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Wait?! ICQ is still a thing?! 🤔 😳
Wait?! ICQ is still a thing?! 🤔 😳
How about we put a pin in the "AI" garbage (Gemini included) until we've figured out how to make build a system that has any level of cognitive capability and understanding of concepts? Let's toss this autocomplete garbage in the bin, the auto-complete we've built over the last few decades works great and consumes next to no energy at all. This so-called 'AI" is worse than the fucking Cryptocurrency hyped up craze in terms of energy waste. 🤦‍♂️ #AI #Sucks
How about we put a pin in the "AI" garbage (Gemini included) until we've figured out how to make build a system that has any level of cognitive capability and understanding of concepts? Let's toss this autocomplete garbage in the bin, the auto-complete we've built over the last few decades works great and consumes next to no energy at all. This so-called 'AI" is worse than the fucking Cryptocurrency hyped up craze in terms of energy waste. 🤦‍♂️ #AI #Sucks
@xuu We can do that 🤣 But seriously I think the only thing that works is a 4hr timw window. So that's what it is!
@xuu We can do that 🤣 But seriously I think the only thing that works is a 4hr timw window. So that's what it is!
@shreyan I still quite get what it does 😅
@shreyan I still quite get what it does 😅
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@bender well... reading through This I can but wonder if it is defending anything at all...
@bender well... reading through This I can but wonder if it is defending anything at all...
We should hold one when it is 4AM for prologic :D
We should hold one when it is 4AM for prologic :D
so still 6AM MDT? oof
so still 6AM MDT? oof
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 05/20 to 05/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/05/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
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For those of us on EDT, that's 8:00AM. You can do it! :-)
@movq it is an interesting thing to do. I mean, he found a way to fool Defender, but why? A disabled Defender is worthless, and that's what he is doing. If I were to use Microsoft Windows, I would want the Defender to be bonafide active.
@lyse I’m so glad that I don’t have anything to do with the modern Windows world … Must be really annoying to waste one’s time on stuff like this. 🥴
@lyse I’m so glad that I don’t have anything to do with the modern Windows world … Must be really annoying to waste one’s time on stuff like this. 🥴
@lyse I’m so glad that I don’t have anything to do with the modern Windows world … Must be really annoying to waste one’s time on stuff like this. 🥴
@lyse I’m so glad that I don’t have anything to do with the modern Windows world … Must be really annoying to waste one’s time on stuff like this. 🥴
[47°09′53″S, 126°43′00″W] --no signal--
Lol, somebody reverse-engineered the secret API to tell Windows that some snake oil is installed: https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender
@prologic so, Bing. LOL.
@mckinley I am researching a bit on crossposting. I have a couple of Hugo static notes, for example, Netbros, and I figured that by using Algia, a Nostr CLI client, I can crosspost from Hugo to Nostr quite easily with something like:


cat hugo_post.md | algia n --article-title "A long post test" --article-name "A long post test" --article-summary "This is a long post test. Let's see if it works as intended." --stdin


Same approach can be used with twtxt, or anything else!

Having my own relay ensures my notes in it remain for as long as the relay runs, at the very least. Of course, you can post to more than one relay.
Service message : No #fridayrockmetal tonight and next week. Take care of you and don't forget to headbang \m/
@movq DuckDuckGo
@movq DuckDuckGo
@bender Sounds about spot on. :-D
@movq No, LibreOffice didn't exist back then. :-D The user interface was somehow green. No clue.

TeXNicCenter is either dead or just finished. All features implemented and all bugs fixed. That's the thing, one doesn't know with completed software. ;-)

(Lol, there was a fuzz on my screen. Just perfectly aligned, so it looked like an accent grave and I was wondering how the quote got corrupted. :-D)

Agreed, a lot of people don't need the real document structure markup.

I actually cannot remember when I wrote my last letter using LaTeX. Maybe it was some kind of termination letter for a service that could not be cancelled online. It must have been a few years ago. The last "proper-ish" use of LibreOffice was at the end of last year when printing a quiz and map for the scouts I think.

Today, I was in a meeting where a workmate gave a talk. I noticed the LaTeX beamer look and feel and was intrigued. He said, that he cobbled together the corporate design, but it's not ready for official use yet. But that's really cool. My last prepared presentation with LaTeX beamer was in my previous company a few years back. But I didn't care about corporate design at all.
@lyse Hmm, I don’t know of a green-ish Office suite. I mean, LibreOffice is green, but that’s not what you mean. 😅

Ahhh, TeXNicCenter! Many people in Uni used this. What happened to it, is it dead? The last release is from 10 years ago. 🫤

> Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.

Same here, to be honest. I *think* it was HTML which changed that eventually. 🤔 Not sure if any “ordinary” users that I know use semantic markup, but then again, none of them write any documents that *need* this. And in reality, most people are more concerned (rightfully so) with the actual appearance of their document – so it is an *extra step* to first mark something as a heading and then change the document style to get the appearance they actually want. That’s why I think that all the “Works”-like suites aren’t complete rubbish. They have their place.

