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tomjennings

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I make things.

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tomjennings, to random
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Seeing chickens operate a machine is frankly mind-blowing.

tomjennings,
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@LoneLocust

Harpsichord. How did you know!

A feeder that opens when they stand on a big paddle.

Chickens do not like mechanical things that move.

It's funny to watch, one puts a foot on slowly, watches it lift. Then steps up and eats. Then the rest arrive and pecking ensues (other chickens heads, pellets in the machine).

Can't video it, they all rush over to the fence when anyone is in sight.

ai6yr, to random

Realized I am not geeky enough to own a light saber or a Star Wars shirt. 🤔

tomjennings,
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@ai6yr

Remember in the movie BLADE RUNNER when Deckard keeps zooming into the photo and goes around a corner? I remember thinking "that's too much of a credibility reach." Oh well!

tomjennings, to random
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@liaizon

I signed up to Quiet, and see your post and a few others in # general but I'm unable to reply. Is it working for you?

I tried to read # offtopic, and got s thermometer saying "loading messages" but it never changes.

I can try rebooting phone or restarting app but it looks s bit rough.

tomjennings,
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@liaizon

Welp, apparently I uninstalled Quiet. I used "disable app" thinking I'd just stop it from using data until I got a chance to look at it.

Check out Briar Project. https://briarproject.org/

It works, nicely. Uses TOR also but can do direct phone to phone.

With one friend used it while I was in LA and he driving to the eclipse in TX. Worked great with signal, no signal, mobile and WiFi.

tomjennings,
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@liaizon

I worry too what Quiets "continuous liveness" requirement implies. Briar has no such issue. (Item 6 in "technical overview" on the tryquiet git page).

I suspect this is relying a persistent TOR connection to do their connectivity. That seems a bad idea.

MLE_online, to random
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Ceramics class!

I finished building my ring jug and I started on an abstract piece of pipes

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tomjennings,
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@MLE_online that's a great jug! Fill it full of o-rings!

tomjennings, to random
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Via Simon Penny...

50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know
by Ken Liu

in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Seven | 1993 Words

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/50-things-every-ai-working-with-humans-should-know/

ParadeGrotesque, (edited ) to random
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So, given the recent announcements by 'Mastodon' HQ, it seems like a forgeone conclusion that every posts ever made on the Fediverse will be used at some point as AI fodder.

If you have an account on mastodon.social, you should consider migrating to another server ASAP.

If you have an account on any other server, now is a good time to check the settings of your account through the web interface and make sure the option "Opt-out of search engine indexing" is checked.

Just in case.

tomjennings,
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@ParadeGrotesque

All posts in the fediverse are world readable so sure it's been used for ai training.

danderson, to random
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I think I may have a Voyager problem. It's at the point where all it takes is an offhand reference or small question, and I come around two hours later and there's 18 pages of text that I've apparently written.

tomjennings,
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@danderson

Small? Like larger is better? Lol children.

MLE_online, to random
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The hams are doing their morning fighting on the radio again.

"Wahhh, how come no one talks to me? ...

You're a piece of shit, Jimmy. When you look up sack of shit in the dictionary, there's a picture of you. You're ugly, worthless, you're just a sack of shit, Jimmy."

"At least he tries to be good though. Pat is a piece of shit, but he's not good at it. Jimmy really tries to be good at being a piece of shit."

tomjennings,
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@MLE_online

Are you sure you're not listening to a tunnel into 1970s Citizens Band?

I WAS THERE! KEJ1377, before CB calls were declared unconstitutional.

It was a circus, sometimes fun but 99% dicks. Like /b/ with sound effects.

liaizon, to random
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very tired of all these apolitical programmers in my feed

tomjennings,
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@liaizon

Apolitical programmers (and all workers) are right wing workers by default because money is right wing.

danderson, to random
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If you followed me for weird Voyager computer system facts, there will be none today :( No time, and it's looking increasingly likely that, to get the goods proper, I'll need to talk to the JPL archives and see how they might feel about getting a bunch of schematics from the Viking and Voyager collections cleared for publication. Which is going to require more homework to figure out what I need. And, frankly, "clearing for publication" doesn't sound like something quick and painless either.

tomjennings,
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@danderson

Maybe the Computer Museum folk could help out. Maybe they have some partial docs or something. They may have sufficient institutional mass to back you.

ai6yr, to california

LA Times: These are the California cities where $150,000 still buys you a home. Would you live here? "...For the last 30 years, Ann Epperly has lived in Trona, one of only nine California cities, towns and unincorporated areas tracked by Zillow with median home values under $150,000 in February 2024." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-24/california-9-cities-where-150-000-can-buy-an-average-home

tomjennings,
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@ai6yr

I bought gas at that station last time I was through there, probably in the After Times.

tomjennings, to random
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Just got a USPS delivery item tracking page. Banner with generic links, some boilerplate, maybe 500 words of text.

