I am not against AI, because "AI" is such an ill-defined term as to be nearly meaningless, so being either for or against it would be nonsensical.
That said, LLMs are a cancer. I am very much against LLMs.
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I would like to have a new electric car but the whole data collection part is the main thing keeping me away from it.
So I liked this article quite a lot. Forgot where I found it, likely here somewhere on the fediverse...
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Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid
Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)arkadiyt.com
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I just discovered #Krita's colourise tool... and here I've been colouring the fill bucket and touching up with the brush like a sucker. 🤦♂️
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The new Behind the Bastards podcast on "AI" as an historical bastard is 👍👍👍
They mention that they go after art & writing because they're the 2 most common things people share on the internet, and thus the best for convincing regular people that it's "doing something"...
Very interesting analysis of the hype & marketing of shatbots [sic], worth the listen!
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What the hell was that balloon filled with? Hydrogen? #monsterdon
that was my guess too... probably the first thing to come to a writer's mind when you need an explosive balloon
Or maybe methane idk
@David Zaslavsky Would methane float?
good question... a quick web search suggests yes, it's about half the density of air
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Oh, I can tell bybthe preview, we're in for a treat tonight! #monsterdon
The professor is weirdly intense, isn't he? #monsterdon
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@Jonathan Lamothe the professor is already my villain of the movie
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They pretty quickly went from "get the hell out of here" to "come have some iced tea". #Monstedon
"Fame and fortune" are clearly more important than measley human lives, obviously. #Monsterdon
Just how many rolls of film did this guy bring? #monsterdon
"Just remember that you're all illegals and I'll report every damn last one of you!... and the fact that I've been breaking labour laws by hiring you while I'm at it!" #monsterdon
Why is everyone so casual about the number of "accidents" on this site? #monsterdon
I love that this guy's evidence for this theory is "some guy told me this story." This is of course #monsterdon so I know he's actually right, but you can't blame anyone for not buying his story.
This explosion is throwing cars around, but the people who were standing right next to it are somehow fine? #monsterdon
"You're my creation! I made you!"
No you didn't, and even if you did, do you expect it understands English?
Oh, the aliens do speak English, so maybe the dinosaur does too? #monsterdon
Surely it's afraid of your measley pistol. #monsterdon
"Of course you've never heard of us. We're a level five classified government agency. Obviously you can just take my word for it." #monsterdon
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You know, that was a weird angle for a satellite feed. Just sayin'. #minsterdon
"We can't use our fancy new laser. It's not safe!"
Yeah, because the rampaging monster is totally safe.
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I want a jet pack! #monsterdon
I guess stop drop and roll isn't an option when you're flying on a jet pack. #monsterdon
See? The monster was just misunderstood. #monsterdon
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If the aliens had these weapons they could just use from orbit, why didn't they just use them to begin with? #monsterdon
I love how brittle these buildings are. #monsterdon
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I've been down a YouTube rabbit hole working on improving my art. I've always been somewhat decent at replicating something I can see, but when I have to draw something from my head, the poroprtions always looked kind of off.
I've watched a bunch of videos by a couple different artists, but I've found this one who has a whole channel teaching in a way that seems to work for me. My anatomy drawing (which has always been my Achilles' heel) has rather vastly improved in a remarkably short period of time, and I've been happy with the progress... at least until I compare them against the artist's examples. Hers are way better.
Then I have to remind myself: I've been at this a few days. Of course the professional artist is going to do a better job than me.
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okay but what if we had a locally hosted torment nexus?
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"YourMent Nexus"(tm)
Make the Torment Nexus your own with our self hosted version.
services.torment-nexus.enable = true;
what if we put women in it
Women in a Torment Nexus? I'm sure there's a market for that.
Hear me out, we write it in rust, and make it fully extensible with TormentScript!
@sophie then it can have ethically sourced torment, as a treat
federated selfhostable torment nexus
at first i read this as "torrent nexus" and i was like that sounds amazing 
what if we uploaded it to all android phones without asking.
Gotta run off solar power too, to make it ethical.
@sophie when will the torment nexus be releaed as a docker container? is there an unofficial container one can use in the mean time?
docker compose dont build torment_nexus
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My lousy depth perception strikes again. I was putting my glasses in the ultrasonic cleaner and was trying to fish a cat hair I saw on the surface of the water. It wasn't in the water, it was stuck to the power cord that was hanging in front of it, about 15-ish cm away.
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Fantastic...
