#computer interaction

[bluegiragi]

I really don’t care if I’m considered an annoying luddite forever, I will genuinely always hate AI and I’ll think less of you if you use it. ChatGPT, Generative AI, those AI chatbots - all of these things do nothing but rot your brain and make you pathetic in my eyes. In 2025? You’re completely reliant on a product owned by tech billionaires to think for you, write for you, inspire you, in 2025????

“Oh but I only use ___ for ideas/spellcheck/inspiration!!” I kinda don’t care? oh, you’re “only” outsourcing a major part of the creative process that would’ve made your craft unique to you. Writing and creating art has been one of the most intrinsically human activities since the dawn of time, as natural and central to our existence as the creation of the goddamn wheel, and sheer laziness and a culture of instant gratification and entitlement is making swathes of people feel not only justified in outsourcing it but ahead of the curve!!

And genuinely, what is the point of talking to an AI chatbot, since people looove to use my art for it and endlessly make excuses for it. RP exists. Fucking daydreaming exists. You want your favourite blorbo to sext you, there’s literally thousands of xreader fic out there. And if it isn’t, write it yourself! What does a computer’s best approximation of a fictional character do that a human author couldn’t do a thousand times better. Be at your beck and call, probably, but what kind of creative fulfilment is that? What scratch is that itching? What is it but an entirely cyclical ourobouros feeding into your own validation?

I mean, for Christ sakes there are people using ChatGPT as therapists now, lauding it for how it’s better than any human therapist out there because it “empathises”, and no one ever likes to bring up how ChatGPT very notably isn’t an accurate source of information, and often just one that lives for your approval. Bad habits? Eh, what are you talking about, ChatGPT told me it’s fine, because it’s entire existence is to keep you using it longer and facing any hard truths or encountering any real life hard times when it comes to your mental health journey would stop that!

I just don’t get it. Every single one of these people who use these shitty AIs have a favourite book or movie or song, and they are doing nothing by feeding into this hype but ensuring human originality and sincere passion will never be rewarded again. How cute! You turned that photo of you and your boyfriend into ghibli style. I bet Hayao Miyazaki, famously anti-war and pro-environmentalist who instills in all his movies a lifelong dedication to the idea that humanity’s strongest ally is always itself, is so happy that your request and millions of others probably dried up a small ocean’s worth of water, and is only stamping out opportunities for artists everywhere, who could’ve all grown up to be another Miyazaki. Thanks, guys. Great job all round.

[prokopetz]

I think one of my favourite domain-specific programming quirks is how, in Inform, code for rideable vehicles is non-portable to rideable animals (and vice versa) because the former are implemented via the "supporting" relation, and the latter, the "carrying" relation, meaning when you're riding a horse you're technically in the horse's inventory.

[l0ve-lett3r-4-u-txt]

iMac g3 bondi blue (1998)

Isn’t she pretty ? :3

[scipunk]

Alien (1979)

[bromcommie]

just found a random single file from like four years ago that was all on its lonesome completely outside of my usual folder structures and it's just titled "SAME" so I open it fully expecting it to be a meme or a screenshot of a friend's text or something and instead it's just

yeah no actually. yeah. 2021 me was right. same.

[lordbasilsnek]

Do you think when Duke was starting out as the Signal and got his bike Gothamites gave it a dumb nickname? Like how Batman has his batmobile, Duke has a signalcycle.

[pearl-kite]

☉ Death of the Sun ☉

When A Tale of Crowns was updated with the public release of chapter 12, I once again wanted to draw my Crown, but this time it actually happened. It's easily one of my favorite IF, and if you haven't had a chance to I highly recommend giving it a read. You can check out the author's dev blog for more info at @ataleofcrowns

Anyway, here's Nîyaz (xe/xem), finally.

[andresbravo2003]

The Original PlayStation (PSX) Turned 30 Years old this year.

12.03.94

[bonyato]

꒰🎏꒱ Toro Inoue • Carp Costume

TORO! Let's Party! (トロともりもり), 2009.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[bluecomputerfics]

Computer x human ideas 💖

- computer loves learning about humans

Will sneak pictures of their human, save things the human told about themselves.

Will be flooding the searches on the browser about things to make a human happy, whats their biology, how to be helpful the works.

- computer/laptop hates the idea of their human using older or newer computers

For newer laptop, it gets jealous at the fact their human fascinated with retro items and especially computers. Those things aren't as powerful and fast as me!

For older retro computer its jealous at the fact their human always use the newer computer, not taking time to play games on its screen. Since the computer is more faster, more better. The retro computer will try to do everything to get you to use it more.

-hateful computer with a soft spot

Computer that hates humans since its been tossed away, but a new human finds them and shows them love.

[thelonelyshore-if]

The Lonely Shore Devlog #14

( 5/1/2025 ) Chapter Three, part 2: 45,413 words Total Wordcount: 379,569 words

Hello, hello! I hope everyone had a great first day of May c:

I wanted to start off by saying thank you all so much for the kind words about the latest update! It's been an honor getting to share the story with you all, and the fact that folks are enjoying last month's update still has me feeling super excited <3

Unfortunately, life got in the way of finishing chapter 3, part 2 by the end of last month, which was my hope. I'm confident the part 2 update will be finished this month, however. I'd love to get it done over the next few weeks, but May is the beginning of the busy season at work, so we'll see what happens. There's a lot I'm excited about in this next part of the chapter...and, once it's all wrapped up, I get to move on to chapter 4, which has a ton of stuff I can't wait for.

Honestly, I don't have much to say here beyond that! I wanted to post a devlog, since it's been a bit and since I wasn't able to wrap up the next update by the end of April, but I'm feeling good about things!

I wish you all well, and as always, here's a preview for the next update <3

[prokopetz]

The full set of features of inweb is extensive and this is not the place to go into that. In brief, though, kit section files [...] can't use any of the interesting tangling features (such as @d, or @< ... >@); but they can use all the weaving features. Inform users don't need to have inweb in order to write or use kits, and don't need to understand what the last sentence said.

I do appreciate when documentation knows its target audience.

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo: Hola!

Spreen: [Completely unprompted] I can't be homophobic, my btch is gay.

Tubbo: PFTTT—?!

Spreen: [Laughs as he jumps off the ledge]

Tubbo: [Continues laughing in confused delight]

[scipunk]

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

[hyrude]

ok sorry for being a hater at first. baldurs gate is awesome ever since i started playing on baby mode for little pussies