Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

@janl Observable’s Framework is nice; I’ve used it for a few projects. It is declarative-focused, which sometimes makes certain visualization types harder, but it makes a lot of them easier

@janl I’m curious if there’s a product opportunity here for a UI product that talks to for example timescaledb

@draNgNon no; they just think they know how you should type better than you do

since a popular Apple pundit recently expressed the opinion that Apple seems to be ignoring “personal preference” on this:

I have contracts with my consulting work that require me to actively guard client information against accidental ingestion into *any* kind of LLM/ML model, even locally-hosted

and since they haven’t been very informative about what on my hard drive is exposed to their LLM, I need to keep Apple Intelligence off on my Mac in order to honor the contract

This isn’t just “personal preference”, Apple is making it difficult for me to use their operating system for my professional work

The AI's "plan" to simplify the FAR was generic and unusable, of course. But it is a subject that Ehikian and DOGE keep returning to: Contracting. Acquisition. The money.

They want to file the corners off of the process that regulates government spending. They want to consolidate all government contracts in one place. And put AI in charge.

(yes I am finally watching Severance)

I can type my address before your autocomplete finishes its first round-trip to the address database, fuck off with this

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Hypnospace Outlaw on Steam, 76% off ($4.79):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/844590/Hypnospace_Outlaw/

@puppygirlhornypost2 is dopamine considered a sex horomone?

WHAT GOOD IS IT HAVING YOUR CAR CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET IF IT DOESN’T AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE IT’S CLOCK?

@jepyang

I want to underscore this:

It’s a lot easier to be bigoted against an abstract, imaginary person. When a real human being stands up and shows their real humanity with passion and eloquence, it can peel off the hangers-on from the hard-core bigots. It can change people. Sometimes enough to change a vote.

The way to protect trans people — or any marginalized group — is therefore to •elevate• them, get them into positions of •visibility• and •power•, and let them speak their truth.

Not to hide them. Not to hide from them. Raise them up and have their back. That’s my message to my congressfolk on today’s call. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:esrrgaktqbyod6pcd7fvh66x/post/3ljq6toaoss27

if you’re coming here to reply to this, please consider not doing so; you are likely neither insightful nor funny

the thing about abuse like this is that to some people, it can look like admirable bravado and strength. it takes being the victim of it, then sometimes years of analyzing and picking it apart to come to the conclusion that it even was abuse. but then, then you know exactly how to spot it

But what if you don't care about being truly effective? What if you're goal is quick nominal wins or self aggrandizement or just extracting a bunch of cash and moving on? In that case, arrogance and ignorance aren't problems, they're tools.
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That's something I've benefited hugely from as a techie. I've gotten to work in so many different industries: education, finance, publishing, government, non-profits, and more. It has been a huge joy to dive in and learn about another slice of the world. Another set of people and their industry-specific language and culture.

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the real problem with the doom source ports list is that there's a ManDoom but no WomanDoom

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Category:Doom_ports

I asked myself, if I'm setting my own fonts, why is my browser hitting fonts.googleapis.com?

And I am both surprised and not-surprised to discover that Google will lie to you at the dns level and blocking fonts.googleapis.com with Ublock Origin fully removes a class of unwanted captchas from my browsing experience.

In Firefox: Extensions, UBlock Origin, click the gear, "My Filters" at the top, check the enable box, add this:

||fonts.googleapis.com

And suddenly this goes away:

For Law of Robotics #2 I'm considering "A machine must never mine a bitcoin, or through inaction allow a bitcoin to be mined"

Siri, show me the quickest way to delete an editor and not look back