Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

@emmettoconnell this is why they want “self-driving” cars so bad, so that it COULD be nobody’s fault

@nasser I lol’d, and then had to hide my screen before my kid tried to see what I was laughing at

the kid: okay FINE I’ll take five of them

me: why don’t you take six and seven?

the kid: …

the kid: FIIIIIIIIIIIINEEEEE. Six Seven!

@Alexjgriffith this might actually tempt me to give emacs another shot

@janl I set this up on my QMK keyboard a while back; it takes some getting used to but is handy when you need it

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@loriemerson/116698844776482762

As a teenager, I recognized that my brain's reward system was a bit different than most people's (#adhd is a sort of dopamine dysregulation, and mine would go undiagosed for a few more decades), and I was prone to depression, so I classified both self-harm and gambling – especially the video slot machines becoming popular at the time – as _existential risks_ to my person; thanks to this it's been pretty easy to avoid either behavior (I recognize not everyone can do this with self-harm; though I've also come to recognize that I have a survivor's drive for self-preservation).

In college, I knew a number of people who got sucked into one of two E’s – ecstasy or Everquest – which I recognized as a similar existential cognitohazard and classified them similarly. I have still never played an MMO.

And as mobile tech has become entrenched in our lives, the cognitohazard of app-based dopamine magnets is something I've been wrestling with for nearly two decades.

So when the LLM chatbots were first introduced a while back, tuned for sycophancy straight out of the silicon valley addiction playbook, it was pretty easy to say, nope, no good will come *to me* from any of this – and that's *before* you start getting into the tangle of ethical/environmental/political issues surrounding the tech.

However, this personal rule is something that would make it nearly impossible to, today, get a regular programming job like I've had for most of my career. I've watched many people who a year ago accused me of being "incurious" go full-on psychotic or fascist or what because of their exposure to this technology, and if I wanted to continue the career I've had for two decades with a salaried job, I would have one of the hardest times of that career in finding such employment without capitulating to something I consider an existential threat.

I've considered exploring what a disability exemption would look like (yes this is messy, but considering that I have a prescription to highly-regulated stimulants to function in our society I think it could be justified), but despite not being a religious person – though I am a fairly spiritual one – it looks like there's another path for exemptions.

I've (finally) wrapped my head enough around Bevy and its ECS that I've managed to move my #generativeart process over to it directly from Nannou. It turns out I really like the ECS, and with 20k+ shapes this is much more manageable and even makes real-time animation possible. I'm going to stick with this.

I did end up ditching the editing UI (with much reluctance and sadness) from my previous iterations, but hot-patched bevy reloads fast enough that it doesn't really matter.

Bevy took some getting into, but having the full weight of a game engine available opens up a lot of possibilities that would be very difficult with a Processing clone.

Now all I need to do is figure out how to render to a higher-res buffer so I can save print-quality images, and perhaps 4k animations. If there's interest I'll write something up on the process.

#genart #creativecoding #proceduralart #bevy

Hopefully you’re doing some big stretches this #caturday

Just thinking back to all the times I've helped junior colleagues grow into better engineers and leaders by reminding them 60 times a day to not hallucinate.

ngl most technology is pretty shit, but as someone with #adhd, being able to press a button on my steering wheel while driving, say, “when I get home, remind me to do the thing I just remembered needs doing”, and have my phone remind me of that when I get home, has been life-altering

2 more days, lots of polish and art today
we also have a walking animation made and added!
ive got 2 more backgrounds to line, then i need to paint 7 more 😅

other than that, its just small stuff, which hopefully i wont run out of time to do with all the painting left
i should be fine, but its definitely going to be a full saturday and sunday to finsh this up strong 💪

for now, please enjoy how much work my CRT shader is doing for the 320x240 3d render, and 640x480 source output #lispgamejam

There's a temptation to be "nuanced" or to hold "complex" views about AI.

I ask that you please reject that temptation and recognize that full and complete abstinence from AI is a complex view that considers the tradeoffs, compromises with the relative extremes of direct action, and that comes from a comprehensive understanding of what AI is.

Look, if you call me and I pick up, and I tell you I don’t have time to talk right now because I’m expecting another call,

but you’re like “this will only take a minute” and proceed to plow into your thing

and then when the call I’m expecting comes in and I say “I have to take this” and hang up on you,

I am not the one being rude

Orange crab lang continues to be bad

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge/pull/1040

Can't even add a clown reaction emoji to this PR either lmao, I wonder why

Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacenters on UK carbon emissions
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/24/officials-hugely-underestimated-impact-of-ai-datacentres-on-uk-carbon-emissions

Oops, looks like they only projected the carbon emission rate at 1% of what it would actually be

I’ve forced myself to learn to cook over the past few years, something of a challenge for people with #adhd because, well, cooking required really good time management. I’ve been getting better

Tonight I tackled my first pie, and from scratch; my kid of course wanted the one with a meringue topping (a S’mores pie recipe from America’s Test Kitchen), and it turned out well

finally got to revisit my phosphor masking + HDR bloom CRT shader/upscaler, nicknamed loveHRT (heuristic ray tube)

I added scanlines, distortion, and the big change... configurable gaussian kernel, blending smoothly without artifacts!

I think I nailed the blend of pixel art and accuracy I was going for ^^

Edit: you can toy around with the shader here
https://the-dot-matrix.itch.io/lovehrt

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┳┻| _ The reason so many
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A survival video game, but it’s about finding acceptable places to pee in a U.S. city

it took a lot of work but i feel like artists and other creative workers have successfully developed a general culture of “don’t work for free.” people will offer experience or exposure but we generally understand that it’s just exploitation. even if you enjoy the work! get paid! even (especially!) if the work is important and aligned with your interests and values!!! get paid!!!

anyway i think open-source maintainers should think about this