What? No. Software is something people go looking for and choose to download, unless we’re talking about malware which I think is fair to say is obviously outside the bounds of this conversation. Spam emails are forced on people without their asking or looking for them.

Yeah, and that’s totally a criterion people use when labelling something “slop” or not, right? Right??? Oh wait, no, it isn’t.

They’re not at all interchangeable or the same thing.

That is not even remotely close to what I said. Not bothering further with a liar (or worse) who distorts what others say.

He did. You may have misunderstood.

I mean he should have simply stated “the Claude code stays”, instead of hiding which were the Claude commits.

Yeah, nah. Damage has been done already.

He should’ve stuck with his guns and said “the Claude code stays”.

When it comes to the usage of both words, that difference you listed is completely arbitrary and obviously irrelevant. People also use the word “slop” to refer to commercial software (see: “Microslop”) and “spam” to refer to any sort of undesirable email being mass sent, even if non-commercial.

Unless you’re trying to argue something else; that the slop in this specific case is more justified. Then refer to the top comment in the chain; frankly the main issue here is not adding slop to their software, it’s the eagerness to treat users as braindead trash undeserving transparency.

The way y’all overuse the word “slop” is like calling all e-mail “spam.”

It’s more like calling automatically sent e-mails “spam”. From the PoV of the [software | e-mail] user saying the word, both [slop | spam] are undesirable, even if the [coder | marketing team] in question is doing it on purpose and with purpose, to further their goals of [pumping out more software | reaching a wider audience].

If any interaction with spicy autocomplete is treated as equally bad, to the point of aggressive mockery - no kidding people will tune that out.

For me at least the worst part isn’t using it, but trying to hide it. I don’t think it’s justified, even if some users return snide comments because of it.

Even if it was the same conversation (as TrickDacy said, it isn’t), “you can’t avoid the harm completely” is no excuse to avoid causing at least some of that harm.

What decides if something is slop or not is the thing itself. It is not your “KwaLiFiKaShunz”. Bringing up “muh 30 years of XP lol lmao” means jack shit.

If he was co-authoring the code with Claude this means he submitted code made by Claude; he didn’t just ask for some examples and implement in his own way. The later would be far more reasonable than the former.

What he said about the problem being capitalism instead of the tool itself is, I believe, valid. However, it should be no excuse to unnecessarily feed that very same economic system, by paying for the bloody tool.

Finally. He could’ve fixed what people complained about, by removing the commits, so he would keep them happy. He could also stick to his guns, and say “no, I’m not changing it. The Claude code stays”. But he did neither; instead he’s hiding it from the users. That’s pretty much the same as saying “I’m going to treat users as gullible filth and easy to fool, instead of human beings deserving honesty.”

A good thing open software can be forked.

It isn’t a typo, they live a single week.

As for conservation of matter and energy… well.

Cool, I like the manga series. It’s mostly the goblin out-playing a bunch of humans in politics, while trying to ensure his goblindom thrives through commerce and the likes.

(Just don’t tell Orcbolg about it.)

This is one of those series with a silly premise, but actually fun implementation. I hope season 3 keeps it this way.

No problem!

I should have gone deeper on the comparative method, but I didn’t want the wall of text to become even bigger. But it’s basically a task of finding patterns and working with them.

Proto-Human / Proto-World is an interesting case. Serious linguists reject it not because they know it’s false, but because there’s no way to know it at all. The method breaks once you go so far in time, even Proto-Afro-Asiatic (12~18kyo) is barely held together.

Glad you liked it!

It is soul-crushing tedious. That’s probably why Lucy is calling it min-maxxing, in any other game this stuff would be seen as a player ruining their own fun, but in Isaac it somehow gets a pass. And it gets worse depending on the speed stat that she mentioned, if it goes down the process becomes even slower.

That is not to say the game is bad, though. It’s surprisingly good for something initially made in Flash.

I don’t know what D6 is

A cubic/“normal” die with six sides. In Isaac it’s an item that, when activated, replaces the random items in a room with other random items. If the new items are good you pick them up, if they’re bad you reroll the D6, but to recharge it you need to complete other rooms. So you keep revisiting the same room, over and over.

I mentioned this in another thread, but I never ditched RSS. It’s simply too convenient to keep track of multiple sites, that you want to check regularly but would be a bother to do manually. Youtube channels, anime/manga/comics sites, even the communities you moderate.

I’m glad to see people picking it up again, though. Perhaps then Liferea will see a bit more love.

I joke this sort of work is like Neapolitan flavour: it’s vanilla, but it has one or two interesting twists (like you said, the vampire intrigue) to make it more interesting.

And I fully agree with what you said about the characters. Specially their interactions! Like, Kotoyama improved by a lot in this aspect, you don’t see Hotaru or Kokonutsu changing meaningfully because of the other, but Nazuna and Kou do. They grow, a lot like the ones in Sono Bisque Doll. (…that had a better ending. Yeah, I also agree the ending is a bit unsatisfying.)

Most people out there don’t know how IRC and the Usenet work. So even if this analogy is more accurate, it’s less useful.

In the meantime most people on the internet use email.

I mentioned this across the Fediverse, but recently I’ve binge watched Yofukashi no Uta (Call of the Night). Both seasons, and then I read the manga, and frankly? I had a blast, I loved the series.

The story is about a 14yo called Kou. He is a good student, or at least he was — eventually he got bored with school, and decided to sleep at day and roam the city at night. And one of those nights, Kou meets a vampire called Nazuna. He wants her to vampirise him, but for that Kou would need to fall in love with Nazuna, and yet he’s clueless about love.

The art style of Yofukashi no Uta looks like a refined version of Dagashi Kashi (from the same author, Kotoyama). But don’t expect the same gag humour as the later; it’s like they replaced the sugar with actual substance. And although it is a series about love, don’t expect all that emotional baggage and “woooosh” associated with romantic stories.

The soundtrack is filled with earworms from Creepy Nuts; in fact the story was inspired by one of them (that eventually became the ending song of the first season).

How do you know that? There wasn’t any context given.

We’re in the internet. In the internet “taking the red pill” usually conveys “accepting that alt right discourse as true”. It’s conventionalised here. We’re also in a federation of social media sites where your typical user is left-wing, and talks a lot about politics, further reinforcing the above.

So yes, there is context. And all other interpretations of their utterance (like referring to some actual red pill but never mentioning which; or a referential joke, but not sharing the reference) sound silly in contrast.

[From your other comment] Do you even know what that reference is from? The alt right didn’t invent it.

Origin (Matrix) doesn’t dictate current meaning.

Meet your neighbors, join a local group of any kind, find community in real life and proximal to you, not just online.

To add to that (it’s great advice BTW): when shit hits the fan, neighbours are usually more helpful than far away relatives.

Or neither. Just don’t play the game at all.

In this context “taking the red pill” would mean to accept all that alt right discourse; and “taking the blue pill” would be to keep yourself ignorant to it.

But both assume the alt right discourse is true and moral; it’s neither, it’s immorality built upon bullshit. The whole metaphor of “red pill, blue pill” is only there to distract you from the fact it’s selling you a false dichotomy backed up by irrationality.