3.7 megabytes.

Wtf is wrong with people.

tomjennings, to random
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The corporation is the worst idea humans have ever had and it will probably literally kill us.

Corporate growth is insanity and perfectly normal and I don't care that this view seems overly simplistic.

tomjennings,
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@vga256

Indeed!

Capitalists are all like "men dragging? Basksksks? LA LA LA LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU" That would never work! Liar!

Sigh. Yeah basque folk are a PITA in the right way to the right people.

One hopes shit's a-cookin' here in the US. Kids and labor just maybe...

tomjennings,
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@vga256

I think part of the problem is the class of people who can pull off a coop aren't hungry enough to maintain a coop; if you have the buy-in (class portability, marketable skills etc) if things get tough even momentarily people can and do just bail. But market and legal forces literally work against you. Push and pull. People who are hungry enough get undermined and put back in their place.

Look at the shit the basque had/have to push through. Narrow circumstance there.

MLE_online, to random
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I got tired of waiting for the new river park to open after years of delays, so I sneaked in and looked around

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tomjennings,
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@MLE_online

I epedal by there a couple times a week and just today. I go to Spoke cafe often... if you;re heading there etc let me know I could meet you if so desired.

tomjennings,
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@MLE_online

wut. stupid google maps flung me over to LA river. dammit. must be something to sell me there.

Yup, double checked... "duck farm river park" map search puts me at Marsh Park on LA River.

I may be crazy but this is not evidence of it.

NEVER MIND.

tomjennings,
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@MLE_online

Cool. I'm up for that. Been meaning to gauge ride to Simon's. Kinda long.

LoneLocust, to cycling
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Tannus Armor: it’s so easy to install. We can print the entire instructions on the product.

[1] clean inside armor.
[2] insert inner tube into armor.
[3] insert armor into tire
[4] secure tire onto rim.
[5] inflate

I feel like they should finish that with the phrase, “Hey Presto“ and I think they’ve missed steps 3A and 4A, which are “cuss really loudly.”

tomjennings,
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@LoneLocust

I will testify to their badassedness.

I paid someone else to do the cussing and tool breaking.

lauren, to twitter
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I've been using social media since long before the term "social media" was coined (e.g. Usenet, the earliest ARPANET mailing lists, etc.) I've avoided Facebook all along, used quite a bit in its heyday (and maintain an account there that I keep locked now), and I used Google Plus quite heavily. I have accounts on Post (which is about to go dark, apparently), Bluesky (rarely look at it), Threads (hardly ever visit), etc.

Of course the scale of these can be vastly different. An ARPANET mailing list on the subject of wine tasting with a few hundred members was enough to trigger a Pentagon colonel coming out to sites to remind us all about appropriate usage of a Defense Department funded network.

That didn't change anything of course, and eventually DOD realized that such lists were pushing the evolution of email tools rapidly in very useful ways.

Did you know that the very first ARPANET mailing list Digest was for SF-LOVERS (science fiction discussion, obviously) and was created quickly as a "temporary" expedient because the direct (immediate) distribution list had gotten "too large" (probably still just hundreds) for available resources? The digest format created for that situation has remained largely unchanged since then and is still widely used on the Internet today.

I mention all this because in some ways is a throwback to those very early days (with Usenet being perhaps the closest parallel, given the Mastodon topological model). And Mastodon still manages to be quite "low pressure" in significant ways, even as your follower count goes up (which is the exact opposite of the situation on Twitter, even before Musk took over).

That is, when I check here in the morning, I don't usually feel the need to steel myself for a deluge of potential nastiness.

And that's a good thing, especially these days.

That's all. -L

tomjennings,
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@lauren @ai6yr

Older protocols like uucp and FidoNet have a philosophy behind them that's a bit deeper than high latency, though that is certainly true. They predate the existence of persistent channels, so many of their features address not simply high latency, but (in modern terms) 100% error rate for indefinite periods.

Lack of connectivity for batch-y protocols isn't an "error"; just just another state in the state machine.

(My brain still has a cluster of cells that thinks having a "permanent" connection is cheating, somehow. Or self delusion.)

The only modern stuff I know that thinks that way is Briar. Lol, I like Briar.

tomjennings, to random
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Here's what would seem a mundane ask:

Where to buy good quality USB cables? Amazon is out. Reported problems too frequent serious (shorting, melting).

I need dumb old USB A to USB B's, a couple short USB A to USB C.

Monoprice? They're cheap, too cheap really.

EDIT: possibly Digikey. Quality supplier at least!

tomjennings,
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@Rycaut

Ankers website has only USB C and Lightning cables only! So weird.

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