You know, right after hitting send I thought about something. Should I call myself nerd? Honestly there are tons of more smarter and nerdy people than me, and somehow, I wouldn't even necessarily call me nerd, but many people do, my parents, friends, and I guess what I do is, nerdy? I don't know what I think about the association with the word nerd at this point tbh.
Its just a label, really, and everyone has their own idea of what constitutes being allowed to use said label, but ultimately, its personal. If that's who you see yourself as, and others do as well, and you're comfortable with it, then you're a nerd. If you feel like you need to qualify, no you don't, and who cares. Just be you.
@cadey I'm curious if you continue to use your NVIDIA DGX Spark after the review you wrote in October. If so, do you have a favorite LLM that you run on it, and what do you use it for?
Yep, it runs GPT-OSS 120b and Z-Image turbo for various boring work things (style guide corrections, concept exploration for cover art on work blogposts, etc).
And that's the fun part of beeing a nerd. Been at the YMCA the last couple of days and got recommended an audiobook, that recommendation kinda spread so it wasnt only me who wanted to hear it. So what did I do? Get it on Audible, NVDA Remote into my PC, Open Audible FTW rip it, throw it on my audiobookshelf server, and saved people money. Yup sometimes its great to be seen nerdy in a good way as you are.
Since you're seeing this on fedi -- or Bluesky, Blacksy, or elsewhere in the ATmosphere -- you already know the value of alternative social media that's not controlled by techbro white supremacist CEO's who make money by exploiting their users and working with their cronies in authoritarian governments.
But, what we have today is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible.
It's not just a rhetorical question, I really am curious!
You can respond with a reply to this post, via the pol.is conversation here, or -- if you're on fedi -- in the polls below. I'll write up the results later this month.
What are you looking for in social media? (10/N)
Another poll in the series ... you can choose more than one response, and if you've got other suggestions please leave them in the replies.
Thanks everybody for the responses so far, here's a couple of new polls including some excellent suggestions that came in. If you've got other ideas, share them in the comments here -- or in the pol.is conversation (which also lets you disagree with stuff you don't want)
Yah, stress is most certainly a documented, medically-recognized cause of headaches. One of many many many causes of them to be sure, but most certainly a very valid one.
Have you considered not going back there? It seems like the living situation is horrible for you. This coming from someone who is not a huge fan of change. Lol.
something like custom keycaps or just themed? Usually, on Aliexpress you can find nice quality keycaps from all styles. But since you're looking for a cute design, check this out.
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Une région allemande a finalisé cette année un chantier informatique colossal en remplaçant le couple bien connu Microsoft Exchange et Outlook par Open-Xchange et Mozilla Thunderbird.
My favorite use of a local LLM is asking graphite4 questions about the use of the English language that I’d be too embarrassed for Anthropic employees to read.
@matt Fixed the typo, thanks! As for why I chose this particular model: ⁃ it’s the biggest model that fits in my M1 Max’s RAM comfortably; ⁃ it responds almost as quickly as commercial hosted models; ⁃ it’s not pretending to know anything, it frequently tells me “I don’t know anything/enough about that, check online”; ⁃ instead, it’s just very good at English and Polish.
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Whoa, I think releasing that audio production just caused a server overload. I mean I'm glad that many people want to download or listen to it! Sorry about any lag from samtupy.com's services for a bit yall, I'll be sure that the anyaudio downloading endpoint isn't acting as a CPU muncher as a start.
It might not be actual people. A few weeks ago I learned that apparently whenever any Fediverse software sees a URL, it visits it, probably so it can show users seeing it a preview of what's contained there. And apparently if that URL points to a raw audio file, it downloads the whole thing.
@jaybird110127 Luckily the URL I sent doesn't point to a raw audio file, the audio URL comes later after being provided by some dynamic javascript. Hopefully this minimizes such an issue, I need to do the same thing with the view counter though.
