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underlap

@underlap@fosstodon.org

Husband, father, grandfather, follower of Jesus, but very much a work in progress.

Retired software developer, visiting lecturer, IETF editor. Likes repairability. BTW I use arch.

Hobbies: reading, blogging, running, sailing.

Delighted to live in Winchester, UK. Involved in a local church.

Banner: Derwent Water
Profile picture: Dorset coast

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ben, to fediverse
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There's no good way to prevent AI models from being trained on art published on the fediverse. But there's work we can do to prevent it and protect the artists who post there. https://werd.io/2024/protecting-artists-on-the-fediverse

underlap,
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@williampietri @ben @Gargron On blocking AI web crawlers, my post and project below may be of interest:

https://underlap.org/blocking-ai-web-crawlers

https://github.com/glyn/nginx_robot_access

sotolf, to random
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I really hate a11y and other similar stupid shortening, it's so much easier just to write out accessibility it's so annoying, and how are you supposed to guess those shortcuts?

underlap, (edited )
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@sotolf A similar abbreviation that initially threw me, and that I still find annoying, is "w/" for "with", as if (touch-)typing "ith" is so much effort.

Hopefully text is read many more times than it is written, so the onus should be on writers to communicate clearly rather than save a few characters.

sotolf, to random
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I do really need a numberpad on my keyboard, I've been at work for less than an hour and have already typed in 1000+ digits, you can't really do that comfortably and accurately from the numberrow.

underlap,
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@sotolf Amazing! I would love the numeric keypad too, if I was right-handed.

jhpratt, to random
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@frameworkcomputer laptop received! 64 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD later, there's definitely a bit of a learning curve on my first new (personal) laptop in a few years.

Manufacturing tolerances were decent, though the trackpad did have the edges curved up slightly. A small amount of force got it to be within my expectations. There is essentially zero gap between the spacers and trackpad module, which is awesome. My only "surprise", so to speak is that the top of the lower spacers have a hard edge.

underlap,
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@jhpratt Which OS/distro are you using?

AndyScott, to random
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I probably need an alt where I can (respectfully) gripe about all the nonsense.

Trying my best to reign it (or at least lie to myself about feeling positive) on Fosstodon results in not saying much at all... Of course my apologies to the 2 people worldwide who actually read before ;)

Anyway, can my friends of the fedi recommend any particular instances?

underlap,
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@AndyScott What Fosstodon rules do you feel are constraining you? I don't remember anything against griping...

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