I don't get to start videos like this very often, so time to savour it the best way I could.

Accidentally hooked the demon core to my laptop.

Okay so I finally got around to reading the @fluxer.app dev's (long!) blog post and... his take on federation is literally the exact same thing I independently suggested. 10/10 this guy knows what he's doing. This is going to work.

I'm going to be switching to a new and upcoming field. Haven't thought of a name for it yet, but it'll involve a lot of running. Take this test to see if you'd be good at it too. I know I will. facetest.psy.unsw.edu.au/aifaces.html

maybe to no one's surprise, its vastly easier for me to tell AI generated humans from real than it is to tell the difference between AI art and drawn art. Unfortunate reminder- maybe don't do callout posts on this stuff unless the "artist" outs themself. afterschool.neocities.org/survey/

Looks like Fluxer is removing the CLA!! 🎉 www.reddit.com/r/FluxerApp/...

Seeing this decade's version of 'Micro$oft'/'M$' (and, to a lesser extent, MicroShaft) has convinced me that we will never run out of playground insults and names for Microsoft.

If Morgan was a two-phase boss fight: P1: Line-based sword AoEs, forcing the party to scatter. Occasionally strikes a party member at the bottom of the aggro list with a projectile. Pushes anyone hit outward, threatening OHKO. Transitions to P2 with a map-wide horizontal sweeping beam. (1/2)

I've always felt a /little/ bit off with Fluxer (and Stoat too, to a lesser extent). We should encourage alternatives to Discord, but we should also encourage alternatives that aren't just "it's like Discord but not" -- remember, not every open source project is automatically safe!

One day, one of these wizards will start casting fireball at hardware it dislikes.

Whenever someone asks "how DID the Y2K even happen?", I share them a screenshot of the Windows 98 setup and how date/time setup is configured to only show the last two digits of the year.

Remember when Windows is supposed to make your computer more powerful, reliable, manageable, and entertaining? Surely one of those words still apply to modern Windows.

A day with migraine always leads to this for some reason.

Excellent video regarding ChatGPT's recent headline-inducing 'discovery'. It's very easy to take a topic beyond the domain of the common folk to sell the illusion of intelligence. I've used Wolfram Mathematica before. What does this offer for the resources it consumed? youtu.be/3_2NvGVl554

You don't need this reminder, but I'll echo it again: complacency is what led us to censorship. Complacency is what led us to trackers on every inch of the web. Complacency is why people carve out hiding holes from the prying eyes, ready to rip them apart. Seek alternatives. Reject complacency.

Sometimes I wake up, write a basic LSTM, and find out that it produced a gibberish that made me laugh. I /cannot/ get over the phrase "what matemang the siguarot" -- it sounds like the type of new meme I'd encounter in the wild without any context of what it could mean.

Kind of an awkward PSA because I've had some artist mutuals recommend these sites/tools, but "ai image detection" tools are snake oil, and I feel like nobody bothered to scrutinize them. So I opened photoshop cs6, drew a smiley face, and uploaded it to the "accurate" detector:

I always realise how inept I am at handling loss and grief whenever I have to face them. I still tense up, I still lose track of what I'm doing, and I still occassionally burst into a puddle of emotions. In that, I continue to be reminded that I shouldn't take the time I have left for granted.

Our leader started Asterisk Order, our VTuber group, as a mere in-game guild in an MMO. He was passionate, caring, supportive. The kind of person we loved to have around. Thank you, Weißoo. Please continue looking after us as we move forward -- as our eternal 'CEO'. Rest well, friend.

I should not be trusted with writing my own tokeniser.

This is how language models see what you write! Here, I encoded a test sentence, which is turned into token IDs. These tokens are precisely what the models are processing -- and in this case, I was able to /exactly/ reconstruct the encoded sentences from those tokens alone; from numbers to words!

I don't know what my model is talking about, but I'd like some of what it's snorting.

After going through research papers relating to LLMs, I can confidently say that big (tech) companies will always ruin the fun and curiosity from many topic of interests by turning them into a product.

I spent the last day or so writing a language model for text prediction. Behold, my handiwork.

