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mason_mpls

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About mason_mpls

Software dev in Minneapolis. Experienced yapper.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47795800

    one trip to Amsterdam will show you how bad our use of cars has been for us

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    Comment #47497665

    doesnt larry fink need a bailout

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    Comment #47067742

    “Apple is the opposite of planned obsolescence” Is there something in the water?

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    Comment #46460187

    You are definitely doing it wrong, I rarely have issues and when I do I just switch comparability tools. I play multiple indie games, marvel rivals, I played lots of among us on my…

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    Comment #46289939

    Most people just want their software easy & free (for fair reasons), and this is the end result of that

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    Comment #46289916

    It seems we’re all experiencing a form of sticker shock, from the bill for getting ease-of-use out of software that we demanded for the past few decades.

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    Comment #46289891

    It’s a trope now that loads of internet users will complain about Mac OS & Windows, while digging in their heels against switching to Linux. Just take your medicine people.

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    Comment #46289814

    Perhaps we need more collective action & coordination? I don’t see how we could politically undermine these systems, but we could all do more to contribute to open source workaroun…

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    Comment #46289710

    I personally really like Apple Vision and the bar it’s pushing. However, using one of these devices long term in a walled garden sounds like a nightmare for privacy and marketing a…

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    Comment #46241031

    we’re people, not fairytale beasts

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    Comment #46226528

    You’re confusing democracy with tyranny.

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    Comment #46226511

    We regulate kids in all sorts of ways, this isn’t different. Kids don’t need social media to communicate.

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    Comment #46176848

    > Zebra-Llama achieves Transformer-level accuracy with near-SSM efficiency using only 7–11B training tokens (compared to trillions of tokens required for pre-training) and an 8B te…

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    Comment #46149890

    I think we’re mistaking incompetence with malice in regards to DOGE here

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    Comment #46149784

    This assumes fair competition in the tech industry, which has evaporated without a path for return years ago.

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    Comment #46065006

    Given the trajectory of Microsoft products it stands to reason Github’s future is uncertain. Also Git is ultimately a hosting platform that any competent software shop can recreate…

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    Comment #46064988

    Hopefully more projects can follow! Codeberg has a far more secure foundation to avoid unethical practices on users.

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    Comment #46037761

    Does this apply to other Linux Distros?

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    Comment #46016441

    probably not to mars, europa, ganymede, or enceladus though

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    Comment #45850691

    Yeah every action a company takes is immediately and completely reflected in the market cap /s

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    Comment #45831216

    What a breath of fresh air, I’m watching people dance with plain text behind the bars of Jira, GitLab & Teams

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    Comment #45831190

    More memory means more memory for my website to take up!

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    Comment #45053748

    I’m far more inclined to trust any CPU manufacturer over a motherboard manufacturer.

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    Comment #45053699

    Thank you