RE: https://tech.lgbt/@lexbailey/115714283601892437 Boosting for the sunday morning folks :)

Did I ever tell you about that time I nearly crashed a £1,000,000 supercomputer? Yes! I did! in my latest YouTube video and blog post! Vid: https://youtu.be/CVtibV_68mI Blog: https://computingthedetails.org/blog/i-nearly-crashed-a-supercomputer/

I recently bought one of these from aliexpress, and the more I look at it, the more I realise just how cursed it appears to be when you don't have the context of what it is used for. IYKYK

LMAO I asked my brother if he wanted to come over for lunch some day around this Christmas, and I told him who else was going to be there, listing various partners and metamours of mine, and he sent the first image. I then pointed out the poor construction of the […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

I think I'm about to resign from my job 🥳 this is exciting 2026 is gonna be exciting

OwO a second Mastodon plush order dispatch notification has hit my email inbox. but I didn't order a second one :ms_cat_heart_eyes: appears to just be Shopify being strange? tracking number shows up the original package, says it's delivered. how strange.

I think I've found the most scuffed online takeaway order menu. I want a quantum salad with souce, and I'll have the extra chips that come with a discount.

I am now playing LNER Azuma seat booking roulette. On a train without a booking, and it's right after a cancelled train on the same route, so it's gone be buuuusy. So far I've had to move seat one (1) time.

they arrived! my baby is here! #plushtodon

[shitpost, medical procedure] I just went to this strange place (a GP surgery) and met a vampire? I think? (Phlebotomy nurse) And they stabbed me!? (inserted a needle) and took like a whole test tube full of my blood for themselves!? (for the testing lab). Be careful if you go there

If you need an SVG of the instragram logo, you can just go and download the official _11MB bitmap wrapped in an SVG trenchcoat._ 🙃

didn't really want my company name listed on my conference badge, so I printed a comically large pronoun sticker to cover it over. had to put it somewhere, and they didn't provide a field for pronouns during registration

currently at a tech conference and every speaker so far has mentioned ✨ AI ✨ after the last talk I asked what that meant in this particular context. The answer was "we're not using AI yet. besides, we came up with a different thing that also shortens to AI" (paraphrasing) the next talk is […]

about to try a daring reboot on a remote machine that boots with legacy BIOS migrated the entire system to a new SSD, edited the fstab, set the boot flag on the new partition and unset it on the old one. I have no way to access the BIOS screen if this fails here goes! 🤞

The year is 2025. The food ordering website does not believe I am a human, and requests that I click on the AI generated images of sharks because they are "related to" the AI generated fish more than the AI generated elephants holding umbrellas are related to the fish. The website demands to […]

I see eBay has jumped on the AI bandwagon. I sure am looking forward to receiving AI hallucinations in response to my normal human questions /s

[bizarre unexpected encounter with an LLM] I got a phone call yesterday. I didn't answer it in time. Minutes later, a second call from a number that was almost identical. Only the last digit was different. I answered the second call, and said hello. There was silence. After speaking and […]

Dear all employers, Stop expecting your employees to install work applications on their personal devices. Provide them with a work laptop/phone, or stop requiring those apps. Please also never require them to provide their personal phone number for anything other than emergency use. Kind […]

[Job search updates, positive] Twice recently I've had people email me at the email address on my CV about job openings. This is very exciting. Both cases were things that I had not directly applied for, but that are actually interesting. It'll be fun to see if those go anywhere. I like that […]

Highlighting some of my favourite blog posts from my new blog (initially populated by turning all my YouTube videos in to blog posts) This one includes animations of the drawing process for an executable graphics entry to LoveByte that I did this year […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird/115571570084869697 yay! I can drop the extension that I'm using to make this work! I dislike that have to use Microsoft's email system at work. Thunderbird is the only thing making it pleasant. now it will be even more pleasant :) perhaps my colleagues […]

I have a blog now! http://computingthedetails.org/ There's a write up for each video topic on my YouTube channel, for those that prefer reading to watching to videos. Subscribe with atom or RSS!

"I should hire a van so I can pick up the fridge, freezer, and cooker that I need." * me, before picking up the van "I sure am glad I was able to use this van pick up this 88 key floor standing synthesiser keyboard and obsolete wireless electronic audience voting system with 100 remotes." […]

Photo from July 2022

booting my windows install for the first time in a long time

[post does not contain Pointer Sisters] 🎵 I'm moderately excited! 🎶 I could easily hide it! 🎼 I'm still fully in control, and that's how I like it!

OwO new Mastodon for some reason now the bottom button bar doesn't show on mobile until I scroll quite far down the page?? 🙃 but I can quoot now! so there's that

the block button is right there but apparently I was feeling sassy today lmao

two more job applications in hopefully I don't get an 100% instarejection rate today

[sometimes,,,...] horny,,, y'know?

reading job adverts getting sick of reading the words "proven track record" like, bro, what proof are you expecting? who's keeping those records?

I have applied for a job, oh my! first one in a while. really struggling to find job adverts that fit my skills but that aren't for shitty companies doing shitty things I just wanna get paid to write good quality code why is that so hard

fuck it we browsing job ads on the work laptop in the office

taking a moment out of the party to post pictures of my outfit. Selfies ahead!

I'm looking for a job in _Software Engineering_ (ideally Rust, Python, or C) or _Formal Verification._ I'm versatile and can do anything from Embedded to Web front end. I'm strugging to find job adverts that are: * nothing to do with AI * nothing to do with cryptocurency * from […]

what the actual fuck!?

I wish to be temporarily reduced to an unthinking ball of slime, and then emerge fully reformed days later feeling like everything is great. Anyway, time for bed. good night!

[secret spooky month project] no spoilers... part 1 complete. next update in 40 minutes. part 2 will happen, hopefully that's also successful, then the exciting part 3 can occur. part 2 is mostly waiting. feel free to guess what I'm up to :)

[today's battle with the UK railway ticket system] "Hey, National Rail website, I want to go from A to B!" _sure! do you want these two changes and an hour on a rail replacement bus?_ "no thanks" _okay how about via C, one change, gets you there at 23:50_ "hmmm, that's okay, but I see […]

I was making a deliberate effort to report every single AI summary that YouTube showed me and leave an anti AI message in the report text. Now they have significantly increased the amount of summaries that they show me. about half the videos on my home page have them. I can't possibly keep […]

yesterday I followed a signposted diversion route around a carriageway closure on the south bound A1 near Grantham. This is the route they signposted. It's a circle. I thought I'd misread the signs, but nope. I went around this circle twice, the signage was just wrong.

[boobs update, mild transmisia?? funny] incredibly funny how much shock was expressed by the woman who passed me on the street just now: "What!? That man has tits!!" lmao, the pills have worked

Happy birthday @Violet !! 🥳 https://youtu.be/R832dTiN4KM

got the latest version of computer

[vague spoilers for upcoming demo release] :nkonya: :cat_is_blob: 🏳️‍⚧️ :blobraccoon_aww_animated:

plan: 🚶 🚌 🚋 🚋 🚶 current progress: ✅ 🚶 :ios_loading: 🚌 🕐 🚋 🕐 🚋 🕐 🚶 destination: Limehouse

:blobhaj_headphones:

today's errand: travel for one hour to old house, put bin out, travel for one hour back home. tomorrow's errand: travel for one hour to old house, put bin back, hand over keys, travel for one hour back home.

this really pops my socket (my pop socket broke. wow the adhesive is hard to remove)