Alright so I don't know why I feel I have to justify it, but Avatar was absolutely staggering. Saw it in 3D on the biggest screen in my area, and it's fair to say I think I'll remember this experience forever.
You can quibble with the story or the cultural treatment, but it's a quantum leap in the cinematic experience. Easily among if not the best action adventure film ever made *in this form*.
Absolutely unique filmmaking. (1/4)
After a recent *terrible* first attempt at using matrix as communication platform for our rather big measurement campaign in summer, I just tried selfhosting Mattermost, and boy is it a smoother experience. It's as if it was made for team collaboration, funny eh 😅
Also my first time trying out nixos-containers, very nice to encapsulate or group services together independently of your host NixOS.
#Matrix
Been running CachyOS as my daily driver for 2 weeks now & enjoying the experience. As a fan of stability I've been reluctant to go with a rolling release, but this is nicely tuned for hardware.
Playing Rimworld in Linux amuses me. Hoping the support for modded Fallout 4 comes along soon.
https://cachyos.org/
Fairphone is really losing points with me right now. I received an email with a survey from bazaarvoice-cgc.com, which was actually commissioned by Fairphone to conduct these surveys via email. On their website, they even lie to your face:
"Is Bazaarvoice spam?
This email from Bazaarvoice is not spam or a phishing attempt; it is a genuine request to share your experience with the product you purchased with Fairphone."
Go to hell and rot in my blacklist.
@… I’m playing catch-up on your weekly updates (you no longer shows in my feed or alerts even though I follow you, which is hella annoying and I still have to debug) and think you were messing with me by generating the abstract of my Atlass post with an LLM.
If so, well done and I’m sorry I’m just seeing it.
If not, then I guess I need bet…
> As a long-time Arch user all I can say is that (at least in my experience) #Gentoo requires so little maintenance compared to Arch and if I have a problem there is a wiki page for everything (literally).
#ArchLinux is much more demanding. And now I hide…
My recent experience with #VSCode started very badly.
Since, it improved immensely. Now I have a couple of days of coding on some small Go projects that felt good.
I am still struggling with shortcuts. In particular `F12` and `Ctrl- -`. I am sticking with the defaults for now.
Who needs 32GB of system memory anyway? 🧐
I couldn't resist installing #CachyOS back on my main PC, on a separate SSD, alongside Windows. AMD is a first-class experience in Linux. I just downloaded The Alters, and FSR 4 simply works with my poor RX 7800 XT - without Optiscaler or any kind of manual DLL swaps.
In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL). https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20<…
Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.
Oh dear, one disappointed call centre worker who didn't manage to upsell the insurance that came with the cooker. I know they're probably on commission but in my experience these companies will bend over backwards to wriggle out of paying for repairs so it's not worth it. When the tumble drier conked out a year ago Dad insisted on going through the insurance agreement he had with them and it was dire. After two months of faffing about and several failed repairs we just bought a n…
#ThrowbackThursday to attending and interviewing LTJ Bukem during the Logical Progression tour in Berlin back in '96 — my first proper DnB clubnight, mind-altering experience and one more reason to move London back then (the year after), where I became a regular at Goldie's Metalheadz @ Blue Note in Shoreditch...
Two of my alltime fave tracks from the original Logical Pro…
Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
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Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…
Nice, I wanted to write about that topic. And there.. Someone wrote about it already.
That's the reason why I never recorded myself walnut walking into the scene.
Even though it looks really cool,it really disturbs my hiking experience and totally turns into filming.
https://blog.lauram…
came to realize this is at least true for my generation a while back
Is MAGA a cult?
Ok, so here's something I don't talk about much. My high school girlfriend, who I married at 18, was a member of the LDS church. She got me involved in it because that was the only way that we could be together. I've been out for years now, but the experience set my life and my maturity back by a lot.
One of my favorite television moments of all time is when Stan asks his Mormon friend incredulously, "You mean you people know this story and you ST…
A morning of continuing professional development (CPD) in the office, as I dial in to a professional practice webinar run by one of my favourite psychologists.
Nice to be on the other end of the learning experience for a change!
Once, at the National Student Drama Festival, where I was volunteering as a techie, there was a show that involved a butcher's knife, and they had decided to use a real one and "blunt" it by covering the edge in sellotape.
Turns out this was not a very effective way of rendering the knife safe.
I bought a thing a month ago from a local retailer. I bought online and picked it up in person.
To this day, they keep sending me emails like "Be sure to rate your experience!" or "Tell us how we did!".. DAILY.
Mitch Hedberg in my head is going "I do not NEED to rate my experience. I gave you money, you gave me a donut. End of transaction. Survey Monkey does not enter into this. Like I need to proove to that skeptical friend, I enjoyed Canadian Tire. Se…
@… The European-in-America experience is the exact inverse :)
Every time I get in a bed other than my own, I’m angrily confused by the amount of god damned linens in my bed!?!
I have been learning #Rust for a couple of years, and using it for pet projects and demos alike. Working for a JVM-heavy company, I thought it would be my fate forever. Last week, I had a nice surprise: I convinced my management that using Rust for a particular project was the right choice. It’s not a huge project, but I want to describe my experience using Rust in a "real" project.
In my experience interacting with them, CEOs are all over the map as human beings — some incredible jerks, some surprisingly decent, a few truly marvelous people — but on the whole, and increasingly so as the company gets larger, they are some of the most fear-driven people I’ve ever met in my life.