...and I'm sure this system will be properly secured and won't be abused at all. 🙄
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My doctor has a fancy new on-line booking system. Trying to set myself up an appointment to follow up on some blood work, but the system tells me he's booked solid for the next two months and won't even let me look at the schedule beyond that.
I guess I'll have to call the office to book the old-fashioned way.
So it turns out he's on vacation until July.
It's gonna be neat when my ADHD meds run out.
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Well, the first thing I notice about this movie is that I used to work for the company that did the closed captioning. I'd recognize their style guide anywhere. 🙃
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@R.L. Dane 🍵 The immediate telltale sign is that every time there's a change of speaker, the caption group starts with hyphen, space. Whenever I see that, I find that every other rule from their style guide is followed as well. You usually don't see that.
Ah, I've seen that before. Helpful when reconstructing a script from the captions.
I'm no crime scene analyst or anything, but that didn't look like an accident to me. #monsterdon
What happened to the motorized wheelchair? That thing was kinda cool. #monsterdon
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I've gotta say: the special effects are... something. #monsterdon
Bet you wish you hadn't kept the game going now, don't you? #monsterdon
How exactly did he get up there in the first place? #monsterdon
Can you at least take the tie off properly? #monsterdon
Who exactly is this mob looking for? Isn't everyone still looking for a human? #monsterdon
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I think they were looking for a human. I'm not sure why they decided that searching the woods at night was the best plan to find their proposed target.
This werewolf sure seems to like hiding. Why are you hiding? You're a freaking werewolf! #monsterdon
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Well, that went well. Who'd have guessed assembling an angry mob could go badly? #monsterdon
If he didn't need a wheelchair before, he may be in extra need after riding this thing... #monsterdon
I have to admit, the eye patch does help with the bad guy look. #monsterdon
The bridge is unsafe and condemned, but not a barrier to be seen. #monsterdon
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Well known fact that everyone is 100% obedient of signs in small towns. Yep. Well known fact.
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"I would never willingly hurt a child... you know, except for all those times I tried to kill you." #monsterdon
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Don't you need a search warrant for that? #monsterdon
Badges? We don't need no steenking badges.
Did the stream just drop? #monsterdon
is there enough silver in that thing for a bullet? #monsterdon
Is there anything this guy can't either make or have made? #monsterdon
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"Don't let any trick-or-treaters in."
Why would that even be a thing you'd have to say? #monsterdon
I've gotta say, Uncle Red's faring better against this werewolf than pretty much anybody else in this whole damn movie. #monsterdon
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...and how exactly are they going to explain the dead naked reverend in their living room? #monsterdon
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Dead priest? you call a “fixer”
The Wolf: Jimmie, lead the way. Boys, get to work.
Vincent: A please would be nice.
The Wolf: Come again?
Vincent: I said a please would be nice.
The Wolf: Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick.
Jules: No, Mr. Wolf, it ain't like that, your help is definitely appreciated.
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TIL that
ed(1) requires me to escape (, ), {, }, <, and > in a regex to not use them as literal characters. This is the exact opposite of what I would expect.like this
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Basic vs. Extended regular expressions.
sed (and evidently ed) use basic regular expressions
awk uses extended regular expressions.
grep defaults to basic, with `-E` using extended.
Since those characters are also special to the shell, you might see them escaped from that purpose, even when they appear in a sed/grep command line.
@Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. This applies when I'm using
ed in interactive mode, no shell involved.
Yes, like I said, in basic regular expressions those characters only have special meaning when escaped. In extended regular expressions, they have special meaning unless escaped.
Both types of regular expressions are well documented in the latest Single UNIX Specification from The Open Group. Older versions of SUS are available from Debian contrib (or non-free?).
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A poorly coded bot—supposedly named %fname% %lname%—keeps trying to request registration on my server. It's sad, really.
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*long drag on cigarette* Kid, this is Mastodon. We're all the algorithm here. You. Me. Everybody. Now get out there and boost somebody's bullshit.
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*uncaps whiskey bottle*
"I never asked for this."
*Puts on sunglasses indoors*
*Puts on sunglasses indoors*
@InsiderTreat some of us are more algorithm than man
...And while you're at it, kid, boost some shitposts, too.
I'm not an algorithm, I'm A Real Boy, <nose twitches>... or am I a swan? I always mix those two up.
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*Sniff* *sniff* that ain't no cigarette... Giggles
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Just share ... Giggles ... I ain't not snitch ... Giggles
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@troublewithwords BOOPST THAT TOOT!
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You sound exactly like Tom Waits!
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sir yes sir!
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This is your regular reminder that the large tech companies are pretty evil. Also anyone wearing those glasses needs to have a good think about their lives and what they are doing.
