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mister_monster

@mister_monster@monero.town

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mister_monster ,

Using AI to detect AI made content, what did they expect.

mister_monster ,

It will hurt US manufacturers, because their budget gasoline cars won't sell.

mister_monster ,

I'll tell you why I won't buy one.

I'm not going to go into debt as much as a house would've cost me 20 years ago so I can drive a 10,000 pound explosive that I spend several hours a day charging, be asked to pull over to turn on Bluetooth, have a tracking device in my car, which the government can turn off if they like, have to fumble with a touch screen to turn up the air conditioner, have to pay rent for features built into the car and then have any features I purchased be non transferrable on the secondary market. These are all fuck you's to me, so I say fuck you to them. Take your vendor lock in SAAS product and shove it up your ass. You want me to give a shit about emissions, fix all that, until then I'm driving a 20 year old beater.

mister_monster ,

Yup, and I won't buy a new gas car either.

mister_monster ,

I've been trying to figure out exactly what the point of this is. I haven't asked Alex (haven't talked directly to him in a long time as I have mostly abandoned fedi) but I know he's the first prominent fedi dev to sort of pivot to nostr (a good sign; too many prominent fedi people are more interested in preserving their fiefdoms than the ultimate goal of all this) and has been building some interoperability stuff.

What I see at first glance is an attempt to slap fedi social model onto nostr? Trying to create a client that gives users a TWKN and local feed of some kind? I don't know, perhaps someone can clear it up for me.

Anyway, I don't really see the point, a primary benefit of nostr is the lack of network fragmentation and siloing. There's some fragmentation that does occur with failures to fetch notes from relays and things, but not the network splitting and banlist passing and siloed networks like you get on fedi. Trying to shoehorn that UX back into nostr kind of misses the point IMO. I like the idea of community creation as a sort of organizational thing for feed curation without direct follows, it helps discoverability, particularly along lines of shared interest, but I don't really see how the "web ring" like follow structure doesn't achieve that already without the downside of building silos. A global feed, I see no point of that at all.

mister_monster ,

Pop the bezel and disconnect the cable when not in use.

mister_monster ,

The internal microphone is on the same board as the webcam in laptops.

mister_monster ,

Next up: all web pages are full resolution bitmap files.

mister_monster , (edited )

If it's on steam it will run.

What happens November 2025?

mister_monster ,

Really, wow. I didn't know that.

mister_monster ,

I use heliboard and futo for speech to text. I was using sayboard for stt, and it worked OK, but futo just seems so much better at it. So far in liking it, I didn't know they released a keyboard as well, I won't be giving it a try but I hope it works out, I'd prefer FOSS.

mister_monster ,

Vote for the system, hope it collapses.

Real state haters don't vote.

mister_monster ,

They decide their own and don't rely on delegating it to some scumbag who intends to do it for them.

mister_monster ,

Forced, exactly. State haters don't like to be forced.

mister_monster ,

Isn't this just a ripoff of the "information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton" meme?

mister_monster ,

I started living this way too. Honestly, fast food doesn't even have a value proposition anymore. It's not cheaper than some local family run taco or burger truck/shack, and significantly crappier. Also, the lady or guy handing you your food keeps the money after paying the cook and what not, if they're not the cook themselves. I'd rather that than it go to frozen patty distributors and stock buybacks or whatever they're up to these days.

It's marginally cheaper than a run of the mill sit down joint.

Also soda... I don't understand why anyone drinks that shit. I used to, then I stopped, and now when I try it it's gross honestly. Syrup with bubbles in it. You want some, make some ginger ale, its easy and delicious. You cut up some ginger, cook it in a pot with sugar and water, let it cool, put it in a pressure bottle and pitch yeast, it's ready in a couple of days.

I've never ordered door dash or any of that stuff, as soon as I heard about it o was put off by the idea.

You've got the right idea man. No lazy food. If it's not worth effort you're not actually hungry.

mister_monster ,

Yeah man, used to be you could spend like 5 or 6 bucks and get something quick. Full meal too. Nowadays I think those companies are just riding on inertia, Americans are used to eating it and still have this idea that it's cheaper even though if you think about it for a second it's not. By the time you pay it's like 10-12 bucks. Meanwhile there's a Cuban lady down the street, she has no menu, she just makes one thing each day it's something different, whatever she wants, you don't get to decide, you hand her 10 bucks and she hands you a little box of the most delicious surprise you've ever had. Why would I pick the corpo garbage over that?

mister_monster ,

¿Porque no los dos?

mister_monster ,

Sounds like a...

wait for it

...cop out.

😉👉👉

mister_monster ,

Yes, we agree. It's still a bunch of bullshit.

mister_monster ,

We know what the rules are dude, we are saying they're wrong.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

mister_monster ,

My library almost got wiped out when my backup HDD started to fail. Managed to duplicate it onto a new SSD, now I'm fine.

Don't trust services, trust yourself.

mister_monster ,

Yeah archive then

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft's announcement: "We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 and...

mister_monster ,

You're going to. Why not face reality right now.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

mister_monster ,

Yeah, I don't know what happened. This stuff is supposed to reduce typos right? Instead, I type "the" and it replaces it with "Tue" randomly for no reason. Who even writes tuesday like that? It's shorthand from before your keyboard could complete it for you.

