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Admiral Patrick

@ ptz @dubvee.org

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I learned to play the guitar growing up as a young rapscallion in Mississippi. But things didn't really take off until I moved to Memphis. There I met the Colonel and the hits just kept coming. Unfortunately, the fame went to my head, I gained a lot of weight, started wearing a white jumpsuit, and ate tranquilizers like they were trail mix. Then, in 1977, I died on the toilet.

Or did I?

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

  • He sees you when you're sleeping...

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  • Garak: So, let me get this straight, Doctor. This "Santa Claus" operates a vast, real-time information gathering regime, collects data to judge everyone on the planet, and categorizes them into the beautifully binary groups of "naughty" and "nice" for the purpose of facilitating later actions based upon membership of one or the other group?

    Bashir: I don't think that's quite the moral of the story here, Garak, but yes, that is...accurate.

    Garak: And to whom does this "Santa Claus" report?

    Bashir: No one, as far as I'm aware, anyway.

    Garak: Fascinating. I say, dear Doctor, there may be hope for your species yet.

  • Did you get your Limewire Wrapped?

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  • How was the satellite

    This was pre-Starlink, so kind of crappy. Bandwidth was decent at 12 Mbps (I think upstream was 3?) and the latency was what it was (~900ms round trip). The draconian 10 GB data caps were what got you, though.

    You could RDP in a pinch to put out a fire, but you would not want to be working remotely over it on a daily basis.

  • Did you get your Limewire Wrapped?

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  • When I commented, I completely missed the 2007 part. Was thinking back to Napster / Kazaa days.

    I had 128k DSL in 2007 (I think it was called iDSL or something because it was the same line rate as ISDN but could reach further than regular DSL -- I lived out in the boonies).

    Between then and 2019, I struggled with various connection methods: worsening DSL, satellite, and 3G). Best I managed was a cell phone signal booster and an old phone with semi-unlimited data where I got a steady ~5 Mbps at a reasonable latency on 3G.

    In 2020, right before COVID hit, I finally moved to civilization and had decent cable until I got fiber 2-3 years ago.

    Oh, and yeah, we had very similar broadband grants to nowhere. The fiber I got in 2022 was likely what we paid for in 2015.

  • Did you get your Limewire Wrapped?

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  • yeah....I had to earn by gigabit fiber.

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    Caption contest °_o

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  • Did you get your Limewire Wrapped?

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  • Bonus stat: Your dad picked up the phone 7 times while you were doing the internet.

  • Replace One Word In A Star Trek Quote With Sausage

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  • Replace One Word In A Star Trek Quote With Sausage

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  • What can we do about the increasing problem of these self-deleting bot accounts?

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  • Good to know.

    I think this just fixes the bug where deleted accounts were invisible to admins. It's a start but doesn't fully address the problem. Still, having it federate the content removal is a step in the right direction.

  • What can we do about the increasing problem of these self-deleting bot accounts?

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  • They've also been throwing out rage bait in the "YSK" community. But yeah, I definitely agree it's a problem. So much so that I've added some built-in filters for that in Tesseract (client-side) to deal with it. I don't want to go into the technical details for fear of that jackass trying to counter them, but suffice it to say they're effective based on their current M.O.. I just need to finish this release and get it pushed out as it's been approaching vaporware status over the last 1-2 months.

    I think Piefed is also taking action in either its UI or backend. I don't recall exactly what, but I saw something mentioned a week or two ago on another post complaining about that self-deleting spammer account.

  • The aluminium hull glimmered in the nebula’s blue colour

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  • American officers call turbolifts the "turbovator" (which, jokes aside, does sound cooler).

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    I still can't believe they're not related

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  • Touche! I was referring to the actress rather than the character, but that was left ambiguous. Well played.

  • Things were better back then, my ass!

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  • In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

    — Terry Pratchett

    — Michael Scott

  • Bun has been acquired by Anthropic

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  • Yeah. I'm going to keep using it for now but definitely going back and un-reimplementing some things that I moved into the Bun API. Basically just gonna use it as a runtime in place of NodeJS.

    I just really liked being able to build and distribute a single binary executable :(

  • Bun has been acquired by Anthropic

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  • Oh goddamn it. I just started doing projects in Bun and moving some of my older projects to it.

    Fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck.

  • Uguu: simple lightweight temporary file host with support for drop, paste, click and API uploading.

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  • Gonna start a side hustle of forking open source projects and removing the cringey anime girls.

    • Anubus -> Anewbus
    • Uguu -> UNew
    • Misskey -> Recycle Bin

  • What are some non-AI examples of slop?

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  • Pretty much any movie franchise on or after the 3rd film (Transformers, Fast and the Furious, etc). If it's based on a book series, then the first one after the source material runs out (e.g. Jurassic Park III and later).

  • A fine line between "I love you, man" and "Let them fight"

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  • VOY s7e7 "Body and Soul" starring Jeri Ryan as Bob Picardo as Jeri Ryan.

  • Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face

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  • I had to google "Ozempic face" because I've apparently been living under a rock.

    In case anyone else was under a rock...

    From Cleveland Clinic:

  • whats the best way to share/embed videos in a post?

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  • Generally stick with H264 codec in mp4 container and you'll be fine. Those are supported by pretty much every browser and most apps.

    Uploading to your instance is hit or miss depending on how it's configured or whether it will accept anything other than images. Most people just upload them to catbox and use the link from there in the posts.