Mastodawn

Nobody ever looks at a screen in a sci-fi show where they have displays, dashboards, or an engineering report and think “God I hope Star Fleet licensed those fonts” or “I wonder who decides what file type they should use on Klingon vessels” or “Do Daleks use retention schedules on their file systems?” “Do cylons have a standardised report format?”

Big Ducky Feb 16

PlayPug ✨ Learn GDScript Feb 16

🚨 New Devlog!

We just published our weekly update of our Learning GDScript the Right Way.
Updated Preface and Introduction chapter!

You can find it down below ⬇
#gamedev #godotengine #tutorial #devlog

https://playpug.itch.io/learning-gdscript-the-right-way/devlog/1383451/towards-v01-

Big Ducky Feb 15

I was glad to learn that #Mastodon now allows you to block specific domains individually. I've just taken advantage of it and blocked threads.net (Meta's Threads) and bsky.brid.gy (Bluesky bridge) because I'm not interested in interacting with massive corporate #SocialMedia.

In the same spirit of #decentralization, I'm preparing to move this account to a smaller instance too.

I hope that more people will consider making similar changes to help keep the #fediverse healthy.

Big Ducky Feb 14

Nuwagaba Gift Feb 14

The most interesting part of #gardening is not harvesting but seeing life being created from something that has been dead.

Big Ducky Feb 10

Alt Text Health Check Feb 10

Results from tracking 16,666 images across 1,087 instances from the mstdn.social federated timeline.

Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 23 images (1.5x the average).

Big Ducky Feb 6

Colin Devroe Feb 6

Please reply with Mastodon accounts and websites making and posting great art. Paintings, music, generative pen plotters, photographs, crochet, paper folding, solargrams, basket weaving, leather EDC, 3D printing, performances! I love all art made by humans whether or not they were assisted by analog or digital tools or not. Send them all. Boost! Thanks!

Big Ducky Feb 6

The Conversation U.S.Feb 5

In 2023, a sci-fi magazine shut down submissions after being flooded with AI-written stories. That problem is now everywhere — AI-generated text overwhelming courts, journals, newsrooms, and HR departments.

AI text detectors are good, but they can’t keep up with #AI, which is getting faster and more sophisticated.

https://theconversation.com/ai-generated-text-is-overwhelming-institutions-setting-off-a-no-win-arms-race-with-ai-detectors-274720

AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detectors

People are using generative AI to flood courts with filings, legislatures with constituent letters and publications with submissions. AI detectors are no silver bullet.

The Conversation

Big Ducky Jan 31

Bodhipaksa Jan 31

Every time I'm writing a book I'm grateful to Benjamin Dreyer, who suggested that every writer should try going a week without using:

* very
* rather
* really
* quite
* so
* of course
* in fact

It's astonishing to search through a draft to find these words. In almost every case a sentence is better off if you just delete them. On rare occasions they serve a purpose, but it's possible to reword in order to get rid of them. But I'd like to train myself not to use them in the first place!

Big Ducky Jan 31

Morten Mosgaard Jan 31

Let's be honest. I made a lot of mistakes while trying to find the right Linux distribution. You don't have to do that.

So I decided to make a (not so) small trip down memory-lane, and share all the mistakes I made while searching for my distro of choice and what I would advice other people to do.

TLDR: Check the screenshot of my advice for new distro explorers.

Link: https://mortenmosgaard.dk/finding-the-right-linux-distribution-3-all-the-mistakes-i-made-while-distro-jumping/

#Linux #LinuxAudio #CachyOS #DanmarkSkifter

Big Ducky Jan 28

OpenStreetMap Ops Team Jan 27

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse