Notices by Lykso (lykso@tiny.tilde.website)

@hellomiakoda Howdy from tilde.town

Nice day for a protest.

Stay safe out there, everyone.

@hellomiakoda I think it would be helpful if we barred people from owning media empires, at the very least.

@hellomiakoda Yeah, that makes sense. Hopefully it never comes to that.

@hellomiakoda Eichmann in Jerusalem feels very relevant to the current state of the US in a way that the simplistic narrative taught in our schools did not.

@hellomiakoda Only thing I can see is his complete lack of charisma. That could be a *huge* problem for him.

@hellomiakoda IMO, JD will be worse. He name-dropped Curtis Yarvin during the campaign. What we are seeing now is the result of years of effort from a dedicated cadre of fascists/"neo-reactionaries"/"neo-monarchists."

@hellomiakoda Thanks!

I took the photo with my phone, then cropped it to a 1:1 ratio and ran it through this ImageMagick command:
convert in.jpg -resize 640x480 -average -ordered-dither o8x8,6 -colors 4 out.png

Got a little more time on the wheel today.

#pottery

@hellomiakoda Oof. Should've dug a little before I recommended. Well, FWIW it looks like the end result of Alvey's efforts was this Crowdsupply campaign: https://www.crowdsupply.com/onju/onju-voice

@hellomiakoda Maybe https://hackaday.com/2023/07/23/google-nest-mini-gutted-and-rebuilt-to-run-custom-agents/ ?

@hellomiakoda Ah, I see. Well, happy birthday then. 🙃 🙃 🙃

@hellomiakoda Tomorrow's gonna suck, probably. I'm sorry. I hope the next day is better, anyway.

@hellomiakoda Sorry to hear it. I hope tomorrow is better for you!

@hellomiakoda Nazi is short for "national socialist."

Sometimes I'm overwhelmed by how awash in "compute" we are. People are literally throwing it away. I have more than I know what to do with myself, and I still struggle to refrain from buying cheap mini PCs from the local e-waste recyclers just to save them from destruction. Feels perverse that we spend so much in the way of energy and resources and then just... chuck it all into the bin after a few years.

@selfsame Almost as if class war is being waged whether we engage in it or not. 🤔

@ASegar @ct_bergstrom @inthehands @jenniferplusplus In 2006 through 2010, I was also taught this approach. I think it falls apart when one is inserted into a corporate machine as a code-writing cog, though. Only times I was able to actually practice it were as a freelancer or member of a small (2 to 4 person) software shop. Otherwise it was "write the syntax to make the stupid, fundamentally broken feature some suit wants so they can convince their higher ups to give them a bigger bonus."

@ASegar @ct_bergstrom @inthehands @jenniferplusplus The most galling, telling experience I ever had was being told to write a reporting tool that calculated success rates in a way that was wrong and could lead to success rates of over 100%. (I was told the client had no concerns about that ever happening, and that they had specifically requested this way of calculating the report because it would make them look better to their superiors.) I needed the money, but I still regret not quitting then.

"I’m tired of these adult toddlers who need an AI to tie their shoes and make bad Pixar characters for them. [...] Beyond the marginal utility of use cases like transcription and realtime voice cloning for goofy bullshit jokes, the majority of this stuff has made my experience on the internet (where I hang out a lot) measurably more unpleasant."

https://aftermath.site/why-would-i-buy-this-useless-evil-thing