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• Post #4394038

  Every time one of these people open their mouths, I swear to God, it's a confession of how deep they are. Was human race not functioning before 2023? #noai #enshittification

• Post #4360862

  The Fediverse is overflowing with incredible artists, engineers, designers, photographers, and brilliant minds in academia. With the job market on fire globally, let's make a habit of hiring from within our own community, please 🎨📚 Need a designer for a project? A photographer? A researcher? Post your gigs here. Let's create a close-knit support system to help fellow people weather the storm. If you are hiring: look here first. Post your short-term gigs, full-time roles, and freelance...

• Post #4135665

  realistically, how much would I have to drink for a mosquito to instantly die from alcohol poisoning when it bites me?

• Post #4086664

  RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116979258505111309 Reality trumps Art, yet again. We are doomed 😭

• Post #4067675

  The death of the password is not very far in the future, if our overlords are to be believed. Google is pitching this new "selfie video" recovery as a lifeline for when you lose your phone. I get the appeal, losing your primary gmail account is akin to a digital eviction for millions. But think about the architecture we are accepting here. You are anchoring your entire digital life to a biometric that you publicly leave on every Zoom call and Instagram story you ever posted. How lo...

• Post #4063419

  Watching this video makes me feel really sad for teachers and professors who just want to teach 😔 #noai #academia #technology #books

• Post #3879616

  You can offset carbon on a spreadsheet. Yet you can't offset thermodynamics in the real world. Big tech is bragging about "water-efficient" AI data centers while intentionally omitting the power plant. Read this article. In the US, generating the electricity to run these clusters uses roughly 12x more water than the data centers use on-site. Buying "water credits" in Michigan does not change the physical reality that you are boiling off the local m...

• Post #3879615

  A classic case of "compliance =/= usability" Technically, this 10.25 contrast ratio sails past WCAG AAA. But to the human eye, it remains a bit of a chore to read. Well to me, at least. Standard WCAG 2.x math evaluates relative luminance of flat colors as kind of a proxy for legibility. It doesn't account for spatial frequency, i.e. the actual stroke width of the font. At 13/14px, a monospaced font like JetBrains Mono has very thin strokes, meaning we might require m...

• Post #3879614

  I can't decide if creatine (I take creapure) is placebo or not.

• Post #3879613

  Holy smokes some people can see the future. I visited my cousin brother today, he likes to game a lot. Turn out last year he somehow anticipated all this memory shortage phenomenon and upgraded to a disc edition of Sony PS5 with an 8TB SSD from Western Digital. Surely that disc is alone worth double now right? #memory #gaming #ssd #electronics #hardware #ps5

• Post #3879612

  Just remember, if someone is making $90K a month trading stocks/being a highly sought after software engineer/training high end athletes for sports/[fill-in-the-blanks], they wouldn’t need to sell you a course.

• Post #3879611

  Hot take, perhaps. What doesn't sit right with me is perhaps the idea that trading the majority of your waking hours for money is the natural order of things, when it is really just one economic arrangement among many that got locked in and dressed up as inevitability. Most people spend their healthiest decades doing work they would not choose, to buy back small slices of the freedom they gave away, and we call this being responsible. Layered on top of it are supporting scams that ke...

• Post #3879610

  Who's gonna tell the geniuses at Google that suggesting Shorts on Youtube TV breaks every conceivable convention and common-sense metric? Why would you assume I want to watch a short on my TV?

• Post #3879609

  Amy Adams in the Office 😍

• Post #3879608

  Absolutely blessed to be born at a time to witness prime Lionel Messi. Just the goat. Let's go! Well deserved win by Argentina. #football #worldcup

• Post #3816605

  Your government is testing what you'll tolerate and a lot of us are tolerating way way WAY too much.

• Post #3810882

  A warm reminder that the most successful days in infosec and systems engineering are the ones where absolutely nothing happens. It is hard to overestimate the tedious yet important tasks these folks do. Things like configuring strict CSPs, managing access states, updating systems, keeping proper backups, keeping an eye on network traces or patching vulnerabilities before breakfast rarely get a parade. If you're one of the folks keeping the infrastructure boring and stable today: thank you....

• Post #3754570

  A sharp bit of speculative fiction: the year is 2063 and you were never interesting. The algorithm always knew. If you've got someone in your circle or family who is really addicted to social media, send them this article. https://open.substack.com/pub/lizleatrice/p/the-year-is-2063-and-you-were-never #socialmedia #mentalhealth #enshittification

• Post #3569714

  If the AI companies raise their prices 100x tomorrow, or shut down. Will you still be able to do your job? #noai #capitalism #design #softwareengineering #askfedi #slop #programming #writing

• Post #3569713

  This would be such a bad time to be in college. Imagine you worked hard for weeks and submitted a stellar essay only to be flagged by some third grade "AI-detector" and got an F and called to the deans office for an academic misconduct hearing I would go into depression #ai #academia

• Post #3569712

  How do you stop a player who has already conquered everything? You can't. Lionel Messi is operating in a headspace with zero pressure, and nothing left to prove. That makes him an absolute menace to every opposition ⚽🐐 #football #worldcup #messi #argentina

• Post #3569711

  It's rather simple, I hear an AI voiceover on a video, I reflexively skip. I read an obvious AI written/proofread sentence, I close the article tab. It does not matter how interesting the premise was. Protect your sanity as much as you can.

• Post #3569710

  Work and life has drained my battery lately, I'm sorry for not being active here as much as I would like to. Hope everyone reading this has a great week ahead ✨💜

• Post #3569709

  Good morning and wish you a great day. Here is a cute hibiscus flower from my garden. Quote of the day, "Look at your wardrobe, your routines, your meals, your room and ask yourself if they reflect the person you want to be. If not, start editing." #goodmorning #quotes #flowers #photography #bloomscrolling #garden #nature

• Post #3569708

  Why don't airports have movie theaters? If my layover is four hours, let me watch a movie instead of wandering around the terminal. I would happily pay for that.

• Post #1998267

  We spend a lot of time in our tech bubbles debating the latest silicon and sub-millisecond latencies. That makes it easy to forget the grim reality of the digital divide. The milkman who has delivered to my family since I was a kid mentioned his daughter is in 10th grade. She has been trying to do her online coaching on a failing, stuttering budget phone from a decade ago. The friction of just trying to learn is massive because the modern web has largely abandoned low-end hardware. I picked up...

• Post #1885705

  Hey mastodon power users, what happens when I click "Hide boosts from XYZ"? #askfedi #mastodon

• Post #1780474

  Given how casual these AI agents are with deleting production databases, y'all should be campaigning to put them in charge of student loans.

• Post #1745001

  This is most of the internet these days.

• Post #1745000

  Kill me 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