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Just got off the phone with Warner Bros. They're telling me they can't make any more Harry Potters. Not after the owl ate Harry Potter (second largest owl in the world)

>looking for resources for trans men
>ask the resource maintainer if their resources are for all trans people or just trans women
>they don't understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is "transgender resources" and what is "transfem resources"
>they laugh and say “it’s a good resource sir”
>open link
>its just transfem resources


for FUCK'S SAKE

DO NOT CALL YOUR "RESOURCES" TRANS RESOURCES IF THEY ONLY HAVE INFO FOR TRANSFEMS. FUCK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR EXCLUDING TRANS GUYS FROM THE WIDER FUCKING LABEL.

i'm not even exaggerating, this has happened so many times

Pros of self-hosting:

  • You're in charge of your server and data

Cons of self-hosting:

  • You're in charge of your server and data

“If you know your network and your systems, you need not fear the result of a hundred cyber battles." - Sun Tzu, The Art of Cyber War

Truchet tiles spotted

They did this cool thing where there was one area of the walkway tiles with the chaotic/aperiodic Truchet tiles, and another area tiled with one repeating tile that formed a complete unbroken picture with the Truchet tiles but were themselves totally regular, so it was like this rough border with order on one side and chaos on the other

This is still in the park around the Tower of the Sun. Every individual little part of this place had so much care and thought put in it

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@mcc I love when places put in fun tiles, like this wonderful pentagonal plaza in Stockholm

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

Now that tech industry invents terms like "prompt engineering" (supposedly, you must know how to ask bot a question) which is an insult to engineering as such to begin with, that very term defeats entire purpose of Large Language Models - interacting with bot using natural language you'd normally use. If you have to "engineer" your prompts, that means LLMs already failed to deliver :this_is_fine:

#tech #ai #rant

botsin.space PSA 

Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2

TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.

I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone

Don't chase your dreams! Humans are persistence hunters. Follow your dreams at a sustainable pace, until they get tired and lie down.

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