Every time I read an "AI Will Disrupt X", I remember that techbro startup with its totally tone deaf name, "Bodega". They wanted to "disrupt" corner stores AKA bodegas because of course. They put AI and cameras in vending machines

Oh hi bluesky I forgot about you for a bit

These are some of the days of all time

I'm a Software Ungineer

If all your problems are billionaires, all your solutions end up looking like guillotines

This seems like a good time to remind folks of this invaluable resource on soldering. Absolutely essential to brush up while #hardwareHacking www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIT4...

The safety word is "cyber"

I think there might be an actual market for a sheep-powered cactus zapper Or a cactus-powered sheep zapper xkcd.com/35/

Is "Sigma Male" the summation of males?

Since AI is taking so much energy to run, I propose we get our own brains in on the processing to share the load

The only real reason I have anything of Microsoft is because of work. I wouldn't need Windows at all, if it weren't for a bunch of proprietary programs. Including a console program, last updated when Clinton was president

A search for "library cabinet" or "apothecary cabinet" brings up pages upon pages of the same kind of knockoff cabinet with cheap hardware and artificially aged look What a shame

The saddest phrase on the web: "Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."

*walks into kitchen*

Happy (timezone-specific) New Year!🎉

Confession: I still don't fully understand how to use Git

Just saw a Reddit thread about stainless steel cutting boards. For anyone who doesn't cook, in the kitchen, these are to be avoided like the plague. They destroy your knives while letting whatever you're trying to cut slide around (making a bigger safety hazard)

I'm so glad I grew up at a time when my family had no means of sharing my childhood goofs on the Internet I shudder to think of my 7 year old self exposed

TIL There are multiple OpenWRT projects to turn it into a CNC core

Meanwhile, in China....

Amazingly, WordPerfect is still being sold

I hope I can retire to a life of doing this all day www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0wg...

Ah, yes. Pain An old self-inflicted friend in #HardwareHacking, but this one was more explicit #Robotics

I finally realized that it's not "keyboards" that I like. It's the "Idea of Keyboards" I.E. A rudimentary device which turns pushes of buttons to electrical impulses, which in turn makes the electrical box do things

Merry Saturnalia!🎄

Everyone stop doing anything for a few days and see if it made a difference

There's no right way to play the game of life But there's a handful of wrong ways that will make me judge you Very harshly

I've now come to realize that naming my doorstop "HODOR" was in poor taste

"...tests from earlier this year found that AI agents failed to complete tasks up to 70% of the time, making them almost entirely redundant as a workforce replacement tool" 🙄You don't say... www.extremetech.com/computing/mi... #Microsoft #AI #Copilot

That's handy: "Useful free apps and websites" roundible.com/NEBmEzBj Via: www.reddit.com/r/coolguides...

This is the short version The Fifth Element

Good news, everyone! You can now be driven to psychosis by AI with no prior history of mania or psychosis, even if you're a tad neurodivergent We're long overdue for that solar flare innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...

Nobody:

"Bug: This won't work in IE8" MY BROTHER IN CHRIST

The Internet was such a good idea. Before it got condensed to 3 or 4 companies which are now Too Big to Fail

This is so wholesome! www.reddit.com/r/justgalsbe...

Low key want

I Got Reincarnated as a #Cyberpunk Where's my #anime series?

16 Years ago, the Internet was blessed with this image. It was a simpler time www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4...

I would very much like to know what particular set of circumstances led to this sign

There's a dude in China going around taking out security cameras with a slingshot. Don't which area this is

The human brain is the ultimate unreliable narrator

This is my favorite season. Not just because of the snow, but any number of glorious cultural tales and traditions about winter Now obsessed with Krampus

I'm seeing "Fix What AI Broke" as a viable career choice going forward. But only working for the orgs that actually caught themselves before totally collapsing www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...

Turns out, compile errors don't go away just because you yell "The power of Stroustrup compels you!"

"...classical music goes hard" Bro Beethoven was metal before there WAS metal

I'm pretty sure the entire morning was off today because I didn't click the tongs twice before using them