I’ve not really done anything today but scroll through social media because it’s too hot to be active, and I’m in a funk on things I could inactively do. This has been a terrible choice and yet here I am.
I’d love to see someone attempt to use behaviour like this to bust through Meta and co’s argument that they’re neutral platforms and so shouldn’t be held responsible for material published on those platforms as they don’t make editorial choices.
https://mastodon.social/users/pixelfed/statuses/113849098386232034
Last night we had to go in the back door to the central library in Dundee instead of through the shopping centre. Standing outside, I happened to look at the bike rack, and wtf, why oh why are there feet?
Spent this evening writing a hacky little server to consume telemetry that has been added to my favourite game of the last 12 months specifically for EMF and feeding it into my flat’s lights. God I love the mad things this event allows to me get up to!
“We and our 226 partners”… damn, these polycules are getting out of hand.
That time at Wimbledon Women's Doubles in 2017 when a spectator ran his mouth a little too much from the stands... then this happened:
#tennis #wimbledon #humor
@thomasfuchs @pikesley yes, but the social media companies would rather not pay people to do moderation, and the magical thinking machines aren’t very good at it, so really we’re all better off banning children from having interests other than football and drinking on park benches, and everyone else just being exposed to constant hate speech.
People: “The big social media networks could simply properly moderate their content and remove hate speech, disinformation and trolls.”
Politicians: “We heard you, we will require ID checks to use computers.”
The @emf lineup has been published and everytime I look at it I favourite a bunch more stuff. I love that the range is so wide theres almost nothing beyond “that sounds interesting” that would be a common thread through them all https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026
I’ve just discovered Dockerfiles support copying/mounting a file from an entirely different image, sourced at build time. I now want to build a cursed frankenimage where every file in the final image has been taken from the `latest` revision of a different image and see how long it takes to break.
I love how neatly sorted this selection of variously sized googly eyes is, I thought as I opened it upside down.
We appear to have reached the point in an EMF cycle where everytime I sit down to knock some items off my todo list I come away with more on it than I started with.
Jump scared by a giant train station ad for a device I worked on years ago and thought had been quietly shelved since.
nice try mao. but you’re not gonna get me with that line again
the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware
Big day. EMF admin in the morning. Climbed in the afternoon and topped another V2 which is still an achievement for me. Completed a run of Sektori in the evening after almost 40 hours of trying. I’m now going to celebrate these achievements with Chinese takeaway.
I’ve started season 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale, a show I still find utterly gripping and borderline traumatic at the same time. The thing I find more traumatic is a single sentence that’s stuck with me from an interview with Margaret Attwood.
“We never put anything in the show that hasn’t happened somewhere in the world already.”
Why is so much of YouTube obnoxious pricks screaming at video games like they’ve just managed to find a cure for cancer or something. Just chill out a bit, I’m glad you’re enjoying your game of Pokemon but man, can you not do so quietly?
This post brought to you by having a 12 year old and a headache.