#randommusings — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #randommusings, aggregated by home.social.
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What if Bitcoin (and blockchain in general) was like a double-psych? In the first round, it got all these gullible people involved and got them to self-organise around it as a con. Then, in the second stage, people realise that the "ledger" is immutable proof of crimes and those who were involved in them?
#RandomMusings #WhoCouldHaveDoneThisThing #ProbablyAliens #SHTF
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What if Bitcoin (and blockchain in general) was like a double-psych? In the first round, it got all these gullible people involved and got them to self-organise around it as a con. Then, in the second stage, people realise that the "ledger" is immutable proof of crimes and those who were involved in them?
#RandomMusings #WhoCouldHaveDoneThisThing #ProbablyAliens #SHTF
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Thinking back to early astronomers, say Copernicus and Galileo, or those from Chinese, Middle Eastern or Mayan societies, do you think they had any inkling that space was a vacuum? That the atmosphere didn't extend indefinitely out to the sun? Maybe beyond, even?
Did they ever wonder if birds could potentially fly to the moon or Venus?
Did they imagine humans traveling to the moon or other planets? If so, how did they think we would get there, given the limits of physics and technology in their times?
Whenever I hear about why sci-fi-style space travel can never be possible because of… reasons… I can't help but secretly hope that we are actually at a quaint, horse-and-buggy level of understanding of physics and the universe, despite what feels like a formidable level of knowledge and technological progress.
In the meantime, I guess I'll stick with getting lost in the imaginary galaxies of sci-fi novels.
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Thinking back to early astronomers, say Copernicus and Galileo, or those from Chinese, Middle Eastern or Mayan societies, do you think they had any inkling that space was a vacuum? That the atmosphere didn't extend indefinitely out to the sun? Maybe beyond, even?
Did they ever wonder if birds could potentially fly to the moon or Venus?
Did they imagine humans traveling to the moon or other planets? If so, how did they think we would get there, given the limits of physics and technology in their times?
Whenever I hear about why sci-fi-style space travel can never be possible because of… reasons… I can't help but secretly hope that we are actually at a quaint, horse-and-buggy level of understanding of physics and the universe, despite what feels like a formidable level of knowledge and technological progress.
In the meantime, I guess I'll stick with getting lost in the imaginary galaxies of sci-fi novels.
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Thinking back to early astronomers, say Copernicus and Galileo, or those from Chinese, Middle Eastern or Mayan societies, do you think they had any inkling that space was a vacuum? That the atmosphere didn't extend indefinitely out to the sun? Maybe beyond, even?
Did they ever wonder if birds could potentially fly to the moon or Venus?
Did they imagine humans traveling to the moon or other planets? If so, how did they think we would get there, given the limits of physics and technology in their times?
Whenever I hear about why sci-fi-style space travel can never be possible because of… reasons… I can't help but secretly hope that we are actually at a quaint, horse-and-buggy level of understanding of physics and the universe, despite what feels like a formidable level of knowledge and technological progress.
In the meantime, I guess I'll stick with getting lost in the imaginary galaxies of sci-fi novels.
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Thinking back to early astronomers, say Copernicus and Galileo, or those from Chinese, Middle Eastern or Mayan societies, do you think they had any inkling that space was a vacuum? That the atmosphere didn't extend indefinitely out to the sun? Maybe beyond, even?
Did they ever wonder if birds could potentially fly to the moon or Venus?
Did they imagine humans traveling to the moon or other planets? If so, how did they think we would get there, given the limits of physics and technology in their times?
Whenever I hear about why sci-fi-style space travel can never be possible because of… reasons… I can't help but secretly hope that we are actually at a quaint, horse-and-buggy level of understanding of physics and the universe, despite what feels like a formidable level of knowledge and technological progress.
In the meantime, I guess I'll stick with getting lost in the imaginary galaxies of sci-fi novels.
