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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

Okay Taiga seems acceptable so far, thank fuck

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

Yes I am going to continue to be annoying about this for as long as I can get away with it.

I don't like vibe code! I don't like what AI is doing to software! I don't like what AI is doing to most things! I am going to continue to be annoying about it so maybe you get the chance to stop assuming this shit is inevitable!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
waimus@peoplemaking.games ("advaitha") wrote:

Itch io was down for a minute. During which I spent time inspecting the html to do this instead of using image editors.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

Please, never change

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

thanks i hate it

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

Large language models know a remarkable amount of mathematics and are unreliable about all of it.

😂

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

Lately, I've taken to morbidly enjoying the obituaries. At my age, that's probably unwise.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/12/weird-little-warmonger-trump-bootlicker-dies-suddenly/

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

“One can and should pursue liberty and justice with courage and conviction, but we can also recognize that humility in defense of liberty is no vice, and cruelty in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/opinion/paxton-talarico-platner-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

Right, anyway. Trello. Adulting. Leechblock timers running out

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

Glad I can still dive into gamedev and genuinely enjoy it.

Wasn't sure what to do with myself so added a pause function to the game. You know, just because

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

i came up with a beautiful design. i can't actually implement it for fundamental reasons, but it was beautiful.

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revengeday@corteximplant.com ("Ramses Revengeday :revengeday:") wrote:

What I've been seeing in my timeline over the last few is just ridiculous. Post after post saying you should absolutely NOT support Bandcamp anymore under ANY circumstances, that "everything there is shit anyway," that all the artists still on there are either lazy, ignorant, or sellouts. I'm reading this from people who have never released a single record or song in their lives, pointing fingers at us and telling us how to manage our livelihood.

And here comes the big, fat point everyone's forgetting:
With this blind activism, you're not punishing Bandcamp. Bandcamp already cashed the check and is sitting in their warm office. You're fucking us over. The artists. The ones who built their entire artistic existence there.

Let me break this down a bit more because I have a feeling many of you don't understand what it means to be an independent artist caught between the front lines right now.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
NovemDecimal@sunny.garden wrote:

I would like to start my own website one day. I'm thinking that my website would have a few static pages such as homepage and contact page, a page that would show my artworks with pagination and a blog. I'm most likely going to be writing the frontend with just vanilla HTML and CSS, no JavaScript framework to keep it simple. If I must use a JS framework however, I'll go with Vue.

Thing is, concerning the page that shows my artworks, I kind of dislike the idea of manually editing the HTML to add a new entry of a new piece of art that I just made, same thing when it comes to blog. it feels... bad and it seems like it would be a maintenance nightmare.

I'm thinking that I would use a lightweight database engine like SQLite 3 when it comes to the artwork and blog part, but I wonder if even using a DB engine in the first place is already overkill for a small personal website.

Which web framework would be right for my specific needs? And which hosting should I use? I want to avoid relying on big tech, so no Google Cloud and AWS and this also includes GitHub Pages because GitHub is owned by MS. I don't mind having to code because I know how to code.

I don't mind paying a few euros for hosting. A free option is a bonus, but I am open to paid options as well. (actually I would prefer paid hosting, see thread below)

I'm new to hosting a website and web development, so help would be welcome.

:boost_requested:

#AskFedi #WebDev #IndieWeb #SelfHosting #Internet

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

This quote on Wikipedia from Val Guest, the writer and director, hints at why an otherwise ridiculous premise well executed continues to be relevant:

“The only politics in it were to say the only war that mankind couldn't fight was God, was the elements and the only way to defeat that was if mankind got together to fight a common enemy, the elements.

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ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

Curious person: "Hey Ian, you're a journalist! Your living has long been paid for by advertising. Why do you use an ad blocker?"

Me:

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jwz wrote:

@_calmdowndear I have this terrible personal glitch, where sometimes I ask a VERY specific question, and I am hoping to get an answer to that question. And every time, I forget that the peanut gallery sees this as a WRITING PROMPT to let me know that either: A) what I want is wrong or B) they once heard an answer to a question that kind of reminded them of this, and let me tell you about it, it's a really neat story

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schratze@todon.nl wrote:

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

Watched “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” and somehow a 1960s disaster movie on the world getting destroyed by a global climate crisis created by human arrogance manages to feel relevant and impactful today

I hope for his sake that Val Guest never imagined that his anti-bomb parable based on a ridiculous premise would continue to be relevant 60 years later

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

*pinches bridge of nose, eyes closed, takes a deep breath* so do we have ANY idea how many living US Senators there are right now?

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

After I synthesised the countdown pips for my game I keep going "I want to learn how to properly synthesise sounds", although (a) not sure if i have the time and (b) not sure where to start tools-wise

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

I think in our grief it’s important to remember that Lindsay Graham lived long enough to see the Iran War he and John McCain dreamed of for decades finally happen, and to see it utterly shit the bed.

jwz wrote:

Somehow down to a leisurely 40 req/sec, only 99% of which are fraudulent. Hoo. Ray.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

Going to take today to migrate my To-Dos off Trello (yep, they are about to train AI on my shit)... if anyone knows of a suitable recommendation do let me know!

Requirements:

• Can customise the system to split tasks into appropriate categories and track micro-tasks in tasks (the more customisation, the better, gotta satisfy the part of myself that will sink hours into curating my To-Do list before starting a single To-Do)
• Online (can self-host as long as project is kept updated with security updates and not vibed)
• Can be accessed via mobile (browser is acceptable but a dedicated app would be better)
• No AI training. If it has managed to avoid chatbots or other AI integrations that's even better
• If it's paid I don't wanna spend more than £30/year

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

three language ACARS message

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

sometimes i hate reasoning about memory ordering.

most of the time if i'm honest.

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

“End Over End”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/end-over-end/

> We don't invest in cultivating young readers because we don't actually want thinkers. We don't actually value imagination or inquiry, because increasingly, we find ourselves in a world for which the only forms of agency and expression involve clicking and consuming.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Roadtrip to England. I knew I wouldn't have a lot of time for light metering so I took the Canon AE-1 and relied on TTL metering. 17 hours in the car...

📷️ Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/2.0
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116719761249648780

Reminder!

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

i've said this a thousand times in the past few years. i can't believe people let these things do anything important for them. I am simply trying to use this thing for reference lookup becasue it can be challenging to map concepts from between contexts because none of the words overlap but there is nevertheless a well defined mapping between them. I am now about 5-layers deep in a loop of "solving a problem it was not asked to solve in a way that makes no sense" where it is telling me to duplicate all my code into two branches with a read lock or a write lock because it can't understand the flow of the code literally one layer up from the last code that it ingested in its context window. even with the latest models trying to do an extremely constrained task that should literally be the only thing they can do - fuzzy mappings in language space - these things just spontaneously combust at the starting line

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

Its just sort of amazing how shallowly this becomes a problem. Ive been using the LLM basically as a search index into rust concepts, telling it to basically just direct me to the docs for the language features I need, but it can't help itself but comment on the code, and I'm now spending just as much time trying to tell it "OK no we are not going to add another random method to patch some problem we can resolve by just doing it right, your job is to serve as a reference for the language, you are a language reference machine, that is all you do"

Dog I just started learning I should not be having to tell my cocaine-addled teacher to not touch my code and make it worse or wander off and tell me about random other shit.