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mastodon 4.5.19+notalivePresident of the Beans Beaiouns Bean Club. Not affiliated with Rancho Gordo.
"I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself" - Hayao Miyazaki, on AI
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Joined November 07, 2022
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@serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space @elementary@mastodon.social I'm guessing this is in response to Linus' latest meltdown, summarized here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/
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@jonny@neuromatch.social this bit got me
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@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz @lunarloony@dosgame.club @ifixcoinops@retro.social so i had a thought and basically made a web page in LibreOffice: https://is.nota.live/@beaiouns/116795099501164013
It's not perfect but at least it feels like the 90s
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been thinking about some of the HTML-related convos i've seen on here about how publishing random static web pages isn't as easy as it used to be. i figured i'd try some stuff to see how it turned out: https://beaiouns.neocities.org/WYSIWYG
the page was initially made in LibreOffice Writer, saved as HTML, then uploaded to neocities and tweaked a bit. it seems to work well enough for basic site design.
i'm a little biased because it feels a lot easier than what i've been doing, which is ssh'ing into a NetBSD box and writing everything in vi, but hopefully it's also fairly easy for people who don't do everything the hard way?
basically you just do this:
- install LibreOffice
- open/make a word doc and save it as an HTML doc
- sign up for neocities and do what the cartoon cat tells you which takes 5-10 minutes-ish
- upload the HTML doc you made to your neocities dashboard
more tweaking can be done after that, but that's the basic workflow.
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@gnome I'm liking this trend of phrasing stuff like this. "Not your legal name, your real name"
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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social yeah, i just wanna download my shows and not get emails from my ISP about it
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@akareilly@hachyderm.io "works on my machine" :ms_rofl:
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@peter_mcmahan@mas.to @maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org this is what i was hoping would happen with the KDE discussion at https://discuss.kde.org/t/sorry-to-bring-up-a-contentious-topic-kde-ai-llm-policy/46333 (set a policy and enforce it as much as possible) but it seems like they took the opposite stance of "we can't ever know for sure if people are using it, so there's nothing we can do." kind of a bummer really
been thinking about some of the HTML-related convos i've seen on here about how publishing random static web pages isn't as easy as it used to be. i figured i'd try some stuff to see how it turned out: https://beaiouns.neocities.org/WYSIWYG
the page was initially made in LibreOffice Writer, saved as HTML, then uploaded to neocities and tweaked a bit. it seems to work well enough for basic site design.
i'm a little biased because it feels a lot easier than what i've been doing, which is ssh'ing into a NetBSD box and writing everything in vi, but hopefully it's also fairly easy for people who don't do everything the hard way?
basically you just do this:
- install LibreOffice
- open/make a word doc and save it as an HTML doc
- sign up for neocities and do what the cartoon cat tells you which takes 5-10 minutes-ish
- upload the HTML doc you made to your neocities dashboard
more tweaking can be done after that, but that's the basic workflow.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social used to be buds with a dude from Glasgow, and he had some Irn-Bru shipped over stateside for all of us in the D&D group to try
apparently "it's alright, i guess" was not the answer he was looking for :ms_rofl:
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@luxliquida @Craigp maybe Krita would be good for photo editing? I pretty much only use it for MS Paint style stuff, but that's what I was using gimp for too. Both have a lot of buttons that I haven't learned about yet
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@squishymage42@dice.camp OH SHIT I REMEMBER THE CRAYONS ONE
The book that I ordered from @firestorm@kolektiva.social came in today, with goodies! A bookmark, a couple of stickers, and a ZINE! I can't remember the last time I saw a real zine. I can't wait to read these!
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@lunarloony@dosgame.club @ifixcoinops@retro.social lol same, I mean it's gotta be multiple days since the last time an npm vulnerability made the news, right?
I've just been doing mine in whatever text editor's around, but back to Dan's point, it was a bit more fun when everyone I knew had a MySpace or a Livejournal or a Gaia Online page full of goofy shit
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@moh_kohn@mastodon.scot the irony of having to disable CSS to read the article was not lost on me :ms_rofl:
edit: damn, i wasn't even the first one to comment on this. my screenshot is from mullvad's browser FWIW
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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town @alice@lgbtqia.space yeah that baby leakin
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@RickiTarr I miss being in awe of some new thing I learned for the first time. It still happens, but not as much as it used to. Wandering around figuring out how stuff works and having it finally click is amazing.
The best part about being old is how much easier it is to mess with people, because a lot of folks don't remember all the dumb jokes I steal from TV shows and movies.
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@pharmafemboy@estradiol.city @alice@lgbtqia.space i thought they meant Alice at first and couldn't find it, and felt left out lol
it's a good pinned post
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
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@fesshole@mastodon.social New response just dropped.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ploopy/116527277517059346
This is today's Bean Club Bean of the Month
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@foone unboosting this to reboost this
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@joosteto@mamot.fr @snorker@mastodon.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org I like the "AI = Africans & Indians" analogy, since both those regions have been impacted pretty hard by this mess
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@OffTheHook@masto.hackers.town oh shit now a river is playing the guitar
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@MissConstrue fuck them beans
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@siege@masto.hackers.town this comment came up as i was watching the Mr. Rogers episode where he's like "I'm not very good at it [drawing], but it doesn't matter, it's the fun of doing it that's important"
MFs wanna skip that part
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@LibertyForward1@beige.party I've done it a couple times, it was pretty good
Edit: if you like beans & rice, you might like spicy beans & rice
finally got all my kernels patched, and by that i of course mean i ran the package managers and let them do their thing
big thanks to all the devs that had to scramble so the rest of us could be lazy
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@alice oh damn, i never thought of hacking a pizza. i gotta try this
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@jamesthomson oh shit that reminds me, i need to add a "fuck cookies" to the footer on my website
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@Alice Walmart used to sell refillable travel-sized squeeze bottles specifically for ranch dressing. They might still do. Easy to slip in a pocket or bag, for when you're away from your main ranch repository.
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@alexglow This is a cool format!
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@OffTheHook@masto.hackers.town did the show just cut out or is it just my stream
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@meganL i know i'm preaching to the choir, but i think that everyone should read Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly. most of the things people hate about spotify are in chapter 1, and the rest of the book is "and then it got worse"
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@marijn@mastodon.social this reminded me of a really amazing piece of writing that's along the same lines, by @WeirdWriter@caneandable.socialhttps://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/
i did a quick re-read to make sure i was grabbing the right link, and my eyes are fucking misty again
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@falseknees@mastodon.social these have been cracking me up lately
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@iFixit So I had a "new to me" refurbished mini PC that had an m.2 slot for a WiFi card, but no WiFi card in the slot. I also had a dead laptop that had a WiFi card, but the antennas were *inside* the computer (wrapped around the outside of the display in the top half of the laptop). Fortunately, there was a teardown guide for that specific laptop on your website, and I had both a screwdriver and a spudger handy. After following the guide, I was able to disassemble enough of the laptop to remove the antennas without damaging them, and was able to stick them in the new mini PC to get it up on the WiFi network. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon!
discord's down, everyone's on IRC now
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@nyx alright I'm forking this when I get home.
I just want to post inflammatory shit to /etc/os-release, with blackjack and hookers
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@OffTheHook@masto.hackers.town oh hey it's back!
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@dmacphee@mas.to how many large boulders the size of small boulders is half a pickup truck
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