joy

kingrat, 1 month ago to random

the amount of attention given to saving Mint Butterfield compared to the attention given to saving other people on the street in the Tenderloin is telling.

kingrat, 1 month ago to random

i bought a bunch of pumpkin spice non-dairy creamer when it was around. i just used the last of it until the new season. :(

lauren, 1 month ago to random

Back in the day, it was popular to use line printers to print out large (multiple sheets taped together) ASCII images to hang on walls and such. Some of these were very popular with us guys (keep in mind this was a heavily male-centric CS-era, even worse than now) and were NSFW -- but still ended up hanging in various places where they really shouldn't have been.

At the ARPANET site #1 lab at UCLA, we wanted some "Star Wars" posters. At the time, the only place I knew of with a potentially usable video digitizer (black and white, very low resolution by today's standards of course) was at the original Stanford AI Lab (SAIL / SU-AI).

So. A nationwide TV Star Wars special was coming up. This was my chance. I arranged with the gentleman who had the digitizer at SAIL to have it tuned to the appropriate local channel in Stanford at the correct time.

Then, from my bedroom here in L.A., over the ARPANET via my account on the SAIL / SU-AI system that controlled the digitizer, I grabbed various key images as I watched the same program locally.

Then, after the program was done, I FTP'd (file transferred) those files down to UCLA, where I had a UNIX program to create those ASCII posters.

Mission accomplished, thanks to the Defense Department's ARPANET!

Though this was fun stuff, a LOT was being learned about distributed systems and resources through these kinds of amusements.

ringmaster, 1 month ago to random Swahili

Watching all of these calls as the Eagles pick players in the draft is pretty uplifting, frankly. #flyeaglesfly

joy, 1 month ago to random

"You can't buy passion" she says to no one in particular.

sfoskett, 1 month ago to random

The world is a total disaster, and my general faith in humanity could not be lower. Yet today, I am at a #SpecialOlympics track meet, and I recognize that there is some pure good in the world!

ai6yr, 1 month ago to random

T-shirt seen today at our radio club.

Stacky, 1 month ago to random

“Jail is not a scary thing for me because you two have a lot of friends.”

— The Dude

sundogplanets, 1 month ago to random

It's nice and warm out, and the 2 new baby goats are really healthy, so they got to go out and meet their herdmates. (Their herdmates were EXTREMELY interested in meeting them, hilariously, especially the llama)

A tiny fuzzy black goat getting sniffed by a giant fuzzy llama, while standing next to his white mama in a straw filled farmyard
Many goats of different colours standing around in a farmyard, the giant fuzzy llama is standing behind a tiny brown horse and sniffing a tiny fuzzy white baby goat.

joy, 1 month ago to random

Huh, I did not know that Typefully.com (a social media content service) also posts to Mastodon...

WataruTenkawa, 1 month ago to random

Does this look like an eel to you? Looks like something else to me.

driusan, 1 month ago to random

Pretty sure if I worked in retail and either Plante or Roberge came in I would greet them with a friendly "bonjour-go-fuck-yourself"

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-merchants-should-speak-french-to-customers-valerie-plante-says

joy, 1 month ago to random

Dang, HashiCorp to IBM

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears-deal-for-cloud-software-provider-cf146448

joy, 1 month ago to random

Another delightful email CTA this morning from the Lufthansa marketing department... 😉

carnage4life, 1 month ago to random

This is a violation of the narrative that smartphones are ruining kids mental health to the chagrin of parents.

The reality is parents chose to buy kids smartphones with or without taking advantage of parental controls. Those same parents will have strong opinions about phone bans.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/schools-want-to-ban-phones-parents-say-no-62889fe0?st=s2tji20f38pj46i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

joy, 1 month ago to random

What a perfect spring Saturday morning in the Bay Area! 🌞 #sfba

Hansonthebike, 1 month ago to animals

Well, we thought #Beaufortthecat wouldn’t make it to the end of the week. Last night, I thought he would go (tears), but here we are and he is still sitting next to me. He only licks some of the fat from a tin of cat food contents. We hand feed him Temptations now and then and he still laps up quite a bit of water. We would have been walking in Lisbon today, but we postponed our trip for him last week so he better hangs in with us a bit longer. #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #cats

ai6yr, 1 month ago to earthquake

Anyone there in San Francisco see Godzilla swimming towards the Golden Gate Bridge? 🤪

#earthquake (small one, M2.1)

lauren, 1 month ago to random

Just saw a promotional ad for New Jersey. Their pitch line is: "You can do anything here."

To which I immediately think to myself: EXCEPT PUMP YOUR OWN GAS!

w7voa, 1 month ago to random

A day after President Biden and his motorcade in Pennsylvania went to a Sheetz, they’ve just arrived at a Wawa in the Keystone State. Context: https://www.abc27.com/digital-originals/the-real-battle-of-pennsylvania-sheetz-vs-wawa/

danhon, 1 month ago to random

I mean there's one reading of LLMs that explains them essentially as vibe-based text generation

joy, 1 month ago to random

You win some, you lose some.

Looked hot today doing a work thing in a nice, date worthy dress. (WIN SOME).

By the time I got home, after a side quest errand, ink was all over a side of my light colored work tote. Possible that a pen leaked inside the packed bag but there was no stain inside. Also possible that my ride back had some sort of ink on the backseat. I swear I did not see the stain earlier in the day. (LOSE SOME).