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🎉 Breaking news: pressing "return" after typing a prompt is now considered AI wizardry! 🤖💰 Our protagonist rants about "AI slop" while being oblivious to their own contribution to the digital landfill. 🚮 Who knew that spewing random thoughts could be so profound? 🌐🙄
https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/ #AIwizardry #AIthoughts #DigitalLandfill #TechRants #RandomMusings #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Breaking news: pressing "return" after typing a prompt is now considered AI wizardry! 🤖💰 Our protagonist rants about "AI slop" while being oblivious to their own contribution to the digital landfill. 🚮 Who knew that spewing random thoughts could be so profound? 🌐🙄
https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/ #AIwizardry #AIthoughts #DigitalLandfill #TechRants #RandomMusings #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Breaking news: pressing "return" after typing a prompt is now considered AI wizardry! 🤖💰 Our protagonist rants about "AI slop" while being oblivious to their own contribution to the digital landfill. 🚮 Who knew that spewing random thoughts could be so profound? 🌐🙄
https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/ #AIwizardry #AIthoughts #DigitalLandfill #TechRants #RandomMusings #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Breaking news: pressing "return" after typing a prompt is now considered AI wizardry! 🤖💰 Our protagonist rants about "AI slop" while being oblivious to their own contribution to the digital landfill. 🚮 Who knew that spewing random thoughts could be so profound? 🌐🙄
https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/ #AIwizardry #AIthoughts #DigitalLandfill #TechRants #RandomMusings #HackerNews #ngated -
LLMs, especially if you include RAG in the picture, is basically like Steven King's The Langoliers, but in reverse. It's like instead of destroying the past (although they do that too), it's like in a Lego game where they hastily construct the track from whatever bits and bobs they have to hand. So in that sense, it's also kind of like a trolley problem, except they're the robber barons and we have no agency.
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LLMs, especially if you include RAG in the picture, is basically like Steven King's The Langoliers, but in reverse. It's like instead of destroying the past (although they do that too), it's like in a Lego game where they hastily construct the track from whatever bits and bobs they have to hand. So in that sense, it's also kind of like a trolley problem, except they're the robber barons and we have no agency.
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Related to the upstream post (with now paywalled article link).
Excerpt from the link below:
'The Zulu word ubuntu grew from the phrase umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu (“a person is a person because of other people”). Justice Yvonne Mokgoro of South Africa describes ubuntu as encompassing “group solidarity, compassion, respect, human dignity, conformity to basic norms and collective unity; in its fundamental sense it denotes humanity and morality.” A Black constitutional lawyer and apartheid-era activist, Mokgoro explains that the spirit of ubuntu “emphasizes respect for human dignity, marking a shift from confrontation to conciliation.” '
#Peace #Unity #Oneness #Reconnection #Earth #Humans #FoodForThought #Giubuntu #RandomMusings
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Another one of my #RandomMusings
its struck me that Christmas Day will be on 25/12/25 for the first time in a century -
Another one of my #RandomMusings
its struck me that Christmas Day will be on 25/12/25 for the first time in a century -
Another one of my #RandomMusings
its struck me that Christmas Day will be on 25/12/25 for the first time in a century -
Another one of my #RandomMusings
its struck me that Christmas Day will be on 25/12/25 for the first time in a century -
It seems strange to me that NHS dentistry requires a 6 monthly check up, but GP appointments for the rest of your body are 'for one problem only' these days.
Maybe we ought to have annual (at least) overhauls to pick up on the things we're ignoring or missing.
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It seems strange to me that NHS dentistry requires a 6 monthly check up, but GP appointments for the rest of your body are 'for one problem only' these days.
Maybe we ought to have annual (at least) overhauls to pick up on the things we're ignoring or missing.
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It seems strange to me that NHS dentistry requires a 6 monthly check up, but GP appointments for the rest of your body are 'for one problem only' these days.
Maybe we ought to have annual (at least) overhauls to pick up on the things we're ignoring or missing.
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It seems strange to me that NHS dentistry requires a 6 monthly check up, but GP appointments for the rest of your body are 'for one problem only' these days.
Maybe we ought to have annual (at least) overhauls to pick up on the things we're ignoring or missing.
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I can see the seductive trap of AI stuff like chatgpt, mostly because search engines today are utter shit in delivering what you want.
With things like ChatGPT, you ask in a natural language, there's sometimes context for it to work with to refine what you are looking for.
The problem is the answers make sense 90% of the time and you stop double checking the results, and you stop checking the for alternative or original sources to confirm. (standard human behavior)
With programming simple things, its easy to check, you cut and paste, compile or run, and it either works as expected or not!
It will make you lazy in thinking about edge cases, or even if the method to get the desired result is correct, or maybe a 'better' way.
For me its great as a refresher, a sort of exercise to warm up the brain, but if i can remember that the results are mostly made up to "sound good" then I keep my skepticism and can get what I feel is a good answer.
