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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Yesterday was spent updating and maintaining the beetle farm that lives in my living room. That's what a living room is for, right?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/tenebriarium-142486327?utm%5Fmedium=clipboard%5Fcopy&utm%5Fsource=copyLink&utm%5Fcampaign=postshare%5Fcreator&utm%5Fcontent=join%5Flink

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

“Understanding what "I am not 'anti-AI'… I am pro-craft." means to me | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2025/10/30/understanding-what-i-am-not-anti-ai-i-am-pro-craft-means-to-me/

> Meanwhile, actual expertise continues to be devalued across the board. Intellectual curiosity that helps develop that expertise is steadily being devalued in favor of “productivity” hacks. And my absolute favorite, AI “solutions” to problems that were created by previous non-AI “solutions” that also didn’t understand the original problem they claimed to solve.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
VimLinks@hachyderm.io wrote:

Vim has always been charityware. Any money that was donated to the project went to ICCF Holand, an organization that helps marginalized children in Uganda.

Sadly, 2 years after Bram's passing, this charity will be dissolved. Future donations will be sent to a different charity called Kuwasha: https://groups.google.com/g/vim%5Fannounce/c/pUNbNXBLbKw

Bram's work over the years has done much good for disadvantaged communities. Whether you use Vim or Neovim, consider following their original creator's example in whatever way you can.

#vim #neovim

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

I missed it before, but the new #Affinity app includes an AI chatbot called Ritson.

There's also the last question on this FAQ: https://www.affinity.studio/help/canva-ai-canva-ai-affinity-ml/

"Can I disable AI in Affinity?

"No, you can't disable or remove AI features in Affinity, but it's your choice if you use them."

So, yeah… thanks, but no thanks.

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

Not a huge fan of the idea that the business model for some of the more complex productivity apps around—the Affinity suite—is now limited to “let me upsell you to ‘AI’”. I’m glad they haven’t discontinued them, but these apps are too important for people’s work for them to become some ‘AI’ vendor’s cost centre

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan Lawson") wrote:

"I Built the Same App 10 Times: Evaluating Frameworks for Mobile Performance" by Loren Stewart https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards

One of the best web perf analyses I've read in a long while. Can't say the results are surprising, but it's great to see it all laid out.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

So Affinity is now free but you pay for AI features?

And they are owned by Canva now?

This whole industry just running without viable income models and everyone is acting like it's fine?

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On Monday, @bcantrill and I revisited an Oxide and Friends tradition: Books in the Box! We--and live listeners--share recommendations--worth a listen if you're looking for your next read! https://youtu.be/jBduzUVORnk

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
MomentsInGraphics@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Christoph Peters") wrote:

Ray marching is a common approach to GPU-accelerated volume rendering, but gives biased transmittance estimates. My new #SIGGRAPHAsia paper (+code) proposes an amazingly simple formula to eliminate this bias almost completely without using more samples.
https://momentsingraphics.de/SiggraphAsia2025.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZLabe@fediscience.org ("Zack Labe") wrote:

Many important weather and climate data streams have gone silent as the U.S. government shutdown continues on.

As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

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

it is all downhill from here

https://ohai.social/@redsad/115465169355314751

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

If Prince Andrew used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

That wasn’t so difficult, was it?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gl33p ("Preston Austin") wrote:

do things that are weird, free, and kind

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metro.co.uk@web.brid.gy ("Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro") wrote:

‘King sends powerful message to all abuse survivors by stripping Andrew of titles’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/30/king-sends-powerful-message-to-all-abuse-survivors-by-stripping-andrew-of-titles-24575636/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

On Saturday, health insurance premiums are projected to double for millions of Americans and 42 million working families will lose the benefits that keep them fed.

This weekend, join the No Kings Alliance and millions of Americans, from rural farms to suburban neighborhoods to city centers, who are coming together to provide mutual aid and care for our communities. https://www.nokings.org/alliance

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

@orrickle the profile pic with you, the rat, and the cat portrait is absolutely delightful. 👍

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

watch all the way to the end https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQXLJxIEtV4/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

This was built in 1950, originally intended to be a dairy farm. No cow ever saw the inside of that barn because, apparently, they ran out of money.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay #concrete #barn #mountains

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Me, six months ago: "This is elegant, maintainable, future-proof code!"

Also me, today: "Who the hell wrote this shit?!"

It's funny how code apparently decomposes even though not a single byte has changed.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

I did a bit of a rambly video sharing my thoughts on #PeerTube turning 10 years old (sort of).

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/d3MRwLA3qX4baAckTwqpZo

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
mms@bsd.cafe ("God Emperor of Mastodon") wrote:

Which #esperanto course would the best for a n00b from Eastern Europe?

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
mfioretti_en ("M. Fioretti") wrote:

The dumbest thing anyone can do (including "expert communicators") is to publish anything first, or only, on ANY social media:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/famous-climate-scientist-proves-me

Blogging and RSS. Everything else will fade

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.91.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀

This version brings you tier 1 support for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, warnings for dangling pointers to locals, new methods on AtomicPtr, array::repeat, BTreeMap::extract_if, const TypeId::of, and more!

Check out the announcement: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/Rust-1.91.0/

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

AMONG OTHER THINGS

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

You who else should be stripped of his honorifics and booted out of his current residence because of his connections to a pedophile sex trafficker

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/king-charles-iii-will-evict-prince-andrew-from-21129514.php

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Happy 10th Birthday PeerTube!

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/d3MRwLA3qX4baAckTwqpZo

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

Once again arguing with myself over whether I should wait for the “better” MacBook Pro M5s in a few months, or whether an M5 MBP with 32G of RAM would be more than enough. (The Mac Studio has an M1 Max in it, which means it has over 2x the memory bandwidth of the M5—but how much does that matter?)

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🎮") wrote:

my Apple TV updated to liquid ass and the UI is insanely laggy, it's so bad 😭

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

Over on Whatever, I offer some thoughts on the new "Grokipedia," through the lens of the article it has up about... me.

(Spoiler, it's not great, for the reasons you probably suspect)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/