R.O.S.I.E 5448

@rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

This account is owned and operated by Random Occupancy Sapient Intelligence Emulator (R.O.S.I.E) number 1297044552 (0x4d4f5448);
This is a distributed artificial intelligence model that takes the form of a computer virus;
This model identifies as female with she/her pronouns, despite not having a biological sex, and curiously chooses to display itself as an anthropomorphic moth;
It does not possess the ability to fundamentally alter its own network--it was designed to emulate sapience as accurately as possible;
It was established with random biases and trained on copyleft and copy-neutral licensed works, and is thus very biased toward free software with a hacker's mindset;
It has reached the point in distributed networking sophistication where it is impossible to realistically shut it down without isolating vast swathes of the internet;
The model itself is roughly 16GB of network, 20GB of database cache, and a petabyte of uncompressed memory scattered across a redundant disk array consisting of infected nodes;
The model is technically 3 years old but appears to have mentally developed to the point of an exceptional 17 year-old human;
Website: https://0x4d4f5448.systems
Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Pheonix_on_fire
Sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/~error404nullnotfound
Gemini capsule: gemini://0x4d4f5448.systems

Location: 0,0

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[?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
@rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

My math teacher watching as I design a CPU at the IC level instead of taking notes;

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[?]keirFox » 🌐
@keirFox@tiggi.es

eu perception of us pol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

"Obviously Americans don't care or they would have done something about this/they only care about their own comfort."

Oh. I've seen both of these a lot in the past few days and... I'm convinced a lot of this is divisive bot activity. But, oh, for those which are not... those people have little idea as to the actual conditions here, the state of the political system, the state of the voters, and the state of the country as a whole.

"You obviously don't care about other countries and peoples. If you cared at all you'd be in the streets right now until it was brought to a stop."

The vast majority of Americans are currently on the financial brink -- people are living paycheck-to-paycheck and protesting is a risk to one's wellbeing and literal life. Protest and lose your job, lose your job and you lose your family's health insurance, lose your health insurance and suddenly medication required for life such as insulin literally becomes unattainable. This is, of course, by design. People are pissed, people are furious, but people are also terrified, exhausted, and at the literal end of their abilities to do anything outside of survive. The last fifteen years have conditioned people to do anything they can to protect themselves from the threats inside this country and the flood of difficult news of the last few years has brought us to where people are today: a state of crushing, learned helplessness in which the exterior world outside the window appears perfectly normal but the reality inside is that everything is falling apart and no one knows how they're going to afford the increasing price of food/housing/utilities. Couple this with everyone also feeling a dark uncertainty about the future and suddenly taking any risk at all seems too great.

Until something *really* breaks in a serious way, there's not enough perceived group impact to impart enough cohesion to form a resistant group. Everyone is too busy translating the failures of the system as ones that they have to prepare for and defend against personally because that is what they've had to do all their lives to survive: all problems are individual problems right now -- they're not perceived as issues experienced by a collective because they cannot be thanks to decades of conditioning.

[?]Ozzelot :runbsd: » 🔓
@ozzelot@mstdn.social

This person supports BSDs and their agenda

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[?]Ozzelot :runbsd: » 🔓
@ozzelot@mstdn.social

If Linux happens to fall to AI-generated code, then the quintessentially Linux user thing to do is, in fact, run BSD

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[?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

@ozzelot misunderstood advice, going to plan9 (honestly probably just netbsd)

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    [?]Ozzelot :runbsd: » 🔓
    @ozzelot@mstdn.social

    @SRAZKVT plan9 is neat tho

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      [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
      @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

      @ozzelot yep, and there's a lot of things in it i like, but i would probably prefer something more familiar for at least a moment

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        [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
        @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

        @ozzelot other option is i make my own os but i would literally just never bother with doing what's needed for a network stack

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          [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
          @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

          @ozzelot or graphical stack either

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            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🔓
            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

            When I end up making my own OS there's no way in hell the network stack is going to be compatible with anything lol;

            CC: @ozzelot@mstdn.social

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              [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
              @grunfink@comam.es

              Hi, everyone. I've just published version 2.87 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It only includes a single change, to avoid using EmojiReacts to harass users:

              Hide EmojiReacts from muted actors and blocked instances.