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I can see the seductive trap of AI stuff like chatgpt, mostly because search engines today are utter shit in delivering what you want.
With things like ChatGPT, you ask in a natural language, there's sometimes context for it to work with to refine what you are looking for.
The problem is the answers make sense 90% of the time and you stop double checking the results, and you stop checking the for alternative or original sources to confirm. (standard human behavior)
With programming simple things, its easy to check, you cut and paste, compile or run, and it either works as expected or not!
It will make you lazy in thinking about edge cases, or even if the method to get the desired result is correct, or maybe a 'better' way.
For me its great as a refresher, a sort of exercise to warm up the brain, but if i can remember that the results are mostly made up to "sound good" then I keep my skepticism and can get what I feel is a good answer.
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I can see the seductive trap of AI stuff like chatgpt, mostly because search engines today are utter shit in delivering what you want.
With things like ChatGPT, you ask in a natural language, there's sometimes context for it to work with to refine what you are looking for.
The problem is the answers make sense 90% of the time and you stop double checking the results, and you stop checking the for alternative or original sources to confirm. (standard human behavior)
With programming simple things, its easy to check, you cut and paste, compile or run, and it either works as expected or not!
It will make you lazy in thinking about edge cases, or even if the method to get the desired result is correct, or maybe a 'better' way.
For me its great as a refresher, a sort of exercise to warm up the brain, but if i can remember that the results are mostly made up to "sound good" then I keep my skepticism and can get what I feel is a good answer.
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I can see the seductive trap of AI stuff like chatgpt, mostly because search engines today are utter shit in delivering what you want.
With things like ChatGPT, you ask in a natural language, there's sometimes context for it to work with to refine what you are looking for.
The problem is the answers make sense 90% of the time and you stop double checking the results, and you stop checking the for alternative or original sources to confirm. (standard human behavior)
With programming simple things, its easy to check, you cut and paste, compile or run, and it either works as expected or not!
It will make you lazy in thinking about edge cases, or even if the method to get the desired result is correct, or maybe a 'better' way.
For me its great as a refresher, a sort of exercise to warm up the brain, but if i can remember that the results are mostly made up to "sound good" then I keep my skepticism and can get what I feel is a good answer.
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I had a hankering for a cream cheese, salami, and celery sandwich. I needed only one stem of celery but I had to buy half a celery at the supermarket. We don't eat a lot of celery so much of the half stalk it will probably go to waste. Unless of course I make a proper Italian sofrito. Now there's a thought.
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I had a hankering for a cream cheese, salami, and celery sandwich. I needed only one stem of celery but I had to buy half a celery at the supermarket. We don't eat a lot of celery so much of the half stalk it will probably go to waste. Unless of course I make a proper Italian sofrito. Now there's a thought.
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I had a hankering for a cream cheese, salami, and celery sandwich. I needed only one stem of celery but I had to buy half a celery at the supermarket. We don't eat a lot of celery so much of the half stalk it will probably go to waste. Unless of course I make a proper Italian sofrito. Now there's a thought.
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After roughly 7 years, one of my monitors finally bit the dust. Over the years I've had doubles, triples, and even a single for a bit. But for the most part I've always ran two monitors. I'm used to it. And with Linux I've got four desktops. So I'm always tossing browsers and things in different desktops on different monitors and I'm finding myself struggling with just one. Ugh.
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After roughly 7 years, one of my monitors finally bit the dust. Over the years I've had doubles, triples, and even a single for a bit. But for the most part I've always ran two monitors. I'm used to it. And with Linux I've got four desktops. So I'm always tossing browsers and things in different desktops on different monitors and I'm finding myself struggling with just one. Ugh.
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After roughly 7 years, one of my monitors finally bit the dust. Over the years I've had doubles, triples, and even a single for a bit. But for the most part I've always ran two monitors. I'm used to it. And with Linux I've got four desktops. So I'm always tossing browsers and things in different desktops on different monitors and I'm finding myself struggling with just one. Ugh.
