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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Why Sunfyre is alive #HouseOfTheDragon

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Is this the next HotD power couple? #houseofthedragon #gameofthrones

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Themes from HotD S03E05 'Unbowed and Unbent' #houseofthedragon #gameofthrones

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Two9A@hachyderm.io ("Imran Nazar ~ عمران نزر") wrote:

Ok, I'm unofficially looking for work. I haven't _yet_ had the axe fall, but when the whole company is all-in on LLMs, the VP Eng expresses frustration at low velocity over the last month, and the team lead quotes Fable output stating it could do the work in an afternoon...

I should start mapping out the exits for this place. Fifteen years next month, and it could well end quite ignominiously.

North of 20 years' experience in Web development, so I can go from TypeScript/React down to nuts-and-bolts CSS and back; backend I've been a PHP-head the whole time, but have been known to write Ruby and Python in my travels.

Based in Manchester, UK; available to work worldwide (wherever local regulations allow contracting to a consulting limited company); full-remote would be a stipulation, but open to annual meetups etc.

And no LLM usage would be the other stipulation.

If there's work out there in renewable energy or permacomputing, I'd be especially open thereto.

#FediHire #GetFediHired

[Edited to add a skills section, which I'd somehow missed]

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
itamarst@hachyderm.io ("Itamar Turner-Trauring") wrote:

The best kind of performance regression: my optimization branch is slower on some codepaths I didn't touch... because it doesn't include a different, earlier optimization that was merged into main after I branched.

Merged forward, "regression" solved.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
eri@plush.city ("eri :lq: :3do:") wrote:

1999 vs. 2026... same girl, same turtle

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
anubiarts@app.wafrn.net ("Anubi") wrote:

made to serve and please

#PixelArt #Art #FanArt #Bic #BicBoy #AnubiArts

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I've mentioned it before, but track 9, "What can you Lose", has a duet with Mandy Patinkin that is excellent.

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

I'm filled with joy when I see your photos, hear your quotes about the book, hear you are bringing it to book clubs!!

If you want that signal to go 5x, or 10x as far -- copy paste a single line from it to where you bought your book (apple, kobo, b&n, waterstones, amazon), or storygraph, goodreads, hackernews, any tech forum you like that duplicates an information signal from social media out there -- and trust that I will *never look at it*

This shapes the information world around the book

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

At least, I first heard that from her (long ago 😆):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUmfUTzcQHs&list=PLF0AhMBAen%5FvrxMghOXF1eT7QVWosvSMO&index=13

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

-- Madonna

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
fay59@tech.lgbt ("Félix") wrote:

> Mohabi only incurs modest overheads on common benchmarks—24.82% on JetStream and 24.43% on Speedometer.
The academic “modest” strikes again

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
racheled ("Rachele") wrote:

This hawk was on our back fence.

#birding

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

Getting all panicked because someone used a period instead of an exclamation mark in a message. Or vice versa.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
allisonchinart@mastodon.art ("Allisonchinart") wrote:

Plesiosaur sketchbook page

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

Sorry, to 999. Off by one error

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

I am watching a video of @TodePond counting to 1000 and I don't feel like I could explain why to anyone who just walked into the room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg%5FyAnrs5UA

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

Some #GoodNews: I run an Instagram account with a pretty sizable following that posts car meets and events around the #SFBA (dave.carmeets on #Instagram). After several weeks of warning, I am now starting to reject event flyers that were created using #AI.

I expected some pushback or anger over my decision, but much to my surprise, many event organizers that I talk to have been open to the idea and have given me alternative flyers that are human-made. In fact, I haven’t really gotten any pushback at all.

This is going better than I expected. I’m looking forward to posting no more #AI #slop on my channel, and helping my followers enjoy an AI-free feed for a change.

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

moderate success on household today, but 0 lines of code written 😬

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

I think this means he wants to give science the cheap, gold-colored, chintzy treatment.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/24/oh-no-science-to-get-the-trump-gold-treatment/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ma6FvkS2%5FsM

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

if folks on mastodon.social soon can't see my toots, rest assured it's because i told a reply guy to fuck off

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/116974074736145592

ethics aside should be treated similarly to “i'm not a racist, but”, as a clear vice signalling

ethics is the barrier between yourself and your acceptance of whatever atrocity you find personally convenient.

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

It's time for a break in your timeline, please rest for a moment and enjoy this bumblebee in the milkweed.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Swede1952@universeodon.com ("Swede’s Photographs") wrote:

Get Off My Lawn

I caught this brief dispute between a blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) and a northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis). Usually a cardinal will make way when a blue jay shows up, but in this moment the cardinal stood its ground, beak wide open in a defiant warning for the jay to steer clear.

Discover nature's fleeting moments through my lens—visit my photo gallery to see more.

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #corvids #cardinals #bluejay #northerncardinal

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

well, the KX3 ATU immediately says “I am happy, SWR is 1.0-1”

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

if I am interpreting this correctly, it is okay but not great

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

I'm thinking to when I have "collate a bunch of images into a pdf" type problems. I suspect a lot of people turn to an LLM for that sort of thing and I've gone basically the opposite way

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

A small (ironic) benefit of LLMs is I have slowly become less of a slop coder. Before LLMs I relied a lot on Stack Overflow and random sites for solutions but I got fed up of the slop (and also unemployed, which created more time for thinking). Nowadays I'm much better at pulling up a raw manual when I have a problem and/or figuring it out

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
yawnbox@disobey.net ("sometimes christopher") wrote:

@Revaivwra

related book on that exact topic :)

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

Sometimes, the mean voice in your head just needs a hug