I have been sitting on this art by @comfortandadam.bsky.social since Dragon Con 2025 (September) and although it took a little longer than usual, I'm happy to finally get to share it all with you. Thanks again, and see y'all when we reach OVER 9000!!!! #vtuber #eldenwood #envtuber #vtuberuprising

Out of the blue, I decided to boot a Ubuntu 11.04 ISO. When I perused the sample media that it provided, I remembered this song. It was a lovely song when I listened to it years ago -- but I never thought the lyrics would be very prophetic. "We had our fun but I have sung this song to you before."

It's Sunday and I have nothing to do. So, let's fill my time with something more interesting: comment down below for a random assortment of facts about the Android OS! Android is an operating system I'm most involved in since its inception, so it'd be fun to share some fun facts about it!

"But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy, as we pass the setting sun?" These lines from Porter Robinson's 'Everything Goes On' is something I see myself coming back to often, even if it sounds hauntingly bittersweet. That song struck such a chord in me!

Let's explore one of AMD's greatest blunders: selling their mobile graphics division to the then-blooming Qualcomm! youtube.com/shorts/6EWo8...

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

I love toy programs in terminal. Bonus points for having them run when during login, too (I remember how popular login shell modifications were!)

I'm currently writing the script for a video I'm working on. One of the sources in that script has the following hero image, which I cannot aptly describe the /feel/ of using words.

Inspired by a question that a friend had: why /is/ 64-bit in most PCs referred to as 'AMD64'? youtube.com/shorts/9vUN_...

Blue Arrows https://macthemes.garden/themes/7c1b2c008f2f-Blue-Arrows

This is when it all went wrong

The popularity of those sorting algorithm visualisation videos have made it possible for me to describe a concept and follow up said concept with, "just like Bogo Sort." Because there is nothing more fascinating than seeing people 'click' with something as abstractly mundane as a sorting algorithm.

It might surprise you, but there are reasons why your fast and spacious SSDs aren't actually a viable replacement for RAM! youtube.com/shorts/l6b08...

Lord Logres, still need to do a better job with backgrounds~~ #fanart #fgo #typemoon #anime #art

It dawned on me that it took my past self an embarrassing amount of time to figure out that the N-GAGE's name was meant to be a stylised form of the word 'engage'.

The wild land that is USB port colours is a proof we're under some sort of divine judgement. Yes, I found out the hard way that the /blue/ port on this random SATA caddy is /not/, in fact, USB 3.0. It is barely USB 2.0, even. USB 2.0 would be disgusted to have it in its Thanksgiving dinner.

your girl made her own pigment this week!! 😈😈 this is called a lake pigment-- its an old fashioned way of making insoluble pigment from plant matter!! in this case the plant matter used is madder root,, to make that deep red ""rose madder"" shade!!

me: shōko u cant just GO BACK TO POSTING after not posting for months u gotta say SMTHG about it or apologize or smthg also me:: 🤪🤪 oh yeah?? 😈😈

I'm not used to editing fast-paced, short-form videos. However, there are topics that are worth being introduced through these types of videos, though -- like this, for instance! youtube.com/shorts/OK_tM...

Quick programming tip for newcomers: your text editor/IDE does /not/ make you superior—your experience does. Use the right tool for the job, and use the tool that enables YOU to do your job. Or you know, disregard what I said and just use MS Paint. That works too. ms-paint-i.de

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For all the good and bad times—let this year illuminate us as we head toward a new horizon. Happy new year, folks! Thank you for being here. Cheers, to all of you! (Art by my mama, @yushaainari.bsky.social. Thank you so, very much! Now you get to see my off-camera look…) #VTuber #ENVTuber

Even as we live through each day, there's nothing further from us than understanding those days. It's not until we look back that we see those days telling us the way forward—and how grateful they were, for us that always move forward.

I might have uncovered the PHP 3 project I wrote not too long ago.

I’m glad I asked people about what their Windows to Linux pain points are because every tenth answer was someone replying “no joke there’s actually a non-annoying replacement for that now” or “they actually fixed that”, and that shit is money.