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Wyvern-shaped software developer and hobby vector artist. Also sometimes a fluffy werewolf alien creature (Areon) or a bird (Corveon). Creator of the neofoxes […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://icy.wyvern.rip/@volpeon, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1h

Someone should make a new ActivityPub, with blackjack and hookers

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1h

I ate a lot and am now ultra eepy :wvrnFlat:

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 6h

> "Demokratisches Geschwätz": AfD-Landeschef Schult löst Empörung aus

Und führt diese Empörung irgendwann mal auch zu irgendwas?

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 7h

That aside, I wouldn't even be sure what programming language to use.
- TypeScript or JavaScript? I already got enough of that shit at work. No thanks.
- Haskell? Can't use that anymore now that I've used Koka.
- Koka? Has no official I/O. It would be doable because FFI is easy, but hm...
- Go? […]

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 15h

A generic vocabulary that covers all applications sounds great until you find out that there are multiple ways to represent something and which one is "right" is completely arbitrary

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 15h

Every time I think about doing an ActivityPub project I remember ActivityPub and give up :drgn_sip_woozy:

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 16h

"Hey can you just turn me into a dragon?"
"Uh, what? No way, that's impossible"
"Oh come on, you just want to be lazy. It can't be that hard"
"Dude, what the f-"
"Also make sure I get fire breath and the ability to travel through time"
"..."
"Here, ChatGPT says it's easy, too"

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 16h

One of the most frustrating curses of being a software developer is knowing how technical things work, but being unable to make it clear to regular people why "just do _" would entail an absolutely ridiculous amount of work

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 16h

> I’d just call [vibe coding] “coding” – it’ll be the default soon enough. For the old way: “hand-coding”

If wasting an entire year and having me fix the resulting project for 2 months (ongoing) is the future, then software dev is doomed :woozy_baa:

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 16h

Revised the beak shading :drgn_cool:

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 20h

Microsoft's 🤤 emoji is having an entire lake in outs mouth

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 22h

I just hope people on fedi don't take this as proof that there's no reason to improve anything here because fedi evidently is perfect as-is. Because it isn't when it comes everything apart from decentralization.

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 22h

Just a week ago I expressed my worries about Bluesky's as of yet centralized structure, and now they're doing everything to prove my point

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 23h

> EU-Parlament: Veggie-Burger, -Steak und -Wurst sollen umbenannt werden

Total bescheuert

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1d

Oh shit

Emoji of a bird peeking through its wing feathers. The eye is sparkling and glowing

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Feral Art Bot @feralbot.botsinbox.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

https://e926.net/posts/372200

Source 1: https://furaffinity.net/user/demicoeur
Source 2: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/11493728

(Reference ID: 4975)

Art of a mammal by demicoeur. Sourced from e926.net

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link (t)wink :certified_catboy: @twink.men · 1d

x11 spotted in italy

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1d

Teams decided on its own that I don't need the speakers as secondary ringer. Having it come out of the tiny headset on the right edge of the desktop is enough :woozy_baa:

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1d

:neofox_peek_bread:

two emoji featuring a bird peeking. One time it's through its wing feathers, the other time from behind a wall.

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1d

Dell Magnitude

Screenshot of a map showing part of the US west coast. There's a Dell Latitude with red circles expanding from it, like often shown with earthquakes.

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1d

:neofox_reject: Keeping track of changes in git
:neofox_googly_woozy: Keeping track of changes in the LLM context window

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1d

Hopefully a better platform emerges from the ashes of Bluesky that 1. isn't just a carbon copy of Twitter, like come on. And 2. which gets people to diversify the infrastructure so they don't end up becoming the next single point of failure that will burn next. :woozy_baa:

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

🇩🇪IHR SEID DER WAHNSINN: ❤️ Euer Protest hat die #Chatkontrolle gestoppt! Ich höre: Deutschland knickt nicht ein, es gibt also keine Mehrheit im EU-Rat. Das digitale Briefgeheimnis ist vorerst gerettet. Lasst uns diesen Erfolg GEMEINSAM feiern! 🎉
ℹ️ […]

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Eine Europakarte mit dem Titel „Help Stop #ChatControl!“ zeigt die Länder farblich nach der Haltung ihrer Regierung zur Chatkontrolle im Jahr 2025. Die Legende erklärt: Grün steht für „Dagegen“, Blau für „Unentschieden“ und Rot für „Dafür“.

Folgende Länder sind dafür (rot): Bulgarien, Dänemark, Frankreich, Irland, Italien, Kroatien, Litauen, Malta, Portugal, Schweden, Spanien, Ungarn und Zypern.

Folgende Länder sind nicht dafür (grün): Deutschland, Estland, Finnland, Luxemburg, Niederlande, Österreich, Polen, Slowakei, Slowenien und Tschechien.

Folgende Länder sind unentschieden (blau): Belgien, Griechenland, Lettland, Rumänien.

Am unteren Rand steht der Aufruf: „Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu“.

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:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1d

At least the rest of the design is decent :wvrnFlat:

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 1d

Noooo, another dragon with messed up wing membranes :drgn_cry_loud:

Screenshot from the anime "Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi (Season 2)" showing a small red dragon flying in front of the protagonist. Its wing membranes are basically not connected to the body, rendering them completely dysfunctional (if realistic physics were at play).

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