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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
RESOLVED: Hobbits would consider Crocs to be fancy dress shoes.
Discuss.
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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:
Mastodon FeedProtesting LLMs by refusing to use any software that includes them feels like attempting to protest the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline by refusing to breathe until everyone stops putting it in their cars. So I am drawing my personal moral lines in such a way that I will probably accept this.
But please don't mistake this for excitement about huffing a bunch of vaporized lead.
Mastodon FeedSomewhat alarmed that the LLM detritus seems to no longer have a toggle to be disabled in the iOS 27 and macOS betas. I hope, but do not expect, that it will come back in the final releases.
If I want to still be able to set a timer when I'm cooking with my voice, I probably need to accept a bunch of nonconsensual slop ("writing tools") being shoved in my face in every app.
Mastodon Feedcwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
I was talking to @mlemweb about how I'd like to a genAI free tech conference. Not just no genAI used, but not even a topic of conversation. Completely off the table. Be quarantined from vibe sickness for a bit.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
@glyph @davidgerard @chroma I've wrestled with this problem too and decided that getting mad at every Tom, Dick and Harry who doesn't feel or do the exact same things I do is neither a good use of my energy nor a good way to hold the kinds of meaningful relationships that actually change behaviour.
It's a tough balance to strike because I really don't want to excuse AI as a technology, and there's a lot of justified anger, but it's better to send that anger to people who deserve it and have power over it (read: technology executives, data centre building companies) rather than at people who don't have that power and are just as likely to be victims
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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:
@davidgerard @chroma I don't agree with everything in the video, but what makes it "bad advice"? The harm-reduction approach that she is advocating has been empirically validated for harmful behaviors in general (plenty of literature on substance abuse) but also specifically for AI.
Do you have any countervailing data?
There's also a big difference between AI *advocates* and AI users. Harm reduction doesn't apply to the dealers.
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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:
RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@vampiress/116859241032699772
“I poisoned my own mind.”
More and more programmers are writing retrospectives like this — and a huge THANK YOU to Elissa for doing so — where they discover that Programming Is Not Special.
It is particularly interesting to read this from a solo game developer who is both a programmer and an artist, who began by thinking the programing isn’t art, and discovered by an emotionally torturous process that it actually is.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Game progress!
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Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
#Godot game devs, how do you test your game?
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mntmn ("Lucie / minute") wrote:
for whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Frederick Douglass was a genius
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julia@snug.moe ("MOVED TO @julia@eepy.moe (Julia :verified_trans:)") wrote:
Damn fedi will literally necroboost anything lmao
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liberty@mathstodon.xyz ("Anna Liberty") wrote:
@cwebber I'm glad you've been enjoying my writings! ❤️
I love the power Hoot brings to Scheme and the Web.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
This is where your intuition is sharper than your friend’s design:
fuck you, bot, don't diss my friends.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Compiled a list of bird photographers I follow
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jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:
Code reviewing was never the most interesting thing to do. But it had one important element. That, if done right, it was knowledge exchange between the reviewer and the coder. That can be quite motivating. Helping a fellow coder to become better. Reviewing "AI" written code does NOT come with that potential reward. The machine doesn't learn the way a human does. This turns code review into a menial, fruitless task that leads to frustration instead. That's my observation and opinion.
1/2
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thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom, a distro-agnostic tool") wrote:
The new GNOME mail applications Stamp is kind of exactly what I want. I hope its developer gets a ton of help from the community.
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ravachol@vivaldi.net wrote:
Woman on Bench (2023)
This is me trying to do something completely different. What do you think? Some people really liked it. An artist said it was really great and insisted I paint this one for real, said it wasn't hard to do, so I bought all the stuff, and.....didn't do it. I made a test face, that's it. I'm just not a painter, I like drawing. In ink.
And I never drew in this style ever again.
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katiart25@pixelfed.social ("Kati") wrote:
ein schöner Sommertag zum malen
#art #mixedmedia
#sketching #sketchbook #sketch #watercolor #plainairpainting #landscapepainting
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idzie@kolektiva.social ("Idzie") wrote:
If you've ever wondered what a fledgling red-winged blackbird looks like, I've got you covered!
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birdsarah@flipping.rocks wrote:
fourth common gull chick of the season ringed ✅
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tarakiyee@mastodon.online ("Tara Tarakiyee") wrote:
New on the blog. At Cables of Resistance, I ran a workshop asking if we can build hardware without capitalism. I was grieving what AI is doing to open source. Technologists need to see there's no innocent ground under the machine. It was always someone's land.
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suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish ("blackle mori") wrote:
@tartley programming to escape complexity is a paradox I've noticed too. it's a paradox because most of programming is developing some model of the world, and the world will always be messy.
for example if you write a concert ticketing system, you are modelling the ways that people interact with these events. not only that, you're modelling their desires. even something as simple as deciding what happens when the venue says "actually we miscounted, there are actually only 100 seats, not 150"—do you kick off anyone who clicked on non-existent seats? make it first-come-first-served? a lottery? cancel all orders and start again?
the beauty/terror of programming is that if you want to make a good model, you have to get down-and-dirty with the complexity. and I think doing so makes us better people. intimate knowledge of the world and its messiness can be scary and uncomfortable, but it is ultimately enriching. it makes us better at empathizing with each other.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Sometimes it feels like the main limiting factor in my life is energy and not time
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good morning
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
man life hack: put your chocolate PROTEIN milk on your PROTEIN Weetabix
sometimes I outdo myself
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
The non-computer people I know don't really think search as gotten worse. The people I know who hate computers the most think it's gotten better... but they are in the minority.
I've always found obscure words powerful in searches. That power has been destroyed. Please don't tell me to put it in quotes or use a different engine... this is a design trend, made worse by "AI" I'm not asking for a solution or work around. I want to know WHY the software I depend on keeps getting worse.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
the HOT may in fact be close to an ideal data structure for IPV6 lookups, because the space is cut at irregular points into subnets and the algorithm naturally handles this
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beka_valentine@kolektiva.social ("beka valentine") wrote:
you draw a line on a document using an Esterbrook pen and anyone can read it, and if you need to modify the document later, you can use shitty Bic ballpoint for all anyone cares!
now try doing that with a design made in Fusion 360