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@mos_8502 For a time I absolutely pulled the connectors off old computer hardware bound for ewaste to do that

@PsyChuan The jalopnik editors sound so tired of reporting cybertruck stuff but still do it for the schadenfreude

Looking at my busted pair of bluetooth headphones and I'm increasingly tempted to tear them down for parts because they are so anti-repair it's infuriating

Epoxied wires. Epoxied caps over the screws. Cold-soldered surface-mount headphone jacks. I still don't know what the hell self-destructed with the ANC.

@vlrny These look refreshingly simple, and the replaceable cord looks nice too. I can try to have a look at them if you like o:

@vlrny Yeah, it's rough. the ANC already stopped working properly too but I have no idea where the fault is in that because this set is absurdly unrepairable Dx

Do you have a way to repair your current set btw?

@vlrny I wish I could help there, but all my headphones are broken too :blobcatsob: I'm waiting for it to be warm enough without my body aching to at least resolder the damage on my latest bluetooth set

🦊 "System" things - things with system in the name - are just inherently funny to us now, in the same way "trans-thing" names are funny.

🐉 next you'll be making some joke about systemd
🦊 system DEEZ NUTS
🐉 oh my god

Idk how “alt text trains AI” started as a Thing People Believe but like: no. Training diffusion/vision models requires annotation work that’s way more involved than even the best alt text out there.

This is why I get so annoying about people being at least somewhat aware of how AI bullshit works so they can tell that “alt text trains AI” is just another variant of “AI is super powerful and will rule over humans”. Tech literacy, people.

The best thing an AI company could do with alt text is maybe use their own model, generate an alt text for a given image and compare against the human-made alt text but like… that’s no excuse to not describe your images.

eldritch.cafe/@batbunlore/1143

Thinking about Sachi again.

I'm so happy that Squishy has such a cute mascot

Give Tyson Tan some love, he does some amazing work for FOSS projects: tysontan.com/

Want some nice surprise in your postbox and not just invoices and bad news? @doodlemancy have you covered. For a few coins, you get a pink envelope every other month

I commissioned Evel of @aldercone to make us some new emoji! They're blobfox but with a tilting head and four different expressions:

:blobfoxheadtilt: :blobfoxheadtiltcute: :blobfoxheadtiltmlem: :blobfoxheadtiltupset:

These are anti-racism emoji. You're welcome to copy them to your instance, but in doing so you confirm that you do not parcitipate in racism, including anti-Black racism. :blobfoxsmirk:

If you do use these emoji, consider throwing Aldercone a tip: mastodon.art/@aldercone/111223

stop romanticizing the grind and yadda yadda tiny beetle held by excited girl gender

Are you using Shopfy to run the backend of your ecommerce store?

Might be time to start exploring alternatives before they absolutely cook you.

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