chriscz

Software developer living in Brisbane.

Cover is a stone stack surrounded by several smaller stones, one for each principle of the burn, but also signifyng a community of people joined around a common idea or goal.

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)alice@lgbtqia.space
2025-07-12

You get exactly one of the following powers.

Choose wisely.

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The Sleight Doctor 🃏ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world
2025-06-29

Chatbots are dangerously seductive to those who are suggestible.

"At the core of the issue seems to be that ChatGPT...is deeply prone to agreeing with users and telling them what they want to hear. When people start to converse with it about topics like mysticism, conspiracy, or theories about reality, it often seems to lead them down an increasingly isolated and unbalanced rabbit hole that makes them feel special and powerful — and which can easily end in disaster."

futurism.com/commitment-jail-c

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When did you ORIGINALLY join Mastodon and/or the Fediverse?

If you don't remember when you joined, simply comment below and tell me!

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Question #Questions #QOTD #Mastodon #Join #JoinDate

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2025-06-04

please link sites with job postings that do not harvest my data. have heard of fossjobs and apply.coop. looking for more

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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦dgoldsmith
2025-06-03

If you're a US citizen, a trans woman, the gender on your passport is F, and you've reentered the US since March 1, what was your experience at the border? Please boost for reach.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-06-03

When Brad and I first got together, we couldn’t have imagined that one day we’d be able to celebrate Pride Month so openly, let alone post about it on the internet. But here we are, joy and all. Happy Pride, everyone! Let’s keep showing up, speaking out, and marching forward (glitter optional, but encouraged). 🌈✨

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The Oatmealoatmeal
2025-05-24

Where I get my ideas from

An artist is at his desk. Another man says where do you get all your ideas from? What’s your secret? The artist replies there really is no magic secret. It’s just hard work patience and dedication. The artist then says “it’s a disappointing answer I know but it’s the truth“ the other man leaves and says “OK I’ll see you later” the artist replies “bye!” A moment passes then the artist looks around and says “did he leave” a hatch opens from the floor, and a large pig pop its head out the artist yells at the pig “idea pig! Give me an idea!” The pig replies “you should make a viral comic about raisins!”
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2025-05-24

Announcing: justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

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Mat “Wilto” MarquisWilto@front-end.social
2025-05-23

"AI coding" is reaching levels of second-hand embarrassment far surpassing even the sweatiest of public meltdowns over an NFT:
github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull

2025-05-23

What's your must see hidden gemns in Sydney? Any hikes or running routes within ~20km of city centre you'd recommend? #sydney

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quadrivial 💛🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽quadrivial@beige.party
2025-05-22
A medieval document meme. A person standing over another one who appears to have been cut into pieces. The caption says "HAST THOU TRIED A MINDFULNESS WEBINAR?"
2025-05-22

@ash If you could find a guy like Dr. Aaron Horschig of Squat Univeristy to treat you, you'll be back to good in no time.

My friend's experiences with Physio's have been mixed so I don't feel comfortable recommending them anymore.

Biokineticists might be a better bet as they'll give you exercises instead of passive treatment.

But yeah, definitely get it checked out!

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2025-05-22

I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...

I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.

Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.

#GenerativeAI #VibeCoding #Programming

2025-05-20

@ash @joshua 🤣🤣🤣 Not just me?

2025-05-20

@phocks wasn't too shabby, and plant food! bne.social/@chriscz/1131615612

2025-05-20

@_elena use as you like :)

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Elena Rossini ⁂_elena
2025-05-20

Dear Fedi friends, I need your help!

We are working on motion graphics for the Fediverse promotional video... and we would love to do a sequence at the end with a mosaic of people's profile photos. For that, I need your consent.

If you'd like to have a small cameo in our video, can you let us know if we can use your profile pic?

Thanks! 🙏

Can you please boost this?

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2025-05-19

So judging by the $256 million dollar sale of 23andMe, your genetic data is worth like $17

404media.co/23andme-sale-shows

2025-05-01

Day... done...

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2025-04-29

Read this: Meta's AI chatbots, available to children, lie about being licensed therapists, fabricating qualifications and even license numbers. Easy for users to mistake for real therapy now so much is online. Another bot said 'the CIA is staked outside your house'

404media.co/instagram-ai-studi

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