I'm on three and a half years now of ~daily music recommendation posts here. For reasons that seem less defensible all the time, I chose to organize them as a thread instead of via hashtags. Threads tend to break completely after a year of posts, so I make a new thread once a year, but even THAT kinda breaks Mastodon, so I'm thinking, I'm gonna start refreshing the thread on a six month schedule. Previous posts:
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mcc (@mcc@mastodon.social)
For three full years now I've been semi-daily posting a music recommendation in a big long thread, but it turns out 300-post threads kinda break Ma...
 Year 3.5 in the thread below:
The lack of functional discovery features on Mastodon is so nice. One of the worst experiences on Bluesky is making a post and then 18 hours later completely random people start Discovering it. And they're almost never happy to see it, nor do they remotely understand the intent or context. Make a post for your friends on Bluesky and wake up the next morning to a bunch of messages from mystery people along the lines of "why did you post this??". And I just want to know well why did you read it??
This feels like a metaphor image
We need this but for open source software
The Verge
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
I don't know who needs to hear this is that moka pots are a cheap and easy to use way of making espresso that requires no supplies but coffee grounds and no technology more complicated than a stove. Seriously, they're great. What they produce is about half the concentration of regular espresso but lots of places just put 50% water in anyway, right?
What you need to understand is getting into advanced mathematics is like hanging out with a bunch of stoners MATHEMATICIAN 1: Hey MATHEMATICIAN 2: Wha M1: You know how like… in an irrational number… the digits after the decimal… they go on forever M2: Yeah M1: Like they just go on forever M2: I know man M1: Well what if they went on forever to the left M2: What M1: What if there was a number… and it went on forever after the decimal… and also forever before the decimal M2: Duuuuude M1: Duuuuude
As a reminder if you are looking for a alternative web browser not controlled by AI cultists,
Servo
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
 has various ways to set up a recurring donation! I am not involved with Servo, and I don't know for a fact they will never let you down. What I can tell you is they - Rejected a plan to allow AI contributions - Allow gender-neutral pronouns in documentation¹ - Are designed from word go for embeddability, meaning they will always be easier to fork than Firefox or Chromium.
Just learned about this and am very curious now that Plastic's been absorbed by Unity
Ark VCS
"Claims about AI-datacenter water usage are overblown, it's really not that much water" "Oh, how much water is it?" "That's a secret" [
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Gerry McGovern (@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)
Google Strives To Keep Data Center Water Use Secret After Judge Orders Records Released A Roanoke judge has ordered the Western Virginia Water Aut...
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