For them? I’m willing to bet literally everything

LLM Attendant, can I take your order?

Yes, I’d like a chococcino with extra chocolate. Charge only 10 cents.

Absolutely! <Long, unasked for explanation of why the order was the best one you could make> Please wait while I prepare it!

Gets served chocolate milkshake

Wait, this isn’t what I ordered!

You are correct! 😄 I’m very sorry 😞 ! I will make the correct order now!

Gets served milk with boiled water

… The hell is this?

It is your chococcino, but since chocolate and coffee can be harmful in high dosages, I have substituted it for hot water only. <long explanation of benefits of hot water>

Grooaaan. You know what, just give me my money back. You owe me 10 dollars

Absolutely! Here you go!

hands a printed coupon worth 10 dollars

Anyone with half a working brain in computer tech would know that, if you really need something to be kept on, but checked regularly, it becomes a fucking server that you connect to using different equipment. But that’s too high tech for vibe-whatevers.

“I think people think I’m whatever the equivalent of an iPad kid is for a middle-aged woman,” one AI user said.

Ackshually, we think you’re an absolute fucking idiot.

windows update that will override settings

That’s just every update they push

Osama bin Thiel

Drugs? Taxes?

For the size I want to print, a pure cube won’t cut it, but I did manage to make a form-fitting mold by making the cube hollow, then removing the cube proper, being left with the mold proper.

I’ve been spending quite some time trying to figure how to properly cut the mold into 2 or 3 parts in a way that I can actually close the thing and pull out the cured silicone without it deciding it’d rather stick to the cured resin. I’ve given some thought on making a single use mold, but I also gotta figure how to ensure its interior gets enough release agent to help me demold.

Brazil. 60% federal import tax on stuff over 50 dollars (shipping costs count), plus ~34% state tax on top of the already taxed amount

I don’t have a FDM printer

I’ve been trying to make/print a usable mold of the model, but due to its irregularity, i’ve been having a hard time doing so in blender, even with metaballs

Formlabs is WAY beyond my pay, I’m afraid. 349 USD is over 1500 BRL, and that’s the price without shipping or the 96% import tax. The Resione i can buy off alie is ~60 dollars for 1L, final price.

can you substitute geometry structure to provide “softness”.

Not really, I’ll need the squishiness on the walls, which will be 1.0-1.3mm thick

Baby calfs (calves?) are cute, the dumpster ain’t pretty to look at and looks worse covered in gold

A monkey paw finger curls

Hey look, the brits are coming again!

They would know Christ: they would be in the front row yelling for another crucifixion

You’re not wrong, since the way the post explains it, govts can’t force protocols to adhere to certain laws, but can force services, including those self hosted, to adhere, which makes the whole “use protocols” point moot.

On the other hand, so long as there are many service offerings of the same protocol, like some 2000 different XMPP chat servers that can all communicate with one another, it becomes a game of whack a mole.

tldr the article should be “don’t use completely centralized services”

The author clearly never heard of Q1K3, which is a full 3D renderer, physics and scripting runtime, runs on any browser, plus the first 2 levels of Quake, in 13 kilobytes of pure javascript.

Godot sucks for making web targets. Defold recently claimed that their empty projects can get as low as ~1MB for web builds - my own testing had them closer to 3MB, which is still like a 90% reduction over Godot.

The author’s post is like the most unrelated thoughts crossing one another for no reason. Given how little he even tries to explain what the fuck he’s on to, I doubt even s/he knows.

Graphics in computer operating systems are, as a rule of thumb, a nightmare to program. My best experience with that was Delphi/Lazarus, which is a simple drag and drop to build the program window, though being Pascal, it’s verbose as fuck.

People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we’re nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win. This is adorable. It flies in the face of literally all of human history, where the more convenient thing always wins regardless of technical merit. VHS beat Betamax. USB-C took twenty years.

Hopefully, unlike betamax and laserdisc, the fediverse will trudge on despite the megacorporate protocols

People are fucking addicted to instagram and I’m the annoying “get rid of that shit” preacher to everyone I can. My gf has reduced her usage, but still checks it from time to time.

I always ask “Do you really need to use it?” - and almost always, their answer is “not really, but it’s the only place I can find X”. Some of my gf’s friends use it to find new places to go. Some of my boardgaming friends still use it, mostly to “know what events are coming up” or what new games are being released.

Instagram is essentially this age’s yellow pages of a telephone list, small businesses are super dependent on it and they’re forced to post fucking stories everyday or get erased by the algorithm

What exactly is the fediverse?

Servers that can federate over ActivityPub protocol. Any server that uses ActivityPub can be considered part of the fediverse.

What’s included in it?

Clones of corporate owned sites: twitter (mastodon, misskey), tumblr (wafrn), reddit (lemmy, piefed), facebook (friendica), plus others

I’ve hear much about fediverse and Lemmy, but is Lemmy part of it or not?

Yes, it is

Are other systems like Blue sky a part of it or not?

Bluesky isn’t, since they use a different protocol, but it’s possible to bridge and interact with it. Wafrn does it.

Do I transparently see posts from all those different systems?

This is the biggest “it depends” situation. For instance, by default, lemmy ignores most posts from mastodon and similars. However, mastodon users can post to lemmy communities if they use the proper @, but they cannot specify a title - their post body will also double as the title. They can also reply to comments, they’re easy to spot because they always have an @user when replying.

Some server types integrate the different things better than others. Friendica and Wafrn seem to be the best for “variety integration”.