Picture taken this morning of some wildflowers growing in the yard

My grandmother is over 80, yet if you give her a crudely drawn map to a destination in Toronto, she'll always find her way there. I'm a GPS abstainer with a certifiably excellent spatial sense and I certainly cannot pull off a similar feat

What's the point of granite countertops? Clearly no one buys them based on practicality. Oh, you can put a hot pot down straight on it? Is that worth it considering the multitudes of other kitchen related activities that ruin it?

Does anyone here make #zines? I would like to buy them. They can be about whatever whatever whatever you like… please link in replies. Boost for reach because I don’t know what hashtags to use #bonkwave #creative #maker #poetry #art ?

Hard drives have gotten so expensive that I'm burning DVDs again for long-term storage

8.54 GB DVD+R Double-Layer discs are a welcome "new" development since I was last doing this

#dvd #computers

Internet streaming killed the optical drive

Imagine:

You are a programmer who is all-in on LLM code generation. You get so much written every day! Hundreds of thousand lines of code, and you barely lifted a finger. But... your LLMs are trained on the entirety of Github.

How many repos on there are full of trojans and viruses? How do you know that your super-productive LLM isn't copying *those* instead of the canonical version of whatever frameworks it's building? How do you know there isn't a malicious actor out there spamming Github with throwaway projects that're chock full of their malware, hoping the next LLM training pass picks it up?

Nah, it's fine. This is AI. It's smarter than you are. It's not three thousand autocorrects in a trenchcoat that dumbly repeat the most likely followup to their input.

https://infosecwriteups.com/i-found-north-korean-dprk-malware-hiding-in-my-tailwind-config-js-45af2283742c

Installing another optical drive I had laying around to speed up ripping my DVD collection

We got excellent open source re-implementations of Roller Coaster/Transport Tycoon, Command and Conquer, etc. but no SimCity 2000? I figure that would be low-hanging

Many academics I know who moved to industry are purely vibecoding these days, even though they are already quite competent at programming

$60? That's like $100 in metric

It's June 2022 and I'm refactoring the camera library

It's June 2024 and I'm refactoring the camera library

It's June 2026 and I'm refactoring the camera library

Does anyone have good recommendations f resources for book authors to learn about book publishing contract basics? #WritingCommunity #amWriting

Like, check this out... they had OLED-on-silicon microdisplays with multichannel lenses back in 2017. That's the futuristic stuff I used to get excited about

None of the wild 'black project' stuff I saw during my time in the VR industry made it to consumer products. They just seemed to stick with the whole 'cellphone with magnifier lenses strapped to my face' design and ran with it

The viroflay spinach in the yard is growing like weeds at this point. A single plant can fill one of those tubs you get a the grocery store, and we got hundreds of them. The leaves are healthy and the size of dinner plates

I'm going to give a couple of rooms a whimsigothic make-over during summer break

Everyone is anti-car until they need help moving apartments

Our adobo-based hot sauce was a success. Makes everything taste like BBQ even when air fried or roasted