To follow up what I said minutes ago, they don’t even want you to think of the initial idea, they want you to be a mindless organism, the AI algorithm analyses and tells what you should make, down to the script, so that you get the highest number of people possible to click it and see some AI generated advertisement, blended seemly into what’s no lonher even your work.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/netflix-will-show-generative-ai-ads-midway-through-streams-in-2026/
https://youtu.be/dGA6sVaGveU

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In-reply-to » Wanna read something very scary?

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t even think the premise of this makes much sense. If an artist is convinced they cannot compete, with the ā€œAIā€ learning models, we already have today, they must have some self esteem issues, strange opinion on what the purpose of art is, or just be someone mindlessly redrawing already established things and not be all that good at it.

It might be connected to some typically non-artists assumption, that the more time and effort the artwork took to accomplish, the more artistic it is - this can be further twisted in these peoples minds, into the ā€œmore pointless detail = more artistic artā€ meme. AI often ads pointless and illogical details everywhere, ā€œso it’s obviously better, than the human artist, who drew the originalā€.

Some people just enjoy having the picture they wanted or having the status of an artist to brag about and don’t actually enjoy the artistic process of discovery and small decisions, made while drawing, that shape the outcome into something, only you could have created.

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i switched my bookmarks site from espial (unmaintained project) to linkding, and while i’ll miss espial’s simplicity, i do appreciate linkding’s power and the provided API.

at first i got auth working with my SSO (authelia) and was happy, but i want my public bookmarks available without login… and i couldn’t configure my proxy to make that work, because of issues with sub paths, which sucks. so i switched to linkding’s built-in auth. inconvenient, but worth it to share my bookmarks.

https://bookmarks.4-walls.net/bookmarks/shared

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In-reply-to » We had sun, clouds, wind, rain and a whole lot of fun on our trip to the Wasserberg. We've been out seven hours in total, not bad at all for all those kilometers. We added on some detours to check out a pond I've been introduced by a mate a few years back.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org sooo pretty! sucks about the dead end tho

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In-reply-to » i recorded and posted another vlog yesterday :] https://memoria.sayitditto.net/view?m=UNwsVI9yp

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that’s alright haha! i don’t expect anyone to listen/watch in full or with full attention bc it’s so long lmao

the thing with PHP for me is that i… feel like it hits a kind of simplicity that i can understand? it’s so plain but can be very powerful. i quite like that. as much as i can learn something infinitely more powerful, PHP hits a comfortable thing where i can handle things like backend sqlite DBs AND how a page is rendered, without requiring a complex frontend with its own quirks (like ruby on rails, which as much as i know and love it, can be heavy).

but i totally get you! PHP security is very scary. i’m always worried that i’m messing something up. it’s why the PHP application i’m working on i have dockerized by default for a small but extra layer of protection

i’ll try to not get discouraged tysm for your advice

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In-reply-to » whys my feed back to showing like 5 twts

@prologic@twtxt.net i will try my best if it happens again! it seems it goes in and out and things eventually come back - i just logged on this morning and i do see new twts but not past ones. so when it happens again and i notice i’ll try to trace logs

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In-reply-to » Wanna read something very scary?

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s an interesting premise in that article:

The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation because nothing I make organically can compete with what AI already produces—or soon will.

This is like saying it’s pointless to make music yourself because some professional player/audio engineer does a better job. Really, there’s always someone or something that’s better than you at a particular job.

If we focus too much on ā€œcompetitionā€, then yes, you can just stop doing anything. I don’t know how common this mindset is, especially among artists or creative people. šŸ¤” I would have assumed that many writers, for example, simply enjoy the process of writing. Am I being too naive once more? 🤣

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Zum Entsetzen aller Beteiligten, wie auch umstehender Personen und einiger schamfreier Gaffer, welche sich an jenem tosenden Unheil zu ergƶtzen vermochten, folgte nun des Wochensortiments schrecklichste Geißel: š•Æš–Šš–— š•øš–”š–“š–™š–†š–Œ.

Und es sollten sich die Wolken teilen, um über ihnen nimmer endende Irrungen und Wirrungen an bovinem FƤkal und fremdgetriebener Lethargie zu erbrechen, auf dass sie zu erkennen gezwungen wƤren, welche Urkraft der irrealen Zusammenkunft letztlich Herrschaft über sie darstellen sollte: š•Æš–†š–˜ š•­š–Žš–‘š–‰š–™š–Šš–‘š–Šš–‹š–”š–“.

So zogen sie alsbald hin, zu tun wie ihnen geheißen, wohlgleich sie – diesem Schauerspiel trotzend – Trost suchten im einzigen ihnen sicher geglaubten Elixir, das dem Abgrund unter ihnen gleichend tiefschwarz glitzernd Erlƶsung oder mithin als Mindestmaß Linderung versprach, lag jenes doch in unmittelbarer NƤhe befindlich hoffnungsschürend bereit:

KĢøĶ—Ķ›Ķ“Ķ™Ķ–Ģ„Ć¤Ģ·ĢˆĶĢÆĢ¼Ģ¤Ķ”fĢµĢæĢ‹Ķ’ĢˆĢ§fĢ·Ģ¾ĶƒĢ«ĢĢ–c̸̛͔̀hĢ¶Ģ‡Ķ‹ĶƒĶŠĢ³eĢ·ĶĶĶ„Ģ«ĢŸĶœn̵̨̳̬̒?̩̓̈́̄ ā˜•

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In-reply-to » i recorded and posted another vlog yesterday :] https://memoria.sayitditto.net/view?m=UNwsVI9yp

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I only listened to you while going through my photos, so I did not pay very close attention. :-)

Since you have a proper server – haha, not just one – and hence are not limited, I suggest you learn a real programming language and don’t waste your time with this PHP mess. It might have improved a wee bit since I was a kid, but it felt like some hacked together shit. The defaults also were questionable at best, it was easier to hold it wrong than right. This stands testament to bad design and is especially terrible from a security point of view.

