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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Folks, I say this with love, because it has been an issue for several media personalities whose work I really enjoy and appreciate:

An audience can forgive scuffed video but you really, really need to get your audio situation sorted out if you want people to keep watching & listening.

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

people have had their lives disrupted significantly because of this tech, but being mad at AI is like being mad at a hammer. the hammer didn't decide to hit you, someone swung it.

yes, absolutely, it's the people who train and sell the AI who deserve your hate

what do you mean that isn't what you meant?

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

Life/coder protip: Do not code while sleep deprived. If you code while sleep deprived, make sure your Git committing is impeccable so you can easily roll back if/when you make a mess of the code. Actually, good Git commits make life infinitely easier regardless of sleep deprivation status.

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

"My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite"

https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html

> When Jarred announced the Rust rewrite, we were ecstatic. It seemed too good to be true. I have to admit, I didn't think the technology was there, to pull off this stunt. But he did it, and now I'm metaphorically sipping delicious tea from a mug that says "It Tastes Like It's Not My Problem Anymore".

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

me when i untangle a giant ball of thread because I didn't put it in the bag tidy: "this is just like working with code"

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

All right, I suppose I’ll allow it.

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warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

Something that helps us calm down is knowing you have our backs. And when we have a bad week, things will still be there when we pick up our pens again. That's why supporting artists matters. It helps them through good and bad. Thanks for sticking with us!

https://www.patreon.com/warandpeas

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

and hey as long as I'm wish-casting for security features: "access while unlocked but only when using the microphone from my AirPods". every situation where i want to be able to run shortcuts on a locked device, I'm wearing headphones

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eevee@slime.global ("eevee 🦊") wrote:

i'm doing it again!!

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eevee@slime.global ("eevee 🦊") wrote:

if you would like to watch me bumble through reading japanese pokémon emerald, a game made for children:
https://twitch.tv/lexyeevee

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

I think this mirrors the experience of many. Executives have either bought the narrative from someone they trust or are actually AI brainwormed, and middle management has a gun to their head about it, so they nod and smile. The result is a death spiral in which almost everyone thinks this a terrible idea, but nobody can speak truth to power.

There are too many good quotes in this piece to pull. Just go read it.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the things I want from "siri AI" that I'm not going to get:

- "here's how I pronounce this" so I can launch things like "Authy" with a voice command (try it)
- disable _all_ cloud interaction, even if it makes some things less reliable
- a reference sheet of commands so I can understand its capabilities
- explicit preference for "respond only to my voice"
- error handling in Shortcuts

none of these things involve an LLM, and attempting to cram LLMs into it makes most of them worse

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dinobrarian ("Charlie") wrote:

For anyone who didn't manage to see the finished LED corset and fibre optic skirt, here they are out in the field.

The LEDs are sewn with conductive thread. The fibre optic skirt isn't very bright, and somehow the only photos of me that *aren't* totally blurry are the ones where the skirt is also blue but i promise, it looked cool irl!

Thanks to everyone who came to say hi at #emfcamp -it was great to be encouraged to infodump to my heart's content about everything and anything.

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

I very much enjoyed The Odyssey. It could have used a few more spiders though. That's my only criticism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/20/uh-oh-i-saw-another-movie-this-weekend/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMg3lr3HUgA

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

One of my teacher friends often says that people confuse "few people are able to do x" with "x reveals who is good" and I think about that a lot

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maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:

😅 If the resulting photo isn’t worth it, no vandalism will occur. That is one of the rules I follow. And, even when it does happen, it won’t be hard to clean up. It’s been called Gentle Vandalism.

#photography #noFusion #vsco #streetArt
☁️ https://maique.eu/posts/2026-07-20-if-the-resulting

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andypiper@macaw.social ("Andy Piper") wrote:

- met young (c. 7-8yr old) fans of my Pigs in Space badge app (this made me 😊)
- saw folks running my Buckaroo Banzai badge app, and the animated spiders background, which made me happy
- shared over 200 duck stickers
- left zines about the Fediverse, and Celebrity Ducks, in the Lounge
- got choked up in both the opening and closing ceremonies with gratitude for *everything and everyone*
- enjoyed the spectacle of a burning Musk.

#EMFCamp

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maisie@tech.lgbt ("maisie @ emf ( 📞 4695)") wrote:

i’d been warned they’d follow me home, turned out to be true 😱@emfSpiders #emfcamp

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

I am proud I managed to get the fist to work. I was worried about that because hands are hard and I couldn't get a good outline in chalk. So I was like "fuck it, let's just embroider it and see how badly it goes" and I'm actually quite happy with the result

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bitboxer ("Bodo Tasche") wrote:

There are still people pleading with the Rails Core members to speak up. They all work closely with DHH. For decades. At this point you have to assume that they share his values. That they all also are fascists. That framework is lost. Do try to migrate away from it.

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Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

Rails Core team has the opportunity to do the right thing here. The best time was yesterday, the next best time is today.

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mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

The tab with the setting is called “AI innovations.” Eat my whole ass!

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

So far I have merely added more teal to the platypus

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silver-sebastian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sebastian Silverfox") wrote:

The largest number of grey/black/purple/white animals I’ve managed to gather so far.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris%5Fmeredith/116951616181287278

“Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech-aint-deep

> I can't help but also suspect that this antipathy towards depth explains why nobody in tech seems to be fucking learning anything.

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

New article time! This time, I've talked about writing C is so much more enjoyable than a number of other things, and tech's regrettable tendency towards shallowness:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech-aint-deep

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

Looks like I'm stuck on a rather crowded train for a while and I'm getting rather bored with adding teal to the platypus

I wonder how I can use this time

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sirlan@derg.social ("sirlan <( merry gay )") wrote:

artists are really sleeping on the concept of drawing based on weird stock photos, like, it's literally a pose guide, and you should draw your character as cyber corn woman

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I don’t think I had the same level of ennui looking at LinkedIn and job posting sites even two years ago as I do now. I am sure there is a tech writing position out there I’ll genuinely enjoy, but it’s a small needle in an AI-generated haystack.

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hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

tfw your friends ( @ambv) take killer photos of you and then share them with you as memes