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tomw

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Web developer. Sometimes designer. I like code, words and mass movements. Jag lär mig #svenska.

Interested in/may post about #html #css #wordpress #openweb #decentralisation #socialism #protest

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tomw, to random
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The trouble with Bluesky's "labelling" moderation (everything is tagged and you choose what you don't like) is that it assumes moderation is entirely a problem of what I personally see.

This model cannot handle things that will have negative consequences for me, and for society generally, even if I remain unaware that they are happening. For example, incitement to harassment or violence, doxxing, presidents calling for coups...

It does nothing about posts that have real-world consequences.

tomw,
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It's a moderation model where someone could broadcast calls for mass murder of some group I am a member of, and my only recourse would be a switch for "don't see murder posts", while their (willing) audience continues to bask in the murder feed

tomw,
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(Yes that's taking it to an extreme but Facebook managed it at least once)

mikemccaffrey, to random
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I am already exhausted thinking about 6 months of news stories every time some sort of ship or boat runs into anything at all.

tomw,
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@mikemccaffrey and people who don't understand how news works saying "why are boats hitting so many more things lately?"

matuzo, to random
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TIL that styling emails is still horrible.

tomw,
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@matuzo But nostalgic if you once learned table-based layout!

benjamineskola, to ai
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Increasingly finding that -generated images on a blog post lowers my opinion of the author — not (just) because of a principled anti-AI stance but also simply because it’s rubbish.

If you’re happy decorating your work with generated garbage I’m just going to assume your standards are that low for everything you do.

tomw,
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@rogerlipscombe @benjamineskola It makes the theme look better when people are choosing it, especially if they're paying money for the theme. They don't realise until later that they don't have any good images to put into the spaces.

thor, to random
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Electric toothbrush, now with so-called AI. This is like when they started putting the word DIGITAL on every consumer electronics product in the 90s, even on stuff that couldn't possibly be digital, such as plain old wired headphones. The engineers that work for these companies have no shame. No, they're not the ones doing the branding and marketing, but they're complicit!

tomw,
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@thor I saw LG does an "AI washing machine"

tomw, to random
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Real-life actions and situations that have, to the best of my knowledge, never appeared in a video game.

Replies are very welcomed if you have an example of one of these things happening in a game.

Sometimes there will be an example of an action being vaguely suggested as part of a bigger process (like "repair" or "clean") but it only counts if the specific action is performed step by step.

(I'll add to this over time maybe.)

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Building a train track piece by piece (ie. not just clicking it together like a train set, but thinking about the base etc)

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Refilling a vending machine

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Melting cheese

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Charging an electric car

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Putting a baby in a pushchair

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Booking tickets including choosing particular seats

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Appeasing a toddler while walking along

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Launching a crowdfunding campaign

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Being a passenger on a long and uneventful train journey

tomw, to random
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Whatever you do, there's always a sheep that has done it better.

They're just out standing in their field.

olafurw, to random
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Not this again.

This is not a memory efficiency thing!
WhatsApp is not storing the group size variable as an unsigned char. Because that only goes to 255.

It's just an int and there's a programmer that finds the number 256 to be neat.

How do I know? This is an old story. Current limit is 1024.

tomw,
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@olafurw A group I was in hit this limit once and it was very annoying. There's nothing reasonable you can do to get around it

davew, to random
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Back in the 80s before most of you were born, you could buy a word processing program, which was basically a text editor, and you could use it to write and then when it came time to send that writing to other people, you would print it. And get this the printer could take its input from any of those writing tools. There were no tiny little text boxes. The printers didn’t come with their own editors, you had choice and therefore there was lots of competition. Amazing, right?

tomw,
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@davew You can still do this?

This seems to be a metaphor but I'm not sure what for. Email for example is also interoperable in this way.

tomw, to random
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Logging into a SaaS thing...

"We've updated your dashboard so it's easier than ever..."

deep sigh

Luckily it turns out they have just changed the fonts and colours. I am part relieved, part amused at the idea of putting up a "we have updated" dialog when that's all you changed.

jk, to random
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there's a lot of people out there who are going to get fooled because they think that LLM output = talk like ChatGPT, so it should be easy to spot, right?

tomw,
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@jk Sort of like newspaper journalists when they are writing about a topic you are familiar with vs one you aren't

tomw, to random
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Genuinely though, genuinely, the whole existence of and debate around Tailwind has made me feel less bad about writing stuff like <div style="padding-top: 1rem;">

Inline styles may be unfashionable but they are better than Tailwind.

glyph, to random
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Every time I become peripherally aware of IPv6 again I get so sad. The protocol is so rich and has so much structure and the tools are just so broken. A brief collection of issues that remain unresolved in this, the year 2024 of linux on the desktop: 🧵

tomw,
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@glyph Another way to say "rich" here would be "overcomplicated", and I think that's the root of the problem. It would have been better to extend v4 in a backwards-compatible way than to try to replace it.

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@jamesh @glyph I don't have a whole design but I doubt it would have been impossible. Obviously it's too late now – my point is that it's an example of a "greenfield" approach failing to gain adoption where a more sympathetic one probably could have done better. A bit like Python 3 for example.

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