Ever deepening mysteries. #grickledoodle #mystery #weird #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

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A cartoon illustration of a man looking at the front door where a strange creature wearing a jacket stands looking at him. Caption reads "And lo and behold, the mystery of his missing favorite jacket was solved. But a deeper, infinitely weirder mystery had now begun."

#Food

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close-up of some roasted potatoes with mushrooms and cheese

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt

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A wide green meadow under a blue sky. The meadow is dotted with small white and yellow flowers. There's a blurry gray treeline in the distance. In the foreground, hovering in the air, is a very precise hole in the sky, or maybe in existence itself: a portal that reveals a starry night sky beyond. Hanging down from the sky, attached to something unseen, is a small green exit sign: the green European kind, with a small running figure, and an arrow pointing to the hole. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

"love, mister computo?"

#unix_surrealism #art #comic #runbsd

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hacker talks to a machine: "love, mister computo? i don't think so"

@wordshaper there is another theory which states that this has already happened – in the context of drinks dispensing machines.

Whenever I encounter a bean-to-cup machine that won't serve me a black coffee if it doesn't have any milk to not put in it, I wonder if the manufacturer quite realised that the Nutri-Matic was intended as satire.

@glyph wander into any factory in the world and you'll find 30yo industrial machinery that's been running the same firmware the entire time and trying to fiddle with it is liable to end the business

@thomasfuchs those are good emojis bront

i'm at a loss of words after reading a paper about reformatting code using an ML model that has a measured statistical quantity A_c which says how often the reformatted code behaves the same as the original

the "ideal" (their choice of words) case is 64.2%

@eniko

Part of the underlying issue is that what is that there is no portable definition of “text file” and “line of text”, TBF.

A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital funding, @Gargron stepped down as CEO of Mastodon as part of Mastodon's becoming a not-for-profit.

A few days ago, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down and a few days later Bluesky announced that - surprise - we got a hundred milliion dollars in venture capital investment from a cryptocurrency company and that happened a full year ago but we were just too busy to mention it.

These two things are not the same at all.

If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?

@rasterweb according to the American Heritage dictionary, wire is

Metal that has been drawn out into a strand or rod, used chiefly for structural support, as in concrete, and for conducting electricity

Therefore,

"Looks inside: wires"

Web4 will be fought with telnet to port 80

@thomasfuchs 💯

But of course this only has any value if solving problems is your goal to begin with.

I feel a lot of devs aren't in the "solving problems" business, but rather in the "selling something as a solution" business, which plays by completely different rules entirely.

"It's like having a reference librarian!"

My Brother in Taxonomy, it is the farthest thing from that.

A reference librarian is a person with feelings, motivations and ethics, who has a goal of helping you find the answer to your question.

The chatbot is a clockwork mechanism that extrudes text optimized to make you *think* your question has been answered.

It is also a machine built by fascists with the goal of creating a dependent, de-skilled, submissive populace and ending Democracy. HTH.

@n3tcat And I just need to figure out my highest gender frequency to know how often I should be sampling it!