#AskFedi: What are your 'comfort games'? I'm especially curious about anything that has some sort of crafting or building mechanic (it can be an unusual one!) :boost_requested:
Snark about so much of Open Science advocacy
Before you do your Open Science advocacy thing, may I suggest that you ask yourself this question:
Are you just harassing early career researchers and students who don't get to make decisions about these things?
And if the answer is "no," ask yourself:
Really? Are you sure? Maybe double-check.
AI
I hate that when I write a particularly good email at work, nowadays everyone will just assume I used ChatGPT. Even if I’m still better at it than the bot. Something I’ve always taken pride in has been commoditized. Without getting into whether or not that’s good for the world, it’s a bad feeling for me personally.
From Life With a Side of the Unexpected:
"A lot of disabilities are invisible. Your reaction to them isn't."
#Cryptography question: I would like to use libsodium for secret-key encryption, but it requires a nonce, and I need the encryption to be deterministic/convergent (for deduplication).
Is "deriving the nonce from the data by hashing it" a reasonable solution to this problem, or does that have some issue I am not aware of?
#OH: a transfem card costs 49eur in germany i think
🦾 How Much Is a Browser Worth?
ᐅ @wezm
「 Apparently people are excited about funding independent browser efforts this week. I have little interest in funding yet another browser built in C++ in 2024 but Servo is still alive. Since Mozilla refuse to let us directly fund Firefox I shall set up a recurring donation to Servo 」
https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/how-much-is-a-browser-worth/
re: CW-boost: nlpol
I don't think we're allowed to make fun of Belgian politics anymore, going forward
@ktemkin ..and if we change the room number, it shows the checkin information for that room instead :p
LLM-meuk
Ligt het aan mij of is deze tekst (en vele andere productteksten op de Gamma-site) gegenereerd met een LLM? https://www.gamma.nl/assortiment/suki-masker-voor-filters/p/B113252
“Ik weet het niet. Het is een soort guilty pleasure. Alleen hoef je je er niet schuldig over te voelen en dat het nou een pleasure is kan ik ook niet echt zeggen.”
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.