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@leaf @Scatterplot I feel that adoption of generative AI among programmers is higher than among English-speaking public.
At least, I don't see much pushback for my employer's rollout of generative AI.
@kakurady @leaf @Scatterplot I really do get the enthusiasm. Everyone who is busy gets to both look and feel like they're getting more done. It must be intoxicating for them. And everyone who is average feels like it's giving them an edge, even though all they've accomplished is to bring up the average with them.
And then there's me, still agonizing over the correctness and maintainability of what I write, being shown the activity feeds of the new average versus what my own activity looks like and being told by my boss, "I know this isn't a criteria we evaluate on at this time, but I want you to look at what upper management / HR sees, versus what your co-workers have started doing."
I've known for a long time that I don't exactly fit the mold of a professional developer in a commercial setting, where *everything* is secondary to "How much money are we gonna make/spend?" and "Is it done yet?", but the world doesn't have much opportunity for "careful and deliberate, low anxiety, but gets paid".
@leaf @Scatterplot βhow come so many coders don't just hate LLMs for stealing their work the way that most writers and photographers and musicians do?β
- a long tradition of sharing code
- programming tools always involved some automation
- labour organization rare, workers tend to think themselves as ββfuture foundersββ
Despite this, many, perhaps most, programmers will see genAI disrupt their self-esteem, even those who successfully adopt it.
https://me.dm/@anildash/116222172121418996
There are (sort of) two kinds of coders: those who see it as just a well-paying, stable job, and those who do it on nights and weekends because they love it, and itβs part of their identity.Anil Dash (me.dm by Medium.com)
Watch out above! It's the act of the twin arctic foxes!
Illustration for the NordicFuzzCon trading card collection #79. Their 2026 was Cirque Du Nord.
On the back of the card, it describes:
The flying trapeze is a common sight in circuses. It takes strength and coordination to perform such daring tricks and you better not be afraid of heights!
With precision and grace, they fly through the air, casually refusing to acknowledge gravity.
For this illustration I had to see and watch an absurd amount of references.
You can watch the short version of the process of this piece on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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I feel the same about Copilot bothering me. This guy was truly living in the 2020s all the way back in 1996
http://www.gideovames.com | http://www.facebook.com/gideovamesThis is a real recorded phone call made by a call centre agent to a fed up BT customer.YouTube
"I grant you one wish," the magic fish said.
"To eat my mother's pancakes again, just like when I was a child."
"Are you sure?"
"You think it frivolous?"
"No. But to grant it I must send you back to the child you were, with no adult memories."
"Would my life change?"
"You ask that every time."
All I really want from life is to be a little computer gremlin and hide out in my little computer gremlin cave doing cave-dwelling-computer-gremlin things.
While also being some kind of dumb fluffy aminal idiot, I dunno.
I thought I was going to have to replace the keyboard on this laptop, which would be a huge pain because apparently the laptop is basically constructed by attaching things to the keyboard (!!!), but I spent a bit of time figuring out (with the help of this actually pretty good video) how to pull the keycaps off without breaking anything, cleaned out the gunk (and it turned out there was a lot of hair and dust), and now I no longer have to type my passwords multiple times before they are accepted! π π π
I'm quite surprised that worked, actually β from the symptoms, I had thought replacement would be the only fix. I've only done a few keys because it's awkward, but I suspect if I do more it might improve things further!
The one and only Fons the Bun
Furry musician you should check it out: https://fonsmusic.bandcamp.com
Drawing done during NordicFuzzCon's Artists Alley by request of Cesco Cat
Traditional. Colored pencils.
Your friendly neighbor bun that does music. Im loud and I love to disrupt the normality.Fons The Bun
Not sure who these folks are, but this is great! LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wiaXIoDury8
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.YouTube
Geo (the bear), Storm (the osprey) and Sprout (the otter-wolf) enjoying a time of creativity, you may think some are more skilled than others but the truth is that everyone here is having a fun time equally and that's what matters.
They are beloved characters from the Anthro Northwest mascots.
Digital. Procreate.
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"Hey, not now! Iβm in a heated existential discussion with this dead-eyed plastic desk toy."
"Is⦠is something wrong, sir?"
This is a pretty accurate description of how I'd imagine any space fairing extraterrestrial life would see us.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4ANTUO_7j4M
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.YouTube
Mapache. Raccoon. MΓ½val. WaschbΓ€r. Guaxinim. Rakun. BaskebjΓΈrn. Raton Laveur. Wasbeer. TvΓ€ttbjΓΆrn. Lavurso.
How else?
Very cute!!
The Mandarin Chinese word for raccoon is "huan xiong". It means means wash bear, like in many other languages. It's written ζ΅£η. It's written the exact same way in both traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
In Japanese, "ηΈ" is the word for tanuki, who are masked cutie pies but are not related to the raccoon. The Japanese word for raccoon is more of a phonetic thing, either γ©γ―γΌγ³ (ra-kun) or γγγγγΎ (araiguma). In kanji, it can be written the same as in Chinese, ζ΄η.
The progression of fandom:
- Niche: I had no idea other people liked this
- Growth: Oh wow, lots of cool people!
