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Xucaen

@Xucaen@mastodon.social

I'm Gen-X; C# programmer, laid off & going back to school; interest in Writing; I watch way too much TV & movies; learning languages on Duolingo; Occasionally trying to learn guitar; into RUSH, Atari, Trek, and other nerdy stuff; I workout, cardio & weights; recent stoner, indica is groovy; INFJ-T; Looking for kindred spirits in the void. KBlØDG

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thelinuxEXP, to random
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All it would take for AI to completely collapse is a ruling in the US saying these companies have to licence the content they used to train these tools.

They simply would never reach a sustainable business model if they had to fairly compensate all the people who wrote, drew, edited, sang or just created the content they use.

Simply being forced to respect attribution and licenses would kill them. Will that ruling ever happen? Maybe not. Should it? I think so.

Xucaen,
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@thelinuxEXP

I am in complete agreement with this

robin, to random
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If you're still using Chrome in 2024, the only question is why?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/technology/google-chrome-browser-data.html

Xucaen,
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@robin
What else is there? I tried Firefox and it's so slow and has other issues that I couldn't use it. (A week after using Firefox my bank account got hacked three times)

Xucaen,
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@robin the ones I've looked at on Google play look shady asf so I stay away from them. Chrome has the best compatibility with the web in my experience. I wish I could find a suitable replacement but I didn't see any I trust.

hynek, to random
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If you wondered why I’m mostly boosting humorous takes on xz drama it’s because I find almost all serious takes absolutely nauseating. So much serious thinking by people who have never maintained anything of substance in their whole life.

Xucaen,
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Xucaen,
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@hynek

I just don't get why anyone is using XZ. Like What's wrong with lha?

soheb, to music
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Spotify officially demonetises all tracks with under 1,000 streams

This is just an insanely bone-headed move that is so pointless.

These artists don't even get paid that much money, and yet Spotify wants to cut off their revenue.

I'm done with Spotify. In fact, I think I'm flat-out done with music streaming services. All of them are exploitative. back to buying digital albums for me.

https://djmag.com/news/spotify-officially-demonetises-all-tracks-under-1000-streams

Xucaen,
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@soheb

Alternate title should be "Spotify pirates music for profit"

Xucaen, to random
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Given that people seemed to want to post irrelevant topics to unrelated hashtags (for example posting pornography to anime hashtags) it would be nice if we had the opportunity to block hashtags. To take my above example, I could block all the pornography hashtags while following the anime hashtag. ✌️
I'm not looking for feedback, just a suggestion for a future feature.

@feditips
@Gargron

nixCraft, to random
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A COBOL programmer, tired of the bug chaos in the legacy codebase, decides to have themselves cryogenically frozen to skip the whole mess. Years later, they're thawed out.

"Did I sleep through?" they ask.

"It's the year 9999," the scientists replied, "And we need you to fix some legacy code from 2000, which is still in production ."

Xucaen,
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@nixCraft
I was a COBOL programmer in the 90s. Oddly enough I can't seem to find a job today as a COBOL programmer.

gamingonlinux, to random
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"You can check out the full change log on our Discord!"

Please, stop doing this. Don't put important info behind a closed login wall. It's ridiculous. You're just making it more difficult for everyone.

Xucaen,
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@gamingonlinux

Just trying to drive traffic to their discord server. It's insanity!

Xucaen, to fediverse
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Peer tube is very confusing to me. I go to the web site and i can't figure out what to do. I see no videos and no place to upload. Is it still in development?

Xucaen, to random
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Is there some kind of official Mastodon help account that I should be tagging if I have questions or find bugs?
@feditips

dimillian, to random
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I just published Removing the M from MVVM with SwiftUI

https://dimillian.medium.com/removing-the-m-from-mvvm-with-swiftui-a58b239e9e3e

Xucaen,
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@dimillian what is Swift UI?

Xucaen, to random
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@Gargron
Is there any way you can fix Mastodon so that if I'm in the middle of writing a post and my screen accidentally gets refreshed that I don't lose what I wrote? It happens way more than I care to admit.
Thanks!

(And whom it may concern, no I'm not interested in using any third-party apps)

timonsku, (edited ) to random
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Are you someone who primarily does NOT work on web related software?

If yes, have you used node.js or deno before?

#programming #python #embedded

Xucaen,
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Xucaen,
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@timonsku you asked 2 questions

QasimRashid, to random
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Why are pro genocide Nazis treated better by the state than anti genocide college students??🤔

Subscribe here to support my human rights advocacy: https://substack.com/@qasimrashid

video/mp4

Xucaen,
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@QasimRashid

I don't think that's really happening. The only people that care about Nazis are other Nazis.✌️

mpax, to scifi
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What ship does she captain? And what does she use her ship for?

Xucaen,
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@mpax

She captains a colony on Mars, with specialties in mineralogy and smelting, heading up a new mining operation.

Xucaen, to Disney
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Wow there is a lot of callous murder in the Disney TV show Star Wars Rebels. I expected from the empire but not from the Jedi.

Xucaen, to random
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@feditips
for example, why is it showing up in columns?

AnnaAnthro, to solar
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Our sun once had thousands of sibling stars. Where did they go? Science has found three. Illustrated.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1241063826/sun-space-siblings-mystery-comic

Xucaen,
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@AnnaAnthro

And sibling stars could mean they have planets harboring sibling species . It's exciting to think about. 😊💚

AnnaAnthro, to random
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'Psychic' conman from Canada has finally been jailed for swindling 1.3m Americans.

He sent them pamphlets about how to get rich in exchange for money.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68831124

Xucaen,
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@AnnaAnthro

Wait isn't that called selling books?

Xucaen, to random
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What is ??

Xucaen, to random
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@Gargron lately I've been getting posts that have like hundreds of hashtags. But I don't know which hashtag in following that caused it to show up in me free. Is there any way you can highlight the hashtags I'm following so I can unfollow them?

Xucaen, to woodworking
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What's a good first workbench to build? I know there's a lot of choices, just looking for guidance. ✌️👍

video/mp4

Xucaen, to egypt
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Is there an Egyptologist in the house? I'm looking for information about the attached glyph. I did a reverse image search and I found indication it is related to the god Ra. Where's a good resource of information for this sort of thing?

#Egypt #Egyptology #archaeology

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