> These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it.

I was going to ask “but how do you write letters”, and then I realized that the last letter I’ve written was in 2022. 😂 It has become super rare indeed.
@lyse Hmm, I don’t know of a green-ish Office suite. I mean, LibreOffice is green, but that’s not what you mean. 😅

Ahhh, TeXNicCenter! Many people in Uni used this. What happened to it, is it dead? The last release is from 10 years ago. 🫤

> Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.

Same here, to be honest. I *think* it was HTML which changed that eventually. 🤔 Not sure if any “ordinary” users that I know use semantic markup, but then again, none of them write any documents that *need* this. And in reality, most people are more concerned (rightfully so) with the actual appearance of their document – so it is an *extra step* to first mark something as a heading and then change the document style to get the appearance they actually want. That’s why I think that all the “Works”-like suites aren’t complete rubbish. They have their place.

> These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it.

I was going to ask “but how do you write letters”, and then I realized that the last letter I’ve written was in 2022. 😂 It has become super rare indeed.
@lyse Hmm, I don’t know of a green-ish Office suite. I mean, LibreOffice is green, but that’s not what you mean. 😅

Ahhh, TeXNicCenter! Many people in Uni used this. What happened to it, is it dead? The last release is from 10 years ago. 🫤

> Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.

Same here, to be honest. I *think* it was HTML which changed that eventually. 🤔 Not sure if any “ordinary” users that I know use semantic markup, but then again, none of them write any documents that *need* this. And in reality, most people are more concerned (rightfully so) with the actual appearance of their document – so it is an *extra step* to first mark something as a heading and then change the document style to get the appearance they actually want. That’s why I think that all the “Works”-like suites aren’t complete rubbish. They have their place.

> These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it.

I was going to ask “but how do you write letters”, and then I realized that the last letter I’ve written was in 2022. 😂 It has become super rare indeed.
@lyse Hmm, I don’t know of a green-ish Office suite. I mean, LibreOffice is green, but that’s not what you mean. 😅

Ahhh, TeXNicCenter! Many people in Uni used this. What happened to it, is it dead? The last release is from 10 years ago. 🫤

> Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.

Same here, to be honest. I *think* it was HTML which changed that eventually. 🤔 Not sure if any “ordinary” users that I know use semantic markup, but then again, none of them write any documents that *need* this. And in reality, most people are more concerned (rightfully so) with the actual appearance of their document – so it is an *extra step* to first mark something as a heading and then change the document style to get the appearance they actually want. That’s why I think that all the “Works”-like suites aren’t complete rubbish. They have their place.

> These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it.

I was going to ask “but how do you write letters”, and then I realized that the last letter I’ve written was in 2022. 😂 It has become super rare indeed.
@aelaraji Hmmm, I might give Searx a try. 🤔

That outage yesterday was a good thing. Made me question and reevaluate all this. 😅
@aelaraji Hmmm, I might give Searx a try. 🤔

That outage yesterday was a good thing. Made me question and reevaluate all this. 😅
@aelaraji Hmmm, I might give Searx a try. 🤔

That outage yesterday was a good thing. Made me question and reevaluate all this. 😅
@aelaraji Hmmm, I might give Searx a try. 🤔

That outage yesterday was a good thing. Made me question and reevaluate all this. 😅
[47°09′11″S, 126°43′29″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
@prologic neither. It is rubbish. 😂😂😂
I can't tell from the fancy marketing 🤣
I can't tell from the fancy marketing 🤣
@shreyan Is this a piece of software or a hardware device? 🤔
@shreyan Is this a piece of software or a hardware device? 🤔
@aelaraji Somehow I'm not sure that feed URI is right 🤔
@aelaraji Somehow I'm not sure that feed URI is right 🤔
[47°09′17″S, 126°43′07″W] Resetting dosimeter
#catsoftwtxt
/https://baldo.cat/media/photos/photo_14824-05-2024_06-29-12.jpg) #catsoftwtxt
/https://baldo.cat/media/photos/photo_14724-05-2024_06-29-12.jpg) #catsoftwtxt
#catsoftwtxt
#catsoftwtxt
Nuevo miembro de une a la fiesta 🥳 : Baldo
#catsoftwtxt
[47°09′38″S, 126°43′37″W] Raw reading: 0x66501ED1, offset +/-1
@aelaraji strongly opinionated puritans 🤣
@aelaraji strongly opinionated puritans 🤣
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On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Darmok https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/05/23/darmok.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Base: 6.51 miles, 00:09:10 average pace, 00:59:44 duration
heavy legs today. was not sure i was going to be able to squeeze this in due to how crazy work has been of late.
#running #treadmill
Base: 6.51 miles, 00:09:10 average pace, 00:59:44 duration
heavy legs today. was not sure i was going to be able to squeeze this in due to how crazy work has been of late.
#running #treadmill
Base: 6.51 miles, 00:09:10 average pace, 00:59:44 duration
heavy legs today. was not sure i was going to be able to squeeze this in due to how crazy work has been of late.
#running #treadmill
Regarding https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/POSTING-en.html: I remember using Star $Something back in the days. I don't remember the exact name anymore and none of the screenshots of StarOffice look familiar. Hmm. I have a green UI in mind. Not sure if I completely hallucinate it or whether that was actually the case. It was a commercial software, not freeware, we had to buy it, I think.

