_nadine

@_nadine@mas.to

Creative Tech Person. I make depressed bots, broken AI, & DIY game controllers.

I post a lot of forest pictures and gaming screenshots. Sometimes I'll even post projects I'm working on.

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_nadine, to random

Hey friends. I’ve been making security cameras watch themselves. This is still prototype but I’ve got it up at 379 Adelaide Street West 4th floor. Here until 8pm. If you like quiet times come before 6pm. If you like it loud there’s a dance thing after 6pm. Hope to see you.

Glitchy camera art
Glitchy camera art

_nadine, to random

Judgement blep.

_nadine, to random

My cat is very into hanging out under the umbrella when it is drying.

_nadine, to random

Please enjoy this chickadee from the other day being dive bombed out of my hand by another chickadee. Bonus nuthatch at the beginning.

An outstretched hand with birds taking seeds. One small bird is shoved off by another.

mcc, to random
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Oh wow I thought it was weird that the Oldest House in Control is in New York City as opposed to somewhere like DC but this seems to make it pretty obvious they just based it on this actual real-world building in NYC, a 30-story brutalist skyscraper with no windows whatsoever which was revealed by the Snowden disclosures to contain NSA work sites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF4EUM8CwT4

_nadine,

@mcc that is one heck of a cool looking building.

_nadine, to gaming

A force tear tossed me into a ring with two rancors and I lasted 15 seconds. lol.

_nadine,

@rorystarr There was one parkour one in just space wreckage w/ zip lines and a red/green force field and I was like "well this isn't happening today" ha.

djsundog, to random
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new rule: if your company puts a LLM bot on the front lines of your customer support effort, your company should be legally bound to adhere to whatever the LLM bot states on your behalf.

oh, you put a lying machine at the front door and it's telling people your product does things it doesn't actually do? and now you're stuck making your product do these things? maybe you'll think twice about deploying lying machines...

_nadine,

@djsundog @mcc I just dunno why companies are using chatGPT when narrow domain chatbots have done CS support chat for years now? It’s just weird.

_nadine, to random

How is it going to be 2024???

I refuse.

mcc, to random
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"Maidcore or Die" flyer, partially obscured by a flyer for an academic talk on Palestine

_nadine,

@mcc I had to google what Maidcore was and now I feel myself falling into a strange rabbit hole.

mcc, to random
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Alternate universe where due to a ill-timed contract dispute "Amen Brother" was never recorded and Roni Size, Goldie and the other up-and-coming DJs of the UK spent the end of the 90s building multiple entire genres from obsessively deconstructing the work of The Incredible Bongo Band

_nadine,

@mcc Y’know I’m kinda here for this.

mariyadelano, to random
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“Accept the reality that AI will destroy creative careers” sounds an awful lot like “accept the reality that crypto and NFTs are the future of commerce”

In both cases we see:

  • Hype driven by companies and investors with vested interest in said technology
  • Grand predictions of the future and comparisons to disruptions like the internet
  • Obscure, complex tech that most people don’t use
  • Extreme resource consumption for tech to function
  • Fear and panic from media
_nadine,

@mariyadelano I don’t feel like what you’re describing is nihilism. Nihilism is at its core a rejection. An acknowledgment of some kind of meaninglessness. Its expression can be passive or active. But is not always negative. Dadaism was Nihilism and it was a celebration of absurdity in the face of war. Actively engaged with its historical moment. It’s also usually a temporary state.

gemelliz, to Alberta

Gross.

's $7-million dollar "clean energy" campaign now appearing on fully wrapped TTC streetcars.

_nadine,

@DavidM_yeg @morrowwm @gemelliz

8 million dollars ? WTAF.

mcc, to random
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This may seem like a trivial thing but, now that I'm using MacOS some again… used to, when you went to the login screen it showed your name, profile image and password box real big in the center. Now with the latest update it's moved real tiny down at the bottom, I guess so Apple can better showcase these repulsive full-motion lock-screen videos*. But I turned those off. Can I get full sized password prompts back?

_nadine,

@mcc you can I think change that in preferences? I haven’t looked yet but it’s an annoying update.

mcc, to random
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I killed Dracula

_nadine,

@mcc andi. You know we talked about this. Don’t go killing the dark lord before the 31st. There’s events he’s booked at.

mcc, to random
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Since I can't get Chromecast to work, I download my Bandcamp purchases and start putting them on the Plex server.

When I look in the Music directory, I realize there's a .webp file just sitting in the root. Oh, huh. I think. Was this the cover of some piece of music, and I accidentally put it in the root instead of its album directory?

No. It's this:

_nadine,

@mcc perfect.

mcc, to random
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So I found a bug in the programming language I was using, and someone made a PR to fix it, so I tried testing the PR, but testing the PR caused me to discover a different bug in the programming language, so someone made a PR to fix that, but testing that PR caused me to discover a bug in the package manager, so I went to file an issue on the package manager, and while testing configurations to write the bug as helpfully as possible I found a second bug in the package manager

_nadine,

@mcc haha. Yeah.

_nadine, to random

Contemplative Seagull.

mcc, to random
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I wish it were possible in Toronto to pay someone money and they deliver Internet service to your home which arrives at a consistent quality of service even at "unusual" times such as 2:00 in the afternoon

_nadine,

@mcc my condolences. I feel your frustration.

mcc, to random
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I've started to believe that as a species, a thing we're going to do every year for the next N years is a cycle where

in March and April, we identify a COVID variant which is about to blow up and develop a vaccine,

in June through August we have a massive "wave" of that exact COVID variant, and then

in September or October the booster for the summer-wave variant which has, by that point, mostly passed through the population exits testing and becomes available for actual vaxxing.

_nadine,

@mcc Or just start the testing phase earlier. But yeah...its just...gonna be how we do things. 😕

_nadine, to random

That's great. Steve Clark resigned.

I'm sure the PR firm told them to do it in the hopes that its enough for people to consider this over.

But its not over until the land they took out, goes back into the greenbelt. Just gotta keep brow beating these twits until they do it.

mcc, to random
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What does Linux flavor taste like

_nadine,

@mcc a riccola cough drop?

christ, to random
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Another Sunday. Another day ending with a Y where my neighbours scream at me to turn down Selected Ambient Works 85–92 playing at full blast.

_nadine,

@christ clearly your neighbours have no taste.

mcc, to random
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In August of 2023, the "big Thing" on the Internet became making rocks. Users all over the globe began making posts chronicling their attempts to make rocks, and critiquing other people's rocks or claiming their rocks are fake. Alongside all of this there was a steady undercurrent of debate as to whether or not rocks even exist

_nadine,

@mcc wait what. What the heck.

christ, to cycling
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Today's Ride: Some numbskull driving the wrong way down a one way street turns into me at an intersection. I avoid then hoot and holler. They took offense to that and stopped for a CONFRONTATION. I pulled alongside and LET THEM KNOW. They asked "What are you gonna do about it". So I thought of some things and replied "Well, for starters.." and they didn't wait for me to finish my threats and sped off and hit a planter and fucked their car up. @fedibikes

_nadine,

@christ @fedibikes ahahaha.

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