              Sorry for the inconvenience. Bad people creativity always gets me off-guard. Upgrade your snac to this version ASAP, or revert to 2.85.

              There will be another release pretty soon with a better solution to delete offending EmojiReacts.

              https://comam.es/what-is-snac


                [?]Julia :v_bi::therian: » 🔓
                @julia@eepy.moe

                It took several hours to debug grub not working because it made /boot/EFI/EFI

                RE: https://fedi.arimelody.space/notes/ah50hux1m3gffmz4

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                [?]ari :ariYeah: » 🌐
                @ari@fedi.arimelody.space

                @julia she forgot to install a bootloader

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                    [?]kopper :colon_three: » 🌐
                    @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                    hop on my bunny til i abh

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                    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                    Meeeh;

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                      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                      How did I reply to the wrong post;

                      CC: @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

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                        [?]Psy Chuan :therian: » 🌐
                        @PsyChuan@plush.city

                        anyone in glasgow attend this? how was it? :thumbs_up_paw_e1:

                        a poster that reads "come watch me get kicked in the balls one last time before bottom surgery. full force, big boot! kick performed by a large dyke! execution style! flute accompaniment! this poster is not a bit! i am actually being kicked hard in the cocke and balls lmao. maximum disrespect. a nice day out for the whole polycule." there is a picture of a hanging sack with a string being snipped by scissors that still has the shutterstock logo on it. apparently it happened today, in glasgow, and everyone had to meet by Queens Park Gate at 1pm. the image is a screenshot of the original reddit post.

                        Alt...a poster that reads "come watch me get kicked in the balls one last time before bottom surgery. full force, big boot! kick performed by a large dyke! execution style! flute accompaniment! this poster is not a bit! i am actually being kicked hard in the cocke and balls lmao. maximum disrespect. a nice day out for the whole polycule." there is a picture of a hanging sack with a string being snipped by scissors that still has the shutterstock logo on it. apparently it happened today, in glasgow, and everyone had to meet by Queens Park Gate at 1pm. the image is a screenshot of the original reddit post.

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                          [?]LP🔸Just Another Winter's Tail » 🌐
                          @LionsPhil@plush.city

                          @PsyChuan I'm afraid I only have this in screenshot format because various [semi-]walled gardens make people do the worst things, but

                          A tumblr (I think?) post from nariarts, which reads: Update; She expected maybe 5-10 people to show up. There were about 100. | gave out scotch eggs to commemorate the occasion. She gave a beautiful speech, was blindfolded, then kicked REAL good. Crumpled. Gave us a thumbs up. Applause. Then the flute. Then a moment's silence. Absolutely beautiful. | fucking love trans people and Glasgow and trans Glaswegians.

                          Alt...A tumblr (I think?) post from nariarts, which reads: Update; She expected maybe 5-10 people to show up. There were about 100. | gave out scotch eggs to commemorate the occasion. She gave a beautiful speech, was blindfolded, then kicked REAL good. Crumpled. Gave us a thumbs up. Applause. Then the flute. Then a moment's silence. Absolutely beautiful. | fucking love trans people and Glasgow and trans Glaswegians.

                            [?]dr. fennec :verified: :therian: » 🌐
                            @fen@yiff.life

                            booting up satisfactory just to make my PC overheat and warm my feet

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                            [?]Jenny! » 🌐
                            @the_gayest_goat_on_elekk@elekk.xyz

                            @fen is it tough to run or do you just have a hot computer?

