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Boosting is really important on the Fediverse because it makes whatever you boost federate to the entire servers of all your followers. A boosted public post appears on your followers' timelines, but also becomes searchable to everyone on the servers of your followers.

Instead of an algorithm, the Fediverse relies on human beings sharing stuff they find interesting. This process creates a wonderful chain of discovery.

To boost something here, click the or button below the post.

#FediTips

LLMs are mansplaining as a service, but more specifically that type of mansplainer who googles your question and replies authoritatively with the first result that comes up, despite having zero understanding himself.

The program you DON'T WANT TO INSTALL!

Share and educate people!

From the company that took all digitized content without permission to build their product, now we have a browser.

So the company can use your data and behavior and to lock you in to their statistical parrot (AI)

#AI #privacy

Is anyone from #YYJ going to FediCon in Vancouver, and if so, what do you hope to come away with from the conference? #fedicon

Web comics about emerging technology don't generally age that well, but the passage of a mere decade hasn't blunted this one a bit.

@thegibson There are two numbers you need to know. What is the minimum bill rate you need to survive. If you don't know know your billable utilization, assume 40%. 2080 hours in 2025, assume that you'll bill 832 hours. Find the bottom number that will allow you to pay your bills.

Then find out what bill rate is usually charged for your service. Usually, it's much higher than your bottom number.

Now you know how much you can wheel and deal on billable rate. My pitch used to be be "I'll beat the going rate by 20%"

I'll jot some down here... When independent consulting... There is a rule of 3.

If you feel your time is worth $50 per hour, your billing rate is $150.

why?

1/3 to you

1/3 to the lean times between gigs

1/3 to the tax man

If you are working at fixing this sort of thing, you should be expecting closer to $100 per hour to you.

Trust me, they can pay a $300/hr billing rate without concern in most cases.

the most important form of resistance is to live

SD cards are a technology taken right out of early Gibson, real neuromancer shit. Incredible trash tech. Gigabytes of low quality abundance. Small enough to lose even when you're paying attention. Extraordinary but embarrassingly low grade.

There's very nice classy ones from SanDisk but there's so many more from nameless foundries for sale on AliExpress and a tenth the price, that mostly work.

(Chairman George Morrow would shit bluebirds: "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of floppy disks", two obsolete things in one sentence.)

I'm using the big ones in my cp/m machine. Doing serious endurance testing and marginal testing. The really cheap ones do _weird_ things sometimes but work ok, mostly. I now have some good test code, ask me in a week....

With two cards installed, on the same SPI buss, doing random disk random block random read/write I *suspect* there is some odd stuff going on, but it's hard to separate code from electronics from the cards' various effects.

Pretty fucking interesting though.

I want to make the cheap cards as usable as the good ones. I think tristate buffers will do that.

Rooting for the underdogs.