szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

So...anything happening in US politics today??? I have been busily watching the Grazer bear family on Explore. So precious are these littles! OH, and I am totally supporting #KamalaHarris for President. #KatmaiNationalParkAK #GrazerFamily #GrazerCoy #SummerInAlaska

The church next door has three WiFi access points sitting not 10' away from our place. They channel hop constantly jumping over each other so the channels are constantly being trampled on by god knows what.

Today I figured out how to use a pwnagotchi and let's just say, if god wanted them to have a sound system that doesn't cut out every five minutes, he would bless them with a hardwired system.

When their routers have the same signal strength as mine, there is a problem.

I thought about talking to the pastor but him and I have already butted heads and I know for a fact he would try to exploit me for free tech support. Never mind blame me for every issue his dumb sound system has till the end of time.

Who wants the under on the sound system being hardwired by Christmas? I bet they hold out till next summer at least lol.

Make no mistake, if an outage similar to Crowdstrike would have been caused by OpenSource, there would be calls across the entire industry and at the government level to ban OpenSource from critical systems. But since it was caused by billion-dollar publicly-traded companies, nothing to see here, move-on.

#CrowdStrike #Linux #OpenSource #Outage #Microsoft

wearing an outfit covered in QR codes for some horrible malware so that if anyone tries to take my picture in public i brick their shit

Wetland Wonders Unfold: Aerial Systems Shed Light On Ecosystem Services https://www.eurasiareview.com/22072024-wetland-wonders-unfold-aerial-systems-shed-light-on-ecosystem-services/

Does anyone have a digital copy of ANSI/CGA G-13 Storage and Handling of Silane that I can use? I just need to read and reference it, but do not have $214 to pay CGA for access.

While doing a thorough cleaning of my room, I found this anatomical embroidery I did a while back with red silk thread on white cotton. #embroidery #textile #TextileArt #AnatomicalEmbroidery #EmbroideryArt #IndigenousCreatives

I like to imagine that Joe Biden’s going to use his new-found freedom and his presidential immunity to go on an absolute killing spree. Four months of non-stop malarkey. Untouchable, beyond remorse, beyond the law. Fear the rise of Dark Brandon.

Cosmos in front of my favorite mountain shrine. It's going to be another scorcher today. Stay cool and well hydrated everyone.
🌸 ⛩
昌信神社の前の野生のコスモス。今日も暑くなりそうだ。皆様、涼しく、十分に水分を補給してください。
#SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan

Hey look, a distraction!
#DailyDoggo #DogsOfMastodon

@briankrebs Maybe WaPo is too old to carry on this kind of work anymore. Maybe they should consider passing the torch to some younger, more intelligent, better edited organization… before they embarrass themselves too… oh, nm, I see it’s too late.

Someone recently suggested to me that AI systems bring the users' ability closer to the average. I was intrigued by this idea because it reflects my experience. I am, for example, terrible at any kind of visual art, but with something like Stable Diffusion I can produce things that are merely quite bad, whereas without it I can produce things that are absolutely terrible. Conversely, with GitHub Copilot I can write code with more bugs that's harder to read. Watching non-programmers use it and ChatGPT with Python, they can produce fairly mediocre code that mostly works.

I suppose it shouldn't surprise anyone that a machine that's trained to produce output from a statistical model built from a load of examples would tend towards the mean.

An unflattering interpretation of this would suggest that the people who are most excited by AI in any given field are the people with the least talent in that field.

While we're at it, is there any possible use of the word "talent" that isn't riddled with bias? Isn't it invariably a distraction from opportunity as the determining factor in achievement? I think it maybe needs to get in the bin alongside merit tbh.

As the token poor kid who got to go to uni I can assure you the idea that policies like affirmative action lower standards is extremely hilarious. You want to see low standards? Surround yourself with the privileged LOL

A friend who's an artist living in #Ukraine struggles with daily power outages. A UPS allows them to save their work, but they are looking for some #photoshop / Clip Studio Paint capable #hardware which could allow them to work for 4-8h a day on battery.

I was thinking about #lenovo P52 #notebook with some spare, hot swappable batteries. Dedicated GPU, 32 GB of RAM.

Do you have any better ideas? The budget is around $1000 for everything.

If shipped from abroad, there's ~30% customs tax.

#art