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Flaky

@Flaky@furry.engineer

🇬🇧 / chaotic neutral / autist / 27 / mostly sfw here

opinions are my own. i talk mostly about tech, music and mainly repost cute things

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volpeon, to random

I hope this project vanishes in obscurity

Flaky,
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@volpeon bruh

volpeon, (edited ) to random

I still think modern social media shifting the focus from topics to people wasn't a great move. The way forums worked was that you opted into the things you're interested in and got a very low chance of seeing topics you disliked. And even if you did, not opening the thread was a surefire way to get rid of it from your view.

Now you subscribe to people who will post about anything. You carefully have to consider if the things-I-like to things-I-dislike ratio works for you, but unless you're extremely strict you will get topics in your timeline you may hate. Getting rid of unwanted content takes substantial amount of discipline in who you follow and usage of mutes and word filters. The latter of which is, quite frankly, a joke. And I think this is the root for a lot of "discourses" nowadays.

Flaky,
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@volpeon This is probably my one criticism of Bluesky’s feed feature actually. I’m subscribed to a feed for Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss content and most of it is fan art which is what I subscribed to the feed for, but because it’s finding basically ANYONE talking about the show, you will have someone moaning about the show’s popularity, its creator, and sprinkling their salt by jokingly saying how they’re going to kill themselves because they saw an ad for it on Prime Video (actual post I saw). It’s worse than Tumblr, where the person is deliberately tagging it to show their disdain to the community. Here, there’s no magic AI filter for “people who shit-talk this cartoon for stupid reasons”.

It’s rare enough that I’d mute the person saying it but I think it plays nicely into what you were saying. Maybe if the feed creator had fine-tuned the feed to have just art, that’d solve things a bit, but I dunno.

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@volpeon Should note that fedi will have this issue too, though the ability to follow hashtags on Mastodon might help a bit since it’s more like Tumblr in that regard.

Flaky,
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@volpeon pahahahaha this is how I feel about Bluesky sometimes (though Tokimeki is a third party client that supports keyword muting)

frosty, to Eurovision
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First weekend of Norway's Melodi Grand Prix is in the can. A couple of surprises on the performances, but the final resulting qualifiers were anything but surprising. @eurovision

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@frosty @eurovision Just listened to the Erika Norwich and KEiiNO tracks. They're both on par with each other IMO, though because I like songs about falling in love with robots the Erika track slightly edges out lmao

this is all first impressions though, could change in the future

Flaky,
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@frosty @eurovision I need to check the live acts. IDK how I'd be able to do that given I'm from the UK, but I can get the studio stuff at least.

Flaky, to random
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Just saw the artist pages on ListenBrainz and I am the all-time top listener for Steps lmao

tk, to random
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Flaky,
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@tk I just say that I never showered since last year. Which is technically true.

Flaky, to random
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My year in music from ListenBrainz is out!

Nice to see Steps and CHVRCHES battling it out, but it seems like Screen Violence won this year lol. Glad to see that genre tags are getting used this year, hopefully we get more taggers as ListenBrainz grows.

(...shameless plug for Submit Folksonomy Tags for Picard goes here.)

tk, to random
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Sory, Phillips screw also count as mental disorders. :blobfoxdisgust:

Flaky,
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@tk The Phillips-slot one helps if I don’t have a Phillips screwdriver handy. That one gets a pass.

Rairii, to random
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i just missed the iconic win animation, my phone wasn't in the room when i made the final move lol

Flaky,
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@Rairii probably functions better than the Windows 10 solitaire collection tbh

volpeon, (edited ) to random

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    Flaky,
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    @volpeon I saw drama on Bluesky this morning about someone using AI art, and yeah.

    I feel like I'm in this middle ground in the AI debate myself - I've seen the rise of this AI bubble since GPT-2 / Talk to Transformer / the first version of AI Dungeon so I know the gist of how it works, and I also have artist friends who were pretty concerned about AI replacing them. They're not concerned about it now and some have even took to AI for inspiration and reference, to help them improve their own art skills.

    It's really not as black and white as the professional online mass debaters want you to think.

    mackuba, to bluesky
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    Find the New Year midnight in Japan, Europe and 4 US timezones in the picture 🙂

    Flaky,
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    @mackuba How has Bluesky discussion been for you here? It's been pretty toxic for me. Honestly reminds me of the petty Linux rivalries (e.g. systemd vs. traditional init, X11 vs. Wayland)

    Flaky,
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    @mackuba Ah, I think we got mixed up, I meant discussion of Bluesky on the fediverse. :P I use Bluesky myself, prob more than fedi now, and things are honestly really nice there. I think Bluesky could do with some of the fediverse's creature comforts (things like keyword muting and Markdown text formatting) but other than that it has been pretty chill.

    volpeon, to random

    One thing is certain: I will never create a Misskey fork because the frontend code makes me cry

    Flaky,
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    @volpeon if you do you have to give it a cute and marketable mascot

    Flaky, to random
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    Gentoo has now rolled out a proper system for binary packages. Might give it a shot in the future.

    https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/Gentoo-binary.html

    tk, to random
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    Ukraine = United Kingdom Raine :blobfoxthonking:

    Flaky,
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    @tk you joke about this but this was part of the marketing for Eurovision 2023 lol

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    Flaky,
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    @tk I only know them because they have a song called Vore.

    volpeon, to random

    Well, I'm amazed it got as many things right as it did. ​:woozy_baa:​

    Flaky,
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    @volpeon Was it this model you're using? https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/111495729895425712

    Flaky, to random
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    AMD users when they find out their motherboard has an ethernet chipset from Intel

    volpeon, to random

    I'm getting spam from mastodon.online and mastodon.world ​:woozy_baa:​

    Flaky,
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    @volpeon I've not been spammed by those (touch wood) but my old account had Mastodon.social spambots for whatever reason.

    volpeon, to random

    Oh huh, my post's attachments aren't visible on all Mastodon servers. I previously checked on botsin.space where it worked and only saw this by chance. Could it be because of the PDF attachment? ​:drgn_think:​

    Flaky,
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    @volpeon This happens on Pleroma/Akkoma instances too. Friend posted normal images which showed as file attachments on Mastodon.

    volpeon, to random

    proprietary software shoves ads in your face, implements dark patterns everywhere and does everything to keep your attention
    "Well, but it's free to use and everyone uses it. It's not that bad."

    open source software shows a sidebar on the right instead of left side
    "Literally unusable garbage."

    Flaky,
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    @volpeon is this based on something that happened? Wondering because I see a lot of complaints about Discord and co. implementing such dark patterns, and OSS not fitting a user's specific needs more. (in fact, some idiot on Lemmy tried to gaslight someone who wants to use Vivaldi over Firefox into saying they didn't need all its features)

    Flaky,
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    @volpeon For me, I see a pattern of proprietary software luring people in with good UX then enshittifying later, while OSS is like "what the hell is UX?"

    Thankfully on the latter, things are improving while the former is stalling. KDE has put a focus on UX lately and a lot of their apps have improved as a result.

    Flaky, to random
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    No matter which AI I throw this Pokemon at, it is never able to make a Victini, opting to make another Pokemon.

    tfw this little dude is too obscure for giant machine learning models to handle

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