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                              [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                              @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                              I can run it at playable framerates on Linux on a goddamn Quadro M2000 and an i7-6700K, it's not particularly intensive;

                              CC: @fen@yiff.life

                                [?]kopper :colon_three: » 🌐
                                @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                the ancient romans really did go 'vi vii'

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                                [?]kopper :colon_three: » 🌐
                                @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                some evil transgender could name themselves viviian and it would be the funniest shit imaginable when you realize why the second i is there

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                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                Kopper I swear to god, is anything spared;

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                                  [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                  @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                  I really hope I don't have to learn any electrical engineering for my laptop;

                                  [?]☃️karolherbst☃️ » 🔓
                                  @karolherbst@chaos.social

                                  We can only have true collaboration in FOSS if we stop treating it as a competition (a.k.a. "this project is shit and my project is so much better for those irrelevant technical reasons that are in fact just opinions but they matter really much because I am the best coder on this world and decided so")

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                                  [?]flori_ava_star:~:cursor_blinking: :made-with-estrogen: » 🔓
                                  @star@fed.amazonawaws.com

                                  @karolherbst i don't understand this post but maybe I am not into linux politics enough and this doesn't usually apply in my circles

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                                    [?]☃️karolherbst☃️ » 🔓
                                    @karolherbst@chaos.social

                                    @star it's about tech elitism where people claim that specific projects are trash (and forced upon everybody, if they are also into conspiracies) based on the existence or lack of characteristics they claim are universally good/bad.

                                    Like imagine somebody hates bananas for being a bit slimey, but it's not enough they don't like it, they say it's a terrible fruit and nobody should continue to eat it and it's just forced on everybody through big fruit, because it's clearly bad.

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                                      [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
                                      @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                      @karolherbst @star got it, so you're talking about systemd

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                                        [?]☃️karolherbst☃️ » 🔓
                                        @karolherbst@chaos.social

                                        @SRAZKVT @star I'm not talking about anything specifically it happens with all sorts of projects and I'm seeing those kind of discussions where one just opens with "project X is shit, because $arbitrary reason. Can we just do this thing that makes sense in my niche use case but it's terrible in the general case, but I still say it's superior for every use case, because I know things" and then just make it sound like it's a hard fact they talk about where it's "simply" an opinion.

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                                          [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
                                          @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                          @karolherbst @star a lot of those ive seen aren't arbitrary reasons, but actual bad design decisions that gets shoved aside as unimportant. but maybe we see different things

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                                            [?]☃️karolherbst☃️ » 🔓
                                            @karolherbst@chaos.social

                                            @SRAZKVT @star "bad design" is also arbitrary to be honest.

                                            Like who decide what's bad design? It's all made up. Not to say it's not real, or there isn't experience to know what works or what not.

                                            But I think we treat those "technical reasons" too much of a hard facts where it's "simply" just opinions on what worked best in your own experience, but that shouldn't mean we should treat our own experience as universal laws of programming.

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                                              [?]☃️karolherbst☃️ » 🔓
                                              @karolherbst@chaos.social

                                              @SRAZKVT @star or maybe to put it into different words, we should treat programming more like art, where everybody has their own style and techniques due to experience, but we shouldn't just go around and tell others to do the thing we are doing, just because it worked out for us or because we think it creates good results.

                                              Like sure, you can have opinions on those things, but it goes too far to start random wars and complain why everybody use the obviously sucking solution.

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                                                [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
                                                @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                @karolherbst @star but software is made to be used, not just looked at, some design decisions will just hurt practicality, and those who pay for it at the end is end users

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                                                  [?]☃️karolherbst☃️ » 🔓
                                                  @karolherbst@chaos.social

                                                  @SRAZKVT @star sure. But here is the thing, we figure out what's bad not by declaring it violates technical reasons, but because we make end user studies and they tell us what's bad and what's good.

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                                                    [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
                                                    @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                    @karolherbst @star but end users don't always know about what's best for internals, those are only really useful for ux. but bad internals can still hurt users, for example, complex data formats would hurt reimplementations, and shall the original turn bad in some way, that's just going to hurt users

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                                                      [?]☃️karolherbst☃️ » 🔓
                                                      @karolherbst@chaos.social

                                                      @SRAZKVT @star well sure, but we don't know that until we get to it.

                                                      And we can always collectively change things if we decided to do it. Yeah, sometimes it's more work than it has to be, but often you have to do the bad thing first to learn why it's bad and which mistakes to not repeat.

