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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
moira@mastodon.murkworks.net ("Solarbird :flag_cascadia:") wrote:

i wanted some ceiling mounted wire trays but they work out to $26 a linear foot with all the parts included and you know what isn't $26 a linear foot? vinyl gutters.

#LowVoltage #diy #WireTray #solar

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

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort

Crossposted with @openvibe

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
book@beige.party ("Book") wrote:

@fromjason *ick shudder of doom*

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Trying to explain GPS precision to a bunch of ham radio folks (who are endlessly debating this with no knowledge of the topic)

Just going to send them this comic strip lol

https://xkcd.com/2170/

#gps #gis #mapping

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mynameistillian@plush.city ("carbon cringe emissions 🦊🇰🇿 :antifa:") wrote:

*valley girl voice*: i must, like, not fear. fear is *literally* the mind-killer. like it’s basically the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will *totally* face my fear. i will permit it to pass over me and through me, and? when it’s gone? i'm gonna like turn the inner eye to see its path! where the fear has gone there will be *literally* nothing. only i will remain.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BernieSanders@mastox.eu ("Bernie Sanders") wrote:

Sergey Brin is leading a $90 million ad campaign to stop California's 5% billionaire wealth tax.

He is $133 billion richer since Trump's election.

But that's apparently not enough. He'd rather children lose access to healthcare than pay his fair share.

Greed is a sickness.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
andnull@social.nouveau.community ("yeah, and?") wrote:

Grades exist to produce a metric which is used to certify your worth to people which gatekeep your right to life. What on earth did you think would happen? People wouldn't game the system? That the metric wouldn't replace the practice? If that's the case, students aren't the only one losing the ability to think critically.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
3psboyd ("Matt Boyd") wrote:

I saw a pretty major contributor to Rust projects making the case for LLMs being used in programming, and one of the things they liked is that you can ask it all the technical questions you want without feeling embarrassed, and what an indictment of the work culture of software engineering that is.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
andnull@social.nouveau.community ("yeah, and?") wrote:

Reading up on the whole thing with AI in education and reading teachers and other educators wax poetically about what education is actually about really makes me realize they don't understands what happens after their grades are handed out. From a teacher's prespective a grade is simply feedback.

But, as a student it decided if I was reward or punished. It wasn't a tool to help me improve, it was a number I needed to maintain so I could see my friends and avoid getting grounded or a belt across my ass. It was a number that decided if I could graduate and earn a livable income or struggle with low paying jobs.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

"English is weird: 'I'm sorry' and 'I apologise' mean pretty much the same thing. Except when you're at a funeral." -- Demitri Martin

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

People are sometimes like ugh you work with software engineering you must live that bougie exalted tech life, but my wife is a teacher and I'm a psychologist y'all, we rescued a toaster from the alley behind our last apartment and we're currently having a fierce debate about whether we should replace Alley Trash Toaster with a new one

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
amethyst@n7.gg ("Amethyst 🌸") wrote:

The sales spam emails for GitHub projects have discovered the concept of negging

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bnys@lasersword.club ("brendan (ジャンク品)") wrote:

@jalefkowit Someone asked what I'd do if I were 17. I'd learn the ancient forbidden science of alchemy, then turn everything around me into gold. it's so simple but this is why you're poor

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

How old am I? Old enough that I would still be super excited if I was offered a cameo on The Simpsons

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

One, it's sad when people die of things that are easily prevented through modern medicine; Two, fuck RFK Jr and this whole asshole administration for driving down vaccination rates so that herd immunity no longer protects those who for whatever reason can't/don't get vaccinated; Three, fucking get vaccinated, people

https://abcnews.com/Health/2-people-die-measles-pennsylvania/story?id=135932723

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

The next time you check the prices of RAM, be sure to think of Manton and his need to have a whole-ass datacenter handle this task for him.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Bro is out there lighting the planet on fire to do the same thing that the Reminders app on his phone could do.

“We’ve barely scratched the surface of what is possible.” 🫩

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

The ‘No to reopening negotiations with the EU’ campaign here in Iceland is now just aggressively broadcasting outright lies in their ads. (The people responsible seem to all be Centre Party adjacent, natch.)

And there doesn’t seem to be any pushback or reaction in the media that normally attempts to issue corrections to shit like this

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
frank@indieweb.social ("Frank Meeuwsen") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117156557987238827

Mijn standpunt rondom generative AI blijft "it's complicated" maar als je een indieweb manifesto maakt met Claude en dan vooral de tekst laat editten door AI.... tja... dat vind ik echt niet passen.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117156737187768724

“Why are you so angry, Adam? Why are you so loud?”

*This* is why. If I’m not angry about all of this, then I’ve resigned myself to the problem. If I’m not loud, then I’m not using my voice (which I’m incredibly privileged to have).

I’m not saying everyone else should be loud and angry. But it’s always a good thing when other privileged people consider how they can apply their privilege toward addressing our problems, rather than using it to perpetuate them.

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

I had forgotten about Fiwix:

https://www.fiwix.org/

There's also xv6:

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.1810/2026/xv6.html

And of course the classic MINIX:

http://www.minix3.org/

Plus any number of similar projects and more mainstream options like NetBSD that could be suitable alternatives to the Linux kernel in some circumstances. 🤔

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

@neatnik Quite possibly! I know some folks get unreasonably paranoid about em dashes. I just noticed there was some nice parallel construction in the original version that went away in the published text, which had a vibe of an LLM “helpfully” sanding down prose to be a bit more, well, median.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Stoori@polyglot.city ("Hot MILF in your area") wrote:

you fucked around the whole summer, didn't you? and now it's fin d'août

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
RolloTreadway@beige.party wrote:

UK friends! Or just friends who like UK maps.

For the next few days, you can buy two Ordnance Survey maps and get a third for a penny, with the code PENNYMAP. Free delivery in most cases too.

https://shop.osmaps.com/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
maxfenton@mas.to ("Max Fenton") wrote:

real bad!

https://www.wired.com/story/us-data-centers-drive-gas-power-expansion/

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

@chipotle And yet even that was almost certainly written by Claude. Besides some of the telltale writing conventions, why else would he want to hide those beautiful em dashes later? https://social.lol/@neatnik/117156581362707129

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Stay tuned for my upcoming piece, ”The IndieWeb is Full of Poseurs”. There will *not* be T-shirts or stickers.

But in all seriousness: I actually don't care if anyone uses AI tools. I don't use them, but you do you. What I do care about is honesty and transparency, and I also think that the methods should align with the message. It is batshit crazy to use tools antithetical to the IndieWeb to create a message purporting IndieWeb values. These LLM-pilled guys have lost the plot.

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

@neatnik An ironic thing: the first check-in of the manifesto, which I suspect is the one before Claude’s edits, is markedly better.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

“Claude, please remove the em dashes to make this look less like you wrote it.” https://github.com/jimmitchell/indiewebispunk.net/commit/a4765d2b

more like “The IndieWeb Got Punk’d”

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

Congressional report says that US AI datacenters *tripled* water usage. (Most especially due to increased electricity generation, but also for cooling.) https://forgeeks.net/us-data-centers-water-use-17-billion-gallons/

And that data is from 2023. 2023!!! What would it be like now?