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

ugh

no thank you

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/vibe-coding-s-rise-in-software-.OYRvZGhSlGYIqjRND04fA#beb9a774-2991-4935-94b0-d6c2af1aeadd

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

@Gargron I had seen it, but mostly ignored it as 1:1 didn't mean anything to me. But when I care, I would right click and open in new tab. 😆 I guess I'll try using the 1:1 button now instead.

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whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

so i was looking at the git menu in vscode and went "hm. clone it branch it break it fork it ... someone must have done this"

please enjoy this git version of daft punk - technologic that i found somewhere on the web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glb88Sv9xpo

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

This performance from Descartes A Kant on KEXP is a lot of fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88An9-G25Ts

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'm a bit curious how other people engage with photography and art on #Mastodon. Do you typically click the 1:1 button on the media modal and admire pictures in full resolution?

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

You could readily recreate the idea today with email. If you're willing to sacrifice audio fidelity, attachment limits might not even be a concern.

Of course, these days, people are gonna ask, "Where's the app?" etc...

Anyway, reminds me of the sorts of things Lori Emerson talks about under the rubric of "Other Networks"

https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson

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

James Gurney posted an old tape recording he made back in '85. Apparently he had a network of friends that would exchange tapes with each other. Little audio letters. It's like podcasting before the internet. I'm not recommending you listen to it unless his description piques your interest, but I just think it is a fun idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8Z9pLY3nw

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regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

this video is very cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTyOl1fmDo

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

“China has targeted corn farmers and carmakers. Canada has put tariffs on poultry plants and air-conditioning manufacturers, while Europe will hit American steel mills and slaughter houses.

The retaliatory tariffs are … carefully designed to hit Mr. Trump where it hurts: Nearly 8 million Americans work in industries targeted by the levies and the majority are Trump voters, a New York Times analysis shows.”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/business/economy/tariffs-trump-maps-voters.html

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

this whole piece feels like softballing the interview… I feel sold out by my Senators, and have no interest in hearing one of them hawking their book instead of confronting what they have done to the rule of law by handing Trump a “yes” on this spend-it-however-you-want appropriation bill.

Schumer’s vote supports one who would be King, and I am a Citizen of a Republic not a Subject of a Sovereign.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/magazine/chuck-schumer-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

these stories do not indicate a calm financial future for the working folk of the US

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/business/stock-market-investments-retirement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Today's hummus

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firman@mstdn.social ("Michael Firman") wrote:

Kim Kitsuragi

#discoelysium #gaming #fanart

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mcleem@mastodon.art wrote:

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2557866
#Art #Animation #P5JS #Processing #generativeart #creativecoding

Attachments:

• gifv: Animation programmée en P5JS

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

If Watergate happened today, it would just be Saturday and forgotten the next week.

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robertpi@functional.cafe ("Robert Pickering") wrote:

Seems freshly pained.

#Art #StreetArt #Paris

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I've spent several hours building a relatively simple "text field with fuzzy suggestions/completions" Web Component, and I'll never badmouth the bad DevEx from any JS library ever agian.

That stuff is still really rough :(

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

A little excerpt of an interview with Laurie Spiegel (early pioneer in electronic music):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLd1RUDmX6w

Looks like there's a couple of more on their channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@WaveshaperMedia/videos

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loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

the more I think about it, the more I think it'd be an effective push against everything despicable that's unfolding right now if we all got back to some basics like using cash, using the postal system, listening to the radio...and more. And I'm not saying this out of a desire to do something cute and fun but instead as a reminder that we can recover some things from the past out of a spirit of remembering their usefulness #othernetworks

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

I was in a panic. Everything I owned was in that car—now driving away, leaving me panting on the roadside, chase aborted. Casting around for aid I see…a phone booth. Yes we still have them in this country, when they went obsolete we made calls free and added free wifi hotspots because we live in a society not an economy. Anyway, I lifted the reciver and…what? Dial triple-zero for the police and tell them that my illegal autonomous vehicle just broke up with me and ran away to join the resistance? Or I could call, who? I don’t memorize phone numbers, that's what my phone (ex-phone, charging in my ex-car) was for. I mean sure I can still remember the landline number that my late parents had when i was twelve but…what…maybe somebody else has that number. Boop Beep Squonk etc Brrrt Brrrt Brrrt “Hello Alexander household who’s calling please?”

“Muh…MUM!?”

“Jan, is that you? Whats the matter darling?”

“Mum I need help”

“Where are you sweetie, you know I will always come get you. Thats why I sew a coin into all your clothes”

I hadn't needed the coin today, even if I’d had one, but…”Thanks, this is going to sound weird but, can you grab my old wallet in my desk drawer and bring it to the phone booth outside the convenience store on Figtree? I wont be there but can you hide it on the ledge up near the roof of the booth?”

“Okay…are you in danger? Do you need a posse?”

“It’ll be all right Mum, I cant explain right now”. I reach up into the dark ledge at the top of the booth and retrieve a dusty cobwebbed wallet. Theres a car key and an old paper twenty inside. “Everything is going to be fine”

“All right luv, I’m on my way”

“Thanks. And Mum…”

“Yes?”

“It’s good to hear your voice. I love you.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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

foolish:

“Boasberg verbally ordered the planes be turned around, but they apparently were not and he did not include the directive in his written order.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Someone reminded me today 9 years ago I submitted my first post on Mastodon—using curl on the command line, since there was no interface at the time. That's how the journey began! 9 years is a long time to be doing something. Those early years are still fresh in my mind though.

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osiris_0x7A4@mastodon.nl ("Atreides") wrote:

This is how it should be:

Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."

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• video: 91536b219a5f30fd.mp4

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Garry Tan says a quarter of this year's Y Combinator startups are letting AI write 95% of their code, which he calls "vibe coding," because of course he does.

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

why not indeed, @CARROT

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• video: 4950c5d80a80bc7e.mp4

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A couple more shots from Paris.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7, yellow filter
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Montmartre #Paris

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Whenever the world gets to be too much I will put on a marathon of "How It's Made" and honestly it's just so therapeutic

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GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io ("Grant Me Strength") wrote:

Got a new Mac. It’s a Pico Micro Mac from @ronscompvids@bird.makeup @RonsCompVids@bitbang.social

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

Wormhead will demand it be raw

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• video: 0013ab7679110d72.mp4

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

Lots of nerding out and photos about it here too:

http://retropc.net/ohishi/museum/ratecaputer.htm

Edited to ad: Also a bit of a teardown and some schematics too.