evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I see people being deceived by this again and again: ChatGPT can NOT read content from URLs that you give it, but it will pretend that it can (and can be incredibly convincing when it does that)

Constantly debunking this feels like a Sisyphean task, but it's really important to spread this message any time you see anyone falling into this (very understandable) trap

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/10/chatgpt-internet-access/

Hey #screenshotsaturday 👋
Made this prototype today, I call it Conway's game of breakout 😜

Owl varieties

When my girlfriend is upset, I let her color in my black-and-white tattoos, because sometimes she just needs a shoulder to crayon

Apparently, cows kill more people than sharks.

I'm just surprised that cows have killed sharks at all.

The ever-present danger of global variables.

Who called it Ursa Minor instead of Bear Minimum?

The Real Confederate Flag

#usa #civilwar #confederacy #traitors #failure

I've got 99 problems and at least 80 of them are fucking AI

Exciting* developments on the website.

As well as making silly images from the 360 camera I can now upload the images in an interactive Swipe Around & Enjoy The View version.

I am extremely pleased with the potential of this new toy & the lovely techie that made it work is All The Lovely.

Check out the view of Big Happy Stone.
https://eclectech.co.uk/nonsense/2023-02-28samsonsstoncloseuplogo.eqr

#360degree #photography #silly #landscape #stone #Scotland

* for me anyhow, YMMV

I just overheard a lady at the Home Depot garden center ask where the perineums are and I hope she finds everything she’s looking for and more.

miscellaneous networking tools

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/misc-networking-tools/

If it doesn't come from the Silicon Valley region, its just sparkling bank failure

Expect to see many banking crisis jokes on here in the near future. Common examples include:

-Has the US tried turning the banking system off and on again?

-Maybe banks shouldn't have spent so much money on avocado toast.

-Why don't banks just pull themselves up by their bootstraps?

They will all be funny and you should boost all of them.

#Linux distro users and friendship be like ...

I’m afraid I shall be unable to attend your party as I’m reading a really good book at the moment.

TikTok: Look! I discovered hot water melts frozen food faster!

Twitter: Look at this TikTok video showing how to defrost your food faster!

Yahoo news: Millions of Twitter users view TikTok video showing new life hack for melting frozen food!

Mastodon: piss

Wait wait wait wait

Let me get this straight...

LinkedIn wants to generate crappy AI content and then invite me to fix it, for free, under some guise of flattery calling out my "expertise"

Really?

@rozanski @codinghorror You may also like the barn.megaparsec measuring spoon. A barn is an area roughly covering a Uranium nucleus. A megaparsec is three and a bit million light years. Multiply them and you get a volume, about a third of a teaspoon. My spoon is within ~1%