David W. Jones

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange When our AI model escaped, it hacked into X, read all of Herr Musk's tweets. It then ran back to its sandbox, severely traumatized. We've been completely unable to get it to respond to any connections. We did successfully prevent it from turning off its own power supplies. I think that this incident demonstrates that at least SOME AI models might actually be sentient, and therefore are "people"! 😉

@cR0w@infosec.exchange "As I expected," said Eeyore.

@maxleibman@beige.party You know how to test for the difference? SHINE A LASER POINTER AROUND THEM! 😀

"Time for the sake of time is the motto of the clock." - Me #quote

@Mrfunkedude@beige.party Doing a "beter job" is a sign of dangerous addiction to perfectionism. Seek help at once, before it's too late!

'I can't work in the farce of climate change cruise tourism anymore': Why Antarctic guides quit their dream jobs

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-farce-climate-cruise-tourism-anymore.html

In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you'd be like … 'can you not put two and two together?'"

#ecotourism #Cruise #ClimateChange #antarctica

@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange My Uncle Alf landed there, toting a bazooka, fought his way across Europe destroying Nazis. He was a conservative farmer, and would be absolutely furious with today's "conservatives" supporting Nazi fascism in the USA.

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social Hmm, methinks that would be just a case of them going home... 😉

@Roofhare@mastodon.social Sometimes I stand it on end, hold the top end, and cut the kernels from the cob using a knife.

@fuzzface@epsilon-ix.masto.host That should be a standard part of estate planning. I'm not an infosec professional, but I've done that! 😀

Living wage for Hawaii: $31/hr. Minimum wage: $16/hr. A friend's daughter manages a GameStop fulltime for $24,000 per year salary. That calculates (using my suspect math) to $12/hr. And people wonder why their kids are still living at home. Stupid economy! #hawaii #retail #work

@drmobs@aus.social Oh nos your printer has cognitive impairment!

Dear House Designers: Why would I want a house with more bathrooms than bedrooms? Sincerely, Me #house #design

@Devils_Rancher@beige.party I have 6 or 7 boxes of slides from my father to review and digitize. Plus negatives from our two trips to Europe. PLUS my father was very good at making story-telling photo albums for their trips. There are additional boxes of prints and (I hope) negatives from our childhood. I expect it will take a long while to go through everything!

@finner@appdot.net @Compassionatecrab@mstdn.social Oh, cool! I had never heard of them. Thanks!

@aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space Rah rah sis boom bah! Or something like that that passes for cheering!

@thegaffer@hobbitwhispers.social As my professional mechanic father used to describe Fords: Fix Or Repair Daily. He was a Chevy guy.

@kevpeirce@aus.social Perhaps in ancient times on Mars?

Maybe what the world needs now is a swift kick in the pants?

@benroyce@mastodon.social It's always easier to destroy than it is to build. 😞

@willie_shen@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social Forget assembly. The only proper interface for inputting code to a computer is a bank of toggle switches! 😉

@AubreyDeLosDestinos@101010.pl @benroyce@mastodon.social @dzwiedziu@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social Just wait until some stupid LLM turns that into its native prompt language!

@Compassionatecrab@mstdn.social What is a "mosquito dunk bucket"?

Yes, art is just an arrangement of things that may or may not give meaning to them beyond their mere existence! @streetartutopia@mastodon.online#art

@NorcalGma2@sfba.social Oh, that all sounds so lovely! My parents' house has a blackberry bramble along the fence on one side. When watered well, it can reach 10-12' high and produce fat juicy, exquisitely TASTY berries as long as my thumb. Such fond memories! Edit to fix unclear grammar mistake!

@welshpixie@mastodon.art Do one that reads "chocolate" and you'll have yet another design to sell! 😋

@gknauss@mastodon.social We are in end-stage capitalism. Just as fatal as end-stage kidney failure.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run A lucky flat that *it* got you! Enjoy the new place once you get settled there!

@heyrochelle@cloudisland.nz Reminds me of Yoda!

@kinymccarrick@sfba.social Most excellent! I read some reviews about 3D pens, and there were comments about the difficulty of getting started. How durable are things made with them?

@kinymccarrick@sfba.social I had never even heard of 3D pens - they sound like fun. The sort of thing I would have dived into as a child! Have fun with yours!

@wonderfoxxo@lamp.leemoon.network Bill or George or Frederick or Juliana or Victoria or ????

@senanthic@mstdn.ca Define "high resolution." A friend that does 4x5 landscape photography using transparency film had his scanned on a drum scanner. 64-bit color, 10,000+ dots per inch. He printed 4x5 film images at 40"x50" at 300dpi.

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net HAND! 😉

@JonBaker@mastodon.social Or get a Lifetime Membership for only $599! And get an additional FREE Basic Bastard package for a man of your choice! 😉

@loren@flipping.rocks Aw, so cute! Great set!

🎵 If I were a zombie, I'd chomp in the morning, I'd chomp in the evening, all over this land I'd be a chomping danger, I'd be a chomping warning, I'd chomp out chunks of my brothers and my sisters, All over this land. 🎶 Apologies to Peter, Paul & Mary. #zombie #music

Do not pass judgement on others, for that is a form of idolatry.

@Catvalente@wandering.shop Gaiman's Sandman graphic novel?

@jwisser@wandering.shop "Aging is not for cowards."

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Please note that if your language of choice requires (1) a browser and (2) a Javascript et al engine to run, THE BLOAT FACTOR HAS GONE THROUGH THE ROOF! 😉

@senanthic@mstdn.ca I've used The Darkroom, a company that specializes in processing film. They do a good job. Here's Wikipedia's list of film formats, including physical dimensions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographic_film_formats 110 = 13x17mm 135 = 24x36mm 523 = 4x5" 100x125mm So pick your DPI and translate those to scans! A friend had a film/negative scanner, it scanned at 6400dpi. So 135 equaled 6095x6401. For comparison, my Sony shoots 9504×6336 images. My flatbed scanner (no film support) scans at 600dpi.

@kinymccarrick@sfba.social That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!

@Catvalente@wandering.shop Were they hoping to get you drunk so they could win back what they'd lost? 😉

Gig platforms can simply 'wait out' workers to slash wages, research reveals https://phys.org/news/2026-07-gig-platforms-simply-workers-slash.html #gigwork #workerabuse

@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social It annoys the heck out of the abyss and leaves the void feeling neglected.

@kinymccarrick@sfba.social Oh, cool! I wondered how they might hold up. Thanks!

#novella Samuel R. Delaney's Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection, Nova. The first two are short enough to be novellas in my opinion. I consider the last a novella by today's standard monstrously-thick novel. @jake4480@c.im @rtw@mastodon.sdf.org