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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2025-01-16 at 15:55

https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/113838625384931211

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2025-01-03 at 17:41

https://kolektiva.social/@Iguanadelmar/113765425405982793

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-12-27 at 00:01

Last boost: I actually understand the logic of this "definition" having spent enough time around these types of, ahem, "business thinkers"

The question is, does anyone else actually want to understand it

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-11-28 at 16:15

Happy Thanksgiving to all USians who celebrate

While the origin/basis is questionable to say the least, it's one of the few holidays where the tradition is strong enough that even most of the working class gets to actually enjoy it

And in these times, we need all of those we can get

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-11-28 at 16:12

(Apparently downloads are broken at time of posting. Hopefully fixed soon)

Occasional reminder to my fellow #computer #nerd and hobbyist types who use a lot of #Linux:

Do you just need Windows for like 5 min? Just to do one stupid thing, test software, troubleshoot an issue of someone else, or ensure your cross-platform FOSS project is truly cross platform?

You can download a time-limited Windows Development VM for free! You'll have 90 days with it

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-11-21 at 01:04

Based upon sporadic reports that the #YouTube "recommended" algorithm recently changed -- and not in a good way

I felt like a periodic reminder of one of my favorite and most frequently used #FOSS tools:

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Now with pre-built binary releases linked on the right, Windows, Mac, and Linux for the non-hacker/nerd types!

Add "watching things without their shitty interface" to "when my internet weather is bad and their player buffers to shit" to the lengthening list of reasons

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-11-02 at 23:31

By the way, if you want to see a truly shit power button design? That'd be the Dell PowerEdge R350

Take a look at the first pic, which I've photoshopped to be what the computer looks like when it's turned off -- so no lights except one when the power supplies are active

Without looking at the 2nd image, try finding the power button in less than 10 seconds. Go on, I'll wait ⏱️

Now imagine doing that with a mix of Dell hardware in a lab where the racks cast a lot of shadows

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-11-02 at 23:05

Okay genuine question to Apple fans

I see the meme going around about the new Mac Mini power button, and I'm torn on my take

Because I literally cannot tell from any of the promo photography as to how tall the base part is -- and others seem to presume they know, but the shots they have I don't think they do

Are we sure it's not possible to fit one finger under the corner without picking up the whole computer? If so, then my take is "this is just their continuance of design principles, wev"

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-10-28 at 23:42

IDK why I thought of this lesson about not being able to legislate morality in the biggest and most serious national experiment to date, it just sort of came to mind somehow

I wonder what those red states are up to these days... 🤔

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-10-28 at 23:33

[#]OTD 105 yrs ago, The Volstead Act became US law

After the first modern national campaign in US history amended the constitution to restrict "intoxicating liquors," this law, drafted by Prohibition Crusader Wayne Wheeler, implemented an extreme and unpopular interpretation

It created unfunded mandates, organized crime, mass social hypocrisy, the word "Scofflaw," and ~20 yrs later, the amendment's repeal

And it taught a generation that morality cannot be legislated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-10-22 at 21:12

Since it is #aceweek apparently, a repost of two videos I'd like non-Aces to watch on the subject:

1. A very good description of us and many things I agree with, by Jaiden Animations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF1DTK4U1AM

2. Also from her, a video that was the most relatable thing to me personally in a long time (she made this before she figured it out, but well after I had figured out myself):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0t42rhWKAs

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-10-14 at 22:32

Everyone in or thinking about the SW industry needs to read this slightly older article

I'm only halfway done and it has condensed something I've been trying to figure out how to explain to the younger generation for a while now in the first two sections

This dynamic and business model is important to understand -- even before you get to the main point

You are (or will) encounter it, and it's important to know how it actually works

https://www.wheresyoured.at/saaspocalypse-now/

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-10-07 at 14:59

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@jon/113261043698639784

I know it's an extremely unrepresentative audience but I find the fact that MacOS and Windows are tied and both are behind Android to be quite interesting

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-09-28 at 19:54

I truly have done a perfect job of curating my timeline (note the time stamps)

Thanks to @skye and @nytpu for the amusement

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-09-27 at 23:20

Last boost: in addition to saying what I said in reply the first time this went around, that follow-up I've also been doing for 20 years

I am not just a luddite in tech. I am a laggard in media as well and proud of it

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-09-12 at 15:56

How good are you at detecting "AI" generated photos?

I only missed 2 out of 7 but had fairly low confidence in everything and decided to quit while I was ahead (the test has over 400 if you keep going)

https://detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.edu/

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-09-08 at 21:12

I am so glad to be on a Fedi server that is an island of tranquility while the storms of drama rage elsewhere

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-09-08 at 18:25

RE: https://bookwyrm.social/user/athousandcateaus/quotation/5299826

It's quite interesting seeing @athousandcateaus writing this in my timeline right next to @smitten's quasi-spiritual posts about entropy and and the brain

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-09-07 at 23:13

If #Mozilla had done just one tiny thing differently, I'd hate it a lot less (and a poll I ran suggested others would too):

Default to an offline #LLM on the user's PC that doesn't save history, with an option to use a user-loaded model as well

It's particularly galling because they created this:

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

What better use case could there be under their own logic!?

It would be one small step off the hype train, but would make a big difference

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Written by J. "Henry" Waugh on 2024-09-05 at 03:50

I'm sure everyone has read by now about Hachette v. Internet Archive

But I want to make a bigger point I saw in a talk that appears to have disappeared from the internet -- probably, ironically, due to YouTube's copyright enforcement algorithms

In it, Lawrence Lessig makes a point I can't find in any other talk: the real problem with copyright law is the "list of rights" it contains keeps expanding

One court decision at a time, with no legislative oversight

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