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miguel

@ miguel @fedia.io

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Just a person who likes media that you actually can hold in your hands and computers that only do what you tell them to.

  • ‘Life matters more than your wallet’: Kremlin releases propaganda media guidelines on how to present tax hikes to the public as the country starts selling its gold reserves to fund the war

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  • 3 day operation

  • Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

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  • I did. I stopped contributing to Open Source back in the 2000s when I saw that all of the dot com stuff was being built on unpaid opensource labor. Now I contribute (financially) to the products I use, and stopped contributing code, testing, or documentation elsewhere.

  • Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Heard ‘from a Pretty Good Source’ That Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names

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  • 😄 10/10

  • Toyota Chairman Goes Full MAGA At NASCAR-Inspired Event He Threw In Japan - Jalopnik

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  • The fact that I'll probably never be able to afford a new car again gets easier to accept every year it seems. Yay? I guess?

  • House votes overwhelmingly to pass bill to force release of Epstein files

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  • Cool. This would have been useful years ago, now? It's just going to be worthless untrustable noise.

  • Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Heard ‘from a Pretty Good Source’ That Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names

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  • Next up, a breaking news report that the ocean contains salt.

  • Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer

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  • Ok, apparently on steamdeck? Maybe I can give it a shot this time

  • Why do you need, want and/or have a gun/guns?

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  • I don't have, but have been considering getting. I hear there's masked bands of kidnappers breaking into homes, so maybe it's time?

  • what everyday technology do you think future generations will find completely baffling?

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  • Net connected everything. The cracks are already showing but it's going to get worse, and then it'll swing back.

  • Bill to reopen government shuts down hemp industry

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  • Rafael Cruz is one of the worst things to come out of Texas, and that's a high bar.

  • Isekai hours

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  • I was hoping someone would bring up at least the Mayan example, advances in the americas are so frequently overlooked.

  • What's your opinion on communism?

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  • The study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12730 for those not interested in a cracked pop-sci article.

    Table 5, I think, is what the pop-sci takeaway is coming from, which is quite an oversimplification. The idea that "150 people" is what humans can understand is, IMO, a misinterpretation of the study. The study refers to multi-tiered groups ranging from 'Band' (45.5) to 'Tribe' (1350.4) based on the degrees of intelligence, cooperation, etc of the members.

    If it's even relevant, it supports the points I raised that communism is a theory that works well only in small select groups, though I would argue it's probably correlation and not causation in this case. At least until we have evidence of other primates practicing political theory.

  • What's your opinion on communism?

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  • Humans are inherently evil. Communism is a beautiful thought experiment that works really well in small select groups, but fails to tolerate the inherent evils that befall it when it begins to scale.

    I love it as an idea. I'd love for it to work. Unfortunately, it's just yet another experiment that falls victim to the "imagine a spherical cow" kind of thinking.

    It's inspired many good ideas, though, that do work. Marx had many good points.

  • how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life?

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  • I just tell people "It's free and I don't get twenty thousand 'license term updates' in my email every month"

  • NaNoWriMo2

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  • Writing month is exactly just that. Just an excuse for those looking for one :) I hope the new community does well, since none of the writing communities on the fedi are especially active.

  • Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs

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  • Karabiner FTW.

  • Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs

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  • Basically it's garbage, Siri effectively just posts your query, sans context, to chatGPT. What comes back is hilariously bad. If they'd integrated it "correctly", it'd probably be as bad as MS. I've played with it a bunch in the store, though my device (intel) doesn't support it at all.

  • Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs

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  • I do. They're garbage cleo laptops with a badge and no support. I had one, when it failed they refused to stand behind it at all.

  • Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs

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  • I cooked (literally) 3 'gaming' laptops in 5 years. It seems that even with a riser and constant (monthly) cleaning, heavy GPU use pretty much kills the later gen nvidia chips.