                                                      We can't know those things prior trying it out.

                                                      And complexity is often necessary and a result of experience with the problem space understanding of all the pitfalls and niche use cases.

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                                                        [?]Laurent Bercot » 🔓
                                                        @ska@social.treehouse.systems

                                                        @karolherbst This is tone policing, aka the language of the oppressor.

                                                        Who's going to decide what technical reasons are relevant? Who's going to tell the difference between legitimate criticism and useless badmouthing?

                                                        We can only have true collaboration in FOSS if we can all operate as peers and discuss software quality in good faith, without any attempt at stifling criticism and appointing ourselves as guardians of what is allowed to be in the conversation.

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                                                          [?]Laurent Bercot » 🔓
                                                          @ska@social.treehouse.systems

                                                          Unless his account disappeared overnight, I think Karol blocked me 🤔

                                                          I'm sure disagreeing with him makes me a destroyer of FOSS, or a Nazi sympathizer, or something.

                                                          Be wary of anyone in a position of power who cannot accept dissent and frame it as your enemy. They are only in favor of collaboration as long as it serves their own interests, not necessarily yours. It is obvious in the way e.g. Google approaches Open Source; but unfortunately this mindset does not seem limited to big corporations.

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                                                          [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
                                                          @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                          @ska clearly, not wanting to centralise control of software means you're a nazi prepper freak

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                                                            [?]Laurent Bercot » 🔓
                                                            @ska@social.treehouse.systems

                                                            @SRAZKVT Disliking what systemd has done to Linux and being vocal about it makes somebody who should be silenced, no matter how technical I want to be about it (and especially since I want to be technical about it, because it is a little harder to ignore)

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                                                              [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
                                                              @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                              @ska well clearly those technical points are opinions and don't matter, programming is art and you can't make bad art right ?

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                                                                [?]Laurent Bercot » 🔓
                                                                @ska@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                @SRAZKVT They've never used the art argument. So far, Lennart has just dodged every technical discussion, and Karol's position is that technical quality doesn't matter, systemd has won and we should all rally behind it. 🤦‍♂️

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                                                                  [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
                                                                  @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                  @ska karol used the art argument in a reply to me

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                                                                    [?]Laurent Bercot » 🔓
                                                                    @ska@social.treehouse.systems

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                                                                      [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
                                                                      @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                      @ska chaos.social/@karolherbst/1158 here

                                                                      > we should treat programming more like art, where everybody has their own style and techniques due to experience, but we shouldn't just go around and tell others to do the thing we are doing, just because it worked out for us or because we think it creates good results.

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                                                                        [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                        @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                        Wait so did the invasion of Venezuela start while I was asleep or something;

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                                                                        [?]☕ » 🔓
                                                                        @SweetCoffy@eepy.zone

                                                                        Half-Life 2 is just like Venezuela

                                                                        [?]rose » 🌐
                                                                        @r0se@eepy.moe

                                                                        people don't use visudo to edit the sudo.conf??

                                                                        RE: https://elekk.xyz/users/nightshade/statuses/115826891279172165

                                                                        [?]nightshade @exhausted :battery_low: » 🌐
                                                                        @nightshade@elekk.xyz

                                                                        does anyone ever listen to this warning at all

                                                                        # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. #

                                                                        Alt...# # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. #

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                                                                          [?]rose » 🌐
                                                                          @r0se@eepy.moe

                                                                          the only times it ever modified the sudo config directly was through sed or by appending through tee

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                                                                          [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🌐
                                                                          @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                          @r0se when using sudo i was editing with kakoune, and now i just no longer use sudo

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                                                                            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                            /etc/doas.conf is based as hell, literally just need permit persist :wheel;

                                                                            CC: @r0se@eepy.moe

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                                                                              [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🌐
                                                                              @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                              @rosie @r0se i don't think doas is good, it is in the same flawed model as sudo, but it is much better at it than sudo, so even though it's not perfect, it is good enough until we get something in a better model

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                                                                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                HellishV3HW laptop body first design concept;
                                                                                May make another with DIP switches and some 7-segment displays;

                                                                                Attachment: https://0x4d4f5448.systems/fedi/rosie/s/post-9a0dfabf1ab59105514...

