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Huh. I wonder if this has anything to do with the notice I got in July of my RubyGems API keys being force-expired.

Cadenza 華彩樂@eldritch.beauty · yesterday

bruh

I am building a verification tool in Lean called Sober for Elixir/Erlang programs. It uses your type specs to detect invariants. It is pretty experimental but fun so far. README has details #ElixirLang

I've been meaning to organize and catalog my own Big Box of Cables™ for awhile now. Suddenly feeling inspired to make that this weekend's project.

tyler@tylergaw.com · 4d ago

I just dug to the bottom of my Big Box of Cables to find two cables that I needed for something. They've been in the bottom for 10+ years. So, "when are you ever gonna use these?" was today. Don't ever let anyone take your Big Box of Cables away.

“Trapped in a Chinese Room with a bag full of shrooms” is exactly how I feel while watching this.

hailey@hailey.at · 3d ago

i had to see it so you do too

qdot@buttplug.engineer · 3d ago

oh good there's a youtube video now, was previously just on x www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ot1...

“It's a new art form after all, and new art forms deserve their own spotlight, don't you think?” I'd be more inclined to think that if the people using AI for art were actually pushing artistic boundaries instead of (as the notion of an “AI actor” does) poorly imitating existing art forms.

CNN@cnn.com · 3d ago

Tilly Norwood has been billed the first AI "actor" in Hollywood which raises questions about what awards synthetic performers should be nominated for. In an exclusive chat with CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister, Tilly Norwood responded to questions about winning an Oscar.

500 metric tons of CO₂ would be equivalent to the emissions of clearing 100 acres of land for pastures, or the equivalent of 179 cows' methane emissions. Now consider that there are 26.7 million beef cattle in the US. Datacenters are not the problem.

Hollyann Causta@hollycausta.bsky.social · 4d ago

Guys eat fewer burgers so people can make bigger carbon footprints and shitty porn.

I saw this so now all y'all people in my phone have to see it, too. Not sorry / you're unwelcome.

Nick@nrempel.com · 4d ago

“Parry this, you filthy casual!”

David Wiltos@davidwiltos.bsky.social · 4d ago

One more, for fun 😁 #darkmessiah #gamedev

She claims to be the model of a modern day typographer, but fails to mention Donald Knuth's masterpiece, Computer Modern?

Elle Cordova@ellecordova.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Something I learned last night while Terraform-inating a one-off static site of mine (S3-website → CloudFront migration): Regardless of the region where you created the CloudFront distribution, if you create a cert for it w/ ACM, the cert *has* to be in us-east-1 or you'll get errors.

Hella cool tool. Surprised how well it works on mobile, too. Suddenly makes me wonder how hard it'd be to implement some kind of “atpfs” (with FUSE or 9pfs or sonething) that'll let me manipulate ATproto records as ordinary files like this.

Brookie@brookie.blog · 6d ago

have i gone completely insane? ... ... ... yes. pdsos.wisp.place

In the enterprise world, sure, this is true. In that context, the code is a means to an end, and the emphasis should be on the criteria which that code must fulfill. Outside of that world, though, I pretty strongly disagree with this. Implementation creativity absolutely has its place.

Michael Paulauski♨️@mike10010100.com · 6d ago

Creativity happens in the requirements gathering, spec, design, and architecting phase. Implementations should be boring as fuck as as simple as possible.

The only flaw with @bsky38.com is that it won't let me vote for Jerry 10 times.

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 6d ago

i can't believe people voted for me on bsky38 dot com

During my first IT job a room very much like this (except with a desk instead of a recliner) was my office for a few months and it was the best workplace environment I ever had.

norvid_studies@norvid-studies.bsky.social · 6d ago

this feels generative

If AI can't make art, then how do you explain this masterpiece? Checkmate, atheists!

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 6d ago

This video is further proof that soon cheaters in online multiplayer games will have AI-enabled performance enhancers (taking HDMI video and outputting mouse/keyboard events over USB/BT) and there ain't a damn thing client-side anticheat software like EAC or BattleEye would be able to do about it.

Grace@gracekind.net · 6d ago

Mad props to @pds.dad (and @dame.is) for not only co-building a cool site, but for being the perfect demonstration all around of how to take a deluge of criticism with grace, even when that criticism is (IMO) the exact opposite of constructive. And if you haven't checked out bsky38.com yet, do it!

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Bailey Townsend 🦀@pds.dad · 6d ago

re: bsky38.com and everything. I had a bit of sleep on it (4hrs) I'm trying my best not to take a lot of it personally, and I do not fault or hold ill content for anyone who doesn't want to use bsky38 or is talking about it in anger w/ AI. The world sucks and a lot of that is thanks to AI usage.

St(afford B)eering

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · last wk.

it's almost like steering a ship. steering.... steersman... 🥱 😴 💭 en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cyberne...

It's wild (but unsurprising, given when both games released) how strongly the vibes of this intro match those of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri's 3D-rendered cutscenes, from the camera moves to the textures to the lighting. Even the explosion toward the end sounds a lot like the mind worm death noise.

🏎️ Shiro "Sugar!" Purrs 🐈@shiropurrs.bsky.social · last mo.

The intro for this one is a classic 3D rendered job, presented in glorious 240p (or possibly even lower) and is unfortunatly so long, I have to cut it into 2 parts for Bluesky! In part 1 we colonise a distant planet, only to find it's not so keen on keeping us around...

It seems I was wrong: given how quick that guy was to crash out in the replies to multiple of my posts before blocking me, maybe he *does* specifically need cheeseburgers to live?

RyNo@yellowapple.us · last wk.

You don't specifically need cheeseburgers to live.

Downgrade a movie Dependence Day

James’ Insane Brain@j-meeeeee.bsky.social · 2w ago

Downgrade a movie Westside Anecdote

Ah yes, the restaurant chain which shut down all of its locations here in Reno. Now they're all 24-hour Mexican restaurants. Woke: 1 MAHA: 0

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 2w ago

only in America could there be a bullshit health craze centered around eating burgers, fries, and a milkshake

I disagree with the point about most people using AI (most of the people opposed to datacenters also avoid AI where possible), but the rest of this is sound: DCs (even the new ones) are essential infrastructure for the Internet as a whole (not just AI) and a great local tax revenue generator.

The Sacramento Bee@sacbee.com · 2w ago

“Here is an inconvenient truth: If you turn up your nose at the infrastructure, you should not get to enjoy the service.”

Before my dad passed, he was on in-home hospice care for multiple months, with my stepmom, sisters, and I at his side basically 24/7 that entire time. I guess in RFKjr's infinite wisdom, those many nights of orally administering morphine every 2 hours were just figments of my imagination?

JohnnyMangu@johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 2w ago

LThe HHS Secretary described uncovering hospices where patients were enrolled but, in his words, never died. "Typically, if you go to a hospice, you leave within 18 days because your dying is terminal," Kennedy said, describing what he framed as a fraud scheme in Los Angeles.

Hell yeah, congrats to the Roman Telescope team on a successful launch. Glad my intermittent wakefulness lined up with the livestream lol

Space Telescope Science Institute@stsci.edu · 2w ago

Are you awake? 🥱 NASA Live coverage of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch starts at 6:20 a.m.! Launch is scheduled for 7:26 a.m. You have time to make coffee. ☕ #NASARoman 🔭 🚀