Sidenote: I love that phrase “Do the needful”, I use it all the time with LLMs, but I’ve never in my life used it with humans. To me it sounds sort of rude (like “Just get it done damn it!”), but I don’t care about being rude to a clanker.

Putting this up front, I am NOT pro-AI… I’m just lazy and LLMs are very useful if you are lazy.

This is so far one of the best uses for #LLMs i’ve found, having it figure out the mess of issues that come up when attempting to compile random shit I don’t have the time nor desire to troubleshoot myself.

Here is an example, I am checking out Nostr clients and this one called gossip has an AUR package, but it failed in building for some reason and ran into multiple issues some of which i could probably have figured out myself but others I’d have just given up on and probably written off even trying the software. I told GeminiCLI

do the needful to complete the compilation and creating of package for gossip nostr client archlinux package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gossip

So it does what’s needed and solves each issue as it comes up. So far I’m 2 for 2 with fixing AUR packages this way.

I am really digging #Nostr but man, if you though having to pick a host instance on Fedi was complicated, its nothing compared to the clusterfuck of apps and services that you’ll find on Nostr.

If any other users have suggestions on clients to check out, or users to follow I’m all ears. So far I’ve deployed my own relay, setup my own instance of Primal, Nostrudle and Floatilla. I’m using Amethyst on mobile which is my favorite so far.

Today I learned how to backup my entire VPS disk image with dd over ssh. The plan is to then boot it in qemu for testing and breaking things.

sudo dd if=/dev/vda bs=4M conv=noerror,sync | pv | zstd -T0 | ssh gravitas@10.8.0.2 "zstd -d | dd of=/storage/zion_vda.img bs=4M"

Free Speech wins!

https://www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-trial-verdict-rapper-wins-lawsuit-cops-music-videos/

Afroman won a jury verdict Wednesday (March 18) clearing him of wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed by seven Ohio police officers, who claimed the rapper defamed them by releasing music videos that mocked them after a failed raid on his home.

The verdict came in an unusual lawsuit filed by members of an Ohio county sheriff’s department over songs and social media posts by Afroman (Joseph Foreman) that harshly criticized the guns-drawn 2022 raid on his property, which yielded no charges.

@YoungBlood oh no! what will the controlled opposition do if they can’t illegally get 0.00001% more votes. Will someone please think of the pedofiles children?!?!

Its a fun distraction for them to larp as if they’re really “debating” anything. This is yet another collaboration between the “two” parties of the Epstein class to distract from actual issues like justifying to us how universal healthcare is impossible because Iran still exists, and we can’t prosecute pedophiles and human traffickers because it would ruin the economy.

What we really need is competency testing, both to hold office or even to vote for who gets in office. You need to pass an exam just to be able to LEARN how to drive, why is it less important when deciding on who to let “Drive” our government. If you don’t know basic facts like there are 3 branches of government, you shouldn’t be entitled to a vote.

BTW Illegals already can’t vote, even if we gave every benefit of every doubt and assume every single one of them votes democrat (they dont, surprised pikachu for all the conservative husbands losing their mail order brides), the numbers don’t add up to anything remotely significant to matter. But they’ll spend hours “fighting” about this as if it matters.

successfully migrated from Nginx Proxy Manager to Traefik tonight.

Wish i had done it before i had 50+ services and 30+ subdomains, but better late then never. The main advantage to this over NPM is traefik has better integration with docker and can use labels to setup the subdomains automatically instead of having to manually setup each subdomain in nginx.

The Afroman Trial is going great, his lawyer is making these cops look like complete fools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwNFjm3mWk

@eff Its not JUST about control, its also about making it so that advertisers can have a way to tell who the humans are, think about it, would meta and them all WANT to age gate when they know their product is addicting to children? Of course not, they just see the writing on the wall when it comes to the dead internet. Imagine how much more they will be able to charge for ID verified impressions and ad views.

Remember how we used to actually make use of space with desktop GUIs? I know there were some absolutely terrible ones, but we had limited screen real-estate and would present as much information as we could.

Now it's like... welp guess we'll make an absolutely abysmal garbage design but it's OK because everybody has large monitors or something.

Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.

My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.

A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.

This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.

May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.

LATER EDIT: I’ve been thinking, and I do realise this good experience isn’t necessarily what happens for everyone. It’s still the case that too many good people don’t find a welcoming place here, especially if they are queer or of color. If this is you, know that I see you, and that I will always try to be welcoming and listening, even if you have things to say that bring me discomfort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37H88vcOSfo

Oh man this Afroman Trial is lit, almost feel bad for the one lady cop, but not really.

dude cmon, take a picture of your ID. it's not a big deal just upload your ID to the computer. bro don't be weird, just take your social security card and tape it to your forehead. what are you, a pedophile? mail a notarized copy of your birth certificate to chipotle headquarters

don't you get it? the only way to make sure children are safe is for you to put your genome sequence in your ad reads on youtube. bro cmon. look. i've mailed you a usb-c blood test. upload the results to www. hitler .com or i'm IP banning you from spotify

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I setup a web page with a photo timeline of my former cat Mew. I really miss him, its been 12 days since he’s gone.

https://mewbuttpie.neocities.org

"We care about your privacy!"

Us and our ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR "partners". Hah ha!

Also fuck off!

www.theguardian.com/society/2014...

‘Poor people don’t plan long-t...

@HelloIt_sMe45
Same thing i used to do when i bought a laptop that came with windows. Never even let it load and immediately replace OS with linux.

@alice