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Gemini capsule is now live! You can access it by going to gemini://terathopius.com. I also installed a proxy so if you don't have a browser that supports the Gemini protocol, you can just go to https://terathopius.com and it should also work.
Setting up my federated fleamarket with flohmarkt
Yesterday, I set up an instance of flohmarkt on a Raspberry Pi, to experiment with a self-hosted, federated "fleamarket" system, for advertising some old tech stuff that really needs a new home.
It's alpha, and has a few rough edges, so perhaps my notes will help:
https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/10/setting-up-my-federated-fleamarket-with-flohmarkt/
Thanks to everyone who helped test it!
if you agree with it you've surrendered your capacity for independent, rational thought
and all we have to do is repeat the mantra:
"AI! blockchain! tesla! mcdonalds!"
The myth of a scientist as a purely rational thinker, a “brain in a jar” devoid of emotions and values, still exists in some scientific circles.
In fact, many of us climate scientists were astonished when a Nature essay made this very argument earlier this year!
In this response, published today after a comprehensive peer review, we dismantle the myth of the "heartless brain," disproving the claim that science should - or even can - be neutral.
Open access link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-024-00171-9
seriously the mocking a lot of foss people endure for having any principles at all is disgusting
that and i feel like my phone is making me feel really anxious
we honestly could live without constant stimulation from the internet, and not lose a single good thing about the internet
this 'dopamine economy' or 'attention economy' is destroying us all--if you're not glued to your phone, you're missing out!!!
Love to be waiting for months to spend $300 on a specialist just to be told "Try not thinking about it!"
I'm not paying you to ignore my concerns and shuffle me out of a room!
but i'm pulling through
i have not worked this fucking hard to give up now
I am increasingly unimpressed with #Harvard's bot account that keeps retooting the same article, and that practice in general. As a human, write a new vantage about how great your important article was. If you have more insight to share you have more insight to share.
auspol i guess. mythological dogwhistles.
“Christian Rowan” the name of the just re-elected local Literal Nazi Party member, (with the mythological meaning of “rowan” as a talisman of protection from fairies and witches, and its neo-druidic epithet of the portal-tree) always reminds me of @GreatDismal’s Nazi-Rock icon “Christian White and his Aryan Reggae Band”.
Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
auspol qldpol
My electorate already had a Literal Nazi Party member, and my vote was insufficient to dislodge him (green vote was nearly 20% tho, slowly rising). Disappointed in the rest of you.
I'm really enjoying these.
93. When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Getting in a vibe to meet up at paradise sushi in lambda (1800UTC Friday!) and talk about hopes and dreams and strategies and choices for #SICP study, then the forward reminded me of Perlisisms and so I read these instead #computing
C is such a piece of shit language. Only language where "I need a dynamically growing array or a hashmap" is answered with "roll your own lol n_n"
EDIT: C (not C++, not Zig, not Rust) is the correct language for the job I'm doing. I am also very aware of how to implement dynamic arrays and hash tables. I have written my own stdlibs on freestanding C before. I do not actually need coaching in this matter, thank you. I also like C, sometimes, but sometimes I think it's a stupid piece of shit language, because it is
http status code breakdown
1xx - you need to do it
2xx - we did it
3xx - go do it over there
4xx - you can't do it
5xx - we can't do it
