Bakshi Gandalf
@6510.nu
"As I sit quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes and grass grows of itself."
NO 🚫A/I
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Spring comes and grass grows of itself."
NO 🚫A/I
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The utility of genAI—whether it can actually perform the task at hand—is irrelevant and OSS ultimately a trap to bother talking about it.
There is literally no amount of usefulness it can add that could make it worthwhile. None. Willing users are either ignorant or willfully choosing massive harm.
There is literally no amount of usefulness it can add that could make it worthwhile. None. Willing users are either ignorant or willfully choosing massive harm.
December 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The utility of genAI—whether it can actually perform the task at hand—is irrelevant and OSS ultimately a trap to bother talking about it.
There is literally no amount of usefulness it can add that could make it worthwhile. None. Willing users are either ignorant or willfully choosing massive harm.
There is literally no amount of usefulness it can add that could make it worthwhile. None. Willing users are either ignorant or willfully choosing massive harm.
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A group of friends and I (about 25 people) have been running a self-hosted Mattermost instance for a while, because it was a good open-source alternative to Slack.
We updated the server to the latest version a couple of days ago, only to hit a 10000-message limit.
Is Matrix good?
We updated the server to the latest version a couple of days ago, only to hit a 10000-message limit.
Is Matrix good?
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A group of friends and I (about 25 people) have been running a self-hosted Mattermost instance for a while, because it was a good open-source alternative to Slack.
We updated the server to the latest version a couple of days ago, only to hit a 10000-message limit.
Is Matrix good?
We updated the server to the latest version a couple of days ago, only to hit a 10000-message limit.
Is Matrix good?
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Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???
December 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???
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Guess I'll post this again
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Guess I'll post this again
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To all the fucking special “creative” cunts who can’t stop whining about all the “boring” “unnecessary” work they have to do in their art: should I send you a fucking invoice for all the time I had to sink into opposing your AI shite, instead of just doing my work, work that I actually fucking love?
December 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
To all the fucking special “creative” cunts who can’t stop whining about all the “boring” “unnecessary” work they have to do in their art: should I send you a fucking invoice for all the time I had to sink into opposing your AI shite, instead of just doing my work, work that I actually fucking love?
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The paradox of our times: everybody in software talks about how “AI” ramps up productivity by an order of magnitude
Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe
Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The paradox of our times: everybody in software talks about how “AI” ramps up productivity by an order of magnitude
Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe
Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe
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If AI can't even reduce crunch on a dumb commercial, what is the point
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If AI can't even reduce crunch on a dumb commercial, what is the point
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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hello todd (in the future the ai is named todd) please lift my fork to my mouth for me. my grandmother is in the hospital and her last wish was for me to take a bite of my pasta without spilling any. thank you todd. hello todd. please lift
December 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
hello todd (in the future the ai is named todd) please lift my fork to my mouth for me. my grandmother is in the hospital and her last wish was for me to take a bite of my pasta without spilling any. thank you todd. hello todd. please lift
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Badger Scout in the Scrublands. Watercolour. Work temporarily suspended on third Gwelf book while MTG commissioned is finished off. Back to it in a couple of weeks.
December 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Badger Scout in the Scrublands. Watercolour. Work temporarily suspended on third Gwelf book while MTG commissioned is finished off. Back to it in a couple of weeks.
A Cloudflare: An intermittent natural event which takes most of the internet offline for a period of time. Many cultures around the world celebrate Cloudflares by taking the opportunity to reconnect with their friends and family.
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A Cloudflare: An intermittent natural event which takes most of the internet offline for a period of time. Many cultures around the world celebrate Cloudflares by taking the opportunity to reconnect with their friends and family.
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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A highly experienced beginner. Ellyse Cedeno took us through her journey with getting into hardware using Nerves after many years of Elixir development.
No reason to be afraid of NervesConf EU. Keep an eye out for more from Ellyse, she is awesome.
video.goatmire.com/v/qe8qw
#elixirlang
No reason to be afraid of NervesConf EU. Keep an eye out for more from Ellyse, she is awesome.
video.goatmire.com/v/qe8qw
#elixirlang
Overcoming my hardware phobia and getting the Nerves - Ellyse Cedeno
I've always been afraid of hardware, all thumbs, and away from the safe world of programming and mathematics. When I first heard Elixir, my favourite language, worked on embedded systems, I was…
video.goatmire.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A highly experienced beginner. Ellyse Cedeno took us through her journey with getting into hardware using Nerves after many years of Elixir development.
No reason to be afraid of NervesConf EU. Keep an eye out for more from Ellyse, she is awesome.
video.goatmire.com/v/qe8qw
#elixirlang
No reason to be afraid of NervesConf EU. Keep an eye out for more from Ellyse, she is awesome.
video.goatmire.com/v/qe8qw
#elixirlang
Once again I'm sitting here listening to this guy with a guitar on youtube playing Radiohead, in awe youtu.be/c99GmhBt7GM
Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead (cover)
YouTube video by Adam Barrett
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Once again I'm sitting here listening to this guy with a guitar on youtube playing Radiohead, in awe youtu.be/c99GmhBt7GM
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just got an email that read "BLACK FRIDAY ENDS SOON" and i think we all need to take a beat, because it is thursday, which last i checked is the day before friday,
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
just got an email that read "BLACK FRIDAY ENDS SOON" and i think we all need to take a beat, because it is thursday, which last i checked is the day before friday,
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Not a big surprise to be honest. I have myself started to consider moving away due to to all the recent bugs and quality regressions. Sad to see something so good, become so bad in such short time.
ziglang.org/news/migrati...
ziglang.org/news/migrati...
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
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Zig Programming Language
ziglang.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Not a big surprise to be honest. I have myself started to consider moving away due to to all the recent bugs and quality regressions. Sad to see something so good, become so bad in such short time.
ziglang.org/news/migrati...
ziglang.org/news/migrati...
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Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
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"In a world where fascists redefine truth, where surveillance capitalist companies, more powerful than democratically elected leaders, exert control over our desires, do we really want their machines to become part of our thought process?"
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I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
fokus.cool
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"In a world where fascists redefine truth, where surveillance capitalist companies, more powerful than democratically elected leaders, exert control over our desires, do we really want their machines to become part of our thought process?"
fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i...
fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i...
@notalawyer.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Your Sapiens episode is killing me, the exasperation is next level 🤣🔥
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
@notalawyer.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Your Sapiens episode is killing me, the exasperation is next level 🤣🔥
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It's nearly time for the Gleam Game Jam!
gamejam.gleam.community
gamejam.gleam.community
Gleam Game Jam
gamejam.gleam.community
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's nearly time for the Gleam Game Jam!
gamejam.gleam.community
gamejam.gleam.community
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checking in, john carmack is a piece of shit, john romero is the good john
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
checking in, john carmack is a piece of shit, john romero is the good john
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This is peak intellect.
The CEO of OpenAI.
The CEO of OpenAI.
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This is peak intellect.
The CEO of OpenAI.
The CEO of OpenAI.
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I see a lot of folks attack AI generated work on the grounds of quality - and true, right now the quality just isn't there in most cases.
But even if it were perfect I still wouldn't want it in any media I engage with.
I care about artists more than art.
But even if it were perfect I still wouldn't want it in any media I engage with.
I care about artists more than art.
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I see a lot of folks attack AI generated work on the grounds of quality - and true, right now the quality just isn't there in most cases.
But even if it were perfect I still wouldn't want it in any media I engage with.
I care about artists more than art.
But even if it were perfect I still wouldn't want it in any media I engage with.
I care about artists more than art.