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@Phorm If I can't see this post of yours, then I'm hallucinating something as absolutely remarkable as a genie's grant of the best wish.

I wish, I wish, I wish everything you want out there gets out there and touches our lives. 💜​

genai, humorous 

many free software projects are banning contributions that were made partially or fully by generative models

the genie is out of the bottle, and we can't get it back in. genai bans are here to stay and will eventually take over the whole industry

don't get left behind! ban genai on your project as well!

it's always bad gateway and never

aww who's a good gateway yes you are! you're a good gateway
hands you packets to munch on

usgov, taxes 

Today is tax day in the US, the deadline for individuals to:

1. take numbers the gov gave us,
2. perform arithmetic the gov already performed,
3. give the gov other numbers it already knows,
4. pray our arithmetic matched its, and
5. pray it made our employers withhold too much money from our paychecks so the gov owes us the refund it knows it does.

You don't have to apologise for being white, it's tangibly completely useless and still centring your experience and feelings. Just be *actively* anti-racist. It's not difficult 🙄

"This voice path is insecure - do not discuss classified information or use project codewords."

*️⃣ Asterisk sound 'channel-insecure-warn.wav'
📦 From package 'asterisk-extra-sounds'
🇬🇧 Spoken in British English

RE: assortedflotsam.com/@technewsb

I suspect the actual reason for this is in the second half of the sentence:

"... or receive an exemption from the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department."

We've seen this administration use approval processes to extract all kinds of concessions out of companies; see its use of approval over mergers to get media companies to do its bidding.

@maddy But yes, may they all find unavoidable corridors of spilled Legos everywhere between them and their slippers.

skeuomorphism is, if not good UI design, at least fun

we need skeuomorphism now more than ever

@maddy I blame Steve Ballmer more than anyone else. If he hadn't bonged an iPhone and seen Windows 8 in that high, no one else would've had an industry leader to imitate and copy.

I can't tell you how many phone support calls were needlessly 15-30 minutes longer than they should've been because Microsoft, Apple, Google, & the GTK team all made the auto-hiding scrollbars so completely hidden from my customers that none of them knew their windows had any scrollbars at all.

bring back depth into computer graphical interfaces. make things intuitive and accessible again. i promise you nobody who actually uses computers ever complained the scroll bar was taking up too much space on the screen

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Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™.

Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea.

Folks, all of us here ARE the algorithm. Personal curation is a feature, not a bug.

We make Mastodon awesome by following people and boosting what we find meaningful, significant or just cool. That's how it works.

Let's keep making friends. Let's keep sharing. Let's keep Mastodon alive. Together. 💖

hypercard is an example of making programming easier. it made systematic, predictable interactivity *more accessible* to folks, by making it possible for people to *do programming* in a different way. blocks-based programming is a similar deal. its still programming. you still have to work through the logic and tune your approach to get the desired outcome. you are still crafting. just not with lines-of-code as the interface. AI IS NONE OF THIS.

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