The power of art in crime and politics (part 2)
I will introduce the entire range of artworks produced, many finished off with AI assistance to save time, on a dedicated domain and website around Christmas. So look out for that.
The power of art in crime and politics
This piece, featuring, Pinky and The Brain (Warner Brothers) was a loose sketch from a still in Season 1 Episode 1 of the reboot, and I used PhotoShop, along with CorelDRAW to finish and typeset it.
It is a very oblique reference to a persistent scammer in South Africa, out on bail presently, who has alt accounts on various social media in South Africa.
He has threatened me with a lawsuit this past month, and has now had me banned online from various platforms. Has also lodged a complaint against me at my ISP 😂
The "master plan" refers to my campaign of awareness in South Africa about his latest scam.
"the elephant in the room" refers to his doppelganger account on local online forums.
Re: job rejection 2/2:
I deleted LinkedIn this afternoon, I am not interested in that anymore.
As to what I will do, probably run with the current job until I am laid off, which, in really optimistic terms is within 6 months.
Those wonderful engineers in my workplace, them degreed BSc and Ph.Ds that can't even solder a wire, have basically ruined the company.
First I will sort my health out, while there is still income, then, I will see how life pans out (and on whose couch my family and I will end up crashing)
Oh and one more thing...
The CEO of my current Internet Service Provider sends me a nasty email because of this shit:
https://sonic2k.neocities.org/sonic2k_router
His company is not mentioned specifically, if anything the FTTH provider is the one I mention because it's them that's to blame.
But wow.... just wow... I am slandering apparently...
I have been on the job market for two years now, and after being rejected in less than 24 hours after the recruiter spoke so highly of the company, he had a Freudian slip and sent me the actual conversation he had with the company.
Based on this, and an earlier comment from a co-worker that actually was involved in my hiring at this despicable company I work for, in 2024, I declare myself done!
The way forward will see me fight my way into creating a corporation from scratch, or taking up a trade.
As can be seen below, they have issues with my education level. It blows my mind that, countries like New Zealand recognise my qualification as being sufficient, and for the past 25 years it has NEVER been a barrier to employment, now it is.
Fuck this shit... I am out...
What the Freudian slip contained:
"His highest qualification not a BEng. Our specification calls for a degree in Electronic or Electrical Engineering (or a relevant equivalent qualification). Some would argue that experience can compensate for the lack of a degree however, in my experience, there is a noticeable difference in engineering mindset, analytical depth, and development approach.
The products in his portfolio are a generation behind ours. This is capable and credible work, but the designs are primarily two- to four-layer boards with through-hole components and relatively coarse pitch layouts.
Our environment requires six-layer and higher HDI designs, with 3 mil track and gap, microvias, and controlled-impedance routing.
His RF experience is concentrated in the ISM band at 433 MHz and RFID at 13.56 MHz.
"
Well sir.. since my current workplace and my previous workplace after 2021 is covered by non-disclosure agreements, how do you propose I show you my work, when I am NOT ALLOWED TO DISCLOSE IT?
What co-worker said when I applied for a position in his team:
"Unfortunately you don't have a degree, we're looking for someone who has a degree" <-- how come you cleared me for hire then, you motherfucker!!!
Has any one of you ever actually used National Instruments (NI) cards like this for anything?
Is it worth the effort to throw a modern-ish mobo with PCI into a case to check them out?
3/4 might even be alive!
OBSERVE PRECAUTIONS FOR HANDLING
SPICY ELECTRONS
AVOID CONTACT
The little Meshtastic node inside of my ThinkPad T420s is surprisingly good (one of the antennas measured quite well for the frequencies used, so I wired it in. I assume it was meant for GNSS? Or UMTS?).
The PCB is a quick custom design I whipped up in EasyEDA to connect an ESP32-S3 with an SX1262 radio chip. It uses the USB pins of the MiniPCIe slot originally intended for a WWAN modem in this laptop :3
I get by with a little bit of help from my friends and good software.
I myself am not sure if this is appropriate but @TopazRabbit will have to call it.
It's over a year later and here we are.
went out on my roller blades for the first time
NPR: How long will the Grateful Dead's songs survive? https://www.npr.org/2026/08/03/nx-s1-5901986/grateful-dead-future-legacy
Internet Archive: For generations to come. ➡️ https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead
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We've accepted hardware and compilers that are so complex no single human can understand them, all to get performance that we then squander with incidental complexity for "features" that don't actually make our lives better.
For me, this is what #retrocomputing is all about. Not just nostalgia for specifics of the past, but a rejection of complexity whose sole purpose is to turn us into mindless consumers dependent on a priestly class to hand technology down to us.
Still on the subject of AI.
The millions of fools (journalists, tech bros, and others) use it in a manner typical of such- they don't care what they are doing as long as they meet a deadline and appease a shareholder.
If AI is going to help me get the hard shit right (I cannot, and probably never will fully articulate anthropomorphic animals correctly, especially not hands), I am going to use it.
There is a very big difference between getting AI to do ALL the work for you, and using it to help you get the job done
@anachrocomputer @shelldozer here is my hd63p01m1
My dragon is being silly again.
I do want to state that there *ARE VALID* applications of LLMs. And I want to motivate why.
I just don't have the energy right now to go and sit with Golang and write a packet handler again. I don't feel like doing it because it's a schlepp, and because it just makes me tired. I know how to do it, I am not in the mood for the debugging.
Burn-out makes you really evaluate life choices.
So I got Gemini to do it for me:
What is striking here is that the code looks *very similar* to my implementation from years ago. It is also readable and not AI SLOP, so modifying the code, understanding it, and so on is possible.
I have run unit tests on it- NO DEFECT
Do not get me wrong. I am fully against AI SLOP and all the crap AI generated imagery. Someone said "AI is a sharp tool in the hands of fools" That's very true
Maskset ID and maskwork rights note, together with the original part number. This is J53W.
Not surprised. At all.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/study-remote-work-narcissism-9.7275176