HowToPhil (Phillip R)

I am as I have always been, I am always changing.
(Undiagnosed but clearly something is different here)

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Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦benroyce
2025-05-04

of :

"The President of this United States cannot, with the stroke of a pen, or in his case, a stupid Sharpie, he cannot violate the law in these "

🀣

"Remember all of the ancestors who died for our right to be here"

😀

HowToPhil (Phillip R)howtophil
2025-05-03

@isotopp Sometimes it's "borrowed to" with the same general syntax

HowToPhil (Phillip R)howtophil
2025-05-03

It's regional, but I think "borrowed out" is a fine alternative to "loaned" or "lent"

"I borrowed that out to him."
"I borrowed out that gadget to her."

HowToPhil (Phillip R)howtophil
2025-05-03

Immoral, illegal, and stupid:

HowToPhil (Phillip R) boosted:
2025-05-02

local news segment about vandalism of cars and homes in a wealthy neighborhood: "we think the vandals have a message, but we aren't sure what that is"

*cut to tag on the side of a house reading "EAT THE RICH"*

HowToPhil (Phillip R) boosted:
2025-05-02

The server powering the #HardenedBSD main site surpassed 10TB of traffic in April 2025.

HowToPhil (Phillip R) boosted:
2025-05-02

Old one from 2016... still very relevant.

An elephant painted in red and blue with white stars on its back saying:
WE MUST PROTECT THE CHILDREN!
FROM BEING BUTIN THE SAME BATHROOM AS A TRANSGENDER
PERSON!
BUT NOT FROM SCHOOL SHOOTINGS!
OR POVERTY,
OR HUNGER,
OR CUTS TO EDUCATION
OR LACK OF HEALTH CARE,
OR CLIMATE CHANGE.
HowToPhil (Phillip R) boosted:
Fesshole 🧻fesshole
2025-05-02

My neighbour is horrible and has been an absolute nightmare. Since the weathers improved I've got my revenge by blowing dandelion seeds over the fence and her perfectly manicured and mowed lawn now looks like a wildflower meadow and she's losing her mind over it. Flower power.

HowToPhil (Phillip R) boosted:
2025-05-02

So much work has been done to convince people that "socialism" "communism" "anarchy" etc. are all completely non-viable.

If they were non-viable, then why would they need to try so hard to destroy them?

HowToPhil (Phillip R) boosted:
2025-05-02

I love how the 42-year old Commodore 64 is constantly being pushed to do weird things. Today, it's running a very, VERY simple LLM.

github.com/ytmytm/llama2.c64

"Imagine prompting a 3-year-old child with the beginning of a story β€” they will continue it to the best of their vocabulary and abilities."

#retrocomputing #llm #ai

The settings screen for the LLama2.c64 "LLM" on a Commodore 64
HowToPhil (Phillip R)howtophil
2025-05-02

Unpopular (but correct) opinion: The "ripped" look on men, with dangerously low body fat, is a male version of anorexia. It is an unhealthy body marketed as "healthy" and "beautiful," but without enough fat reserves, you are not healthy.

Not saying everyone should be a butterball, but I am saying that a certain amount of body fat is necessary for long-term health.

HowToPhil (Phillip R) boosted:
2025-05-02

Baby steps

A screenshot of an Amstrad emulator showing the loading screen for a game called Jurl
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A friend who works in ecology programming told me that since Murdoch's Fox takeover of National Geographic an editorial rule has been set that they won't do climate change stories.

In case you thought we weren't been fed lies by omission

*It has been pointed out that my friend may have been incorrect. I'm not sure, it's not my area, but he's a knowledgeable guy working in that area, who I would trust. So, a caveat to the above

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Jordan Maris πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #NAFOjmaris@eupolicy.social
2025-05-02

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste.

Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative!

endof10.org/

HowToPhil (Phillip R)howtophil
2025-05-02

@BrodieOnLinux Eyup, Linux/BSD/etc should EXPAND the number of usable machines

HowToPhil (Phillip R) boosted:
2025-05-02

I see the same kind of criticism aimed at Asahi Linux and Chrultrabook, "Why bother supporting Linux on this hardware, just stop buying bad laptops"

Not supporting Linux on Apple Silicon or Chromebooks, won't at all slow down the sales of these devices, but what it does do is give these devices the ability to have a second life once they've gone EOL saving at least some of them from going straight into e-waste

HowToPhil (Phillip R)howtophil
2025-05-02
HowToPhil (Phillip R)howtophil
2025-05-02

√4761
hehehe Nii-iice!

HowToPhil (Phillip R)howtophil
2025-05-02

@Natasha_Jay With trump/musk wanting access to the Social Security Death Database, this form doesn't seem so insane...

HowToPhil (Phillip R) boosted:
Andrea Junker :verified:Strandjunker@mstdn.social
2025-05-02

On this May 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.

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