I was thinking, surely so much of the training data has TODO in it, surely #AI code should be full of it?

@AkaSci a note from 2015...

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@radiotelescoop/117620945871579395

Dutch **AMATEUR** radio astronomers observe Voyager 1 with their 25 meter dish. These people are so impressive. These detections involve dozens to hundreds of photons per bit. The Dwingeloo people are aiming to make observations Wednesday when Voyager 1 will cross 1 light-day of distance, and there will be a livestream on camras.nl

huh

After years of litigation, the [UK] courts found, in January 2026, that Old School RuneScape gold can be treated as property and, in September 2026, sentenced the former employee a three-year sentence suspended for two years.

So Nvidia did exactly what we all said they were doing and bought up all the wafers. There was no shortage after all.

This mean I can go pick up some terabytes now? Please god.

https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to-buy-its-gpus

@yakkoj

I have a meat-proxy coworker who constantly emails me slop from Claude.

From this I have observed that Claude talks too f**king much, is staggeringly arrogant, and doesn't actually know what the f**k it's talking about most of the time. Suffice it to say, the word “slop” is an apt description of this material.

Other observations have convinced me that AI is harmful, but it's my coworker who has unwittingly convinced me that AI is useless.

@eniko

Hmm #Stargate Kinsey is a slime-ball in any universe #TNG S6E10

Oh wow, how is #TNG S6E8 not Red Dwarf "Gunmen of the Apocalypse"?

Right down to the laughing!!

And, of course, #TNG S6E7 is one of a few of the episodes that are so fundamental to the whole story line and universe, yet so totally ignored by next episode. There are a few...

- The reason all aliens look human is revealed. S6E20

- When transporters can copy someone (Thomas Riker). S6E24

- And this one - when transporters can make someone young again. S6E7

These would destroy a lot of the whole universe / concept if explored.

I used to do chilli flakes on my lunch, and later chill oil, but stopped a few years ago, no particular reason.

Latest lunch is M&S sausage rolls and cheese slices. Air fried.

But as no M&S sausage rolls for a few days (and now vanished on Ocado, WTF?) I am back to a really nice chilli oil with chilli flakes, on (!) Aldi sausage rolls.

I think it helps with the cold as it clears the head a bit.

Really nice.

RE: https://rollenspiel.social/@Eatsbluecrayon/117608519527767868

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I can’t stop laughing.

Fucking cold - two weeks now.

I think most of the coughing and snot is going away. Finally. I am managing without decongestants on the clock.

The steamer thing was a big help as well - but even so, sat on my bed with it at 1am is stressful. Sleeping well has been very hard with this cold.

I am still suffering the "brain fog" of this cold.

It does not test as COVID, but sounds like similar symptoms in some ways.

If you go down with it, my sympathies.

(yes, covid/flu vaccinated)

The spin on this: https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/26724915.64-000-faces-scanned-suffolk-police-ai-cameras/

The Sgt who oversaw the deployment is quoted as saying:

> Thousands of people passed through the areas where the technology was in operation and, from more than 64,000 faces seen, every alert generated was accurate, with no incorrect alerts recorded.

He didn't mention how many were identified, but the story does.

They scanned 64,000 faces and made... 6 arrests.

So for every arrest they made, they had to infringe the privacy of 10666 people

I always felt #TNG S6E5 was weird when they described shit to the computer and it created a table and stuff. It was wooden, then mental, and all random crap. Gradually refined.

But the effect was exactly how #AI crap is now. Well mostly, it went "specify light source" at one point which AI would not do, but Geordie got it past that.

But really this is #AI prompted holo-deck logic, and spooky they managed it so well back in 1992.

Someone should try their exact prompts on some AI thing...

Quality delivery there DPD - not like we have had stuff stollen off the doorstep before, FFS.

Regarding the Danfoss fridge thing doing the rounds in the media - there’s several thousand of them that are directly internet facing.

The username is admin and the password changes every day automatically to.. the current date.

Every single one is like this. You can just log in and change the temperature. Anybody can do it, easily scriptable.

There is a Liz Truss "Dear Diary my first day as _________" meme for everything now.

Just in this week or so alone I've seen "David Walliams' head of PR", "Russell Brand's defence lawyer", "Head of Microsoft 365 Ops" and one or two others.

@revk @neil To me it's like when people say that they didn't receive my email because it went in their spam. Well that's their problem, not mine. It was sent to them and received

Well, today I am pondering contract clauses about giving notice via email.

Watching #TNG, and one thing that aways looked wrong is the way they have stars move. It is like you are in a space with lots of points of light and moving around that space - nearer points will move relate to further away points.

But stars are light years apart. If close to one star and moving very fast, that one star may move against the background starfield.

But they have loads moving, you would have to be moving lights years distance in seconds to get that effect?

Am I wrong?