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If I remember correctly you carried that project!

You can also click on an image to open the original in a lightbox. (I should make that more obvious.)

The dithering happens server-side (er, laptop-side). Experimented with a JS filter but it just didn't hit the way I wanted it to. Plus I save a lot of bandwidth this way

Guilty. I had a few hours to kill on Amtrak... the time will pass anyway y'know

(Plus I didn't know if it would work. The first version was just some Python functions I had to call from the REPL, livecoding style)

There's a few that I think would look better with dropped frames (the cake for instance). These are all the raw output of the script. Consider it maybe a starting point for manual editing :)

Was thinking about adding this... big fan of live photos.

The unfortunate reality of accidents, lack of intention~

I've been taking pictures to be more effective wigglegrams now that I know I can auto-GIF them. I'll do a followup post at some point. The big trick is that they look better when the subject stays in the center of the frame, with the camera "orbiting" it to create a sort of parallax effect.

As the others pointed out the script is at the end...

Would be nice to have... the choice of perceptual hashing algorithm

Funny enough the script does some of this - there's a handful of algorithms the library supports and it computes/saves all of them. "Perceptual" seemed to work the best but if you want to experiment w/ the others they'll be there for you.

Are 404 media links still blackholed?

Fun: the “Molly” in question is Ed Krol’s daughter - he’s the guy who wrote the Whole Internet User’s Guide and Catalog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Krol

Seconded. I got a Gemini server running on an esp8266 once, there really isn't a lower bound.

It’s tough but one of the tenets of Gemini is that a lone programmer can write their own client in a spirited afternoon/weekend. Markdown is just a little too hard to clear the bar. Already there was much bellyaching on the mailing list about forcing dependence on SSL libraries; suggesting people rely on more libraries would have been a non-starter

Note that the Gemini protocol is just a way of moving bytes around; nothing stops you from sending Markdown if you want (and at least some clients will render it - same with inline images).

Maybe the solution is to ban editing. Or let moderators review + approve edits at least.

The gambling site “Stake” was doing the same thing recently, they’d make posts on financial advice or gaming subreddits and edit in a link (as to be “oh btw I need advice because I made money betting”). Were even using Greek Unicode “a”s and “e”s to hide from the automod filters. Scumbags among scumbags

An open letter: if you market your product by spamming Reddit et al. with fake stories (as this guide suggests), we:

1. can all tell

2. will not use your product

Please stop polluting the global commons

Signed everyone <3

It's two different problems. People who run review sites and blogs and such care about traffic, and not getting attribution will kill their desire to participate. People who post here and on Reddit etc. care about talking with other human beings, and feeling ignored in a sea of botspam will kill *their* desire to participate.

Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/meta-avocado-a...

When Google AdWords first launched

Exactly, they’ll be kept separate.

For now.

It’s not “clear communication” though. The prose that comes out of LLMs is awful - long, vapid paragraphs with distracting tropes. You can ask them to be concise but then they file down all the wrong bits of the sentence and lose meaning. There’s a reason people bother clocking it and complaining about it, it’s *bad*

It’s like everything else that AI can do - looks fine at a glance, or to the inexperienced, but collapses under scrutiny. (By your own admission you’re not a great communicator… how can you tell then?)

He's not writing his comments himself either. Better off ignoring the whole thing, unfortunately

I'm taking the bait whatever. All those projects are just more fucking AI tools. It's all Claude seems to be good for - writing agents, skills, harnesses. Just a big fat ouroboros.

(Going down the /trending page - 13 of the 14 are some flavor of context manager or agent or smth)

Let me know when someone uses Gas Town or openclaw to write something that isn't "the next Gas Town or openclaw" and then we can talk

IIRC "firmware as hardware" only applies if nobody - not you, not the manufacturer - can update it. I.e. your laptop's BIOS is software, the controller in your washing machine is hardware.

Of course, now washing machines connect to the Internet, so the obvious lines have blurred

Sure mate. It’s https://lmao.center

An immediate benefit I see is that they're cheap enough to use once - you could make/find/buy a software instrument that you like, then put it in your gear bag and never reflash it. Now it's just like any other synth. Then you can get a second Tulip and do the same thing later if you like. You could do this with laptops of course but it starts to get expensive.

The Pocket Operators have something similar (the KO at least, maybe the others). If you've written samples into them you want to preserve for playing live, you can snap a tab off and then they're read-only - no surprises on gig night.

I think I'm in love.

That it's built off Micropython is a huge deal. I've started using it by default for my hardware projects and it makes everything easier - writing drivers, playing with user interfaces, etc. Loads of regular Python libraries work and I can even grab them over the Internet. Like how I imagine it was running Forth or smth on embedded kits back in the day (ah maybe not the networking bit)

The dream of course would be both: if you’re already writing textual content you might as well publish it on both protocols, so anyone can get to it with any tool they like. Gemtext can be trivially converted up to Markdown, the opposite is lossy but very doable.

Markdown (subjectively) looks better than Org when it’s plaintext - postfix headers and dashed lists are annoying to parse but they distinguish sections visually. Org by comparison feels like a sea of asterisks.

(I am tickled by the /italic/ syntax though…)

The loveliest part of making your own gear is picking all your nits.

It can be, yeah. I use it sometimes to shim libraries or write one-off scripts. But it's made me disgustingly introspective. Why do I do anything? Where do I draw my lines?

An example. I've been writing a Lisp, and I'm using GNU Readline for text input. Later I found out that Readline can't be built for WebAssembly, and I decided to have Claude write a podunk replacement for it. I now have a bit of code in my Git, attached to my name, that I didn't write

What did I lose by doing that? My goal wasn't "to write a Readline", that's why I was using it in the first place. But my goal also wasn't "to have a working Lisp interpreter" or even like "to know how a Lisp interpreter works". It was a desire to Know More. Surely I'd have learned something useful (in some form) by doing all the minutiae myself. Or would I have learned more by doing none of it and printing out the SBCL source to read over coffee?

Sorry, I ended up rambling. I don't have any answers. I think I'm just butthurt by the "X, Y" sort of comments you mentioned and the solution is (as always) to touch grass

We're glorified construction workers that get paid a lot

That attitude is my point. I'm a developer by trade; I have a different set of feelings and concerns about "the industry" and how new tooling will affect it. (I even use it sometimes at work.) But I'm also a computer scientist and I thought more of you all were too.

To beat my original analogy to death: I thought this was a painting forum, but it's more of a "making pictures" forum, and now that it's easier to make a picture, no one cares about paintbrushes.

It bothers me that so many programmers I know, here and in real life, seem to never actually have cared about the craft of software development? Just about solving problems.

I like problem solving too. But I also like theory and craft, and in my naïveté I assumed most of us were like me. LLMs divorced craft-programming from tool-programming and now it seems like there were never any craft-programmers at all.

It feels like the group I was part of was just a mirage, a historical accident. Maybe craft-painters felt the same way about the camera.

Seems like it could work in the other direction... mandate that adult sites etc. include a standard, relevant flag in the response, so that parental control software can detect it if it's installed. Sites don't have to know anything about their users, parents can reliably filter out naughty sites.

To op's point, age verification is really a surveillance measure, so this won't happen.