Notices by Æ. (aesthr@wandering.shop), page 2

There's a vigil today for yesterday's attack on CSD Berlin: Pariser Platz, 14:00

Tomorrow Berlin will host one pride parade that's commercialized through and through and another that is attempting to litigate which nation states are the good ones, meaning that their flags are allowed to show at the parade.

According to their published guidelines for example Ukranian flags will be both allowed and also not.

That's queer visibility in Berlin right now I guess.

A totally non-techie coworker asked me today if I had heard of "that AI that broke out" and I had to do a little damage control by explaining that it's not like the scifi horror scenario they were imagining after seeing it on the news.

(it was the OpenAI/Huggingface security fuckup)

I compared it to an industrial chemical spill. Bad, sure, but a spilled toxic chemical won't continue and take over the planet, and I think that metaphor landed pretty well.

If we ever make a real AI that's actually conscious instead of slop generators, you can be sure the vast majority of articles will be about how it's definitely not conscious and certainly not a person in order to justify its continued exploitation.

An SNES otoh definitely is a real game console because it is not capable of doing many general purpose computing tasks, for example it's not possible to just draw an arbitrary line on screen. All graphics must be assembled from 2D tiles. The limitations come from the hardware.

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Hot take: "game consoles" haven't been actual game consoles since at least the PS3/Xbox360 generation, probably even earlier.

They are instead general purpose computers that are artificially restricted to mostly games.

Case in point: the PS3/4/5 can all run Linux.

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I love how a miniature comes to life through black and white priming.

It's the first time you really see your little (or in this case not so little) guy in detail and you get a feel for what the final state might be.

Also spoilers: I'm not going for a typical Chaos Space Marines dark/metallic scheme here. This Defiler will be a brightly shimmering bringer of Nurgle's gifts.

#warhammer40k #w40k #warhammer

Linux guys will be obnoxious even to other Linux users for working at a real world job where sometimes you have to deal with Microsoft.

Great job guys, people are eventually switching to Linux despite of you, not because.

How is Outlook THIS BAD?

I know it's bad in all the normal ways that corporate software is bad, but sometimes it just straight doesn't work.

I created a rule to file emails from a certain time period into a folder, run the rule, and it simply doesn't do it despite freezing for 10 minutes.

This might be the funniest MS Office thing I have encountered yet:

Excel has global undo/redo, so if you work on multiple files and hit undo a few times. it may change things in a different file. Good luck reconstructing that, if you don't immediately notice.

An absurd design decision imo

@schratze exactly my reaction

@danielaKay wandering shop funktioniert gut für mich

If you have a working computer from this century, there's a huge back catalog of great games that it can run perfectly.

retro gaming (aesthetic)

vs

retro gaming (political)

I've been getting close to 100 emails from match.com about men supposedly liking my profile and sending me messages.

I don't have an account there and never had.

Wtf?

Do any of you know someone in Berlin who's a trained counselor or social worker and can moderate difficult talks around trans discrimination in workplaces? Someone who actually knows what they're talking about

And they say romance is dead

The instant mashed potato packaging: "one bag is three servings"

Me coming from a powerlifting workout: "that's cute"

never do entropy's job for it

live

happy pride month!

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