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@ mesamunefire @piefed.social

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Im on the fedi doin fedi things.

  • Does your hobby have a "random person in Nebraska" project? If so, what is it?

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  • CURL is kinda like that. Its in a better place now but hes still getting a bit burnt out .

  • What is a hobby you'd love to get into but cant for what ever reason

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  • Gardening.

    I love plants but I dont have the time to micromanage. Ive set up automatic systems in the past, and found that the plants that want to live will live. And just propagate those to hell. I have loquat trees that love neglect. I have grapes that are WAY overgrown that need trimming each year and produce way too much. Ive tried other things but one hot 110F+ (43-44C) day and most plants die. And we get months of that kind of weather.

  • What's the biggest misconception you think many people have?

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  • People think successful software is usually made by huge teams.

    In actuality, most open source is just one or a couple of people building something they found useful and releasing it. Even corporate software is usually a small team. Sure some software has huge numbers of people working on it (google for example) but its not the norm. Your bank app, this site here, all very small teams.

    I remember when bitcoin first started and I got into the idea of sending $$ with it. First couple of years had less than 100 people in total touch it. And 90% of it was a couple of people at most.

    A bit of a tangent, but most software has NO plan if that person or people walk away from the project. Or just straight up die. We live in a somewhat golden era when software has only just started outliving its builders. But watch the next 20-40 years. It will be interesting times.

  • Local LLM agents

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  • Ive played around with a couple, mostly from hugging face. Some of the minimal modelsvare halfway decent at SQL and some specific ones are good with templates and html. You cam string them up for agentic work without issue. I found the performance worse than generation tools for the same software tasks. It was neat to try though.

  • PeerTube 8.2 Video Platform introduces channel ownership transfers, live stream catch-up support, Studio editing improvements, and admin updates

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  • Oh nice!!

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  • Im mostly remote in an industry ai cant really take over.

  • 10 weird OSS projects you need right now...

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  • Not that i dont belive you but is there an article or video or something on this. I wasnt aware.

    I just thought its a fun video.

  • 10 weird OSS projects you need right now...

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  • Theres a couple that are not. Like terminalphone.

  • It's time to talk about my writerdeck - veronicaexplains

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  • I think so? Its been a while. Tmux waa what i used for along time but i remeber something before?

  • What is the best email server you use?

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  • Ive actually ran corporate email servers for around 7 years at a couple of previous jobs. Ill be honest, I just dont want to do it. Its too much like work and for literal cents on the dollar I can have some entity deal with it.

    Its the one thing I dont want to self host. Hell I even have my own lemmy/piefed I keep around for testing purposes. But email admin-ing over the years sucks

  • Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph

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  • I would love to have https://joinbookwyrm.com/ capability. That would be fun. You finish a book, and bookwyrm would auto tell you were finished. Give users the option to post about it.

  • Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph

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  • By preference (at least for me):

    1. Buy outright (AKA online stores like https://www.baen.com/). No DRM ebooks are great.
    2. Buy from authors website or sometimes patreon.
    3. Calibre + digital library download. My local library has an app, and you can just get the book and then sideload.
    4. Yoho if I cant find it elsewhere.

    I try really hard to give authors money in some way....but sometimes Yoho is all you got if they have an amazon exclusive contract.

    Its been 14+ years with this combo and I cant say I have ever had issues getting books.

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • I hear you. You get used to one of the clients, the really awesome nitche communities, start making friends (or at least start recognizing the user names) and then...rug pull. The clients were removed, a lot of the ways we communicated with said people got MUCH worse. And then you discover people are getting paid to post/comment on reddit, teh whole AI thing...just felt crummy.

    The last thing you want to do is make it harder/impossible for your power users, users that love your platform enough to make a free app to interact with it to use said platform. Its so dumb they made a competitor thats still going strong to this day (US).

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • Its nice when you go on Fedi websites and see ublock origin with 0 blocked elements.

  • What would be your opinion on a lemmy/piefed instance that's run like Athen democracy?

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  • Make it! Fork Piefed/lemmy and get it setup. Why not, might be fun.

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • Ill put it on the reading list :)

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • I remember the book series that was called rats, bats, and vats. Its sci-fi but It explores a bit of "Shareholders" AKA people who owned everything and "Vats" people born from vats/test tubes that owned nothing. In fact you owed the shareholders for being born and almost no one could pay for themselves. But if you only got one share, then you had much more rights in the society they found themselves in.

    The only people that will make money are the Shareholders and only huge amounts of shares at that. Everyone else will become the "Vats". Thats one such terrible way of living that I could very well see occurring in the US. Next generation land owners vs everyone else except its peoples time via shares.

  • What is your favorite youtube video?

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  • What is the difference between piefed and lemmy and what are the advantages of this platform?

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  • Linux @programming.dev
    mesa @piefed.social

    Techrights — Slopwatch: Lots of Fake Articles From Fake "Linux" Sites and About "Linux"

    techrights.org /n/2025/08/19/Slopwatch_Lots_of_Fake_Articles_From_Fake_Linux_Sites_and_About.shtml
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Lisp In 99 Lines Of C With TinyLisp

    hackaday.com /2025/08/19/lisp-in-99-lines-of-c-with-tinylisp/
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Waypipe in Action: Wayland Remote GUI Over SSH

    video.fosshq.org /videos/watch/4b9237a2-d0d1-4674-9157-5af78c7bfb8f
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services

    hackaday.com /2025/08/18/the-terminal-demise-of-consumer-electronics-through-subscription-services/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle

    nypost.com /2025/08/11/business/coding-students-whose-jobs-were-taken-by-ai-forced-to-work-at-chipotle/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Mythical GUI Vaporware – Windows 1.0x – GUI Wonderland

    blisscast.wordpress.com /2025/08/18/windows-1-vaporware-gui-wonderland-10/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    VimWiki: I write my notes in the terminal, like a monster

    tinkerbetter.tube /videos/watch/2ac996b2-39eb-4208-92ef-3ea4815157cd
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Techrights — GitHub Won't Last Much Longer

    techrights.org /n/2025/08/18/GitHub_Won_t_Last_Much_Longer.shtml
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    What Should I Use Instead of Github? - Codeberg Gitlab and BitBucket

    diode.zone /videos/watch/19cfe98b-bd86-405c-bb2e-0b3133f8b528
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Recto: In Case Programming Isn’t Hard Enough

    hackaday.com /2025/08/17/recto-in-case-programming-isnt-hard-enough/
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

    www.tweaktown.com /news/106795/steam-data-reveals-pc-gamers-shifting-from-windows-to-linux/index.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Microsoft Issues Free Update Offer To Millions Of Windows Users (ads in windows update menu)

    www.forbes.com /sites/zakdoffman/2025/08/15/microsoft-issues-free-update-offer-to-millions-of-windows-users/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era

    techrights.org /n/2025/08/13/Internet_Relay_Chat_and_Gemini_Protocol_Help_Us_Relive_the_Net_.shtml
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Where were you when goo.gl shutdown?

    jszym.com /blog/archiving_googl/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Smartphone Hackability, Or, A Pocket Computer That Isn’t

    hackaday.com /2025/08/11/smartphone-hackability-or-a-pocket-computer-that-isnt/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Developers, not operators · Victor Wynne

    victorwynne.com /developers-not-operators/
  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    10 Programmer Stereotypes

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Thank you for all the memories CPB.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Why don't smart watches use USB-C to recharge?

    shkspr.mobi /blog/2025/08/why-dont-smart-watches-use-usb-c-to-recharge/
  • Programming @programming.dev
    mesa @piefed.social

    curl -v https://google.com