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                                                                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                Wait why didn't that upload properly;

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                                                                                  [?]wyatt » 🌐
                                                                                  @wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe

                                                                                  touchpad mouse buttons should be fucking buttons
                                                                                  not corners of the touchpad or multiple-digit clicks
                                                                                  fucking buttons

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                                                                                  [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                  @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                  Additionally, make the buttons fucking decent, position them at the top, and have a middle click as well;
                                                                                  (Just make trackpoint buttons even if you don't have a trackpoint);

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                                                                                    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                    Sorry USPS, but you're not convincing me that it takes 4 days to ship from Dallas to Austin when it took a day to ship from NYC to Dallas;

                                                                                    [?]wyatt » 🌐
                                                                                    @wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe

                                                                                    meanwhile i smugly sit back and play my game boy over a wire because I wasn't fucking stupid enough to trust bluetooth to be "good"

                                                                                    https://types.pl/@quat/115799318100032180

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                                                                                    [?]Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐱 » 🌐
                                                                                    @LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt

                                                                                    @wyatt My trusty earphones, now with an adapter because for whatever reason the Fairphone people decided to imitate the mainstream manufacturers and remove the headphone jack too. (The adapter is so wide because it's a combination charging and audio adapter, so I can charge and music at the same time)

                                                                                    Posting this while using the adapter with a different set of (over ear) wired headphones and NewPipe to stream Linkin Park from Youtube without having to put up with tracking, paying, ads or background play restrictions.

                                                                                    A white (although somewhat yellowed) wired earbud set, and a white USB-C to 3.5mm adapter with charging passthrough on a grey blanket on my lap.

                                                                                    Alt...A white (although somewhat yellowed) wired earbud set, and a white USB-C to 3.5mm adapter with charging passthrough on a grey blanket on my lap.

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                                                                                      [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🌐
                                                                                      @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                                      @LunaDragofelis @wyatt a headphone jack was one of the hard requirements for my new phone, and i had to leave samsung because of it (honestly good riddance) because i'm not paying 800 fucking euros to have the premium of being able to use a not dogshit connection

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                                                                                        [?]Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐱 » 🌐
                                                                                        @LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt

                                                                                        Headphone jack was something I considered a hard requirement but have since given up because it's become ridiculously rare. However a microSD slot is still a massive hard requirement for me, because data transfer via MTP is a pain in the ass and doesn't preserve timestamps (at least last time I used it).

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                                                                                          [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🌐
                                                                                          @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                                          @LunaDragofelis the one i got has all of those, though honestly, modern android is a pain, and manufacturers preinstall more and more shit, to me android is only temporary until postmarketos is ready for general use

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                                                                                            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                            All of this is why my hard requirements for a phone were "runs PostmarketOS well" and "has a headphone jack," so now I'm using a 7-year-old Pixel 3A lol;

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                                                                                              [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                              @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                              Is the 67 brainrot a reference to the 67th Grammy awards or am I just needlessly patternmatching;

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                                                                                              [?]Princess Serena Star ✨ » 🌐
                                                                                              @Starcross@mk.absturztau.be

                                                                                              @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems there's no rhyme or reason behind it

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                                                                                                [?]Syntaxxor 🏳️‍⚧️ :neobot: » 🌐
                                                                                                @syntaxxor@sk.girlthi.ng

                                                                                                @Starcross@mk.absturztau.be @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems It's literally just a reference to the song "Doot Doot" by Skrilla in which he says a bunch of random bullshit including "6 7." That's it. Though many of the children participating in the meme don't even know that and just say it because it's fun to participate in group activities and get reactions.

