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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Somewhere, right now, a company is holding a meeting about reducing meetings.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

my current understanding is

1. make game

2. ???

3. profit

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
stevegis_ssg@mas.to ("Steve Gisselbrecht") wrote:

@jonny

Comin' in late, so sorry, I do actually sleep sometimes, but there's a species called Priapulus horridus. The whole dang phylum (the priapulids) is marine worms that feed by turning their heads inside out and then when they turn them back in anything stuck on the spiny outside is now in its throat. And so when the spiny throat is everted it's a little bulb on the end of a worm, and some scientist saw it and thought, "That looks like a horrible little penis," and so now the genus and species name is "horrible little penis" in Latin.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
schratze@todon.nl ("High Quality Tormented Soul") wrote:

@jonny when a hagfish is caught by a predator, it releases a strange fibrous slime that expands to 10000 times its original size within half a second. This slime clogs up the predator's gills, forcing them to let go of the hagfish to avoid suffocating.

The hagfish will then twist itself into a knot which travels from head to tail, removing the slime off its own body.

in 2017, a road accident in Oregon resulted in 3.4 metric tons of hagfish being spilled all over the highway and ended up blocking it with their slime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
enriquericos@mastoart.social ("Ricós") wrote:

@jonny haven't read it yet, but it's "plant gets attacked by caterpillars, calls wasps"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec3229

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
ProfundumPhoto@toot.community ("Gum on China’s Shoe") wrote:

@jonny This is my camera-trap photo of a brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii). Any male antechinus you see is less than 12 months old, because during breeding season they go into such a frenzy that, at the end of the season, all males die of exhaustion and total organ failure. If you see them mentioned in the media, you will generally see them described as “bonking themselves to death”. #CameraTrapping #CameraTrap #Australia #wildlife #WildlifePhotography

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The critters are amazing, but some of the sentences that are written or linked to from here are some of the least probable semantically correct sentences I have ever read. The space of normal language is being wedged and tentpoled open by the sheer diversity of life strategies on earth.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
Salmon@social.tchncs.de wrote:

@jonny
The caterpillars of the Uraba lugens moth keep their head exoskeleton when molting, so they grow a tall hat made of of their own previous skulls on their heads

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I go to sleep, I come back and there are like a million more. the amount of critters that you all know about is astonishing.

Boosted by jwz:
Arthfach@arthfach.com ("Arthfach 🐻") wrote:

@timbray @davidgerard Tridge literally shattered my workflow and made it so that I have to spend a substantial amount more time protecting my clients' data against threats and failures than I did before. This costs me real money and more stress, all because he decided he wanted to inject AI generated slop into a reliable, stable, well functioning program a ton of people use.

Why, exactly, should that action of his suddenly get protection and deference? It's not like - I would hope - you'd look at someone robbing me and go, "Eh mate, just shut up and give them your wallet; they've done good work in the past so that forgives future transgressions."

Edit: This is ignoring the wild mischaracterization you're levying against David and the commenters, but you were already called out for that.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

Current estimates set the total amount of money that has been spent on large-language models and adjacent generative AI at 1.4 trillion $ over the past four years. For the sake of simplicity let's cut that to 1 trillion $. With 1% of that money you could have paid 25000 FOSS maintainers 100k dollars per year each over the same time period. That probably covers most of the FOSS ecosystem and then some. And it's one percent. ONE FUCKING PERCENT.

2/4

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

thai green curry flavour pringles are NUTS.

i'm not surprised they ended up a euro a can at a local wtf shop

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
backupbear@aus.social ("Preston von Gabbleduck") wrote:

The existence of onomatopoeia implies the existence of offomatopoeia, words that sound distinctly unlike the sound they're describing.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
samir@functional.computer ("samir, esoteric combinator") wrote:

Perhaps we should take a leaf out of the watchmaker's book and start calling them "complications" instead of "features”.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

This, on the history of “Lorem Ipsum”, is the most charming micro-documentary I’ve seen in years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4

If you start watching it you’ve just subtracted 22 minutes from your work-day. Ssssh, I won’t tell.

#typography

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

as I ponder what last-minute things I need to order before a trip, I am finding myself slightly unnerved that there are only 2 brick and mortar nationwide consumer electronics retailers in the united states today (Best Buy, Apple), and all the "local" chains are either physical instantiations of PCPartPicker (MicroCenter, Central Computer) or places where 90% of their business is fixing cracked phone screens

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

In 2002 Chris Onstad published the only thing worth saying on the "generative AI" debate

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
vathpela@infosec.exchange ("Farce Majeure") wrote:

@glyph Torn between "If Looks Could Kill" as a Lifetime movie or "WHEN AESTHETICS ATTACK, next on Fox".

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Well I can definitely tell I am getting a lot better at geometry nodes

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:

Are you looking to hire an experienced embedded software engineer?

- 15 years experience (industrial and consumer electronics)
- Embedded security - 15mo for work, plus *years* as a hobby
- C, C++, Python and currently learning Rust
- ARM, MIPS, PIC, AVR experience plus x86
- Looking for UK remote or hybrid, or within commuting distance of Leeds via bike or public transport.

Boosts appreciated, CV available on request.

GH: https://www.github.com/philpem
WWW: https://philpem.me.uk

#GetFediHired

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Anyway I stopped drinking coffee a few years ago because I felt like it was too strong for my body so don't worry I fixed it

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I've been making iced tea where I put four teabags in a mason jar to brew it and then drink it all before I even realize it and then wonder if I should drink some more from another jar

Is this healthy? Am I getting the daily recommended amount of caffeine

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

really once again I cannot stress how much that catching on fire or burning out my devices' USB-C ports is a deal breaker

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

"Augh!" you scream, and the world screams "augh!!" back at you

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

by "good" I do not mean the most watts or the coolest looking design or the most featureful OLED display. I want a battery pack that will:

1. not catch fire
2. seriously not catch fire, listing it twice because that's the most important point
3. just going to say this once, but it's just as important: not cause >$3000 worth of damage and irreplacable data loss
4. charge a device
5. nice-to-haves but negotiable: QI2, enough power to charge a laptop a little bit

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

Biscit at Scotiacon 2026! 05.02.2026 - 09.02.2026
#furry #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #fursuit #scotiacon2026

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay so I have been procrastinating on getting a power bank for travel, and I was going to get That One Expensive Anker One That Everyone Seems To Like, but um, Anker has been *generally* having a terrible time of it <https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/More-than-One-Million-Anker-Power-Banks-Recalled-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards-Manufactured-by-Anker-Innovations>, and apparently this "new, good" one might melt your laptop? <https://youtu.be/tXPfbPckCN8> Can anyone point me at a *good* power bank?

jwz wrote:

It has come to my attention that I have not posted a bloody mary photo since before the world ended.
https://jwz.org/b/yk8J

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

It's the last 24 hours for this project, which features a long introduction from me as well as lots of illustrations and other excellent stuff. If you're a Douglas Adams fan, this is gonna be something you want to check out.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wraithmarked/hitchhikers

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
shitpostalotl@axfedi.derg.rest ("Avery (She/Her)") wrote:

@soatok yeah it makes a lot of sense for a queer person to not push for the continued cultural relevance of an ip when its success can be tied to the creator donating a fuckton of money to politicians who seek to harm queer people. at least i think so.