I do find value in Shazam when I go out. It's become one of the main ways I find new music.
It also links music to an experience for me, so if I discover something new when I'm in my happy place, like a coffee shop, I can re-live that moment when I listen again.
Currently, I'm listening to CloZee... I picked up a track (Revolution Sixis Remix) from this album yesterday. #Shazam #AppleMusic
@… I completely understand (and largely agree). And in my experience there is nothing remotely close to Dragon on Linux or MacOS.
My actual experience of AI coding over the last few days. Starting point is a large working prototype application written mostly in typescript, and I want a version in Python, so I have Claude working away at it, porting over the BDD tests, the unit tests, comparing with the TS. This morning it’s working on unit tests for 8 services. it saw there was a lot to do, so it spawned four coder specialists and worked for about 50min, creating 188 tests, then continued with four more coders.
So, with the Discord thing rn I guess teh closest we have to an alternative is like Zulip? Except it's more self-hosted focused.
So, is anyone around here hosting a Zulip (or other real, feature-complete, discord alternative that I don't know yet) instance open to (or even better, focused on) small-ish kink communities?
I have some friends on discord that I really wanted to migrate somewhere else.
I thought about hosting one in my NAS, but even if cgnat wasn't a thing actively moderating porn-focused places seems like a nightmare so I'd want something hosted by someone with a bit more experience on that such as moderating fedi servers or something. I guess some people who host fedi instances probably also host chat rooms right?
Lockdown Mode is a backstop for people who either do dangerous things or are specifically targeted by high-resource threat actors. Almost no one can *actually* benefit from it but people who need it really need it.
I don’t need it. However, I have it enabled in part to understand what it does to the UX. It interferes with a minority of sites. It forces me to think about whether I REALLY trust the site I’m interacting with & how valuable my interaction really is.
My buddy, Waffles, took a photo with Santa today. He's a shelter adoption, and this is probably his first Christmas experience.
If you “honour” my #DoNotTrack* signal, why don't you just shut the fuck up, dear https://docs.spring.io? 🙄
* More accurately:
One thing I've taken note of is people are outraged about news items that I don't react to at all.
Both consciously and unconsciously I turn away from some news items because quite frankly, I experience both outrage and empathy fatigue. To protect my mental well-being, there's some topics I turn away from.
Part of this is my natural tendency to prefer to become very informed about a topic before I weigh in.
Every year for 10yrs, I went to "Quark's Bar" in Las Vegas during COMDEX & had a "Liquid Latinum" for my birthday... until they closed. 😢
▶️ Did you ever visit Quark’s Bar at Star Trek: The Experience?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OhDA0ri4ntc&a…
Remember, using a native HTML `<fieldset>` / `<legend>` gets you better results in SRs than its ARIA equivalent:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-legend-and-fieldset.html
My post deals with the inverse of the others I shared — unstyling the nat…
Sometimes support looks like crying on someone. But often, in my experience, it means laughing with someone as well. I need happy days out as much as I need somewhere to offload. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-197-holding-our-nerve/
When I switched to using a #ridgewallet (which I quite like and recommend), I ditched all of my loyalty and "lesser" ID cards in liu of #Stocard - a mobile app with digital copies. But now Stocard is #klarna (and we…
@… Thank you for sharing.
I see some similarities with my own experience of American Christmas, being raised in a Scandinavian culture where Jul (Yule) is a very different tradition.
The consumerism, the self-centrism, all feels very gross and not at all what I connect the holiday with.
Dear Fediverse,
Any tips on finding a job out of state? Trying to relocate across the US.
All of my job experience (IT Sysadmin) is local to the state I'm in. I don't think it's wise to move without a job. I reached out to recruiters there but didn't hear back from any of them.
#Fedihire
#WeLD will #Oscar für #Melania. #NoLink Next step Goldenes Mutterkreuz für M.
Reminder that iSH.app is a must-have for anyone trying to deal with large quantities of files in iOS. iOS is awful at dealing with large quantities (200 ) of files (or even a very large single file), using iSH for moving, transfering with rsync or even comrpressing them is a way better experience than trying to use Files App or any of the native stuff for this.
Just mount -t ios /mnt /mnt and choose the iCloud Drive folder you want to mount.
(Note that rsyncing the files and then compressing them in the destination will be way quicker than thew other way around due to the lack of JIT or actual virtualization, but either way iSH will be way better than Files App because it actually works instead of just failing, freezing and crashing all the time with no error message)
The iPad would be a really great device if they just let you unlock it and install an OS that actually works. My dream device for college would be an iPad with Apple Pencil but running postmarketOS or NixOS or something, plus Rnote or whatever for notes.
When #teaching #Rstats / #statistics courses, I (and several colleagues of mine) made the experience that it is indeed pretty hard for a lot of students to cope with the file system on their computer. They have questions like: How do I know the "path" of a file? How do I control in which directory something is saved? WHY DO I NEED THIS?!?
I don't want to make fun of these students because I know that this could be because operating systems are increasingly obscuring file/directory systems from their users.
But if I want to teach students to use a scripting/ #programming language independently, that's a real problem!
So my questions to you are: Do you have the same impression when teaching? And if so: How do you deal with this from a teaching perspective? To be honest, I don't want to use precious course time to teach the absolute basics of computers' file systems in the first session(s).
@whitequark@mastodon.social
