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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brainwane@social.coop ("Sumana Harihareswara") wrote:

"This Infinity Day, we’re celebrating one of math’s most mind-bending concepts with events nationwide"

https://infinitesums.simonsfoundation.org/events/infinity-day-events/

August 8th: watch out, people may be venturing into infinity IN YOUR AREA!

♾️

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
senj@cyberspace.club ("let's regular posting") wrote:

I must not take the bait.

Reaction is the mind-killer.

Reaction is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face the rage bait.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the rage bait has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

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

If I'm having an ADHD flare up I should try designing out that ADHD simulator I've been meaning to make so that when my meds finally get sorted I can actually make it.

Right now it feels like there is a layer of treacle/fuzz that sits between most things I want to do but doesn't sit in front of more impulsive actions. (Think, le doomscrolling and to a lesser extent some of the stuff I do with Strudel). Getting anything done either means invoking the anxiety/willpower/deadlines or tricking the impulsive part of the brain that doing the boring thing is worth it.

I kinda imagine it to be a visual novel where invoking choices has an energy cost that varies on the kind of choice and you have to balance making the right choices with all of the sodding energy costs. Meanwhile everyone around you is like "why can't you do basic tasks?????" because they're not having to deal with cost/choice balances.

I was wondering about using UI fuckery to simulate ADHD (e.g. making it literally harder to control the more impulsive choices) but that might be more frustrating than fun.

Anyway you are free to steal my idea (but not put it through an LLM) as the timeline for getting this thing made is basically "lol I have ADHD".

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

Finally did the tidying, which I had intended to do several days ago but managed to finally pull off.

For a day I had originally written off as swallowed by the ADHD and fatigue I consider that a success

Fedi, please give me dopamine 😜

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

You can tell who has privilege by who gets to claim "good faith."

The oppressed never receive the benefit of the doubt. They're always political actors pushing an agenda, a radical change, a threat to tradition, even when the request is a simple "stop hurting me."

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
binarydigit@social.lol ("BinaryDigit :blobspam:") wrote:

Floppy uwu >.<

https://binarydigit.art/post/823588225487667200/floppy-uwu

#binarydigit #procreate #cute #floppydisk

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
RobertaFidora ("Roberta Fidora") wrote:

Sad to say that even though some fantastic #animation has been submitted for our next hour-long special on @TIBtv, it isn't nearly enough to make a full show. Surely there's more than 10 #animators on the #Fediverse? 😂 Know someone who makes cool stuff? Tag them below!

Submit here: https://theindiebeat.fm/the-indie-beat-tv/#form
And see what's gone before (temp link): https://tv.gravitons.org/w/sGCMb2tCodHUtnn3ey5qCi

#Animated #MotionGraphics #Idents #MusicVideo #MusicVideos #FediArt #Art #Motion #2DAnimation #Claymation #StopMotion

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

@Dio9sys Not to derail your larger point, but at least for the books archive.org scans itself, I thought they didn't destroy them?

https://archive.org/details/eliza-digitizing-book%5F202107

https://digitization.archive.org/

Of course, that isn't to say that others haven't uploaded scans of books that were destroyed in the process.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Louisa@mastodon.xyz wrote:

Based on my ramblings last night, the dream of a good internet

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

I feel like we should reserve judgment as to whether digital archiving of material is successful at preserving things. Maybe in a few hundred years we can revisit the topic.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
owashe@meow.social ("Owashii :corgi:🐾:therian:") wrote:

@soatok I got put on a deferral list for Red Cross because I admitted to doing gay things (this was pre-transition) and was told later on (after they apparently changed their mind on that whole anti-gay thing, not sure if they changed back or something) I could get taken off if I called and I don't have the spoons to undo something that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Shame because donated blood genuinely saved my life in 2014 but bigotry means I was never allowed to pay that back in kind.

Boosted by Mastodon:
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

We just released Mastodon 4.6.4, 4.5.14 and 4.4.21.

Those updates include multiple security fixes, including fixes for two major issues.

We encourage server administrators to update as soon as possible, as one of the issues can expose PII of local users. We are investigating potential uses of this exploit and will soon share more information.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub release page.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/v4.6.4

#MastoAdmin

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117001915049315875

Relevant to the quoted thread, some people have really weird beliefs about me.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
reproducible_builds@fosstodon.org ("Reproducible Builds") wrote:

diffoscope 326 just released 💠 https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-326-released/ by @lamby

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
faoluin@chitter.xyz ("Softwarewolf") wrote:

@tilton Turns out when your society defunds the humanities, it starts producing inhuman people.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ezra@problemeowtic.net ("ezra quacks playfully") wrote:

adhd is saying "i can't wait to do the thing" and then waiting 6 and a half hours to do the thing once you're able to

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Everyone in tech should should know that they could have replaced "AI" with "React" in this post ~5-7 years ago and gotten a clean dry-run of what we're living through at wider scale. Same failure rates (by any objective metric), same religious fervour, same keep-your-head-down-or-be-fired cult consequences, same shitty mgmt class. It was all there, boiling away in the npm fever swamps:

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

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
linguistgoneforeign ("Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏") wrote:

[Not so universal] healthcare 🩺

His ambulance ride bill from twenty years ago still haunts him.

