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  The ultimate irony would be using Safari's "describe an extension" feature to create an extension that removes all the AI shit from every website.

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  RE: https://mas.to/@RikerGoogling/117282509351955962 Is this how we learn that LCARS is built on top of Electron?

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  Another OS release, another year where Shortcuts is unable to interface with the medications section of the Health app.

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  I have evolved to the point where I don’t even have to open Minecraft during my two week Minecraft phase anymore.

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  I've seen more than one dev try and clap back at someone saying they won't buy their app if it was written with genAI by saying "oh, so you're going to quit using then too, right?" And like… no, probably not, because that's a pretty substantial and fundamental change to a bunch of workflows that entails a bunch of new software across multiple workflows, probably new hardware in some cases, and a ton of self re-training? Which does suck, because I'd love to not hav...

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  Me: *laying in bed trying to fall asleep* No one: Absolutely no one: Not a single person in the entire galaxy: My brain: ”Why does the song ‘Playing with the Big Boys Now’ in The Prince of Egypt include a command from the choir that Moses should ‘kow tow’ to the Egyptian priests? That’s such a weirdly anachronistic turn of phrase. I get that it rhymes but the song works just fine without it…” Me: My brain: Me: My brain: “What?”

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  In other news, I'm somewhat baffled by Roots' decision to ship Bedrock for WordPress with a Pint linter configuration that explicitly violates WordPress coding standards. WordPress doesn't use PER, why are you shipping your bootstrapping project with that as the default?

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  In other news, I'm somewhat baffled by Bedrock's decision to ship with a Pint linter that explicitly violates WordPress coding standards. WordPress doesn't use PER, why are you shipping your bootstrapping project with that as the default?

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  Still trying to figure out why "add this event someone mentioned in a text message to your calendar" requires a fucking large language model and not, y'know, the same basic text parsing and natural language processing that's been around for 30 years, Apple.

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  If foreskin is so great, why isn't there fiveskin?

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/116952836351215165 It is once again time for the quarterly usage metrics gaming.

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  RE: https://furries.club/@Redfuchs/116925132405553011 FaceID POV

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  I will never get over the fact that it used to be called Jabber but is now the infinitely less scrutable XMPP. In any same timeline, that move would have been in the opposite direction.

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  Now I remember why I hate Unity so much... I wish I could quit you (literally).

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  Pll Wops Are Bastards

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  RE: https://kind.social/@lrrbot/116889669230905365 More people should know this, tbh.

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  The most annoying thing about opaque algorithms that provide options based on your past behavior is that sometimes, for whatever reason, they get stuck and there's no way to re-condition them. I once accidentally moved one of the internal team emails I get every day into the wrong folder. I had previously moved it to the correct folder dozens of times before without Mail ever thinking it should put that location in the quick-pick slot on the "move email" sheet, but ever since I sl...

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  If the aesthetic of The Next Generation was "80s hotel in space", the aesthetic of Babylon 5 is more "Bryce 3D user interface. In space."

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  I noticed tonight while watching a musical breakdown of Hellfire that Frollo in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and Tzekel-Kan (the priest) from "The Road to El Dorado" have very similar evil-face. Turns out, there is at least some overlap in the animation department between the two films (I'm guessing a bunch of Disney folks jumped ship to Dreamworks not long after Hunchback), including Kathy Zielinski, the supervising animator for both characters. There are also a few oth...

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  If I'd known it'd take me 15+ hours to make it, I probably wouldn't have bothered starting, but I finally managed to replicate one of the tread patterns on the sole of V-ART's wolf paw shoes in Substance Designer, because I think it's cool and that it would be an interesting challenge.

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  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine/116839550229253906 Godot stays winning yet again.

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  I am absolutely dumbstruck that dbrand didn't actually get Valve's permission to sell the companion cube Steam Machine wrapper. Leaving aside how stupid it is to spend 7 months and untold amounts of money on R&D and production hardware for a product that is literally someone else's exact IP without absolutely locking down a license to do so... I cannot *fathom* how they thought they could ever in a *million* years get away with the video they made to promote the thing without...

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  Ugh. Of course Robyn used genAI on the gatefold image in the new Riven soundtrack vinyl. Of course he did. I'm glad I didn't order it immediately now, but I'm also just severely disappointed.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44PT8XRZRGA Everything old is new again. It's all just fancier and fancier bump maps 😆. I really don't understand why this technique isn't used more often, honestly. Not only is it more efficient for the GPU and CPU to have simpler models to load and render, having the detail get baked into the texture means it's easier to iterate on, and you need fewer bespoke textures to handle AO, normals, etc. on knobbly surfaces. It's also WAY faster to d...

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  #Blender question: I want to draw a cube. But I want to draw it by clicking to set a corner on the XY plane, then moving the mouse and clicking again to set an edge, then moving the mouse and clicking again to create a perpendicular edge, then moving the mouse and clicking again to draw the height. The end result would be a cube that I'd otherwise have to draw *and then rotate* into position. Every cube drawing tool and addon I can find will only draw cubes by starting with a single cli...

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  Nothing like reaching out to someone you don't know about something they worked on forever ago and have them reply with "oh yeah, I was just going through that this week".

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  Back on my bullshit again

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  I really wanna get a commission of me and Zami in Lower Decks-era uniforms. Zami would be in ops blue, but I can't decide whether to go with command or engineering for Al.

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  I have officially hit "people who use genAI and 'agentic" systems not only get what the deserve, but when it finally does happen to them, I hope it's as bad as conceptually possible" levels of Done with the world.

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  @Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com e) just a lil' guy.