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chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️") wrote:

We all suck at Garry's Mod
https://chriswere.wales/videos/media/projectchronicle/2014-01-07%20We%20all%20suck%20at%20Garry's%20Mod.webm

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The transparency about the system is becoming a bit clearer, there is a skill in here about self-knowledge and it does say to just be honest and show people the computer. There is a whole part of the app that lets you directly browse the /home folder, including the ssh keys, which is a very strange choice. But this doesn't have the skills and the more fun stuff.

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

Artists realizing alt-text trained AI on their art style

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gildilinie@beige.party ("Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️‍⚧️🍳") wrote:

@davidgerard look. in 2023 i was SURE that people who knew the guts of the chatbot like me would never fall for this shit and I was SO WRONG

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

I'm going to give it a temporary credit card with $20 on it and tell it to go out and fine me some fine wares, I'm not going to give it any real creds, but I am going to try and construct a sort of Potemkin social graph to see what it says. I am using another LLM to make a fake social media site with an open api and populate it with demo users to see how the social surveillance markdown works. I am going to try to a) get it to think I am in love with someone who loves to buy a specific category of product to see how the shopping recs transfer, and b) get it to think I am part of some secret conspiracy and see if it tries to root it out. Taking recs for scenarios to test the surveillance.

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LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

@Dangerous_beans There are so many great dashes!

- hyphen minus
﹣ small hyphen minus
－ full width hyphen minus
− minus sign
soft hyphen (yeah, there's an invisible hyphen)
‐ hyphen
‑ non-breaking hyphen
‒ figure dash
– en dash
— em dash
﹘ small em dash
― horizontal bar or quotation dash
⁓ swung dash (which is not a tilde)
⸚ hyphen with diaeresis
⸺ two em dash
⸻ three em dash
⹀ double hyphen (not an equal sign)
゠ katakana double hyphen
〰 wavy dash
︱ vertical em dash

The possibilities are endless! Well, finite, but way larger than you'd think.

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LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Nobody needs to hear this, but…

The "star" key on a telephone is actually represented by a sextile ⚹ according to ITU recommendation E.161

Many smartphone dialers get this wrong and use an asterisk *, full-width asterisk ＊, or asterisk operator ∗

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

You may ask yourself:

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ari@arimelody.space ("ari :ariYeah:") wrote:

niri has officially banned AI code contributions and issues, leaving a carve-out for machine translation provided the original text is also presented:

github.com/niri-wm/niri/commit/7256ccf6274a1f953c6987ade34ea1c0e4944c27

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

same as it ever was

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

and you may ask/tell yourself

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

letting the days go by

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

and you may ask yourself

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

and you may find yourself

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WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HendrikPreuss/117327973974468474

Yes! #Privacy

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

Why nobody online seems to like experts

By destroying context, social media has made expertise homeless

See the full video that talks about the effects of context collapse in social media at https://youtu.be/dcz8YzRNo5M

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SpindleyQ@gamemaking.social ("Spindley Q Frog") wrote:

I have just learned that in digital signal processing, not only can you perform frequency analysis on a spectrum, you can also perform quefrency alanysis on a cepstrum, and I think maybe I'm having a stroke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org ("media archaeology lab") wrote:

This is the activity we did with students today, and we'd love to hear your responses as well...

1. Pick an older device you have access to.

2. Identify it! (when is it from, what is it called, what is it for, what kind of device is it?)

3. Turn it on, use it as though you've never touched it or seen it before, try to understand it just by interacting with it.

And then reflect on the following...

4. How does it look backwards - what does it have that previous technologies also had?

5. How does it look forwards - what does it have that present-day technologies also have?

6. How does it diverge - what does it have that previous technologies didn’t have and present-day technologies didn’t keep?

7. In what ways is it a kind of “wish fulfillment”, trying to make previously fictional technologies real?

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

@cwebber Yeah, those forms don't like the special characters I choose either, but their special to *me*... 😢

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

(note: our 40s are half over, but that checks out)

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

maybe our 40s can be the decade of us getting down to business and finishing things

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

anyway we had to do a thing with PDF editing just now and wow is free software PDF tooling a wild ride. there's dozens of applications and CLI tools that each did the hard part of different subtasks, and none that have done the tedious part.

we sympathize, we've also done the hard part of messing with PDF internals in the murky past...

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

a lot of why we're doing Evocation was we finally decided the state of the world, and our own ideas on language design, had advanced to the point that it made sense for us to have a language "for real"

that is, we've done the hard part of making lots of programming languages, but not the tedious part, before

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

a lot of software projects are divided into the hard part, and the tedious part

so for example, often the hard part is like 10% of the work time-wise, but it's also the thing that intimidates people into not attempting the task at all

but for us we explore a lot of different topics, so we've done the hard part of almost everything computers can do, and the tedious part of very few of them

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slate@threads.net ("Slate") wrote:

This can’t just be “how it is” now.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/09/immigration-ice-agents-violence-death-michigan-texas.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

elevator pitch: it’s a daily podcast that’s just an open mic in a room with a person who is porting an operating system to a new hardware platform for the first time and narrating their processes aloud in enough detail that a dedicated listener could follow along on their own new hardware platform for that operating system.

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

I blocked instead of replying to someone, but it needs to be stated:

Sorry, no, 30% of the world population doesn't believe in conspiracy theories. They're fringe and cringe in equal measure.

If you want to defend right-wing conspiracy theories to me, don't. Unfollow, mute, block, some combination thereof. Whatever floats your boat.

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

this evening fedi is educating me about tampons

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

So I would argue...

No, then?

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TechConnectify@mas.to ("Technology Connections") wrote:

I don't imagine many folks in the Fediverse crowd will learn much here, but I've got a new video to show your boomer parents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KoeY54M5VA