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Thanks to the hard work of @cdn0x12, #GoToSocial v0. 18.x includes automated light mode / dark mode switching based on your system light mode / dark mode configuration.

This means visitors to the web view of your profile will be able to read your silly posts in whatever form they're most comfortable with. This works for the settings panel too! The auto switching also applies to "auto" profile themes with separate light and dark modes (not every theme has both dark + light mode counterparts at this point).

Big thank you to @cdn0x12 for this <3

Some screenshots!

If I were to make a modular creative management game, what should the first few "sets" be? Vote for three or fewer. Or more. I'm a poll, not a cop.

Or reply if you have a better or worse idea.

come to the ADHD side! we have:
- time blindness
- executive dysfunction
- ADHD paralysis
- hyperfocus (on the wrong thing)
- executive dysfunction
- revenge bedtime procrastination
- brain fog
- no dopamines :(
- executive dysfunction 2 - electric boogaloo

uspol 

@MisuseCase I don't really see how that is relevant either. Trump and Musk have shown a callous disregard for 'rule of law' for a long time, and it didn't stop Musk from becoming popular, or Trump from getting elected.

I have seen no reason to believe that this will somehow suddenly change.

that Microsoft AI study 

(Or in other words: just because you agree with the conclusion, that doesn't mean that a given piece of research is sound, or well-executed, or even appropriate to the point being argued)

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that Microsoft AI study 

While it is likely true that the 'reviewing' of LLM-generated output involves less critical analysis than doing the work oneself (for reasons that have been well-understood since before LLMs existed) - I don't actually think that a study based on self-reports with no external assessment is a credible source to back that up.

"How does one perceive their critical thinking" is just as prone to cognitive biases as the 'uncritical review' problem itself is.

uspol 

@MisuseCase Why wouldn't they be able to afford it? Their fanbase never really cared about adherence to the 'rule of law' to begin with?

So grey outside. If you need some sunlight and colour, here's the rest of those 550nm #infrared photos from #Ostia Antica not already posted in December's Art Advent Calender -> mastodon.art/@eyeling/11357932

#FotoMontag #archeology #architecture #ruins #rome

Today in "joepie does questionable crypto design stuff": encrypting an encryption key with itself so that it can be added into a manifest while keeping its hash verifiable but without disclosing the key to anyone who does not already have it

Edit: It might be done !!!

Original question follows for reference ...

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Here's a really long shot ...

Back in the dark ages ... 1990 ... I published a joint paper with Ron Read, but I'm unable to locate my paper copy, and I'm not sure it ever made it to a digital copy.

Does anyone here have a copy of:

R.C. Read, C.D. Wright,
Computing with three-colourable graphs: a survey,
Ars Combin. 29 (1990)225–234

All information gratefully received.

Thank you.

(If you're interested I can tell you what it was about)

Mede-anarchisten in NL (en evt. Belgie): hebben we al iets van een onderling distributienetwerk voor (gratis, bulk) stickers enzo? :boost_requested:

Dat als iemand bijvoorbeeld een paar duizend stickers laat drukken, dat we die verspreid kunnen krijgen over het land zonder honderden enveloppen met honderden postzegels in de brievenbus te gooien?

Hey, you know how when you gotta do something that's so jank it'll only run on windows, you set up a new windows box, what's the first thing you do?

You go into the settings in the file explorer and swear at it and go "Where the hell have they hidden it this time" until you find the option that shows the whole filenames, right? So you don't end up double-clicking on cutekitten.jpg.exe, right? So you can see what the hell's going on in the computer that you bought and that lives in your house? How the hell else are you supposed to use it, right?

Most people don't do that. Hardly anyone does that. You are an outlier for doing that. You are a tiny minority. If someone downloads a zip with file.html and file.css and file.jpg then they only see file, file and file. Most people never change any settings. Most people don't even know that there ARE settings. The joke about the writer who sighs and says "Sometimes I'm sad that I make art.txt not art.jpg," nobody gets that joke, except weirdo computer people like us.

I cannot express strenuously enough how different most peoples' experience of technology is, to how people talk about it on fedi, which is full of the one person in a hundred who fiddle with the settings. But which also seems to have lots of people who are trying earnestly to make Software That Will Change The World.

If you want your software to be liberating, if you want it to be an agent of positive change, then it has to be usable and understandable by a majority of people. Being frustrated at Clueless Users won't change anything, won't help anything, won't do anybody any good. I promise you, these people are just as frustrated at you as you are at them, and you're outnumbered a hundred to one.

Meet people where they are FFS.

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@eloy I know it's somewhere in my boosts but I don't have working search :(

I wish the people who write cookbooks would take into account that the people using the recipes are usually not trained chefs and adjust prep time accordingly. I usually count on twice the time any recipe gives for prep these days.

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