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Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06SF Writer/Duffer • Ex-DMA Design (Writer for Hired Guns/ Co-Writer for Grand Theft Auto & Body Harvest) • Hobby Moviemaker and Coder (Directed Britain's 1st Star Trek Fan Film) • 90s Has Been / Burnt Out Husk
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Create software. Create art. Create writing. Create understanding. Create beauty. Create joy.
Don't become just another stage in the slop pipeline.
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@cstross If Google is doing this to offload CPU to the hapless users, perhaps some enterprising individual can come with a poisoned version of the file. Your computer, your rules?
Everywhere I look...
There's a meshtastic app that someone's now using AI to develop. There's someone I know personally working on another app and now using AI. On a retro games group someone uses AI to make a musical tribute to the chiptune makers back in the day.
A *tribute*???
I grew up with friends who learnt coding the hard way. At the time the *only* way: swap tricks, read magazines and books, figure how others did it, figure it out ourselves.
We *learnt*.
Tim Berners-Lee's Pods over #meshtastic. That'll take our agency back, right? Just give it a decade or so.
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@cstross@wandering.shop
Dammit. I read _Miracle Visitors_ in the early 90s and it was one of the few novels which started shaping my thinking.
Arrived at #ZzapLive after a whole load of travelling.
Well, today's going to be fun. Electric company has a planned power outage for five hours, to deal with trees versus power lines.
No telly for me! (Hope the mobile masts¹ are on an independent circuit.)
Ideal test for #meshtastic if I didn't have the only node in a dozen mile radius 🙄
¹Cellphone towers.
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@quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk Sounds like the Rockwell AIM65. We had these at Abertay Uni (back when it was Dundee Institute of Technology). ASCII keyboard, though so maybe not.
Oh yes, big thing about Google enshittifying the web even further. The main link cited is techcrunch which says "something has gone wrong" because I have an ad blocker.
Well, yes. Quite.
Just not in the way you mean.
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@gregeganSF
Also a noun, as in “Ya wee clype!”
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@DrWhoZee@troet.cafe
@WeeGem@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop
Of course the really funny thing about that is, astronomically speaking, the North Star is slightly off of actual North.
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@jwz@mastodon.social
The current episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
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Thanks everyone for keeping me entertained!
I'm on a local UFO (FB) group and it's amazing how little traction the first batch got. Obvious distraction is obvious.
@gamesthatwerent@mastodon.world Great seeing you at Zzap Live! even if it was only for 30 seconds. Blame Mike for keeping me signing :) I'll be back next year and am at Kickstart 3 in August if you want to pick up where we left off.
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
I think the founders needs to be followed around for the rest of their lives by astronomers with pocket mirrors, carrying out practical demonstrations.
Although not so much, I guess, that we get the scenario in Arthur C Clarke's story “A Slight Case of Sunstroke”...
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@quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk Well, I'm all out of ideas! Was out of there by mid 92 so probably just missed crossing paths.