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Gygesringtone@mefi.social wrote:

Happy 🌎 ☄️ 🦖 ☠️ Day (Celebrated)!

What's 🌎 ☄️ 🦖 ☠️ Day? Well it's my made up holiday celebrating the fact that we know that the meteor impact that caused the KT extinction event happened sometime in late May/early June. The official holiday date is the 8th of June. The celebration happens on the nearest weekend date.

Details of celebration to follow, but the great part of made up holidays is you get to make up your own traditions without insulting anyone's family.

I encourage everyone to try and make up your own holidays, but if you want to steal this one, please do.

#MadeUpHolidays #Dinosaurs #Celebration

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

note: I went back and added alt text to the vid. When I was posting, my keyboard was blocking the button for alt text so I just posted and went back to edit.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I think I'll share some of my old sketches and other videos here?

Okay so here's the context: it's 2020, smack dab in the middle of the pandemic lockdown. At the time I was a bit of a sneaker head who spent a lot of time on the sneakers subreddit 😬 lol.

There was a contest to make the best sketch about sneakers and the lockdown, so I submitted this video.

I honestly can't remember who won? I think I was in the mix somewhere. I just can't remember, that whole era is a fever dream.

Attachments:

• video: A sketch where I'm sitting on a chair waiting Beverly Hills Cop. I have my feet up and im eating out of a pasta box and drinking wine. When I run out of wine, I start a cliche montage of me trying on new outfits and me also the person that judges the outfits. After three outfits, me and me agree on one. I then go downstairs to the front door as if im about to leave but I just lock the door. Then I turn around and grab a new bottle of wine from my kitchen, also a bottle of whiskey. I head back upstairs where the camera cuts to me sitting back down in my chair, in my new outfit and sneakers, and continues to watch the movie, snack on raw pasta, and drink wine. At the end I poor some whisky into my cup with the wine.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The 2010s liberal movement will age so poorly. It's going to be criticized for its hyper fixation on identity politics while still being surprisingly racially segregated. I think the Professional Managerial Class paradigm gets really close to articulating that era, but the defining critique is still yet to be achieved.

It'll come in the form of a stand up comedy special or movie, and it's going to explode in popularity because there's just so much documentation of the era and it's bad.

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

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Euan@stctp.zone wrote:

This is an appreciation post for the Sonic animation cel I own

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
mlemweb@social.coop ("Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

It took 20 minutes after Hack & Craft to finish this sun shirt, then another 15 to post pictures, but it's done!

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
r343l@freeradical.zone ("Rachael L") wrote:

@aredridel there would even be a market for such escrow services if "right to repair" included "right to design, documents and code" of any device or software paid for but the company goes out of business or refuses to support or sell repair parts for. To give that teeth you'd need it to be third party.

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

One big downside for the world will be the volatility of everything. We need to get serious about source code archival, separate from hosting. (Seriously, someone should make a git continuous replication archival and disaster recovery host, where you pay Glacier-style prices, and make decade-scale commitments for source code archival.

Possibly also an escrow service so it is made public upon certain events.

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

But on top of this it seems like it's time for something new. A monorepo host with good CI tooling for it baked in is a difficult startup to found but is absolutely the product we need right now.

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

There is exactly one killer feature left.

Code search.

Nobody else really nails that for your entire company-wide code search, unless you structure carefully to enable it.

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

I gotta say: Github is legacy software. It's never going to fix the bugs. You just cope with them. It's time to replace them, and I'd think seriously about not starting anything new there even as a conservative company.

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

depressing read of the week: "Soulless summer fairs and cute puppies: AI poster slop is taking over a pub near you"
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/ai-poster-slop-local-events-flyer-b2989792.html

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

i was linked to a c++26 thing and i can't understand it because it's just line noise. it's worse than perl, a language i used to do crimes in.

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

Some people act like they've never seen a red sun before

RE: https://www.threads.com/@rfoster112/post/DZRs8L7DACt

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

"We already kicked out the fascists once"

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260607-residents-of-french-village-say-us-defense-secretary-hegseth-not-welcome-d-day-visit

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

As a nonbinary person, I think it is important to look outside the strict boundaries of 1 and 0. That's, why, this Pride month, I'm proud to be partnering with Google's quantum computing lab—

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

That these photos could have been better doesn't mean people shouldn't enjoy what they have to offer. It just makes them a bit ephemeral. That's the default state of media in a social media age. But asking yourself "why doesn't this work for me?" is necessary if you want to do better next time.

/fin

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

Finally, this one almost works. The budget zoom let me down. The out-of-focus areas look unpleasant. The photo itself is also a bit of a cliché (bird on barbedwire). I should've stood either three metres to my right (fence in a straight line) or left (fence at an angle) but then the bird was gone

4/5

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

This photo doesn't work because the telephoto lens compression makes it look like the steam is 2D—like it's a flat graphic laid over in a poor photoshop job—so it looks faked. I should have brought a wider lens, but that would have meant climbing down into the ditch to get the shot

3/5

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

For example, this photo of horses grazing near a geothermal pipe is cute, but I don't like it. It feels a bit disposable. The composition would be more interesting if I'd stood a few metres to my right and about a metre higher. The horses were uncooperative. So I never got around to the colour

2/5

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

Occasionally, I'll mention I'm not a fan of a photo I've uploaded and people get defensive about it, either on my behalf—'don't talk yourself down!' (valid)—or because they feel like their own taste is being criticised (also valid)

Since neither is my intent, I figure I should explain with examples

1/5

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

Here's an ugly little house.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #grass #decay

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
JulietEMcKenna@wandering.shop ("Juliet E McKenna") wrote:

Recollections and reflections are circulating after Anthony Head's untimely death.

I remember him pushing back hard at 'I didn't see it, so who knows?' responses from some, when J Whedon's bad character was exposed. Tony Head was clear that abusers work hard to hide what they do from those who would call them out.

He also had no time for 'why didn't younger cast members speak up?' He said them not feeling able to tell him was his responsibility and he was sorry for it. A good man.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sindarina@ngmx.com ("Sindarina, Edge Case Detective") wrote:

We have fucked up Computer so badly, in that regard. Instead of building user trust, allowing for swift deployment of necessary fixes and new features that genuinely makes the user's life better, The Update has become something to be feared.

For pretty much anything with a connection to the internet, too; your mobile phone, your laptop, your television, your fridge, your car, your thermostat.

Everything you use might suddenly start showing ads. Or stop working entirely because whatever 'cloud' service it depends on stops being available.

Such potential, all wasted for more ad revenue.

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

One of the lessons that many in software strangely never learn is that breaking something while being an asshole gets a very different response from people than breaking something while not being an asshole

And, given how “AI” continues to pour shit on the rest of society, using LLMs is widely going to be perceived as an asshole move

For better or for worse, using LLMs in OSS is going to be seen as an adversarial move that undermines community building

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
RonJeffries ("Ron Jeffries") wrote:

Reading The AI Con, by @emilymbender and @alex

Very readable, very clear, and oh so concerning. It would be a fun read were it not describing such a challenging situation. It's odd: simultaneously enjoyable in style and terrifying in impact.

Highly recommended.

jwz wrote:

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

But even if you *could* make quality gates good enough that you won't need to review the code - and good luck with that - you then run straight into another trap: comprehension debt.

LLMs will never be reliable enough that you won't need to understand the code. That's physics.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

A take I see often online is that it doesn't matter if code is "clean" - readable, simple, decoupled, easy & fast to test - as long as it works.

They're missing the point. Code that's hard to understand, complex, tightly-coupled and hard/slow to test is very likely to break.

There's no tradeoff.