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What decade did you learn to draw this S?
  • I never learned it, even though all my classmates did (2000s) 😅

  • We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20
  • same, I was ready for this to be some transphobic thing and was pleasantly surprised!

  • What is your preferred API error response and why?
  • Anything except the 2nd to last one, which is, unfortunately, mandated by my employer's internal code style guidelines. đŸ« 

  • Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die” (17 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
  • TIL that pluralistic.net is blocked on Facebook, and any links to it are automatically removed as "farming engagement" bee woozy emoji

  • AI Cheating Is Getting Worse
  • That's not entirely true. Practice is important, but homework actually has a negative impact on learning: https://hachyderm.io/@Impossible_PhD/112969358305278574

  • "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase - [Jimmy Miller]
  • This may sound like a mess to you. But it was remarkably enjoyable to work in. Gone were the concerns of code duplication. Gone were the concerns of consistency. Gone were the concerns of extensibility. Code was written to serve a use, to touch as little of the area around it as possible, and to be easily replaceable. Our code was decoupled, because coupling it was simply harder.

    Incredible

  • Lemmy alternative
  • Agreed, unfortunately. I'm not even sure it supports defederation :/

  • How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4
  • It's good we have "Knewbies" in a sandbox when they start.

    attention all companies: please stop making pet names for your employees, it's weird bee sob loud emoji

  • why is lemmy.world such a toxic queerphobic shithole?
  • In my experience, the larger threadiverse instances have gradually collected the worst ex-redditors, who have brought the worst of reddit's culture. I'm unfortunately not surprised that lemmy.world has queerphobic mods, given how the users behave. 😕

  • Why spend money on ChatGPT?
  • my employer has decided to license an "AI RDBMS" that will dynamically rewrite our entire database schema and queries to allegedly produce incredible performance improvements out of thin air. It's obviously snake oil, but they're all in on it 🙄

  • Anyone Else Noticing Increasingly Conservative Commentary from Outside Instances?
  • honestly, it feels like the Threadiverse is slowly turning into Reddit (in a bad way). There's so much toxicity and right-wing talking points all over the network. You can see it in nearly every community, on many different instances.

  • What are your favourite controllers?
  • Another vote for the steam controller - it's versatile enough to work comfortably with every game I've wanted to play.

  • what's your current linux distro?
  • I've been using Xubuntu for half a decade, zero regrets.

  • Bandwidth rule
  • My product manager is doing the opposite - pushing us to replace "bandwidth" and "effort" with "time". We're now expected to provide an accurate hour estimate for all work items, projects, and bugs. Getting it done later or sooner is penalized on the metrics.

  • Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail
  • Jain’s team then built artificial-intelligence models that were able to stitch the microscope images together to reconstruct the whole sample in 3D.

    The map is so large that most of it has yet to be manually checked, and it could still contain errors created by the process of stitching so many images together. “Hundreds of cells have been ‘proofread’, but that’s obviously a few per cent of the 50,000 cells in there,” says Jain.

    Ah so it's not a real model, just an AI approximation.

  • If you were to create a Fediverse server, with frontend being plan simple HTML only, what programming language and stack would you choose?
  • The frontend is HTML only? Then I'd go with C# and ASP.NET Razor pages. Modern language with good DX, performant runtime, and server-side rendering.

  • Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban
  • Changing the domain of an established fedi instance is very difficult, almost to the point of impossibility.

  • Advent of code starts in less than 12 hours!
  • In the past, people have stolen the problems to use in their own challenges, coding tutorials, and even commercial projects. The author has asked people to keep their inputs out of git or anywhere publicly searchable.

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    Transfem demigirl with an interest in coding, gaming, and retrocomputing.

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