@gMoon Thanks a bunch!

I may need to travel to the USA in the next few weeks.

I am a Canadian staying less than thirty days. I would be going with a school group.

I have a bunch of questions:

1. What should I know before going?
2. What kinds of things do I need to do before leaving?
3. How can I minimize my chance of being detained at the border?

Thanks for any help.

I'd appreciate boosts for wider reach :)

#AskFedi #Travel #UnitedStates #Canada #Safety

Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.

I see a lot of people come up with coding project ideas, and I see others shoot them down, because they aren't really useful.

They're kind of like toys.

What are some coding project ideas that would actually solve a problem that you have?

#foss #floss #opensource #coding #programming

Interesting...

https://dev.to/kaamkiya/play-games-from-your-terminal-25o

#terminal #cli #tui #golang #github #go #coding #programming

@catsalad

A friend of mine suggested that we stop using the sparkle ✨ emoji as the symbol for AI and replace it with a magic eight ball 🎱 as it more realistically conveys how the technology works. I've been thinking about that a lot lately. 😂

If you think Ubuntu (or insert any other distro of your choice here) is the worst Linux distro... then remember ChromeOS exists, which is the worst Linux distro out there, crippled by Google with all sorts of things.

Last year I started the tradition of an annual #survey for capturing #selfhosted habits, preferences, and demographics. Today, I'm launching this year's survey - which has been expanded and improved upon based on responses from last year's survey.

It'll be open for responses until Friday, October 11th - please consider participating if you have a free five minutes!

https://selfh.st/survey/2024/

#selfhost #selfhosting #homelab #foss #opensource #homeserver

@lynn_sh Good for you :)

One year anniversary.

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

If you try to fail and succeed at it, which have you done?

@nixCraft I used to use Scratch, and there I did use counter. Now, though, the standard is i and j. Also, I don't like naming things counter1 and counter2.

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

@MHS_Jenkins I'm considering Void because I'd like to try something new.

Before Mint, I'd only used Debian (in Crostini) on a ChromeBook.

That Chromebook has passed its End of Life a while ago, so I want to install Linux on it.

Void is lightweight, absolutely adored by its community, and I've tried the live USB and really like it.

Edit: Also, Void uses runit instead of systemd so boot time is much faster.

Ted Chiang as eloquent as ever:

"The selling point of generative A.I. is that these programs generate vastly more than you put into them, and that is precisely what prevents them from being effective tools for artists.

[...]

Many novelists have had the experience of being approached by someone convinced that they have a great idea for a novel, which they are willing to share in exchange for a fifty-fifty split of the proceeds. Such a person inadvertently reveals that they think formulating sentences is a nuisance rather than a fundamental part of storytelling in prose. Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium. But the creators of traditional novels, paintings, and films are drawn to those art forms because they see the unique expressive potential that each medium affords. It is their eagerness to take full advantage of those potentialities that makes their work satisfying, whether as entertainment or as art.

[...]

The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world."

Read the whole essay. It's brilliant. #ai

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

@MHS_Jenkins

Hi! I use Linux Mint as my daily driver, though I might switch to Void.

I like most of it, actually. It's very customizable. I'm using custom fonts (Barlow and JetBrains Mono Nerd Font), a custom theme, custom icons, etc.

It's pretty quick, too. Boot time on this ~9 year old Dell laptop is about 10 seconds.

The default browser is Firefox, which is good. Linux Mint is extremely beginner friendly, if you want something more advanced you can look at Debian, Arch, and other distros.

Feel free to ask if you have other questions :)

Be the resistance you want to see in the world.

Every movement starts small.
Every movement starts with small gestures.
It builds overtime, and it grows overtime.

Be patient.
But be persistent.
Be the resistance you want to see in the world.

Boost if you think trans people are neato