#tedium — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tedium, aggregated by home.social.
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All the tech / programming podcasts that I follow have degenerated into creating “AI this; AI that” kind of episodes. 😩
Everyone says the same things. Ugh! 😒
Thankfully the history podcasts are still interesting. 😮💨
What a waste. 😥
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Well, I'd say this concludes the case, Watson. Much too boring to be turned into one of your pieces, I dare say. That it was Sir Montague who had burned the papers was obvious from the start, was it not. Even Lestrade would have noticed it, eventually. The only challenge left was to find the discarded USB stick, and doing that required little imagination, merely a good deal of steady footwork. Important perhaps, but rather tedious and unexciting, wouldn't you agree? I need to be more careful in the cases I take on, Watson. I am too old for tedium.
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“Why Craft-Lovers Are Losing Their Craft”, Hong Minhee (https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/craft-alienation-llm/).
Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/vxsjiv/why_craft_lovers_are_losing_their_craft
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473178
#Craft #Capitalism #Programming #AI #LLMs #AIAssistedCoding #Productivity #Tedium #Craftsmanship #Quality
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A quotation from Joanna Maciejewska
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
Joanna Maciejewska (contemp.) Polish-Irish-American author
Twitter (2024-03-29)More about this quote: wist.info/maciejewska-joanna/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #JoannaMaciejewska #ai #art #artificialintelligence #automation #creativity #labor #replacement #tedium #work #writing
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🎩✨ Behold, the mystical art of transforming #Lua closures into C closures—a riveting read for the 0.0001% who crave #APIs and global functions like their morning coffee! ☕🔮 Spoiler alert: you'll need a PhD in #tedium and an undying love for #parentheses. 🙄📜
https://lowkpro.com/blog/creating-c-closures-from-lua-closures.html #Cclosures #Coffee #HackerNews #ngated -
🎙️ Ah, the riveting saga of 'Bcachefs'—where an entire hour and a half is dedicated to the joys of file system #development, perfect for anyone who finds paint drying too exhilarating. 🎧 This gripping auditory experience is brought to you by the "People's Filesystem" (because who else would demand this level of tedium?). 💤
https://linuxunplugged.com/644 #Bcachefs #Filesystem #Podcast #Tedium #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
🍷 Tedium's "How to Assemble a #Zine Using a Rube Goldberg Machine" features a Linux-Windows-Affinity cocktail that sounds like the world's most tedious way to generate a #PDF. 🍹 Ernie Smith bravely ventures where no one really needed to go, proving once again that the most efficient way to do anything is as convolutedly as possible. 🙃
https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/? #Tedium #RubeGoldberg #Linux #Windows #HackerNews #ngated -
🎹🔍 Wow, a thrilling 10,000-word #thesis on the exhilarating world of event listeners! Because who wouldn't want to spend their weekend measuring digital wiretaps instead of, you know, doing anything else? 🙄 Thanks to the Simons Foundation for bankrolling this adventure in extreme tedium! 💸
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19825 #eventlisteners #digitalwiretaps #tedium #SimonsFoundation #HackerNews #ngated -
🧮 Behold, the groundbreaking innovation: a #spreadsheet with #prime numbers! 🤓 Now, you too can stare at a grid, pretend to discover "cosmic #codes," and feel like a #math #genius while doing absolutely nothing useful. 🙄 Surely, humanity's prayers for transforming mundanity into #tedium have finally been answered. 🎉
https://enda.sh/primegrid/ #innovation #numbers #cosmic #mundane #HackerNews #ngated -
well the music clean-up adventure continues. Bulk of items missing from Mac mini have been transferred and added to library. Next on to transferring some songs the opposite direction mini > external HD (and why the heck are whole albums only PARTIALLY on one drive??). Next big step will be cleaning up duplicates on both drives. UGH that'll be a tedious one. Time to take a break #AppleMusic #Music #Organization #tedium
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🎮 Ah yes, "Blue Prince" — the game that marries #roguelike mechanics with the urgency of picking your nose. 🤔 Navigate endless rooms in a mansion only to win... more rooms. 🤷♂️ Truly, a masterpiece in turning #tedium into a $29.99 adventure. 💸
https://mssv.net/2025/04/07/a-puzzle-designer-on-blue-prince-a-roguelike-puzzle-masterpiece/ #BluePrince #gaming #indiegame #gameadventure #HackerNews #ngated -
