evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I've had to make a tough choice. That land plot I wanted is going to have to wait. The short story is that, I did a lot of research to figure out everything that I'd need to make that plot livable, and essentially, I would end up sinking a couple hundred thousand into it.

I don't have that money. I'd have to come up with it over time, or take out a construction loan that would cost double my mortgage right now.

I'm not giving up on my future in a land that I consider to be paradise for both my appreciation for nature, and also for my memories and nostalgia rooted in the region, but I cannot in good conscience invest in a plot of land that would take over a decade to come to fruition. Especially not in a city where they have HOA rules, but with literally none of the benefits.

I was given a lot of information about the city and HOA bylaws, and the restrictions on the land are kind of restrictive.

If hypothetically, I had to commit over 230,000 dollars to close to 300,000 dollars depending on how shit my luck is, I would like to know that outside of the law, I can do whatever the fuck I want to do on it.

sometimes, life has other plans for you.

I’ve been working with computers for five decades. Some people view me as an “expert” in certain subjects.

And I can tell you that when I am learning a new technology I still feel like the dumbest newb on the planet. I make tons of mistakes. I go down stupid rabbit holes of my own making. I have tons of self doubt.

So give yourself some grace. Everybody goes through this phase. Take a deep breath. Believe that you can do this.

@gsuberland you mistyped hootup

*tips fedora* m'othman

ok this is so cool. this LED manufacturer designed maybe the coolest demo brochure possible for their COB LEDs, its a ringed binder where each of the pages is a PCB that you plug in and can control via touch to toggle which strips are on :o
#electronics

540) Magicspongebot. Oh no! An injury on the football pitch - deploy Magicspongebot! #SmallRobotsRemastered

Your dogs friendliness is based on how it behaves around strangers and other dogs, not how it behaves around you. Of course it's friendly towards you.

#ukpol #binface #binface4clacton

Would you like to see what the inner close courtyard at Stirling Castle would look like, if it was a teeny tiny planet sphere? Well, who wouldn't.

Top left is the chapel, top right is the great hall, bottom right the palace, bottom left the regimental museum.

A good wee planet, but slightly lacking in greenery for my liking.

#Scotland #360degrees #photo

Hey, I'm going to give this a try. #Fedihire

I have written tons of blogs, whitepapers, books, and ad copy for tech companies about cybersecurity and general enterprise IT. See my portfolio: https://kimcrawley.com

I used to make a comfortably liveable income. But since the Gen AI menace, my livelihood has been destroyed and I can't pay my rent. I'm now writing Kickstarter funded self published books to survive.

I could really use proper writing gigs, though.

Some of the bestselling cybersecurity books, such as The Pentester Blueprint, were partly or completely written by me.

Please email kim.crawley at stopgenai dot com, or message me on Signal via crowgirl.84

I am terribly sorry to interrupt your doomscrolling, but this morning's Low Quality Ad is for this Fat Squirrel Pin. Look at him. He's bulking up for winter. In the winter, he will continue to bulk up for the summer. He is permanently round.
https://collabs.shop/kwodr5

Black Hole → Collapse → Planck limit → bounce → pure energy → cooling → matter → chemistry → stars → us → repeat.

any questions?

anyway even if 100% of computer programmers *were* using AI, that wouldn't mean that AI is good or effective or worthwhile. could just mean that 100% of computer programmers are reckless shitheads

I'm only belatedly realizing that the apparent success of LLM generative text solutions in the market is showing the reason why success comes to people who are full of bluster and confidence without caring about important details or correctness.

This exchange made my day

@phones @gsuberland

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on.

Why isn't it just a web page?

So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it as a web page generator. It does all the same things as the "app" except now there's no tracking, no ads, and you get all the Web's features "for free" (deep links, copy-pasting, search-in-page, printing, works on anything, etc.).

Here's the full story:
🔗 https://danq.me/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage

#appCulture #app #android #web #webPage #openStandards #reverseEngineering

This one was inspired by @elbosso – it's a "zoomed in" clock face, and because of the zoom, you only need one handle to have a lot of precision! Between two ticks, it's 10 minutes.

https://clocks.blinry.org/scale/