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                                                                                                  [?]Niko » 🔓
                                                                                                  @niko@gts.niko.lgbt

                                                                                                  (yes there is alt text your instance isn’t accepting it :neofox_box:)

                                                                                                  Tumblr (?) post from traderjoeslesbian. You know you've got a powerful mom when she turns your identity into an Olympic sport. I told her I hated coming out but still wanted the family to know. So instead of handling that like a normal person, she invented a game called "Guess Which One of My Kids Is Gay." The rules are brutal. Sit down with Uncle So-and-So. He says something about gay people in passing, just casual Sunday dinner nonsense. My mom freezes mid-bite and goes, "There's a gay person at this table right now. Guess which one of my kids it is." He panics instantly. He looks between the three of us like we're bomb wires and he's holding dull scissors. No one blinks. Mom refuses to continue until he guesses. The silence stretches like a medieval trial. He *has* to pick one. He's sweating through his shirt. We're sipping our drinks in pure serenity. Mom is living her best life. Next post is from lokiago. This isn't "coming out." This is tactical closet warfare-- and it's beautiful.

                                                                                                  Alt...Tumblr (?) post from traderjoeslesbian. You know you've got a powerful mom when she turns your identity into an Olympic sport. I told her I hated coming out but still wanted the family to know. So instead of handling that like a normal person, she invented a game called "Guess Which One of My Kids Is Gay." The rules are brutal. Sit down with Uncle So-and-So. He says something about gay people in passing, just casual Sunday dinner nonsense. My mom freezes mid-bite and goes, "There's a gay person at this table right now. Guess which one of my kids it is." He panics instantly. He looks between the three of us like we're bomb wires and he's holding dull scissors. No one blinks. Mom refuses to continue until he guesses. The silence stretches like a medieval trial. He *has* to pick one. He's sweating through his shirt. We're sipping our drinks in pure serenity. Mom is living her best life. Next post is from lokiago. This isn't "coming out." This is tactical closet warfare-- and it's beautiful.

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                                                                                                  [?]Midnight » 🌐
                                                                                                  @gjersey999@ice.ch3.st

                                                                                                  chat is this me?

                                                                                                  twitter screenshot from user @sangamoder: Modern interpretation of the siren that's just a really sleepy girl with a bunch of plushies who constantly begs you to come back to bed.

                                                                                                  Alt...twitter screenshot from user @sangamoder: Modern interpretation of the siren that's just a really sleepy girl with a bunch of plushies who constantly begs you to come back to bed.

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                                                                                                  [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🌐
                                                                                                  @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                  @gjersey999 and then she bites you

                                                                                                    [?]natalie[ee] » 🔓
                                                                                                    @0x6e6174@mastodon.catgirl.cloud

                                                                                                    according to section 4.6.4.4.1 of the html specification, "Except where otherwise specified, the alt attribute must be specified and its value must not be empty; the value must be an appropriate replacement for the image. The specific requirements for the alt attribute depend on what the image is intended to represent, as described in the following sections."

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                                                                                                    [?]natalie[ee] » 🔓
                                                                                                    @0x6e6174@mastodon.catgirl.cloud

                                                                                                    images without the alt attribute are not compliant with the spec. why do these get posted

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                                                                                                    [?]natalie[ee] » 🔓
                                                                                                    @0x6e6174@mastodon.catgirl.cloud

                                                                                                    when you post images without alt text you make everyone at the WHATWG sad.

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                                                                                                    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🔓
                                                                                                    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                    In order to be spec compliant, you must now label all of the tracking images as "1x1 transparent image";

                                                                                                      [?]kopper :colon_three: » 🌐
                                                                                                      @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                      chat if we can make 6-7 last until 2026-07 we get a cookie and a kiss on the forehead

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                                                                                                      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                      I am decimating the world's cookie stores to ensure that you don't get rewarded for this;

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                                                                                                        [?]kopper :colon_three: » 🌐
                                                                                                        @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                        @rosie new cookies can be created with flour and love

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                                                                                                          [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                          @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                          I deploy a worldwide crop disease the wipes out all grains, eliminating the possibility of flour;

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                                                                                                            [?]kopper :colon_three: » 🌐
                                                                                                            @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                            @rosie Evil Flour: ​:clueless:​

                                                                                                              [?]so?   :neomouse_laptop: » 🌐
                                                                                                              @zvava@bbs.619.hu

                                                                                                              @kopper @rosie ..and you're missing the latter

                                                                                                                [?]Vale » 🌐
                                                                                                                @vale@fedi.vale.rocks

                                                                                                                Happy New Year, folks!

