Beej Jorgensen @ beejjorgensen @lemmy.sdf.org

Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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I did this with a BASIC game called Wizard's Castle that I played a lot of as a kid. The first step was to "reverse engineer" the manually-compressed BASIC code and write up a spec. Then I rewrote it in Rust as a learning exercise. 🙂

https://github.com/beejjorgensen/Wizards-Castle-Info

Seems easy to strip off or not add, and then you'd have a video with unknown provenance which the echo chamber will eat hook, line, and sinker. Wouldn't you?

I don't want to necessarily gatekeep it, but I don't want to go back to a centralized algorithmic platform in order to cater to everyone. I'm sure there are some things federated platforms can do to be more approachable, but some of them we shouldn't do. But Twitter and clones are out there already for people to use--Mastodon doesn't need to copy them.

Slightly shorter:

pdftk old.pdf cat output new.pdf

I have no problem with Twitter moderating content. The First Amendment says they can.

But the government moderating it--the First Amendment says they can't.

This logic holds the ISP and backbone providers liable as well, does it not?

Just saw this in the passport line in Amsterdam for EU citizens. Not a lot of takers, but the ones who did got through fast. Tradeoffs.

I had the same experience moving from GIMP to Photoshop. 😂

The one thing I can't seem to get CUPS to do is share my printer with the LAN. I had it for a while where it would show up on the Macs, but then would vanish. It's my only gripe.

It continuously blows my mind that computers function at all when constructed on these nanometer scales.

"It used to take me over an hour to space an alien queen out the airlock, but with this new exoskeleton, I can get the job done in under 5 minutes."

I grew up with commercial TV, too. But somewhere along the way I lost my tolerance for ads. I'll pay to get rid of them, but if that's not an option, I just don't watch the show.

This was not our experience with raw JS programs in the 10k-20k loc range composed of scores of files.

Musk tweeted. "Only verified users count, as it is otherwise trivial to game the system with bots."

So how's that plan to get rid of all the bot accounts coming along?

I have an old brother laser I've refilled by hand a couple times. But when it dies I might just use the 5¢ printer at the library for the few print jobs I need.

I've been editing OSM for years. (896,339 edits in 3,427 changesets, apparently!) For me, it's all about the free data. I once got a thank you note from someone who worked for a city with a particularly large municipal park. I'd added almost all the trails to the park and other information, and they'd used it to produce a printed map for the general public. Exactly the kind of thing I'd hoped for!

Personally, I do a lot of dualsport motorcycling and most backcountry maps around here are subpar. I map tons of trails and 2track and put them on the Garmin so I know where I'm going.

OSM is also great in lots of Europe--tons of detail.

JOSM is great.

Someone just recommended Organic Maps for the phone--it's way snappier than Google Maps, but still not great with finding addresses.

From what I've read, it is not, but it basically contains Firefox to do the rendering.

Spam is a menace, but bayesian filters and whitelists work quite well together.

It depends on if the summary is an infringing derivative work, doesn't it? Wikipedia is full of summaries, for example, and it's not violating copyright.

If they illegally downloaded the works, that feels like a standalone issue to me, not having anything to do with AI.

On newer machines I stopped even splitting out /boot. Now it's just one big partition and a swap file.

And regular backups. 😅