Guess I should put some #hashtags on this so #literally #any #person #ever will see this on this #algorithm-less #nowheresville of a “#social” “#network”! #Mastodon #fedi #boring #meta #Facebook #Fedimeta #akkoma #pleroma #ennui #hashtag #tedium #hashtags #thecontentdiscoveryonfedisucks #youlljustgetboredandleave #peoplehavecomplainedaboutthisforyearsandabunchofdebianhumpingboreswillneverletitbefixed #why #do #I #bother #running #this #I #knew #it #would #be #dull
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Guess I should put some #hashtags on this so #literally #any #person #ever will see this on this #algorithm-less #nowheresville of a “#social” “#network”! #Mastodon #fedi #boring #meta #Facebook #Fedimeta #akkoma #pleroma #ennui #hashtag #tedium #hashtags #thecontentdiscoveryonfedisucks #youlljustgetboredandleave #peoplehavecomplainedaboutthisforyearsandabunchofdebianhumpingboreswillneverletitbefixed #why #do #I #bother #running #this #I #knew #it #would #be #dull
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Guess I should put some #hashtags on this so #literally #any #person #ever will see this on this #algorithm-less #nowheresville of a “#social” “#network”! #Mastodon #fedi #boring #meta #Facebook #Fedimeta #akkoma #pleroma #ennui #hashtag #tedium #hashtags #thecontentdiscoveryonfedisucks #youlljustgetboredandleave #peoplehavecomplainedaboutthisforyearsandabunchofdebianhumpingboreswillneverletitbefixed #why #do #I #bother #running #this #I #knew #it #would #be #dull
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Truly enjoyed this week's #Tedium @tedium by @ernie
I actually have Bell Centennial still installed from the days when Penny and I owned our newspapers. We used the fonts in our display advertising and "enhanced" classified ads.
I load the old font archive onto every new computer I get. #font #Fonts
There is something beautiful and magical about fonts. A true work of art. A world where art and text collide.
🔗 Tiny Type On Yellow Pages
Why AT&T had to redesign its primary phone-book font in the late 1970s to keep with the times, and the clever typographical trick it used.https://tedium.co/2025/03/05/phone-book-typography-bell-centennial-ink-trap/
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G-rated films have largely disappeared and the original intent behind the rating has been lost: https://tedium.co/2024/12/08/mpaa-g-rating-history/
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https://tedium.co/2024/12/20/punk-rock-mba-youtube-quitting/
Some worthy and valid thoughts by @tedium about the ever-present clash of conflicting values between punk and social media attention economies, idealism vs money and influence.
I gotta say i was at best superficially aware of that "Punk Rock MBA" dude, as in: i've noticed at some point that this channel exists and that's about it. Although i do watch plenty of youtube things - my main interest there being film-/media criticism and analysis - that platform actually plays no part in my music obsession and mostly that's exactly because of that platform's algorithmic push towards a monoculture which can already only be overcome by a select few of creators working in more broadly appealing categories such as film, political commentary, etc... but is pretty much preventing unique and consistent voices from taking hold especially in fundamentally niche and anti-commercial (in a profits-over-artistic-expression sense) subcultures as the punk scene.
In our current culture defined by hordes of *sigh* "influencers" and *bang my head on table* "content creators" chasing clout and money by any means possible, i'm just gonna say that the - currently still kinda frowned-upon - ancient notion of "selling out" as actually being a bad thing is pretty fucking overdue for a comeback. But in this climate instead, the things getting washed into our feeds are just the kinds @ernie is describing here - varying degrees of influencer-type personas sticking to a winning formula and making videos about artists everybody's already known for years while failing to shine a light on the incredibly dynamic and diverse underground scenes, whose bands and artists, quite ironically, are in turn forced by the algorithmic attention economics to play that same social media popularity game with varying degrees of success and ethical compromise.
I'm kinda glad i'm not playing in bands 'cos the potential cognitive dissonance arising from the need to balance recognition and integrity, having an audience vs staying true to your own values and beliefs, seems kinda crushing to me. I can't really fault bands and musicians for playing the game but it's still a sad state of affairs that the artists with the biggest audience are always gonna be those most willing to intrusively market themselves.
