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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I recently read someone refer to so-called AI as a "plausible sentence generator," and yes, if what you're trained on is dudes on the Internet doubling down on indefensible positions, that's very plausible indeed.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The really hilarious thing about modern "AI" is that while it's usually successful, everywhere it fails, it turns into a mansplaining generator that plummets in a vainglorious blaze, insisting that something ridiculous like "America has 127 states"
Apparently all the data it was trained on (the Internet) taught it that when you're wrong, you should immediately double down. It reads like an episode of "I Think You Should Leave."
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The #Heilung show was incredible. It wasn’t as much music as it was an experience. #ArcTanGent
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Watched And So I Watch You From Afar from up close and it was pretty awesome. Shout out to the plush shark in the front #ArcTanGent
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm home from the exotic pet fair. I acquired a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens! And a Northern Black Widow! They're young juveniles, now I just have to fatten them up.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seems like a night for playing The Rolling Stones
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VPS_Reports@kolektiva.social ("Vishal P. Singh 🏳️⚧️ They/He") wrote:
It. Was. Not. A. Dispute.
It. Was. A. Murder.
A. Terrorist. Attack.
A. Hate. Crime.
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marcelias@mas.to ("Marc Elias") wrote:
I created Democracy Docket to be the leading progressive source for information, analysis and opinion about voting rights, elections and democracy.
Subscribe now for free. https://democracydocket.com/me-subscribe/
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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:
Easter egg: Do a Google search for chicxulub.
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ZaneSelvans@social.coop ("Zane Selvans") wrote:
I knew Taylor Swift had done some amazing negotiating with the record labels to retain ownership of her master recordings, and created new masters of her older catalog to undercut the power of her former label, but I didn't realize she also forced her new label, UMG, to agree to distribute the proceeds of its eventual sale of billions of dollars worth of Spotify stock to *all* of its artists without counting those revenues against their recording debts. From Chokepoint Capitalism / @pluralistic
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
(Point of clarification: I don't actually know where that linting rule comes from, but it's probably eslint. It might not actually have anything to do with Tailwind. Not sure.)
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
OK it's definitely worthwhile to install the higurashi fan patch that brings the presentation on PC up to what it was on the PS3 version. Being able to play at 1920x1080 makes playing this in windowed mode a lot more feasible on a 4k monitor.
It also adds some voice acting and fancier backgrounds, but I don't care as much about that.
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ashleymcnamara ("Ashley Willis (McNamara)") wrote:
I'm truly heartbroken. Life is full of distractions, but don't let them stop you from telling the people you love how much they mean to you. 💔
https://nivenly.org/blog/2023/08/19/an-announcement-regarding-kris-nóva/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The new inquiry, led by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, appears to be focused at least in part on the possibility that either the senator or his wife received undisclosed gifts from a company run by a friend of Ms. Menendez, and that those gifts might have been given in exchange for political favors, according to two people with knowledge of the matter and subpoenas issued in the case.”
gold bullion?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
@jsonstein @samlitzinger Then why the hell do I pay to receive this government speech? Shouldn’t propaganda be free? Don’t these schools have charters?
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shanselman@hachyderm.io ("Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮") wrote:
RIP Kris Nóva. I had her on the show and was blessed to spend time with her just a few months ago. She was a genius and made things better. https://youtu.be/nJSxRqJ2kgQ?si=3ei04Z3MmJan3XsC life is short. Focus on your friends and family and your health. Everything is fleeting.
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emilygorcenski@indieweb.social wrote:
Oh. Oh no. This is heartbreaking. What a loss for the entire community. My thoughts go out to her family and loved ones.
https://nivenly.org/blog/2023/08/19/an-announcement-regarding-kris-n%C3%B3va/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The year is Anno Domini MMXXIII.
The Paper of Record produces news, but wraps it in megabytes of JavaScript to keep the poors from becoming incidentally informed.
What cover story is floated?
In part, that it is necessary, in browsers with pervasive support for Web Crypto[1], to include a userland SHA-256 hashing routine.
In truly dark ages, such barbarism is considered normal.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
The Future of Native HTML Templating and Data Binding
> One of the longest running requests of the Web Platform is the ability to have native templating and data binding features directly in HTML. For at least two decades innovative developers have been building libraries and frameworks to make up for this platform limitation. In this article, I’d like to take some time to share... #tag #w3c #webdev
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anji ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:
DJ Shadow - Ozone Scraper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=serlaBxtHSQ
I like 4:3
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jonathanf@toot.thoughtworks.com ("Jonathan Fernández") wrote:
In Spain we call the fascists 'fachas'.
Today Guillermo Fesser (journalist) gave a perfect explanation in a tweet (post?) of our concept of 'facha':
The fachas are called fachas for being classist with their compatriots, racist with immigrants, arrogant with foreigners, sexist with women, thieves with the public treasury, liars with the history of the Franco dictatorship and greedy with their employees.
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APoD@botsin.space ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:
A Roll Cloud Over Wisconsin
Credit: Megan Hanrahan (Pierre cb), Wikipedia
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
not a happy anniversay:
‘On Aug 20, 1619: Traffickers Bring First Enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Virginia… the first enslaved Africans were brought in the Virginia colony at Point Comfort on the James River on August 20, 1619. It was reported that “20 and odd Negroes” from the White Lion, an English ship, were sold in exchange for food; the remaining Africans were transported to Jamestown and sold into slavery… Spanish records suggest they were captured in Angola, then a Portuguese colony… [then] stolen by two English ships, the White Lion and the Treasurer. Once in Virginia, the enslaved Africans were dispersed throughout the colony.’
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matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:
My spicy #Rust take for the day: The standard library's unstable panic_immediate_abort feature should be the default. Don't bloat all our binaries with a primitive debugger. When I want a debugger, I'll use a debugger. But my users (for my application projects), and my users' users (for my library projects), get no benefit from the default code that prints stack traces, while the cost is 100-300K per binary depending on platform.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Anyway, sorry, I'm griping about this a lot lately. Maybe I just need to blog it out.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
This is, of course, to say nothing of how Tailwind itself falls behind current browser standards.
Currently, there's no way to use any of the newer versions of `vh` or `vw` in Tailwind. Or, for that matter, the `:has` selector.
It also irks me (while we're near the subject) that Tailwind's linter barks at you if you try to use browser fallbacks. Like, if I try to use `h-screen` (100vh) and then add `h-[100dvh]`, the linter argues that I'm being redundant. But I'm not; I'm covering my bases.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
This week I learned the same class name might mean different things in different versions of Tailwind. (e.g., `outline-white` in v3 does what you'd expect, and sets the outline color to white. It *used* to set more properties in older versions, however.)
I *also* learned many projects don't use Tailwind directly; they use `twind` or another layer.
So depending on how you're pulling Tailwind into your project, you have 1–2 extra layers of upkeep that can slide out of date/do unexpected stuff.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I’d love to see your pictures of your Mastodon merch under #Merchtodon!
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hmtn@is.nota.live ("ijo Sijen") wrote:
big ergo doesn't want you to know
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alinanorakari@broken.graphics ("Alina 0xFF") wrote:
My new Linux laptop is pretty sweet
