Footscray I am in you

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Bringing this to people's attention because AI medical risk is in the news

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

What a lovely day to be in the hot aisle.

"Do not close this browser window until the job completes" should disable all "log out automatically when idle" timers, or your developers should go to jail.

😡

I have this weird compulsion when I read a book: if I find a rip in a page (not rare at all with old used books) I must mend it.

It bothers me so much that I have to get up and go do it.

It just happened.

#oldpaper

I was extremely tired this evening after a very long day and dozed off on the couch for a couple of minutes while watching TV, ensuring that I will now be awake until at least 2am after actually going to bed.

Matt Stewart is a very funny man and he's got a new special up on YouTube that you might enjoy watching if you enjoy such things as laughing and beards.

https://youtu.be/uwco3wBOFSA

#comedy

Every day on my lunch break I walk past this little dude sitting patiently in their window watching the world pass by. They have a deeply spiritual vibe that radiates profound insight and I love them!!!

Design Challenge to the Fedi: An analog clock, whereby the hour hand spins clockwise, but the minute hand spins anti-clockwise. A mate of mine has gotten as far as needing a planetary gearbox, but they are unsure where to go from there.

Imagine Star Trek replicators but they work at the speed of modern 3d printers so Picard says "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" and comes back 12 hours later to find half a cup, random glass fibres everywhere, and tea dripping on the floor.

Today’s hot-desking mystery. Is this some sort of corporate divination tool? Or a weirdly specific voodoo doll?

I impulse purchased an "apple crumble scroll" at the bakery today and my only regret is that I didn't buy a dozen of them.

Your AI did not "go rogue"
it's just a program.

Your AI did not "hallucinate"
it has no brain.

Your AI did not "create" anything
it's just a plagiarism machine.

Your AI is not your "friend"
stop anthropomorphizing it.

It's just code. Exploitative, polluting, and unethical code :no_ai:

#NoAI

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The best thing about agonising for ages over finding just the right colour of a paint for a project is finding out half way through that it's no longer available.

I am delighted/regret to inform you that doktorb has once again entered the realm of the online. I thank/apologise profusely to @mike for this opportunity

Today's success story, installing the teeniest tiniest bodge wire on a PlayStation Classic to disable current limiting on USB port 2 so it'll recognise USB3 flash drives, allowing a much neater setup when modded. 😎

I would like to give a shout-out to the frozen pie as a general concept, because on days when my brain is fried and the question of what to have for lunch seems impossible to answer being about to chuck one in the make-thing-hot box and come back in 30 minutes to find the job done is a miracle.

Ben Eater putting out a new video that could not be more perfectly targeted at me, someone who loves building janky digital clocks, on a cold and miserable Sunday morning is perfection.

https://youtu.be/3XDH-fZKnQk

Update: cat now on lap, life goals achieved.