#ThrowbackThursday
#Healthcare
#Comics

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
alexia@starlightnet.work ("Alexia :makko_bnuuy:") wrote:

some good stuff signal.org has been doing that you've likely missed because people love to be doomers about signal on fedi:

signal working on registration without phone number

signal-desktop will be usable without a phone

signal can now be linked on android tablets

phones can now be secondary/linked devices

cross-device, end-to-end-encrypted backups

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Arcanoraptor@furry.engineer wrote:

@soatok I’m ace but still refuse to donate out of solidarity.

Plus, if it’s as much of a crisis as they claim, then maybe they should stop selling blood to the pharma industry and donate more of it to hospitals?

(Source: https://www.redcrossblood.org/biomedical-services/specialty-services/cell-and-gene-therapy-solutions/whole-blood.html)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

I think there will be real value in vibe code cleanup services but I expect most jobs would be a discovery that the vibe coding is a symptom, not a cause.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

The dramatic increase in AI data centers in such a short period of time, facilitated by governments at all levels, proves that there is political will for “progress”, but somehow that will is never available for anything other than making a handful of people rich.

I want to see this kind of push for infrastructure that tackles climate change and reduces suffering.

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

Because people are already being annoying about this: it’s obviously not notable when somebody who dislikes using LLM tools and worries about the impact of “AI” complains and ponders leaving the industry.

It is notable when people who think the tools are useful and have no moral objection to them also express the desire to leave industry. Obviously not as common but also obviously more notable.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gigabecquerel@chaos.social wrote:

Surprise Source Day is always fun, but today said surprise source was a fission chamber containing highly enriched uranium and a good bit of activation products from testing in the 80s.

Today was a fun day at work.

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

made some decisions on littlegem today:

there will (probably) be a Heap<T> type for refcounted heap references in the vein of smart pointers. the compiler will insert refcount operations as appropriate in the style of koka's perceus (albeit likely with a modified algorithm), meaning it can compile without need of a large support library while having something akin to garbage collection (no cycle busting).

the default mode will thus be unboxed and if you want heap things, you can have them with the smart pointer and the integrated compiler support. there can of course be other types of smart pointer and this gives us a way both to flatten nested structs into a single allocation and a natural place to plug in raw pointers or such for use in unsafe code later.
Heap<T> does make you think about whether it should be on the heap or not, but that's about it, the compiler does most of the work

i think we are going to end up with more powerful types than i was thinking yesterday. possibly ones i will have to learn how to implement 😅 i just don't think i'd have it any other way. i will make sure the simple case is simple of course.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
wyatt@hachyderm.io ("Wyatt O'Day") wrote:

Writing a blog post about AI-slop and am looking to hire an artist to do a couple small interstitial images. They're gonna be small in size. They can be raster or SVG output -- whatever's more your bag. Anyone available for this quick one-off job?

No AI-slop-"artists", obviously. Only humans.

Boosts or pointing me towards artists you like that are taking this type of contract work are appreciated. Self-promotion is encouraged too!

Also, you can email me at wyatt@wyday.com if you'd prefer to take things off of socials.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

modern computing is just repeatedly muttering “no, i do not want to click the sparkle button” to yourself as you try to get your work done

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

@baldur @datarama If they don't get "randomly selected" in the next round of redundancies :neocat_sweat:​

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Arcanoraptor@furry.engineer wrote:

@Popsip @soatok The real reason is the new Reddit has more tracking, and more dark patterns like endless scroll designed to steal your attention. Also on mobile browsers, new Reddit will constantly spam you to use their app (which has even more tracking)

They’re trying to position themselves as a broker of human generated text content. Scraping cuts into their business model, and automated posting devalues what they’re selling to the AI companies.

So basically, they’re enshittifying their platform because their real customers are the AI firms. Their users are not the customers. They don’t care if “high quality” posters leave, because the real value is the organic conversations in the comments.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
wolfwalks@app.wafrn.net wrote:

@admin@app.wafrn.net

The best thing any artist can do is leave mastodon.art

RE: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/9374fcaa-ae14-4000-977f-4e586690d80f