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leroy jenkins maneuver
Picked up some light reading in the No Starch Press holiday sale!
The early access ebook programme is a brilliant idea - it's not yet published, but I already have access to pretty much the entire book except the index. #RunBSD
when i got my first tamagotchi, the stats screen reported its weight in "lb". i assumed the tamagotchi designers had invented some fanciful unit of mass called "lobes". my cousin tried to convince me that "lbs" are "pounds", but he was obviously lying -- how is "lb" supposed to stand for "pound"?
@lynnesbianLynnesbian 
it used to be a p, but it was so heavy it fell over
they tried bolting on an extra post for support, but to no avail
I'm dreaming of a white discourse
just like the ones I used to know
where posters are racist
and hide their faces
behind anime photos
you're a mean one
Reply Grinch
you're a problematic fool
you're a centrist lib apologist
an ableist discourse ghoul
Reply GriiiiINCH
I wouldn't @ you with
a ten-post thread spooooool
[closing jazz music]
Bought myself a drawing tablet for #christmas. Didn't even have to install any software for it
@kde already got all the required bells n whistles right in the system settings
I love linux.
The improvements in the Linux desktop line up perfectly with the adoption and maturation of systemd and Wayland.
¯\(◉‿◉)/¯
トップをねらえ！はいいぞおじさん「トップをねらえ！はいいぞ」
「古すぎて語れる人少ないけど、今こそ見てほしい」ってアニメ、あなたの一本は？→令和の今こそ語りたい懐かしの作品が続々と集まる - Togetter https://togetter.com/li/2643429
leroy jenkins maneuver
How long until Google/ABC will have to admit that AI slop in 4K causes YouTube storage costs to explode in ways that are tough to justify to their shareholders?
UPDATE: "Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos." https://www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop-report-the-global-rise-of-low-quality-ai-videos/
懐かしい。私が子供の頃でもあったな
「こんなの解けるわけない！」話題の〝アーモンド型〟面積問題、母も思わず検索した難問に共感殺到「大人でも無理」｜まいどなニュース https://maidonanews.jp/article/16220522
The most popular social media platform among US adults isn't Instagram or TikTok
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-most-popular-social-media-platform-among-us-adults-isnt-instagram-or-tiktok-195823871.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BRANDS EDU 
@social-media-for-brands-edu-JanetteSpeyerSOCIAL MEDIA FOR BRANDS EDU
Got Jen’s dad a new telephoto lens for Christmas and today this dude showed up in their yard.
A reminder to my fellow NYC dog owners that snow does not somehow dissolve or evaporate dogshit, and you still have to pick up. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
"horseshoe theory" and other bullshit
also fyi this is now the second time ive heard "horshoe theory" and like the first; it was said by some fash licking neoliberal shithead and then you look inside and its like trying to claim how "eat the rich" is genuinely an endorsement of cannibalism or something
Stresstesting the printer that prints the fediverse my friend set up at #39c3
関西はまだ真っ暗やな
musing on the em-dash, the Hottest Typographical Instrument of 2025
i've picked up a weird typing quirk (no, not the homestuck thing).
so LLMs have brought the em-dash into the public consciousness since they love to use it so much. i've read so many articles discussing what an em-dash even is because of this.
now that i've actually (sort of) learned what an em-dash is and how it works, i've ended up using it when i write. i have a weird aversion to non-ascii typography such as smart quotes, so i use two dash characters instead of the actual em-dash character. this means i write (e.g.) code comments like id has no parent -- its parent is therefore the root node. i also use less semicolons than i used to.
so, weirdly enough, LLMs have influenced my typing -- not through my (infrequent) use of them, but by the articles written about the way they write. thankfully, the pseudo-em-dash is the only thing i've picked so far.
tests are showing cheesiness levels at 100%
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The term "friendslop" still brings a very specific mental image to me and it's obscenely sexual
出勤！しゅっきーーん！！
"Today, mathematics is regarded as a supremely abstract science. On forums such as Stack Exchange, trained mathematicians regularly sneer at newcomers who ask for intuitive explanations of mathematical constructs. Indeed, persistently trying to relate the foundations of math to reality has become the calling card of online cranks."