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Why finish with butter when you can finish with ghee
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Why finish with butter when you can finish with ghee
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Why finish with butter when you can finish with ghee
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Why finish with butter when you can finish with ghee
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Hm, when your fediverse server shuts down, does that make you serverless? 🤔
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Hm, when your fediverse server shuts down, does that make you serverless? 🤔
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Hm, when your fediverse server shuts down, does that make you serverless? 🤔
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Hm, when your fediverse server shuts down, does that make you serverless? 🤔
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The Fediverse is Not a Technology—It’s an Idea
https://blog.allthingstech.social/the-fediverse-is-not-a-technology-its-an-idea/
#AllThingsTech #Apps #Fediverse #Mastodon #RandomMusings #SocialMedia #Technology #Threads
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The Fediverse is Not a Technology—It’s an Idea
https://blog.allthingstech.social/the-fediverse-is-not-a-technology-its-an-idea/
#AllThingsTech #Apps #Fediverse #Mastodon #RandomMusings #SocialMedia #Technology #Threads
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The Fediverse is Not a Technology—It’s an Idea
https://blog.allthingstech.social/the-fediverse-is-not-a-technology-its-an-idea/
#AllThingsTech #Apps #Fediverse #Mastodon #RandomMusings #SocialMedia #Technology #Threads
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So How’s Threads Doing?
https://blog.allthingstech.social/so-hows-threads-doing/
#AllThingsTech #Apps #Fediverse #Instagram #RandomMusings #SocialMedia #Technology #Threads
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So How’s Threads Doing?
https://blog.allthingstech.social/so-hows-threads-doing/
#AllThingsTech #Apps #Fediverse #Instagram #RandomMusings #SocialMedia #Technology #Threads
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So How’s Threads Doing?
https://blog.allthingstech.social/so-hows-threads-doing/
#AllThingsTech #Apps #Fediverse #Instagram #RandomMusings #SocialMedia #Technology #Threads
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Turns out People Actually Like iPads
https://blog.allthingstech.social/turns-out-people-actually-like-ipads/
#AllThingsTech #Apple #Earnings #Finance #iPads #RandomMusings #Technology
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Turns out People Actually Like iPads
https://blog.allthingstech.social/turns-out-people-actually-like-ipads/
#AllThingsTech #Apple #Earnings #Finance #iPads #RandomMusings #Technology
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Turns out People Actually Like iPads
https://blog.allthingstech.social/turns-out-people-actually-like-ipads/
#AllThingsTech #Apple #Earnings #Finance #iPads #RandomMusings #Technology
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Inspired by the NOPE post made by Jcrabapple this is a list of some of the things I simply do not like for various reasons.
If you have questions as to why I don’t like anything in this list below, please feel free to comment below or even tag me on Mastodon and ask. I’ll be more than happy to explain.
- Mangos
- Words/Phrases such as: no cap, bruh, bruv, simp
- Licorice
- People who think they know it all and truly don’t
- Politics
- Religion
- Fake flavorings such as pineapple, watermelon and others
- Did I mention politics and religion
- Heat, which is anything above 50F/10C
- Majority of people in various ways
- People who aren’t open-minded or have tunnel-vision
- AR/VR related products
- All of this AI stuff we’re hearing each and everyday
- Anime, anime, anime
- Cleaning up after other people
The list above is just a few of the things I don’t like. I’m sure there are many other that I could have listed, but in today’s world, you have to be careful what you say because people get offended too damn easily over simple things, even if it’s not intended or related to them. Which explains the item on the list above, “majority of people in various ways.”
Feel free to reach out to me via my main Mastodon account here: Cliff on Mastodon and if you want to follow the sites account via Mastodon directly, then enter the following information into your Mastodon search bar:
@[email protected]Once you enter the information above, then you should be able to click it and follow the site account on Mastodon. That account will auto post all articles published to this site.
https://www.seerofsouls.com/things-that-i-simply-do-not-like/
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Inspired by the NOPE post made by Jcrabapple this is a list of some of the things I simply do not like for various reasons.
If you have questions as to why I don’t like anything in this list below, please feel free to comment below or even tag me on Mastodon and ask. I’ll be more than happy to explain.
- Mangos
- Words/Phrases such as: no cap, bruh, bruv, simp
- Licorice
- People who think they know it all and truly don’t
- Politics
- Religion
- Fake flavorings such as pineapple, watermelon and others
- Did I mention politics and religion
- Heat, which is anything above 50F/10C
- Majority of people in various ways
- People who aren’t open-minded or have tunnel-vision
- AR/VR related products
- All of this AI stuff we’re hearing each and everyday
- Anime, anime, anime
- Cleaning up after other people
The list above is just a few of the things I don’t like. I’m sure there are many other that I could have listed, but in today’s world, you have to be careful what you say because people get offended too damn easily over simple things, even if it’s not intended or related to them. Which explains the item on the list above, “majority of people in various ways.”
