evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Me when people ask me anything:

Had to get a loaner vehicle from a local dealership because a 10 y/o car that I love needed a lot of work. So they gave me the latest model of the same car -- brand new -- which was vastly less powerful than ours, and kept trying to steer me between the lines and cause the steering wheel to rumble when I hit a line and all kinds of crap that just annoyed me.

The dealership probably thought they would entice me to buy the newer model, but driving it just made me more convinced I made the right decision to put the money into the old car.

"tech quality has taken such a dive since the whole AI thing"

"let me introduce you to the artist who, four years ago, caused a virtual major traffic jam, diverting actual traffic to other routes, by rolling a handcart down the sidewalk with 99 mobile phones in it."

https://twitter.com/simon_deliver/status/1223569659645112320

There was a practice session earlier on 😄

#sillyScribbles #animation #dance #silly #drawing

@stavvers Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story of crows that pull horse-chestnut seeds off trees and put them on roads, so passing cars will crack the tough seeds open.

But crows don't like horse-chestnuts that much. On the other hand, squirrels love them. So squirrels run into the road to collect them. And sometimes get hit by cars.

And crows love the taste of dead squirrel.

computers are a completely normal field where there are still existing databases built on descendants of something called PICK OS, an early database made in the 60s to organize parts for a helicopter that never existed, for a system called Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS), as created by a guy named Dick Pick.

you took a perfectly good turing machine and gave it to a bunch of capitalists. look at it. it's got hallucinations. it thinks it's a parrot. what have you done.

h/t @Meyerweb

It has been a long day. Still, nearly the weekend.

#sillyScribbles #animation #seaShell #googlyEyes #silly

I started creating miniature 3d printed buildings so that blind people can feel what they are like. So far I have 9 buildings, including the White House, Smithsonian Castle or the Independence Hall, but there is many more to come.
You can read more about the project at:
https://evengrounds.com/3d-buildings

#MiniatureBuildings
#Blindness
#Accessibility

WE HAVE DONE IT THAT HP IS GOING TO HELL AND THE VAGINA MUSEUM IS GETTING MASTODON'S CHOICE OF PRINTER

But SHOULD you do it?

#ironypolice #irony #youcandoit #slogans #taglines #humor #humour

being an artist or software developer in 2024 is really fun 🥹🔥 credit: https://x.com/kaaileen_/status/1752710426280812802

Each time I was at Coventry station, I'd buy a first class single to Birmingham International, which cost £2.10. Then make use of the free hot drinks and biscuits in the first class lounge. A lot cheaper than the station cafe. Lounge now closed, I'm probably responsible.

Apologies to those who watched my latest unboxing live stream. In my defense, it was 50/50 on whether those cats were going to be alive or not.

There’s a magical place, we’re on our way there

With toys in their millions all under one roof

– it’s called Anne Summ-ers.

Discovery of the day. Turning a shell upside down turns it into a totally different creature.

(yes I said "totally different" - shush now)

#sillyScribbles #photography #cute #silly #seaShell #drawing

When I use generative "AI" it invariably contains mistakes. That's just reality at the moment.

So when I see company after company adding AI to every product in sight, I now assume that all of those products are "creating" flawed results, by design.

This is crazy. (Google search is, maybe not coincidentally, crappier than ever.)

We need a whole genre of products that don't contain AI. Maybe they, too, are irredeemably flawed, but at least we'll know the mistakes aren't a design decision.

Your reminder than any rule insisting trans people are separated out in hospitals or anywhere else is actually insisting that *everyone* must be subjected to intrusive and offensive enquiries to satisfy a tiny minority of noisy bigots obsessed with something that's none of their damn business.

Police nabbed a graffiti artist attempting to flee the scene of committing this (picture) adorable art in the harbor of Visby, Gotland, the large island just outside southeastern mainland Sweden.
The 27-year-old was prosecuted for vandalism, with the prosecutor demanding a fine.

Police's interrogation records said e.g. that "His intention is to offer free art to passersby." and... the District Court of Gotland... agreed.

The court's ruling states that no harm has been proven and that the artist "on a gray and cracked concrete façade which is the short end of a loading dock, has depicted a lamb.", that "The way in which X has illustrated the lamb testifies to an artistic work carried out with a certain amount of artistic and technical skill." then finally "According to the District Court's opinion, the beauty value of the cracked concrete façade - in purely objective terms - has increased through X's painting." so the 27-year old artist was acquitted by the court, which also ruled that the police had must return the spray cans they had confiscated.

Damn hippies. ;-D

Hey y'all, so we have Intel NUC desktops with Dell speaker soundbars connected over USB to the computers, and headphones connected over 3.5 MM to the speaker since the NUC no longer has a headphone jack. Every other audio source works fine, except JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Even with volume at 100%, both system and JAWS, the JAWS volume is still low. Someone with both headphones in could hear it fine, but if like me and students here they have one ear out for surroundings, it can be hard to hear in a classroom environment. With no headphones plugged in, JAWS comes out loud over the speakers too.

I've tried the same headphones on two computers, restarting, updating JAWS and fusion, Windows 11 is up-to-date. The only thing that worked was working around the issue by using USB headphones. Does anyone have any other ideas? Please boost for reach.