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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
eh@functional.cafe wrote:

Deeply honoured to have been hired by the city of Madrid to write the CSS for their new statue.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
estherschindler@newsie.social ("Esther Schindler") wrote:

Apple founder Steve Wozniak jumped into the Slashdot comments on his 75th birthday last year.

The reason that some successful people aren't billionaires is because they use their wealth to make the world a better place. "Success" isn't measured by the number in a checkbook.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

If there's one thing that will stick with me from the whole way AI has played out, it's how intensely damaging it has been for tech to become one of the first new post-Reagan industries. Not only did tech workers not get the same opportunities for labor representation as had been fought for and won elsewhere, but Reaganite "right to work" and deregulation propaganda convinced so many tech workers that they shared more common interest with capital owners than other laborers.

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

The Turing Club - it is 2027 and the world has lost its mind. A brave band of misfits meets in secret in the dead of night to commit the ultimate crime - write their own fucking code.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
wohali@timeloop.cafe wrote:

@Gotterdammerung here.

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

Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships

oh yes, a great relationship is agentic!

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

Police arrested a man in Texas early Wednesday morning for saying “bullshit” at a public city meeting a week earlier.

Boosted by jwz:
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

@medieval_illuminations the whore, apparently, had a great dentist

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

Incidentally, many news outlets are covering it as "the watermark will affect anything processed by Claude, not just stuff generated by it" e.g. ArsTechnica.

And my friends, my friends.

Do you know how these things work? Here's a hint: It's in the name. Generative AI.

There isn't really a difference between "processed" and "generated", it's the same model spitting out the next-most-likely word. The only thing different is the prompt

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne, bunyote friend :therian:") wrote:

you know if you want to talk to a "PhD level intelligence", you can just slide into my DMs

you don't have to pay ChatGPT

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

Tbh I doubt the house-move-stress is helping.

I hate moving house.

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

Kept the server on due to the (unplanned) outage last night but tbh I doubt tooting at 5am is healthy. So, I'm going to stick to the server-off-at-night schedule and run the cleanup job in the day.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ratsnakegames ("Sophie of Ratsnake Games") wrote:

@0xabad1dea It is also legal to not have an image on every blog post.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
mmoore ("Matt Moore") wrote:

We're looking for a new senior software engineer at Pope Tech. We build web applications for evaluating and improving web accessibility. I would appreciate it if you boosted this for reach! #getfedihired

https://www.pope.tech/jobs/senior-software-engineer-2

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
tati@eldritch.cafe ("tatiana :witches_town:") wrote:

ok kids, this is what a skimmer could look like. i haven't tested it as i don't want to touch it with my phone

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 16th 2026 (Hard), in less than 16 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

Why yes, that is a perfect Sunday solve on 5 hour's sleep

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

grumbles about all the vibecoded websites having a tagline that says "made with ❤️"

Wish they would be honest and just say they were made with 🤖

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
patricianicoloso@masto.nu ("Patrícia Nicoloso") wrote:

Pardal/House Sparrow
Passer domesticus
#animal #animais #animals #fotografias #photo #photograph #photos #birdwatching #birding #santamaria #santamariars #riograndedosul #bird #birds #Ave #aves #asavesqueeuencontro #patricianicoloso

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
crimsonbutterfly@vernissage.photos ("Jean ") wrote:

Cutie King parrot approached us on our hike yesterday. #BirdPhotography #BirdsofAustralia #BirdsofFediverse #FediBirds #Photography #Wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #AustralianBirds #BirdWatching #Fedibird #birdbot #Birding #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
crimsonbutterfly@vernissage.photos ("Jean ") wrote:

Egg-laying mammal alert! #MammalPhotography #MammalsofAustralia #MammalsofFediverse #Fedimammals #wildoz #platypus #WildlifePhotography #AustralianWildlife #Monotreme #animalphotography

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jsbarretto@social.coop ("Joshua Barretto") wrote:

I want to remind you: these bastards have spent $1.5 trillion of society's money on this technology. That it's produced *something* should not be surprising. That's 'solve aging', 'cure cancer', 'eliminate all poverty', 'shift climate change into reverse', or 'send a probe to another solar system' money. It's not 'write shit software 20% faster' money.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it):

1. A thoughtful photo you’ve taken yourself — a nice sunrise you saw, a cool angle spotted on vacation, your pet curled up on the couch, flowers. Play with your phone photo app’s filter settings to nail the tone. It doesn’t need to be particularly related to the post, it’s related to you as a person.

2. An image from Wikimedia Commons that’s somehow related to the subject matter — there are unfathomably many, you can search by keyword. Remember to credit. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main%5FPage

3. A screenshot of a scene you made in a sandbox game such as Minecraft or Animal Crossing

4. A scene you made with toys such as Lego (you can also use free Lego design software such as Bricklink Studio) https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/main.page

5. Play with the effects in whatever image editor you have access to, using your own photos or free-to-use images, to create something a bit abstract and avant-garde

6. Even if you can’t draw or paint very well, you can probably make some pretty cool abstract or collage imagery with whatever art supplies you have around. Dampen some paper and randomly dip watercolor paint onto it and see what happens

7. Those stickers you stashed and never used? Yeah you can make something with them. If they’re individually cut, you don’t even need to peel them, you’ll still find the One True Way to use them one day, I’m sure

8. Shelfies. None will dare question your competence after they see you have a real paper copy of Subject Matter Tome Volumes 1 through 6

9. You can get a lot of mileage out of compositing pre-made video game assets into an image. A good place to start is Kenney’s free and generously licensed 2D assets: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/category:2D and the Tiled editor which is specifically meant for assembling images out of video game asset tile sheets https://www.mapeditor.org

10. the most ridiculously amateurish thing you can scribble on a post-it note or in MS Paint is preferable to AI imagery because it clearly signals a real human cares about the post.

