Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Phrased backwards, if 98% of people with elite skills fail financially on the basis of having elite skills, financial success as a metric of quality is wrong about a hundred percent of the time.

Colleges and universities use document revision history (or lack thereof) as one mechanism to check for AI use in document creation.

More technically adept students use Pandoc, Org-Mode, or LaTeX and a git repo, which has no in-document revision history when converted to an .ODT or .DOCX file.

Is there a way to capture git revision history and merge it into a .DOCX or .ODT file's internal revision history.

Seeking a defense against profs who don't know git.

#askfedi #git #ai #education

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PSA: if you are anything like me you've accumulated a lot of tech with Lithium ion batteries. Some of which is probably stuck in a drawer that you don't check very often.

I'm reminding you to check every so often. This weekend I found a swollen battery in an old Parrot drone I'd bought for my kid over a decade ago. These batteries, if punctured, ignite on contact with the air and produce harmful gasses.

Give those old phones and pieces of tech the once over for safety.

https://cmbatteries.com/lithium-battery-swelling/

i use arch btw

little lessons from BASIC:

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single file programs are OK

if you have a small number of colours, don't worry, that's OK

indentation can help--like with FOR/NEXT loops

if it takes a long time to code, that's OK

don't be afraid of garbage output--you're not hurting the computer!

take breaks, the computer will always be there.

#retrocomputing

Are we about to see more enshittification with our smartphones?

From right back in the days of Nokia, every 12 months or so, mobile phone makers have tended to upgrade the specs on their phones.

Thanks to Apple, they've learnt how to slowly degrade the performance of their older models. But the tradeoff has been that you get a slightly better camera, or bigger screen, or more battery life.

Android Authority has noticed something curious about the latest phones from a number of major brands, like Motorola and Google.

Their smartphones for 2026 are basically the same specs as the ones from last year, or even slightly worse. In some cases, they have processors from as far back as 2021.

The main thing you get by upgrading is access to new AI features.

There's no reason last year's phones couldn't provide these features. They're powerful enough, have enough memory, etc. The companies are seemingly choosing to not make them available.

In essence, the mobile phone makers are saying that your perfectly capable phone won't get the software upgrades, and to use them, you'll need to buy a new phone with almost identical hardware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-oBr2yxOAg

The joys of late capitalism, huh?

#smartphone #Android #Google #Enshittification #phone #phones #Motorola #pixel #GooglePixel #Gemini