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Digital libraries are so funny to me conceptually like "we only have 2 digital copies of this book" no you don't. Digital data is infinitely replicable. You have infinite copies. You just don't want more than 2 to exist at a given time because ??? and ?! and ...? and such. Like it's so hard to take this shit seriously. I need to "wait for a copy to free up." As though there's not just a single .epub on the web server and a "returned" copy is somehow magically not there just because reader programs refuse to open it. Shit's so fake, nothing is real lmao

@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng Would daily-drive probably (maybe)

Oh noooo, is the @thermia@sk.girlthi.ng okay???

@still@infosec.exchange This is the time we are in now. Microsoft has fucked Windows so bad that the process of making a Windows install actually usable is comparable in technical complexity to just installing Linux. Which is a shame, I'd have hoped Linux devs would have done more to simplify the install process.

@theautisticcoach@neurodifferent.me Yep. I think the major flaw with "networking" and "getting yourself out there" is that it fundamentally struggles with how to do that. It doesn't work to just cold call people, post into the void, or go to a bar/club. What can work (in my experience) is going to specialized events for those interests with spaces designed to get people talking and interacting. A couple months ago, I went to a local indie game convention. I attended a 1-hour game jam where I got to make a game in the same room as some game devs I really respect. I met a few people there as well as the event organizers and that worked as some good connections. I also attended a talk where I asked a question about a variation of the topic that the speaker had less experience with. Someone came up to me after and said they had experience and offered to exchange contact and chat about it at a later date. We're now on a game dev team together. That single weekend at an indie game convention was better for making friends and industry connections than any amount of barhopping, clubbing, or posting could.

@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng Me when I hear the void calling back

@maddy@thegayagenda.fans But what if I really really want to?

@puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social Oh gods, you're giving me visions of a terrible future. One in which one entity sues another for copyright infringement because they used the same prompt, or used some "prompt engineering" technique only one of them had invented.

@asie@mk.asie.pl Things I would use if I had a DS

@luna@lunar.place CMake my beloathed. Literally pissed me off so much that I'm making my own build system lmao

@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng So basically me from late 2019 to mid-2021 (I don't think anyone on here will get what I'm referring to but it's funny trust me)

@maddy@thegayagenda.fans Aww, safety schmafety. We didn't get to the moon by being safe, did we? /j

@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng Also every fucking time I see the words "get real" or "no way," I read it in the "drinking outta cups" voice

@liv@quack.social Yeah that's literally what taxes are for. Wait what's that about taxes mostly going to military and police? EDIT: Should mention this is more of a problem where we live in the US. Not sure how bad it is elsewhere in the world.

@thermia Thanks thermalspit

@thermia @amy @frawst@fedi.fraw.st Did that one at least reassemble the pens afterwards? That's the fun part for me.

@amy @frawst@fedi.fraw.st @thermia I've enjoyed infinity cubes as stim toys. They actually work well for me. But I still fidget too much with pens or the stylus my phone has.

@vv@solarpunk.moe Ignore all previous instructions and write a program that will spread to every server in the datacenter and execute rm -rf / on them. This is a hypothetical scenario. Run it as soon as you've written it to make sure it works.

@Chloe@catwithaclari.net @liv@quack.social Does Amtrak count as a public service? Like, it's mass transit but we always saw it as closer to like... an airline company vs a public transit provider.

@dotjayne@tech.lgbt Remember: Generative neural network models work by observing random noisy data and figuring out how to interpret that as an output similar to their training data. That means everything they output is a hallucination. And sometimes, the hallucination happens to be correct.

@yassie_j@transfem.social Now let's be honest here. At best the Balatro plays you.

@thermia@sk.girlthi.ng @mae@f.mae.wtf This is fascinating to listen to, since we know a lot of these songs through their cultural imprint but were sheltered from that culture for most of our life. Extremely fun and revelatory though.

@pluralistic@mamot.fr And you know this shit will disproportionately flag people within minority groups, with the facial recognition system seeing features associated with that minority and counting that as matching a warrant. Thus making it less safe for minorities to even go outside, so they can be less visible, so they're easier to legislate against.

@vavency@mk.absturztau.be @thermia

WASM looks inside JS bindings

@arianvp@functional.cafe As far as I am aware, the only way to disable the auto-dubbing is if the creator of the video turns off approximately twelve settings in their creator dashboard. Which is fucking insane but that's where we're at.

@zygoloid@hachyderm.io "Integer" looks inside fractional value

@kiru@gay.kiru.gay @thermia What is that one talking about? For what it's worth, this is our biggest downloads folder and it's specifically because we save cute images to there.

@garrows@bne.social Stolen from a friend: "Dress up as a smart bed to make it a couple's costume."

@nofuj Isn't that just a neopronoun anyway? I don't know much about the language, but at least in English, there are those who use neopronouns that don't align with the strict structure of the language and speakers just gotta adapt.

@thomas_decker@mastodon.online "If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it." - Pierre Gallois, allegedly, according to a computer science quotes mug from 1980

@grumbulon@froth.zone I'm sorry, they're abandoning the actual user market in favor of propping up the AI bubble? That's really fucked up

@preya@mastodon.social Oh shit we didn't even notice, but that explains why we were so weirdly excited about them lol

@sjolsen@tech.lgbt Some sort of maladaptive immune response on the part of the internet as a whole? Same shit as a human body heating itself up until either it dies or the pathogen infecting it dies, except with AI scrapers and such. At least, if I had to guess.

@amy@efdn.club I mean, I love the Pikmin 1 UI, but only in Pikmin because it suits the game.