HowToPhil

It'll probably be based on brain organoids once they have a sufficient lifespan for those. Then the LLMs will die off as "totally not humans in jars enslaved to us" do the "AI" thing instead

2026-05-03 15:04:18 UTC

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For all we know, they have people in India, Africa, and the Philippines doing the understanding/shrug. Like the self-driving cars, self-checkout cameras, and robots that have remote controllers most of the time.
I don't trust Claude, Codex, or their owners

2026-05-03 14:53:46 UTC

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LOL
I bet it's galaxies better than something out of a token generator :)

2026-05-03 14:50:07 UTC

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I think experts have better things to do, like creating elegant boilerplate :) The token generators cannot produce something better than the person who has a deep interest, not in visual arts, and not in programming. It will be bland, buggy, bloated, and ugly. Just like the people who get into programming "for the money" but never had an interest in making their own software for any other reasons.

2026-05-03 14:46:25 UTC

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The programmer knows other programmers will see their code. The painter knows other painters will look at the lines of their brush strokes and the small details of the craft. All art has multiple layers and circles of audiences.

2026-05-03 14:44:08 UTC

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I have seen some code that made me weep in joy and some that made me cry in despair

2026-05-03 14:43:25 UTC

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And my main argument against "The plebs need AI to program" is "that's why we have all the wonderful variants of BASIC"

2026-05-03 14:42:37 UTC

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I also enjoy making bad visual art, so I know just as much math, templates, etc go into visual art as go into a program

2026-05-03 14:38:36 UTC

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I, and many others, consider programming to be an art... So, it's just as offensive to us as six-fingered porn.

2026-04-20 15:02:55 UTC

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If only there was a well known and trusted langauge that worked like that... maybe we could call it B or D or something between that... hmmmmm

2026-04-20 13:18:25 UTC

Rewriting the #Linux kernel in a binary-blob-only-compiler language is handing the people in charge of that language a LITERAL KILL SWITCH for future Linux development.

2026-04-20 03:52:51 UTC

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You know how some games can be glitched into "arbitrary code execution" and execute binary data outside of where it "should"? Can you store executable data somewhere it "should not be" and jump-to/ execute it from there?
(Sorry if this is no help)

2026-04-20 03:19:43 UTC

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There's a videogame about babies? Is it like this NES classic?
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/116/434/872/906/512/256/original/a6484fb5e368c51c.png

2026-04-09 23:36:51 UTC

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So many levels of wrong with S.Altman. First of all, water access should not be charged for and should be treated as the human right it is. It should not be capitalized. Electricity is practically at the point of being the same.
Also, fuck fake-intelligence LLMs and the psychosis and brain death they cause.

2026-03-22 16:11:12 UTC

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I just find "object-oriented programming" to be anti-the-way-my-brain-works

2026-03-04 19:08:57 UTC

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Are you going to:
A. Two sets of maps, one for tiles and one for triggers
B. One map with tiles that are known to be floor/wall/holes
C. Variation of B in which the tiles have default flags associated with them, but those flags can be changed
Also, I love the tiles and sprites :)

2025-10-21 13:04:47 UTC

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There are also tons of awesome animated DC movies

2025-09-25 17:57:31 UTC

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I don't "demonize ICE." To be a member of ICE, you have already committed to showing that you lack morals and love to hurt other humans. The work of "demonizing ICE" is already well done by the members of ICE and their actions.

2025-08-01 17:05:39 UTC

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I've had people comment at me, "I hate people who try hard." And to their sorry asses, I say, "Meh, fuck your hope-killing bullshit. I'm doing the thing. It will be glorious, even if I fail."

2025-08-01 00:10:14 UTC

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* Home:
For a single sandwich, it is a fold (if only one piece of bread), and there is no cut at all. The fold helps keep the sandwich's insides in place while eating.
If one is making two half-sandwiches, it is a diagonal cut to give the "impression of abundance" and a nice shape that works well with chips/fries on a plate. (Inherited from cafes, etc.)
* Cafe/Restaurant:
It is always a diagonal cut for the aesthetic and the "appearance of abundance," making the half-sandwich look bigger. Half-sandwiches are rare in the USA, so it's almost always 2 halves on the plate, slightly parted, with chips/fries coming up from a side and partly between the halves. That is, if they are using standard slices of bread and not buns of some sort.
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* PB&J Half-sandwiches (when they exist on their own) tend to be folded for the sake of reducing PB&J leakage. This is a rectangular shape.
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* Folds in diagonal shapes only exist when coming out of 1970s snack presses.

