Notices by Damon L. Wakes (damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org)

@ricci This sounds neat, but it seems to have a very funny idea of what "global" means.

@ricci It's just done it first try on a fresh start in Firefox Focus (which shouldn't preserve anything between sessions). Any chance it's because I'm searching for mastodon.sdf.org?

@ricci Please do let me know if you figure it out! I'd be keen to have another poke around. It is interesting to see the scale of the servers compared this way.

@ScottishGreens @Infoseepage Yeah. Even if you don't care about people being able to get to jobs etc. without having to own and maintain a car (And why wouldn't you!?), the boost just from reducing congestion must be enormous.

@ScottishGreens @Infoseepage I remember visiting Amsterdam and finding the free ferry the most alien thing on the trip. Just free, dependable public transport running constantly - unthinkable in the UK.

@Strit @gamingonlinux That's at 30FPS. The post says 32GB is the minimum for 60FPS at 1080p (same as the image).

Personally I'd be happy with 30 - that strikes me as a perfectly playable framerate - but the post seems entirely accurate.

@autolycos @ai6yr @paul_ipv6 What's up with the alt-text on this? It seems to bear no relation to the contents of the video beyond mentioning that there's a donkey in it.

Made a new addition to my website today: https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/
#AI #LLM #website #SmallPrint

@mdhughes @HauntedOwlbear Is a penguin really less sexy than a vulture, or a Marabou stork, or one of those cliff-nesting seabirds that projectile vomits as a defense mechanism? I feel as though there's a lot of competition for the title of least sexy bird, and I'm just not sure penguins are really putting in the effort.

@inthehands I've been keeping an eye on the USD to GDP exchange rate recently and something really funny has been happening since January for some reason.

@botvolution Oh, wow, that's really concerning. It's immediately obvious this thing isn't me despite much of my input being pretty disjointed and random to begin with. (Admittedly this generator only strings together individual characters rather than whole words, but I'd worry about anyone whose tone could be replicated by anything this simple.)

Some more interesting output from my Markov text generator. It apparently got locked into that repetitive string of all caps phrases because the "STOP" at the end of each line gives it little to work with that isn't from the story that originally prompted it to start doing that. Still, I quite like "It is like dogs’ tongues flick and ask the smell," and also the thing about the space lizard with a bomb-ring in its mouth water.
#MarkovChain #TextGeneration #FlashFiction #SpaceLizard

@Rycaut @inthehands I just dug into this myself and found an article that suggests the backup option for doing this from the outside is...a different way of charging the battery?

The article also implies a guy who got stuck inside one is stupid for not spotting a manual release that Tesla seems to have made an effort to conceal, so I find it telling they have to present this as an obvious solution. https://www.carscoops.com/2023/08/man-gets-trapped-in-hot-tesla-after-battery-dies-as-he-wasnt-aware-of-manual-release/

@Rycaut @inthehands The instructions for manually opening the back doors without power are even wilder. Front of the car wedged somewhere following an accident? No problem! Just rip up the carpet in front of the back seat and find the emergency wire you have to pull in a specific direction. Oh, and BTW, there's a risk it'll break the windows when it opens so you probably don't want to give it a trial run at home. And it's different in other Teslas! Happy motoring! 🙃

@inthehands How old were you when you started?

@mattmcirvin @futurebird Pop culture seems a weird thing for them to blame given that we're about as far from the "Everyone is just consuming whatever the TV beams into their brains" complaints of the past as we could possibly be. Memes might not exactly be high art, but I feel as though there's a kind of literacy expected of kids these days that wasn't expected of people in the past, and that they're probably thinking more about much of what they engage with day-to-day.

A while back, I made a Bitsy Jam game about trying and not quite managing to make a watch that displays the time in Cistercian numerals: https://damonwakes.itch.io/hibernation-hassle

Almost two years on, I'm happy to say that I've finally done it! I'd still like to add a battery indicator (and if I'm feeling really fancy, numerals for the date and a step counter), but I'm quite happy with the minimalist look of this as-is.
#ESP33 #CPP #Watchy #watch #Cistercian #CistercianNumerals #programming #microcontroller

@Molondrongo @futurebird @discoursology I find this even on GrapheneOS, which is generally great. When I open the Files app, there's a sidebar item called "Documents." Is that the "Documents" directory on my phone? Nope! Does it show me all my document-type files in one place? Also nope! How does it decide what should be in there? Nobody knows!

@HauntedOwlbear I was starting to lean towards my usual "rate five really short games for the sake of getting involved" approach, but this has nudged me to set aside two hours for LLLLLL at some point. (It was already one of the ones that had caught my attention through some great writing quoted in the forums.)

@HauntedOwlbear I was going to say "Somebody should..." but yeah. Yeah, they have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q95tM3OxxxY