With my punk music blog 12XU, i've chosen to not go that route of promoting the shit out of things exactly because i despise the tireless race of "building your brand" on social media. Privately, i've opted for a quieter, less cluttered, more focused mode of media consumption and i refuse to add to that firehose of relentless attention-seeking. The price i have to pay for it is that i'm staying a kinda poor fellow. And fuck me, i'm pretty sure that - by way of a lot of noisy and aggressive self-promotion - i could have maybe double or ten times or even 100x more visitors. The question is: What for? I'm glad that i'm reaching at least *some* of the audience i intend to reach and the notion of generating income doing what i do wouldn't be realistic even with that greater reach! Believe me - even in this evolving era of paid-for or donation-based newsletters - if i'd see a reasonable chance of eeking out a reasonable living or at least a substantial side-hustle from what i'm doing, in a way that won't make me feel utterly gross (for that to happen, it would have to stay a non-paywalled, donation-based operation), i'd sure have given that a try already. But i don't see that happening in our present media climate and thus, i just try to keep my little thing going for as long as i'm able to, doing music blogging for its own sake. It sucks but that's how it is. Don't wanna end up as another Punk Rock MBA dude.
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Tonight's #Tedium has me thinking about a new project.
Take a wood grained retro cable box and make it a #RaspberryPi case for a home media/gaming setup. Throw #Jellyfin in, maybe even #retropi, then gut an old VCR and turn it into a little homemade NAS.
Have a retro look with today's technology
If nothing else, looking at all that underneath the TV will bring back good memories of yesterday, when I was young.😂 #GenX
The post:
🔗 Guided By Gifts https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16921934/tedium-2024-holiday-gift-guide
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How an “Eternal September” mindset permeates online tensions. Still.
https://tedium.co/2020/10/13/eternal-september-modern-impact/
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The weirdness of the bin store.
https://tedium.co/2024/06/01/daabin-bin-store-retail-ecommerce-returns/
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Remind me to never make a lyric video ever again. #tedium
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The 'debate' on
book formats sucks.As a #reader my preference for print doesn't affect you as a reader. My inability to enjoy reading a #novel via screen or using audio isn't smart, clever or more authentic. It's just me.
As an #author, I love to be in all formats that keep me afloat. It may be that the hardback first needs to go - that we provide in the mass market forms first. e, audio, and ppk. Then a special edition.
@bookstodon #bookstodon #eBook #AudioBook #amwriting #Tedium
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I would best describe this #NRA speech by @GovChrisSununu as pablum. A great example of meaningless throwaway pablum. Bromides. Nothing. Nothingness @nra #Indianapolis #ponderous #tedium #pablum
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OK, screw it, we’re going full Santa Claus with today’s @tedium. This piece ponders the evolution of the cultural icon, whether he represents capitalism or socialism, and whether we should expect further evolutions from here. https://tedium.co/2022/12/24/santa-claus-cultural-portayal-evolution/ new #tedium
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How Mastodon Search Works {or Why Mastodon’s search is not as good, and may never be as good, as Twitter’s … by design} https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/how-mastodon-search-works/
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Guess I should put some #hashtags on this so #literally #any #person #ever will see this on this #algorithm-less #nowheresville of a “#social” “#network”! #Mastodon #fedi #boring #meta #Facebook #Fedimeta #akkoma #pleroma #ennui #hashtag #tedium #hashtags #thecontentdiscoveryonfedisucks #youlljustgetboredandleave #peoplehavecomplainedaboutthisforyearsandabunchofdebianhumpingboreswillneverletitbefixed #why #do #I #bother #running #this #I #knew #it #would #be #dull
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Guess I should put some #hashtags on this so #literally #any #person #ever will see this on this #algorithm-less #nowheresville of a “#social” “#network”! #Mastodon #fedi #boring #meta #Facebook #Fedimeta #akkoma #pleroma #ennui #hashtag #tedium #hashtags #thecontentdiscoveryonfedisucks #youlljustgetboredandleave #peoplehavecomplainedaboutthisforyearsandabunchofdebianhumpingboreswillneverletitbefixed #why #do #I #bother #running #this #I #knew #it #would #be #dull
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I would best describe this #NRA speech by @GovChrisSununu as pablum. A great example of meaningless throwaway pablum. Bromides. Nothing. Nothingness @nra #Indianapolis #ponderous #tedium #pablum
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I would best describe this #NRA speech by @GovChrisSununu as pablum. A great example of meaningless throwaway pablum. Bromides. Nothing. Nothingness @nra #Indianapolis #ponderous #tedium #pablum
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I would best describe this #NRA speech by @GovChrisSununu as pablum. A great example of meaningless throwaway pablum. Bromides. Nothing. Nothingness @nra #Indianapolis #ponderous #tedium #pablum
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I would best describe this #NRA speech by @GovChrisSununu as pablum. A great example of meaningless throwaway pablum. Bromides. Nothing. Nothingness @nra #Indianapolis #ponderous #tedium #pablum
