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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bourgwick@heads.social ("jesse jarnow") wrote:

i only knew hamish casually in his later nyc years but think of him often. have a very fond memory of sharing a blissed subway ride after neil young at the garden (2012, i think) & grasping that the clean were punks but that they were also *heads*, the new zealand '70s/'80s psychedelic weirdo front.

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

the framing on this garden test image works better for me

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

Judged exclusively by the number of flyers through the post filled with *ad hominem* against him, gotta believe Saikat Chakrabarti's politics have to be pretty cool.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

5V 5A 5KP

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

there is an aquatic feel to this, color is weird to work with

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

tulips

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

it is not quite framed right, but I'm starting to remember things again

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

morning light can be dramatic

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

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

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Aaron@front-end.social ("Aaron Gustafson") wrote:

New #WebComponent: Show users which validation requirements they’ve met — as they type. https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/visual-validation-feedback-for-form-fields/

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

with the iris open a bit more, I think it becomes a little less interesting... but that may by old b&w thinking, what do you think?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

and the positives are: i'm alive

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

I think I may like this one a little better (playing with F-stops)

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

starting to try to figure out how to do color snaps... reusing my old F-mount lenses (from back when I used to do B&W film with a Nikon FM body) on a digital body (a slightly-less-old Nikon D40) with less resolution than my iPhone. but still, it is fine for learning. I've never done color before...

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

An antique watch, restored.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/02/ive-been-shirking-today/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy6Jz9GwIQw

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Blender ("Blender 🔶") wrote:

The recent announcement about Anthropic joining the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron member has raised concerns from the community around how we engage with AI topics.

This is how we plan to address the issue: https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/

#b3d #DevFund

jwz wrote:

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case: She seems to have argued at trial that she had no intent to harm anyone, and had only released the bees so they could "enjoy the lovely, flowering landscape" in the area. The landscape was also infested with deputies, though, and the jury does not seem to have believed that was a coincidence...
https://jwz.org/b/yk60

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i noticed all this stuff was documented incredibly badly on the internet, so i tried to document it and i try to comment on pext/pdep implementations whenever i see them.

unfortunately, this has yet to yield any positive results. last time i tried to comment on the iso c++ committee's PR and got told to fuck off.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

I am a #smolweb advocate and, sometimes, I use LLMs.

I spend a lot of time thinking about simplicity. Fewer dependencies, lighter
pages, tools that do one thing well. So yes, it might look strange that I also
spend time talking to large language models. Let me explain where I draw the
line, and why I think the contradiction is smaller than it appears...

In this blog post

#ai #llm

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

what could someone who does not contribute to zig know about pext and pdep after all? it's not like any autistic nerd would ever know more about real world pext and pdep performance than the zig developers 😬

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

oh, i can't actually tell someone about the gotcha to avoid on a pr in the zig repository because i'm not a zig contributor.

maybe i will not adopt zig actually.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
blouie.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Blouie the Blue Heeler @NFC") wrote:

When you get caught twice for #Fursuitfriday: First by best friend kitty @kianga.eu@bsky.brid.gy, then by fisher wuff @livi-wusky.de@bsky.brid.gyWill 100000% let myself get caught again 😁#furry #fursuit #shenanigans🧭 Fursuit walk Ulm, organized by @ulmer-furs.de@bsky.brid.gy

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"") wrote:

“The irony of being forced to dumb down an essay about a story warning against the forced suppression of excellence was not lost on me. Or on my kid, who spent a frustrating afternoon removing words and testing sentences one at a time, trying to figure out what invisible tripwire the algorithm had set. The lesson the kid absorbed was clear: write less creatively, use simpler vocabulary, and don’t sound too good, because sounding good is now suspicious.
At the time, I worried this was going to become a much bigger problem. That the fear of AI “cheating” would create a culture that actively punished good writing and pushed students toward mediocrity. I was hoping I’d be wrong about that.
Turns out… I was not wrong.”
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cyanocophotos wrote:

Brum Furs Attendees! 20.01.2024
#furry #furryfandom #furryphotography #fursuitphotography #fursuit

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

congrats to the canonical folks who have been trying to recover from this, looks like things are almost back and it sounds like the process has been brutal https://status.canonical.com

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

megametres of mercury

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
svenarcticfox@furry.engineer ("Sven the Arctic Fox") wrote:

@soatok I think a better approach would be to replace the C-Suite with a Fisher Price tape recorder filled with a bunch of bad ideas and pro labor activities. This would be much more environmentally friendly.

jwz wrote:

Fake Courtesy Machine.

Amadeo Capelli:

▶︎
https://jwz.org/b/yk6y

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

the latest trick to bypass LLM restrictions is checks notes gayness.

this isn't even a shitpost.