Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Brett Cannon @brettcannon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14hSince the US tech companies can't decide if they are going to call it "artificial intelligence" or "super intelligence", I'm just going to call it "large language models" going forward. It's accurate and doesn't mistake LLMs as intelligent or in any way conscious. 308
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 11/10/2026Getting ready for my upcoming race in the only way my ADHD brain understands: applying track decals to my new helmet 😹 011
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026I wanted to write something wise about the evolution of our understanding of consent and sexual violence but nothing I could put to words does it better than this comic: pizzacakecomic.com/post/83002240277…pizzacakecomic.com 005
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 10/10/2026Canonically Correct Pythonista Breakfast 021
Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 09/10/2026One of my favorite "Star Wars" tracks ever made was the Huttese adaptation of the heavy metal track by The Hu for the opening of Jedi Fallen Order 010
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 08/10/2026I love pairing this with Esc-h to shelve the command, run ‘man <command>’, and then unshelve the command again. Even better is that if you have a piped command, it knows which part of the command your cursor is on and shows the appropriate man page. :blobfoxcomputer:fosstodon.org 101
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026It’s a bit of a wild trip writing green field code for work, reading documentation for upstream libraries I’m using, and seeing them recommend using OSS libraries that I wrote. Like oh shit, I’m supposed to be an expert at this? 😹 011
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026LOL, spent five minutes trying to figure out where some debug logging was coming from, assuming that it was part of the database ORM I'm using and wondering why I couldn't silence it, only to dig deeper and realize it's coming from the async database driver below the ORM — you know, the open […]toots.n7.ggOriginal post on toots.n7.gg 101
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026My home internet finally came back around 30 minutes ago, just shy of *35 hours* of downtime. 😮💨 111
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026My fiber internet has already been completely out for 14 hours today, and AT&T is now saying it will be restored *tomorrow night* 🤯🤬 011
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸TinyStart for macOS @tinystart.app · 06/10/2026:tinystart: TinyStart v1.5 is out now! Still a tiny Mac launcher, still very fast, and still €5 Except now you can also : • Press Tab to switch between Launcher and Emoji picker • Pin apps, folders, and links • Pin Emoji • Reorder pins • Insert Emoji without leaving the picker • Reorder […]nileane.frOriginal post on nileane.fr 102
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026And yet, nothing bums me out more than seeing my work gobbled up as training data for soulless machines to reproduce a dozen hollow facsimiles in hundreds of meaningless requests for more extruded text. To see issues and PRs on my projects to make some change without any attempt or capability of […]toots.n7.ggOriginal post on toots.n7.gg 003
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026Some days all of my open source effort feels like it was pointless. Other days, I’m looking up documentation on how to do something with a database in Python, and I find blog posts and documentation pages that casually use or list my aiosqlite package alongside all of the other hallmark […]toots.n7.ggOriginal post on toots.n7.gg 125
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026I came back from a conference with a cold; I’m masking at home so my partner doesn’t pick it up. It’s not just for COVID.zeroes.ca 005
Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026I'm going with it's one family with a five year old that lives 20 miles away from civilization, and they just treat their kids like feral cats. "They come and go as they please and we just leave some food in their bowl for whenever they get back" 😹 110
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You can pay for this with a credit card, but don't dare think of commissioning art of consenting adults having fun sexually, credit card companies (and PayPal) will de-bank you. Our systems are so screwed up. :/ 3136051231
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Emma @emmatyping.dev · 04/10/2026I had a wonderful time yesterday at #pybay2026. So fun to see friends I hadn't in months and meet new people! Here are the slides from the talk I gave "The Path to Introducing Rust in CPython" emmatyping.dev/talks/pybay-...emmatyping.devRust for CPython - Slidev 0113
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17990416
Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026Amalgam and Bismuth themes are some of my favorites of the instrumentals 030
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026⏳ The countdown is on: PyBay 2026 is only 1 days away! Tickets are moving fast and you won’t want to miss the biggest Python event on the West Coast this year. 🎟️ pybay.org/get-tickets/ 🎟️ Make sure you give this post a 👍 Like this if you’re planning to attend 🔁 Repost with colleagues #PyBay2026 012
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026RE: fosstodon.org/@pybay/11736690738555… Tomorrow!!fosstodon.org 011
Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026The Steven Universe soundtracks are still my favorite TV/movie soundtracks of all time, y'all did an incredible job with everything! 💜 070
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026⏳ The countdown is on: PyBay 2026 is only 2 days away! Tickets are moving fast and you won’t want to miss the biggest Python event on the West Coast this year. 🎟️ pybay.org/get-tickets/ 🎟️ Make sure you give this post a 👍 Like this if you’re planning to attend 🔁 Repost with colleagues #PyBay2026 022
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 01/10/2026The greatest of vibes: waiting at a light in your sleek 1990 300ZX with the T-tops open on a nice sunny day, the 1990 hit song Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) starts playing, and someone drives by in their eternally cool mid-90’s MkIV Supra. :blobcatpat: Not so great vibes: someone […]toots.n7.ggOriginal post on toots.n7.gg 011
