All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • If you look at them up close, you can see that every time you cut on them with a sharp knife, lots of small micro plastic pieces are cut off.

    Ugh, at this point I’m resigned to the fact that there’s always going to be something.

    Notwithstanding their impressive feats for the time, Ancient Romans had lead pipes for example.

    Today we have microplastics (and some lead issues still, too, from lead solder, etc.) Among other things.

    Tomorrow, it’ll be something like nanites accumulating in our body, or gamma radiation exposure from faulty shielding in whatever spacecraft futurehumans are flying in.

    I give up.




  • snow crash, which talks about the decentralization of the internet from a fictional and futuristic story

    I don’t remember it prominently featuring a plotline like that. That was the one with\

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    the nam shub or whatever? And hacking people’s brain’s with, basically, NLP?

    Well if that counts, then Neuromancer by William Gibson fits in that it’s about\

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    removing DRM (“Turing Locks”) from AI—legit AI too, not the hallucinating parlor tricks of today. ::: 😏






  • I might get eviscerated for saying this, but you can replicate the GNOME workflow fairly well on KDE—KNOME if you will.

    There’s an overview similar to that in GNOME, you can set up shortcuts to mimic the keyboard+one-app-one-workspace workflow, etc.

    Good luck trying to recreate Plasma with GNOME though.