librarians are always the coolest
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/
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Dr Paris (he/him)
@parisba@cloudisland.nz
mastodon 4.5.18Narrative games/video game/tool developer at @thesecretlab@mastodon.gamedev.place, historian, photographer, & author.
Best known for #FOSS #narrative #gamedev tool @yarnspinner@team.yarnspinner.dev (https://yarnspinner.dev), Night in the Woods & books.
Organiser of #DevWorld, at @auc@social.auc.edu.au
PhD (CompSci), BA (History), now studying JD. Husband of, & aspiring co-director of a science centre with @TheMartianLife@aus.social 🖖
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There’s regularly been a guy at my gym lately, at 6AM, eating a supermarket roast chicken out of the bag.
Why the hell is macOS suggesting filenames with AI now? What fresh hell is this?
busted out an old bag
got a bit mad about the #AI data centres they're building in #tasmaniahttps://hey.paris/posts/ai-data-centres-tasmania/#politas
Pretty sure we’re gonna receive one letter per stolen book we wrote… thanks, Anthropic 😂
Going to make a website that looks like a chatbot but just tells you you’re great and your ideas are amazing. I’m gonna be so rich.
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Mildly concerned that the last 3 OTPs I received from Virgin Australia were sequential.
I'm sure that's fine.
Does this make Sylvester McCoy the canonical current Doctor?
https://youtu.be/VsGwZlKuhUM?si=y7fWEbREaQS1_3E4
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it's on the orange site if you can spare an upvote too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114
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It is Winter. Thank you for being part of our Summer Sale.
https://itch.io/s/193207/summer-sale-2026
Sorry, correction, “stop being a weirdo on a plane”.
https://cloudisland.nz/@parisba/116818450089723415
My lovely wife has told me to stop watching. 😞
I fear society is doomed.
So, uh, @yarnspinner@team.yarnspinner.dev for @playdate@social.panic.com, anyone?
He just screenshotted his email client and asked it to analyse the emails.
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@gruber@mastodon.social FYI, John, I'm fully back on the air as of today, but share your concerns on Apple Gift Card safety. Small update here: https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ — longer one soon. @glyph@mastodon.social
Spent a bunch of time porting
@yarnspinner@team.yarnspinner.dev to pure GDSCript for
@godotengine@mastodon.gamedev.place, with the wonderful side effect that it also works perfectly with the amazing
@xogot@mastodon.social.
More news on this soon!
Fedora 43 is pretty good
In Melbourne for the weekend, if anyone is around and would like a coffee or something, we are free-ish.
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“I Ned genius marktinf plan for businesses”
come along!!!
Spent a bit of time building a new website for Tas Game Makers, Inc.! Pretty happy with it for a very, very rapid job.
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@glyph@mastodon.social Likewise! I'm evaluating my ability to use a Linux laptop day to day at the moment, though. Still Big Mad.
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@glyph@mastodon.social I used to love computer tinkering, but the older I got the more I enjoyed being actually productive instead of the tinkering. Still not sure if I can actually be productive on Linux though. We shall see. And agreed, project computers can be useful.
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You can try this yourself (on tablet and computer; phone coming soon) by going to https://try.yarnspinner.dev and choosing Dice Game from the Samples menu.
Fedora 43 is pretty good
ordered some RAM on eBay (at like 4-6x the price it should be). this is how it arrived. this is what AI has done to us.
What’s the best way to run a windows vm on Linux these days?
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@gruber@mastodon.social thanks for your part in drawing attention to it, by the way. Long time listener, first time caller, so to speak. Have attended many WWDC--adjacent theatre events, and really appreciated the coverage. Apple mentioned it as a source that drew their attention to it.
CW: SA