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  Today is Bandcamp Friday. That means Bandcamp doesn't take their usual cut of sales of my band's EP, Return From Interrupt. If you like four YouTubers making novelty rock songs about vintage computers - and really, who doesn't - buying our EP today for $5 USD would be a fantastic way to support our work. We're hoping to get together soon to finish up the second EP- a strong showing today would help us reach our goals. https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/album/return-from-interrup...

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  If you're running Debian, take the update right now. https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/

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  This is sick, and there's nothing I can do about it. EDIT: please don't send me more misinfo about myself, thank you

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  Blog post about migrating from Mastodon to GoToSocial incoming

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  I am a Gentoo enjoyer. https://www.gentoo.org/

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  I'm looking for "how to spot LLM-generated writing", but aimed toward a middle-school-aged audience. Does anyone have any suggestions so that I can share them? Boosts welcome!

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  "We just came across your channel, and we think it's the perfect vibe for our new AI coding assistant" retrain your model, my dudes

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  If you have a platform, and someone criticizes you, consider not responding. I know, it's hard. I had a hard time figuring this out myself. It can be challenging to walk away when folks are saying crummy things about you. But you'll never please everyone, and you don't have to be right all the time. Sometimes people won't like you and you just have to live with that.

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  I should write a book: I picked up a new toslink cable in order to avoid having my TV perform firmware updates which force data collection from me: the 2026 story

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  Someone asked me if I'm still writing my own scripts, now that "AI can do all of that". Yes, I am still writing my scripts. I enjoy writing. No machine can stop that. No machine can take away the joy in creating something that didn't exist before. I won't cede that to robots; I couldn't if I tried.

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  Just ran into a perfect example of Gentoo being awesome for me as a video maker: ffmpeg. I wanted to handle some goofy conversions of video files. The default ffmpeg wasn't compiled to include that codec. On Debian, this would have involved some weirdness with removing a system package and compiling from source, and then manually tracking ffmpeg versions... forever. On Gentoo? Update a USE flag.

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  I've decided to enable Flatpak on my new Gentoo install, mainly since I'm using GNOME at the moment and they ship a lot of software via Flathub. I'm a monster, I know

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  "But LibreWolf is based on Firefox, it needs Firefox to survive!" Who cares? Don't harp on someone else's excitement. (This wasn't an invite to tell me about software you like)

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  Me: installs Gentoo Also me: installs GNOME and systemd, removes cron and does everything with timers 😈​

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  What have I done?

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  "ABBA never played any rock songs" Listen to "So Long" and tell me that couldn't be a T-Rex song. It's a straight riff rock tune, you just missed it because girls are singing. https://youtu.be/J5ndJ96gurc?si=725YlfxBb675RrxG&t=504

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  "Watch Out" by ABBA is a banger

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  Every few weeks I get an angry email saying something like "why did you block me on Mastodon?" Folks: quit doing this, it doesn't help

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  Ghost CMS is now offering an "Optimize your site for AI search" feature. I'm... disinterested? Is that the word?

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  OK, I'm starting to see the charm in Gentoo

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  Hey you! Take a drink of water

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  books are lit

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  Computers ingest information and pump out slop. We ingest information and pump out art, joy, and love. We are not the same.

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  I don't know what's worse: XMPP stans or Ventoy bros...

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  New video! I'm hosting an AIM server for my friends, and you can too. https://makertube.net/w/dVCTYsbMqChaWktWDZNmMd Also go follow my new MakerTube account: @veronicaexplains Also also, quit following me on Tinker Better please, that's my old account and I'm deleting it soon kthx lol

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  In the time it took me to get halfway through compiling the kernel on Gentoo, I installed an entire Debian system. I'm starting to think that I might not have the patience for Gentoo.

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  I just caught that Libera.Chat uses the phrase "insufficient human involvement" and I love that specific phrasing for flagging LLM-generated pull requests. https://libera.chat/#one-more-thing-about-llm-contributions

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  Mastodon is great and all, but if you want Fedi to be more than just one dominant server, I urge you to consider financially supporting GoToSocial, a lightweight ActivityPub software. @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org is halfway to their modest funding goal. Developing open source software is labor and deserves to be funded. Even if you don't use GoToSocial, I cannot overstate how important it is to fund projects like this which advance the protocol we all use. Even a buck a month is...

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  Y'all want a fediverse that's not just big Mastodon instances, right? If so, you should consider financially supporting #GoToSocial. Even if you don't use it. https://opencollective.com/gotosocial#category-CONTRIBUTE

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  Taking back your digital sovereignty involves sacrifice. If someone tells you it doesn't, they're uninformed or lying. I think that sacrifice is worth it. Coping with jank makes us more resilient. But it's not easy and it's dishonest to suggest otherwise.