@john@sauropods.win
@john@sauropods.win avatar

john

@john@sauropods.win

I am an artist, and I post a lot of my own art. I am also the Admin here at Sauropods.win, and a lot of my boosts will be great dinosaur (and other prehistoric animal) stuff from the other winners here.

Some hashtags: #Art #Paintings #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Palaeoart #Paleoart #Dinosaurs #SciArt #DigitalArt

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

mike, to random
@mike@sauropods.win avatar

I think this is actually GOOD news about that prize diarrhoea stain Nigel Farage standing as a Reform candidate in the General Election. If anything, the perceived legitimacy of Reform among the kind of people who buy it will split the remaining Tory vote between Far Right and Extreme Right, likely letting other parties into yet more constituencies.

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@mike it means he’s making his play to control the conservatives now, not next election. He’s going to get voted in, merge/take over the demoralised Conservatives, and run as the Tory leader into the next election.

I don’t like it. I think he can win elections. All it would take is for something to make the Labour government unpopular.

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@mike Boris wasn’t our Trump, Farage is.

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@mike Trump didn’t either. He used it as an asset, and so will Farage, because people dont like the establishment. All he needs to do is keep the media focussed on him.

I don’t think he’ll win a general election, but I also don’t want to put that to the test!

viticci, to random
@viticci@macstories.net avatar

Yesterday I needed to record 60 minutes of footage with my Logitech webcam connected to the M4 iPad Pro.

"Great", I thought, "I'll use Camo Studio". (Which is a really nice app.)

But because I chose the Files app as a destination to save the video...I'll let you guess what happened at the end.

I lost the entire recording.

(For context: this never happened with Photos as a destination.)

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@viticci here we are in 2024, and our newest computers are still guessing what a file is based on a file extension. It’s just not really acceptable, is it?

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Diplodocus Portrait" — 2020

Diplodocus eating. They did that a lot you know.

https://johnconway.art/diplodocus-carnegii

llewelly, to random
@llewelly@sauropods.win avatar

ok I'm going to lie down and listen to the latest episode of Terrible Lizards , by @dave_hone and @iszi

https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls10e05-live-qampa


john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@mike @llewelly @dave_hone bats don’t though.

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Galeamopus and Ornitholestes" — 2019

A reworking of a paiting I originally did in 1997, age 16.

https://johnconway.art/galeamopus_ornitholestes

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Stan" — 2020

Lockdown doesn't bother Self-Isolating Stan, he has friends on the internet.

https://johnconway.art/stan

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Blackwords" — 2007

Sing your own song; but don't fall in.

https://johnconway.art/blackwords

Greta, to random
@Greta@fosstodon.org avatar

@codinghorror

Brought your software imprinting post to mind - in a different light!

"At CHI earlier this month: “Is Stack Overflow Obsolete? An Empirical Study of the Characteristics of ChatGPT Answers to Stack Overflow Questions”.

> Our analysis shows that 52% of ChatGPT answers contain incorrect information and 77% are verbose.

> … our user study participants … overlooked the misinformation in the ChatGPT answers 39% of the time."

https://fosstodon.org/@avandeursen@mastodon.acm.org/112501744737966350

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@mike @Greta Sure, the problem is that StackOverflow wasn't actually what I wanted, it was just the closest thing available. LLMs provide working examples of code tailored exactly to what I want within seconds.

I feel like there's a weird disconnect in these arguments. I don't expect my LLMs to be particularly accurate. If I asked a human to provide code like that I'd expect them to make mistakes too.

It's about as good as I am, but thousands of times faster and with much broader experience.

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@mike @Greta to be fair, I think I might have mentioned that SA wasn’t entire accurate either, and that many answers were out of date (which is true). But obviously this study is more comprehensive,and I’m happy to accept that accepted SA answers are better than an LLM.

But they also aren’t what I actually want. They are an answer to a more or less similar question asked by someone else. Not working code for my current problem.

LLMs also don’t chide me for an “off-topic” question.