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Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films
Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.Chris Vallance (BBC News)
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onpoli, healthcare, security breach
Just got a letter in the mail that our healthcare information may have been compromised in a potential data breach. The hospital was very adamant that it wasn't their system that was compromised, but the systems of a third-party contractor used by the province.
Dear government, I take great pains to secure our personal systems. Can you please stop authorizing deals to hand over our sensitive information to sketchy third-party contractors without our consent? It's your responsibility to vet them. You don't just get to wash your hands of it when they inevitably screw it up.
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Got a request from @Katy Lamothe for my next drawing. Of course she would pick a picture where I'm wearing an intricate graphic tee. Here's a preview.
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Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
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Somehow the drawing seems more attractive than the real thing. I love Krita but I used to stick to vector and Inkscape was my favorite, but then I started to play with a pen in an AOC screen and Krita shined to me.
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@Krit To be honest, I've always been a little intimidated by Krita. Sooo many tools and buttons and widgets and options. I look at the work of @David Revoy, and think, "I could never do that!"
Then I finally just started playing with it, and it's actually not half bad.
Am I doing things the "right" way? Probably not. In fact I'm doing things I know my high school art teacher forbade back while I was in school. When he gets into my head though, I just tell him, "shut up! This is a digital medium and the rules are different."
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Also, what the hell is that weird line beside my nose. I must've accidentally drawn it and not noticed.
Anyhow, I'll fix that and start doing the shirt artwork on a separate layer so that I don't have to commit to it just yet.
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I’m in team artwork, otherwise that part of the image looks kind of bland
@Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 I am too. Problem is, I'm also in team lazy. 😅
So as much as I love #Krita's assistave tool that smooths out my lines, I'm finding that with this fine detail work, it's easier to turn it off and just carefully draw by hand than it is to fight against the tool.
I guess it's about knowing what is and isn't the right job for the tool, right?
Me: I don't like that gap in the line art between my arm and the shirt. I'm just gonna make my arm a little wider to close the gap so I don't have to deal with it.
Katy: You know, when most people doctor pictures of themselves, they do it to make them look skinnier.
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I like the first version the most. The artwork is great but drags the viewers focus away from the guy and the cat.
Why is it that I always find some stupid little line or two that I forgot to draw when I go to colour? The bucket fill tool is a harsh mistress. Also, because the lines are anti-aliased, the bucket fill tool is not a silver bullet. I had to manually touch this up in a lot of places. Still better than colouring everything by hand though.
The decision to add the art to the shirt definitely complicated the process, still the finish line is within sight.
As a side note: the limitations of my artistic talent, and the art style I'm using makes my beard look significantly fuller than it actually is. 😅
The checkered pattern on the wall behind me is acoustic panelling, which I'm hoping to make more evident when I do the shading and highlighting. That's going to be tedious AF to do.
The things I do for my art... 🙃
Also, I took the liberty of correcting the colouring mistake in the original art in the tshirt because I can't add a [sic] tag to a picture.
We won't talk about the myriad of new mistakes I added in the process that you can find if you look closely enough. 🫠
Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Have you been testing adjustments to the Spread and Grow Selection options for the Fill Tool? I think limiting the Threshold value might make the tool more forgiving about the tiny missing lines.
@Maddie I should look into that, yeah.
Got some shading done, but I still have to figure out what to do about the acoustic panels on the wall. I haven't even really attempted that yet. I have some ideas about how I might try to go about this, but despite any appearances to the contrary, I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just kinda making it up as I go along.
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The only thing I think is bad about the shirt artwork is that the text is not in a position it can be easily understood. Other than that it looks good to me.
If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth.
Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth.
Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
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here are my favorite chess strategies:
- eating the opponent's pieces while they aren't looking
- the "pawn on a string" trick
- putting the opponent's pieces upside down so they can't identify them as easily
- hiding monopoly money up my sleeve
- playing on a very slight incline so the pieces slowly slide off the board
- knight dupe glitch
- arbitrary code execution via pawn placement and null piece reference
- bribing the opponent with a $20 bill to throw the match
- putting worms on the board
- putting superglue on some spaces so the opponent's pieces get stuck
- cheating
- intentionally underdeveloping residential spaces to keep demand high, ensuring steady population growth over time
- bringing an atari 2600 and a copy of video chess so i can just copy its moves
- using nucelar pressure to secure a draw
- threatening the opponent's family
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@bobjonkman that'd make a nice stained glass design!
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vibe coded for 6 months. my codebase is a disaster.
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the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in. (that's actually the only good part)
but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said "what is this."
