This is something I'll have to think about for a bit, mostly because it rings so true.
I personally never felt like the Mastodon instance that I used was "my community" - it was always the bigger network.

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Quite a fever dream of an article

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I mean, it is really very Australian. So probably it's just right to officially turn it into a national piece of lore.

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Best title of a YouTube video in a long time

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Cheers! Yet another good video by OTR

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Holy shit, this is amazing. triple j's Like A Version is a fun series anyway but this one is really quite something.

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Looks like I need to take a few weeks off from work

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This reminds me a lot of the old(-ish) joke "Punks are people who act mean but are nice while hippies are people who act nice but are mean." MetaFilter is very much a hippie place these days.

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Oh, good.

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Oh look, that's me!

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This video has been making the rounds lately and being right in the middle of this, it resonates quite a lot.

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"the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to the encroachment of generative AI into their field of work"

Sigh. Again.

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I really like the DS3, easily the prettiest Citroën in modern times and the same can be said of the rally version. What a car.

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If you have seen memes of Tim continvoucly morging and didn't understand what has happened, the answer is of course: AI Slop. Thanks, Microsoft

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The very last sentence sold me on the movie: "a marvellous sympathy for the whole cast" - which seems to be surprisingly uncommon in a lot of stories and media. I know it's not quite in the spirits of the times but I actually prefer watching (or reading) stories about people I can tell the author likes and that I can like as well.

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Same here. I'll just hope that the hardware I have stays alive as long as possible and start a little savings bucket just in case.

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Sigh.

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"Trust is Being Manufactured Faster than It’s Earned"

I'm not sure what kind of person thinks this is a good idea. Ugh.

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This is a good overview on the upcoming video features in Apple Podcasts. It's very disappointing how Apple is handling this and if their goal is to break the YouTube video podcast monopoly then this might be exactly the wrong way for that. Instead they try to route around RSS. Ugh.

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The best use of print stylesheets I have ever seen. Astonishing.

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Great interview with Alex Horne and Greg Davies, it's good to hear them on a format that gives them more time to answer and the questions are great as well.

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This is pretty useful. I switch branches so much and sometimes I need to know what I worked on, so this command might help.

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I already stopped looking at Bluesky because of these shenanigans and I guess this means I'll soon stop looking at Discord stuff, too.

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I'm not really all that much into Formula 1 but at least I can say that the new rules seem to produce rather good looking cars

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So would I. Just look at it!

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Of course he did.

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Very much this. And maybe start caring as well. This might be the main problem: many people just don't care.

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Until now I just happily used the one provided by the framework I use (or was grumpy that I didn't get to use one, in the case of WordPress things) and never thought too deeply about how DI works. Turns out: it's actually not that complicated if it is very basic.

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Oh! A native (non-js, but frankly, still a bit js) HTML element for geolocation.

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But to me, the issue is that we have an overabundance of content, and most content is not worth paying for. Most content is not worth anything.

Harsh but absolutely true.

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Don't visit that page if you're hungry.

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Puh, I don't know. A Social Media platform run by an ad agency?

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Oh no. 😢

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This is good! (And seems underreported?)

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I don't know how I would actually use this but I like it a lot

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I have had this post in my open tabs for a long, long time. I have always wanted to be part of a group blog, I tried a bunch of time but never really got into the groove.
I never quite manage to find people who've been on my wavelength blog-wise. (On a personal level usually very much so, don't get me wrong.) The problem there could well be me. I might need to think about it some more.

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Or have someone take it - there's plenty of amateur photographers out there who'd probably be in for it.

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Everybody linked to this lately and it's not hard to see why: it is very pretty and it says people should have websites.

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I guess that's what they call offsite backup.

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A new Bangkok Pat video is usually a must see for me.

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Hydrants, sorted by colour. Amazing.

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The sense of overwhelm I sometimes feel when trying to answer that question – and realising: I don’t know. I don’t even want to know.

Oh no.

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This is a great talk, even for someone who isn't a UX designer.

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I absolutely agree with Manuel here - there's absolutely no reason to not do what Pixelfed is doing in this case.

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Knowing a holiday destination well can really help with using the holidays to relax.

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These blog posts are always a bit dangerous. I do have some self-hosted things but it needs to be more.

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Oh, exactly my kind of nerdery!

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It's getting worse and worse.

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As we say in Germany: "Tja."

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My ideal state is being inefficient.

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I'm not really sure the solution would work for me, but overall this sounds very plausible.

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Christ, what an asshole.

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It's sad, really.

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I like a good via, I should make it more obvious on my link blog and use it more on my other places.

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If only there were a XKCD cartoon about this.

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Everybody links to and praises this article and for good reason. To oppose AI is to be human.

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What a fun DJ set

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Very well-written collection of good points about "AI"

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They're even better with a live band. And that song is so close to land on my Morning Earworm list

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It does introduce hard to notice bugs 10x faster, though

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Not The Onion

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I agree 100% - give me a GX-10 with a modern M43 sensor and the features of the S9 and I'll happily pay the same price as the S9 is at the moment.

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Same. I still like so much about technology, and yet. Sigh.

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This is pretty surprising. Out of all books by Lawrence Osborne that I read, I didn't imagine that someone would turn this into a movie.

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It is. Stop it.

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Who would have guessed.

When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

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Same with (good) developers

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These people—broadly—are behaving like idiots.

Ah, yes. Idiots who think they're smart are really the most annoying. Sometimes it's okay to just be an idiot.

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Late 10s are probably my favourites

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I'm dismayed every time I see content that I like being published on Substack. (Or any other big content platform to be honest. But Substack in particular.)

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This is a very good talk

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Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles

Now that is a headline

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Not everything needs to be a job.

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I'm struggling to understand people who don't get what Kneecap are communicating

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I have to admit that my attention span isn't what it used to be as well - but just like Winnie I really like long, well-written blog posts and I should work on making mine a bit more verbose as well.

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Those last two paragraphs. Wow.

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I agree 100%!

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So much bullshit everywhere

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Ruben is right: making sure places are fun and human is probably the only way forward for community websites to stand out in the age of LLMs.

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Tony Hawk is very Gen X, isn't he? Nice selection of music for the 900th(!) episode of What's In My Bag?

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This is a pretty nice little public feed reader. (And I'm not just saying that because my blog is on it.)

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They seem to have fun. And so did I, having watched it.

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Nerds!

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Headline.

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This is surprisingly great. That dude is so passionate about his work, I'm slightly jealous.

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Oh no. (Do I really keep getting more signs?)

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Mozilla is really trying to piss off everyone, aren't they?

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I think we use the web a lot differently now that we did back then. And yet, I love a good little directory somewhere.

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Computers are the worst.

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This is exactly the kind of article that I love

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Oh, absolutely.

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Leah is absolutely right about this.

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