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Annika Backstrom
@annika@xoxo.zone
mastodon 4.7.3like: games, programming, photography, my french bulldog, my kids, bikes, trains, socialism, trees, being the #XOXOZone admin
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Hate your game controller? Want a storage solution that truly disrespects it? Have I got a product for you
Fuck @1password@1password.social. 14 years as a customer. This sucks.
It's deeply fucked up that we must have benches only slightly wider than my hand just so we can be cruel to homeless people.
You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it* to them**"
* huge sums of money
** DHH, JK Rowling, Elon Musk, etc.
terminal app for macos that was not made by fascists and does not incorporate "ai" featuresTIL two astronauts have completed Space Marathons (in space) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Marathon_(in_space)
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
Any AI-free Godot knowers out there looking for a project?
A friend of mine is in the middle of a game buildout and parted ways with her dev because of a difference in opinion on AI slop. She's hoping to partner with someone else to get it finished. General theme is "cosy looking farm sim with a weird twist."
This would be a revenue share rather than a paid gig. If this sounds like your jam, I can put you in touch.
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@cwebber@social.coop i would love to quantify how much slop-coded stuff is throwaway projects used by nobody and immediately forgotten. feels like a lot
"Our fingerprint phrases are generated from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's long word list, which has been 'manually checked and [the EFF has] attempted to remove as many profane, insulting, sensitive, or emotionally-charged words as possible.'"
My account fingerprint phrase starts with "racism-scorecard" 😐️
Thought I would watch Silo on the ride home but learned that the Android Apple TV app sucks and I can't see shit.
Piracy beats doing it the "right" way every time.
What's with PHP "content creators" and the willingness to use slop images in their projects? Is it slop all the way down?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116997366488785600
Radium was also useful. Sometimes the usefulness of something is inseparable from its harm.
This is not an academic debate about how we might incorporate a theoretical technology and what tradeoffs we would accept. We are responding in real time as the harms are inflicted on us.
You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to 'em.
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In his essay on Salvador Dali, Orwell argued that because Dali was a repulsive human being, the right wouldn't admit that he was a great artist; conversely, because he was a great artist, the left wouldn't admit he was a repulsive human being. I'm seeing the same thing with AI: because it's unethical, one side won't acknowledge that it's useful, but because it's useful, the other side won't acknowledge that it's unethical.
Time to make another cup of tea…
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@cwebber@social.coop Bluesky in morning, poster take warning. Bluesky at night, poster's delight
RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116735843169045022
This feels like a warning label telling you if the tomato you're about to eat has lead in it, rather than simply not selling lead-containing food.
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You have a right to know if that article or video you saw online is made using artificial intelligence.
We want to make the digital world more transparent and trustworthy.
Think clearer chatbot notices, deep fake disclosures, and machine-readable tags for AI videos.
That is why we just launched a new Code of Practice to ensure AI providers and those using them can clearly label AI-generated content and interactive tools ahead of the AI Act obligations.
More info ➡️ https://link.europa.eu/pKjVVB
Commodore Callback is a lot more tempting now that Signal supports secondary mobile devices.
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Did you know: if you find out you're wrong about something, you can delete or at least edit your original post? It's great, more people should do it.
lol fml
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@howking@mastodonczech.cz @willhbr@ruby.social Transportation is the result of choices made by people, it's not a natural law of the universe. At one point, we chose to prioritise cars over other forms of transport, and designed our cities accordingly. It's possible to make other choices, which will require taking space back from cars.
I think it's a moral imperative to advocate for these changes, in the face of climate change.
Your comments come off as extremely dismissive and ignore some basic truths about urbanism.
TIL about this weird GNU cp syntax to copy a directory while renaming it without the normal "copy into target if it's a directory" behaviour https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/412262
cp -r /src/foo/. /dest/bar
"we are experience higher than usual call volume" *Korn starts playing out of my phone speaker at 140 dB*
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Well that was a huge waste of time, as expected. Fairphone + Murena /e/ OS is blocked by my banking app. Extremely frustrating
which cron daemons use a tilde in the time fields? 🤔 https://transfem.social/notes/aqh45jtpsl9m11g8
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I am now in a branch, as requested by the second phone support person, and they are making me use the in-branch phone to talk to someone else 🙃
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Two phone support folks have told me they "don't have a technical team" they can escalate app problems to.
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@lilyyllyyllyly@mastodon.gamedev.place oh yeah the madlads on Amazon are selling it right now
I am not equipped to understand the sentence, "Our bike frames are specially made to suit different genders"
This feels cursed:
php > echo ["false", "true"][false];
false
php > echo ["false", "true"][true];
true
The Devil Where's Waldo?
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu That puts some interesting restrictions on fraud detection
Are you a non-unicorn individual?
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@Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website Yeah I am intimately familiar with the trailing slash trick in rsync but figured it had to be possible with cp (but it's so weird)
For unknown reasons, your phone suddenly becomes immobile and indestructible, an object fixed in space relative to its surroundings. (i.e. to a local observer, it's stuck in place.)
How screwed are you, and how hard will it be to use your phone in the future?
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Most of my #RockSimulator2 rocks are now around Level 84. Now begins the last big push: getting every rock to Level 100.
After that, the only hill to climb is leveling The Artifact.
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@sylvia_ritter@mastodon.social Another lovely piece <3 I love setting these as the background on my Ubuntu machines. Is this one on masto the best quality version available to normal folks like me?
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@mwl@io.mwl.io I think the bounding boxes interact in weird ways to cause unpredictable wrapping. You can verify by forcing the figure element to have a fixed height like 300px
I think if you make a div that only contains the figures, you can set it to display:flex and flex-wrap:wrap and it's all good
maybe a person with more CSS smarts can recommend a better solution 🤷♀️
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damn somebody rolled 120 on RNGdle today
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