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@veronica@mastodon.online · 3d ago

This is incredibly depressing news. Scam Altman is now in control of the supply chain of a significant portion of the Python community.

Fuck this shit.

https://astral.sh/blog/openai

#Python #Astral #Enshittification

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@veronica@mastodon.online · Feb 27, 2026

I have never noticed Dracthyrs dancing in World of Warcraft until last night when I made my character dance in a group with two others while we were waiting for a mob to spawn.

I like it a lot. 😆

I was playing Lady Gaga at the time too, and the dance fit the music really well.

#WorldOfWarcraft #WoW #Dancing #Dragon #Dracthyr

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@veronica@mastodon.online · Feb 15, 2026

Daniel Jackson: "How is it you always come up with the worst case scenario?"

Jack O'Neill: "I practice."

Time for another rewatch of Stargate. 😁

#SciFi #Stargate #SG1

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@veronica@mastodon.online · Feb 15, 2026

Good thing I'm by myself, because I've been on the floor in my hallway testing various ways to get upright while imagining my left leg is injured. 😅

I needed to write a scene in my book where one of my characters do just that. I hope I managed to make it realistic even though I don't have the pain to go with it when testing different techniques.

#WritingCommunity

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@veronica@mastodon.online · Feb 14, 2026

Me today:

* I'm gonna sit down and do some writing.
* Opens my writing app.
* Realises it's annoying that I have to press the Tab key before I can select which project to open using the arrow keys, then multiple Tab presses to move back to the Open button.
* Writes a pull request on the app that forwards the up/down keys to the project list and adds Enter and Return as a way to open a project directly from the list.
* Did not get any writing done.

Maybe tomorrow? 😅

#OpenSource #Writing

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@veronica@mastodon.online · Jan 08, 2026

Meanwhile in Norway ... (Photo by the insurance company If) #Meanwhile #Norway #Cold #Winter

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@veronica@mastodon.online · Dec 19, 2025

A good piece on how GenAI is flooding the field. I too have worked with ML for a while and feel similarly. "Having done my PhD on AI language generation (long considered niche), I was thrilled we had come this far. But the awe I felt was rivaled by my growing rage at the flood of media takes and self-appointed experts insisting that generative AI could do things it simply can’t, and warning that anyone who didn’t adopt it would be left behind." https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129179/generative-ai-hype-distracts-us-from-ais-more-important-breakthroughs/ #AI #GenAI #ML #CompSci

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