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BoredomFestival

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Coding, Caving, Comics, Cats (not necessarily in that order). Professional work these days is mostly on the Halide programming language (halide-lang.org) at Google.

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BoredomFestival, to random
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♫ Now it's over, I'm Meta, and I haven't done anything that I want / Or I'm still online but there's nothin' I want to do ♫

asymco, to random
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"Counterpoint has forecast global shipments of generative AI-enabled (GenAI) smartphones to reach more than 100 million units this year, up from about 47 million in 2023, and rapidly expand to 552 million by 2027."

What is a GenAI phone?

"GenAI handsets, a subset of AI smartphones, use generative AI technology to create original content, rather than just provide preprogrammed responses or perform predefined tasks."

Can someone explain? Also what is an AI smartphone?

BoredomFestival,
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@asymco "horseshit" is the word you seek

CleoMenezesJr, to github
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Discord is a cancer, bruh.

Someone asked a question on Discussions and someone else closed the discussion saying "(...) Questions can be asked through Discord 👍🏻".

For the love of god, stop using as a forum. The questions are undiscoverable.

BoredomFestival,
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@CleoMenezesJr Leave out "as a forum". It's cleaner.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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BoredomFestival,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat ...no, I'm pretty sure someone thought it through pretty precisely

bruces, to random
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*Today I used the Swiss Army Knife "awl" -- (that notoriously wretched and treacherous little tool) -- three times in three very different mission-critical situations. That's a personal lifetime record for the Awl

BoredomFestival,
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@bruces you could even say it's an Awl-Time Record

TechDesk, to tech
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Do you want your friends to see your location in real time? Instagram is working on a “Friend Map” opt-in feature that would allow you to let them track your whereabouts. Tech Crunch has more, including how it would work, who could locate you, and where you may have seen this before. https://flip.it/-0j04z

BoredomFestival,
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@TechDesk I'd rather drive a nail into my forehead

futurebird, to random
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I don't even get this one. Naturally new food products should be carefully screened but this simply seems to be about ... being angry that someone else might not want to eat meat? Just thinking a product meets a need you don't share... so it should be banned?

https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/02/24/what-is-lab-grown-meat-and-why-does-ron-desantis-want-to-ban-it-in-florida/

BoredomFestival,
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@futurebird "stop liking what I don't like", basically

makkhorn, to random
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The bar the public seems to have is so low,
we don't even hear
HIS DAMAGED SPEECH anymore.

" …spiraling into "phonemic paraphasias" during his rally speeches, which is "substitution of non-words for words that sound similar—are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of

"Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes 'benefishes.' Renovations become 'renoversh.'
Pivotal became 'pivobal.' Obama became 'obamna.'
Missiles became 'mishiz.' Christmas became 'Crissus.'
Bipartisan became 'bipars.'
This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language."

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-dementia/

BoredomFestival,
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@makkhorn If you want to plead insanity, You've got to lay the groundwork

tef, to random
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gonna make someone mad online by calling webassembly "the browser postscript engine"

BoredomFestival,
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@tef pfft, like that would be a bad thing?

BoredomFestival, to random
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With apologies to Kieth/Dringenberg/@neilhimself

mpesce, to random
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PEEPLE I COME TO YOU FROM THE LATE 1970S WITH A REMINDER

CASSETTES ALWAYS SUCKED

(watching ABC now telling us how they're on the way back in)

BoredomFestival,
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@mpesce to be fair, the same is true of vinyl

BoredomFestival, to random
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$350M, that's gonna leave a mark

mcc, to random
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I'm lerping. I'm lerping and easing

BoredomFestival,
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@mcc lerpity doo dah

DemocracyMattersALot, to random
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John Bolton joins the chorus.

Ex-Trump advisor gives stark warning: Donald Trump is unfit to be President again https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/watch/ex-trump-advisor-gives-stark-warning-donald-trump-is-unfit-to-be-president-again-204018757591

BoredomFestival,
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@DemocracyMattersALot he was unfit before, but he's unfit now, too

mttaggart, to SmallWeb

More and more I'm coming around to the idea that there are going to be (at least) two internets: one of massive, unstoppable corpos and the strategy they put forward, ceaselessly rent-seeking and providing you nothing but ads in myriad forms.

And another internet of small businesses, coops, and independent creators who subsist in a parallel economy. The . This is not a new idea, but the division is becoming unavoidably stark.

Oh, and the blockchain has no point in the smallweb. That's a feature.

BoredomFestival,
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@mttaggart the blockchain has no point, period

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Reading the Poetic Edda, and the use of "brine-hog" to mean "ship" really should be more popular.

BoredomFestival,
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@ZachWeinersmith The Face That Launched A Thousand Brine-Hogs

BoredomFestival, to random
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“How did it feel to kill?” the executioner said. This was not a question that was on the list. This was a question the executioner wanted to know for herself.

“Bad,” he said. “But it’s better than being locked in the hole for your entire life.”

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

StillIRise1963, to random
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"New reporting from Politico reveals that President Joe Biden has nothing but sailor-mouthed contempt for former President Donald Trump behind closed doors, calling him a 'sick f--k' and a 'f--king a--hole.' "

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-biden-language-works-for-me/

BoredomFestival,
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@StillIRise1963 well, yeah

juglugs, to random
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Name a common vegetable that cannot be preserved in any way.
It cannot be tinned, pickled, frozen, etc. (Well, it can, but you wouldn't want to eat it afterwards - but you can extend its life in the fridge a tiny bit)

Go!

BoredomFestival,
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@juglugs brussels sprouts. you can't eat them fresh, but you can't eat them preserved, either

BoredomFestival,
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@juglugs you go right ahead and tell yourself that's edible

cstross, to random
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Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?

Simulations all the way down—the philosophical debate on the nature of our Universe.

— My shorter answer: nope.

— My longer answer: I can't disprove the simulation hypothesis, BUT if we're living in a sim it's almost certainly not simulating US:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/06/cytological-utopia-and-the-rap.html

BoredomFestival,
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@cstross An arguably more important question is: does it even matter?

lauren, to random
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I just love the thought that Taylor Swift might be the reason that Biden gets reelected.

BoredomFestival,
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@lauren with great power comes great responsibility

mrcompletely, to random
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One of you clever people on here recently observed correctly that Words With Friends contains an absolutely elite collection of "dark patterns" - manipulative, deceptive UI/UX designs. I've realized I see it now as almost nothing but that dark pattern maze, and now I'm wondering if anyone has done a meta game about defeating dark patterns, where there's a basic game wrapped in layers of this nonsense, but the real game is scored on your ability to avoid and efficiently outmaneuver the evil UI

BoredomFestival,
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@mrcompletely basically Getting Over It as a word game

mcc, to random
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apt autoremove --dry-run
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libclang-cpp15 libclang-cpp16 libmessaging-menu0 libraw23 llvm-15-linker-tools llvm-15-runtime
llvm-15-tools llvm-16 llvm-16-dev llvm-16-linker-tools llvm-16-runtime llvm-16-tools
llvm-runtime shotwell-common

That looks mostly safe, but, what is "libmessaging-menu0"? Is it safe to remove?

IME the pkg dependencies in current Ubuntu are janked such that eg apt removing Thunderbird can leave vital pkgs marked for autoremove

BoredomFestival,
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@mcc HAHAHAHAHAHAHA gasp oh how I wish, no, we all have to live at bleeding edge top of tree

BoredomFestival, to random
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🎵 I ordered some suzette
I said, "Could you please make that crepe" 🎵

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