anomalocaris
anomalocaris@oldbytes.space
<p>From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!</p><p>Biologist & educator in the Netherlands. I've got a column somewhere but I'll never tell. I like (palaeo)botany, anthropology, free & open software, Chinese tea, old hifi tech and writing alt text. He/him.</p><p>Join the no ai webring maybe?<br /><a href="https://baccyflap.com/noai" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">baccyflap.com/noai</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Posts
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Post #4046331
today in our bright #AI future: I spotted an #LLM-generated poster advertising jobs at a local snack bar, with a completely garbled #slop QR code to boot. I wonder if the pay is in ChatGPT tokens?
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Post #3531328
with the recent round of layoffs at #bandcamp, the time has come to download all the music I ever bought from there (bought a lot of physical releases that I never ended up downloading) and go to one of the better alternatives. using https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader, seems to be doing a great job so far. using bandcamp-downloader.py --cookies /path/to/cookies/cookies.sqlite -f flac -x --directory albums/ username-here seems to be doing a good job, not the fastest but you just hi...
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Post #3016893
Did an upgrade on Ubuntu MATE, rebooted while anticipating whatever fresh hell awaited after this particular upgrade and it&#39;s... the keyboard going completely unrecognised. Always something. Gets picked up by GNOME, not by MATE. Got there in the end by digging through the fora and finding that installing xserver-xorg-input-all does the trick. Why and how, I am sure I will never understand.
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Post #3016892
A coworker has sent me a message in Microsoft #Teams! Time to open this message - only a few hundred bytes worth of text, it&#39;ll just take a sec... oh
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Post #3016891
@bluebudgie made these great #stickers. Currently discussing with my partner who gets which
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Post #3016890
Was making up a joke song and discovered that there is no animal that rhymes with &#39;stone&#39;. any suggestions
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Post #3016889
after a few years of good colour grading, #ForAllMankind goes on the list of shows that I have to watch with brightening filters so I can actually see the characters crying at each other. Also on the list of shows that I will stop watching soon because it has finally become enough of a soap opera for me to give up on it #toodark #scifi #colorgrading
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Post #3016888
a coot hard at work while us land-dwellers are up here enjoying the weather #birds #Leiden #spring
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Post #3016887
I limit my work interactions with #Microsoft &#39;s online environment as much as I can, but each endeavour is an infernal voyage of horrific discovery. I get a few emails a day about spam emails held in quarantine. Now, these are all very obvious spam emails so I&#39;d like to label them all as definitely spam and block the senders, but of course, this can only be done one at a time and the time between clicking an email, getting past the loading spinner and finally getting to click the...