Kyreeth @Kyreeth@dragon.style

"The result is one of the unlikeliest fronts of the culture war: an internet community, once the bastion of delightful deviance and subversion, being completely overtaken by a new form of purity culture often spearheaded by people who would otherwise describe themselves as politically liberal."

They're not even taking about furry: this is an internet-wide thing, turns out

https://www.vox.com/culture/23733213/fandom-purity-culture-what-is-proship-antiship-antifandom

Hello! ⭐
It's still a bit intimidating for me to post here, where I don't have many connections yet (social media requires more effort than we realize, and god am I BAD at social interactions) but I really want to find a safer space than the bird app, so I hope you don't mind a lil spam of my art today 🌈

@jsrailton
It really burns me that people are hyping and using ChatGPT and the like not understanding that "hallucinations" are not bugs, but that they only work by hallucinating: They are a model of 'what should the next word be to make something that "looks correct"' rather than "is correct", and no amount of patching is going to cause a hallucination machine to switch from "looks" to "is".

And those BEHIND the tools either know or should know this, but simply chose to ignore it.

Even the strongest among us feel weak at times. Even the smartest of us feel stupid at times. Even the most confident feel doubt. There is no shame in feeling that you are not always at your best. A true warrior feels these things, but strives for better. That way lies glory.

“You must rotate your credentials every 60 days.”

*takes USB-C YubiKey out of slot*
*turns it upside down*
*plugs it back in*

Conference organizers: it is not safe for your trans participants to go to a conference in Kansas because they can no longer safely and legally pee there. Florida is likely to do the same soon. And maybe in the future any state without positive protections in law already in place.

Pick your future venues carefully and ask for escape clauses in your venue contracts should anti-trans laws be passed.

Manual labour vs. hand job.

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Security compliance questionnaire:

Q: What is your process if someone stole your laptop?

A: Well, it is running Linux, so I suspect I'd have to run after them to offer them the source code for quite a lot of it.

Apparently that's *not* the answer they wanted.

Company: We have a monolith!

Me: ...

Company: *holds up diagram of 8 services, 15 databases, and a home grown queue implementation*

Me: You fucked up a perfectly good distributed system is what you did. Look at that thing, it's got clock skew.

two twix, please

Incidentally, if you're a gamer parent with a kid: Super Mario Odyssey and Luigi's Mansion 3 do something amazing that I have never seen any other game do at all, much less do perfectly: same-couch co-op multiplayer where people of wildly different skill levels can both meaningfully contribute to gameplay. As single player games for longtime gamers, they're OK. As co-op games with a very young teammate, there's nothing like them. Nothing else even _exists in that space_, much less comes close.

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

@Kyreeth That program looks like it's designed for photography. I'm doing 3D art and digital painting.

I'm sure if I was just processing photos, Affinity photo would be fine, but that's not what I use photoshop for—brush engine, a decent compositing workflow, tools to manage selections, frequency separation, noises, blurs, etc.

Camera companies: I dare you to make an interchangeable-lens camera body with a circular sensor to match the image circle of lenses.

Imagine being able to crop your image to square or 4:3 or 3:2 or φ:1 later, with no wasted pixels.

Imagine never having to hold your camera in that uncomfortable 90° way again to get a portrait-orientation pic.

Imagine being able to tell your friends you have a 10π-megapixel camera.

behold a centaur

The best-kept retro-mac secret is that the following web sites exist:

https://system6.app/
https://system7.app/
https://macos8.app/
https://macos9.app/

If you ever wanted to play with an old MacOS, this is the least effort to get started. #retroComputing