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rgegriff

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I'm too much of a dilettante to list out all of the things I'm into. A lot of computery stuff, i guess, but that's boring. Idk, just scroll through my posts to get an idea of like the general vibe or whatever.

You might remember @rgegriff from such social media accounts as: twitter.com/rgegriff and @rgegriff

Feel free to interact! If you choose to follow, make sure you have something -- literally ANYTHING -- in your profile.

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18+ cypnk , to Random stuff
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Thank you for being aware

rgegriff ,
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@cypnk I would like to stop being aware. Just for a little bit. As a treat

hacks4pancakes , to Peloton (Fediverse alt) - World Tour Road Cycling
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Everybody disliked this #peloton #privacy

rgegriff ,
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@hacks4pancakes ohh, fun! I love poking at "find your contacts" APIs. They always find fun new ways to fuck things up!

rgegriff , to Random stuff
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I am going to start a PR firm specializing in helping small businesses dealing with social media crisises.

I will charge 2k a month retainer and all I will do is manage the social media account credentials to prevent founders from posting because HOLY SHIT.

DONT POST.

Just DONT POST.

that's all you have to do.

Rabbit and TABLE, hmu đŸ€™

rgegriff OP ,
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@dko Yes, oh my God; exactly!

rgegriff OP ,
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@dko It could have fake replies that are gpt prompted with "Respond to this post in the style of someone who DOESN'T think it's totally unhinged" to really complete the simulation

rgegriff , to Random stuff
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DO YOU FOLKS LIKE COFFEE...

FROM THE HILLS OF...

COLUMBIA!?

hacks4pancakes , (edited ) to Random stuff
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I genuinely need a non Tesla EV person to explain what thing I have to buy. The chargers aren’t Tesla they are third party but they don’t have the circular plug my Audi etron has.
https://techhub.social/@todd/112264210310803832

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@hacks4pancakes That one looks like a J1772 port; which is weird because It's not a CCS1 (Basicly a J1772 with two extra contacts under it to do DC fast charging) and so doesn't seem to support fast charging unless there is another port somewhere else on the car

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@hacks4pancakes Ahhh; I getcha, that makes sense.

rgegriff ,
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@hacks4pancakes You should be good with most any J1772 charger then. It's basically just a bulky 110/220 plug with some extra signaling to tell the car how much current it's allowed to pull without burning your house down.

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@hacks4pancakes Ahhh! I am not sure how much of this research you have already done, so apologies if this is junk you already know; but most of the commercial public chargers are DC fast charge stations, those are right out. They don't have a way to plug in and just get AC out of them.

Sometimes parking garages/hotels/municipalities offer public Level 1/Level 2 chargers and are either going to be J1772 or the Tesla plug (sometimes called NACS, and the charging stations are called "destination chargers" because branding lives and god is dead!).

You can use the J1772 chargers just by plunging in and sometimes paying if they need it. For the tesla plug equipped stations, you can buy an adapter called a teslatap that will let you use the tesla Level1/Level2 chargers.

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@hacks4pancakes Oh; looks like I might be wrong about not being able to use the public fast charge stations based on other replies you've gotten. I didn't know about that one!

rgegriff , to Random stuff
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The year is 2028. All major open source projects are fully staffed and funded by multiple competing spy agencies who are constantly auditing other agencies work, implementing features as requested by their respected governments, as well as trying to slip malware past each other.

Paradoxically, opensource has never been more secure, maintainer burnout is at an all time low; and everyone does all work at a healthy pace during working hours.

Wayland even suddenly got good accessibility features implemented when it was realized that it made keylogging tools easier to write

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I wonder if @foone ever finished reversing the azumanga PS1 game

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rgegriff OP ,
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He scares me but I love him so much

rgegriff , to Random stuff
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Coppeerrrrr! Step right up and get your sub-par copper 'ere!

rgegriff , to Random stuff
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Really not liking how anti-LLM takes are evolving into "Copyright is good, actually" instead of "Corporations are bad, obviously"

I really really need people to understand that, unless you have a lot of money and legal expertise to defend your copyright; it means virtually nothing.

The fact you can get your video pulled down from YouTube because someone in the background drove by playing a Taylor Swift song; yet rich assholes can wholesale rip off everybody and suffer no consequences is not some weird accident.

It's not a goofy bug in the system that needs patching.

This is how the system has been built.

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At no point in the last, IDK, 100 years?, of intellectual property legislation have the rights of individual creators been seriously taken into account.

They might mention individual authors to frame it that way; but the fact is that, until about 20 years ago; the only way to distribute your work to a wide audience was to sign over your rights -- and unless you had significant leverage over your publisher -- in perpetuity for some portion of the proceeds of that distribution.

And then one of the largest media companies can buy your publisher and say some horseshit like "we only bought their assets, not their liabilities" with a completely straight face; and your only realistic path to any sort of satisfaction is to hope the fallout from a public shaming campaign is a bigger threat than what they owe you.

And all this is just how intellectual property is effectively useless to individual authors; and we haven't even gotten into how it is a marvelous cudgel that can be used to restrain and impoverish entire countries. To be used to extend a global pandemic at the cost of millions of lives for the benefit of some fuckhead shareholders who will have big sads of their Pfizer stock get a few cents cheaper for a week or two.

So no, copyright is not good. Stop defending it. Because in doing so you are accepting the oppressive framing that the same assholes who are ripping everyone off are protected by.

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Are there any microblog fedi clients that will remember, say, the last 500 or so posts I saw and not show them to me once I see them?

I tend to see well boosted toots reappear on my TL sometimes a dozen times in a day

rgegriff , to Random stuff
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This video with 8k views about tracking down the origin of the trumpet skull gif is a banger and it made me cry
https://youtu.be/ZYcHOEjGzPA?si=dMGtV_NLATXnlTVm

rgegriff , to Random stuff
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Recommend me some good YouTube(or peer tube!) Channels!

I finally deleted the official YT app because there wasn't any way to keep myself from falling into shorts.

NewPipe is almost better in every way anyway... Almost.

I really liked YTs ability to surface cool channels in the recommendations, discovered a lot of great stuff from there.

Things I like:

  • lighthearted commentary channels
  • in depth video essays
  • tomatoanus
  • videos where someone reviews old computer stuff
  • neat educational videos on a variety of topics
  • indie horror
  • analog horror
  • animation

Try and convince me why your favorite creator should be MY favorite creator!

:boost_ok:

rgegriff OP ,
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@dko that's a very good list! There are a lot of names I recognize there which makes me very excited for the ones I don't!

Feel free to list off some more maker channels! That's another category I am definitely into

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The year is 2130. Google launches Google Life; a free mind backup and restore service. In return, thousands of instances of your backup are subjected to advertisements every second in order to determine which ad is most likely to result in a purchase, by you, at any given moment

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🐧 :cyber_heart_sparkle:​

A toot from Linus Torvalds: @morgthorak | think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me. Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order. | strongly suspect | am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you? I’'m a card-carrying atheist, | think a woman'’s right to choose is very important, | think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and | couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with. And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then | think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.
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    • rgegriff , to Random stuff
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    Still remember this time I was looking out the window at the place I worked and was watching someone use a traffic cone to try and scrape the ice off their windshield.

    My coworker just mumbled "that's not how you install VLC on windows" to himself as he walked by looking and nobody will ever tell a better joke than that.

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