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

he has a special treat lined up for july 14th apparently. microsoft already threatened to sue him, so i imagine he'll be making it count.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I was thinking while cycling: Perhaps a structured course could help with this. Something providing enough accountability (read: deadlines) to convince my ADHD self to do shit while being small-scope enough to only need to set aside a couple of hours a week. I think getting consistency/good habits is key to getting this to stick.

Suggestions welcome, paid or free (although probably not hundreds of pounds unless I can convince someone else to pay).

Or as @wizbean suggested, a group of people where I help out with a small part of a game project rather than a full project. (I have dabbled in non-game C++, Godot and Lua Love). I won't be able to help out more than a couple of hour a week but I'd like to develop skills (and offer my contributions in return)

#gamedevelopment #gamedev

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

not to put too fine a point on it, but...

what the fuck did they think would happen?

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

i must be terribly confused because i could have sworn that the researcher who's been giving microsoft a lot of grief said they refused to talk to him and even cut off his github account.

but obviously they wouldn't be that self-defeating, surely?

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effika wrote:

Another baby praying mantis! #insects

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

re: email subject you've never seen

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bgcarlisle@blog.bgcarlisle.com ("The Grey Literature") wrote:

An open letter against the National AI Strategy

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2026/06/03/an-open-letter-against-the-national-ai-strategy/

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artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

But seriously: "better quality" art supplies will give you a more consistent result & allow you to refine your artworks in a way that may not be possible with cheaper or improvised art supplies, but not having them should never stop you & should certainly never cause you shame.

I make art out of everything now because I can't think of a reason not to.

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artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

Looks like I forgot to post these ones when I finished them!

#MakingArt

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artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

Some of my latest works I'm proud of. The watercolors (second image) were painted while sitting with Spouse in the little corner of our garage we cleared out so we could spend more time outside(ish).

#MakingArt

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

Not even a parody, 100% accurate

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJeYmitE

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJeYmitE

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I keep on going to myself "I want to make a game" but let's face it that is not a thing that will happen by itself. Especially as I want to Make A Game rather than Get A Game Made.

Something is holding me back and I'm not sure what. I guess it feels like an indulgence when I am in the midst of the worst jobs market I have seen in my adult life? And it's got a fairly steep learning curve to boot, although it definitely wasn't too steep for teenage me with simpler tools somehow :neocat_sweat:​.

At the moment I don't have great ideas for games to be made, when I was younger the inspiration would come from ideas I picked up in school (e.g. physics or maths concepts) or were basically clones of existing game concepts (adapted to the needs of the platform I was making it for). I do have a book on maze generation so using that as a starting point is tempting, but again, indulgence, mental block.

This is mostly a vent but I am open to advice.

#gamedevelopment #gamedev

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Yes, I know, I'd like to improve society somewhat and yet I participate in society, etc.

I think this is my LLM complaint post of the week. So I'll attempt to refrain for the rest of the week.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

It's appalling all the ethical concerns that must be put aside as long as you pass through a level of indirection involving three little letters: LLM.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Here's a public announcement for #opensource maintainers!

I consider highlight.js[1] and ijson[2] to be my most successful projects. Not because of the reach they achieved, but because when I got tired of maintaining them I immediately handed them off to people who were the most active contributors at the time.

Quitting and handing off is a normal thing you do with your project.

[1]: https://highlightjs.org/
[2]: https://pypi.org/project/ijson/

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I wonder if "I am not using LLMs for ethical reasons" could be a protected belief under the equality act so that companies can't just fire/not hire someone for not using the lying environmentally trash slop machine.

I mean, transphobia is a protected belief in the UK... and I feel like not using LLMs is a much more principled stand

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

This is the kind of artwork I mostly did to use my paints again (which had been sitting, unused, for half a year).

I have an actual watercolour animal tutorial book and a halfway-finished elephant pic, but the halfway-finished part means picking up a new technique (dry brush)

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kplx ("Kplx") wrote:

Splatters

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

To break up the doom here's a #watercolour

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

If NBC or ABC had the nerve (they don’t) this would be an excellent time to announce their first hires for a brand new investigative news magazine on Sunday nights

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alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

Leftists don’t hate technology, actually...

Attachments:

• video: [video description] Alex, a brown trans woman with short brown curly hair, is seated on a pink sofa chair, with a tuxedo cat-shaped pillow next to her and a colorful bookshelf behind her. She is wearing white sweater with a pattern of small blue hearts, and grey patterned pants.

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

Adding video to podcasts means the audience now knows that you don't know how to use your mid-range kit where before they could have just assumed the sound was because you were working with limited resources, which is entirely valid.

If your budget won't stretch beyond a cheap €15 Boya M1 lavalier or even a headset mic, that's fine. Focus on the interviews, writing, and editing instead.

But if you're doing video, at least make sure to read the manuals for your kit.

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toast@donotsta.re ("(eval 'Toast)") wrote:

I want smaller programs with fewer features that take longer to write by people who are happier to do so and I’m not kidding

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I went to a cafe, I slowly worked through bits of the business plan.

Someone showed me a promising job posting on the NHS. I might apply. They are also notably not asking for AI or a super specific technical stack

As a result I'm feeling a bit better

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thalia@discuss.systems ("Thalia Archibald") wrote:

Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc.! I've been brought on as one of the inaugural members of the new non-profit behind TUHS, with the goal being to ensure a long succession plan and manage our monetary and archival assets.

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-June/033926.html

#unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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JimsPhotos@ohai.social ("Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos") wrote:

For those in the UK, you have the chance to vote on 1 from each of the 3 categories of animal that will be adorning our bank notes in the coming future. I don't use cash, but it will be cool to have animals on our notes all the same. Just like Costa Rica does.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes

#birds #nature #banknotes

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

someone is currently trying to impersonate me on tech-contracting-platforms..

... using my deadname? that's almost impressive if that's deliberate?

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Andrew Tridgell (aka Tridge) has apparently[1] commented on his motivations and approach to rsync maintenance.

https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

[1] I say apparently because I can't independently confirm he is the author of that post on Medium. Though it seems likely.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

I love how github can start charging for copilot and suddenly they're not down every day. Huh. It's almost like product designs have consequences.

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

The de facto ban on new DJI products in the US might help them a bit there but not in the rest of the world. For non-US videographers the DJI Osmo 4 is both a bit cheaper and ergonomically more suited to the use cases that need that image quality.