moira

moira, 5 days ago to Seattle

okay I'm not sure how to get the attention of any #Seattle local people involved with the #LocalTalk #RetroComputing network BUT

a localtalk-talking laserjet just showed up on Free Stuff on Seattle craigslist and I thought maybe someone might be interested:

https://seattle.craigslist.org/est/zip/d/mill-creek-vintage-hp-laserjet-2100m/7753245455.html

#VintageMac #Accessories

moira, 5 days ago to ai

of all the things wrong with copilot's recall

and there are so fucking many things wrong with it

one of the most amazingly wrong things is that... they're already throwing "ai" bullshit at these screencaps they're doing every five seconds, right? that's what does the OCR and also does the LLM-driven description for the search functionality later

and yet no one

NO. ONE.

thought to tell it

"and don't save screens with the word 'password' on them."

YOU COULD DO THIS WITH GREP, YOU STUPID FUCKS, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! IT'S NOT HARD!

And yet, here we are.

#AI #LLM #Microsoft #Recall #Copilot

moira, 5 days ago to USpolitics

sooooo uh

Trump sending a cease-and-desist to Rep. Bob Good, the de facto chair of the MAGA caucus in the House?

I mean it's a real shiv of a letter, too.

This is hilarious but... wa happen?

#uspol #uspolitics

moira, 6 days ago to random

whelp that ended

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

moira, 6 days ago to random

that was genuinely the most

uh

movie

i guess

we've ever seen on monsterdon

#Monsterdon
#StrangerFromVenus

moira, 6 days ago to random

COFFEE!!

#monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

moira, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

SURPRISE

All the nails sheared. Neat!

guess I’m fixing this today instead of biking

moira, 8 days ago to random

...gigamap?

lol jk unless

(for reals tho' I don't think so - the three detailed maps work decently well together once you do a little rotating and stuff, but King County really just... doesn't. Parts just genuinely don't line up with each other consistently; along a single north-south line you'll get two trails lined up and a third in the middle that absolutely doesn't. for whatever reasons (clarity, one presumes) they moved some shit around)

moira, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to MountainBiking

Okay, I'm calling it: RC1 is Release Version 1.2 of the MEGAMAP, the combined bike map including Greater Northshore, complete Seattle (the complete part is new), and 2 Link Eastside maps, with also a little chunk from King County Regional Trails to get us all of Lake Washington.

It be LORGE but it be FAIRLY COMPLETE as bike maps go of Northwest King County, except ironically for the little KC-maintained section. But what that does buy you is the last section of the Lake Washington Loop. So I think it's worth it.

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap

#biking #BikeTooter #BikeMap #seattle #shoreline #LakeForestPark #kenmore #northshore #bothell #woodinville #juanita #kirkland #redmond #bellevue #renton #newcastle

moira, 9 days ago to random

while i was cooking, i heard the rest of the house going OMG in the tv room and i came in to see what was happening

and what was happening was the tiniest wild bun

the tiniest of tiniest wild buns

hopping about back in forth in front of the glass doors outside

trying really hard to come in

including jumping up over the frame and trying to jump through the glass which it was too young to know about

and it is the most adorable thing i have seen in ... i don't even know. five years.

i'm still all just

BUN

if i had had a camera i would be sharing that video but i sadly did not (it was upstairs and i had to get back to the kitchen)

but i love you bun

and i hope you find the enchiladas you are looking for :D

moira, 9 days ago to random

went out biking

HOLY SHIT

moira, 9 days ago to random

HEY LOCALS: There's another minor revision update for mastodon, I'll be rolling that in; it should be another upgrade-in-place and you probably won't notice. But if you get a brief outage, that's the move to 4.2.9, refresh your browser.

moira, 10 days ago to cycling

doing this does include all of Seattle's map...

#BikeMap #BikeTooter #renton

moira, 11 days ago to USpolitics

I hope people get that Nikki Haley went over there to make everything as much worse as possible.

Those pics of her scribbling those obscenities on bombs will circulate for years.

This was intentional.

You get that, right? She's a former UN ambassador. Like Nixon sabotaging peace talks in Vietnam and Reagan working to keep US hostages in Iran, she knows exactly what she did.

This was intentional.

Biden's been pushing Netanyahu towards a two-state solution for months and despite the "Genocide Joe" crowd's crap, he's pushed back more on Israeli militarism more than any US president ever just by doing it at all.

This was sabotage. It was intentional. AGAIN.

DON'T repeat the same mistakes. DON'T reward it AGAIN.

#uspolitics #uspol

moira, 12 days ago to architecture

seriously look inside this building it's great

this building deserves better

https://masto.ai/@architecture/112517423016183382

#brutalism #architecture

moira, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to Seattle

folklife says hello

#seattle #folklife

moira, 13 days ago to random

BOUNCY BOULDERS YAAY!

#monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

moira, 13 days ago to random

waiting for the kool-aid kaiju to burst in through the cave wall

#monsterdon #SonOfGodzilla

moira, 13 days ago to baking

sleeby blagel eggs

#bagels #baking

moira, 14 days ago to random

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH KIDDE?!

moira, 14 days ago to MountainBiking

I'm calling this a preview but it's a pretty solid version of MEGAMAP 1.2, using the 1.1 rev 4 dataset, which is the latest.

Anybody wants to look at it, it's on my maps Github, click on PREVIEW MEGAMAP:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

#biking #BikeTooter #BikeMap #Seattle #Eastside #Northshore

moira, 14 days ago to mastodon

I learned something today! xD

#mastodon

moira, 14 days ago to random

oh hello

I seem to have attracted the attention of someone claiming to be involved with the Recall team on the ex/long-term MSFT group

he agrees my many critiques are valid and asked for mitigations other than "don't."

i gave him a short list to start:

• a trivial way to exempt your entire current session leaving no trace you did that, telling users how to do it literally every time - the entire session must vanish

• either per-app opt-in or windows-defender-like maintained lists of apps not to record without direct user intervention, e.g. Signal

• not one byte EVER hits storage without strong encryption, NOT EVER, and I gave him an easy and long-extant Microsoft technology way to do that

let's see if he's telling the truth

#recall

moira, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

I am fucking going on people in the big exMSFT/long-term MSFT group (hosted elsewhere)

people are defending recall and I am shredding them like a wolverine on bonus rations of the finest of amphetamines

i got to use the phrase "'It'll only kill 5% of the users' is NOT A DEFENCE FOR KILLING 5% OF THE USERS" and not even ironically

moira, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

the cool literature professor who really wanted to be a philosophy professor enjoying the sumo

#sumo #day7 #MayTournament