Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

We joke about how cats chase laser pointers, but have you ever seen people interact with laser effects on a theme park ride

At the point where I'm unfollowing anyone who touts the "benefits" of LLMs, or who conflates LLMs with AI to try to legitimize the former.

@roknrol Haggling is a very NT thing, and at some level all sales is haggling. Some of it is charisma, some is good old social power dynamics - stuff we're not usually good at. And we do tend to value honesty over manipulation, so the whole idea of selling something by talking it up feels bad. Fold in some rejection sensitivity and a dash of imposter syndrome, and I usually just give stuff away because it's so much easier. I think this is what folks mean by an Autism Tax.

I was excited to read this study until I got to the sample...all men. So while the headline generalizes the findings, they actually have no idea about how exercise changes saturated fat metabolism in women because they did not study women. When reading studies, always look at the sample. Even today women are being excluded from health studies.
https://gizmodo.com/exercise-changes-saturated-fat-metabolism-study-1851481654

I would love if all the people who did foss stuff because they like working with and helping other people moved to instances specifically having that in their rules, that way we could just block out all the foss instances that have people who are hostile because they only care about the product rather than the community and ecosystem.
The more I see of this (and thanks to blocking a bunch of domains I don't see these things often) the more I understand the issues people have with the foss environment.

I promise you, there are many many people out there wo will instead of yelling you for using proprietary software, will sit down with you, talk about what you need and want, and make a few suggestions for foss replacements so you can get back your freedom as a user. They will understand that sometimes you need features and that using something proprietary is unavoidable and they would hate that, but they wouldn't shame you for doing so. They are really in it to move away from the stuff that holds us as a society back, and they want it to be a smooth transition for all of us.

If you hate foss environments because they're just not that way, I promise you, there are other places that are. It's not foss as a whole, and we would hate to see you avoid foss because of those toxic people that most of us don't like either *sigh*

passively approving of injustice is participating in it

Never ceases to stump me that we have the technology to kill 99.95% of airborne viruses, proven to work, non-invasive, cheap to deploy and install, and is produced at scale already and we just like - collectively - kind of just don't really use it.

HEPA-grade air filtration is proven, cheap, and makes everyone's lives strictly better. It, like, makes zero fiscal sense for governments not to mandate its use in all covered public spaces ASAP.

One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

Hot take: “Your feelings are no one’s but your own responsibility” is neoliberal bullshit.

apparently there are rumors of lix being “lesbian nix”* and I can only say that were this the case, I would expect the project to be entirely coated in queer iconography down to a bright pink color scheme

checkmate, atheists

Sufficiently Advanced Bodging™ is indistinguishable from having used the correct pinout.