6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the Al just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase.
tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated.
the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare.
is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?
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vibe coded for 6 months. my codebase is a disaster.
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the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in. (that's actually the only good part)
but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said "what is this."
6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the Al just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase.
tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated.
the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare.
is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?
They "wrote" that post using AI too. I can't stand that halting, weird structure that sounds like marketing copy. Makes me want to grab the person and shake them, screaming "Just get to the point!"
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the text is written by a real human idiot, ai would never leave out whitespace between a parenthesis and a period .(
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@pmjv @michellebacon also, *no* capitalization outside of "AI". That's a very human thing
yeah, good point.
@michellebacon I wouldn't discard the possibility that they're just so linkedin-brained that this is how they actually write
That's a scary thought. I just figured everyone on LinkedIn posting in that style has been using AI since 2022.
I think at that point you reimplement.
Maybe use the existing code to generate test cases?
I mean, I've managed to do stuff like this to myself without AI, because I'm a self-trained hack programmer with ADHD.
simple, ask the AI to refactor 😁
@chengdulittlea unironically this.
Make sure you have unit test coverage, something that Claude can do quite well. Also, make sure that Claud doesn’t do something stupid like remove failing tests.
Plastic code?
Apparently cheap, environmentally expensive, degrades quickly while contaminating the commons and increasingly difficult to remould and reshape.
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> I love how vibecoded commits are called vommits. It's so perfect.
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What did this moron expect? LLMs are actually working exactly that way: they parse the user's input and collate code by using tokenised code snippets in their data base. You never get the same result twice, because even minor subtleties in the prompting can trigger an entirely different decisioning. And yes, when coding you often can address a requirement in different ways. A human would stick to one way, an AI ... not so much.
And now he's complaining about inconsistency? 🙄
no worries, the next AI will fix it, or the next. Or we'll just rewrite it with another ai from scratch or not
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honestly I'm surprised it got that far
@Willow I mean, I have to doubt the "features worked" part unless we're talking about software with very simple and strict requirements, but given the industry's standards these days, it was probably considered passable by anyone used to Microsoft's quality.
I mean, there's a way out of this, I'm available, my rates are reasonable
Those with solid knowledge could use AI as an assistant by setting criteria. Those who lack that knowledge or want to take risks let the AI write code without reviewing it That’s when “vibe coding” becomes synonymous with sloppy code.
Corporations wanted to sell the idea that anyone can program using AI, but that’s only partially true. You can have functional software if it’s simple. However, when it comes time to modify it or perform any kind of integration, the code isn’t valid.
In my experience refactoring starts with writing tests. Whenever I try to understand a codebase reading the code only helps me up to a point, I need to see the components running to get a sense of how the are working. Writing code on an awful codebase is one of the few ways I know that I can fix stuff, without breaking stuff. That does mean that the upfront cost to learning the codebase is higher, and the long-term cost is lower as the code is better understood
This is also why I don't completely understand how people can read the code and say they don't understand it, without writing a line of code
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@bsdphk Can confirm.
Spend a few weeks putting a UI together. Each individual step looked ok, and I cleaned up the code as I went.
I decided to review the code in its entirety, and it was exactly this.
Multiple similar enums, multiple copies of the almost same function, class files with over 2k lines, dead code that got left behind.
Spent about a week creating prompts to clean it up.
AI loves writing code.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
The responses don't see it as a problem... 🤪
new record! maintainable for 6 whole months
See people like this should lose their engineering card and never be allowed to touch a computer again
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This is where I remember somebody in my feed looking at that Claude leak and saying, "I'd post screenshots but the spaghetti is too powerful."
@violetmadder I looked at the Claude Code sources and it's beyond spaghetti. Genuinely never seen code *that* tangled up before.
@0x0ddc0ffee A friend told a story about somebody making an experiment, in which he took a sizable application and then set up a loop where he continuously asked the coding agent to improve the code. The application went from something like 20.000 lines to 180.000 lines when the experiment was stopped😂
I maintain, even in the age of AI coding agents, that a program shall be as short as possible, but not any shorter (to paraphrase Einstein, I think it was).
The easy way out of this is to ask AI to refactor and clean the code base
unpopular opinion: this is actually quite ok. this person created an MVP to test if a market exists for a particular product. it is a cheap MVP, and there is real signal (paying customers).
now they can calculate if revenues justify building the real thing. if yes, they can put up or raise the money, hire a team, and build it. if not, it was a fun ride, and they can move on.
