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SnepperStepper

@SnepperStepper@mastodon.social

Social media rebel! Snow Leopard Furry! Transgender! She/her! 1994! Learning to love myself one day at a time! MacGyvering my way through life!

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rebeccawatson, to random
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I hate how whenever US liberals defend immigrants they have to say how hard working they are. I just want it to be known that I support immigrants who are just as lazy, if not even lazier, than me.

SnepperStepper,
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@rebeccawatson this! i also support the immigrants who are really into sharing their culture and prefer living for art than to make profit for a corporation!

foone, to random
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So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.

There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?

So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.

SnepperStepper,
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@foone i'm on call and could run with it on analog video with your blessing

WEATHERISHAPPENING, to random
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/ UR WEATHER LORDS R DRUNK ON CARBON
/ CHURNING OUT WILD WEATHER ACROSS UR EMPIRE
/ & ACROSS UR PLANET
/ AS A DERECHO STRIKES HOUSTON
/ AS U SLIP DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 DEATH SPIRAL FASCISM
/ U NEED 2 REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS

SnepperStepper,
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@WEATHERISHAPPENING REPENT REPENT REPENT

SnepperStepper, to random
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Does anyone have any windows xp compatible paint.NET exe's they could throw onto archive dot org? The dummies running that project don't let you download it anymore and it was my fave drawing program for a while.

mcc, to random
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I bet if you formed an electric car company made only of people who previously worked for Tesla then quit in disgust, you could make a really good electric car company

SnepperStepper,
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@mcc yeah definitely gonna hire the people attached to the exploding incel cars, best investment since buying twitter

wonderofscience, to random
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Timelapse of the Falkirk Wheel in action; the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world.

Video Credit: David Iliff / CC BY-SA 3.0
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel

Timelapse video of the Falkirk Wheel, with its curved arms cradling water-filled gondolas rotating around a central axis, seamlessly raising and lowering vessels between the joining canals, all under an overcast sky that casts a soft glow on the wheel and the green landscape.

SnepperStepper,
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@wonderofscience i've always thought this is such a cool solution to that area's specific needs and requirements.

SnepperStepper, to random
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Just because something is expensive doesn't mean don't buy it. Be reckless, yolo. Fuck the system, if you're not getting out of it then buy what makes you fucking happy instead of what the jonses say you should. And stop wasting it on the same video games over and over every time they stick a new skin on it, buy used DVDs instead of streaming, and get over coffee already the annoying bitter bean water obsession is worse than the "epic bacon" thing- that will save you a TON.

SnepperStepper,
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But no matter what you do, give anybody overpricing stuff shit about it. Like, actively and often. They'll lower the prices pretty quickly. You're preaching to the choir with retail employees and chatter does go up the vine so make sure you let everyone know you're pissed iff about paying eight bucks for the small bottle of shampoo and how anything more than $5 for a consumable is a fucking ripoff.

SnepperStepper,
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Don't get a new car, don't but new clothes that will just fall apart, don't get duped by the "luxury" bullshit because its made cheaper and more flimsy than the inexpensive stuff, don't pay for apps, etc etc.

But if all that is what makes you happy like the stupid eggboy, idk what to tell you, you're just fucked six ways from sunday and nothing will ever get better for you in any meaningful way.

kamikat, to ADHD
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SnepperStepper,
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@kamikat yeah it sucks like that, i want the adhd that makes me go work on 12 different art projects at the same time instead

256, to random
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Hitachi UltraVision Digital DVD Camcorder
Maximum PC - February 2003
https://books.google.com/books?id=ywEAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA32#v=twopage&q&f=false

SnepperStepper,
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@256 these are cool!! A lot of the better known DVD camcorders are from the late 2000s, but these early ones are FASCINATING!! I love them, and getting a smattering of them to play with is on my list right after i get my first good shooting day for my Sony Mavica CD1000, the miniCDr photography camera. Love to see it!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

256, to random
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Windows 98 website
October 1999
https://web.archive.org/web/19991012111537/http://microsoft.com/windows98/

SnepperStepper,
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@256 i can't wait to use this new operating system!!

foone, to random
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The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

SnepperStepper,
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@foone this is also what happened to the roman planet in Star Trek TOS and why they were eventually colonized by the Chicago gangster planet.

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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SnepperStepper,
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@nocontexttrek waiting for Denny Crane to get back

Cmastication, to random
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Today I learned...

SnepperStepper,
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@Cmastication love these kinds of things. The secrets of the world, unlicked!

JulianOliver, to random
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Last night I opened up YT in a private window, & clicked on an unrelated video to that of the one I had just watched. It was a video on arctic ice melts that turned out to be 100% denialist.

One click & there I was in endless fetid scroll of Jordan Peterson, climate change denial, 'what is woke' explainers, 'lol snowflakes' shorts, Trump propaganda, knife fights, & misogynistic, racist garbage.

Don't tell me Big Tech aren't culpable for the hate out there. They're farming it, on a vast scale.

