joat

joat@mastodon.scot

DRI Linux sysadmin, occasional Rubyist, and vintage calculator collector with an acute patriotism deficiency."You can't spell fail without AI."I boost kitty floofs. (Un soupçon de français.)Profile picture is the top half of a glasses-wearing white guy's head, brains being eaten by a bright green plushy Cthulhu.

Posts

Post #4349170
My favourite #astronomy fact is in this article https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ Which is brighter, a supernova seen from the distance the Earth is from the Sun, or a hydrogen bomb detonated while resting directly on your eyeball? The answer is the supernova, by 9(!) orders of magnitude.
Post #4022819
Was just in one of those natural green hippie stores and they had "96% natural dishwasher pods". What's the other 4%? Witchcraft?
Post #3935333
Don't ask: What's the cheapest X? What's the easiest way to do X? What's the best way to X? Instead: What are some budget-friendly X options? What are some options to do X for non-technical people? What are good ways to do X with their pros and cons? Everyone has different skills, experience and perceptions of cost.
Post #3912851
Even the floor can be comfortable #Caturday
Post #3361062
We heard a strange ticking noise. This little shithead had managed to turn on the piano and then the metronome. #CatsOfMastodon
Post #3335908
He's tired after spending all day watching the birds outside #CatsOfMastodon
Post #3311681
I think Newton may be comfortable with us now #Caturday
Post #3153634
This guy just ate a fly! #Caturday
Post #1950813
So I decided to do a 10-minute test of the UPS on my NAS and turned the power off 6 hours ago, then wondered why it was down, in case you&#39;re wondering how my brain is working today
Post #1950812
Idle speculation this morning: can&#39;t help feeling that recent reports of Trump regret by MAGA folks and AI regret by orgs that went all-in are ultimately the exact same phenomenon, for the same reason, by the same people, but I lack the background in social sciences to articulate it properly.
Post #1950811
Imagine all roads were toll roads and tolls were based on road stress. Stress goes up as the 4th power of vehicle weight. Let&#39;s say we charged e-bikes 1¢ per km. A big ebike (35kg) plus a big person (100kg) weighs 35⁺100=135kg. The smallest current Ford F-150 (1993kg) driven by the same big person would weight 1993+100=2093kg. So the equivalent toll would be 1¢×2093⁴÷135⁴ or $577.75/km.
Post #1950810
Tried to change credit card on #Britbox but couldn&#39;t get to the account page, so asked the chatbot. Useless AI so submitted a tech support request. Email back from same useless AI with same wrong response. Solved problem myself (main page loads on a VPN, account page will not, with no error). Ended up so pissed off about the support and VPN bullshit that I cancelled the subscription instead, Fuck &#39;em.
Post #1950809
Is &quot;pillow&quot; a suitable occupation for LinkedIn? #CatsOfMastodon
Post #1796744
I just lost situational (situGUInal?) awareness and accidentally deleted two entire photo albums from my phone gallery thinking they were just two images. And #Syncthing replicated the deletion to all my computers. But, happy ending, not only do I take regular #BorgBackup backups, I also use #btrbk so recovered everything via the snapshots on the laptop within 60 seconds, and of course Syncthing copied them back to the phone immediately. Check your backups.
Post #1776174
Wake me up once all this AI stuff is gone #CatsOfMastodon
Post #952331
He has actually started to hug my arm. I must be nice and warm. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Post #357827
Dear Americans... if the British can arrest the King&#39;s brother, you can arrest Donald Fucking Trump and Bill Fucking Gates