@daedalus@eigenmagic.net It couldn’t have been more perfect.
Thank you for watching the presentation!
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Computational entomologist, privacy enthusiast, historian. Perpetually raging against the ghost in the machine.
👁 Digital Rights Watch | 🎙 Byte Into IT on 📻 3RRR FM | 🎥 OWASP DevSlop | 🐍 PyCon AU
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Last weekend I gave a talk at #PyConAU.
It’s about quality, scale, LLMs, science, systems thinking, hype, and what happens when the subjective nature of reality meets the assumption that the human experience can be accurately represented to or by machines.
You should watch it!
@camwilson@mastodon.social What about asking the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home? She always has good takes. They are delivered in whispers layered underneath a howling wind, but they’re always on point
@decryption@aus.social Nice! That’s very useful to know, thank you! The idea behind the app seems right up my alley.
@decryption@aus.social The website didn’t make it clear how it works with things that aren’t on Apple Music. Is that the main app it relies on for storing and fetching audio? Can it connect to Bandcamp or run on local/remote directories?
Someone should have called Semple an “inhueëncer” by now, surely
Just had a sudden mental image of a melting moment shortbread cookie, but they were called “teachable moments” and filled with faux pas and the experience of sticking a fork in a toaster
“Slip slop slap” is back! 😎 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip-Slop-Slap)
Slip past the testing phase
Slop out some code
Slap it into prod
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@davew@mastodon.social Thank you for what you’ve done for the web.
I 100% agree re: writing!
“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”
I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)
Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.
This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.
My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.