We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game So he flipped his positive review to negative Still totally worth it

This ATmega328P-based ISA card provides two SD cards for use as mass storage on an old computer.

An alien fleet appeared in Earth's orbit, and broadcast a message: "Having studied you furtively, we now seek formal contact, and want to meet your greatest thinkers..." A long list followed. "How do we tell them?" world leaders wondered. Topping the list were the names Calvin and Calvin's Dad.

I turn off my VPS over ssh to do maintenance, and WOULDN'T YA KNOW IT, DigitalOcean decides its a good time to just Not Load The Control Panel. So yea, my website/business email is down until they decide to unbreak the control panel so I can turn the damn thing back on.

Thune is lying here. Trump and Vought didn’t “hold off for as long as they could” because shutdowns don’t force people to be fired. No one was ever fired in any of the previous shutdowns in history. They fired a bunch of people because they wanted to — like they’re been planning since February.

while I acknowledge that LLMs do have some uses for stuff like “producing code with knowledgeable human supervision,” this perfectly reflects how I feel about using it for my own creative work

The Times Herald • Wed, May 1, 1996 - "EVERYBODY STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING! HAVE YOU GUYS PLAYED PRINCESS MAKER 2?"

OOP of the Not-Smalltalk kind? Tho Java is kinda Smalltalk-y I guess? (Idk Java. I used it once in 2009 and the app was almost-immediately replaced w/ a PHP one.)

a question on AI and how it's being pushed inside companies as well does anyone know other examples of techs pushed this damn hard?

The young progs yelled at you online, and, well, I guess you showed them! You helped render their culture an ugly, violent, stupid, contemptible wreck that will likely take decades to return to any form worthy of pride. You showed those fucking kids! That will teach them to talk back.

This is the aesthetic of the future

SCART VADER's hack enables you to use your microcontroller internal IO pull-ups as base resistors and input-only pins as outputs.

The plot of the next Simpsons movie should be the kids at Springfield Elementary digging up a time capsule that was buried 40 years ago and realizing they're the same children who buried it because their world hasn't aged in 4 decades.

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats: “Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

LRTs: I worked w/ machine learning in uni. So... a while ago. Just realized something: aren't all these cases of LLMs sucking up as much data as they can a gross case of unsupervised/semi-supervised learning? Moderation seems by necessity to have to be supervised and reinforcement.

People once again need to internalize that "generative AI" is a small subset of machine learning, that machine learning is a critical tool that you cannot run a site without past a certain volume Bluesky has long since exceeded, and that it is FAR more reliable than user reporting.

I get that there are a lot of flaws to the implementation of auto moderation but I do think folks need to grasp (a) how it actually works, (b) how impractical the alternatives are, and (c) that human social media content moderation is one of the most mentally scarring and unbearable jobs in history.

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Really hating this "Work harder for less" thing that's been going on

What a delight to learn that most people aren't in fact raging LGBTQ-phobic shitweasels

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

odd how the people claiming to build the 'decentralized network of the future' still somehow have veto power over everyone else? makes u think

Sam's Club Elon Musk ass behavior

Autistic people shouldn’t be pressured or expected to just ‘bounce back’ from burnout 👌🏽

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

it can be both true that computers are not alive and also abusing them is bad. maybe it doesn't technically hurt anyone when you throw a controller against the wall in frustration, but it's still training a bad instinct.

Wow. I‘m not sure which part of this is weirder: that they think Starmer’s rep might be worse than theirs, or that they might be right.

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

There's a lot to be upset about in the world. Strangers on the internet should not bear the brunt of your rage.

this is the Jesse Singal exception. it reads *extremely* like Jay's excuses last year not to ban the literal neo-Nazi who was making death threats then it turned out Jay and half the devs were following the neo-Nazi

the guy who was walking to the farlands in minecraft is getting there in an hour or two: www.twitch.tv/kurtjmac

well, nintendo is still very evil and greedy despite being anti-ai

#lazyweb Does Rust have a binary operator precedence chart? Or is it part of the grammar, like in C? (If the latter, I could prob piece together what the priority levels and precedence look like from the Rust ref.)

List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol. Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

live your life in such a way that if the massively rich power elite of a society put their whole propaganda arm into making you the next st francis after you’re assassinated, people want to hold your memory at least as long as the fuckable green m&m or that time a transsexual sipped a light beer.

It did. It's just that it also opened up worse discourse. And Sturgeon's Law ("90% of everything is crap") applies here as it does to everything else.

not normally one to encourage the use of node.js but this is a really neat little terminal utility. pairs nicely with listening to the game on the radio, a drum i will continue to bang for as long as the playoff broadcast situation is stupid github.com/paaatrick/pl...

If eight of my artist/games/writer friends could make $100,000 a year it would be completely life changing for every single one of them. It's hard to overstate how infuriating and inhumane this feels "lol"

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

BOoGeYmaN! 😱