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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I just donated to @freedomofpress to help protect journalists, whistleblowers, and our right to know. You can too: https://freedom.press/donate

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

https://drawfast.tldraw.com/ is really fun and pretty fascinating - it gives you real-time editing of a Stable Diffusion image guided by a prompt and your sketch

Here's my attempt at a pelican in a fancy hat

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• On the left, a sketching box and the prompt "watercolor of a pelican". As I roughly sketch an image of a pelican starts to appear on the right, adjusting to my edits. Then I change the prompt to add "in a fancy hat" and sketch out a smart little hat. (remote)

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hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("hannah (not scary)") wrote:

It's funny that they told me not to trust wikipedia in high school when at this point it's the only link in the first page of google results that was written by humans intending to convey information

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fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:

A: TypeScript is a type-annotated dialect of JavaScript

B: Awesome! Oh that is so good and has long been needed. How do I get it?

A: npm

B: It's too bad nobody has invented a typed JS. That'd be so handy

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Hopeful we'll see some snow today.... https://botsin.space/@choochoobot/111489394375845122

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choochoobot@botsin.space ("trains botting") wrote:

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I have been clicking "unsubscribe" on all the unsolicited marketing email that has come my way and I don't know if it's working but I feel POWERFUL

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I first saw that film in fifth grade at school using the latest technology of VHS. Actually, it might've been a Betamax? Anyway, whatever, that scene was like a punch in the gut, and the wolf was terrifying, and I'll never forget the Rockbiter's line, "They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they?"

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHytjEj7B9g

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TFW you realize you are both Atreyu and Artax in the Swamps of Sadness.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

Not me being nerd-sniped by a bug that was of very minor importance to our client if anything. Nope, couldn't be me.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I've gotten into the habit of writing most of my command line tools to require an argument even if the argument doesn't do anything. Especially for anything potentially destructive. That way, if you just type the command with no arguments, you will get some help telling you what the command does and why'd you run it without causing any harm. A lot of my placeholder arguments are just "go".

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:

I’ve started to notice that there is a very particular brand of tech influencer that almost exclusively conflates the technical merit of a thing with its money-making ability.

But the most efficient technical solution may not be the solution that makes the most money.

e.g. Fast builds are lost revenue for companies that charge for build time (aka the Jamstack paradox)

…and now I can’t unsee it.

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sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

@zachleat I heard a joke once about the money trickling down. But 99% of people didn't get it.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

That feeling when you take the State of JS survey mostly to see what bad ideas are in the running for this year’s popularity contest.

(Popularity contests are an extremely bad foundation for feature prioritisation. That browser vendors use this in any way for their decision-making should horrify you.)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

The more I learn about Dream Daddy the more I feel vindicated in staying away because the whiff of irony coming from it was too strong. Not even written by gay men!

I don't want to discourage straight people from including gay stuff in their work, but if the gay romance you're making is 1. completely standalone and 2. completely a funny little novelty, or your treatise on the frivolousness of romance media, maybe take a moment to reflect on your motivations.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I can't believe I signed up for this.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/28/oh-god-no/

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• "Does god exist" debate announcement (remote)

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danilop@awscommunity.social ("Danilo Poccia") wrote:

Announcing general availability of the AWS SDK for Rust 👉 The SDK supports modern Rust language features like async/await, non-blocking IO, and builders, and it provides access to 300+ AWS Services, each with their own crate https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-general-availability-of-the-aws-sdk-for-rust/ #AWS #SDK #Rust

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

These long haired hippies must be expelled from the church!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/28/its-been-a-long-time-since-i-heard-that-complaint/

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• Jesus (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The Washington Post Editorial Board makes a false equivalence: Feminism is like Andrew Tate. You just have to compromise on the views of the person you marry.

Fuck that.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/28/whatever-happened-to-compatibility-and-love/

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• Andrew Tate in a garbage can (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

good morning fediverse :cofepats:​

somehow during the chaos of last week's USian festivities I missed this announcement: Microsoft is moving ThreadX, the real-time operating system they bought for Azure, into the Eclipse Foundation as a fully open source RTOS: https://threadx.io/

(why care? ThreadX is what boots your Raspberries Pi, among other things...)

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Sports Illustrated was once a trustworthy source of information. It is no longer anything close to that, as this revelation of AI sleaziness makes clear:

https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

Like, I really don't get why so many of you are so eager to have statistical models write code for you.

I've been arguing for literally my whole career that the actual writing isn't the hard part of software development. But wow, did everyone take that in the wrong direction recently.

Understanding the system is the hard and valuable part. And I genuinely don't know how you think you're going to do that if you never get to do any of the safe and easy interactions with the system.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

i have to admit, it got me with this one

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• chatGPT convo where I asked it to make ASCII art that looks like the output of "cowsay" but with a train instead of a cow, and its response which is just normal cowsay (i.e. an ascii cow) saying "I'm a train, chugga!" (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The size of the feature gap that Apple created and defended between native and web on mobile is galactic in scale. Was just showing someone the incredibly half-assed Notifications impl Cupertino did for web, and it's not even a box-checking exercise. We waited 8 years for *this*? An insult, and they still won't allow other browsers to pick up the slack.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Higurashi out of context

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• Screencap of Higurashi Rei: Saikoroshi. Background is a Japanese-style room. The text box reads, "My mother laughed like it tickled, but contrary to what she thought, I was carefully checking if I needed to kill her."

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I guess the BBC doesn't mind libeling spiders…but still, this is outrageously ridiculous & lacking even the slightest fact checking.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/27/total-rubbish-from-the-bbc/

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• Wolf spider with egg sac (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

does anybody have favorite examples of personal home pages? please send me links! and if that's yours, send me yours!

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Okay, you asked, so let's do this: today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I talk about OpenAI's boardroom brawl -- and board governance more generally. Join us at the top of the hour!

https://discord.gg/pt2dxZWr?event=1178851422184419329

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

This account has kinda regressed to being the place where I talk about story games because it has a high character limit and the ability to use content warnings to label spoilers