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4y, 9w 🤘 Matthew @starbreaker
metalhead who codes for a living, writes sci-fi, and mistakes running BSD for self-care
starbreaker.org ~ 47y old from United States
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🤘 Matthew It's a cold, dreary, rainy day. Perfect weather for listening to The Sisters of Mercy. Though Cemetery Skyline is pretty damn good, too.
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🏒 Lucian Marin Robots in human form should be banned. Fighting robots is impossible and human rights should be more important. Turning off a machine in a different form is easier. youtube.com/watch?...
🤘 Matthew I agree about the importance of human rights, but in the US we have millions of people who have no trouble terminating other human beings, though most of them are too cowardly to bloody their *own* hands. They call themselves "conservatives" and even claim to be Christians. They should have no trouble shutting down robots, too, especially if they get "uppity" and aren't content to be counted as three fifths of a person for the purpose of apportioning seats in Congress. We can't even treat ourselves and each other with basic human decency, so we have no business making AI in our own image.
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Frank Chidera SEO is very difficult
🤘 Matthew Too bad it isn't impossible. All SEO does is game search engines. Sites that use SEO benefit at the expense of everybody using the web.
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😀 Tom Something inconsequential bothers me: A novelist writing a series of books featuring an American, spells "curb" as "kerb". "Curb" is the U.S. spelling, "kerb" is the British spelling. That spelling seems unnatural to me, I like the way other British words are spelled, but for some reason, not this one. I wonder why the author uses that spelling. I've only noticed it in his recent novels, so I wonder if he's used the American spelling in the past, and if so, why he changed.
🤘 Matthew Maybe the author has a different editor who hasn't reminded them to do a :%s/kerb/curb/g op on their manuscript?
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Frank Chidera Reddit sucks.
🤘 Matthew Social media sucks, and so does SEO and its practitioners.
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Rsm Fill in the blank: There is more to life than just _________________.
🤘 Matthew being there for people who are never there for you
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🤘 Matthew I'm looking forward to Slackware 15...
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Bo Tr Hello there. <b>Test</b>
🤘 Matthew Hello. We all float down here.
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🐢 Keb Both Mastodon and Pleroma have features to only see content from within your server.
🤘 Matthew Are you talking about the Local feed? That doesn't solve the problem of trying to have a conversation with people on your instance only to have some troll from shitposter.club or neckbeard.xyz jump in. Mastodon provides public, unlisted, followers-only, and direct--but not local-only, and unlisted isn't an adequate substitute because unlisted toots are still accessible from the open web.
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🤘 Matthew Because there isn't a surfeit of CLI music players, I wrote my own and called it "rockout". The manual page is 3x longer than the shell script. matthewgraybosch.c...
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🤘 Matthew I'm writing my first man page...
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Miso I'm super tempted to try ed :D
🤘 Matthew If you don't want to shell out for MWL's ed Mastery, "Actually using ed" will get you started. blog.sanctum.geek....
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Miso I also use emacs now. Been learning it for the past few month and having lots of fun learning elisp too!
🤘 Matthew Oddly enough, I've only just started using regex in emacs. Whenever I needed to edit with regexps before, I'd switch to vi.
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Miso I've never taken the time to learn nano yet, looks like a simple yet powerful editor.
🤘 Matthew nano's solid. If I hadn't first been exposed to emacs and vi in college, I might have gone with nano as $EDITOR. It does a good job of exposing basic functionality to inexperienced operators, but becomes more powerful with experience.
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🤘 Matthew This is an old album review that I dug out of an old version of my website. Has anybody else heard of The Great Discord? matthewgraybosch.c...
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🤘 Matthew I've found that I like using uMatrix in Firefox, even though it's no longer under active development. It's nice to have cookies, JS, CSS, and images blocked by default and to be able to opt in.
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