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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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severud, to random
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AI will not feed the hungry.
AI will not house the unhoused.
AI cannot do the hard work that really matters.
Without proper governance it becomes yet another tool of the oppressor.

SnepperStepper,
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@severud AI puts people out of work, too. Its not only unhelpful, its actively harmful.

tubetime, to random
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hey, quick reminder that i'm also on Bluesky. @tubetime.bsky.social. should i migrate over? i don't use twitter anymore, and mastodon doesn't have many non-techy folks.

SnepperStepper,
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@tubetime bluesky is overrated.

arstechnica, to random
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AI with 90% error rate forces elderly out of rehab, nursing homes, suit claims

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

SnepperStepper,
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@arstechnica if they can't do the one fucking thing their business is supposed to do, the business shouldn't exist.

dgar, to random
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SnepperStepper,
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@dgar they're more perpendicular than the b pillars on a 1977-1979 Cadillac Fleetwood. The only thing chemtrails do is turn the frogs in high school science classrooms gay and trans so they just have a bunch of lesiban frogs in the twink tank. You're thinking of the 5-G covid dispensing towers, but that hallucination wouldn't show up across the internet, only in person because of the dense clouds of tesla branded metaverse nanobots in the air.

tubetime, to random
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hmm what do we have here? stack failure?

SnepperStepper,
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@tubetime takes a really fiddly finagler to get these things kept up. I can respect a repair person like that.

SnepperStepper,
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@tubetime what a beaut'

SnepperStepper,
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@tubetime a demonstration to keep the art allive is praxis

SnepperStepper, to random
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Wetting your pants for fun and profit

dasharez0ne, to random
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IM NOT A ASS HOLE - HTTPS://DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

SnepperStepper,
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@dasharez0ne me driving in a purple convertible

dangoodin, to random

I so, so, so don't want to drive any new car that can do this:

A federal appeals court refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.

The court ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors, which are defendants in five related class action suits focused on the issue.

The plaintiffs had appealed a prior judge’s dismissal. But the appeals court ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.

A suit filed against Honda in 2021, argu[ed] that beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system.

An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.

Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. Automakers are exponentially increasing the number of sensors they place in their cars every year with little regulation of the practice.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

SnepperStepper,
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@dangoodin i'm just gonna say it: an AM/FM cassette stereo can't steal your information, a metal box without a gps built in can't track your location, and a set of systems made of simple machines and non-computerized components cannot be made so proprietary it cannot be repaired outside a dealership. Its also a much less expensive ownership and maintenance experience when you cut through the grifter economy resale bullshit, fwiw.

foone, to random
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Terrible idea: analog data floppy disk.
Each period on the disk records a byte.
Maximum magnetic strength equals 255, minimum magnetic strength equals 0.

If your noise floor is too high, smaller values cannot be recorded

SnepperStepper,
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@foone i like it, let's inplement it

foone, to random
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So this is a Smith Corona PWP 9000 LT DS: It's a wordprocessor.

SnepperStepper,
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@foone i love my smith corona. It doesn't have a screen, though. I'm holding out for one of those wide, monochrome orange phosphor crt magnavoxes or something along that line. Don't tell anyone though, i like that word processors stayed cheap.

foone, to random
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Modern e-commerce sites a great. If you search "toilet gasket" you get, as the first result on multiple sites, a "toilet wax ring", which looks similar but does something different and isn't interchangeable

SnepperStepper,
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@foone you underestimate the market for niche micro-celebrity minecraft chimney sweep & coal mining influencers

cstross, to random
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About YouTube and ad-blockers:

YouTube is owned by Alphabet, aka Google's umbrella corporation. Google in turn was devoured by DoubleClick, the largest advertising company to come out of the 1990s web.

When you use Google, you are feeding the attention monster that is the advertising industry.

We should aim to criminalize behavioural advertising and break up the Google monopoly, not tolerate their shit and work around it by using adblockers.

SnepperStepper,
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@cstross this! Monopolies are not good, no matter what. And they need to be watched to be sure they don't reform under a different banner, like the Bell system was broken up in 1984 but now the cell providers are the same thing as the bell monopoly.

The "but what about compatible technology" they always try to use as a wedge is what standards are for, and any attempts made at proprietary tech should be made open, compatible, and accessible at scale.

SnepperStepper,
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@cstross i would technically consider such as more adjacent to standards than monopolies as monopoly implies the existence of for-profit motivation, if not in the exact language than certainly in the popular vernacular.
But yes I agree, such things ought to be standard, much like say cell tech or screen-phone guts, and managed as such for upkeep and pension only.
A possibility for monopoly/corp with such assets is to make a standard from the corpse; of, say, twitter or Amazon.