2025-07-31 22:41:27 UTC

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Cut it for what purpose and in what setting?

2025-07-30 01:48:09 UTC

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Like I said, my experience has never been that one didn't work, laptop inbuilt, or USB, or serial cable... Seems it must be a rare occurrence to me, but I also just might be the luckiest person for the last ~30 years

2025-07-30 00:03:10 UTC

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I have never had a webcam that didn't work in Linux

2025-07-28 22:11:56 UTC

I am not uploading my ID to shit. So, if there comes a time I need to upload an ID to use a website/app, I won't use that shit

2025-07-27 22:00:08 UTC

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Squirrely Dan, that you?

2025-04-18 19:26:23 UTC

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That news seems to be escaping my feeds (I'm in the USA). You have a link?

2025-04-10 22:21:38 UTC

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An 8-bit multiprocessor machine? Like... 10x 6502s that do parallel processing?

2025-03-10 01:02:23 UTC

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The thing that bugs me most about Wayland is the "just get new hardware" response when it doesn't fucking work. "Get new hardware" is not the fucking Linux Way

2025-02-22 16:59:22 UTC

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I think the @npub1zv3…yrmd folks would agree with a lot of that sentiment

2025-02-14 14:15:09 UTC

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any of the marketing companies you're involved with need someone?

2025-02-10 12:56:24 UTC

Tap 5 code is a set of rules and so easier to learn and teach to others than morse code. Also, it has been used by POWs in many cases. Learn it... for reasons
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/113/979/698/016/633/846/original/d1715997aba527e1.jpeg

2025-02-04 19:51:55 UTC

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I find the "Private Family Timberland" more concerning (esp when combined with corporate). That's a lot of non-public woodland

2025-01-27 01:07:54 UTC

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Have a yard/garage/boot giveaway?

2025-01-04 04:06:02 UTC

"What will the neighbors think?" is an insane question. They don't think.

2024-12-13 03:06:33 UTC

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Consider OpenDyslexic?

2024-12-10 15:55:03 UTC

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A friend of mine keeps his chain lock around his waist and whips cars with it when they fuck around

2024-12-08 02:21:51 UTC

They are all staring at you the entire time
#smb3 #liminal #liminalSpace #retroGames
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/113/614/815/526/359/235/original/2679aaafa3927049.jpg

2024-11-27 14:45:05 UTC

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Linux was originally meant to be "just some guy's cool toy"

2024-10-04 01:41:48 UTC

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You might like "Ascendance of a Bookworm" as it delves into how books, ink, paper, etc would be "for the rich" in a medieval world

2024-09-29 19:11:44 UTC

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I can see how having a friend would part with Netware 3.11 documentation is hard to believe. Good news, you're not mad. Bad news, your friend has clearly gone mad.

2024-09-18 04:38:15 UTC

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Transformers Pretenders?
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Pretender

2024-09-17 16:22:56 UTC

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It felt too much like a "dark mirror universe" for me to even get more than a few episodes into the 1st season

2024-09-11 19:08:14 UTC

I've got an idea brewing for a "modern thermal #typewriter" using a #RaspberryPi Zero, a cheap thermal printer, and a "feels like a typewriter" USB keyboard... and some bash scripting

2024-09-02 18:25:39 UTC

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TIL That's even possible

2024-09-01 02:33:05 UTC

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I don't have one but I wish you well on your social media journies. If you're leaving here... It's been fun knowing you in this space :)

2024-08-31 18:19:05 UTC

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And sometimes worse... I have been tinkering with old typewriters and word processors and am amazed at pre-90s plastic gears that are still fine. Plastic gears must have had a downgrade in the 90s

2024-08-23 12:29:26 UTC

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https://www.watchcrunch.com/

2024-08-20 01:02:23 UTC

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What's up?

2024-08-20 00:11:54 UTC

I tried to get some DD/DS diskettes (Single SIde would be fine too) from Mercari but was shipped DD/HD... which is not what I need to properly test my old Brother Word Processor... Seller did a full refund and let me keep the wrong diskettes which was nice.
Any of you have a spare DD/DS diskette you can shove in an envelope and mail to me?

2024-07-29 23:40:33 UTC

Anyone know of an #epub reader for #DOS?
#FreeDOS #DRDOS #MSDOS