I kinda want to do a project on my site where I post a new photo description every day.
Not a new picture. A description of the picture. Maybe with the image taking half the space, or maybe revealed after a click. An alt image, if you will.
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Currently training for my driving theory test, and I don’t know whether the most jarring thing is the training material talking to me like I’m a teenager (I’m 40), or the badly defined test questions messing up with this neuroatypical brain.
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Article criticizing an effort to create a nonprofit structure for Bluesky/AT protocol as duplicate effort (because we already have Mastodon):
https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2025/bluesky-free-our-feeds-mastodon/
I mostly disagree because the common libre software ethos of “we should put all our efforts behind one project” routinely results in bad results (see GIMP). Some duplicate effort is worthwhile. This one may be wasted in the end, but in the meantime it still has potential.
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he/him who thinks he's edgelord - doesn't even have geometry phd! cant tell real edge from spicy plane. sad
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Overall design for the side tabs seems to target what Arc did. Which is good for me, since I switched back from Arc to Firefox as my main browser.
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Using Firefox Nightly’s side tabs feature, and it looks like it’s getting a Tab Groups feature (to group and collapse tabs). Early days because I created a tab group but can’t move it up or down in the sidebar yet. ^^
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you know in your heart that it's true
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“Amazon must solve hallucination problem before launching AI-enabled Alexa”
Except the “hallucination problem” is not solvable because LLMs have no concept of factuality or realness.
At best, tweaking the inputs (training data; query context & prompt) may result in a slightly lower percentage of outputs that we humans see as wrong.
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It’s called rising into the public domain, not falling into the public domain.
(Similar: being elevated into the public domain. More common neutral option: entering the public domain.)
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You know code and/or design contests where there is a short prompt or exercise and people compete on doing the best or shortest code or design solution?
Could we do something like that for alt text?
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Why not keep the 60GB music library on my Mac directly? Because I have an entry-level Apple computer and didn’t pay their exorbitant storage tax.
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I haven’t found a good way to access the same music files from my phone (over wifi) yet. The router, acting as a poor person’s NAS, does support UPnP (could verify with VLC on Mac). Tried a couple Android apps, but they didn’t work or were a bit basic.
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My xmas present to myself: got a small SSD drive to put in my internet router, exposed as a network drive, and moved my 60GB music there — instead of leaving it on an external SSD. Now I can use Doppler (https://brushedtype.co/doppler/) to listen to music without plugging in a drive.
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Anyway, good quote here:
It is a dead end to treat the matter of gender as if it is a disorder, an ailment of the individual, rather than an exercise of agency against a society which enforces sex/gender.
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Damn, Substack does not make sharing URLs easy. There are like 3 URLs that point to a post, they redirect you to other arbitrary URLs, and social media previews are broken.
If one needed another reason to avoid them, on top of the far right tendencies.
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Interesting nuanced article by a detrans woman who argues that gatekeeping transition to prevent detransitions does not work and hurts everyone, and more support and care should be available to people detransitioning.
(apologies for the substack link)
https://open.substack.com/pub/dolphindiaries/p/how-to-prevent-detransition-in-five
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Used a website that asks ChatGPT to return the name of a font available on Google Fonts based on your prompt.
For “Font for the personal website of a technologist who loves typography”, it offered Roboto.
When I added “, and likes Baskerville”, I got Libre Baskerville.
Average machine is average.
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One dubious argument is the de-duplication argument. Chalk has 5 major versions. Other maintainers I've seen argue this where shipping a v10 of their popular package. (Your project may end up with up to 5-10 copies of the popular library, one for each major release.)
The de-duplication argument works well in ideal scenarios where a package is actually used as a transitive dependency by several dependencies, and they all require the same major version, and you regularly npm dedupe.
In practice, it doesn't work that well.
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Maintainers of larger npm packages fighting against the narrative that you should switch to smaller alternatives, with some decent and some dubious arguments:
https://github.com/chalk/chalk#why-not-switch-to-a-smaller-coloring-package
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