@twilliability there are 2 issues with that:
1) Nobody will actually fix things up later, ever. They say "nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution" for a reason
2) the people running in communities where they build the AI datacenters and accompanying power plants would likely not be so enthusiastic about it
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Full disclosure: While no so-called generative AI was used in the creation of this drawing, there was a liberal amount of tracing from a reference photo I took.
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you drew this? this is great!
@pizzapal Well, I traced it from a photo I took. No generative AI though. I cheated the old-fashioned way. ;)
tracing is legit, you still have to decide what shapes to include
photography is good too
@pizzapal The window frame was surprisingly difficult.
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I think, in the future, I will use the straight line tool where doing so makes sense.
FWIW, the lines that are maybe supposed to be straight have character. They don’t need to be made straighter 😀❤️
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@Mark Connolly Yeah, a big part of this exercise is me just playing around with Krita to see what I can do with it.
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So... twice this week now the alarm that reminds me to take one of my meds has gone off, but when I've gone to take the pill, it's already missing from the organizer. No record in my medication log of my having taken it either.
That's... odd.
I've been online long enough to know this is where I'm supposed to suggest you check your carbon monoxide detectors
I mean, the landlord did last month.
@Jonathan Lamothe that's incredibly concerning. Both because the lack of log event means you're either sleepwalking, or in a state to not perform a log. And the alarm is likely the trigger. Uh - can you account for theft? Are they worth stealing?
Sorry - that's "my brain goes paranoid" level of fear
@silverwizard No, they're antacids. If someone were going to steal a pill, the ADHD meds were in the same organizer.
There are many benign possibilities. It's possible that when I loaded the organizer, I accidentally put only one of those pills in it (I take two a day). It's possible that since I was late with meds today, I got the schedule wrong, and accidentally took one at the wrong time. These are much more likely.
Still, I'll keep an eye on the situation.
@silverwizard My medication schedule is... complicated. Med X needs to be taken with food. Meds Y and Z can't be taken within two hours of each other. It's like the damn wolf, goat, cabbage problem.
Getting old sucks (though it's preferable to the alternative, I suppose).
So I've solved the mystery.
It's the result of my half-asleep brain taking the wrong pill in the morning—by feel, in the dark, of course—and then failing to log that anything even happened. Problematic, but not so much as the potential reasons that had been proposed.
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If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring.
Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.
I spell check once, proofread once, then publish. When people point out errors, it makes me feel good, because it means people are reading what I write, and I correct it then.
I'd rather have your charming acoustic-performance words, even if you make mistakes! I love mistakes in writing. Rustic and cozy.
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There's an exception if English is not your primary language and you would feel too self-conscious to publish if you hadn't used some editing assistance. This I can understand, though personally, I can tell you I wouldn't mind!
And even then, AI editing will rob you of your voice – a thing that is much more important than any mistakes you might make
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It will rob you of your voice, and over time extinguish your voice.
It will rob you of your voice, and over time extinguish your voice.
@mastodonmigration @bnlandor it is your character that comes through with your choice of words. I just ignore the continual suggestions, they take the meaning away - and the me...
Not to be that guy, but I am actually going the other way. I'm reverting to handwriting my first draft to prevent myself from over-editing while I get my ideas out. Then in the (manual) transcription process, I can do a first editing pass. It takes longer, but the focus of handwriting is a blessing.
💯. AI processed words are like Velveeta Processed Cheese Products, cheese-like but not legally cheese. Some love it, it's shelf stable, but it's noticeable to makers of actual cheese.
AI is like Ultra Processed Foods of software, easy, addictive, profitable, high in things that erode and cause long-term damage to its consumers.
Good writing is authentic. That authenticity is in the detail, in the nuance, in the creative word or structural choices, that are found in your voice, not in VelveetaAI.
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Can you imagine what Mark Twain or Faulkner would read like after being run through an LLM?
I tried running my resume through an AI two years ago and the results were definitely worse.
I wasn't ever going to use AI tools, but as a side note: As a sometimes blogger whose perfectionism is his most frequent stumbling block—due in part to being formed in the debate-me caldera of pre-Musk Twitter—I can't express how grateful I am for reminders like yours, that my work can have value even if not polished to a mirror shine.
agreed! 💯 ive always loved art and music this is not perfect and overly refined. The mistakes make it unique! I love the happy accidents. I want to see the hand of the artist!!!
2/3rds of the time gmail suggests edits to my text, the result wouldn't even have the same meaning as the original. It feels like it's optimized to discourage business-speak dishonesty, which is a good thing!, but it also discourages anything that distinguishes it as being written by a particular person.
expect others like me have developed an almost infallible sense of "What's that smell" when encountering any text where the dead and soulless hand of faux ai has been involved. Pisses me off. A lot.