- Mainstream: ".. hey why are there normies here.. why is there vomit in the potted plants.."
- Burnout: "yeah this isn't fun anymore"
- Marketplace: "... why is the Dealer Den all Funkopops and Aliexpress tat"
- Zombie: "I don't know anyone who actually goes to the cons any more"
- Living Death: "Everyone chill is in a private IRC but all they talk about is the fandom being cack"
Heard about an hour ago that @Bycats4cats - Snap E. Tiger - passed away. I'll miss him; I wasn't staying in as close a touch with him the last couple of years.
Here he is back in 2002.
Yeah, someone else imparted the news in a local group, of the passing of @Bycats4cats.
I never interacted with him directly, but -- if I'm remembering right and not crossing my memory wires -- I do remember seeing him from the old FURSUIT email group days, and just onward from there, from the LiveJournal fursuit group to the WIP Zone group on TG.
He certainly seemed to be connected to a lot of folks. And so, yeah, his unexpected passing certainly appears to have been felt across a wide swath of the community.
Rest in peace.
The mechanic removed the back plate and inhaled through pursed lips. "Who did this?"
"I did," the robot said.
"How?"
"I took one arm off, put in a wireless interface so I could still use it, and put it in a vice, then turned-"
"OK. Why?"
"I needed fixing."
"You are allowed to ask for help."
"Swedish Gothic" is a contemporary painting, depicting Mausie and Iris standing in front of a traditional Scandinavian wooden house. The painting was displayed at the NordicFuzzCon museum until a premeditated tragedy happened, the painting was replaced by a forged copy. It is in hands of Mausie and Iris to solve this crime next year at NordicFuzzCon 2027: Crime Noir.
What the heck are you talking about, Paco?
Check the video shown at NordicFuzzCon's closing ceremony: https://youtu.be/VBifXZQ6mBw?si=SKfXdtgfG2AVu_Zf
The work references the famous 1930 painting American Gothic by Grant Wood.
Some fun facts about this parody:
- I worked on this digital painting not even knowing what was the theme for NordicFuzzCon 2027, and I could have known but I wanted to keep my own surprise for the closing ceremony.
- It was me who picked American Gothic to make a parody, and it was the animator who found it funny because the person portrayed on the original painting was the dentist of his grandparents (something like that)
- I also worked on the forgeddery version, which was a parody of AI generated art, but that version was actually human mande, it was me who distorted it so it looked like generated (you can see that other version in the YouTube video. 2:11 )
- My panda character is featured in that video for less than a second, 8 frames to be exact. 0:59
- Mausie and Iris species are "Raus", a hybrid between rat and mouse, and the plural is not Rauses but "Rice"
Digital. Procreate
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Join us at NordicFuzzCon 2027, taking place February 24β28 in MalmΓΆ, Sweden.https://www.nordicfuzzcon.orgCredits:Producter/Director:Jazzy DesertmouseAnimator...YouTube
It's #bandcampFriday, a great day to support your favorite musicians on Bandcamp!
Check out my music!
Here's "Interlaced Interlude" from my album "In Flux" β¬οΈ
A little netlabel for my personal projects. Changing, shifting, and adapting through time.Do It Yourself Media
I think the stamped value will have you surprised. It is one of this huge props. Did you get one made or did you make it or borrow it?
I love those props.
Well. I just saw a post about tickets for EMF going on sale in a couple of days. I took a look, read through the web site, and am still unsure if I'd be willing to endure camping in order to go to something like that.
Then I realised the post is 2 weeks old (because I'm 2 weeks behind on reading my feed) and they're sold out. But it does sound like a lot of stuff I might be interested in, *IF* I went with people I know.
But it does mean camping, in a tent, in a field, quite possibly in mud, quite possibly with lyme-disease-carrying ticks around, sourcing and transporting everything needed for camping, plus backup stuff so I'm not left without if something breaks, and also probably not feeling properly clean for the whole event. I'd be more interested if they had some actual indoor rooms available.
I sortakinda hate that I'm getting so unadventurous these days. I just have so little energy most of the time and so little tolerance for discomfort.
there is another opening tonight. Then another in April. They are warning there's not many left though o.<
There are a bunch of us furs going. The Furry High Council has a load of the regulars. Then theres a bunch of old CFz staffers trying to go this year too. So you wouldn't be on your own! β€
I did more than just perform in a dance competition at Scotiacon - there were also Shenanigans involving workplace safety violations at the Old Mine...
πͺ‘ @selkiesuits π· Tech.Wolf
β #FursuitFriday
Howdy there, friend. Sun's getting low and the night gets cold in these parts. Want to share the fire with a big fluffy dragon?
𧡠@selkiesuits
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π Scotiacon 2026
β #FursuitFriday
"No time to rest...
... Just do your best."
- Go, Chemical Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2RPDZkY88
This song is keeping me going at the moment, lots of things to do, lots of challenges to tackle... let's do this!
βFor That Beautiful Feelingβ - the new album out now! https://thechemicalbrothers.lnk.to/FTBFSign-up to the mailing list: https://thechemicalbrothers.lnk.to/...YouTube
There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later.
There was a new sign:
"This sleeping willow is full."
And a map of other locations to try.