My first LaTeX distribution was MiKTeX with – if I remember correctly – the TeXNicCenter. A bit later on Linux I used Kile as my LaTeX editor. LaTeX produces the worst error messages I've ever come across. So compile early and often. But the results are amazing.

I know people who never make use of headings and the like to this day. Bold, italics, underline etc. is all they use. Despite writing larger documents. Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.

These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it. RST and Markdown if it has to be more fancy.
@prologic Well, that's just sad! I'd hoped it would be as much of nice experience as it is around here...
@prologic Well, that's just sad! I'd hoped it would be as much of nice experience as it is around here...
@movq I've been using Qwant for a while but it was down earlier today (as well 😆) so I switched back to my trusty Searx Redirector

> ... This utility forwards your search query to one of 11 random volunteer-run public servers to thwart mass surveillance.
@movq I've been using Qwant for a while but it was down earlier today (as well 😆) so I switched back to my trusty Searx Redirector

> ... This utility forwards your search query to one of 11 random volunteer-run public servers to thwart mass surveillance.
Google. Not going to lie.
Hello @bmallred I hope you're doing well.
I dunno if it's normal, but it seems like I am unable to access your twtxt.tx file... 😅
Hello @bmallred I hope you're doing well.
I dunno if it's normal, but it seems like I am unable to access your twtxt.tx file... 😅
QOTD: Which web search engine do you use? 😂
QOTD: Which web search engine do you use? 😂
QOTD: Which web search engine do you use? 😂
QOTD: Which web search engine do you use? 😂
@mckinley Oops. Glad to hear the backups worked. 😅
@mckinley Oops. Glad to hear the backups worked. 😅
@mckinley Oops. Glad to hear the backups worked. 😅
@mckinley Oops. Glad to hear the backups worked. 😅
@bender In retrospect, it looks pretty obvious, yeah. 🫤 Or at least like a red flag.
@bender In retrospect, it looks pretty obvious, yeah. 🫤 Or at least like a red flag.
@bender In retrospect, it looks pretty obvious, yeah. 🫤 Or at least like a red flag.
@bender In retrospect, it looks pretty obvious, yeah. 🫤 Or at least like a red flag.
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@mckinley Nice! Restic is great! I've restored mostly my pod data at various times 🤣
@mckinley Nice! Restic is great! I've restored mostly my pod data at various times 🤣
This is cool, the Engineerguy talks about the engineering of duct tape: https://youtu.be/E-F2QQuZZGk
[47°09′23″S, 126°43′40″W] --bad checksum--
@movq @prologic @bender Oh, I neither noticed the DDG downtime nor was I aware of their partnership with Bing. O_o Oh dear! Never heard of most search engines in this linked graph.
I need a reality check
@movq I will take this as pretty clear:

> "we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing"

Emphasis mine. Of course, they could have spelled "links" as "results". We all know that was done purposely. 😅
@prologic Going to be interesting to find out what caused this. 🤔 Bing (like, the real bing.com) is still down for me as well.

DuckDuckGo’s help page doesn’t really make it clear that they rely on Bing *that much*:

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

I guess this outage is a good thing. 😅 Lots of people now read up on this.
@prologic Going to be interesting to find out what caused this. 🤔 Bing (like, the real bing.com) is still down for me as well.

DuckDuckGo’s help page doesn’t really make it clear that they rely on Bing *that much*:

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

I guess this outage is a good thing. 😅 Lots of people now read up on this.
@prologic Going to be interesting to find out what caused this. 🤔 Bing (like, the real bing.com) is still down for me as well.

DuckDuckGo’s help page doesn’t really make it clear that they rely on Bing *that much*:

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

I guess this outage is a good thing. 😅 Lots of people now read up on this.
@prologic Going to be interesting to find out what caused this. 🤔 Bing (like, the real bing.com) is still down for me as well.

DuckDuckGo’s help page doesn’t really make it clear that they rely on Bing *that much*:

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

I guess this outage is a good thing. 😅 Lots of people now read up on this.
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@movq Hah it's down for me too! 😱
@movq Hah it's down for me too! 😱
@prologic I wasn’t aware of the extent. 😞 The whole thing is down now that Bing is down.
@prologic I wasn’t aware of the extent. 😞 The whole thing is down now that Bing is down.