That feeling when you're a hort/ag person and you wonder why the news is covering 3 missing tubers... 🥔

There’s an ant in the sink!

Wash it down and

#AskFedi

The CSA owner said I could run with all the courgette (zucchini) blooms because he needed to clear the bed to make room for a new crop.

So fancy dinner at home today. Baby courgette with blooms stuffed with ricotta, sauteed onion & chili, salt, pepper, basil & egg.

Then roasted in the oven for 15 minutes until the stuffing was set and the courgettes tender.

#VegetarianFood #VegetarianCooking #VegetarianRecipes #OmNomNom #FancyDinner

This Discord server could have been an indexable, publicly-available forum.

There's also a kind of related point I want to make here. This idea that everything must be available and at peak performance 100% of the time comes from the same place as the idea of infinite economic growth. It disregards sustainability or the impact on the environment of chasing those goals.

Folks on Fedi talk about "degrowth", and usually they are talking about materialistic production. But this is just as much a part of that - when taking back infrastructure into communal hands, we're all also going to have to rethink our expectations. What 'performance' is actually reasonable to expect from our fellow creatures?

We can't do degrowth without rethinking our assumptions about how the world works, and who are doing its labour under what circumstances. And it may be less obvious, but that applies to communal infrastructure too. It is simply not sustainable to expect the same kind of uptime as from a tech company with infinite budget. You can certainly volunteer and *strive* for that sort of uptime, but that's because then you are the one doing the labour.

So, more bluntly: the tech folks among us are going to have to learn to live without that technical and aesthetic perfection of 100% uptime. It was never sustainable, the only reason it looked like it for a bit were huge bags of money, and it never *will* be sustainable. You'll have to figure out how to do your thing in such a way that the occasional downtime isn't a problem. The same way folks did only 20 years ago.

#degrowth #codeberg

What's the opposite of #AI slop? This. The. Animation. Frames. Are. EMBROIDERED. So refreshing to see people still valuing making real things by hand. Puppet builder approved.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553260/Scarlet_Deer_Inn/

DuckDuckGo trolled Meta by selling, and I quote, "Normal F***ing Sunglasses"

• Battery life: infinite
• 0 cameras
• Seamless offline mode
• Zero notifications, guaranteed

These sold out in under a week.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/duckduckgo-sunglasses-22377693.php
(anti-) #pervertglasses

Here’s to being human in all its messiness

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My day job basically requires me to use LLMs (or, it is strongly encouraged) on the software that I develop. Now I understand why LLM fatigue and LLM burn-out happens. It is because you constantly have to babysit the LLM to keep it from screwing things up.

Babysitting is exhausting work. At one time in my life, as a 20-something-year-old, I was responsible for a group of 30 kids age 5 to 12. Every day I went home so drained that I could barely stay awake long enough to have dinner. I know from experience that school teachers perform some of the most labor-intensive work in the modern world.

It is what they call “emotional labor.” When other people are unable (as with kids) or unwilling (as with a lazy roommate) to live or play or work with you as a cooperative peer or team member, you essentially have to spend mental energy keeping an eye on them and making sure they aren’t doing something that is disruptive. That mental energy is a real energy cost, it really does consume calories and make you feel tired.

The worst part about it is that the LLM never really “learns.” Kids can learn to work and play with you. Lazy roommates can learn to live with you. But an LLM never really learns, and it keeps making the same mistakes over and over again. People who work with LLMs often end up keeping a directory of scripts they can deploy with a quick copy-paste so they can quickly re-explain something to an LLM. So the fatigue of watching over it and making sure the LLM doesn’t do something wrong is a constant emotional pressure, and it never gets better with age.

#tech #AI #LLMs #LLM #VibeCoding #AIFatigue #BurnOut

I would feel comfortable publicly holding hands with a partner where I

#AskFedi #relationships #lgbtq

Crapitalism
#webcomics #comics

Man in my 50s here. Have started telling the important people in my life that I love them every time I see them. The embaressment, especially with the men, might shave a year or two off my life but I'm not stopping now. If I drop dead tomorrow they'll at least know how I felt.

@TheJen amen. Also here to say that when I pulled out my speak & spell a few years ago I realized that the manual cover has POO written across the front. Maybe that was a motivator to help kids learn to spell.

Dumbfucks out here saying "you can't live without AI".

Motherfuckers, I'm older than the personal computer. I'm a lot older than the Internet. I don't need a sparkly chatbot to tell me lies.

It's not sentient. It barely functions as a set of instructions to accomplish any task.

My speak & spell did better work than this bullshit.

Yes, I do function every day without the use of this crap and will continue to do so.

I don't need it and neither do you.

"You can't live without AI" isn't a declarative statement about your abilities.

It's a threat.

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.

Facebook pays controversial cr...

He was wise beyond his years

Whether it's pouring out our pain or sharing our talents, what we express - whether a wound or a gift - can often reveal what we carry inside.

Body > body movements > body language > what we say > expressions > thoughts > presence.

From our bodies to our state of presentness and back again in an iterative feedback loop

If we are all living from our insecurities then thats why each person is a mirror.

We treat other people acting from where we are scared and feeling anxious.

Hmm
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Please note I am a mid 40s rural gay and so my slang is likely out of date for the younger city folx