Practice makes perfect
#birds
🎶 🎵
#photography #birds
anyway, whenever someone says something like "LLMs have finally made programming accessible to normal people!" I try to remember that the Silicon And Fossil Fuel Pyramid Scheme Industry has spent literally hundreds billions of dollars in an effort to convince you that computers were *already difficult to use* (a grift that computer programmers are largely in on!) and to politicize LLMs as being "easy to use" in contrast
(to develop/clarify my thoughts here: i am NOT trying to say "actually computers are secretly easy!" i'm trying to say that people successfully engage with difficult, sometimes learner-hostile practices *all the time*, and politics/economics have an outsized influence in maintaining the specific understanding of computers as being *specifically* difficult in comparison to other practices)
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I’m new to the Fediverse, and so far I’m loving it
It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
@dec_hl Klopilot! 🤣
New by me: After this great pluralistic election, we must stop governing for the *uneducated*, older, white, often Southern minority. The only solution is education. And the #BrokenTimes must break its addiction to dining with them.
It's Education Stupid
https://medium.com/whither-news/its-education-stupid-3b0596a084e3
This is the reason why Koch Network is dismantling public education.
https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/plan-abolish-education-department-one-year-later
The manufacture of the low information voter requires low literacy levels, poor media practices, and propagandist "edutainment".
Attacks on teacher unions.
Hire, fire, retire control over tenure.
School vouchers.
Illiterate peasantry.
All part of a plan to destroy the foundations of a functional democracy.
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/24/nx-s1-5968605/education-department-dismantling-how-its-going
https://sanford.duke.edu/story/explainer-what-dismantling-department-education-really-means-podcast/
@Larymir seit ich mal erlebt habe das ein Zug ohne jede Vorwarnung weitergefahren ist hab ich da paranoia (und ja, es wurde vorher durchgesagt das man zum Rauchen oder Luft schnappen auf den Bahnsteig darf)...
@dec_hl die haben anscheinend eh nur die Türen von einem Wagen aufgemacht und der ist mir zu weit weg. Damit habe ich dann auch kein Risiko :D
Nachts um halb 1 am Bahnhof von irgendeinem Kaff von dem man noch nie gehört hat und das normalerweise nicht von ICEs angefahren wird zu stranden wäre auch wirklich unschön…
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I am now! Summit let me subscribe with a single tap, and I prefer the UI to the web version.
Cheers.
Just for clarity, there's a lot to critique about RMS and trust me I have critiqued RMS *plenty,* but I see some threads here seeing "emacs maintainer" which are coming from Eli and assuming they came from RMS. I am NOT defending RMS, just trying to make some emacs-devel drama clear
RMS hasn't seemed to have fully developed his stance on LLM things right now but is working it through. For example, I wrote this email:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-11/msg00192.html
RMS replied with:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-11/msg00271.html
And RMS at points called LLMs "bullshit generators"
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2025-03/msg01107.html
I know plenty of people on here have no inclination to take RMS seriously, but while Eli has been pretty frustratingly on the "if we're allowed to include LLM output in emacs let's do it", RMS seems to be trying to work through the issues, and hasn't come to conclusions yet, but there are emails like the above that mean that it might be worth distinguishing between the different players involved.
@cwebber@social.coop I feel like your reading of Armin's blog post is a lot more positive than mine; I read it as a cautionary tale of how this new technology is fully capable of bringing a codebase into the state of being commonly known as Legacy Code at a hitherto unseen pace, and how that state can arrive unnoticed because the costs are initially borne only by the hands of machines, not humans.
wait is the part of sir lexi's name that's gendered the sir part?
did her parents name her sir alexandria?
QUEEN: I consent
UNICORN: I consent
ISN'T THERE SOMEONE YOU FORGOT TO ASK?
@sysop408 no it's the one at Munras and Soledad (near whole foods).
@douglasvb ouch! That’s a little bit higher than it is in San Jose. It’s usually the other way around.
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Their rules are on their front page.
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this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.
I’m literally just responding to it. Thanks for the downvotes 🤡
I did not downvote you myself, but at a guess perhaps it’s the fact that not everyone uses a browser. Voyager in particular is very popular and I seems to go out of its way to hide that even - like you can click on “Sidebar” to view the community rules, but I have not seen how to be able to read the instance ones.
Voyager also by default hides the instance names after people’s accounts. Every community on every instance is presented as if it were the same as all others. By that logic then, we are all the same space (with no distinction provided) as Lemmy.ml - the entire Threadiverse is very much is a tankie bar.
Ms. Que Banh
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The other big shoe 🥾 drops in #BCpoli
This is what happens when a significant % of citizens don't vote in a provincial election like #BCelxn2026 -- mirroring southern neighbour?
BC Cons strategist, now BC Premier Doerkson's principal secretary, a key position.
😈Because.....
👿And...
And pure 👹.....
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/18/From-MAGA-Kid-Canadian-Right-Wing-Power-Player/
@Cheeseness Wedge tails as in the eagle? I have never been so fortunate as to see one of those!
@SallyMonster They are amazing https://mastodon.social/@Cheeseness/110806547833178304
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I would try to pull rank here, but I only have two hammers. I love em both.
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I had to laugh when you mentioned Linux as if it’s a requirement to use the Fediverse. It’s funny how everyone here loves Linux (including me).
Steven Rosenberg
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we just got a new official Git tutorial for beginners merged! Thanks to all the test readers who tested it, everyone’s feedback made it so much better.
My dream was to be able to recommend “to learn Git, you can start with the project’s official tutorial” and we’re getting closer to that!
You can see a preview of it here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html, and it’ll be at https://git-scm.com/docs (and at `git help tutorial`) after the next Git release.
branches are next :)
thinking about vector math
thinking about tangents and pushing vertices around based around by their derived normals
oh yeah
a girl will do anything to procrastinate on paperwork
@cwebber we're thinking the same thing right now.
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I’m new to the Fediverse, and so far I’m loving it
It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.
I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.
I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.
And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.
Your corners may not exist here, that’s ok, you just gotta make them. Some folks round here have done a great job of it already with their corners