You’re right, programming is like any other craft. You only truly learn by actually doing it. And this just takes time. Very long time to master it. Or as close to as it gets. The more you know, the more you realize what else you don’t know (yet). It’s a never ending process. So, take it easy, don’t get discouraged, happy hacking and enjoy the endeavor! :-)

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We had sun, clouds, wind, rain and a whole lot of fun on our trip to the Wasserberg. We’ve been out seven hours in total, not bad at all for all those kilometers. We added on some detours to check out a pond I’ve been introduced by a mate a few years back.

After some (expensive) tucker at the Wasserberghaus, we tried to actually visit the summit this time. However, there’s nothing to see, just a rough logging trail (46-49). That was a dead end, so we had to turn around. It was some nice exploring, but I reckon this was my first and last time up there. :-)

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Unfortunately, we didn’t go to the neighboring Fuchseck this time, only the Wasserberg with some extras.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-2025-05-18/

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I’d like to make the numpad control the mouse on Manjaro XFCE, there is something called Pointer_EnableKeys (or MouseKeys) and everywhere people say ā€œusually SHIFT+NumLockā€ or ā€œSHIFT+ALT+NumLockā€ will do it, but it doesn’t work for me. And the the tools and documentation for mapping keys is just hell :(

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Thank you @py5coding@py5coding! the new py5 ā€œProcessing Libraries installā€ feature is such a smash!

https://py5coding.org/how_tos/use_processing_libraries.html

I should post some fun example with PeasyCam… Also I think I should try to open a PR to update the paragraph about installing the Processing Video Library mentioned at https://py5coding.org/content/user_functions.html#movie-events, as it became easier!

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In-reply-to » Buying a TV these days, means trying to avoid endless enshitification: -Spyware and adware -Shitty AI upscaling/ frame interpolation -HW that breaks after 2 - 3 years -One off OS, dead on arrival -Android OS, that starts lagging after the third update -8 buttons worth of ads, on your remote

@thecanine@twtxt.net we are so cooked

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Buying a TV these days, means trying to avoid endless enshitification:
-Spyware and adware
-Shitty AI upscaling/ frame interpolation
-HW that breaks after 2 - 3 years
-One off OS, dead on arrival
-Android OS, that starts lagging after the third update
-8 buttons worth of ads, on your remote

You probably have to make some kind of a compromise. I thought that was buying from some other brand like Hyundai, but that one also felt into some of those categories and just broke, after less than 3 years of use. At this point I’ll probably go back to LG and hope their HW is still reliable and the rest manageable… It has AI bullshit and knowing LG, probably some spyware you have to try your best to get rid of, can buy a remote with ā€œonlyā€ 2 ads on it, some web-based OS shared between all their TVs, that usually gets 4 - 5 years worth of updates and works decently enough afterwards.

At this point, I’ll probably settle for anything that doesn’t literally fall apart, not even 3 years in, like the Hyundai did.

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Am Sonnabend ist es wieder so weit: ESC 20235. Gestern wurde die zweite Hälfte der Kandidaten für das Finale bestimmt. https://eurovision.tv/event/basel-2025/grand-final

Mir gefƤllt, dass viele Lieder in Landessprache vorgetragen werden. Meine Favoriten sind:

  • šŸ‡®šŸ‡¹ Italien
  • šŸ‡±šŸ‡» Lettland
  • šŸ‡±šŸ‡¹ Litauen
  • šŸ‡µšŸ‡¹ Portugal

šŸ‡©šŸ‡Ŗ Deutschland hat mich stimmlich leider nicht überzeugt, auch wenn die Musik einen mitnehmen kann - aber für die kann ich ja eh nicht abstimmen.

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In-reply-to » (#2s6kqsa) @lyse what is the advantage for keeping it small? Will tt/tt2 bog down if your feed isn't rotated?

@bender@twtxt.net basically because we don’t readily use or support range hunters when requesting feeds it’s ideal to keep feed small for the time being at least until we think about writing up a formal specification for this, but it’s also only for Http hosted feeds

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In-reply-to » It's this time again to archive another quarter. I should do this probably monthly to keep the main feed small.

y’Know what, I’ve never thought about rotating my twtxt feed before. Hopefully noting is broken now that I’ve #YOLO-ed my way at it xD

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Grok’s ā€œdaddyā€ teaching it the good stuff early on:

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has been repeatedly mentioning ā€œwhite genocideā€ in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics and telling users it was ā€œinstructed by my creatorsā€ to accept the genocide ā€œas real and racially motivatedā€.

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