Violet

Violet

@violetro.se

🏳️‍⚧️ Web Dev, Board and TCG gamer, cat parent. "Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn’t be bothered to write?" https://grotto-bestiary.com/

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Katt
@sarcastickatt.bsky.social

Repost if $30k would change your life right now

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social

I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.

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Bevy
@bevy.org

Bevy 0.20 is out now! It features Solari and DLSS improvements, better BSN syntax, BSN "ready" events, WESL is now Bevy's shader language, more UI widgets (color picker, scrollable list views, dropdowns), Sprite Materials, Extended 2D materials, Pan Orbit Camera, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-...

bevy.orgBevy 0.20Thanks to 227 contributors, 817 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.20 release on crates.i…

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Kybosh
@kybosh.bsky.social

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

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Kenney
@kenney.nl

I've been releasing public domain game assets for 16 years now (this message is for everyone that told me I wouldn't be able to keep doing it)

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Cartoonists United
@cartoonist.coop

*cough cough* comicfury.com is aggressively anti-ai and indie run *cough cough* very customizable website & use your own domain

comicfury.comComicFury webcomic hosting - We host webcomics, for free (no ads either!) - Get your full-control webcomic hosting hereComic Fury is a free, easy-to-use, advertisement free host for your webcomic(s). You can put up your own comics and get a website dedicated to them.
Kenny Meyers@kennym.bsky.social

Webtoons going all in on AI.

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

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Kenney
@kenney.nl

You've been asking for this and I'm finally delivering (tomorrow). CC0 skyboxes, compatible with most game engines and completely free. ☁️

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Damion Schubert
@zenofdesign.com
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley
@globalecoguy.bsky.social

A good explainer about why it’s wise to be very skeptical of industrial carbon capture schemes…. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

projects.propublica.orgFalse Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t WorkAs global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃
@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

Tim Swindle cryarsing about AI disclosure being a scarlet letter lets slip something significant here, because if AI was all that slop jockeys claim it was, then surely such a disclosure would be a mark of pride, even a selling point! Surely people would be clamouring for AI games. But they're not.

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Ethan Marcotte
@ethanmarcotte.com

And @strange.website nails the key point: it doesn’t matter if so-called AI “works.” What matters is that the value of your labor goes down, and workers are pushed further into precarity. Of course, what *really* matters is what we collectively decide to do about that. henry.codes/writing/it-d...

henry.codesIt doesn’t matter if it worksUltimately, whether LLMs "work" as a technology or not doesn't matter. The widespread adoption and deployment should be regarded firstly as a threat to the labor force.
Violet
@violetro.se

@gooseworx.bsky.social made a pretty cool show. We're only on episode 4, but y'all should check out "The Amazing Digital Circus" :) the animations in particular are really well done, I think Kevin Temmer was on it, anddoes great stuff!

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Firefox for Web Developers
@webdevs.firefox.com

Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. We feel it has a large interoperability risk, and Google imposing T&Cs on a web API sets a dangerous precedent. Full details: github.com/mozilla/stan...

github.comPrompt API · Issue #1213 · mozilla/standards-positionsSpecification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/README.md Proposal au...
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@violetro.se

I am using `viewport-fit=cover` which, to me, should opt-out my website from these behaviors, as I am explicitly saying "please layout my site behind the browser chrome and system notches, and let me deal with ensuring my content is not obscured." I'll try to get gifs showing the desired effect.

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Erin Reed
@erininthemorning.com

Rich of the New York Times to talk about being anti-science.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

In Opinion “Reasonable people can disagree on what should be done to limit the effects of climate change,” writes Kate Marvel, who last month quit her job at NASA researching the future of Earth’s climate. “But rather than debate policy, the administration has chosen to attack science itself.”

nyti.msOpinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic MessWithout science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures.

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Erin Reed
@erininthemorning.com

1. A new study claims trans care worsens mental health. It is fatally flawed. It didn't measure mental health—it measured psych visits. Even visits that stemmed from mandatory checkins, surgical pre-psych evals, or pre-treatment that was classified as post. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.comFact Check: New Finnish "Study" Does Not Prove "Trans Youth Care Leads To Worse Outcomes"The latest Kaltiala study is filled with fatal methodological flaws, and does not support claims made about trans youth care lacking efficacy.
Violet
@violetro.se

Alright, this was unreasonably fun 🤣 Hue Shift: 0.2344 total dE Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/hue-shift/?r... #HueShift

keithcirkel.co.ukHue ShiftA chaotic colour-matching game. Drag to shift hue and lightness to match the target. 10 rounds. The clock is ticking.
Keith Cirkel@keithamus.social

Okay, clearly y'all love colour games, so with millions of plays on jnd & jnd-hard thought I'd dust off and polish up the _original concept_. Hue shift: www.keithcirkel.co.uk/hue-shift/?r... Drag one colour to match the other, 10 seconds to do it. You know the drill. Make me proud gang.

keithcirkel.co.ukHue ShiftA chaotic colour-matching game. Drag to shift hue and lightness to match the target. 10 rounds. The clock is ticking.
Violet
@violetro.se

@cferdinandi.bsky.social it is always a good day when I search the web for a topic and find one of your pages in the results. There is so much AI garbage and SEO spam listicles and shallow, bloated comparison articles now, and it makes me incredibly happy to read your words written with real intent.

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Erin Reed
@erininthemorning.com

1. The scientists behind the infamous ROGD/Social Contagion myth have released a new study called AYAGDOS, and are recruiting unsuspecting trans youth. They're operating under Northwestern. Community leaders need help spreading the word to avoid the study. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.comScientists Behind the "Social Contagion" Myth Are Recruiting Trans Young People For Study, Community Leaders WarnThe project is called AYAGDOS—brought to you by the same names behind “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” pseudoscience.

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Paul Byrne
@theplanetaryguy.com

This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It's about 1 km tall. If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

Violet
@violetro.se

What's My JND? 0.0046 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

keithcirkel.co.ukWhat's My JND?Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?
Keith Cirkel@keithamus.social

For those who want to test their perception of colour, I made a little game called "What's My JND" www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

keithcirkel.co.ukWhat's My JND?Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?