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FourPacketsOfPeanuts

@ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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2y ago

What are some self care things you've learned much later in life?
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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago
Constant low level exposure to ads and commerce in general is bad for the soul. These voices aren't your friends, they don't have your best interests at heart.
Buy ad free services. If they don't provide ad free, go elsewhere.
Rediscover the joys of ad free, intelligent radio. Start with BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4. There are many others I'm sure.

2y ago

I made a FOSS AI file organizer!

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago

Thanks

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago

"The first rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two twice the price?"

2y ago

I made a FOSS AI file organizer!

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago

Great work. Can you give some examples of how this works in practice?

Tagify leverages AI to automatically generate and manage tags for files

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago

Lovely :)

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago

Can we carve out a part of the internet please where we go back to super basic html pages that are a mix of self hosted hobby blogs and university research sites? It was good then. Everything's gotten so noisy, and busy, and shit.

2y ago

What are your favorite old-timey and historical insults and incredulous expressions?

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago

I've started saying "Oh Buddah" just to mix it up a bit

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago

It's widely celebrated that Jean Baptiste Kempf, who could have easily sold VLC for tens of millions, declined to do so (or more accurately lead the steering group that jointly decided) keeping the enormously popular video player free and open source

https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/x0azkz/this_is_jeanbaptiste_kempf_the_creator_of_vlc/

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago

These were a couple of PhD geeks who hit it big, it's certainly not inevitable that intelligent people get absorbed with money, see the creator of VLC for example. It's just sad that these guys could have been rich AND kept the internet 'pure' and research focused. But instead commerce has crept in and taken a shit on what was once a clean simple brilliant search service.

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world 2y ago

Now that I think about it I'm not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?