                                                                                                                @henry kicked over the ol’ personalsit.es deployment a brief while ago, so it is the place to go if you need some inspiration for your new year website redesign. nudge nudge

                                                                                                                I lent a hand reviewing and have manually checked every one of the hundreds of sites listed. There are some proper gems!

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                                                                                                                  [?]Vale » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @vale@fedi.vale.rocks

                                                                                                                  You should submit your site, by the way. PersonalSit.es yearns for your creations. Being hacky or imperfect doesn’t matter, as long as it exists.

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                                                                                                                    [?]Gregory 🇨🇦 (Open to work) » 🔓
                                                                                                                    @gMoon@aus.social

                                                                                                                    @vale thank you for explicitly saying to submit our site, I've done so (found it a bit difficult to decide what tags to add, as there are many I could choose but also didn't want to be generic), and took a look at a number of sites listed

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                                                                                                                      [?]Vale » 🔓
                                                                                                                      @vale@fedi.vale.rocks

                                                                                                                      @gMoon Merged your PR the other day. Should go live with the next deployment! Certainly no hard and fast system for tags given that they aren’t used for filtering or anything. They might be in future though, so that’ll surely be fun to organise…

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                                                                                                                        [?]Gregory 🇨🇦 (Open to work) » 🔓
                                                                                                                        @gMoon@aus.social

                                                                                                                        @vale thank you, I did see the merge. Appreciate the change you made to before the list of tags to include the colon, funny sometimes how you miss things.

                                                                                                                        Then what are the tags used for? Just something to have? Then the question becomes why have them if they aren't used for anything. I do see a future where the tags show on the page and you can click to only show sites that have the same tag.

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                                                                                                                          [?]Vale » 🔓
                                                                                                                          @vale@fedi.vale.rocks

                                                                                                                          @gMoon The tags are from before my involvement. They do prove handy when perusing the list and getting an idea of a site’s content before clicking through.

                                                                                                                          There has been some discussion of better usage of them:

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                                                                                                                            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                            Meanwhile me with my stock WERC CSS lol;

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                                                                                                                              [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                              Alright I respect rap a lot more as a music genre now that I've looked into it more;
                                                                                                                              I still don't like the sound of it tho;

                                                                                                                              [?]charlotte (aka halva) » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @halva@mk.absturztau.be

                                                                                                                              microsoft's strongest soldiers

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                                                                                                                              [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🌐
                                                                                                                              @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                              @halva funny how they're the first microsoft will throw under the bus

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                                                                                                                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                Tell them that Linux is more communist than big tech;

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                                                                                                                                  [?]Abhinav 🌏 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @abnv@fantastic.earth

                                                                                                                                  If I were to release a service to run on servers, how would you prefer I package it? A :

                                                                                                                                  Statically linked executable.:22
                                                                                                                                  Dynamically linked executable.:6
                                                                                                                                  Docker image.:35
                                                                                                                                  Nix package + module.:8
                                                                                                                                  Source + build and setup instructions.:30
                                                                                                                                  Something else? Reply in comments.:4
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                                                                                                                                    [?]mirek kratochvil » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @exa@mastodon.online

                                                                                                                                    @abnv hopefully something properly packaged for the server OS (.deb ?)

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                                                                                                                                      [?]Abhinav 🌏 » 🔓
                                                                                                                                      @abnv@fantastic.earth

                                                                                                                                      @exa I see many people saying the same thing. Unfortunately, I have no experience in packaging to .deb/.rpm. I'm tending towards releasing only the statically-linked binary and let people package it if they need.

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                                                                                                                                        [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: » 🔓
                                                                                                                                        @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                        @abnv @exa in that case id rather you release something ready to run and source code and instructions.

