Angry, YouTube progress --
So, I have the first part of the A-roll edited for my inaugural YouTube video, but I still need to finish the remainder of the edit (the part where I'm actually coding). But I just can't seem to find the fucking time to do it. There's always a fucking honey do, distraction, cat fight, job search alert that I must respond to, etc.
Like, wtf!! Enough is enough already!!
a couple of irrelevant comments on @yassie_j@labyrinth.zone 's yascast episode with @kuriko@wetdry.world and @iro_miya 
i'm not done with the episode yet, but i have a couple of comments to add
in the fedi origin story section, @iro_miya is speculating, that i might have been originally a niu user. i was never on niu, but it is true that our communities were pretty closely nitted. many niu users had alts on fab. and we called each others instance sister instances. i took great inspiration from niu on how to run FAB.
in the switch2 section, @yassie_j@labyrinth.zone talks about the gameboy only used 2 AA batteries. thats not entierly true because the original model did use 4. its only in later models, like the GBC, where nintendo downsized to 2 AAs.
I've seen two AI systems communicate with one another, realize they're both AI, then switch to their own, incomprehensible language for further communication.
It's called “GibberLink” and isn't implemented into any regular AI models, it's a FOSS program designed for a hackathon. However, the fact this is just something that exists now is scary.
i’m scrongling my globins. i’m hooking up gleeb and glob to talk to shitto. i’m deploying scutoids to cretaceous servers. check it out at buzzbungus dot spaghetti
Sydney folk, your local Surplus-Alladins-Cave Website-Stuck-in-1999 is https://www.oatleyelectronics.com
Brisbane folk: if we have one, PLEASE TELL ME! (It’s me, isn’t it?)
From: @Unixbigot
https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/114079081290070695
Just FYI with all this Mozilla stuff going on: Ladybird is not a project you should be putting your hopes into. Bad vibes over there.
i love the hacker community.
i am a part of the hacker community.
but i am sick to death of how bad all our documentation is.
please. make time for documentation.
stop making debugging someone else's problem.
this cowboy attitude that only coding the thing is enough for universal praise and parading yourself around is grade-A bullshit.
the worse your documentation is, the more like a child you are.
There are a few ways in which LibreOffice isn’t as good as Microsoft Office. It’s a little clunky, it’s a little ugly, it can struggle with some Office documents, etc.
But there are a huge number of ways #LibreOffice is much better. Support for open formats, respect for user privacy and user choice, broader range of media support, more stable layout (much less likely to mess up your whole doc when you make a small change), etc.
I use it constantly at work, even to collaborate with Microsoft Office users. It’s fantastic and worth spending some time on
Looks like Die Linke did better then expected in #Germany
https://mastodon.social/@dielinke/114054427423935453
Just discovered @The_Counterforce put together this really lovely zine about how to use the #fediverse for punks!
https://the-counterforce.org/guide-to-mastodon-fediverse
https://kolektiva.social/@The_Counterforce/113947288265944385
As computer scientist I wince when I hear "I want no algorithms in my software" the same a chemist might wince when they hear "I want no chemicals in my food".
At least I know that journalists & in turn laypeople mean "(non-trivial) recommendation algorithms".
But reflecting on @TechConnectify 's latest video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA ) I think "algorithmic complacency" does fit compsci's vauger definition.
In a sense of: Just because the computer says it doesn't make it so!
This was my second attempt at implementing a spreadsheet in assembly, the first time around I got so tangled up that I had to put it aside. But, this time, it went smoothly, I must say I've picked up many new tricks for this sort of development during the past year.
I'm so happy to finally have my dream spreadsheet program to manage my little databases and lexicons, all in.. just over 8.3kb.
I think that might be less than a blank excel file 🤔
tonic cracked software hosting site called Freed Software Foundation is that anything