This is a random note but those stars have the typical Hubble “points”. 4 large and 4 small. I wonder if we’ll start seeing 6-pointed stars, now that JWST is the best telescope we’ve got.

I’m gonna clean my room up and get a (feminine! Yay!) Haircut

I also wanna go out at some point during this week, socialize with people I don’t know yet

Ooo, I’ll have to check it out!

They’re trying to block adblockers again, it seems. I got the “adblockers are not allowed” popup again recently.

I was iffy about boobs and then I started getting some and nah this is pretty great. A bit annoying (ow, stairs), and I still don’t want big boobs, but don’t let it stop you!

At a guess, closed captions can’t really be done live nearly as well. Also, can’t have those if you’re there IRL

I feel like you’re coming at this pretty aggressively. I don’t feel like getting into a fight, but I’ll reply once:

I don’t like Bluesky. I find its culture very US centric, depressing, and frustrating. However, I also find it is technically better than any activitypub software I’ve used, and protocol-wise, much better specified.

It also has >30 million users, and is much more prominent culturally.

Lemmy and the microblogging activitypub software are more pleasant to use, but definitely rougher around the edges.

Fair enough. I only got what people were originally complaining about from context; I woke up too late to see those complaints, just a billion replies.

The other comments are roughly correct in general, but the current drama is because a couple people said “Bluesky is dying” because the number of unique users that liked a post over the past 3 months has gone down (that’s the Number that went down), and then a bunch of people got mad at those people because that’s a single very specific measure and Bluesky is objectively doing very well and anyway they’d still use it if it wasn’t popular etc etc.

Regular internet drama, basically.

I did the same, but I had to filter a lot more because I needed a name with variants in several languages. Ended up with 3 to vote on, and same, clear winner

I’m on a really low dosage of spiro (25mg/day), so that might be why I haven’t felt it as badly.

But yeah, that’s basically what I did. My doctor is actually pretty okay (didn’t mind that I didn’t have the psychiatric diagnosis that you’re “supposed” to have (not a legal requirement)), but she definitely did underdose me, and I am awful at making appointments, so I’ve just increased my own dosage of E in line with what’s actually a reasonable amount.

Is spiro really that bad?

I get that it’s the least effective among the choices but it also has the fewest side-effects, from my understanding…

Something to bring up w/ my doctor, I guess… I’ve been trying to reach them for a dosage increase anyway

Oh, I can confirm this! I went from skipping lunch almost every day to essentially never completely full. And if I skip a meal I become basically useless. It’s great!

Also congrats on already feeling weight after 23 days! My own started aching pretty much immediately (hurt for a few days), but it’s gotten more annoying recently and I can actually feel/see 'em now (I hit 100 days exactly today actually!)

How do you feel? Did you already get the skin smoothing? That was the biggest QoL change for me

Every time I read it I think “well, I remember it, it’s not going to be as funny”

And every time the steady rising tempo with no breaks just. Completely kills me halfway through

Personally? Vibes. Specifically, it feels very… uniform. Like, a human artist good enough to draw like that would be better at composition, I think?

More practically, even the newer ones struggle with specific shapes; look at the arch, no human would draw that weird hybrid of an arch and a… semi-donut?

Older models struggle with lining stuff up and keeping things straight over long distances. The latest ones struggle with constant curvatures.

It’s (genuinely) interesting that big-time AI enthusiasts always assume that if you dislike AI, it’s because you don’t know how to use it (and not because they have different priorities or have conceptual issues with it or such). It was the same thing with crypto and NFTs.

I know a good amount of very skilled developers who tried AI several times in different contexts, and always found the tradeoffs much too bad to be worth it (in terms of accuracy, precision, cost, speed, whatever), and yet they still get “oh you just haven’t tried my favorite AI tool”.

Time yes, but not minutes.

https://youtu.be/gN_PK5pXmIY

I wasn’t around when it happened, what did he do?

It’s to get around a bug on some platforms where the Referer header isn’t set properly. Basically when you click the link in the app (maybe other platforms too idk), it can’t set the Referer, so website statistics can’t know what came from bsky. This was in their changelog. It used to already work correctly on desktop, though.

Not related to the specific post but is it me or does american media treat literally everything as “Breaking News”

Like nothing about this is urgent you can wait until the evening news to talk about it. You’ll even have more information by then!