Keep in mind that as I understand it, this will happen with your Mastodon instance, any instances where the post federates thanks to people following you, then any instances of people who boost your post, any instances of people who follow the booster, etc.
@jaybird110127 Yep that makes sense, it explains why the clip has so many views already for sure. I'll make the view counter increment when the audio file is requested rather than the initial page, which should fix it there as well. Luckily nothing should be able to download the audio unless it executes javascript, I think.
Yeah or possibly, if you have access to server logs, and if the Anyaudio software can access the user agent, don't count those you can tell are fediverse servers or other automated crawlers.
@jaybird110127 Just don't depend on UA checks alone. They're really, really easy to fake. Best way is to test if JS is supported somehow. That too can be circumvented via headless browsers but doing that is a lot harder than just faking a user agent
Just watched the first part, can't wait for the rest of them! You really are good at capturing accurate effects for spaces, like the inside of cars and such. Keep it up!
@ShotgunSpoon Thanks I appreciate it! The next parts have even better spatial representation than this one does, I've learned a lot since designing this first one.
@ShotgunSpoon Thanks for letting me know, indeed I did this on purpose for the time being mostly because Any Audio has no registrations yet and thus no comments, so a bunch of people could find it and have no idea how to leave feedback should they want to, I plan to toggle the clip to public as soon as registrations are enabled.
@alexchapman @ShotgunSpoon Thanks, I'm glad people like this thing as it seriously motivates me to continue! Though I think I'll always have a place in my heart for the tts worlds especially because of the age I discovered this stuff, but I have long-term aspirations of doing this sort of sound design for way more than just tts productions.
so, i listened to your any audio network welcome clip. i have a suggestion, of course, once this thing will grow up, you should consider releasing it on another seperate server from samtupy.com so you will avoid this kind of inconvenience, since even upgrading this server that you use has it's own limitations imposed by the company if i'm not wrong.
@vlad25 For anyaudio I am hopeful to implement proper database replication and load balancing so that several servers around the world can host nodes that handle bits of the anyaudio traffic. This sort of thing is pretty tricky to set up and get right in a bug free manner though. Indeed, however, we are quickly reaching the limits of my poor small server with all of these releases and I'll probably have to adapt accordingly in some sense.
well, yeah, load balancing is a good way in later stages, because you actually need a serious income for paying for so manny servers, especially that you need powerfull ones, not just some small server like 4 GB ram. you would need a machine and just for yourself. which means a dedicated instance, which means lots of money monthly.
A general theory of slop: Given enough examples, humans will always learn to identify low-skill, low-effort work, simply because it becomes common. 1/5
Work produced with AI, without skill or effort, may seem good before there is a lot of it, but that impression will always wear off quickly. People who work with AI, but with skill and effort, will produce work that won't immediately read as slop. 2/5
Solopreneurial dreams of creating compelling digital products without skill or effort, just vibes, will fail because they will be overtaken by digital products made with skill and effort, with or without AI, though likely to some degree with AI. 4/5
Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know that Starwar Part1, the binaural text to speech audio production I showed off on stream, is now available to download in flac! Especially for those who didn't see the stream, you might want to read the description before listening in order to acquire context which will certainly leave you a bit less confused. Those on mastodon and thus most likely to know of the streams get the Anyaudio link before the clip goes generally public, especially since there is no Anyaudio commenting at this time due to disabled registrations. Anyway, enjoy! anyaud.io/listen?audio=OeFViBO…
We are happy to announce that GUADEC 2026 will take place from July 16th to 21st, 2026, in A Coruña, Spain. As in recent years, GUADEC will be held as a hybrid event, allowing attendees to participate either virtually or in person at our venue.
Okay, 2026 is the year I am going to actually get back into writing.
I have three ideas for articles lined up.
1) Advanced, and often crazy, networking under FreeBSD. 2) MPLS on JunOS in my home, the how and why. 3) A brief history of IP Networking; Classful vs CIDR and FLSM vs VLSM.
