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2024-11-14 07:02:16

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@nprofile…de2h ...What the fuck. How. You need to be able to read if you want to so much as download something from an app store!? And, 21%? That's one in five. There's no way.

2024-11-14 07:00:05

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@nprofile…de2h
> 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022
...That can't possibly be correct, right...? Like, surely they're using some extremely strict metric for literacy, or something. Even if you just watch TV, you have to at least read some words occasionally... :/

2024-11-04 04:01:14

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@npub1xth…u6wq @npub1eqe…e8kw I'm not gonna spend the kind of money you need for a mac on something proprietary. FreeBSD I've never tried, but Linux has always worked well for me, And I don't see any compelling reason to make the jump.

2024-11-04 04:01:14

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2024-10-16 22:23:49

So apparently Jacobin decided to spontaneously renew my subscription, despite the fact that I haven't been subscribed to them for *years*, and the credit card I had with them should have been expired. Will probably have to contact my bank and ask them to dispute the charge or something. Oh joy. -_-

2024-08-26 13:28:45

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@npub1trd…ussx Mmm, exactly so. In theory, it should be possible to use dedicated infrastructure and roles to manage this efficiently? But that's far from trivial, itself. :/

2024-08-26 12:50:14

Thinking again about how I wish it was easier to contribute to FLOSS projects. Like, I really want to help, and in theory I have the skills to do so. But picking a project to contribute to, picking an issue to work on, and figuring out how to coordinate with all the other people already working on the project such that I can actually contribute, just seems like an overwhelming challenge. :/

2024-08-26 12:48:37

Good morning mastodon! It's amazing how much my ADD meds help me get going. Though the meditation helps too. Gotta recommend both of those, to anyone who is interested. XD

2024-08-23 21:30:54

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@npub1aka…zzz2 ...Oh, derp, you're right. Okay, makes sense. XD

2024-08-23 21:11:59

...So I was looking at the robots.txt file for anticapitalist.party, and it looks like it explicitly allows gpt to scrape anything? Is that correct? Seems weird... :/
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

2024-08-14 21:43:49

This thought came into my head, and like... Should you? Care about someones tragic backstory? It seems callous to just discard it... But on the other hand, a tragic backstory can only go so far, surely. :/

2024-08-11 00:33:10

Went for a long bike ride today. Ended up on a more interesting trail than I was expecting. Lets just say, I have a brand new appreciation for how well my bike handles rocks, now. XD

2024-08-05 18:04:43

Was watching a video about "Project 2025", and the thought came to mind: "Goals more questionable than their proponents would like to admit, pursued through means more questionable than their proponents would like to admit." Seems to describe an awful lot of politics, honestly. :/

2024-07-20 23:02:02

So I was considering cost disease again, as I am occasionally wont too. For those of you who don't know, Cost Disease is the observed tendency for everything in a developed country to get way more expensive, constantly and forever. See: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease/
And I had a thought. For the average person, housing is the majority of their expenses, right? Or pretty close? If so, that means that housing is the primary cause of the cost of labor.

2024-07-14 01:35:21

A prediction: In general, things will get worse before they get better. Why? Because in order for things to really get better, people have to be willing to accept change and make sacrifices - and they won't do that until things get worse, possibly much worse.

2024-06-13 15:49:24

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@npub17nm…dm57 It basically just requires a Pro subscription to get some security updates.

2024-06-13 15:38:45

So what are people's opinions on Ubuntu Pro? I'm really not a fan of the idea. I get it if canonical needs more money to support what they do, but I'd really rather they found another way to get it, even if they are making it free for me. :/