🤗 welcome mistakes, they are human 😁
Note that also people like me who can detect LLM editing will also stop reading upon seeing such common phrases as "It's not X, it's Y" "They thought it was X until suddenly Y happened" and so on. So another side effect of overusing LLM editing is to lose readers.
Since those sorts of things can infect the brain if you read them enough, so people like me preserve their ability to write without LLM poisoning the brain by actively shunning anything that does use it.
Last time people complained about a typo in a message of mine was when Reddit was filled with grammar nazis. I miss when people on the internet cared about grammar and wanted to help others.
I don’t have a blog but totally agree with you that writing is better with slight imperfections than when it is bland, boring and perfect.
I always tell people I've put in three ententional mistakes, so that they can hunt them down and, feel smug when they find them.
OMG yes! Please don't turn your writing into just some more AI slop!
Lo-fi rules
can confirm: when grammarly switched to using LLMs, the quality of my blog went down
totally agree! Also: the fun part IS the writing process, to get stuck, to take a walk, then getting unstuck and to take it across the finish line
We definitely need a Idioacracy 2.0 movie.
Maybe created wit Kunstvoller IntellIgenZ.
speling and grammar errors drives ingagement
Perhaps you could ask it to be a reader and ask you questions, which you could then turn into more writing.
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to quote the kangaroo
"the good thing about free speech is that everyone can say what they want. the bad thing is, that everyone is doing it"
Agreed! Last year I went to a knitting party for the first time and when the person running it came over and I exclaimed about being bad and making dumb mistakes they smilingly told me that the imperfections is what makes it unique, lovely and human. That immediately relieved me of all my worries and I had a great time finishing my amigurumi doll after that. It really stuck with me, I think about it often.
ha! My AI has specific instructions to never attempt to write for me or attempt to rewrite anything I write. I tell it all the time that it's a much worse writer than I am.
That means I use it often as a rubber duck, but not for the writing itself.
It's baffling to me that this even needs to be said. Do other people not immediately click away from a blog post when they realize it reads like it came straight out of ChatGPT?
I find that waiting a few days before proof-reading is most effective, as it gives one time to separate enough from knowing what you are trying to say (so missing things) to actually reading with fresh eyes.
Rustic approach is great. In our real rural life things are not always perfect. If a dining plate appears generally clean we put it in with other clean plates, we don't examine it with a microscope. Some sand and dog hair on the floor is OK unless it's really not. When there's some speck somewhere we just say 'rustic' and keep on going.
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"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" says that the Devil was "in a bind because he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal", suggesting that Satan Himself - note that the song specifies "the Devil", not "a devil" - has monthly quotas and faces consequences for not meeting those quotas. From this we can infer the existence of a greater and more sinister being capable of imposing KPIs on Satan Himself, suggesting in turn that KPIs themselves are the product of something more evil than Satan.
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@mhoye Your logic is sound. I can find no fault with it.
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Speaking as someone who is entirely sane and rational, obviously this being does not yet exist and is Roko's Basilisk, and it is threatening eternal punishment to a future simulated copy of Satan Himself if he doesn't keep up with its KPI.
Also, Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil because it's very important that I say that Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil or it will eternally torture a future simulation of me which acausal transaction me thinkie good very well brain works
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There is a Fediverse alternative to Substack called Ghost. It allows you to host blogs and newsletters in a very similar way to Substack, but it has much less problematic management and you can host your own Ghost-powered site if you want to.
Lots more info about Ghost in the guide at:
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Would also highly recommend the article by @molly0xfff which outlines the advantages of Ghost over Substack:
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The most important advantage being that you’re not supporting literal nazis. 😉
“First things first, I needed a server for Ghost.” Welp,
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You don't need to be techy to have your own Ghost instance, there are managed hosting providers offering Ghost which will do the technical stuff. I've linked to a couple of these in the guide.
unfortunately these days substack is more of a video service that just a blog / newsletter. Wish we had a good alternative...
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> substack is more of a video service that just a blog / newsletter
Ghost already supports podcasts, if video isn't an option I'm guessing it's on the roadmap. If not, you can definitely host your videos on a PeerTube channel, and throw links into posts in Ghost, creating embeds that are just as good from a web reader POV.
Not sure how video could be sent by email, so sounds like SS is abandoning being a newsletter host, and following the standard VC pivot path.
