Me: I also bought the book by the TikTok guy Friend One: You know that doesn't narrow it down at all, right? Friend Two: ...Algospeak? (It was, in fact, Algospeak)

NixOS means not having to install gimp for a shitpost edit and then forget to uninstall it.

I think homestuck is Mostly Bad (I read all of it, this is an informed opinion) and I don't really like kpop and I actively dislike this song but this music video picks out like the 90 seconds of it that are actually good and the animation is so stupidly amazing that I can't not watch it.

because, you know, "you have turned my father's house into a den of thieves". That's Matthew 21:13 for people who can't access bible gateway dot com

Temporally advance a band: My Chemical Breakup

Technologically advance a band: The Vantablack ed25519 Keys

Next TOS update on Bluesky will ban all posting, lest someone could say something offensive

oh god I want this immediately.

The surprise of realizing the author of "PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design", the creator of Lexy's Labyrinth (browser based furry themed Chip's Challenge clone), and @eev.ee From Bluesky are, in fact, the same person.

I got told not to cite wikipedia as a kid, but it was incredibly hard to find other sources on the web. So then I discovered I could "cheat" by going to wikipedia and reading all the "cool numbered links" at the bottom and citing them to cover up my use of wikipedia.

Rome is Woke now.

soo paperbnd or bookhive?

@paperbnd.club the app prevents you from marking an unreleased book as "want to read"

oh yeah getting cultured up in here

#atdev it would be cool to have some kind of thing like XSLT for describing how to display a collection type to someone for embedding/transclusion. Really I want, like. OLE for atproto. I want it to be possible to embed a poll in a bluesky post even if the poll is from a different, dedicated app.

God does anyone remember Larklight? No, not Lightlark, the booktok book that got a ton of controversy. I'm talking about the children's alt-victorian steampunk space opera where Venus turned humans into trees and the villains were giant white spiders in tophats with british accents.

obviously my room full of books I haven't read yet needs more books I haven't read yet in it.

I've got no idea what the hell is going on with the danmei explosion but godspeed y'all. (I should totally actually FINISH the first volume of MDZS sometime, just so I'm not totally uncultured)

Geeknights doesn't miss. Anyone else want to play a game of overly-complex train-themed tabletop capitalism?

LLMs ARE, in fact, like mp3 for knowledge. It's not anywhere near a perfect analogy, but it is a good one in a lot of ways. Not just in terms of hallucination being a compression artifact at times, but also in terms of the kind of upheaval it's causing around copyright infringement and IP theft.

I love it when scientific studies confirm things that I could have already told you were already true. LLMs are like mp3 for text.

This is wild. It's as if human females could mate with chimpanzees and give birth to either humans OR selectively to cloned male chimps. (The ant species are that far apart.)

Insane to me that the Chinese Omegaverse TV show is real.

It's also frustrating that nix doesn't provide a mechanism for declarative user-level package management out of the box, like. At all. You have to use home-manager for that.

Okay I can see why people have a love/hate relationship with flakes. For all the rough edges flakes have, channels are... nooot great.

Every linux distro should have a tool for chrooting into your install on the livecd. It has saved me from so many borked installs over the years.

This is FASCINATING

NixOS's options really give you such an amazing insight into the kind of people who run and maintain NixOS.

I'm not surprised that Konqueror has been replaced by yet another wrapper around Chromium, but it's kind of sad in way. Like watching an elderly man die at the hands of his evil grandson.

The 80s AI video here is fucking terrifying.

"This was your father's banana.gif. Not as clumsy or random as a webm. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age."

Bluesky's policy on fictional noncon might be surprising if you don't know they plan to do stuff that requires dealing with payment processors. No, it shouldn't matter since no one's actually being hurt, but this is the environment they operate in. 1/2

Oooh, I know the answer to this one! No!

So the impetus behind the new guidelines is almost certainly the app stores and payment processors (Google Play has a very similar no noncon rule...). Unfortunately, that means yelling at bluesky about it probably won't do much, since their hands are likely tied.

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

Another interesting thing about the new guidelines is the EXPLICIT banning of pro-eating-disorder content.

This is the problem.

Also if they ban textual depictions of noncon that actually makes the rules more restrictive in at least one capacity than fucking Tumblr.

Did fucking mastercard ghostwrite these guidelines? That would explain it.

found an account making literal jews in ovens jokes for at least 4 months straight that has over 1k followers but no bsky let's go after artists drawing icky things. fucking dumbass gerbils running this site I swear

Oh god, and given these rules are no doubt a reaction to the current political climate we also have to consider what any alt appview might be forced to do to avoid being crushed if they get big enough to be Noticed.

You don't have to completely ditch your account, please just move to a different PDS. It takes minutes and you don't have to worry about BlueSky's draconian censorship. The whole reason folks pushed for people to move to BlueSky was because we knew this could happen and there are safeguards in place

I like bluesky but not enough to stay here if the community guidelines mean all the artists leave and all that's left are the tech people. If all I wanted in my feed was tech, I would be on Mastodon.

Making the community guidelines so onerous that we all migrate our accounts off of Bluesky's servers and start using alternative frontends is certainly ONE way to encourage decentralization...

If you get butthurt because someone made an Andor reference on a sign while protesting outside of Disney you're so ngmi.

No but for real though