evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Hi blog writers: You don’t have to attach a unique image to every blog post, and you *certainly* don’t need to use #AI to generate an image for every blog post. You may think AI-generated images make your posts more attractive, but you are mistaken; they are doing the opposite: they make your posts more *repulsive* to a good number of potential readers. If I see an AI-generated image in the preview, I won’t click through to read your post, I won’t boost the post that mentions your post, and I certainly won’t read the rest of your blog.

So @robinince wrote about @emf in the Big Issue and gave us a new tagline. #emfcamp

Quoth the Raven, "Be careful with that cable, it's carrying 48 volts"

-- Edgar Allan PoE

Is anyone running a matchmaking service to pair recently-retired programmers with open source projects that need maintainers?

GitHub programmer ports playable Doom to DSLR camera with 3-inch TFT LCD display — Canon EOS 550D with open-source Magic Lantern firmware uses camera's button as controls, even plays sound

A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/github-programmer-ports-doom-to-dslr-camera-with-3-inch-tft-lcd-display-canon-eos-550d-with-open-source-magic-lantern-firmware-uses-cameras-button-as-controls-even-plays-sound

Apparently almost nobody got this pun. Perhaps it was too subtle.

Moving from the right of the origin to the origin simplifies the x position, as well as simplifying the exposition.

I like this post from 2017...

Edit: here's the related news story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30100756

See you tomorrow morning in the Corgi Cafe in San Francisco 9 to 11 for a "Help me fix this" meetup.
https://luma.com/weared-zzo9

Jeebus this entire piece is a phenomenal piece of writing.

Just a reminder that AI detectors don't work. You don't fix one broken machine with another.