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Posts: 75

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Published: May 21, 2025 21:06

Wasted a really disturbing amount of time today on my "I'll just write a really minimal piece of ATP software!" project, because despite *explicit claims* in the docs, Bluesky at:// identifiers are *not* valid RFC 3986 URIs. I think I shall go throw a very…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lppdor23vk2g

Published: May 21, 2025 19:31

(There's this community of "show your process" home-recording synth musicians on YouTube and r beny is to this day my favorite artist from that whole set. His songwriting style is subtle but deep and he knows just how to make even the basic Mutable…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lppdezf64c2g

Published: May 21, 2025 19:26

What I'm listening to today: "Space Fall" (part 3.5), r beny Live set from a 2021 Colorado Modular Synth Society concert. Opens with clockworky electronica; ends with an intense rework of "Waldorf Iridium Ambient" from r beny's YouTube; in between,…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpndls2trs2u

Published: May 21, 2025 00:24

(It's cut off but this isn't an "AI result" or anything, this is just a straight up excerpt from Wikipedia labeled as an excerpt from Wikipedia, except DDG inserts the words ", also known as kijetesantakalu" which are not present on the actual wikipedia…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpnb7ampbc2l

Published: May 20, 2025 23:41

I think I'm going to stream some Tetris Grand Master tomorrow on stream.place as an audition to see if it's a viable replacement for Twitch. If it turns out well I will stream "The End of Gameplay" by Droqen on Saturday https://stream.place

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpmxa3rtys26

Published: May 20, 2025 20:43

What I'm listening to today: "The Scene is Dead", Dubmood Sandblast-your-brain FastTracker2 chiptune electronica track. The author says they began this track in 2012 and completed it in 2024. Apparently the scene was dying for a very long time. …

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpmpnmkmqc2h

Published: May 20, 2025 18:27

Saw a @owillis.bsky.social post today https://bsky.app/profile/owillis.bsky.social/post/3lpmbdn22qc2p and wanted to say something about how when elected Democrats speak, even when they're *very right*, it feels insincere and calculated, and maybe people…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpmnj6rnrk2m

Published: May 20, 2025 17:49

Conservatives don't think, but most of the impulse behind anti-trans sentiment is "I should be able to discriminate against people I think are ugly". Transgender to them is just a flavor of "ugly", broken, wrong. This is why it's "obvious" to them who…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpmca5xzg22v

Published: May 20, 2025 14:27

The Chicago Sun-Times AI-faked "Summer Reading List", promoting several nonexistent books (see Andy Weir entry), actually ran in several newspapers. For example see here (It's blurred without a paywall, but David here pulled it out and you can see it's…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpkwlk46sk24

Published: May 20, 2025 01:26

I like the energy of these drawings (Warning: They present the female body in what could be construed as a sexualized gaze!) https://bsky.app/profile/sedaig.bsky.social/post/3lpczclttgk2p https://bsky.app/profile/sedaig.bsky.social/post/3lhpkbri56c2t

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpkcd3ji6c2r

Published: May 19, 2025 19:23

Note: I think I've *almost* figured out how to compile all the posts like this I've made the last year into a "feed", but bluesky makes things unnecessarily complicated. Will update when I've figured it out. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpkcahin7c2r

Published: May 19, 2025 19:22

What I'm listening to today: "Adder (version)", Blackbird Raum The original of this song is slow and wrenching and sung by a woman who sounds on the verge of tears. This version is just screaming. Bagpipes and screaming. It is very much The Mood. Crank it…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpk7mge5jc2c

Published: May 19, 2025 18:35

Interesting Supper Mario Broth post I am non-embedding to prevent an autoplaying video with flashing: "In Super Mario World, Bowser *is* lightning" https://bsky.app/profile/mariobrothblog.bsky.social/post/3lpk7ivi3lc2w

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpk6igd3us2a

Published: May 19, 2025 18:15

The "+" button in the bluesky phone app is gone now. I don't care about that. But: Downstream in this conversation several people say that they removed the + to replace it with "live status". What is "live status", and what causes "live status" to be…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpk5dcz4b222

Published: May 19, 2025 17:54

Question: Has anyone used this, can it be used with OBS, how's chat work, what does archiving videos/chats look like? I'm considering this as a Twitch replacement since Twitch is deleting all my videos and YouTube, the only alternative I know, will…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpk4o5gsbk22

Published: May 19, 2025 17:42

Oh. I… Oh. I misremembered the deadline as being tomorrow, not today. I'm fucked I will never forgive Twitch/Amazon for this. Even if I can get the videos all downloaded in time, there's really nowhere I can rehost them. I can move them to YouTube, but…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpi4v66hsk2y