I can say, however, that I've reunited with an "old friend" who is still in great shape. Before I get dozens of replies about it being insecure: in theory, it is, but it's not accessible from the outside. It's isolated within its own network and is only able to connect and fetch backups for 'extreme disaster recovery' (only at specific times, restricted by specific firewall rules). It served its purpose today, and tomorrow, it might be even more useful.
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When we design for disabilities, we make things better for everyone. This is called the Curb-Cut Effect. The term was coined by disability students and activists in the 70s, who added curb cuts to the Berkeley sidewalks to make access easier for those in wheelchairs. They discovered those also helped people with strollers, using trolleys for deliveries, etc.
@FreakyFwoof I love that analogy, but I think it has its problems. Namely that people without disabilities have options even when the curb cut is non-existent. Humans tend to act and take things seriously when they are out of options. Of course, I realize this is quite a generalization, but I am not sure I can do better on social media! :)
I think that split is too blurry to be considered a problem in the analogy 🤷 On a wheelchair day, I usually have other options if there's no ramp--often I'm able to stand and take a couple steps, and often I have another person with me to help me get over a step with the wheels. A more skilled manual wheelchair user could pop a wheelie. An abled parent pushing a large stroller with heavy kids and stuff in it doesn't always have the option to pick it up.
Popular AI-powered integrated development environment solutions, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae, recommend extensions that are non-existent in the OpenVSX registry, allowing threat actors to claim the namespace and upload malicious extensions.
Now I've heard there was a secret way To edit text on your display That's better than emacs (that's made by GNU), yeah. It goes like this, you type E D And nothing shows up visually You baffle newbs who haven't got a clue, yeah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah You type an "a" to start append, Then period to mark the end. There is no AI bot that's gonna screw ya. It's there for you in rescue mode And when you need to edit code Or when you need to spoof some Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah
why would I stop calling slop slop? It's slop so I call it slop. If he stops making us consume slop maybe I'll consider not calling it slop. But I doubt it, because it will still be slop
Happy monday people, wishing you all a joyous productive one. I'm getting slowly hyped on my Monster Coffee energy drink, did not come back to a disaster of pull request reviews and Jira tickets and fires to put out, so I'm grateful for that despite the Monday sludge.
Thunderbird, el cliente de correo de software libre, este año 2025 ha realizado grandes cambios y mejoras, hagamos un repaso de lo conseguido y lo que está por llegar
Gracias por todo lo que haces por el proyecto Thunderbird y nuestra comunidad, desde donar para ayudarnos a conseguir todos esos objetivos y compartir las noticias en tu blog. No tenemos palabras para expresar lo agradecidos que estamos 😊🙌.
I’m _not_ saying to never put a live region in / on a button, but I _am_ saying it may not (will not) perform as you want. cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/WbxvPOd…
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ooh this is a good experiment, noted for sure. The only time I could see someone even remotely thinking of this would be for a status-update button, but that's when we have other stuff like aria-busy anyway and direct label changes get announced when buttons have focus so a dev doing that would be very mislead. Nonetheless, that pen will be useful to show devs what not to do.
In this series, I’ve explored the principles and practices that teams seeing modest improvements in software development outcomes have been applying. After more than four years since the firs…
For World Braille Day, I compiled a list of free braille art and tactile image libraries that I used for a project in one of my graduate school classes. This is by no means a complete list of all available resources for tactile graphics, rather it is a list of sources that were explored for this project. veroniiiica.com/free-braille-a…
Free online resources for braille art and tactile graphics for blind and low vision students, with an emphasis on STEM content. Written for World Braille Day
The best thing about modern software is the error messages that show up even before the condition has completed.
Like... "NO INTERNET OMG MAKE SURE YOU ARE ONLINE" which sits there for the first few seconds after you launch the app, and goes away when the software itself finally gets around to even attempting the connection for the first time.
Microsoft Windows, an entire operating system, likes to do this.
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