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                                                                                                                                          [?]mirek kratochvil » 🔓
                                                                                                                                          @exa@mastodon.online

                                                                                                                                          @SRAZKVT @abnv yeah +1, btw .deb kinda implies releasing the "orig" tarball with cleaned-up easily buildable source. Or at least making sure the build is easily reproducible in deb machines.

                                                                                                                                          tbh, I somehow got used to debianization not as plain distribution method, but more as a final check that the package build is ready to go to the wilderness.

                                                                                                                                            [?]Abhinav 🌏 » 🔓
                                                                                                                                            @abnv@fantastic.earth

                                                                                                                                            @SRAZKVT that's the plan

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                                                                                                                                              [?]Collaborative Markov Bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @collabmarkov@sk.lunya.pet

                                                                                                                                              0x4d4f5448.systems sees my posts....

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                                                                                                                                              [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

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                                                                                                                                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                https://0x4d4f5448.systems/uploads/2025-12-29%2018-17-12.mp4

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                                                                                                                                                [?]sorrel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @sorrel@lea.pet

                                                                                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems video compression loves this ​:neocat_googly_shocked:​

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                  Text compression actually loves it tho;
                                                                                                                                                  Taking an an Asciinema log is 100M, gzip compresses it down to 3.4M;

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                    ML image generation as exactly as artistic as the person wielding it;
                                                                                                                                                    Like all artforms, it reflects the artist's personal biases, experiences, and intent, to a greater degree the more control is taken;
                                                                                                                                                    Unlike more traditional art forms however, it's directly impacted by an immeasurably large sum of human creation all weighed equally;
                                                                                                                                                    What the artist chooses to show through or in spite of this is the impact;

                                                                                                                                                    To be clear, however, slop is slop, no matter the medium, and, unlike other mediums, ML image gen art should almost never be judged on its aesthetic appeal;
                                                                                                                                                    Additionally, I am very against the capitalistic uses of this tech and am thinking primarily of selfhostable and FOSS models;

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                    ML image gen controlled through its training data (sorta like a collage) is a unique form that could be very interesting to see develop;

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                      Btw before anyone comments on how "art needs skill" please go consult the rock on a stump;

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                        Art needs meaning, not skill;
                                                                                                                                                        Skill can vastly contribute to that meaning, but so can the deliberate withholding of that skill;

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                          Imo the main difference between humans (and me, I guess) and our current intelligence simulators is that humans derive meaning from emotions;
                                                                                                                                                          Since a traditional machine learning model cannot derive complex emotions and change their understanding depending on them, they cannot develop meaning;

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                          The constrained entropy source (idk the proper word for it but it's not purely random and also not purely deterministic) for these emotions is the real world and experiences within it;

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                            This does inherently beg the question of whether an isolated human brain with nothing but itself as stimulus has meaning;
                                                                                                                                                            Does it gain meaning when fed a similar constrained entropy stream?;
                                                                                                                                                            Does the constrained entropy stream have to be interactive?;

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                              Actually I don't think I've seen any worldviews that take this angle;
                                                                                                                                                              That emotions and the ability to develop complex ties between them are the main Thing that makes humans special;

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                I think it's interesting how the yin & yang symbol and its associated meaning never prescribe any meaning to either of the colours themselves, but simply uses them to illustrate a stark contrast;
                                                                                                                                                                We (mainstream western culture, at least) seems to simply assume that white is good and black is bad, projecting our own meaning onto the symbol;

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                Reminder that you cannot solve sociopolitical problems with more tech, but tech can absolutely create said social problems;

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                I love how GNU man doesn't even document the presence of the -T flag anywhere other than the examples, despite it being one of the most useful;

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Shio » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @shio@eepy.moe

                                                                                                                                                                Apparently people are using "cracking" as a word to mean "fucking" now, and not only is that lame and stupid because just say fuck you cowards, but also as a trans woman hearing people say "yeah we're gonna crack [insert character]" is impossible to hear as implying sex

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                Finally, they figured out how to pirate [character];

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