-- 
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-has-mathematics-gotten-so-abstract
how the fuck does one write a good README.md
does anyone know projects with excellent practices in that regard?
specifically, i want to describe what is going on in my 10k LoC nixos flake that i use as an entrypoint to deploy all my servers and import my other projects. assume i have no clue about documentation practices whatsoever.
친척 결혼식에 가요. 아직도 어둡네
tests are showing cheesiness levels at 100%
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There's only one right answer here.
How long until Google/ABC will have to admit that AI slop in 4K causes YouTube storage costs to explode in ways that are tough to justify to their shareholders?
UPDATE: "Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos." https://www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop-report-the-global-rise-of-low-quality-ai-videos/
지금 독일에서 논의되고 있는 실명제는 인터넷상의 게시글에 실명을 의무적으로 표기하고자 하는 방안이며 한국과 같은 본인확인제는 없지만 필명의 사용이 허용되었던 한국의 이전 법률보다 어떻게 보면 더욱 심한 조치입니다.
일단 당장은 바이에른과 베를린 주정부 수준에서 논의되고 있고 다른 주와 연방법무부장관은 안하겠단 입장입니다.
www.zeit.de/digital/date...
Digitale Anonymität: Bundesjus...
Has there been any attempts at integrating Fedi stuff with open databases, such as those for movies and games?
Edit:
Found NeoDB!
#fediverse #activitypub #db #databases #movies #games #music
@malwaretechMarcus Hutchins It's like 1999 and the New Economy! And all the money that went into Y2K "readiness."
one thing that i do like about imperial measurements is how so many of them are just named after the thing they are.
everyone's got feet, right? and they're kinda long? good for measuring stuff. let's all agree on The Standard Foot and measure everything with it.
how heavy is this sack of flour? i dunno, like two stone's worth. let's standardise this and call it The Stone. and for smaller things, we'll use pounds, from the latin "ponda", meaning "weight". this guy weighs 70kg, or about 150 Weight Units
@christianschwaegerlChristian Schwägerl
1) That's not me. Go argue with those people directly.
2) One great part of the Fediverse is that you don't have to use anything you don't want to. Anyone who doesn't want to use subscriptions or ads or donations or whatever doesn't have to.
@christianschwaegerlChristian Schwägerl
1) That's not me. Go argue with those people directly.
2) One great part of the Fediverse is that you don't have to use anything you don't want to. Anyone who doesn't want to use subscriptions or ads or donations or whatever doesn't have to.
is there any decent, still live project to take twitter/cohost/other archives and build a static site out of them?
#rustlang API poll: Suppose an API needs to take a name for something. Almost always this is a `&'static str` but rarely it can be an allocated `String`.
Internally it is being used as `Cow<'static, str>`
What would you prefer as a user for such API
beep! beep beep beep! beep!!!
Tilly likes this new box, it’s full of scrunchy paper.
She has had a good Christmas.
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
https://projects.propublica.org/supreme-connections/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #SCOTUS #Law #Ethics #Transparency #Research #Data
朝ごはんを食べてテレビをみてたら疲れた #もうだめだ
most people use laptops on a table, not their laps. you barely ever see someone with a desktop on their desk. and i have never seen anyone take a tablet three times daily with meals
@lynnesbianLynnesbian I had a teacher once insist it was supposed to be "labtop" cuZ you can use it in a lab
Jonesy taking his Caturday responsibilities very seriously. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #JustJonesy #Caturday
Does anyone know of any sex worker friendly/safe instances who allow advertising/content selling?
Grayson waiting for the new year.
I've been trying to use Spotlight more since it learned some new tricks in macOS Tahoe. It's launch animation was discouraging slow, but enabling Reduce Motion in System Settings sped it up nicely.
That's a system-wide setting, but I have a feeling that I'll probably prefer it globally.
Stefano Marinelli
phildini
Evan Prodromou
＠3/23(日)
東京オフ主催 
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
🫧 socialcoding..
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Danny Garside
