but I've seen some folks on masto claiming that there's a new sidebar for AI? I'm skeptical, though, until I see more concrete confirmation.

jbowen, 1 month ago

@xgranade April fools?

xgranade, 1 month ago

@jbowen Doesn't appear to be, it's asking me to agree to terms of service.