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Dom @aghdom.eu · 25/08/2025

Microsoft Smurface (I'll see myself out…)

Dom @aghdom.eu · 21/08/2025

I believe you should be able to "hack" it with HTML, yes. A bit surprised that a WYSIWYG tool like this doesn't support copying formatting, but hey. I'll send you a message with the details of what should work.

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 20/08/2025

There should be an option to turn it off completely. I just checked and it still there, but they hid it a bit more. You click the gear icon -> AI Features click "Manage" -> Set "Search Assist" to "Never" (And while there, might as well turn off Duck AI and hide AI generated images). Hope this helps!

Screenshot of the DuckDuckGo "Search settings" modal. the "AI Features" setting appears all the way at the bottom with a "Manage" link that will take you to a separate screen.

Screenshot of the DuckDuckGo "AI Features" section of the "Search Settings" showing Duck.ai turned off, Search Assist set to "Never" & Hide AI Generated Images turned on.

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 14/08/2025

Very important session notes!

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 09/06/2025

Finished Wiktopher by Rek Bell and wrote a short review of it. I really enjoyed it, and will probably continue exploring the Sonoran Desert in my sketches for some time yet! My two-word summary would be - playful and heart-felt!

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 25/05/2025

I see you, card games are extremely fun and so easy, since you can just grab a deck and have countless games at your disposal. But I also want to break you out of that shell. There are so many cool board games that are not hard to learn and are more crunchy/thematic! Give them a try sometimes!

Dom @aghdom.eu · 15/05/2025

Yeah, I think it might be due to a different "industry" culture, especially if you are comparing it to academia. Most tech companies I know, you can talk informally to everyone, including the CEO. Whereas people I know in law will use formal language even if they've known each other for years

Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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I think this is the first time I've lived walking distance from a grocery store and I'm out of my mind about it. I'll walk there several times a day. Oh did I forget to grab something? No big deal I'll simply Walk To The Store

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 04/05/2025

I'm so glad this was my first attempt, so I can just let it go & not become addicted to this game again 😅 --- I just scored 63,888 on a game of at://2048. Think you can do better? Join in on the fun with @2048.blue.

A finished game of at://2048, an implementation of the 2048 tile-moving game using atproto. The final score is 63,888 and the biggest tiles are 4096 and 2048.

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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I need to get back to the NOVA card game. @nightjargames.bsky.social made some really cool mockups and I just need to finish the dang thing.

Card from a game featuring a soldier colored in red on a dark background. White font shows a shield, the word minion, and the number two.

Card from a game featuring a person casting a spell surrounded by green stone pillars. White font reads the words moon altar, shield symbol, and description of the card's effect.

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Sygnin @sygnin.com · 02/05/2025

When I was in Ireland, the museum was free but they had this thing you could tap (credit card or presumably phone/watch) & auto donate 5 Euro. Was thinking - it would be nice if there was a similar thing for artists to use at events?

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thinking about "text using propaganda register of x to convey anti-x ideas" generally. I do find that disclaimers of various kinds (which includes "looming context") aesthetically dissatisfying ... Often necessary, and I used them myself all the time. But they puncture the LARP-y conceit. 1/

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 29/04/2025

ABC I use both, each has merit (though I guess in some cases I conflate the protocol with the major platform using it), but also things I don't like about it. If I was forced to choose one, and we are talking strictly protocol, then I'd go with ActivityPub. (I should write a note about my stance)

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 27/04/2025

Have you read the paper that introduced the "Turing test"? You know, by Alan Turing. One of the great minds of computing? No? It's… distressingly bad. Hilariously, mind-numbingly, hair-pullingly bad. One of the most widely circulated ideas of our field is, in fact, a total face-plant.

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Nozomi M waitlist/alert list open! @nozomimats.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I know this has been talked about, but they’re rolling out the ‘edit image with grok’ thing for mobile users on Twitter(the option came up on my iPad). More randos can play with any artwork you upload. I know some artist friends still use the site, so be careful out there!

iPad screenshot of a page on Twitter. The user is pressing and holding an image on rilakkuma’s official account where a menu pops up with the option to edit the photo with grok.

iPad screenshot of a page on Twitter. The user is pressing and holding an image on her own account where a menu pops up with the option to edit the photo with grok.

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Will Sawyer @willsawyer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Playing Blue Prince:

Quotable moment from the film Knives Out in which Daniel Craig's character, Benoit Blanc, says "It makes no damn sense. Compels me though..."

