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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nikitonsky@mastodon.online ("Niki") wrote:

Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI

Attachments:

• video: Video of a person opening drawers in a chest of drawers, but every drawer opens in an unexpected way

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

Have you heard of the Prince of Lan Ling, who was so beautiful he had to hide his face under a mask when riding into battle?

https://quickandtastycooking.org.uk/articles/ran-ryou-ou/

#JapaneseCulture #drawing #traditionalArt #ChineseCulture

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

i am writing goto spaghetti. it is cleaner than not doing this.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
oddtail@meow.social ("Alicja") wrote:

https://lgbtqia.space/@SamanthaJaneSmith/116901205027605141

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:

so #emacs has a temporary ban on LLM contributions, but only while they wait for GNU to finalize a policy for the whole organization

myself and many other Emacs users don't have a lot of faith in GNU at this time; the ethically sound policy is very simple, and we feel that if they were going to the right thing, they would have done it by now

with that in mind, in the event that they do allow LLM code in Emacs, we will continue to use and develop a separate version of Emacs which is not contaminated

https://human-emacs.org

if you feel the same way, please join us and add your name to the list

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Last night, I went to sleep at 23:00 on the dot. This morning. I woke up at 06:45. I think this interminable saga might be over. Perhaps I will have something vaguely resembling a Normal Day today, and perhaps even the day after.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
VayCharr@meow.social wrote:

I got so many photos of Lumen the lynx, I think it's because I really dig the suit 👌

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

The AIM video is also on YouTube if you want to watch it there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDQTuJWST4M

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

This AIM video took me about 40-50 hours to make. YouTube revenue on it will be about $400 if I'm lucky. PeerTube revenue will be $0.

I don't do ad reads, I rely on you to keep making free stuff on the internet.

• https://patreon.com/VeronicaExplains
• https://ko-fi.com/VeronicaExplains
• https://liberapay.com/VeronicaExplains

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
afewbugs@social.coop ("Jules she/her") wrote:

Technically we're all fish because there's no evolutionarily sensible group you can draw that excludes terrestrial vertebrates and includes everything that most people would recognise as a fish, but most of us don't bob around in the ocean with a gormless expression except in the very worst of the heatwaves.

2/🧵

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
afewbugs@social.coop ("Jules she/her") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.world/@ombialik/116906966255667244

The thing a lot of people don't seem to realise about scientific definitions in biology is that they're names we humans have slapped on the vaste chaotic diverse richness of the natural world out there for our convenience, they don't correspond precisely to objective reality. They're just like common definitions except have had a few more drunken conference arguments go into their choice. Green seaweeds aren't vascular plants, red ones probably aren't plants at all depending on who you ask and where they draw the lines, but the shape of the category "plants" is being constantly redefined to fit our growing knowledge and for most people at the beach or considering making sushi of them it doesn't really matter.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

there are various machine-learning based audio echo cancellers. I've heard some that do *amazingly*.

anyone used one? how is it?

(yes there are ways to bodge this, that's not what I'm asking)

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

@lastrobot I ended up migrating to Taiga which was the one suite I saw which didn't have a Claude banner. It's a bit of a pain to use so I have no idea if I'll keep up with it long-term and I'm honestly half-tempted to build one myself so I can minimise the slop levels

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I know it's the second-lowest form of posting* to complain about computer stuff not working but I HAVE A BOOK CLUB GUIDE, SEVERE TENDINOPATHY LIMITING MY TYPING, AND A DREAM, and I purchased adobe acrobat pro specifically to try to make an accessible pdf which is what the internet told me to do, and NOW I CAN'T INSTALL IT because of an adobe issue and trying to figure this out over voice to text is excruciating 💀

*the lowest form of posting is complaining about your air travel

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:

You meet a man on Oregon Trail. He tells you his name is Terry. You laugh & say its a girls name. He shoots you. You have died of dissin Terry.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing :progress_pride:") wrote:

A: "The house is on fire!"
B: "Okay, let's put on flame-resistant cooling suits and wear smoke filters over our faces for the rest of our lives."
A: "Shouldn't we put out the fire?"
B: "No."
A: "I can't afford a suit and filter."
B: "Haha, I can. Sucks to be you."
A: "What happens when the fire gets worse and suits and filters don't work any more?"
B: "Actually there is no fire, the house is going through a natural cycle of being temporarily hotter and smokier."
A: "There are flames all around us!"
B: "That's your interpretation. You don't have the monopoly on truth, stop preaching at me. You should be more nuanced and pragmatic."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
randomgeek@masto.hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

I've been enjoying this voice. I think you should get a chance to enjoy it too.

(might be a mark of quality blues timing that I initially had this at 1.25x because of an earlier too-slow video, and it still worked)

#NowPlaying

KELS — "Hit The Road Jack & Gone (Live in the Laundromat)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6d-SDfxqGA

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
r_alb ("Raphael Albert") wrote:

"But the LLMs won't just go away, right?"

Says who? The technology is ecologically and economically unsustainable. The people who are most enthusiastic about the slop machines are those who are trying to extract money by building or using them. The rest of us has to deal with the fallout somehow while others reap the benefits (in fictional valuations, not actual profits, mind you).

The technology is a failure. What is keeping it alive is tech bro fanaticism paired
with capitalist sociopathy.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

I'm just saying that a lot of the computer experience we have now is optimized for the needs of Steve Jobs personally, and given that he's literally dead and that I want to use my computer for getting work done and not just fucking around, maybe we should think about these things a little harder

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
europython@fosstodon.org ("EuroPython") wrote:

Join @hynek at EuroPython for "Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code"
https://ep2026.europython.eu/BK8GD8

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dotstdy ("Josh Simmons") wrote:

I have a pet peeve for these analogies to other fields when it seems pretty clear to me the person making the analogy has an entirely guess-based understanding of the other field.

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

i have a nuanced take about slop machines: they're fucking evil, they're fucking terrible and the people who like them are fucking intolerable.

how's that for fucking nuance?

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

oh good, somebody wants to give me 'nuance' about slop machines.

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

But there is a strong cohort in the camp of "do not use LLMs," or even "we do not want to support workflows that involve LLMs," which I believe is the wrong side of history. I predict it will prove bad for the language’s ecosystem.

you know what i think would prove bad for the language's ecosystem? letting the rot in for the sake of avoiding upsetting AI bros.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
eamon@social.coop ("Eamon") wrote:

Me in 1996: Wow, being online is awesome. Wouldn't it be cool to ALWAYS have access to the internet?

Me in 2026:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

unfortunately the greatest programming language possible was already designed and created on some hobbyist's laptop that they didnt show anyone out of anxiety and abandoned to focus on their paid job optimizing ad reach for a sports betting platform

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

Going to try to get shit done. See you round, Fedi

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!