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Rose

@ umbraroze @slrpnk.net

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I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fediverse, surely you've seen us around?

Mastodon: @umbraroze@tech.lgbt

  • PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub

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  • Oh lord my code is actively helping making AI worse.

    I checked out, it has some of my repositories. They crawled this stuff in 2025 and they probably won't update it. Whoever uses this dataset will have to deal with some super garbage, I tell ya.

  • Welp

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  • I'm unemployed, I'm incredibly snarky at the recruitment posts. (This literally hasn't changed in decades.) Right now I'm like "oh, they want Python programmers...? Good, I'm one. For web scraping tasks...? Okay that's bullshit. Wait, this is an AI job post? The MBAs, drunk with their Vibe Coding power, thought they could feed the Machine, but lo, they were mistaken!!! For web scraping was a Dark Art."

  • Where my klitoris users at?

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  • GNOME folks are like "well, before GNOME was even a thing, we had this application called The Gimp, and we kinda wish we didn't call it that, so please don't name your apps for laughs OK?"

  • Where my klitoris users at?

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  • The application most likely to cause confusion among True Gamers™ who got fed up with Windows.

    (PRO TIP: dolphin is the KDE file manager, dolphin-emu is what you really want. PRO TIP 2: To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies)

  • Looks like I failed ...

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  • Perchance you should start measuring things in hamburger units, or express your distaste of paywalled articles, or how you want to remove all of the mild everyday annoyances from the reality because, you know, they mildly bug you. Or just talk about the proletariat.

    ...I dunno, I'm not on the list either because I don't talk about this stuff much, I guess.

  • Maybe a clothing line?

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  • Our local Pride Week is in August. It's weird, but it may have something to do with corporate shenanigans if you catch my drift.

    Anyway it's fun watching some of local chuds foaming at their mouth in June and then we go "dude, we don't do Pride in June for a reason".

  • The Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media

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  • Most of my microblogging stuff has been just shouting in the void about stuff I've been doing. And random brainfarts. I follow cool people on social media so I can see them shout in the void about what they're doing. And their random brainfarts.

    I'm happy Mastodon still lets me do just that. Perfect platform for that sort of stuff.

    The Algo Lords decided people don't actually want to see that, they want "popular" things and engagement bait. Yeah no, not what I want.

  • The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototype

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  • I don't care how "open source" the printer claims to be. Both hardware and software belong to Belzebub. Such was the dark pact printer makers signed in blood decades ago, and all land shall obey by those words. We shall hit the print button and wallow in torment forever.

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • Been in a bunch of situations where the best available software is 0.x and hella buggy. (Which I discovered after building the software and its dozen dependencies from source because of course no one had packaged it.) But I'm not mad, I'm just "oh well, the situation will improve in the future, I hope".

  • Researchers find a way to reliably spot AI writing

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  • You're saying an actual human called that thing both "pen & ink" and a "typewrite"?

    It's Ben Garrison! Dude can't get an erection unless he labels every single goddamn thing. While being barely coherent. He's been doing this for ages!

  • Trump Secretary Says Bike Lanes Are DEI

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  • Reminds me of Conservapedia. They don't believe in Theory of Relativity. Because Andrew Schlafly thought "relativity" sounds too much like moral relativism, and big Biblical Literalists like him think that is a Satanic ploy.

  • Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns? New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.

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  • 3D printing working, safe-to-handle and durable guns is a pretty complicated technical problem. Don't need to be a genius to figure out that making 100% plastic guns is asking for trouble. Tiny explosion = big plastic cracky.

    Meanwhile, any monkey can bash together pieces of scrap metal and produce a durable gun that way. And that was a thing long, long before 3D printers existed.

  • borrow checker?

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  • I wouldn't say it was borrowed

    Reminds me of a disclaimer in a public domain software package: "No warranty expressed or implied. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces."

  • On December 4, Microsoft announced a global price increase for Office 365. Pricing updates take effect July 1, 2026.

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  • Yeah, I decided back then I would probably not renew my subscription this summer. And I didn't!

    Funny thing, I thought I was more productive in MS Office because the user interface is more polished. But even when LibreOffice is at times janky, I'm actually far more productive in it, it turns out. Sure, my attention is always drawn on the tiny little things that trip me up, but if I look at the sheer amount of text and spreadsheets I can churn out, I'm doing much better on LO.

  • Which music player do you use on android?

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  • My use case is "just play music from the same goddamn SD card folder you've been using since the early 2010s and have just been copying it over to new cards ever since", so VLC works quite well for me.

  • What the Entertainment Software Association did

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  • Wow, an industry advocate organisation saying stuff that just proves they have no idea what the industry is actually doing, or what's actually good for them?

    Not really shocked.

  • What's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?

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  • My summer reading list (not that I get to read both every year):

    • The Songs of Distant Earth, by Arthur C. Clarke
    • The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco

    The first is about what we never prepared for, but could try to thrive through. (Mike Oldfield made a cool concept album about this. One of the songs is called "Only time will tell")

    The second is a murder mystery set in a medieval monastery. But wait! Is it actually a multilayered examination of our notions about information? Oh hell yeah.

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  • I visit the library often.

    Not that I check out many books, but I love the fact that the local main library is a giant big concrete building with air conditioning and nice quiet desks with power strips for laptops. Immense productivity.

    The library was closed for renovations last summer and the heat waves really put a huge dent on my work.

  • Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe - André Klein Dot Net

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  • PDF2 is capable of a lot more

    [quietly contemplating all of the shit that got added to the PDF 1.x spec that nobody uses nowadays, like support for 3D objects and goddamn Flash]

    OH PLEASE NO ADOBE DON'T DO THAT

  • humans in space

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  • Witches and mysticists say "as above, so below".

    So, according to this pic, in practical reality, it's actually "as in tiny, so in big"

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @slrpnk.net

    Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
    Rose @slrpnk.net

    Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4

  • aww @lemmy.world
    Rose @slrpnk.net

    Famed Catholic saint Francis of Assisi, leading a fluffo woofy into Gubbio, so that the people can just see that this fluffo is very woofy & this woofy is fluffo. Damn, Middle Ages was cool.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @slrpnk.net

    This will be really funny, until you remember 99% of current super hyped AI stuff is running on Python