virus 🦊

When laypeople ask me to summarize the average LLM response in a nuanced subject, I explain it like this:
Imagine you need to change a light switch and ask a handy friend for instructions. They provide instructions where each step is technically correct but they omit "turn off the power first."

video editing software UI showing speed being set to 1.03

7 seconds over my max video submission length? just slightly bend the fabric of spacetime to fix it!

So we’ve arrived here huh

VRChat mobile app notification announcing Proxmox VE 9.0 Proxmox Virtual Environment: Proxmox VE 9.0 released! A new release has been posted, view more at (link)

This is the funniest way I've ever received a release notification

I want all my software release notifications to come via VRChat mobile notifications going forward

a stuffed fox is sitting on a chair and looking at the camera Alt: a stuffed fox is sitting on a chair and looking at the camera while looking tired and worn out

finals week is the worst time to have my executive dysfunction acting up. I hate feeling stuck and guilty but I can't make progress on my projects like this

I'm hoping an early bedtime helps reset things so I can make some headway when I inevitably wake up at 3:30 ;-;

Dune, 1965

Sameko Saba holding an anchor while smiling at viewer

⚓️🐟Saba 💙🤍
#samekosaba #sabart

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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swipe to member list is back!

if you want it, update the Discord app to version 290 and then change the swipe option in chat settings.

I'll stick with the default swipe-to-reply though

just stretched and somehow made a noise that sounded like an Airbus cockpit alarm

Great write-up! I had a vague understanding before but this helped a few things click. Shaders are still mostly dark magic to me, but getting to occasionally peek behind the curtain is really fascinating.

if you go to bed, hulk hogan will die.

When the nefarious ass smacker keeps smacking my ass so I utilize dazzle camouflage to disrupt his aim, causing him to whiff his ass smack and spin comically in place

lmao it turns out they pushed the update on July 9th but the Play Store didn't distribute it to me until now, despite constantly checking for updates the last 5 days.

My bad Samsung, looks like I just have another reason to not like Google things as much anymore

VRChat notification awarding a "7 Years" badge for having joined VRChat 7 years ago

I feel old now

Un-optimized avis walking into the club like

I can't wait to be done with school. I've got so many different projects I want to work on but just haven't had time to seriously work on anything outside of my job and school ;-;

Work during the weekdays and then school during the weekend just feels like I'm burning the candle from both ends.

Android error message: Galaxy Watch5 Manager keeps stopping

what could go wrong with deploying on the weekend?

a computer monitor displays a cartoon of a girl with red hair and the words love on the bottom Alt: gif of Teto from the Machine Love music video (https://youtu.be/sqK-jh4TDXo)

I've had Machine Love stuck in my head for the last couple weeks but I can't really complain, it's a certified Teto banger

aaaaand we're good. motherboard successfully installed with all drives working.

that took way too long but this should fix an outstanding issue that has been plaguing me for years and has killed over 15 TB worth of drives. let's just hope it holds up until I'm due for a new build :pray:

woo we love emergency PC surgery

finally replacing my faulty motherboard since it keeps trying to kill all my drives

I'm partially crashing out, but I'd rather it be me before it crashes my drives any more than it already has

looks into the camera

Happy birthday!

VDLM2 Message From: N203BZ / MX0754

Message: TECHNICALY MOSES WAS 1ST TO TRANSFER DATA FROM CLOUD TO TABLET.

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N203BZ

Area: New York City, NY, USA

#acars #vdlm2 #N203BZ #MX0754

I have done the small task I was avoiding since April

It took under 10 minutes

Why are brains like this

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds.

While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

ok this is actually super cool. I was going to give one of these to my dad but I think I need to buy another one first

2x Heltek v3 Meshtastic nodes with batteries 1x SenseCAP T1000-E card node

I'm experimenting with some LoRa radio communication and Meshtastic nodes! Some quick testing isn't showing anyone nearby, but I'm hoping to get better reception with the other nodes.