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re: harsh words for those who travel 

the reality is that conferences could and would enforce strict masking guidelines, implement mass air filtration, and encourage more online participation if people actually refused to go to cons that didn't willfully infect thousands of people

but people don't put their foot down, they shrug and get infected with a blood plague and then complain about it like it's not entirely their fault

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harsh words for those who travel 

as someone who has to struggle to transport themself all the way to the grocery store, let alone anywhere else, it's incredibly frustrating to see people fragrantly disregard the wellbeing of others and fly around constantly to conferences to spread viral illness far and wide

I know it's lonely, but fuck, none of us chose this, and you're using your privilege to make it harder for the rest of us just because you can't stand to burden yourself even a little bit

fuck you

my dad sent a mastodon post in the family group chat and it was so surreal

💡 Did you know that in #blender3d if you just want a flat color with no shading, you can plug an RGB node directly into the #b3d material output? #blendertip

*This setup is for Eevee.

Updated for Eevee and Cycles: mastodon.art/@zerodean/1117797

The idea being to maintain a collective pool of media storage (Tahoe requires less mutual trust here) that everyone shares, so that the media get deduplicated across instances, but it still ensures enough redundant copies across instances that outages don't break everyone

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I wonder if something like Tahoe-LAFS (in convergent/deduplicated mode) or even Garage wouldn't significantly improve the storage requirements for small fediverse instances

This thought brought to you by me describing "standard" to someone as a magic word that serves as an 'infection vector' for a hype cycle, and then suddenly realizing that this metaphor applies more broadly

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Only just realizing how much sense it (seems to) make to think of tech hypes like they are infectious diseases, with infection vectors and pandemic policies - and it fails in the same ways too

A good friend of mine had an MRI, but the insurance wouldn't pay for a doctor to process/analyze it. First of all I didn't know you could even do that, and second of all do I reach any neurologists or otherwise the medical kind of brain doctor that would be willing to take a pro-bono look at an MRI?

edit: we have figured something out! thank you all so much for your offers and for spreading the word, it means a lot that people are willing to help out a friend in need like this, consider my heart warmed <3

I appreciate how Google doesn't list any discernible benefit for keeping my accounts linked

ai, fear, wtf 

A friend of mine told me his coworkers now have a new solution for when they don't want to do their own sums on a bit of engineering:

They use Chat GPT. They input the data, and ask it to calculate the answer. And they trust it every time.

This is a company that is involved in thousands of projects. They are using a chat model to calculate real sums used in construction.

The future is terrifying.

^^ using commercial LLMs is unethical and I judge you harshly if you do, not sorry.

food (vegetarian), sort of recipe 

I'm going to declare today's almost-vegan meat pastry a success! The only non-vegan ingredient is some cheese

Sauce is made out of vegetable stock/broth cubes immersion-mixed with flour and some peas to thicken, with generous amounts of thyme, cumin, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, slight amount of turmeric, coriander, celery, black/white pepper, and a bit of salt. Also a glob of sharp mustard mixed in, as well as a few whole peas.

The remainder of the filling is spinach and cheap minced meat substitute from Lidl, the crumb stuff. Wrapped in fresh vegan pastry dough with some grated cheese added.

Meat substitute and spinach are fried and later added to the sauce and boiled for a bit longer.

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