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fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social

<p>Software person, co-founder of PyCascades and PuPPy, artist in my free time, collector of hobbies.</p><p>Follow me if you&#39;re interested in:<br />- Painting (watercolors and gouache)<br />- Sketching<br />- Birding / Nature Photography<br />- Modular Synthesizers<br />- Metal music</p><p>If I liked a photo you took, or a painting you made, but didn&#39;t boost it, you probably didn&#39;t have alt text.</p>

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    Me and my friend group beat the main &amp;quot;story&amp;quot; of Big Walk this evening. It&amp;#39;s so freaking good y&amp;#39;all, you have to play it if you can. One of the best group gaming experiences I have ever had.

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    If you post to the photography or painting related hashtags with shit you made with AI you get blocked on site. It&#39;s not a painting if you didn&#39;t fucking paint it. It&#39;s not a photo if you didn&#39;t use a camera to take the picture.

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    People complaining about the Steam Machine price don&#39;t seem to understand that: Valve is not subsidizing the computerThe computer is not locked down like a traditional console. You do not need to pay a monthly or yearly fee in order to play your games onlineThe Steam store consistently has the best sales on the marketThe computer has access to every game in my library that can run on the hardware, as does any computer that runs SteamValve will not charge you an upgrade fee per game when the...

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    @vie@hachyderm.io I&#39;m sure I don&#39;t truly know, but I think that it&#39;s essentially a form of short sighted eagerness, combined with imposter syndrome. They feel like they&#39;re able to do things they could not do before, and they want to be the first/most eager to do it because they feel like that will keep their job secure. But really, if your whole job can be automated with an LLM what incentive is there to keep you? What value are you providing if you don&#39;t understand what the...

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    Genuinely infuriating that nearly the entire industry put their trust in GitHub, didn&#39;t divest after the Microsoft acquisition, and now that reliability has been garbage for a long while, seemingly no one cares. I see a few people talk about it on Fedi, but I would expect that from Fedi. Very few people I talk to about this seem to give a shit, and the fact that Microsoft isn&#39;t constantly being publicly dragged through the mud for fucking up the reliability of GitHub is not a good sign f...

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    @TechConnectify I appear to have the same dishwasher as you, or at least a similar model based on the rinse-aid dispenser. However, I cannot figure out how to determine if the rinse-aid is empty outside of just occasionally pouring more in until it starts to overflow. There is an indicator that implies that it&#39;s some kind of light or something but it&#39;s never lit up for me, does it light up for you? Trying to figure out if I have a defective unit or not.

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    @TechConnectify oooh, I&#39;m excited for this one

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    I have a really specific request, hoping Fedi can help! I&#39;m in the market for a new pair of earbuds for working out and doing yard work (mostly mowing my lawn with an electric mower). I am interested in the Beyerdynamic Amiron 200&#39;s, but I can&#39;t find any reviews. Do you have a pair? Do you like them? How do they compare to other headphones you&#39;ve experienced?

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    I understand why LLM enthusiasts don&amp;#39;t want to acknowledge that their tools use a ton of energy, but it&amp;#39;s really frustrating to see people try to downplay the energy usage (&amp;quot;it&amp;#39;s so low per single prompt that it doesn&amp;#39;t really matter!&amp;quot;) while also constantly seeing news like this: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/softbank-to-spend-an-eye-popping-33b-to-build-huge-u-s-gas-power-plant/ If these tools don&amp;#39;t use a ton of energy, then why a...

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    One of the ways I&amp;#39;m dealing with AI slop at work is that when I&amp;#39;m giving feedback on the work I&amp;#39;m making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I&amp;#39;m directly saying that &amp;quot;this change that YOU made needs to be corrected&amp;quot;. I&amp;#39;m always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they&amp;#39;re trying to review, they...

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    @fromjason@mastodon.social there are undoubtedly more. Multiple people disappeared from the system with no evidence they were deported, you just couldn&#39;t look up what facility they were in anymore. We have no clue how many lives have been taken. We probably won&#39;t know for years.