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wibbily

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About wibbily

Doing things

https://lmao.center

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    Comment #48635654

    If I remember correctly you carried that project!

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    Comment #48634774

    You can also click on an image to open the original in a lightbox. (I should make that more obvious.) The dithering happens server-side (er, laptop-side). Experimented with a JS fi…

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    Comment #48634422

    Guilty. I had a few hours to kill on Amtrak... the time will pass anyway y'know (Plus I didn't know if it would work. The first version was just some Python functions I had to call…

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    Comment #48634387

    There's a few that I think would look better with dropped frames (the cake for instance). These are all the raw output of the script. Consider it maybe a starting point for manual …

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    Comment #48634372

    Was thinking about adding this... big fan of live photos.

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    Comment #48634360

    The unfortunate reality of accidents, lack of intention~ I've been taking pictures to be more effective wigglegrams now that I know I can auto-GIF them. I'll do a followup post at …

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    Comment #48634305

    As the others pointed out the script is at the end... > Would be nice to have... the choice of perceptual hashing algorithm Funny enough the script does some of this - there's a ha…

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    Comment #47760929

    Are 404 media links still blackholed?

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    Comment #47464643

    Fun: the “Molly” in question is Ed Krol’s daughter - he’s the guy who wrote the Whole Internet User’s Guide and Catalog . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Krol

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    Comment #47406412

    Seconded. I got a Gemini server running on an esp8266 once, there really isn't a lower bound.

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    Comment #47405476

    It’s tough but one of the tenets of Gemini is that a lone programmer can write their own client in a spirited afternoon/weekend. Markdown is just a little too hard to clear the bar…

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    Comment #47383292

    Maybe the solution is to ban editing. Or let moderators review + approve edits at least. The gambling site “Stake” was doing the same thing recently, they’d make posts on financial…

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    Comment #47381371

    An open letter: if you market your product by spamming Reddit et al. with fake stories (as this guide suggests), we: 1. can all tell 2. will not use your product Please stop pollut…

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    Comment #47373206

    It's two different problems. People who run review sites and blogs and such care about traffic, and not getting attribution will kill their desire to participate. People who post h…

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    Comment #47359079

    Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/meta-avocado-a...

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    Comment #47207951

    > When Google AdWords first launched Exactly, they’ll be kept separate. For now.

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    Comment #47207823

    It’s not “clear communication” though. The prose that comes out of LLMs is awful - long, vapid paragraphs with distracting tropes. You can ask them to be concise but then they file…

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    Comment #47202739

    He's not writing his comments himself either. Better off ignoring the whole thing, unfortunately

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    Comment #47154201

    I'm taking the bait whatever. All those projects are just more fucking AI tools. It's all Claude seems to be good for - writing agents, skills, harnesses. Just a big fat ouroboros.…

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    Comment #46801778

    IIRC "firmware as hardware" only applies if nobody - not you, not the manufacturer - can update it. I.e. your laptop's BIOS is software, the controller in your washing machine is h…

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