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SnepperStepper,
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@Axiom @fiberarts @knitting i collect vintage sewing patterns. Simplicity, McCall's and others all put out VERY similar dagger collar button down shirts in the 1970s to the point you can use one pattern and the instructions from a different pattern and it comes out perfect. I know, I've done it by accident. Hope this anecdote helps.

foone, to random
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new module idea: PAM-floppy-OTP

SnepperStepper,
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@foone i like to think we're always one old computer lab broom closet cleaning away from finding an earlier one tapped out on a Smith-Corona in 1966. Those early episodes got the point across right quick.

Daojoan, to random
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The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

SnepperStepper,
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@Daojoan in theory having video demonstration isn't a bad thing, its the way that they go about it. We do't care about growing your channel, your fancy editing bullshit, or subscribing, you clown, we want the 15 seconds that shows what we messed up on so we can redo it. That's all we want. Video as supplement to written article guide; uploaded and then embedded where relevant- the way the internet intended.

tubetime, to random
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I'm doing a more thorough reverse engineering of the power PCB from the Thinkpad 700 series. lots of work so far and there are still more parts to remove on the other side of the board!

SnepperStepper,
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@tubetime i should do this for some Sony Handycams.

rose, to random
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    @rose or a cat, especially one that already has a political career by being a library or bodega cat who some loud moron tried to oust but the community got together to keep the cat in office.

    philpem, to random
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    adblock_irl: You walk past an LED billboard and flip the power switch to "off".

    The grid voltage spikes as four houses worth of electrical load suddenly disappear...

    SnepperStepper,
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    @philpem i haven't seen these thank gosh, but if i ever do i'll do this to them. I hate LEDs. What ever happened to a good painted sign with a couple of incandescent lights pointed at it from above? Or neon, that's bright and eye catching, but its also an art by necessity. The fake stuff they call neon for SE(U)O is the same as the LEDs, imo. I might consider the painted billboard or the neon, but never LEDs.

    AlSweigart, to random
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    SnepperStepper,
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    @AlSweigart the fact street camping in an old neighborhood/industrial area in a custom van from the '70s sounds like a good time to me, someone who can't deal with actual camping, aside- we really lost something when the average person turned up their noses to places that offered rooms on a nightly basis for cheap, and overall just less expensive methods of doing things in general. Not that the country can't afford it already, but the average person could do something too, without permission.

    pyrex, to random

    A thing that fucks w/ me is that new disruptive tech is increasingly positioned as "a thing that gets its value from the fact that it will be in your life whether you want it or not."

    WeWork, NFTs, AI art, ads, surveillance, scalping. The sponsors of this technology are overtly cruel. They're not saying "you get to be a part of the future," they're saying "the future (that's us) is going to chop you up and eat you."

    They're also mostly wrong. All the actual power (and hence the power to extract revenue) is held in the coercive social systems that already existed, like policing, which invisibly backs the value of every form of property.

    SnepperStepper,
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    @pyrex my strategy to deal with this stuff is to side-step it entirely. Everything I do is outside of that blob of fascism, and the way things coordinate and the niches i've dug actually put me in a better place all things considered than i see a lot of others who refuse to leave this or that which they don't really get any benefit from anyways and yet are always posting gofundmes and emergency commissions. I'd be glad to assist in others breaking free, if only they'd hear me.

    reginasbread, to random
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    Polish ultra-conservatives would like hotel owners to have the right to refuse to rent a room with one double bed to unmarried people.
    you might say it's funny. for me, it's not funny anymore. treating these unhinged Christian militants like harmless jesters is careless.
    as you can see, they don't attack only us, pesky queers, here. they're coming for everyone.

    SnepperStepper,
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    @reginasbread the real answer is to not treat them like they have a valid argument. They don't. Talk to them and about them like they're an ant and you're someone who doesn't care what ants have to say. By propping them up like they're some powerful force that's ALSO giving them power, perhaps even more so than laughing them off. They're old and its their time to wither away. Make sure they know that's their place.

    tubetime, to random
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    so i have a 20-year-old drawing file i wanted to look at today. but i didn't recognize the file extension (axd) and there was no file association. what to do? 🧵

    SnepperStepper,
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    @tubetime reminds me of Kodak's .KDC and trying to make the files usable with high sierra and windows 7 this year. They should have just kept making kodachrome and EK6 instead. (But in all seriousness the DC120 is a fun camera)

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