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 07/04/2025

And a bucket, most likely...

Dom @aghdom.eu · 07/04/2025

Just stay underground and use all of your worm hands to pray and you'll be fine.

Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately they’re dooming the rest of us who did learn too.

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 04/02/2025

Looking forward to something hopefully landing on the TLOG!

Dom @aghdom.eu · 03/02/2025

(Yes, I'm still not dead) Can I just say, that I truly appreciate when people/companies send you an e-mail about re-evaluating your subscription to their mailing list? Thank you, yes I haven't been reading your e-mails, I probably can just unsubscribe and save storage and compute on both ends!

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 29/12/2024

Finished reading High Conflict by Amanda Ripley. It was a very eye-opening read, one that I believe everyone should go read in our polarized day and age. Seriously, find a copy and go read it!

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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You can measure an economy's actual, real life, concrete health by: are people able to do their own weird shit? Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit? Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 17/12/2024

To prove that I'm alive, here's a short one about an intent I aim to fulfill by working on my site.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 17/12/2024

I'm still here, end of the year rush is getting the best of me though. I still have plans for my site and some things that I've started writing that need to be finished. I'll try to get some writing done soon. In the meantime, I've managed to catch the library up to speed

patak @patak.cat · 15/12/2024

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"The forest and the desert" is such a beautiful metaphor for how organizations craft software. I love the emphasis on community. The idea that conversations are everywhere when a team works in a forest, and that the path out of the desert also begins by having conversations with your peers.

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Kent Beck & Beth Andres-Beck - We're Good At Writing Software [Keynote]

YouTube video by Øredev Conference

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kepano @stephango.com · 03/12/2024

Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. Full essay: stephango.com/self-guarantee

Companies break promises all the time. A self-guaranteeing promise does not require you to trust anyone. You can verify a self-guaranteeing promise yourself.

File over app is a self-guaranteeing promise. If files are in your control, in an open format, you can use those files in another app at any time. Not an export. The exact same files. It’s good practice to test this with any self-proclaimed file-over-app app you use.

Terms and policies are not self-guaranteeing. A company may promise the privacy of your data, but those policies can change at any time. Changes can retroactively affect data you have spent years putting into the tool. Examples: Google, Zoom, Dropbox, Tumblr, Slack, Adobe, Figma.

A self-guaranteeing promise about privacy gives you proof that the tool cannot access your data in the first place.

Encoding values into a governance structure is not self-guaranteeing. Given enough motivation, the corporate structure can be reversed. The structure is not in your hands. Example: OpenAI.

Open source alone is not self-guaranteeing. Even open source apps can rely on data that is stuck in databases or in proprietary formats that are difficult to switch away from. Open source is not a reliable safeguard against the biases of venture capital. Examples: Omnivore, Skiff.

When you choose to use a tool, the future of that tool is always ambiguous. On a long enough timeline the substrate changes. Your needs change, the underlying operating system changes, the company goes out of business or gets acquired, better options come along.

It is possible to accept the ambiguousness of a tool’s future if you choose tools that make self-guaranteeing promises.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 28/11/2024

The @inkandswitch.com team is looking to hire a C++ engineer who has worked on the Godot game engine IDE, researching new approaches to collaborative game development. Read the full job posting here www.notion.so/inkandswitch...

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Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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Dom @aghdom.eu · 27/11/2024

Added a library section to my site, so that I have a place to collect my thoughts on books I've read. It's half-empty right now, but I'm slowly fixing that.

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Very nicely put! This reflects my own philosophy when working on my recent projects. It's also one of the reasons why I migrated from other note-taking apps to Obsidian.

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I wrote a cross-posting feature for my micro-blog, which posts using the API, allowing me to do this. However, @deck.blue also supports this feature by simply using regular markdown!

Slowly making my way through my old notes, while collecting my thoughts on things I'm focusing on currently. Making sure that I don't stop writing.

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Make it a habit

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Wrote a short one today, about messy gardens and why that's fine. Why that's something that you want, actually.

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Did you know that if you only follow cool and interesting people - and you never touch a "recommended" feed - that every post in your feed is very interesting and worth reading? Funny how that works...

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Vegeta (condiment) - Wikipedia

Here you go: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegeta_...

en.m.wikipedia.org

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It might. Where I'm from, Vegeta is referring to a "spice" consisting of dried and crushed vegetables & used mostly to season soups and broths.

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