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  • Are you sure your cats aren't assassins? Their playful demeanor may just be an act so you put down your guard.

  • Electronics have to be designed for use in outer space. That includes hardening from radiation. Adding redundancy because there will be glitches and failures due to bit flips. Using components that can operate in a vacuum. There's thermal considerations, both extreme heat and cold. You also need filters in the optics to protect the image sensor.

    You can totally put a GoPro in space. It's just not going to last very long before it fails.

  • There is an actual product called the Hurry Cane. It was one of those "As Seen on TV" products.

  • Only the bad cat owners. The good ones can predict when there's mischief in their eye.

  • Let's take a guess at what each person was thinking.

    Rudy Giuliani: "Wait a second, this isn't the Ritz Carlton."

    Sidney Powell: Nothing intelligent. The conspiracy theories have melted her brain.

    Jenna Ellis: "Maybe if I smile they'll let me go."

    John Eastman: "Cronk not know what going on."

    Kenneth Cheseboro: "OMG this is happening."

    Scott Hall: "I will kill whoever it takes to get away with this."

    David Shafer: "Ha ha ha ha! I'm totally fucked!"`

    Ray Smith: Also contemplating murder but knows better.

    Cathy Latham: She has no thoughts. She's a deer caught in the headlights.

  • Does Georgia automatically release mugshots or does that require a FOIA request?

  • No, they changed it to, "We'll get back to you soon." sometime after the new CEO came on board. Of course they never "get back to you soon". So, it might as well be a poop emoji.

  • This is what we are going to find out in the next three years. Someone could come up with a license, but we won't know if it's viable until it gets tested by the courts. There's still debate on whether scraping from copyrighted works then using that data to train a LLM (or any other ML model) is an allowed use. Technically, that is transformative of the original works, but it uses vast numbers of copyright works. The New York Times is looking at suing OpenAI over this exact issue.

    In any case, if you did come up with a license, you would also have to enforce it. With no clear legal precedents that would require filling suit against any violator.

  • Direct link or you can make your own in your favorite spreadsheet program. It's not that complicated.

  • This is the kind of thing some company prints on a piece of plastic the size of a credit card, someone sticks it in their wallet then they forget about it for a decade. 😂

  • I would be thankful if people would stop mentioning Twitter. Just let the platform burn to the ground and fade into irrelevance.

    I would be even more thankful if Google News would replace their "From Twitter" section with a "From Mastodon" or a "From Social Media" section.

  • It's a fundamental problem with a first-past-the-post voting system. Third parties act as spoilers. That's why I'm a proponent of ranked choice. It's not a panacea. It doesn't fix everything, but it removes the spoiler effect. Then people can vote their conscience with their first choice.

    It's not a coincidence that the leadership of both parties hate it. They can't run a traditional campaign with wedge issues. Good. I'm tired of a divided country. The party leadership can suffer through appealing to a broad part of the electorate.

  • I'm perfectly fine with shitting on Meta/Facebook/Instagram for gestures broadly at the last 10+ years, but Canada instituted a link tax for news. They added a fee to a fundamental part of the Internet: linking to something. I can't blame Meta for refusing to play that game.

  • To be fair, CoC was recently updated. It was originally pointing to mastodon.world/about which is a little vague on rule 1.

  • Just wait until someone dies in a self-driving car and it keeps going to its destination.

    Mom: "Grandma is here!"

    Kids: "Yaaa, Grandma is here!"

    Everyone sees Grandma's lifeless body

    Mom: "AAAAAAAHHHHH!"

    Kids: "AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!"

    Dad: "What's all this screaming!? .... AAAAAAHHHH!"

  • Rescues are the best cats. All three of mine were rescues, and they've all been the sweetest babies.

  • “One of the challenges we see is, for example, people sharing this content out of outrage because they want to raise awareness of an issue and see something in the media,” Pickles testified

    Nick Pickles is a gawd damn liar.