SnepperStepper,
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@JulianOliver big tech is extremely part of the authoritarian problem. And its not just the social pipelines, but the constant forcing of its products on everyone as the only way to do things, destroying alternatives by pointing and yelling "obsolete", and perpetual cost inflation. If you look around at the reality of modern technology and understand why life is so broken you begin to realize they nazis aren't coming, they're already here and wearing faux silver and plastic carbon fiber.

textfiles, to random
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Every time I hear about another group trying to reverse engineer a now dead or killed Nintendo infrastructure system, I want to ask them to remember to take a selfie with the judge for me

SnepperStepper,
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@textfiles tbf if nintendo didn't want anyone to revive them, then they shouldn't kill them in the first place. The smart move would be to note the developers and outsource server maintenance to them for the remaining playerbase, like how dead MMOs get passed around and maintained, where nintendo pays the host a vastly reduced-from-new server bill. The publicity & goodwill alone is worth the cost.

Same for legacy console developing vs romhackers tbh.

nonfedimemes, to random
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SnepperStepper,
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@nonfedimemes i think someone needs to make this a lot more obvious

SnepperStepper, to random
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Did you know that house flipping is nazi praxis? Yeah, these hooded white men who look like thumbs show up in poor and usually colored communities, buy up all the land for cheap (sometimes just take it), and gentrify it out of the price range the community can afford thereby uprooting them violently with noplace to go they can afford, and then draining all the life out of the homes by making repressive, oppressive, boring monochrome dumps to sell to other white people.

SnepperStepper,
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And those houses always give you that weird gut feeling when you see them because they're almost intentionally trying to not draw your eye (as a nazi would do when in non-nazi company) and like nobody lives there.

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to tech
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In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?

Back in the early-to-mid '90s, one of the main ways of finding anything on the web was to browse through a web directory.

These directories generally had a list of categories on their front page. News/Sport/Entertainment/Arts/Technology/Fashion/etc.

Each of those categories had subcategories, and sub-subcategories that you clicked through until you got to a list of websites. These lists were maintained by actual humans.

Typically, these directories also had a limited web search that would crawl through the pages of websites listed in the directory.

Lycos, Excite, and of course Yahoo all offered web directories of this sort.

(EDIT: I initially also mentioned AltaVista. It did offer a web directory by the late '90s, but this was something it tacked on much later.)

By the late '90s, the standard narrative goes, the web got too big to index websites manually.

Google promised the world its algorithms would weed out the spam automatically.

And for a time, it worked.

But then SEO and SEM became a multi-billion-dollar industry. The spambots proliferated. Google itself began promoting its own content and advertisers above search results.

And now with LLMs, the industrial-scale spamming of the web is likely to grow exponentially.

My question is, if a lot of the web is turning to crap, do we even want to search the entire web anymore?

Do we really want to search every single website on the web?

Or just those that aren't filled with LLM-generated SEO spam?

Or just those that don't feature 200 tracking scripts, and passive-aggressive privacy warnings, and paywalls, and popovers, and newsletters, and increasingly obnoxious banner ads, and dark patterns to prevent you cancelling your "free trial" subscription?

At some point, does it become more desirable to go back to search engines that only crawl pages on human-curated lists of trustworthy, quality websites?

And is it time to begin considering what a modern version of those early web directories might look like?

@degoogle

SnepperStepper,
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@ajsadauskas @degoogle i love this idea, i'm going to start my own web directory.

glyph, to random
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As everyone under 40 in infosec tires of the “Hackers” aesthetic plastered on everything by us tedious elder millennials, one thing that I think gets lost, particularly for younger folks, is that the movie isn’t just goofy camp. I mean, obviously, it’s heavily fictionalized, but there really was a hacking subculture kind of like the one depicted in it in New York in the 1990s. I barely grazed the outer periphery of it myself, and I sometimes wonder if anyone did a serious ethnography of it.

SnepperStepper,
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@glyph if the culture was still like that i would have gotten into it. Modern computer culture is just depressing and boring. I'm inclined to still bring floppy disks around with perhaps jpegs of "important information" and trade them for snacks or a hot tip and when you put it in the drive its all sony mavica photos of telephone poles and a .txt that says "ur w3lcum 4 th3s3 1337 h4x0r p1x 0f t3h p0l3z -sn3pprst3ppr"

golgaloth, to ai
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So, CEOs...

SnepperStepper,
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@golgaloth if they didn't put in the effort to make it why should i put in the effort to give it my attention

nyquildotorg, to random
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"Could AI lead to a four-day workweek?"

Sure! Just get everyone to start posting on the web that there are only four days in a week, then the AI will believe it to be true. Once the AI believes it's true, everyone else will too.

SnepperStepper,
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@nyquildotorg honestly that's not a bad silver lining. Do you think we could get it to lower the cost of living and raise wages too?

SnepperStepper, to random
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Wetting your pants for fun and profit

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