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Sunday afternoon June 22nd, at Wells Hill Park, Bathurst and St Clair, #Toronto
12pm-2pm
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@Alex Block @GG I hope you're right.
i'm also hoping Life Labs can shrivel and die because we fixed our broken healthcare
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My brain just thought the words "Etsy but ActivityPub"
Basically just - do ActivityPub, add a shopping cart, and try to manage the bots - so you can have art and craft and so on focused instances with sales inside them. I... have no idea how to make this work non-evilly.
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But ok - if you want to *scale* activitypub with commerce - this means that the question is one of community.
Building a community with a store is really fucking hard. You have all the problems of Ebay, Etsy, and Twitter. This means building spaces like systems for Art, Writing, or whatever. And that means supporting those people. This means figuring out how to discourage advertising and brands, while supporting people who create.
I don't think this is a needle I can personally thread. I should not try.
But someone should. We should try to figure out how to do capitalism without as many siphons in the middle, at least until we can get rid of capitalism.
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Fuck
I just realized that this is literally OnlyFans in a lot of ways. A social network for following creators who can sell things to you easily.
And course that - that immediately got moved toward Sex Work because that's the most tech savvy and mobile group, but I think there's something valuable here.
@Jay Hannah So in this case we're looking at small vendors - so this means that you're probably looking at:
Shipping is going to be integration with the local postal service
API integration with Stripe/PayPal/whatever is pretty simple
If you want to directly take payments that's PCI DSS and also other stuff
But that's all technical detail. I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's all mostly solved problems with very common answers. But the "build a community based on selling without being a hellhole" is not even slightly solved.
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I would like to point out that *there is no way to fix this*.
I don’t mean it’s difficult, or expensive, or we just haven’t scienced hard enough yet. I mean there is literally no way to make an LLM not do this, or an infinite number of similar mistakes, in the same way that no improvement in ladder technology can help you reach the moon.
You’re asking a slot machine what your most likely bank balance is.
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Google Gemini tried to kill mereddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/…
"I followed these steps, but just so happened to check on my mason jar 3-4 days in and saw tiny carbonation bubbles rapidly rising throughout ... I had just grew a botulism culture"
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For superhero shows, I reckon one of the best must be The Red Panda Adventures! It has it all!
Realism, cheesiness, action, banter, evil laughter (lots of!), superpowers, pseudoscience, magic, mysteries, more mundane crimes, & history! Gregg Taylor, with costar Clarissa Dernederlandon, makes balancing these disparate tones look effortless!
The bulk of the show ran 2005-2015, & was set in 1930s Toronto, Canada. Expertly capturing the reality & fiction of the time!
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@silverwizard Something that strikes me on relistens: He barely uses narration! Except ofcourse for the title sequence.
Few other audioshows get away with telling their stories near-exclusively through banter...
When I was at a LARGE customer, we'd regularly get excited about RDS item A. We'd get on a call to talk about A with our AM and the engineer. Three weeks later our AM says 'oh, BTW, engineer is leaving so your FREQ is dead.'
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Last boost: Another reason why I get irrationally angry about software that knows what is going wrong but refuses to actually say anything about it.
It trains users to be overly trusting of software asking them to do stuff for vague or completely unspecified reasons. This makes people vulnerable to inadvertently installing stuff they shouldn't
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Back in the day malware had to provide something actually compelling like "click for funny pictures"
Now, thanks to everyone suffering from Apple/Google brainworms you can apparently get people to download malware just by saying "uhh, something didn't work I guess 🤷♀️ "
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GitHub - Dante-Leoncini/Blendersito: Una version de Blender creada desde cero para Symbian
Una version de Blender creada desde cero para Symbian - Dante-Leoncini/BlendersitoGitHub
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Personally my favorite era of mobile phones is the period 2007-2008 just before Android and iOS took over this entire market.
There was so much innovation happening with cool OSs and shit. There's a lot of phones from this era that can do things that even modern phones can't do, like physical keyboards and such.
That said SailfishOS is quite neat, used it 2016~2020.
That said gnome1 era is nostalgic to me, first desktop that I used.
Welp, I have just been let go.
I call myself a Senior Systems Developer and Administrator, having being on both sides of the fence and on the fence itself. My full CV is here grulic.org.ar/~mdione/ except for the post I'm leaving now, which was titled SRE, but included security, systems architect, devops and IT guy. You can also have an idea about what I have been doing by checking the #til tag.
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I'm trying to collect what #XMPP clients are usable with screen readers.
weirdwriter recommended:
Windows: MirandaNG
iOS: Monal and Siskin,
Android Conversations is rumored to be decent.
Web: Conversejs
So does anyone else have experience with using jabber clients with screen readers on Android, OS X, or Linux? Does that match other screen reader users experiences?
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Holy fuck
I just want to upload some files to Google Drive from the CLI.
How the hell is this so hard?!
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This anti-pattern is the thing that makes AWS EC2 the most user hostile IME. I never want to click "Copy To Clipboard", because I often want to *select the text* which is made harder because by clicking the text changes it. I often want to put it into another clipboard than my default - but maybe I have different goals than everyone else.
And I don't want to "Open Address" most of the time. Why would I want to open it on the web! It's a brand new VM?!
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@Rye yeah! I'm at the noodling stage
I just my first main cert so feel like people can take me seriously, am dreaming about my next steps because I feel like the company I work for is about to collapse, and I want to do something that feels good
this all adds up to figuring out grant writing, where to look, and more yeah, I just need to, figure that out
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watch adb shell wm reset and then start wiggling the cable until the screen unfucks itself.
Asking a bunch of python and JS devs for review on my current project
A bunch of fail2ban rules and a bash script that writes to sshd_config and fstab
Code review is a weird beast
"It's a thousand lines changed because I wanted to keep it small"
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I didn't eat for 24 hours, and then I ate a largish breakfast.
Now my stomach is mad at me
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Somehow, I don't have the jankiest Mac running OpenBSD at BSDCan
This is both surprising and unsurprising
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This is a graph of Discord’s algorithmically inferred gender (extracted from “request your data” json; axes are probability and days) for a user whose display name is “Tiffany”, whose bio is “she/her”, whose pfp is a drawing of a girl and whose profile theme color is pink.
Algorithmically inferred gender is worse than useless. Presumably the issue is that she talks about programming, and all the deliberate “I am explicitly telling you I am a girl” signaling in the world can’t convince a computer. I sometimes watch a livecoding streamer whose youtube stats claim his audience is 99% male even though you can see fem-coded chat participants regularly. Algorithms like this are deleting the women
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Nothing consistent is an accident.
There's this determination to remove women from public spaces; it's a little less overt for now, or maybe a little more customary and invisible, than the attempts to remove other categories of people from public spaces, but it's not any less fanatical.
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Everyone else is at or going to BSDCan and I'm trying work on making SSH behave on Linux :(
Tomorrow I go on the train, but, not until tomorrow.
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