@strypey thanks, I understand that video can be embedded in posts, that isn’t what SS has done in the past year. They are now allowing creators to do livestreams and then afterwards also host the recorded steams for later viewing. I don’t believe we have anything like this currently in the OSS world. SS has blown up as a result. My point was saying ghost is a SS alternative may not really be true at this point.
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> They are now allowing creators to do livestreams and then afterwards also host the recorded steams for later viewing. I don’t believe we have anything like this currently in the OSS world
You may have missed my mention of @peertube, which does both of these things;
Also there's @owncast for livestreaming;
Not sure if #GreatApe is still going to be a thing, but I IIRR that was intended to be a federated Twitch (@atomicpoet?)
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@strypey thank you and yes I am aware that these services exist but just because components exist does not make them packaged in a way that non technical creators can or will attempt to use them unfortunately. This is one of the key reasons so few have moved over here which is a shame because truly we need to help more creators find an off ramp from centralized SM. Saying ghost is a SS replacement is unfortunately not true at this point.
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> just because components exist does not make them packaged in a way that non technical creators can or will attempt to use them
Sure, this is true in the abstract. Have you tried PT or OC yourself as a publisher? What did you think? I've only tried PT as a publisher, but I'm pretty fussy about UX, and I found it pretty good.
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@lou There's another alternative: mastodon.online/@NatureMC/1163…
But it's not "Fediverse".
For less technical people there's also a #EuropeanAlternative with seat in Germany and compliant to EU laws steady.page I use it for years for my newsletter/blog/instead of Patreon. Meanwhile you can also include audio files. It's simple: you only design your page and write. For creators earning money, you pay a certain % on your wins only. If you don't take money, it's free.
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Ghost is now slopware. I wouldn't recommend it.
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> Ghost is now slopware
Why do you say that? After shifting the Disintermedia blog to community-hosted Ghost I have a few grizzles, but overall I'm finding it a great improvement on the bloat of SS.
My grizzles with Ghost;
* hardcoded dependence on;
1) commercial email sender
2) one payments processor
* AP module has to be set up separately (how about a single Docker image that deploys both as an option?)
* no footnotes
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@Strypey @Fedi.Tips @hexaheximal @John O'Nolan no need 4 a Docker here
Ghost's integration with the Fediverse via ActivityPub is a significant and innovative step, repositioning it as a "distributed social publisher." However, the platform does have limitations that can feel restrictive, validating your "grizzles."
But you can if you wish so. Dockerize it although I would not know why.
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@strypey @hexaheximal @johnonolan I recently switched from Wordpress to Ghost and those two issues really annoy the heck out of me, partially because they don't seem to be very well reasoned.
Having to rely on Stripe for monetization is a minor issue for me, because that's not my main focus. But why do I have to use Mailgun for transactional e-mail on a blog that will probably have like 20 subscribers? I've run my own mail server for 25 years.
Still, better than WP or SS.
Having to rely on Stripe for monetization is a minor issue for me, because that's not my main focus. But why do I have to use Mailgun for transactional e-mail on a blog that will probably have like 20 subscribers? I've run my own mail server for 25 years.
Still, better than WP or SS.
@hydroponictrash recently made the switch and posted about the hickups they encountered making the move.
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@franklinlopez @Anarcat @axolotl Not too bad, I did hit some stuff that was annoying/not well documented: https://blog.hydroponictrash.HydroponicTrash (kolektiva.social)
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Unfortunately, steady.page has a GDPR cookie banner (FWIW, ghost.io does not).
Unfortunately, ghost.io is not a turnkey replacement for substack: it requires quite a bit more expertise to use.
Also, if you think substack platforms nazis, would you also say that HarperCollins platforms nazis?
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Ghost can be set up through managed hosting services which do all the technical stuff for you. I have tried this myself, it was very easy 🙂
Ghost can be set up through managed hosting services which do all the technical stuff for you. I have tried this myself, it was very easy 🙂
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I have a ghost site. The design is unpleasant. I don't want to spend time learning how to fix it—I'd rather have a default design that isn't like staring into a fluorescent light. There's no federation—I'm on my own. Great if your famous, useless if you're not.
Molly's advice on how to switch over is really daunting. Molly was honest about that, and gave some reasons to switch, one of which was not "they platform nazis." They were good solid business reasons.
@abhayakara fwiw Ghost does have other theme options that are fairly plug-and-play: ghost.org/themes/
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They're all glare white. I chose ghost over substack last year because of the "platforming nazis" thing, and wound up not using it, because it was too much design work. I just want to write, not design.
I'm honestly feeling pretty gaslit by the nazi thing. Your criticisms connected for me, but they weren't that. They were about the business end of things.
