🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

[…] about every two minutes, code checked that the camera was still running and logged the message, “Who’s a good boy?!” More than 12,000 of those messages appear in the recovered logs.

Oof. Although also:

When the camera did restart, another service left a final message in the logs: “A reboot was requested! ¡Adios Amigos!”

I was surprised by that for a moment, then realized that I somehow conflated ICE and Flock in my brain, being surprised to see Spanish like that (I suspect ICE would not have that in their software). But of course, my conflation was unfounded.

I don’t remember the conversation, but I remember your username. But I’m so horrible about checking usernames without RES tagging… I need to remember to include that as I’m sort of working on a project that will include a Lemmy front-end… lol.

I was briefly stalking your profile to see if I recognized anything or had upvoted you, but then I almost started thinking of it as a feed and nearly replied to some of your comments. lol. I’m tempted to go back and still do that if it wouldn’t annoy you. XD

I do need to work on that front end. I know some front ends have tagging, but I haven’t liked the ones I’ve found, and the main reason I’m working on the project is to make more moderation tools workable as Lemmy’s native mod tools suck.

All of which is to say a hearty hello back. I still think your username is awesome, by the way. :)

Not trying to one-up, but I registered daychilde.com in 1996. It’s actually on my to-do to redesign again as I leaned in a bit on the AI for art, although it’s a bit older than the 2025 the articles are from. heh. I’ll get there.

I think the next iteration will use 1600s fonts because I adore those - https://fonts.google.com/?query=im+fell

USA! USA! USA!

:someone whispers rapidly in my ear:

Ah, about my recent outburst. I’d like to DOUBLE DOWN ON THAT AND USA! COAL! GAS! DIESEL!! SMOKE!!! FIRE!!! NUKULAR!!! WARRRR!!!

…erm, sorry. Sorry. Sorry sorry sorry.

(sarcasm aside, be nice if we could have more renewables. If we used something like a tenth of the land we grown corn on just to turn into ethanol (i.e. not food, not even cattle feed, but corn that we turn into ethanol only, adn 10% of that land) - if we used that for solar, we could power ALL of the cars in the US on electric, and free up 90% of that corn-ethanol land to grow food or something else on)

$3 rocket

This is ridiculous on its face. You’re talking $15k-$50k for such a missile. You can’t use model rocket engines. Hardware costs real money.

delightfully so

Oh dear. lol. Perhaps the idiots who wrote that idiotic take on things should have actually done a little research first. It’s so beautiful to see companies make stupid mistakes.

This reminds me it’s time for an Animatrix rewatch :)

My only problem is that it’s not just cables, but like 10 banker boxes of crap that I don’t want to throw away in case I ever need, but it takes up space in the apartment and the main reason is because i’m poor enough that I can’t afford to replace all of that shit, but that shit just needs to go.

If I didn’t have that clutter (in the boxes, outside of the boxes), I’d have a neater place, and that would make it more pleasant to live here.

The bad news is that ICANN is headquartered in the US. But it’ll be much harder to pressure than the US-based Ethos Capital org that owns .org.

That’s very clearly not what is happening.

Having done customer service and tech support before, I doubt rhey were overwhelmed in any sense that caused them to do a refund/replace they wouldn’t’ve otherwise. That’s not how that works. Their rules don’t change based on call volume.

it depend how new, how old, Eric.

Please do not dox your fellow users, Matt.

(I assume a typo for “etc” but I was amused) :D

That’s why my TV doesn’t get wifi access, and I use a third-party device like an Amazon Fire to do all my streaming, so at least it’s Amazon who gets my data, not LG.

/s

Okay, look. I’m picking on this comment because it appeals to the lowest common denominator.

Before I pick on it, please know:

1. I am a progressive and have been for more than three decades.
2. I despise fascism
3. I hate Musk, the nazi
4. While I’m a technology enthusiast, this autonomous bullshit is not ready for prime time, I don’t think.

So with that in mind:

Oh awesome. They don’t have steering or pedals so when the cloud service fails in 5 years, the entire car will be complete e-waste.

First of all, these cars would not depend on “the cloud”. “The cloud” refers (or at least originally referred) to a method of storing data on servers where you don’t really care about how many servers it takes or where they are or managing them, you just get a blog of space to shove data.

Even if you extend the definition of “the cloud” to include controlling these cars… that’s… really a huge stretch. And if you DO extend the definition, what you are saying at that point is “if the internet stops working” which is not going to happen. I don’t care what anyone thinks about the state of usability of social media or whatever, the internet itself is not just going to disappear.

The vehicles will not magically go bad. Maybe the business might choose to destroy them if they stop the service or something like that, but that would be a stupid business-type decision, not a technical one.

I just get tired of people saying things out of emotion that are just completely off-base. So I’m picking on this one as an example of what I see all day on Lemmy.

And I’m sure I say shit that qualifies as such. I do try to keep an open mind. I have been persueded on subjects before - by facts from sources and such. Or just good ways of thinking about things that I didn’t know before.

There’s plenty to rail against, but when we use boneheadedly wrong information to do so, it’s really much less effective.

And again, I’m just using this comment as one example of things I see day in and day out. And once again I emphasize that I know I’m probably guilty of it myself - and I get called out and sometimes I agree and sometimes I don’t (sometimes someone calling me out is wrong, too - like… MSG, for a completely different topic. It’s been studied. It’s a safe ingredient. Maybe there’s EXTREMELY rare problems, but 99.999% of people who say they’re allergic definitely aren’t. It’s bullshit, and the myth was built on racism.)

Anyway.

That you and your daughter rock aside, anecdata alas does not trump statistics.

Well, this has the potential to positively impact a project I’m an active part of: Simutrans. Simutrans is FOSS, so if software became required to verify age, it would definitely cause issues for us. So this is potentially some good news.

While I personally dislike age verification, I’m only a little worried about government overreach. Not totally unconcerned, mind, but I’m not so sure it’ll generally be quite as huge of a deal as some seem to think. But I don’t particularly like it.

So to me, this is a potential positive step in pushing more to Linux/FOSS, which I think is generally a good thing. And if I’m right and age verification isn’t a huge deal, I still think this is good for that reason. And if some of the more worried folks are correct, then this potentially could be huge.

I guess you don’t have enough… :puts on sunglasses:… Tenacity

I don’t.

…because I waste it on my desktop computer. :/

LLMs suck at writing code,

So far.