I have just noticed that the noodles I am cooking have a symbol on the packaging indicating it is five (out of five) chillies, and is labelled “Made in Sichuan”.
Been nice knowing you all.
Apparently, it is spring here in Alameda. At least, my nose & eyes think it is.
did I ever mention the r/utah moderators are terrible?
https://indieweb.social/users/khurtwilliams/statuses/116037244169305779 Say what you will about Newsom, he's trying to be on the right side of history.
we could just start telling men that voting is performative and gay and then build the matriarchy
@magicalgirlsabrina "The only thing worse than going to therapy."
@markwyner This is the way.
Slopzilla claims they are working for everybody but they keep announcing new AI slop features, but when it comes to major, exciting new Firefox features that aren't AI, they are totally silent.
The OpenAI Codex Super Bowl ad was surprisingly good
https://youtu.be/aCN9iCXNJqQ
I was reading @davidgerard 's note on the chatbot vendors publishing that their chatbots are impairing learning https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/06/ai-coding-makes-you-worse-at-learning-and-not-even-any-faster/
This gives me two thoughts.
- Do chatbots make you anti-learn faster or slower? I.e. are you more likely to get something wrong when getting out of practice if you are also a chatbot user?
- Does using image generating bots make you worse at interpreting art over time?
Okay. Just admit it, people. All cola tastes terrible. It's a "medicinal" drink from over 100 years ago and tastes bad with all food.
#SuperBowl
#SuperBowlSunday
#SuperBowl60
#SuperBowlLX
@MisophonicSpree lol!
what's the point of attempting to blur the coca cola logo?
It makes no sense, even from a legal standpoint surely? it's so obvious, it couldn't be anything else.
A guy called my dad and said he’d won a million dollars in a contest! All that was needed was to advance $1,000 to cover fees
My dad told the guy he would happily split the winnings, $500K each, if the guy paid the fees for him
The guy hung up
Today's nerd info:
Denmark is known for its national flag, the Dannebrog. 🇩🇰
But the largest peninsula of Denmark, Jutland, actually has its own flag called Den Jydske Fane. It was created in 1975 by artist Per Kramer, and can legally be flown in Denmark as a symbol for the region.
It has a green area in the middle with blue around it, symbolizing the green forests of the peninsula with sea on both sides. On top is a red brown cross symbolizing the heathlands of central Jutland.
Cool flag! 😎 It's a bit like our Nottinghamshore flag, which has Robin Hood on it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-13337196
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You may already know that “data centers in space” is a cynical scam to tie AI funding to taxpayer-funded space operations. This article does a good job of explaining why the *physics* of putting data centers in space is an enormous problem unlikely to be solved any time soon.
ancient pottery has the fingerprints of the person who made it permanently embedded in it, and if you touch it, you can reach out and touch the hand of the person who made it across space and time immemorial and experience a brief fleeting connection to a long gone person you will never know. and then get thrown out of the museum.
I have deeply mixed feelings about #ActivityPub's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building #Fedify.
Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of developers jump into ActivityPub development without really understanding JSON-LD, and honestly, can you blame them? The result is a growing number of implementations producing technically invalid JSON-LD. It works, sort of, because everyone's just pattern-matching against what Mastodon does, but it's not correct. And even developers who do take the time to understand JSON-LD often end up hardcoding their documents anyway, because proper JSON-LD processor libraries simply don't exist for many languages. No safety net, no validation, just vibes and hoping you got the @context right. Naturally, mistakes creep in.
But then the other part of me thinks: well, we're stuck with JSON-LD now. There's no going back. So wouldn't it be nice if people actually used it properly? Process the documents, normalize them, do the compaction and expansion dance the way the spec intended. That's what Fedify does.
Here's the part that really gets to me, though. Because Fedify actually processes JSON-LD correctly, it's more likely to break when talking to implementations that produce malformed documents. From the end user's perspective, Fedify looks like the fragile one. “Why can't I follow this person?” Well, because their server is emitting garbage JSON-LD that happens to work with implementations that just treat it as a regular JSON blob. Every time I get one of these bug reports, I feel a certain injustice. Like being the only person in the group project who actually read the assignment.
To be fair, there are real practical reasons why most people don't bother with proper JSON-LD processing. Implementing a full processor is genuinely a lot of work. It leans on the entire Linked Data stack, which is bigger than most people expect going in. And the performance cost isn't trivial either. Fedify uses some tricks to keep things fast, and I'll be honest, that code isn't my proudest work.
Anyway, none of this is going anywhere. Just me grumbling into the void. If you're building an ActivityPub implementation, maybe consider using a JSON-LD processor if one's available for your language. And if you're not going to, at least test your output against implementations that do.
@hongminhee I had a similar realization early on when implementing Pinka. I almost went full JSON-LD but found that to properly expand the document I might need to make network calls. I stopped worrying about unknown terms and just hard coded a list of well-known AS and APub terms for interoperability.
@quixoticgeek I'd keep working (I like my job) only now I would be able to easily afford a diagnosis and medication. And a new computer, and more tattoos, and all the other things I keep letting myself get distracted by instead of saving. Once medicated I might even be able to finish writing my first novel.
I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.
@gleick I started an online retail venture at about the same time as Bezos -- it wasn't hard to see the possibilities. (Unfortunately, I had no money and no investors; writing all the code yourself only goes so far.)
Complete the rest of the sentence:
We value your privacy ____
@catsalad “as a means to sell you further ‘privacy’ features. What? Yes, we mean enshitification.”
