If the company you're investing in: - is entirely growth focused - does not have a sustainable business model - is rapidly acquiring land and expanding infrastructure - is gobbling up a huge amount of energy and resources It's not a business, it's a cancer cell

with how AI keeps getting more and more convincing, are schools finally gonna start teaching independent critical thinking classes?

All this time I used stuff like "var +=1" and then "If var > 100 then var = 0" to reset a counter but I just discovered I can just do var = (var % 100) +1 in the counter itself and it'll just keep looping within that range automatically! the modulo operator is amazing

We're disappointed that the new EU compromise proposal will implement a loophole that essentially brings back mandatory client-side scanning. #chatcontrol is back. We strongly urge the EU to remove this loophole in Article 4 of the new draft […]

AI surveillance is a scam pushed by the AI industry to download more training data. #ai #surveillance #iwishthiswereajoke

qpwgraph is amazing why doesn't windows have anything like that? #linux #windows

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This is all a dream you have been in a coma for weeks your friends are getting worried it is now time. wake up.

[danger, do not open without proper eye protection] *hits you with the eep laser*

watercolor drawing i did a few weeks ago that i never posted #art #pokemon #watercolor

"Can I come in?" asks the fey. "Yes" I proclaim, gesturing at the dollhouse I happen to have standing right next to the door. The fey's eyes widen in shock as they realize I've beaten them at their own game.

I have no use for caps lock, I wonder if its possible to make it do funky unicode stuff with the letters I type instead of all caps, something like making them all be upside-down variants of the letters like my username. #unicode #linux

When the creatures

On halloween I'm going to be trick or treating at haunted houses and scare all the ghosts and monsters I can find.

People should go "yknow what let's just try it" more often. I'm people.

The difference between digimon and pokemon is that for digimon, their file extension is part of their name. #Pokemon #digimon

PMD slice of life dating sim #Pokemon #MysteryDungeon

A kilogram is 1000 grams, how many grams is a telegram?

Yo! Watch this sick trick! *does a backflip while coughing and sneezing*

I haven't played #Pokemon Legends Z-A yet but based on that naming scheme I can only assume the entire game is played in reverse.

Patch note: - Fixed skill issue that caused unintended losses and defeats.

Game idea: Usually, racing games have a top speed and sometimes a boost that's on a resource. What if that's turned around? What if you get to accelerate almost infinitely and have access to a free boost on top of that to accelerate you even more? And the thing that's on a resource instead are […]

Nothing is impossible. Trust me I tried doing nothing and I immediately failed by existing.

"Don't click on sketchy links" is bad advice, people are already following that. People click on links because at the time of clicking on them they don't recognize them as being sketchy. The real advice should be to find out whether a link is sketchy or not before clicking on it.

Mankey's paw: Your long time childhood wish to get turned into a pokemon finally comes true! But you are now whatever is your least favorite pokemon. #Pokemon #MysteryDungeon

Something I've been thinking about regarding digital identification is that with the raise of generative tools, there will eventually be no going around a need for something to distinguish real people from machines in the digital realm. Digital IDs issued by governments seem like an obvious […]

An authentic soundtrack for high fantasy settings shouldn't just be orchestral and folk adjacent music, it should also include some ripping EDM and synths cuz what do you think what type of music your illusion magic bard is gonna do #gaming #rpg #fantasy

I got shadow banned (I no longer cast a shadow)

Would you hire a developer that has read every code base and documentation ever made, and has written thousands of lines of code but never have they ever actually ran any code or software to see what the results of the code look and behave like in practice? AIs have been trained on trillions of […]

My (arch btw) linux system is slowly deteriorating in oddly specific ways and I have no idea what's going on. I thought I'd be safe if I just don't mess with it much but apparently not it'll find ways to break all on its own. #linux #arch

[df, ol, kk, lmn] please don't abbreviate content warnings, people won't know what the abbreviation means until they open the content warning and see the content. That's the exact opposite of what a content warning is supposed to do when it turns out that its a kind of content that makes them […]

Introducing: My new, innovative unpickable lock! (I welded the door closed)

All FOSS software projects without animal mascots are now banned

[Terrible, completely awful cursed idea, AI related] "Lossy compression" powered by GenAI to compress image/video. You input an image or video and the AI generates alt text based on it to reduce the filesize to a few kilobytes. To uncompress you input that text back into an AI image generator […]

Dear video game devs: Please let me play as something that isn't humanoid. #gaming

Nintendo making that virtual boy accessory for the switch is hilarious because a part reason of why the virtual boy failed is because of its inconvenient and cumbersome form factor and they just straight replicated this exact form factor #Nintendo #virtualboy #switch #switch2

[current state of the world, nothing in particular just in general] […]

I don't actually care much about Mega Raichu, You can't improve on what's already perfect! #Pokemon #megaraichu

I had been wishing for a new pokemon game where I play as a pokemon and interact with other pokemon but right now I really feel like this wish had been heard by a monkey's paw #Pokemon #pmd #MysteryDungeon #pokopia

Small PC pet peeve: I hate when apps forcibly change window focus to themselves, I often do something in or start one app and then switch to another while that's going and it just steals back focus while I'm in the middle of doing something else.

normalize being silly

Random fun fact: I often use wikipedia as a translator. A word can often be ambiguous and have multiple entirely different meanings depending on context. A wikipedia article is specifically about one certain topic. So by opening up a wikipedia article and then going to a different language I can […]

In the proposed regulation that supposedly aims to protect children from abuse, why are there exceptions for Military and Government? This kinda sends an implicit message that it is somehow OK for the Government and Military in particular to abuse children. #eu #chatcontrol

Important PSA for musicians: If your bass is growling that is NOT CUTE! A bass growls as a warning when it feels threatened or stressed! If your bass is growling at you back off slowly and give it some space until its calmed down. DO NOT make your bass growl on purpose!! #bass #Music #joke […]

Furries please STOP taking all the animal heads and putting them on top of human body shape! We're running out of matching parts! If this doesn't change soon we'll need to resort to putting human heads onto animal bodies to maintain the ecosystem! #furry #silly #joke

true 💯 #art #furry

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

how the fuck are the terms of use for VRChat over 4x longer than the ones for windows?! Over 1h reading time as opposed to around 14 minutes #vrchat