evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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p-n junctions per cryptographic signature
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The goal of the companies who run AIs is to
1. get us all to use AI until the point where
2. we're dependent on AI, then
3. remove all access to AI and
4. grant the privilege of use only to those who pay a monthly fee,
5. which will periodically rise
6. while the service becomes worse and worse.
It'll be enshittification of enshittification.
enshittiception
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these 24TB drives are *insanely* cheap (£10.83/TB)
they're only rated for 2400h/yr operation (so 27% uptime) and 120TB/yr (which is only 0.137DWPD, aka 5DWPY) but they're CMR. not bad as an infrequent secondary or tertiary backup solution.
quite tempted to get one as a cheap temporary backup store for the NAS. plug it in once every 4-6 months and save a copy of the pool to it.
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The seven deadly sins of tech (as a service)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rubendominguezibar_tech-didnt-kill-the-seven-deadly-sins-activity-7357674090750447616-6GT_/
@anon_opin because of Nether Thong and Upper Thong.
also a motorbike bits shop local to you. reminds me, I need to go there soon, thanks :)
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moths per multicast packet
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We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.
☐ Accept
☐ Maybe later
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports
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ABV per brain
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Edit: have candidates thx
I'm looking for an artist who can turn details from photos of about 10-15 paintings and sculptures into clear B&W line drawings for printing in a book. Artist should be proficient in Gothic art and familiar with late medieval/renaissance material culture eg. from a background in living history or the SCA or costuming. My budget is not huge but I can pay. Not sure what hashtags to use. Examples of an original and a redrawing below. #boostsAppreciated #ArtistWanted
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Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?
@Richard_Littler cautionary instruction to novices around maintaining safe distance from rotors...
@JennyList add a small quantity of Caesium if relocating the toilet one block is an alternative consideration, I guess. carefully. ideally by some form of mechanical proxy.
@JennyList https://amzn.eu/d/gwZ0Jof
water beads: one flush, walk away.
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unhinged rants per gas mark
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Nipped out of a tedious team meeting to press the caps lock on all the unattended PCs. 11 people had their passwords reset by Tech Support
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DSEG is a family of free (and open-source) fonts of 7- and 14- segment displays. These allow for designing gorgeous digital displays!
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behold the "HTML bomb"
it's a defensive counterattack on AI web-scrapers that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to
the bomb file *looks* like a tiny HTML page, but when scraped -- or even requested by a regular browser ...
... it unpacks into a huge-ass 10-gig HTML page ...
... which quickly crashes any browser or scraper
Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-37-wind-theft-an-html-bomb-and-the-rice/
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@weirdunits MTBK
mean time between karens
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
