fancysandwiches

@fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social
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Software person, co-founder of PyCascades and PuPPy, artist in my free time, collector of hobbies.

Follow me if you're interested in:
- Painting (watercolors and gouache)
- Sketching
- Birding / Nature Photography
- Modular Synthesizers
- Metal music

If I liked a photo you took, or a painting you made, but didn't boost it, you probably didn't have alt text.

Bloghttps://www.cacherules.com/
PronounsHe / Him / They / Them
PyCascadeshttps://2026.pycascades.com

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Spammers have been programmatically creating accounts on Mastodon instances for years. Sometimes they post once and never again, sometimes they post on a schedule. Sometimes they never post, like a waiting botnet.

As Mastodon's anti-spam solutions are effectively nonexistent, most instances in our network require manual approval of new accounts. Up until recently, it was easy to spot a spammer; their join reasons were generic.

ChatGPT spammers have now arrived.

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #spam

the Abundance guys are cosying up to the race scientists and neo-Nazis

https://www.theverge.com/policy/705387/liberals-race-scientists-cremieux-abundance-richard-hanania

Why are liberals cozying up to race scientists?

The ‘Abundance’ movement positions Democrats as a party that can offer more to everyone — including those peddling scientific racism.

The Verge
there was a point not that long ago where “people sitting in their cars yelling about shit” was not a normal content type and honestly I think we should go back to that

I gave a lightning talk on a silly little way to hide data in NaN values in floating point arrays: https://github.com/kjordahl/steganan

#SciPy2025 #steganography

GitHub - kjordahl/steganan: Steganography in floating point data with NaN payloads

Steganography in floating point data with NaN payloads - kjordahl/steganan

GitHub
"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph you’re stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.
I've been able to get a close look at skunks three evenings in a row before it gets dark out. I'm so lucky. It's been the same pair the last two nights. I love skunks.

This video came out of nowhere and didn't wear a helmet! That's why I felt an obligation to run it over, sorry, to share it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziXBwT74pN8

#BikeTooter

Phil Gaimon on Dangerous Driving & The Absurdity of Victim-Blaming

YouTube

Me: "I took my camera to the conservation zoo again."

My friends: *wait in anticipation of cool animal photos*

Me: "You gotta see this crow I met near the cafe. LOOK AT THOSE GLORIOUS TEXTURES! 😍"

I love them.

#Photography #Birds #Crow