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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

swithinbank@webtoo.ls ("Chris") wrote:

Wasted an hour of my life filtering out AI-generated slop submitted to the @astro showcase

Thank heavens for this life-improving technology 😒

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

well, the client rendering problems *seem* to have been solved [crossed fingers], but it is clear from watching the logs that it is processing requests one at a time rather than many in parallel ;^{

I'll figure that out in a day or two. for now, apparently reasonably formatted story & play ideas with reasonable content appropriate for children emerges from even badly worded, poorly spelled, and just plain weird requests… just not fast enough (yet)

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

On sale now! Happy house full of loving memories in the Pacific Northwest! Everyone should want to live there.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/31/yes-you-want-to-buy-a-house/

Attachments:

• My mother's kitchen (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

Billionaire Peter Thiel once wrote that “capitalist democracy” is an “oxymoron”, and as the years go by and my experience of the world continues to grow, I find myself in agreement with him.

Where we diverge is that he would resolve this incompatibility by sacrificing democracy, whereas I would go the other way.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I wrote about Bezos' op-ed and how it is sprinkled with conservatives treats.

Subscribe to my newsletter WetDreamTomato via email or RSS. If you don't like it, you can punch me in the face. That's a 💦😴🍅 guarantee.

https://buttondown.com/wetdreamtomato/archive/bezos-op-ed-is-an-appeal-to-conservatives/

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

denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

Happy Halloween!!! Show me your spooky art!

Here's Millicent, Restless Revenant I did for Magic: the Gathering.

Attachments:

• A ghostly armoured woman screams as she outstretches her arm towards the viewer while wield a longsword in the other. Behind her a swarm of ghosts charge. (remote)

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

vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Little goblin witch.

Happy Halloween!

#MastoArt #goblin #illustration

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• Drawing by Victoria Maderna of a goblin witch with a basket of worms and a big spoon. (remote)

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

And they did a performance for KEXP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgyfpn0H9_Q

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

tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

A horrifying cartoon for Halloween (originally for Guardian Books).

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• Halloween horror! Horrifying: 1. Floating skull 2. Evil fog 3.Slime fiend Utterly horrifying: 1. Floating skull who borrows books and never returns them. 2. Evil fog with some really awful opinions (it is saying we've got the internet so we don't need libraries") 3. Slime fiend who browses bookshops then buys online (remote)

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

garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

new essay

# Why I Love PouchDB

> Like the form of a sonnet, ethics demand and inspire cleverness. I write this essay because we need better tools than we have. The best tools we do have are either insufficient or captured or, realistically, both. PouchDB, to me, is the best option out there for solving a problem at the heart of what makes the internet suck at every level, and I hate that because it is not good enough. So here's why I love it.

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/why-i-love-pouchdb.html

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

Instead of screaming into The Void about uspol this morning, I will simply tell The Void that I stumbled across Ora the Molecule's "The Ball" in my music collection. Its mood is a perfect accompaniment to the dark, rainy morning I'm having over here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz89fSDkS1c

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

DoctorDeathray@retro.social ("Doctor Deathray") wrote:

Sometimes we feel unstable. Sometimes we feel like we're going to explode. Sometimes we have exploded.

I've caused a lot of damage in relationships over the years. Mania is a beast. But also, we are powerful.

That's what this song is about.

New single - "Back Away"

Happy Halloween!

https://doctordeathray.bandcamp.com/track/back-away

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

We all watched Game of Thrones for like four seasons, every Sunday, hoping *this* episode would *finally* be the one where Joffrey got what was coming to him. And honestly, that's what life in America has felt like for the last eight years.

Let's end the character arc of our real-life child tyrant shitweasel at the ballot box this week, eh?

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Monday’s Oxide and Friends was our 4th installment of book recommendations from me, @bcantrill, and the Oxide Friends. A big thank you to everyone who joined us live, and particularly to those who shared recommendations. https://youtu.be/FDPaPU5aRd0

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

I want to know which horror movie monster you most identify with. Here's mine:

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/31/what-horror-movie-monster-are-you/

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• Dwight Frye (remote)

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

wryl@merveilles.town ("(hallowryl)") wrote:

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that I'll be giving my first talk in a long, long while at Handmade Seattle this year, titled Democratizing Software.

We'll be covering the widespread, unanticipated effects of the software crisis, and talk both social and technical solutions to it.

We'll talk about how we, as an industry, have been pulling up the ladder behind us, and how to build new ladders for the curious.

Let's go flatten some mountains. See you there.

https://handmadecities.com/seattle/

⦶

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• A monochrome logo, featuring a stylized '⦶' character. (remote)

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

If you've ever needed to spin up resources outside your rust process that you want to share _between_ tests via static bindings that need to be cleaned up and run into the "`drop` doesn't just work with static" problem ...

This concoction with ctor and channels might help:

https://github.com/lloydmeta/miniaturs/blob/d244760f5039a15450f5d4566ffe52d19d427771/server/src/test_utils/mod.rs#L12-L113

Credit goes to those who pointed out this pattern in the testcontainers-rs repo.

It does lean a bit more to the "chaotic good" side, if custom test harness is "lawful good" 🤣.

#rustlang

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I don't always adjust my slicer settings, but when I do, I prefer to use gyros infill and garlic supports.

#3dprinting

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

How to scare a spider on Hallowe'en.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/31/do-spiders-dream/

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

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

Reactors debating performance have the energy of boomer "car guys" that want to tell a working mechanic, in 2024, about how much better carburetors were.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

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• Photo of a Halloween bucket filled with cathode ray television static. A cardboard sign advises "one slurp of TV static per trick or treater" (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

(Me flirting) read any good blogs on the existential dread of being chronically online lately?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Realized that the piece of paper that separates the cheese made it into my sandwich and I didn't stop eating it right away

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devopscats@toot.cat wrote:

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• Word "SLOWER" added to to sign with marker: POLAR BEAR IS IN THE AREA!! USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN HEADED OUTSIDE!! GO WITH A CO-WORKER. (remote)

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

gleemie@social.coop ("Lilly Irani") wrote:

Princeton is up to it's 70% fall sale again. My book Chasing Innovation about what's wrong with #innovation in building towards social #justice is $10.50. Discount code: FALL70

I just bought Carl Frey's on Power and #Labor In the Age of #Automation myself!

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691175140/chasing-innovation

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Relative Activity & Testing Costs (gpt-4o vs gpt-4o-mini) October

gpt-4o

API Requests: 58
Tokens: 36,669
Dev Spend: $0.33 ($0.005689/Request)

gpt-4o-mini

API Requests: 258
Tokens: 172,037
Dev Spend: $0.09 ($0.000346/Request)

gpt-4o-mini used
~4.45 times the API Requests
&
~4.7 times the Tokens
but cost ~27% of using gpt-4o

TLDR:
about 6/10ths of 1 cent per w gpt-4o
&
about 4/100ths of 1 cent per w gpt-4o-mini
&
no noticeable degradation in story quality

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

My granddaughter gets to play a fun game at school.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/30/modern-education/

Attachments:

• active shooter drills! (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

fixed some service-side stuff, which of course broke some client-side stuff. mañana, I’ll fix what I broke mañana

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• 90d863e009644ef0.mp4 (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

As a comic, if you're invited to a room of powerful people, and your instinct isn't to speak truth to power, but rather punch down at a group of people who statistically aren't even in the room, you're a hack and a coward.

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

garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

i'm preparing to publish some new essays soon so here's a thread of some essays from the past few years that i'm kinda proud of