spazahedron

@spazahedron@indieweb.social

Software engineer. Wannabe gamedev. Eccentric. (he/him) formerly spazquest.
Lots more crap at https://twitter.com/spazquest

Occasional grumpy rants.

pfp: Corporal Giroro, who has somehow gotten assigned to selling concert tickets, which (as he points out) shows they've completely lost sight of their original mission as vanguard of an alien invasion fleet

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Louise kitty pair programming

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Do I really want to buy a case from a company that plagiarized another vendor's tagline

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Perverse web design idea: popping up a subscribe dialog whenever you mouse over a link

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Louise kitty has the snoozles again. I have stopped cleaning my monitor screen at this point

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ChatGPT, when asked "How would I prove that there have been no female Presidents?", advised meticulous research into historical records,

and unwittingly raised the intriguing possibility that we may have had a closeted trans or non-binary President.

  • If historians identify any such president(s), schools in red states will not be permitted to teach about them
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I like how the writers came right out and said it toward the end: David stands for everything worth saving about the world.

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Thinking of Christopher Walken's character from "Blast from the Past" who emerged from his fallout shelter, and didn't believe that the U.S.S.R. had broken up. Instead, the Soviets had covertly taken over everything, and used a massive propaganda effort to convince the West that the Cold War was over

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I'm old enough that the reasonable-seeming price point for cables on Amazon is flooded with brands that are literally unpronounceable

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Is there such a thing as ethically generated artwork (or writing, or music)? Even if the training data were collected with consent, it still eliminates jobs, and the industrialists tend to win these battles

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If "cisgender" is a slur then so are "white," "male," and "rich"

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googling "do cigar scissors work for Otter Pops"

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Congress renaming post offices and V.A. hospitals is the low-hanging fruit of governance

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Purveyors of fine whatever-the-hell-these-ares

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I wasted a half hour today because our app silently ignores requests with a misspelled Content-Type of "applicaton/json"

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I'm forgetting how to be succinct 😕

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I'm reading that one important aspect of Twitter is that when everyone was in the same room, it gave marginalized people opportunity to be part of the conversation (and that this was part of what the new owner thought needed fixing).

I don't think we'll see that on mastodon -- authoritarian-ish government accounts won't sign up, because the kinds of people who like decentralization are a hostile audience. There is no single entity that they can stay in good with to prevent defederation.

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I wish the Swype keyboard was smarter. It used to guess "peyote" consistently instead of "people" until I deleted the word. Today it misidentified "bickering" as "buggering," which is also odd because although Swype contains British spellings, and I think of that as "chiefly British," it exceeds the censorship threshold that I would expect from a word database that excludes "ass."

In its defence, the app was discontinued years ago -- I made a backup of the APK

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"Okay folks, let's everybody calm down .. ease up on the stupid."

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The least one can do, when talking about A.I.-generated images, is to not use the word "art" lightly. For example, this is an interesting illustration, but it's not saying anything. If I give it the title "Failed Attempt to Generate an Image of Mayor McCheese Wearing an Eyepatch, No. 1" then it's a bit warmer

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What's weird is they all have face paint like clowns (a la Ronald McDonald), they mostly feature McDonald's colors, they all have gold stars, a hat with a band, and hamburger/cow themes, but none get the distinctive shape of his head. There's also an unexpected Tex-Mex vibe. Second image is the original Mayor McCheese for comparison.

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We have to wonder why Bill Gothard looks like Palpatine in "The Phantom Menace"

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One of the easiest ways of giving birth is to be a mom on a sitcom

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@petrel Yes, true. And as a joke, it flows better without the "mom" part.

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Google Maps: How were our navigation directions?
Me: 3/5 (routed us through a residential neighborhood again)
Google: Did they take you to your destination?
Me: Yes
Google: Did they take you to a convenient street entrance?
Me: Yes
Google: So what's your problem, jackass? If you're not dying in a ditch, that's 5 stars. Baby H. Jesus on a pogo stick.

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Smash Mouth is really brave. If my parents had named me Smash Mouth I would have been too chicken to take a public-facing job

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