mastodon 4.6.9Trans lesbian game maker, web developer, editor and public speaker.
I started ppb, an education focused game engine in Python.
I make tiny video games and dabble in board games and tabletop RPGs.
I talk about being trans in my little corner of the community, and making video games of all types.
Fuck, I need to do copyright screaming.
Summary:
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/methodology/709373/gallup-begins-research-synthetic-responses.aspx
I'm not even sure how to express my feelings here.
If you still think LLMs are a _net good_, you need to square with yourself fast. If you want to save any face, you need to start being very loud about the abuses of power and principle at the heart of this technology.
And if you don't understand why Gallup deciding to use the bullshit machine to make up statistics is the beating heart of evil, maybe you're too far gone.
Honestly, at this point, my horror at the "The computers are totally thinking!" types is shifting.
For a long time, I considered it mostly a mark of how gullible some folks are.
But as the march of "progress" goes forward, I realize the horror is actually how small they imagine other people to be.
To the sufficiently advanced booster, we're all just p-zombies.
My college degree was in information systems, and a couple of my cs courses talked about the previous iterations of the no code, no engineers, just business men with their ideas cycles, and let me tell you, living through the latest one, I get why my professors talked so poorly of the silver bullets.
UML and expert systems were both taught as systems to make non-programmers effective at building information systems. In a course in 2011/2012 talked about how both failed to live up to their promise.
Just a thing I'm thinking about as the software industry all collectively waking up to the latest do everything system isn't actually good at everything.
@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io The construction has also been used by bigots to specifically imply that "they're not _actually_ their pronouns, but they're the ones they _prefer_"
Like, it became a dog whistle for "trans people are crazy, don't ya know" and a lot of the anger is in response to that.
Today I learned about vb/vi units in CSS.
They're the viewport percentage units (vh/vw) but combined with the logical directions block and inline.
So if you're using a writing system that isn't left to right, top to bottom, the direction fit the writing system you're using.
This is very neat.
I might need to add a section to my PyCon talk that is "I just think it's neat" because there's so many features I do not have time to develop material on, but folks should _definitely_ go look.
Seriously, though, I'm learning a bunch by just, reading the specs, CSS is way cooler than I thought and I already liked the language.
So I have started writing my CSS talk, and the first section I start drafting, I am double checking details and have to immediately change the prose because I learned something.
Write tech talks. Learn even more about your technical special interest.
TIL duckduckgo's noai version doesn't share the block list with the normal version. What the fuck.
Did a few minutes of poking at my little markdown word counter, and the voice of @treyhunner@mastodon.social came to me and got me to change the output print statement from:
```
print(f"Total: {sum(result.count for result in results)}\n\t{"\n\t".join(f"{fc.file}: {fc.count}" for fc in results)}")
```
to
```
print(f"Total: {sum(result.count for result in results)}", *(f"{fc.file}: {fc.count}" for fc in results), sep="\n\t")
```
It's gnarly either way, but at least I don't have a bunch of "\n\t" in the middle anymore.
EDIT: Okay, and it also doesn't have nested F-strings anymore. Very cool feature, but wow does it make parsing a line harder.
I have four different CSS specifications open right now.
Okay, because I want to say a thing in a talk, and I want to see if others agree before I say it:
#IndieWeb types:
Self hosting does not need to mean "hardware you own" and can include "hardware you rent". (EG Would a VPS count as self hosting?)
Happy to hear reasoning for either side or both if you're landing in the middle.
(To be clear: I will be saying this, but whether I say it without qualifiers will depend on if this is largely accepted.)
Dykes "first pass" was making sure that exactly this works.
Type hint your argument class with a Path and get the right behavior.
My word counter's looks like this:
```
@dataclass
class WordCounter:
"""
A simple markdown word counter.
"""
paths: Annotated[list[Path], "Paths to files to operate on."]
debugging: Annotated[bool, "Show debugging output."] = False
```
Okay, worst talk development problem:
It's tight, it's missing some of the ancillary sections (intro, outro, a couple of interstitial jokes), but it's a full ten minutes short.
Going to be adding detail. >.>