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I've been looking for this dumb sign for years and it finally reappeared on my Facebook feed. Behold, the Tingly Bridge Warning.

More AI slop:

Me: "#Frankenstein ... wow, what a monster."
Them: "That's a popular misconception, Frankenstein was the scientist."
Me: "That's a popular misconception. Frankenstein was the classic #techbro who didn't give a damn about the consequences of what he did and ignored all common ethical considerations. By all reasonable modern-day measures he was indeed the damn monster."

Had a chat with a friendly branch, because that's a thing, obviously

#sillyScribbles #mosstodon #silly #pareidolia #nonsense

AWS is short for "AW SHIT" which is what you yell when you get the first monthly bill

Are the folks in charge of the weather control lasers planning more aurora tonight?

Half of a crisp sandwich held up to Crisp Walk sign
#DailyCrispSandwich https://vole.wtf/buttystock/~mark-norman-francis/4/

Not as bright to naked eye, but amazing to see it at all with all the street lighting etc in that direction

Excited to be printing and framing pieces for The Milk Jug Cafe in Aberdeen, which will go up this week.
All pieces on display will be for sale in the cafe and you can also buy unframed prints from my website

I never use Caps Lock, so I disable the Caps Lock key completely with xmodmap, to avoid hitting it by accident.

Occasionally my X server gets into caps-lock state anyway. (Usually some complicated stunt was involved, like attaching x11vnc to the display remotely.) And then I can't turn it off again using the Caps Lock key.

So I wrote a tiny X client that lets me type 'xcapslock off' at a shell prompt …

… and then I had to make an alias to it, called 'XCAPSLOCK OFF'.

NASA would do well to recognise that humanity might not actually make it, and that an excellent back up plan would be to leave a message on the Moon about where and how we went wrong for the dolphins to read when they eventually get there

I was a strange kid.

I grew out of it though.

Now I'm a strange adult.

Just had to tell someone, 'cuz I'm doing this in total isolation. Laboriously salvaging and pulling nails from ancient wood from demolition that would have otherwise just gone to the dump. Redwood from 1890-1940s California, when they unconscionably cut down trees over a millennium old ;_; light as a feather, stronger than steel. Milled ages ago and structurally unfazed. Only a culture beyond salvation would treat this priceless material like trash.

Y’all know that CNN has a text-only web interface, right?

If you want to experience how GODDAMN FAST the web can be without the tens of megabytes of adware tracking cruft and hundreds of npm dependencies, try this out:

#news #web #tech #noJavascript

https://lite.cnn.com

I recently saw an IBM presentation on how AI will help eliminate COBOL once and for all. Basically, they are trying to sell a tool that uses their WatsonX cloud service to convert COBOL to Java with the help of the current buzzword named generative AI. Let me tell you, COBOL has outlasted most of the tech that was invented since 1965 and I think it will outlast generative AI, too.

May you be as epic as this lady

8 y/o daughter lost her hearing. Had to learn to sign. Struggled at first as none of her friends knew how to talk to her. One day I noticed our Labrador run to the treat cupboard after she signed "treat?" to her. In the absence of friends our dog had learned sign language for her