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  @afreytes yeah if you already have a good, recent PC that you bought/built out, you're fine just throwing steam with big picture mode on there. It'll be a less console-y experience but that's pretty minor.

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  got my steam machine email!

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  reasons mastodon's "viral dampening effect" is a good thing: 👉🏻 no "main character of the day" 👉🏻 no free text searching for people to get angry at (and harrass) 👉🏻 doomscrolling is *actually bad for you* and not a thing we should be trying to replicate 👉🏻 birdsite's virality is heavily driven by actual paid advertising and bots. You think that "Explore" tab gets its content organically? really? That's not making connecti...

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  RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/116500001880041188 there aren't enough guillotines in this world

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  does anyone have a recommended service for just paying someone to run a gotosocial instance for you?

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  my migration from this instance to @zkat@fedi.zkat.tech seems to have frozen, and my followers have stopped migrating. Anyone know how to get this unstuck? The latter is a GTS instance. Boosts welcome!

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@mdn/116381006037132695 holy shit. MDN.

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  The thing that kills me about all this is that after years of building up kind/human/caring community around me, ppl I appreciated because of those traits suddenly drop all semblance of caring about them because.... they have the perception of coding a bit better/faster. That's all it took. I'll say it straight: you can't voluntarily and willingly use LLMs in a way that's aligned with respect for marginalized folks, with respect for the environment, with respect for labor issues...

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  I do language apps because they get me

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  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116433054140983153 This is a good game and you should buy it. “Mario 3 with lesbians” doesn’t even do it justice. It would be amazing even if it wasn’t Mario 3

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  some nerd: "I just want to have a discussion about LLM use in your project" me: "this is not the place to be having that discussion. I have already established a boundary" some nerd: "I am offended that you are not having this discussion right here, on my terms" fuck you, this is my own damn repo this is literally on one of the 1 or 2 open source projects I'm still willing to maintain at any level. Just absolutely not giving me any reason to keep doing open so...

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  Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi). We’re doing this to ourselves too, you know.

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  Hi fediverse! Boosts appreciated on this one. I’m part of a co-op building a platform for artists to sell art without getting exploited. I’ve been working on it for a while but there’s a lot of work to do and I could use some help. A ton of the main features are in place, but there’s still some big gaps and a lot of polish left before it can launch. The platform is fully open source and developed in the open. It’s built on Phoenix/Elixir and Tailwindcss. Our co-op is already incorporated and...

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  boost to jumpscare a qud player #CavesOfQud

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  no time for this shit tbh

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  dear lazyweb: a couple of years ago I ran into a really fantastic html/css very-beginner tutorial that I thought was amazing. It really went step by step and it was done by this guy who I think had accessibility needs and thus taught that part too? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? EDIT: Thanks to @eramdam. The answer was https://htmlforpeople.com

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/116337502667369228 I can’t have a conversation with any genAI boosters that is remotely productive precisely because of this.

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  RE: https://mastodon.publicinterest.town/@b_cavello/116338207761349739 @b_cavello there are things that we can only make incremental progress on divesting from (coal, oil, cars, non-renewable energy, most plastics) because we’ve already made immensely costly errors in the past that make them largely unavoidable for many people. GenAI is different in that it’s completely avoidable, right now, and we are well positioned to simply… not let it happen. There may be a world where the technologies in...

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  I am very tired of making the point that the known negative effects of LLM usage and funding/support are so extreme that there is no hypothetical amount of “usefulness” or “productivity gain” that can so much as justify experimentation with this technology. It is simply ethically beyond the pale and I have a very hard time respecting otherwise intelligent peers who make an explicit choice to ignore all those harms because they have a massive boner for “fun new tech”, regardless of where it come...

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  I can't believe the number of people who have gone off the deep end with a slight upgrade to M-x doctor

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  for those who have been keeping up, looks like the MiSTeR patch that added save state support to SNES finally landed, which means the Analogue Pocket can now port it, and it looks like agg23 is actually up for doing it? So my Pocket might be unbricked soon! https://github.com/agg23/openfpga-SNES/issues/59#issuecomment-4156810871

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  idk if other trans folks experience this, too, but I find that I have a pretty hard time picking "pretend" names for games now, compared to before. I always just call myself "Kat" in every game that asks for a name. Sometimes I'll use the name I used to use for my "female selfsona" in the past?

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  I am heartened by how thoroughly César Chávez has been getting erased from everything after the allegations came out and other people in the movement uplifted instead. This should be the basic bar to clear, but so often we don't even reach this.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116325367243779659 a proposal: spin up a claude agent that will take this codebase in chunks as context and rewrite it "clean-room" and launder it into an open source project licensed under GPL do you think they'll be cool with that? Probably, right? EDIT: I spoke too soon. Someone already did it, and they're working on a Rust port: https://github.com/instructkr/claw-code

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  RE: https://toot.cat/@zkat/116302181567094649 Just gonna boost this up to the TL cause I think there's a conversation to be had about how much genAI centers around people desperately wanting the ability to be deceitful, and their need to defend it lest they lose their powers of deception.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116308891820413082 They literally vibe coded their way straight to a single 9. Amazing

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@ErikaSumner/116292158721344146 lmao at the only three member states who voted against this

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  RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116172866488754801 UBI in relation to genAI harms is absolutely a red herring. Even if it were implemented, when you play it out in your head it... doesn't look great. So let's talk about that? What does UBI get you? A basic standard of living, not very fancy, still encouraging you to seek out work if you want more luxuries but at least you won't die in the streets. That's kinda what it is, definitionally. It's achieved through some level of...