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@hollie Super cool! A couple important notes, just from quickly looking at their website:

1. Oil-based ink works, not water-based! So ballpoint pens are fine, rollerball pens are not. (generally)

2. Ink can transfer to the band permanently if left for too long. This could be a problem for ADHDers or any other forgetful folk.

Anyone else feeling burnt out?

@kottke Surely there's better reporting on this than an AI slop article.

@EdCates @Slyence FYI The Free Press runs on Substack. Their TOS just links to Substack's TOS.

@zefix@metalhead.club So utterly tired.

@handmade_ghost Kalimba is the instrument equivalent of a weighted blanket.

@moss @squeakypancakes +1 for Slop Evader. Zero permissions, does what it says, and is simple enough for non-tech savvy folks to use.

@daniel@gultsch.social What's driven the recent popularity?

@lea TIL there are knitting conferences

@ohmu @wcbdata @adrienne It's happened before *and* Proton has always been transparent about it. And not "buried in the TOS" transparent. Anyone surprised or outraged by this needs to start considering their threat model before using a service, and understand what you're signing up for.

@xrisk@social.treehouse.systems @pseudonym@mastodon.online Volume is a key factor here. But even if the volume was the same, LLMs are doomed to stagnate as devs—whose code was scraped for training data—are displaced.