folks who think that AI is going to generate the most amazing code in the world, I have bad news for you about the quality of code the AIs are being trained on

In SVSSS the System was described as speaking in a google-translate-esque voice and while that is a perfectly functional description, I felt a much more visceral sense of annoyance once I prompted myself to imagine the System telling SQQ that he had an unexpected item in the bagging area.

I do this every once in a while, thought I'd try again. I'm looking for accounts that post regularly about anime (or related stuff) to follow. would love a boost, or links to accounts, or I suppose servers whose local timelines I could check out

if you like to post about anime, or are just a big fan, you can just like this and I will likely follow you! you don't have to follow back (though of course, I'd welcome that if you wanted to!)

a little bit about myself in brief...I'm not a super prolific poster (though occasionally I've been known for a long thread about this or that), but I like to think I bring a positive energy to the fandom spaces I inhabit

these days, I watch quite a bit of anime! I watch a lot of seasonal anime across a lot of genres, so I'm happy to meet anyone who is into anything, really. I like to think that I'm an amplifier of other people's passion

outside of seasonals, I like quite a lot of things, but as of late I've been really into music anime, and am currently trying to fill in my gaps for idol anime specifically. I have a passion for idol anime that started later in life, but is now growing into a roaring flame. I've seen most everything idolm@ster, bang dream, and am working on love live now...and have a big list after that (I think I'll tackle idolish after doing some 1 cour shows). if you are into idol anime (in general, or just one franchise in particular), I'd love to follow you!

I'm also rather obsessed with symphogear lol, but I don't post about it too much. and ojous! but that's for another time :P

this is the thing that I and others struggle with on fediverse...I love all of the people I've meet here, but it can be hard to expand one's bubble. so I thought I'd give it a try!

#anime

Hey fellow #SmallWeb and #IndieWeb peeps! Has anyone else been looking for motivation to work on indie web/coding/archiving things? Well, I'm running an event, Small Web September, over on DW - hosted at the excellent smallweb comm, run by @kalloway!

It's a chill event open to small web projects of every kind - including those you haven't made yet! We'd love to have anyone who's interested, and you can join in at any time. All the details can be found here: https://smallweb.dreamwidth.org/2335.html

Today’s biggest task is to accept my level of ability and enjoy the art I’m making.

There are 69 days until Halloween.

Don't. Ever. Publish. Stuff. That. ONLY. Supports. Dark. Mode.

I mean, I know a LOT of people love dark mode, and given the benefits that darkening interfaces provides... I get it.

But there are some people (like me) who may be visually impaired. Astigmatism, for example, can make reading text that is white on dark a real PITA. An effect known as "halation" occurs, where each letter behaves as if it were a flashlight, gaining its own halo of light and making all text read more blurry than normal.

No matter how good your glasses are, astigmatism still causes you to see a little blurry—it's something you get used to. But this damn effect makes all the text read as if you don't have your glasses on, or even worse, leading to much more tired eyes or even pain.

For everyone's sake, if you really care about accessibility, respect user preferences. If you want a dark interface by default, offer a light version if the user specifies it (in web design, this would be prefers-color-scheme: light). The same goes for light interfaces.

An ADHDer is never on time, nor is she early; she arrives precisely when she manages to.

https://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/tim-walzs-policy-approach/

I wrote about Tim Walz's Esri keynote speech, and what it says about his views on data (not necessarily open data), genocide prevention, climate, default/universal government benefits, bipartisanship, and more.

The problem with being a programmer with ADHD is that it's often more fun to build a chainsaw from scratch than it is to chop down a tree by hand with an axe.

All right, TGCF characters as fountain pens, a thread

(It will probably take me a few days to complete)

In case you're using Firefox on mobile - so myself and like four others - disabling Firefox' new Facebook data collection feature is quite a bit harder than on desktop, but it can be done:

1. Go to chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
2. Use the search field to find the entry for aboutConfig and enable it
3. Go to about:config
4. Search for dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled and set it to false

Done. This only works on Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a Safari skin.

I saw this meme going around so I fixed it

I know that there are ideas in Chinese thought about what kinds of sexuality or sexual abstinence are good and laudable, but also I know it's very easy for me (a westerner) to project my own ideas of ~~~purity~~~ onto another culture. Does anyone have any sources that explain these ideas in the classical era, or the history behind them? Feel free to reblog this, if you think your list might know.

back in the 90s, stacey lindburg taught me that when deleting from the prod db to always write the statement as a select first then edit it to be a delete after auditing it.

this advice has saved my ass at least once a year since.