universally popular web host @imgur has decided to burn their library of alexandria and destroy every old forum post with images in it, as well as all the porn

hope you didn't like tutorials on how to fix your car help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/artic…

tired: "does Linus Tech Tips or iFixit sell the Ultimate Screwdriver?"

wired: "who makes better precision screwdrivers: the Japanese, the Germans, or the Swiss" after the ifixit toolkit proved to have bits too wide to reach a screw, i am done with bit drivers. i am now trying to figure out whether i want to go with PB Swiss, Wiha, Vessel, or someone else for an electronics screwdriver kit

this jackass @kuiperbelt15, who calls himself an "ML Researcher" because he's submitted his own paper to HAL, made a tool that blocks hundreds of accounts without informed consent

it uses "Perspective API" to target people who are "toxic," like queers telling Nazis to fuck off

https://twitter.com/hollandpegin/status/1597707831062298624

You can report the API policy violation here. App name is "Furry Block List." AppID is "25453013". The specific violation is that it blocks hundreds of accounts without telling the user who it's blocking, how it decides, or providing a way to reverse it help.twitter.com/en/forms/platf…

it's time last time i played through the campaign i did not yet have coherent political beliefs

firefox needs to enable full JPEG XL support for everyone, and websites need to start serving it and need to start warning Chrome users that they are receiving inferior images due to their browser's failure to adopt the next-generation and superior standard image format google is trying to kill the Joint Photographic Experts Group's next-gen format, JPEG XL in favor of their own qualitatively and quantitatively inferior image format, AVIF. They removed the experimental support from Chrome and claimed nobody wanted it.

I've discovered that currently, as of Ubuntu 22.10, @ubuntu distributes a package called "fortunes-off" that is full of homophobia, Hitler quotes, virulent misogyny, racism, and more, for the "fortunes" program

all the text in it is ROT13'd so it doesn't show up on searches It supplies "offensive" fortunes to fortune, an old piece of fortune-cookie software, so you can configure your Linux computer to have a random chance of printing a swastika or passage from Mein Kampf when you log in.

https://twitter.com/kunsypt/status/1592622259818336257

i've been seeing folks wondering about the people who run Cohost on here

it's built by a small company, Anti Software Software Club, which is run as a worker cooperative; one effect of that is that it can't meaningfully be "bought."

they have a manifesto on their site: they're @no_software on here. the manifesto's here antisoftware.club/manifesto/2020…

CW: the car strikes several people; 2 of them died.

The brake lights are on; the brakes are smoking. The Model Y's motors (up to 455 HP) are stronger than the brakes.

If a fast electric car runs away and you can't put it in neutral instantly, run it into something solid.

https://twitter.com/uwukko/status/1591840757127999488

The Performance model goes 0-60 in 3.5 seconds. You won't have much time to operate the shifter, or find the "off" button in the menus.

That's if neutral/off even works, with what's presumably a software issue, given that braking didn't cut the power.

I've discovered something horrible, and I am sorry. I can't undo what I've done.

DALL-E 2 prompt: "A portrait photograph of Homer Simpson holding his dog" DALL-E 2: A portrait photograph of Bart/Lisa/Marge Simpson holding [their] dog

first time I've managed to piss off an Azov guy on here Ukrainian Jews and queers defending Azov as part of the country's defense forces while it's under attack by fascists I can understand. But claiming Azov aren't Nazis is disturbing, dangerous, and requires ignoring plentiful and obvious evidence

The thing they do of calling these shootings false flag attacks, or trying to blame them on someone with characteristics of the "other" they hate, is an instinctual refusal to recognize that these outbursts of random brutality are the purest expression possible of their ideology The response is instant. They hear about someone with an AR-15 committing some atrocity and the deep reflex goes off: "Nuh-uh. We didn't do that. You did that."

They're very good at soothing any cognitive dissonance that way. It lets them keep believing they're the "good guys."

so what are the odds this causes the Fediverse to collapse mastodon is a joke, i'm afraid. it's not fit for purpose.

aw, damn.

in my opinion Emilie Gillet is a fuckin saint for keeping at it, and keeping her modules open-source as she released them, even as companies as big as Behringer started cloning them, and with various companies cloning modules while they were still in production

https://twitter.com/synthanatomy/status/1518256784594685954

i think behringer should give her $500,000. just because

i'm exploring the dichotomy between "flute made by Native Americans" and "Native American style flute" and getting very off vibes from one side of the divide person who isn't Native playing a flute not made by someone Native but it's still "Native American flute." Seems Off

around here it was a pro-golf realtor who sued to stop the private golf course being sold to the county and turned into a park, at which point the nonprofit who bought and maintained it said "fuck this" and turned off the sprinklers

https://twitter.com/ryxcommar/status/1516441458857103361

sowing/reaping, and so on

"It has also been calculated that due to time dilation, the core of the Earth is 2.5 years younger than the crust." fuck this "The uncertainty principle implies that individual photons may travel for short distances at speeds somewhat faster (or slower) than c, even in vacuum; this possibility must be taken into account when enumerating Feynman diagrams for a particle interaction." fuck this

the mystery deepens

https://twitter.com/caraesten/status/1490796736343724032

that is an M27C512 EPROM

i can't believe they made Neuraluke and put him in a production and his voice has exactly the unsettling stilted effect you get out of a Wavenet or whatever and they just decided it was fine

https://twitter.com/JohnDiLillo/status/1490402325487407111

neuraluke is still in alpha

https://twitter.com/IDreamOfHamill/status/1489887515762782210

at this point in the used-car market explosion, if you own a nice older car, it'd probably be wise to fit it with a well-hidden GPS tracker if you happen to have google fi, they'll send you data-only SIMs for one for free

...if you install Windows 11 with a local account instead of a Microsoft account, it still encrypts your drive with Bitlocker, but it keeps the key on the drive... in cleartext... until you sign in with a Microsoft account This serves the dual purpose of making it difficult to recover your data, AND providing a false sense of security, since that Bitlocker key may well be compromised before you upload it to Microsoft