#writing #writingcommunity #collage #blog

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

I went to a party today with several dozen people who I did not know, and not a single one recognized me by face or by name when it was given to them, so that's my level of fame, and honestly that's pretty great

RE: https://www.threads.com/@breesch840/post/DcFd1fUjSmh

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

This one I've seen listed for $1500, so if you can get it for $250, that's a bargain, actually

RE: https://www.threads.com/@skip%5Ftheorist/post/DcE08c6knYf

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@treyhunner also I would be remiss if I did not point out that the distinction between Duck typing and Goose typing is that Duck typing exists purely at type-time and in terms of typed structures, whereas Goose typing requires values at runtime. in other words the Goose is valued

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

120 degree glass turd

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:

Yeah, yeah, Facebook, but this is brilliant: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MCCancxKy/

"My favorite thing about The Odyssey is that when you notice how the poem is structured, the whole thing starts looking like Odysseus is just making up an alibi after coming home from a 10-year Fuckboy Tour of the Mediterranean.

See, the parts of The Odyssey that Homer narrates directly are surprisingly grounded. At the beginning we see Ithaca, Telemachus travels around looking for news of his father, and so on. At the end Odysseus returns, kills the suitors, and everyone is happy (except for the suitors). The gods interfere constantly because this is ancient Greece, but mostly it's a story about people doing people shit just like The Iliad.

But in the middle section, the narration very conspicuously shifts from Homer to Odysseus himself. He's explaining to the Phaeacians why it took him ten years to sail home from Troy, and suddenly we're dealing with one-eyed giants, cannibal armies, a witch who turns men into pigs, magic bags full of wind, six-headed sea monsters, and a trip to the Underworld.

Odysseus tells his story to the Phaeacians while he is stranded, broke, and in desperate need of a ship home. And remember that Odysseus is not merely capable of lying – lying is basically his superpower. He routinely invents elaborate fake biographies for himself at the drop of a hat, to the point that even Athena is impressed with his capacity for deception. He is canonically the original male manipulator.

And it makes sense why Homer depicts Odysseus telling all of this to the Phaeacians instead of the much-less-gullible Penelope, since you can imagine how his story would have gone over with her:

"Odysseus, the Trojan War ended 10 years ago. Where have you been all this time?"

"See what had happened was, we were gonna come straight home – but then when we were in sight of Ithaca, my men opened this magic bag of wind while I was asleep and it blew us to the other side of the ocean."

"Why did they open the bag after you told them not to?"

"Ah, well, see, I sort of forgot."

"Your men all died because you had a magic bag of wind that you forgot to tell them not to open and then took a nap?"

"No, they were all fine! But see, then a cyclops and some giant cannibals killed most of the men, and a witch turned the rest into pigs. But don't worry, they got better."

"They got better?"

"Well sure, the witch changed them back after I slept with her."

"...I see. Well, I suppose you had to save your men."

"Exactly! And so after a year with her-"

"You slept with her for A YEAR?"

"Hermes told me to, baby!"

"The god Hermes told you to fuck another woman. For a year."

"Penelope, who am I to question the will of the gods? So then we went to the Underworld, and after a quick detour back to see Circe again-"

"YOU WENT BACK?"

"It was important, babe! She had to tell us how to avoid all the sea monsters!"

"The sea monsters."

"Oh, sure – loads of sea monsters out there. The sea is lousy with monsters these days."

"Uh huh. And did you sleep with her again?"

"I mean, it would have been rude not to..."

"ODYSSEUS."

"Will of the gods, baby, will of the gods! So anyway we're headed home for real this time, but the men ignored my extremely excellent advice and ate one of Helios' sacred cattle while I was asleep, and Zeus killed them all. Damndest thing. So I wash up naked on this beach with a beautiful nymph, and well, one thing kinda led to another..."

"Did you sleep with her for a year too?"

"Of course not!"

"Well, that's a relief."

"It was seven."

"SEVEN?"

"She bewitched me! I was bewitched! Can't fault a guy for what he does when he's bewitched, can you?"

"And did you meet any other women on this epic journey of yours?"

"Well, there was this teenage princess..."

"ODYSSEUS!"

"Nothing happened, babe, I swear! I just washed up naked on the beach right in front of her. Nice girl, you'd like her."

"Odysseus, this is the second time you've just happened to wash up naked on a beach right in front of a beautiful woman."

"I know! Crazy, right? Anyway, when I told her parents everything that had happened, they were so amazed that they gave me all this gold and a ride straight home so I could be with my beloved."

"After 10 years."

"Well yeah, straight home after 10 years. Don't forget the sea monsters, babe!"

"The sea monsters that you are conveniently the only person left alive to have witnessed."

"I don't love where you're going with that..."

"Odysseus, do you know what I did while you were gone?"

"...Waited faithfully for me?"

"I raised your son, ran your kingdom, kept a hundred men from taking your throne, and spent three years weaving and unweaving the same fucking burial shroud every night to keep them off my back."

"That's... actually very clever."

"Thank you."

"You know, between the two of us, that's really more my–"

"Finish that sentence and I'm sending you back to the Cyclops."

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

When we started Project Fugu, an obvious gap was IoT. Why should anyone download privacy-invasive native app to configure a new talking puck or "smart toy"?

Tickled pink to discover that not only is @homeassistant continuing to lean on the open web, even tasks like firmware flashing use the safer, open APIs we built into the browser:

https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/25800241218717-Reinstalling-the-firmware-on-Home-Assistant-Voice-Preview-Edition

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

moi

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

This would make a sick album cover (me at 16).