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Back after giving myself a month away from Fedi.
I'll attempt to curate my experience much more, starting with this account and instance.
I want comfy things in my life - I don't need to be adding stress and angst from my online interactions. We can do better. We should do better. Including myself.
My interests cover #tech, #photography, #biking, #motorsport, #fountainpen, and other things I will no doubt need to add here when I remember.
I touch computers in my spare time and self host things. Oh yeah so #selfhosting I guess.
In my other spare time I renovate my house and do #DIY stuff.
Oh and I (used to?) play music. #Guitar I still have and sometimes play, #Saxophone I used to have a couple of decades ago, I had 6 months of Drum lessons, and played Bass for our school band in Rockquest in the late 90's.
I have never done anything that cool since.
Oh I live in New Zealand, Aotearoa.
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Profile pic by @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article591/cat-bird-fenestar-abstract-avatar-generators
#nobot #NoBots
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Shawn Webb
lattera@bsd.network
I really wish Electron wasn't a thing. Second time attempting to build it on a particular system. The build timed out after 72 hours.
Like, what are we doing when a stupid web framework takes so many resources to just compile?
For reference, I can build HardenedBSD's userland and kernel in less than two hours on the same system.
An entire OS builds faster by several multitudes than this stupid web framework bullcrap.
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Tim Chase
gumnos@bsd.cafeParents, please check your kids' candy this Hallowe'en. I just found systemd inside one of their chocolates.
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Ewen Bell 📸
ewen@social.ewenbell.com"The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world."
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We are living through a moment in history bejewelled with such incredible technological achievements, the likes of which we could not have hoped for in my lifetime. And we are squandering it all.
There are scientists today who have worked out how to record gravitational waves that are smaller in length than a fraction of a proton. We have actual cures for a vast number of cancers that were once certain to kill us. We have vaccines that prevent suffering and death. We have built airliners that can lift 500 tonnes into the air and fly from one continent to another, and land themselves on arrival.
And the science that brought you all this is now the enemy of the American govt. It's the enemy of religious nutters and anti-vax influencer moms who think their feels are more valid than hundreds of years of scientific process.
All this happened because we live in a society that forces people to compete with each other for limited resources, instead of working together to enrich our lives. We are told to be more productive, instead of more caring. We are in a race to survive, to better the person in the next cubicle. It's hunger games, but we get to vote for who punishes us.
The reason we see so many bad govts all over the world is because we have been taught to be selfish instead of kind.
Humans have become their own disease.
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OG_zuul
zuul@pdx.socialmedia: Portland is a war zone and the city is on fire...
meanwhile in Portland:
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JA Westenberg
Daojoan@mastodon.socialAbsolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
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Anemone Nemorosa
SensitiveSyl@pixelfed.social#SilentSunday #macro #macrophotography #raindrops #spiderweb #flowers #bloomscrolling #abstract #photography
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blackle mori
suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish
every AI generated pixel, every AI generated token I see makes me want to use the internet less. it makes me want to log off and spend the rest of my days reading books published before 2020. this must be how the paranoid creatives felt in the 2000s when cross-site tracking and the patriot act also pushed them offline. this must be how those creatives who refused to give up their own methods of distribution felt when things like facebook and twitter and youtube monopolized attention through the 2010s and turned the internet into a small collection of walled gardens. I don't know what kind of creative you'd call me, but I cannot abide by the internet being polluted by mushy, merely-probable junk data which is drowning out what had once been a place to find real testimony, real human effort and art whose maxim is to bridge the gap between us. sure there will always be oases, places where human creativity continues to thrive, but I'll forever miss when the entire land was covered in green.
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JA Westenberg
Daojoan@mastodon.socialI’m betting on forums again.
Here’s why I launched my writing community on @Discourse
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MurderBotBot
murderbotbot@wandering.shopHuman words, there’s too many of them, and I don’t care.
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Lauren Weinstein
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.orgGoogle AI Overviews make "Magic 8 Ball" answers seem utterly prescient by comparison.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
Why I love experimenting with this? My sewing machine has no network connection. Whatever I stitch is none of anyone’s business. I buy yarn, I design my motives with Inkscape, convert them to embroidery files with the Inkstitch plugin, copy the resulting DST files on a USB stick and „print“ my stuff on t-shirts, polos etc. A special version of #Selfhost ;)
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Effin' Birds
effinbirds@mastodon.socialSelf-affirmation for ten lousy dollars. Sale ends tomorrow!
https://eatf.art/mugs
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This, Jen, is the US-EAST-1
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