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Velociraptor mongoliensis" — 2019

A reboot of a paiting I originally did in 1997, age 16. I think at the time I considered it my first sucessful oil painting. I have added all the stuff to it that I originally intended to, but chickened-out (painting over skies in oil painting is scary,... [more]:

https://johnconway.art/velociraptor_1997

#Art #Dinobirds #Dinosaurs #FeatheredDinosaurs #Mesozoic #Mongolia #Painting #Palaeo #PalaeoPortraits #Paleo #Theropods

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Shadow Monster" — 2004

He creeps up behind people while they're not paying attention, and then.... does absolutely nothing, he is only a shadow after all.

https://johnconway.art/shadow_monster

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"The Surdimanian" — 2021

A flight of fancy.

https://johnconway.art/the_surdimanian

#Art #Animals #Cryptozoology #Landscapes #Mountaineering #Mountains #MysteryAnimals #NewGuinea #Ropen #cryptonians

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Abelisaurus Portrait" — 2022

Abelisaurus was a meat-eater from the Late Cretaceous of South America.

https://johnconway.art/abelisaurus_portrait

#Art #Colourful #Flat #Paintings #Palaeo #PalaeoPortraits #SouthAmerica #Theropods

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Hesperornis regalis" — 2015

Hepserornis regalis, the Late Cretaceous toothy marine bird, takes to the sea.

https://johnconway.art/hesperornis-regalis

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Crashed Zeppelins" — 2006

The dream of the giant Zeppelins came crashing down in a lonely ocean... but no one seemed to care.

https://johnconway.art/crashed_zeppelins

#Art #Beaches #CrashedZeppelins #Photomanipulation #Surreal

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Caviramus Portrait" — 2022

Caviramus was a pterosaur from the Late Triassic of Switzerland. It had a rather special nose.

https://johnconway.art/caviramus_portrait

#Art #Paintings #Palaeo #PalaeoPortraits #Pterodactyls #Pterosaurs

john, to ocean
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A new #painting:

“The Wave”

The captain informs us that due to slightly choppy seas the giant paddling men have been deployed, but there is no cause for alarm.

https://johnconway.art/the_wave

#ocean #ships #surreal #OceanLiners #waves

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@futurebird What is this, a ship for ants?!, It needs to be... three times this big!

PeterFalkingham, to microsoft
@PeterFalkingham@sauropods.win avatar

Peak enshittification. I've finally been 'updated' from Mail and Calendar to 'new' Outlook, and the go back toggle has been removed. This means no offline access, no shortcut to a calendar, no touch support, no unified inbox. What a complete clusterfuck. Thanks . Oh, and thanks to our IT department for locking out any other mail client, including all clients for

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@PeterFalkingham Look, they have good reasons for making sure you're connected to the internet to use your computer. How else are they going to surveil you in real time? Put microphones in your house? That would be creepy.

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Stegosaurus stenops" — 2012

Stegosaurus stenops, in classic Stegosaurus livery, taking a drink.

https://johnconway.art/stegosaurus-stenops

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@futurebird probably!

stroughtonsmith, to random
@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social avatar

iPad today is very reminiscent of the Mac of the 90s. A bewildering array of models and SKUs, a beloved operating system with core technology issues that severely limit the future of the product line, a dearth of the real apps professionals use, and a strong emphasis on the handful of creative niches it's carved out for itself. Unlike the 90s, though, all of these problems are masked by the success of the low-end. If you split iPad Pro out into its own product category, it would be in trouble

john,
@john@sauropods.win avatar

@stroughtonsmith do you mean it would just be iOS? I can’t really tell the difference anyway.

john, to art
@john@sauropods.win avatar

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Ceratosaurus" — 2019

Ceratosaurus, star of Ceratosaurus and the City looking quite horny.

https://johnconway.art/ceratosaurus

#Art #Ceratosaurus #Decorative #Dinosaurs #Jurassic #PaintingTheropods #PalaeoPortraits

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • anitta
  • thenastyranch
  • rosin
  • GTA5RPClips
  • osvaldo12
  • love
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • khanakhh
  • everett
  • kavyap
  • mdbf
  • DreamBathrooms
  • ngwrru68w68
  • megavids
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • normalnudes
  • tacticalgear
  • cubers
  • ethstaker
  • modclub
  • cisconetworking
  • Durango
  • provamag3
  • tester
  • Leos
  • JUstTest
  • All magazines
    •