1. assume every camera has film unless you personally verify otherwise
2. never point a camera at something you're not willing to photograph
3. never put your finger on the shutter button until you're ready to take a photograph
4. always be aware of the subject of your photograph and what is behind the subject

Aeva just said "UB San", short for "undefined behavior sanitizer", but between manga and Persona i heard it as "Mr. Undefined Behavior"

Newcomen built the first commercially successful steam engine in 1712. It was awful. 1% thermal efficiency. James Watt showed up 57 years later and built one that worked. Newcomen got a Wikipedia footnote. Watt got a unit of measurement.

"The World's First" is not the trophy you think it is.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-worlds-first-bullshit/

oh no what have you done

@0xabad1dea a incident a day keeps the customers away

This might be one of the greatest error messages of all time.

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ImagEdit error dialog box that says "The limits of the system have been exceeded."

@NanoRaptor This is basically a fretless electric guitar, right?

have you tried turning it off

@lzg No one should swim in sewage or eat raw chicken, but I guess I can't wish that away with moral condemnation.

why is "DO NOT EAT" in quotes though? has anyone ever answered that?

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

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

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.

@eniko "open source is a stronghold against malicious governments, unless it's illegal in the Bay Area in which case yes sir thank you sir we'll add that right away"