Posts by jwcph@helvede.net
(DIR) Post #Azo89xmng3JyV82g9Q by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-11-01T16:47:49Z
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@futurebird Also, LLMs don't summarize - they shorten. https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/
(DIR) Post #B0Kq7SK4RTrooloPxo by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-11-17T11:31:10Z
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@futurebird @UkeleleEric I worked in the field for many years & I always hated design without function - one job was in a high-end interior shop where the customers were making scenes, rather than rooms to actually live in & it was never really me; I've seen far cooler spaces you'd actually want to be in, achieved with almost no budget (I once did lighting & furniture for an entire venue for like 500$) 😊
(DIR) Post #B0R9x2Ig8xvgTR5adM by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-11-20T12:41:39Z
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@futurebird Well, no TV for well over a decade - but I don't feel like that's much of an accomplishment 😂
(DIR) Post #B0bZFQMN9tfSpd9uaW by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-11-25T13:12:12Z
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@futurebird I remember a time when blind spots on cars were specific odd angles behind the driver - not the entire field of view directly in front of them where they're supposed to be looking while driving the vehicle...
(DIR) Post #B0i14cTBl01yryk7Zw by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-11-28T15:52:16Z
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@futurebird @nova She so floof 🥰
(DIR) Post #B13vjCbcUyhyHNlzmK by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-12-08T13:20:58Z
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@pluralistic Higher fines, though - you don't deter someone who has everybody's money from anything with a fine that amounts to shaking out his couch cushions.
(DIR) Post #B13xuRTjk3cfV5Zb7Y by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-12-09T06:00:32Z
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@tomjennings @pluralistic Precisely. It's not about the amount, it's about what the punishing effect is on the person. Like, if you took 10K from me now I'd be mostly (!) OK, but a year ago I'm eating oatmeal for months & a few years earlier it would have put me on the street - the way it should work is we figure out what kind of consequence we're aiming to place on a person with effects like that & then translate it, including to billionaires.
(DIR) Post #B1a0uFVZ25HdlOV3bM by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-12-24T17:04:44Z
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@futurebird Honestly, I don't know how to answer that question, because it never even slightly occurs to me to think of or refer to a chatbot as anything but "it". I get that some people do this, but it's like making a case to a person for the existence of gravity; if their experience so far didn't do it, I simply know how to even begin addressing their situation.
(DIR) Post #B1kjUn14GaEFfy4KpM by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-12-29T20:34:03Z
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Having been under the weather over Xmas I haven't seen a soul & barely talked to anyone but... well, I'm pretty intro so I'm OK & at least I've been able to work on my atrocious picking technique 🎸 for many, many hours 😁Yes, it's an ongoing struggle; turns out I revert to bad habits when I don't pay attention - this little mirror trick is actually helping a lot, because looking down at my picking hand is really awkward 😝#guitar #music #PracticePracticePractice
(DIR) Post #B1kjUvMHFbwpY43Nzs by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-12-29T20:44:11Z
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First half is my regular, bouncy, inefficient "Figure-8 Style", compared to a visibly better economy of motion in the second half, on the upstrokes in particular 😁 there's still a long way to go - this is 16ths @ 60bpm a few days ago & I'm still fighting just to make it stick, nevermind speed at this point...
(DIR) Post #B1uE39A1Bd4BFUC3u4 by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-03T11:05:41Z
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@aral Also, let me get this straight: If (!) Ukraine enacts military action against the commander-in-chief of the nation which is waging undeclared, illegal war against them, it's "assassination", but when (!) MAGA-run US enacts military action to kidnap the head of a sovereign state, illegally by both international & American law, it's basically just a bit of policing...?
(DIR) Post #B22Y3sufJM3gY2dYqu by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-07T11:28:13Z
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@futurebird "It’s not a coherent belief system, it’s just government by narcissistic personality disorder. A narcissist is never wrong, never a hypocrite, never at fault. A narcissist changes reality around them and bulldozes others into agreeing with it to save their sanity and their skin and then turns around and changes that reality on a whim..." - @Catvalente They™️simply just don't care. About anything. Fasism isn't a model of governance; it's a brick to the face. https://catvalente.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-smart-fascist
(DIR) Post #B22cNEyLv0B2HbqYvQ by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-07T12:16:32Z
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@futurebird Migraine fucking sucks 😫 have a Baymax hug 🧡
(DIR) Post #B2NGjhtovpI3hHC2OO by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-17T06:56:18Z
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@broadwaybabyto 👉 "Every woman who’s ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said “f*cking b*tch”He didn’t fear for his life. He was enraged she didn’t fear for hers."
(DIR) Post #B2PTPZ2vpCaQAV6Gyu by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-18T12:37:21Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115915785727353400This is Trump's US fixing to lose almost a third of its export market - and that's only the EU. Considering that even fucking Russia has come out in support of Greenland's sovereignty, it's not unreasonable to assume that other countries might join in & reduce or cut off US trade in response to these aggressions.Tired of winning yet, assholes...? #uspol #intpol #trade #greenland
(DIR) Post #B2TMcw5TGprC5B6hKS by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-20T09:56:39Z
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@aral https://youtu.be/jc-waUMyz9w?si=i74uPB4bhlO_BRsh&t=21
(DIR) Post #B2VqadfEBOGrJ0ZYZs by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-21T14:42:27Z
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@futurebird @david_chisnall You don't need Premium to avoid ads - just a decent adblocker. I haven't seen a single YT ad in like two decades.
(DIR) Post #B2W34WyinqKohxi7tY by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-21T17:02:20Z
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@futurebird @david_chisnall Right now I use the Zen browser, but adblocking has worked on every browser & platform for more than a decade - Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Vivaldi etc.
(DIR) Post #B2Y0nu3nv7NRmRx3Fw by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-22T15:46:19Z
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@futurebird No, seriously. I used to run events in my previous job & we had two bigguns each year where we needed to print name tags etc. from an excel file & I swear it was both different & a little bit more difficult every time...
(DIR) Post #B2a48aovKzZqMuT6Aa by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-23T13:41:58Z
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@baldur I would like to respond in the form of a quote: "An app is just a website wrapped in enough DRM to make it a felony to tamper with it"... Remind me again, what is it that Apple makes money on? (apologies to the source I can't remember, pretty sure I got it from @pluralistic)