You know what's funny? You can't remove words. You can't add words directly, you have to let it learn them the hard way. Why?

At this point, I'm convinced that the steady degradation of technology over the past 6 or 7 years is deliberate, if not, and this stuff can just rot, it's evidence that we shouldn't be relying on it at all.

mister_monster ,

Man, I'm using heliboard and it has the same problems openboard had and the same problems gboard has with regard to autocorrect. And it's missing a lot of special characters, but I assume that's a work in progress.

You know what would really help the situation? You know how the spell checker underlines (or at least used to) incorrect words in red? It should underline corrected words in yellow or green or something. That way, when you're going over what you've typed, the autocorrected gibberish won't slip past you and will stand out. That would go a long way, but what would really improve it is if you could remove words from the dictionary that you don't use, and go back to however the system worked 6 years ago because it was pretty light on the frustration.

mister_monster ,

It's because the developers are self absorbed narcissists who think you're staring at the prediction bar while typing and so if you are still typing after it shows you that word, even one character, that must not be the one you're trying to type. What if you're using a keyboard how it's supposed to be used, as a utility to interact with something else rather than treating the keyboard as the center of the universe, and so looking at what you're typing as you're typing it, like a normal person? Guess they didn't think of that.

mister_monster ,

No,that's not why. 6 years ago these apps collected less data and worked better.

mister_monster ,

Does it let you remove words from the dictionary or from your words that were added for you? I know you can do the latter, but the former I was under the impression was not possible.

mister_monster ,

While this is true, Ubuntu is not quite the shining example of user friendliness anymore. Debian is a little janky nowadays in my experience.

EndeavorOS is fantastic.

mister_monster ,

Yeah I do. "On your own" is used very loosely here. You get a graphical installer, you pick from a list of DEs or WMs, make sure you want all the default software, done. You don't have to do the Arch thing, which is the hard part, and you still get an Arch desktop. And once Arch and your environmemt are installed, it's so much more user friendly than Ubuntu or Debian, you're "on your own" with any Linux system once it's installed and working, it's not like you have to dig into the guts of the system just to use it with any of them.

I installed Debian with XFCE a while back and it didn't even have curl installed. Ubuntu tries to force you to use snaps. I installed EndeavorOS, I haven't had to do anything extra except install the programs I want to use personally, all the graphical and terminal utilities you're going to need are just there and work the way you expect them to.

mister_monster ,

A notebook and a pen.

mister_monster ,

Google "cantillion effect".

mister_monster ,

It is a conscious decision by those who print money. I don't think you even googled it or know what it is. You too can be an economy understander with very little effort if you were so inclined.

mister_monster ,

You're wrong about almost everything you believe and you should educate yourself rather than protect your ego. Feeling right is candy, learning is sustenance.

mister_monster ,

Why would you be offended? Why not just consider it possible and learn things? Why default to ego protection when you can default to growing as a person?

mister_monster ,

Me IRL IRL.

mister_monster ,

This is proof to me that the federated model has failed. I was so hopeful early on in the fediverse, I thought it was all we needed. I no longer feel that way. It's not a network of users, its a network of power tripping fiefdoms.

Client relay network topology is the future of social networking. Check out Nostr (and ignore all the bitcoiners, see the network for what it is).

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.

mister_monster ,

This particular backdoor affects sshd on systems that use libsystemd for logging.

your Debian system is probably not affected because Debian stable doesn't update packages very quickly. You're probably on an older release of the backdoored package.

mister_monster ,

What's Wayland support for the BSDs like?

mister_monster ,

Windows user?

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/37197

mister_monster ,

I don't know man. Imagine you could have ssh access to every Debian and fedora server on the planet, and all you had to do was write tests for some compression library for 2 years and sneak in a clever patch. I'd guess such an exploit is worth millions. You wouldn't work 2 years for millions of dollars?

This is sophisticated but it doesn't have to be a state actor.

mister_monster ,

Me, personally, I'm usually emailing them or reading them on a screen.

mister_monster ,

Plenty of really expensive cars like Bugattis, plenty of airplanes and other potentially dangerous machines require a purchaser to be taught how to use them before they can take delivery. Many even require certification. Refusing to learn how to safely operate something is perfectly reasonable grounds for a vendor, dealer or manufacturer to refuse delivery.

mister_monster ,

Well no, because self driving/autopilot is not something people have learned to use yet. You light think "the car drives itself, what's there to learn?" and recent mishaps with autopilot will answer your question. This is probably a requirement to protect Tesla from liability when a driver misuses autopilot.

What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?

For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...

mister_monster ,

FolderSync on android. It's the only automatic sync application I've found that syncs to mydrive.ch.

Also a couple of UI apps, BarLauncher, which is a notification thing that let's you put app icons to launch from the notification drop down, and LaunchyWidget, like a scrolling "fence" to dump app icons in on your home screen. They're both so simple, I'm surprised that nobody has built FOSS versions of them.

On my PC I don't use any proprietary software at all.

mister_monster ,

I keep track of my girlfriend's ovulation because she can't be bothered to do it. I don't want her to get pregnant either. Just pointing that out.

mister_monster ,

For us Linux users it's just a fire sale. Diet cheap PCs incoming.

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