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 26/09/2026A pox on every website that refuses to show a password field until *after * you enter an email address, thereby preventing my browser from offering to autofill anything from my password manager. 024
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026:blobfoxdrakedislike: CLOSEDWONTFIX :blobfoxdrakelike: CLOSEDSLOP 002
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 25/09/2026My brain has crossed the rubicon. Not even my nightmares are safe from being made worse with LLMs. 001
Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 24/09/2026Having been a huge fan of the series, and not yet been compelled to finish my playthrough of Seven, I think I would agree with you. I might swap Four and Zero just because the mix of style and music in Zero was incredible (and Zero's soundtrack is hands-down my favorite), but they're all so good 💜 000
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 23/09/2026So the folks behind Star Citizen have introduced a space ship, then introduced an updated version/model of that space ship, then deprecated the old space ship, and now are re-releasing the "classic" version of it ... all while never actually "releasing" the game that I pledged for 14 years ago […]toots.n7.ggOriginal post on toots.n7.gg 201
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans” 5259171626
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/09/2026wake up babe, new cat species discovered en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilcayo_tiger… image: media.zenfs.com/en/live_science_953… 011
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/09/2026Just over *two weeks* to go before #PyBay 2026, happening on October 3rd at UCSF Mission Bay. We've got an excellent lineup of speakers, including: @gaborbernat @emmatyping @pamelafox @brianokken @coderanger and so many more! Thanks to our generous sponsors […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg] 046
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/09/2026Oh NOW you want my opinion on the ridiculously overpriced VR headset that was too heavy and where you refused to embrace popular VR use cases for until it was too late so I just put it on top of my *other* horribly expensive monument to Apple Design? Ok 001
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/09/2026Oh boy, I have once again won the opportunity to spend more money! 😹 101
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Glyph @glyph.im · 17/09/2026RE: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117281447… unironically, unashamedly do this. call your friends, ask them for help. and when they say “wait did you ask me just to replace your AI” say yes. say you’ll owe them one but you appreciate them so much more than AI. and show up for them […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 1237
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026If tomorrow someone proved that being gay (or being straight) is a choice and that someone can simply choose not to be ... I would still support every single person, straight, gay, bi (hi!) or otherwise, to be who they chose to be. You don't have to be born that way to be valid. 013
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸kuraine @lena.fyi · 14/09/2026with all the conversation lately about unseen data harvesting, ar glasses & new vr tech, "ai", etc etc... it's once again the perfect time to read my kinetic novel ESC. store.steampowered.com/app/1318800/...store.steampowered.comESC on SteamAn interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams. 323561
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple. 11162951003
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026So if you find yourself feeling dependent upon AI because you're "not good enough", not like the prominent critics who you are putting on a pedestal, then allow me to paraphrase this famous exhortation from the philosopher Kamina: "Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me! Believe in the me who […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 104
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026Second, the way you get to be a "good programmer" (on any one of the multivariate axes upon one can be such a thing) is to practice a lot, and AI deprives you of practice. So it might be momentarily helping you to *avoid embarrassment* but you're basically just bluffing your way through a […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 413
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Mario Munoz @pythonbynight.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026I spent the last several days writing this. When I started, I felt like maybe the title was a bit of a hyperbole, even though I feel like my point is well argued. But then again, you have people working in this industry saying that they are building a weapon of mass destruction that could […]hachyderm.ioOriginal post on hachyderm.io 105
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 12/09/2026First time in many years that I haven’t set an alarm to preorder an iPhone. Weird. 001
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Decided to make a dedicated page for this. stopomarchy.neocities.orgstopomarchy.neocities.orgSTOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right BackersProtest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source. 615109
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 10/09/2026You say you have to support the fashy software stack because that’s where the majority of AI users are going. Gee. I wonder why the majority of AI users are picking the fashy software stack for their “projects”. 🤔 001
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026the AI was a grandmaster chess player until it being horrible at chess became a meme the AI is an incredible mathematician in countless breathless papers but every time you ask it a basic math question it fucks it up badly the AI is just a tool until you refuse to use it, then it’s a […]mas.toOriginal post on mas.to 2434
Reposted by Amethyst 🌸[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026the AI is on the cusp of AGI except when the topic is all the moral issues around enslaving a sentient being and doubt that an AI god is even possible, then the goal was never AGI at all and you’re silly for thinking that’s still a thing the AI is a transformative tool that creates unique […]mas.toOriginal post on mas.to 2529