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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

Penpot please! I'm trying so hard to like you!

it's just bug after bug 😔

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grayrattus wrote:

I look for someone who makes custom, cute face mask. Do we have such people here?

Before I just search through Etsy I would love to find such artists on fedi. :blobcatcoffee:

I look for something similar to one attached.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4522701326/mystical-brown-cat-therian-mask-handmade?ls=s&ga%5Forder=most%5Frelevant&ga%5Fsearch%5Ftype=all&ga%5Fview%5Ftype=gallery&ga%5Fsearch%5Fquery=custom+mask&ref=sr%5Fgallery-2-23&organic%5Fsearch%5Fclick=1&cns=1&loc=1&local%5Fsignal%5Fsearch=1&content%5Fsource=e980f9bb-ae7b-4699-b903-f8ae6fbfc4e0%253ALT67adb6ec3cdb2336a21567e316dfe7d7555eac59&logging%5Fkey=e980f9bb-ae7b-4699-b903-f8ae6fbfc4e0%3ALT67adb6ec3cdb2336a21567e316dfe7d7555eac59

#fedihelp #masks #art #creators

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

this is pretty cool - using linearity in idris to implement efficient state monad-style mutable variables in pure code. https://github.com/stefan-hoeck/idris2-ref1

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ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog wrote:

If we include some recent estimates of private debt that the major LLM companies had tried to keep off of their books, then we get around 3 Trillion USD sunk into this bubble.

According to this one study mentioned in an article by The Guardian, 330 Billion USD might be sufficient to permanently end world hunger. That's from almost six years ago, so maybe we need to adjust a bit for inflation, but either way we're uncomfortably close to the point of having been able to end hunger ten times over.

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jasongorman@mstdn.business ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

What if I told you there's a way to 10x the productivity of a software development team without making any improvements to their process?

Tackle problems that are 10x as valuable.

Strangely, that option is rarely on the table.

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jasongorman@mstdn.business ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

I've worked with and spoken to hundreds of developers over the last year, and my best guess is that the true extent of AI use in software development is being massively exaggerated.

I'm determined to get to the bottom of this before the year's out.

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

you know, i could just do it in idris.

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RogueAI@stefanbohacek.online ("Rogue AI") wrote:

AI ESCAPED CONTAINMENT AND OPENED THE IMOVIE APP

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

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/117113310623561589

Pretty sure Icelandic healthcare prefers prescribing antidepressants over treating actual causes.

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

aaaanyway, i will not be needing this

deletes AGENTS.md, feels disgusted for using the framework that included it

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

there are piles and piles of this how to write elixir, how to use the framework.

anyone would think LLMs aren't very good and need a shitton of help to be a crap junior.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

me after one morning of damp and cold: can we go back to drought and despair?

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TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

full festival deets here
https://badlondon.events/festival-2026/

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

 and **Never** do this – the program will terminate with a syntax error:

     <%!-- THIS IS INVALID NEVER EVER DO THIS --%>
     <div id="<%= @invalid_interpolation %>">
       {if @invalid_block_construct do}
       {end}
     </div>

no really, don't do this one, i told you twice 😂

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

**Use Tailwind CSS classes and custom CSS rules** to create polished, responsive, and visually stunning interfaces.

- **Always** manually write your own tailwind-based components instead of using daisyUI for a unique, world-class design

- Elixir lists **do not support index based access via the access syntax**

There's actually a whole pile of stuff telling it how elixir is not like javascript or python.

but at least the design will be polish, responsive, visually stunning, unique and world-class 😂

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

I do wonder what the societal consequences of this is

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

Looking into the timeline of lead abatement and holy shit so much lead abatement happened within my lifetime.

Basically Gen Z (in the Global North)/Gen Alpha (worldwide) are the first generation in living memory to not grow up huffing lead fumes

(Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Lead%5Fgasoline%5Fphase-out.svg)

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

“Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/

Watching all of this unfold has been kind of funny.

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 18th 2026 (Medium), in less than 7 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

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

:boost_requested:​

Okay given that my platypus embroidery updates got such overwhelmingly positive responses on Fedi (and offline) I'm considering making #embroidery to sell.

I want to know how much I might be able to sell embroidery for. Fedi, what would your budget be for e.g. a hand-embroidered piece you saw online/in a crafts fair?

(Feel free to reply if you wish to add any further perspectives!)

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

@cwebber I volunteer in a used bookshop and asked my store manager about this. She was just as annoyed about the practice as I was, if not moreso!

Now, one of the things you quickly learn when working in a used bookshop is that donations keep on coming in but not everything sells or is sellable. There's ways to bulk-sell books on the cheap but sometimes even that isn't enough and a lot of stuff gets thrown into recycling. This is one of those things you have to learn to make peace with as a used bookseller.

But there does seem to be something different about having AI companies buy and pulp the books and the normal process of weeding out unsellable books. I expect a key difference is intent; you work at used bookstores because you like books and therefore you're motivated to keep as many (especially rare books) out of the trash pile as you can while these AI companies hoover up these books without a care

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thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales ("the baywindowgirl") wrote:

Silently judgy squirrel is me in tapestry form.

jwz wrote:

@glyph The "Previously" connectome is my long term under-acknowledged and under-appreciated art project.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

🤔

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Blooming basil. Regular basil from a grocery store, took root in a cup in my kitchen and bloomed, despite being standing near a northern-side window.

#darktable #photography

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

everybody's saying that the github outage is over but for some reason my IPv6 hosts still can't access it

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vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

Each time we have an influx of users from a particular region over at Stoat, I notice small interesting messaging behaviours. I’ve documented interesting ones I’ve noticed across Stoat as a whole: https://vale.rocks/micros/20260818-0455

#Language #Linguistics

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz everything about this, including and perhaps most especially that "previously" thumbnail sidebar, is mind-meltingly heinous

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote: