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Header for veronica: The word "Fediverse" in pink cursive letters in front of a very dark rendition of the "United Federation of Planets" flag from Star Trek.
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Veronica Explains
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About veronica

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Move slow and fix things.

I'm an unsponsored PeerTuber/YouTuber making videos about Linux, vintage tech, and owning your digital destiny. I'm also a nerdy musician in a nerdy band with other nerds you might know. I'm not a fan of machine-generated slop - my mistakes are mine and I'm doing just fine.

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I genuinely believe that the Fediverse offers the best chance of recapturing the friendly, optimistic Internet I loved as a kid.

We've got flaws, sure. I've been critical of aspects of fedi culture, and will continue to do so.

But this place represents hope, and hope is where we start.

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Give me a room full of musical instruments, and I have no ideas at all.

Give me a single toy xylophone in an otherwise empty room, and I'll have melodies written in about five minutes.

It's taken me decades to figure that out.

This is sick, and there's nothing I can do about it.

EDIT: please don't send me more misinfo about myself, thank you

EDIT 2: muting now, please don't use LLMs to learn things about people, thanks

 A Google search in "AI Mode" (sic) which asks "does Veronica Explains have adhd", in which the "answer" reads as follows (with a disclaimer saying it's for informational purposes only): Veronica (the creator behind the popular Linux and retro-tech YouTube channel Veronica Explains) has stated that she almost certainly has undiagnosed ADHD (inattentive presentation).On her Mastodon profile, she describes herself as a "compulsive fixer/builder/maker" and notes that she likely has undiagnosed ADHD alongside a few trademark autistic traits.Are you looking for a specific video or project where she discussed her ADHD-friendly setups, like her writerdeck? Let me know what you'd like to explore next!
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#SHORK 486 #Linux now finally includes more than 1 game! New BSD Games ( #nbsdgames ), a pack of 22 minigames such as battleships, checkers, jewels, reversi, minesweeper, etc., and the Tetris clone #CTris! github.com/SharktasticA/SHORK-

 A photo of an IBM ThinkPad 365ED running SHORK 486, showing the nbsdgames name entry screen.
A photo of an IBM ThinkPad 365ED running SHORK 486, showing tmux running with SHORKFETCH in the left pane and nbsdgames' Mines game in the right pane.
A photo of an IBM ThinkPad 365ED running SHORK 486, showing nbsdgames' Fisher game.
A photo of an IBM ThinkPad 365ED running SHORK 486, showing nbsdgames' battleships game.

I set up `301` redirects for some of my favorite posts from my old Masto instance, so that if they're linked somewhere externally, hopefully the link doesn't break. Now I get to delete the instance.

Farewell, Mastodon. :)

I'm looking for blog posts or other sharable links regarding "how to spot LLM-generated writing", but aimed toward a middle-school-aged audience. Does anyone have any suggestions so that I can share them? Boosts welcome!