tankfox
@tankfox@midwest.social
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
to be honest that’s exactly why I’m on arch and not ubuntu or cntos. Ironically it was gpt that helped me get it set up and it would have had a lot more trouble without it, but now that the job is done I don’t want it hanging around in the OS like ‘hey buddy squeaking past ya gettn a beer’
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 1 week ago:
Rick and Morty did this once, Rick simply put on a hat with a QR code that made a robot army recognize him as a high level commander.
A few days ago I read a short story,
comp.basilisk.faqby David Langford, which sketched a world in which specific images could irreversibly crash the brain, leading to a full scale worldwide ban on images on the internet and many other places as well. The story postulated hundreds of potential info-hazards with many of them simple enough to be applied via stencil and spray paint. Two of them are branch families of the Mandelbrot set ‘and no we won’t tell you where, do not look’Other examples; Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson Blit — David Langford The Atrocity Archives — Charles Stross Doctor Who — “Blink” / “The Time of the Doctor” SCP Foundation — SCP-096 SCP-7387 (“The Mathematician’s Grin”)
“Keep your eyes peeled or we’ll peel them for your wholesale!”
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
I installed arch recently, and the steam client was pretty easy to install. What really shocked me is that all the stuff that works fine on my steam deck also works fine in arch, so that’s nice
- Comment on Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower 5 weeks ago:
Who are in the process of learning to do something new, versus the workflow that they’ve been trained in and have a lot of experience in.
Where was the sample of non-coders tasked with doing the same thing, using AI to help or learning without assistance?
Where was the sample of coders prohibited from looking anything up and having to rely solely on their prior knowledge to do the job?
It might help define what’s actually being tested.
- Comment on The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker 1 month ago:
I WANTED TO LIVE IN A BOOM GENERATION, NOT A BUST GENERATION!
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
Yes, stupid empire units. You had me excited for a minute but I should have known that was absurd.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 month ago:
Hey, mastodon isn’t that bad! When bluesky runs out of funny money and has to enshittify it’ll be the one left standing!
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
You’re describing the gravity fed charcoal grills from masterbuilt and I love mine. Especially when I toss in a cast iron pan full of bacon and run it at 450 for half an hour.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
I have a Masterbuilt that has optional firmware updates sometimes, nothing mandatory and certainly nothing automatic. It’s a gravity fed charcoal grill that works like a computer controlled forced air rocket stove. Gets up to 700 degs from cold in 10 mins if I want or hold 225 for the rest of time as long as I keep feeding charcoal into the hopper and emptying the ash bin. The computer is adding actual value.
No soggy pellets, no weird feeding issues, the biggest problem I’ve had with it was the hatch sensors all going out over time, but once I jumped the circuit past them it worked fine again to this very day, going on six years now.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
I’m glad at least someone else here had that feeling. I ended up not liking mine at all and sending it back. I couldn’t get used to the pads at all even though I wanted to like it a lot, maybe it’s just my hands. I use my steam deck all the time, first an led and now an oled, and I can count the times I’ve used the trackpads on it effectively on one hand.
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 2 months ago:
It’s not actually a very fun game to play, reading the lore or watching a video of someone else play is sufficient.
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 2 months ago:
no problems at all for me because I pay for the shit I use
- Comment on StarCitizen skins worth it ? 4 months ago:
Nothing about StarCitizen is worth anything
- Comment on Fucking leeches 5 months ago:
So, like, tear down all the apartment buildings and focus on putting every single human in a single family home for free? Like, how does your mental image of this work?
- Comment on Fucking leeches 5 months ago:
One reason it’s obvious you don’t have experience with home ownership is that you’re acting like the repair man is free and not easily an aggregate of 250/month when expensive repairs are needed. That is $3000 my dude, which is easily a single plumbing problem that the landlord, not the tenant, has to pay for out of pocket.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 5 months ago:
How is a stable comfortable place to live ‘nothing’? If being out of the rain was all it took we’d all live in tents and this conversation would not occur. Owning a house and keeping it repaired/functional is hard and expensive. You don’t do your side favors by acting like our boy kept his friend in a locked closet when we all know that isn’t true.