Feel free to reach out to me via my main Mastodon account here: Cliff on Mastodon and if you want to follow the sites account via Mastodon directly, then enter the following information into your Mastodon search bar: @Cliff and then click Follow.
https://www.seerofsouls.com/things-that-i-simply-do-not-like/
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Inspired by the NOPE post made by Jcrabapple this is a list of some of the things I simply do not like for various reasons.
If you have questions as to why I don’t like anything in this list below, please feel free to comment below or even tag me on Mastodon and ask. I’ll be more than happy to explain.
- Mangos
- Words/Phrases such as: no cap, bruh, bruv, simp
- Licorice
- People who think they know it all and truly don’t
- Politics
- Religion
- Fake flavorings such as pineapple, watermelon and others
- Did I mention politics and religion
- Heat, which is anything above 50F/10C
- Majority of people in various ways
- People who aren’t open-minded or have tunnel-vision
- AR/VR related products
- All of this AI stuff we’re hearing each and everyday
- Anime, anime, anime
- Cleaning up after other people
The list above is just a few of the things I don’t like. I’m sure there are many other that I could have listed, but in today’s world, you have to be careful what you say because people get offended too damn easily over simple things, even if it’s not intended or related to them. Which explains the item on the list above, “majority of people in various ways.”
Feel free to reach out to me via my main Mastodon account here: Cliff on Mastodon and if you want to follow the sites account via Mastodon directly, then enter the following information into your Mastodon search bar:
@[email protected]Once you enter the information above, then you should be able to click it and follow the site account on Mastodon. That account will auto post all articles published to this site.
https://www.seerofsouls.com/things-that-i-simply-do-not-like/
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Inspired by the NOPE post made by Jcrabapple this is a list of some of the things I simply do not like for various reasons.
If you have questions as to why I don’t like anything in this list below, please feel free to comment below or even tag me on Mastodon and ask. I’ll be more than happy to explain.
- Mangos
- Words/Phrases such as: no cap, bruh, bruv, simp
- Licorice
- People who think they know it all and truly don’t
- Politics
- Religion
- Fake flavorings such as pineapple, watermelon and others
- Did I mention politics and religion
- Heat, which is anything above 50F/10C
- Majority of people in various ways
- People who aren’t open-minded or have tunnel-vision
- AR/VR related products
- All of this AI stuff we’re hearing each and everyday
- Anime, anime, anime
- Cleaning up after other people
The list above is just a few of the things I don’t like. I’m sure there are many other that I could have listed, but in today’s world, you have to be careful what you say because people get offended too damn easily over simple things, even if it’s not intended or related to them. Which explains the item on the list above, “majority of people in various ways.”
Feel free to reach out to me via my main Mastodon account here: Cliff on Mastodon and if you want to follow the sites account via Mastodon directly, then enter the following information into your Mastodon search bar:
@[email protected]Once you enter the information above, then you should be able to click it and follow the site account on Mastodon. That account will auto post all articles published to this site.
https://www.seerofsouls.com/things-that-i-simply-do-not-like/
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We Should Look at Computing Tech like Music Tech
https://blog.allthingstech.social/we-should-look-at-computing-tech-like-music-tech/
#AllThingsTech #Music #RandomMusings #Smartphones #Tablets #Technology
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We Should Look at Computing Tech like Music Tech
https://blog.allthingstech.social/we-should-look-at-computing-tech-like-music-tech/
#AllThingsTech #Music #RandomMusings #Smartphones #Tablets #Technology
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We Should Look at Computing Tech like Music Tech
https://blog.allthingstech.social/we-should-look-at-computing-tech-like-music-tech/
#AllThingsTech #Music #RandomMusings #Smartphones #Tablets #Technology
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Quick Meals for Busy Techs
https://blog.allthingstech.social/quick-meals-for-busy-techs/
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Quick Meals for Busy Techs
https://blog.allthingstech.social/quick-meals-for-busy-techs/
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Quick Meals for Busy Techs
https://blog.allthingstech.social/quick-meals-for-busy-techs/
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Hello, World!
https://blog.allthingstech.social/hello-world/
#AllThingsTech #Apple #Design #Introduction #Music #RandomMusings #Technology
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Hello, World!
https://blog.allthingstech.social/hello-world/
#AllThingsTech #Apple #Design #Introduction #Music #RandomMusings #Technology