Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Been thinking a lot about media recently, and I think a lot of writers and creators really need to understand the importance of pacing and a strong first impression.

The intro of Mario & Luigi: Brothership was dull, and turned people away. The first few episodes of the RTD 2 version of Doctor Who were bad and turned people away.

In both cases, the creators stuck the boring and audience alienating stuff at the start, and lost a sizeable percentage of said audience.

@tante I think this is a bit too extreme and generalized. For instance I don't use the inline code suggestions, they annoy me. But I sometimes use the AI Chat to ask programming questions, especially when I'm in a domain that I'm not very familiar with. I don't blindly copy the answers. I validate them and use them as an inspiration to solve the current coding problem. I'm very aware that AI makes errors.

I found this #throwback from a few years ago. I'm thankful to whoever made it.

#foss #linux #debian

I just logged into FaceBook for the first time in years and it’s filled with the most insane AI slop

Silly #poll time:

How do you pronounce "been," as in "How have you been?"

#Language #Linguistics #English

What's large, grey, and doesn't matter?
An irrelephant.

#DadJoke #DadJokes

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

When they run out of patients.

#DadJoke #DadJokes

Tanuki

#mario #nintendo #fanart #games

HAPPY SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR APPRECIATION DAY!

https://sysadminday.com

#SysAdmin

@0x10f I hate that the word stands for porn.

At this point just using *any* Microsoft product, let alone Windows, is inherently a security risk.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/microsoft_copilot_vision/

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