Published: May 18, 2025 22:41

I took that Open Psychometrics "which fictional character are you" test, and answered 0% on every question; it matched me with "Jon Snow", with a match of "Nan%". I then tried again, answering always 100%, and got again Jon Snow, "Nan%" match. From this I…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lphwpfkyos2y

Published: May 18, 2025 20:50

I am a distant observer but life under Kier Starmer's Labour sure does seem similar to life under Donald Trump's Republicans https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/police-could-search-homes-and-seize-phones-after-sudden-pregnancy-loss

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lphife6olc2m

Published: May 18, 2025 16:34

The problem with the media suddenly being seized with "Joe Biden was too old" right now is they're not focusing on the part that matters (why did Democratic insiders abort the primary and force Biden on us in 2020?) they're instead pretending this was a…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpd6kqjsoc2w

Published: May 16, 2025 23:27

"initially arrested after a traffic stop and spent weeks in custody… [his daughter] Ximena is now 19 and was also detained earlier this month, after a wrongful traffic stop. This was something Arias-Tovar said he always feared." [contains quote post or…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpczmmf4tc2b

Published: May 16, 2025 21:59

"Run government like a business" means "quality just gets worse and worse forever until one day you sell off the whole thing for parts" https://financialpost.com/news/canada-post-effectively-bankrupt-phase-out-door-to-door-delivery

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpcyic5nus22

Published: May 16, 2025 21:39

Have you ever read "Service Call" by Phillip K. Dick? The takeaway I have from this link is that the person who decides what Copilot says is the person who's actually running Microsoft at this point. One employee pulls a…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpand2rvvc2n

Published: May 15, 2025 23:13

Note: This post represents independent research on a subject I am not properly qualified to comment on so if I start to feel even a LITTLE iffy about whether what I'm saying here is correct I will delete it and leave nothing, like a still pond closing over…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpajmngg6k2b

Published: May 15, 2025 22:07

heeeeeck so i'm trying to go through and catalog the music i posted in that "listening to today" thread and this one album is just GONE. like it's pulled from youtube, from apple music, from spotify, from bandcamp. frick! it was a really good album too …

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpadbmgnbs2v

Published: May 15, 2025 20:14

I've heard people using the term "AI abolitionist", today in a feature request I found myself using the term "AI vegan" and while it's not perfect I think I'm gonna start using it to communicate that I refuse to touch services/products/software which…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lpa7zk5kds2v

Published: May 15, 2025 19:16

If you saw a thing going around about AI terms in SoundCloud's TOS, SoundCloud has responded in about the best way possible: They took the issue seriously, clarified exactly for what they use machine learning, and put strong anti-generative-AI terms into…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lp7zivkfgl2u

Published: May 15, 2025 17:19

It's really funny to me how Bluesky pushes feeds SO! AGGRESSIVELY!!! in the bsky.app interface and yet creating one is an unfriendly, developer-only process. (I mean, I am a developer even, but that doesn't mean I want to write a bespoke app from scratch…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lp7zfw63m22u

Published: May 15, 2025 17:17

I'm trying to make a feed with skyfeed.app for my "listening to" posts. It's… almost working. But I'm hitting problems like: - It can't combine a regex and user filter at once, so I can't keep other people's posts out of my feed, and - The regex filter…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lp7uamdgk22p

Published: May 15, 2025 15:45

Even before the direct legal attacks on trans existence started the UK govt was basically doing a slow backdoor-conversion-therapy on every trans person in the UK, just by centralizing transition care under itself and then slow-walking care to the point it…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lp7qwli2ec2p

Published: May 15, 2025 14:45

So the need right now on the EU citizen petition against anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" is raw votes from anywhere in the EU. But for the record, Germany is currently the closest percentage-wise to being the the 8th country to endorse the petition. 15.5k…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lp5k2avpxs2a

Published: May 14, 2025 17:37

Democrats are *actively excited* about Donald Trump censoring the Internet. If Trump wants to abduct people into vans they're like oh talking about this is too risky, we can't stick our necks out. But if Trump wants to censor the Internet, *that's* what…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lp5ejnyjs22d

Published: May 14, 2025 15:58

In my opinion, "Disco Elysium" is simply a bad name for a game. The name requires too much thought to "get", and doesn't match the setting well. I was trying not to say it because I admired what ZA/UM was doing overall but now ZA/UM's been taken over by…

https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3lp3qenlevk2e

Published: May 14, 2025 00:25

Tech cultists believe a future supercomputer could effectively "resurrect" you by analyzing your online footprint & reverse engineering a connecteome that would generate those exact posts. If this were true, good opsec would be to develop one kink you…