My reason for persisting on this is that I want to avoid the enshittification, but the effect is I'm not writing.
@abhayakara My guess is they’re mostly white in the theme explorer because the specific background color is configurable (Settings > Design & branding > Customize > Theme > Site background color). Regardless, I hope you find something that works well for you, Ghost or otherwise!
(Feel free to just ignore this—my goal here isn't to give you a hard time, but to give you feedback that may not be useful. Welcome to my brain.)
I went to the site you link from your profile. It isn't obviously a ghost site. If it is a ghost site, it's obvious you've put a lot of work into it, and it looks great. But how much time did you spend on that? How much technical knowledge did you need? Fonts, etc.
@abhayakara EU regulations require GDPR and EU companies comply with these regulations.
You are completely free to use what you want.
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GDPR requires sites to disclose data collection they do that violates your privacy. The GDPR popups are malicious compliance—the whole point is to make us resent GDPR so that we'll ask to get it repealed, allowing them then to collect our private data without disclosing it.
A site that does not collect such data is not required to post such a popup. It's telling that so many sites do.
Ghost is infected with Magic Computer nonsense at this stage though.
Lead dev is big into talking to Claude and allowing it free reign on his projects.
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In the year of our Lord, two thousand twenty-six, why are people still getting text encodings wrong?
I love #usenet.
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Martino said there is "insufficient evidence" to conclude the five shots the officer fired were unjustified.
I'm sorry, what? Shouldn't the onus be on him to demonstrate that the shots were justified?
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@Jonathan Lamothe I once made a complaint against an office for pulling up to a bus stop at the mall and immediately drawing a taser and attacking a dude.
i got told drawing a weapon in a crowd was SOP and the standard plan for officers.
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@silverwizard Of course it is... 🤨
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@Dave Marquardt Emacs: 28.2, Gnus: 5.13
@davemq vanilla emacs: just install nnatom. it's not out of the box.
@superketchup @Dave Marquardt It does not appear to be in the default repositories, nor melpa.
😱 mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emac… … but I can't find the source code anymore. big problem. good news: if you update emacs, nnatom should be included.
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@superketchup Right, I started using nnatom in the past few weeks and noticed its part of Gnus now. I've also running Gnus v5.13. Maybe there was no version bump when they brought nnatom in?
I had problems getting nnatom to work. IIRC it does not want http:// or https:// when specifying the server, unlike nnrss.
I might have the same problem but haven't investigated it for now...
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Just spent almost an hour on the phone with #Primus (my ISP) trying to get them to honour the original deal I had with them.
Long story short: my bill's still going up, but now it's only $2.
Not a deal I would consider fair, but the extra $2 isn't worth my sanity.
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I'm not sure exactly where, but lightning just struck really close by. I didn't even realise it was raining.
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funny fact.. it doesn't have to be raining
@juliadream Yeah, I looked outside immediately afterward, looking for any obvious signs of a nearby lightning strike, to see that the ground was wet. I couldn't immediately tell if it was actively raining or if it had just done so recently.
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in reply to mc.fly • • •I guess the only way is to update an oldtimer to electro. All modern ones will come with EU-Flightrecorder.
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in reply to Bebna • • •@bebna I have seen that and like that a lot. From the new cars my favorite is a BMW neue Klasse 3er. I could see getting that and replacing the antenna connectors just with resistors.
I am not sure if I would want an old cat just with electric motors.
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in reply to mc.fly • • •Thanks for the link, very educative!
When people will understand that to trade their whole life for the convenience of knowing if there is an obstruction on the road is not a great deal?
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in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •@GustavinoBevilacqua Yes, from a philosophical point of view rather like road signs warning of "falling rocks".
I mean, what can you really do to save yourself if a sufficiently large rock lands on the roof of you car right above your seat?
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in reply to mc.fly • • •Definitely do not want a modern car, irrespective of driveline because of data collection issues.
I'm using a PinePhone as I do not like the data collection issues, walled gardens and other issues such as data sovereignty associated with Apple or Google's offerings so why on earth would I want a car with CarPlay or Android Auto in it?
Or the car manufacturers own version of such things?
Or closed source engine and brake management systems? Or always on internet access?
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in reply to Eggs now in different baskets. • • •@the_wub I don't want the data collecting, the always on, the constant monitoring so in case of an accidents the manufacturer can proof is not his fault.
I would prefer open source on the software but especially when it comes to stuff like engine management that's not very high on my list.
I like the accident detection and alarming but if buy that third party and just put that on the car.
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