It’s Seattle’s own Jimothy! I have a small stack of them cut out from 16 gauge steel. Would anyone be interested for $30 plus shipping? North America only for now, sadly. DM me an email address if you want one! I’ll update this post if I run out.
Remote
Tilton Raccoon
@tilton@fursuits.online
mastodon 4.5.10Raccoon from the Seattle area. Greymuzzle, but young at heart. I live in the woods and melt metal. Recovering software engineer.
0 Followers
0 Following
50 Posts
Joined May 17, 2024
Homepage:
Pronouns:
He/Him
Alignment:
Chaotic Good
Location:
Kitsap County, Washington, USA
"Yeah but it's really good at programming", dude I don't fucking care. I don't actually think that's true, but it doesn't matter whether it's true or not because the collateral damage is TOO MUCH. AI is destroying the internet, it's destroying people's brains, data centers are tearing apart communities, it's killing the supply chain, and you don't care because you feel productive? Go fuuuuuck yourself.
New stickers for my welding hood
I have a Gmail account but I almost never use it. I logged in for the first time in ages today to send a test email, and what the fuck? The site is almost unusable now. I was getting absolutely devastating lag when typing in a shitty little floating compose box. How did it get this bad?
I’m now officially half the person I used to be. I weighed 365 pounds in 2018, and as of today I weigh 182 pounds. Holy cow! I can stand up and walk for hours and not even be uncomfortable.
I can't stop watching the dancing birds animation, it's so good. So good.
birds for some reason
I’m kind of excited about this huge patch of blackberry I found on our property. It’s not the invasive “Himalayan” blackberry that takes over and kills everything else, this is actually the native kind, Rubus ursunus, called trailing blackberry or California blackberry. I can eat it without guilt!
My first welding cut-and-etch test! :D This is MIG on quarter inch steel: Excellent penetration on the weld on the right, I’m happy with that.
I miss the days when computer people wore black t-shirts that said “go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script”
I’m still on my “native plants” kick. I will have to soften my stance though, because the more I look the more I realize that getting rid of ALL non-native plants on our property is just a pipe dream. That ship sailed 200 years ago. All I can do is tackle the noxious weeds as best I can, and encourage native plants as best I can.
“The more young people use AI, the more they hate it: Caught between fears of job loss and social stigma, Gen Z’s opinions of AI are hitting new lows.” (The Verge)
Nice, the bay of our garage that I turned into a workshop area has a 9-foot door, so I can just barely squeeze the mini excavator in for maintenance!
Québécois French sure sounds different 😰
Also, never forget: Le mot «gosse» signifie «enfant» en France et «couille» au Québec.
(The word “gosse” means “kid” in France, and “testicle” in Québec)
“Hey, do you want to see a picture of my kids?”
(* except in the United States)
Replying to
@notthatdelta@furry.engineer People have found true love in a lot weirder places than here! Good luck :3
I can't read the name Warsh without hearing it like Delmar O'Donnell in "O Brother Where Art Thou" saying 'washed'. "The preacher done warshed away all my sins and transgressions!"
I love flux core welding, it's so underrated. It's fun! It's also super fucking dirty, but then again, it's fun. Did I mention it's fun? Also dirty.
This is what marriage records looked like in Québec in 1916. My ancestor is on this page! (I really don't feel like I'm doxxing myself here 😅)
The handwriting is super difficult for me to read, there are some words I can't figure out, but mostly I can read it, avec difficulté!
Replying to
@jackemled@furry.engineer I have paid for Fastmail for almost ten years now, and I'm very happy with them. It's such a simple idea: I give them money, and in exchange they host my email and don't do any data harvesting or AI training or anything. Just a boring old service.
WE'RE NUMBER 2! WE'RE NUMBER 2! WE'RE NUMBER 2!
I guess at least we're not California!
This is going to sound like I'm making it up, but I swear it happened. Around 2006 I was shown "American Movie" by some friends. I knew nothing about it, so the entire time I was watching it I assumed it was a "Spinal Tap" style mockumentary. It was hilarious, I kept thinking "man, the writing and acting are SO GOOD!" After it was over and I mentioned this, my future husband just stared at me and said "... uh, no, that was a documentary. That was real." My entire world imploded in an instant.
It finally happened. I was accused of being AI on Reddit. It stings 😞
I was going to read The Odyssey before I saw the movie but what the fuck is this???? It’s just squiggly lines! How did they make this into a movie?!?!?
Replying to
@soatok@furry.engineer At my very first e-commerce job in 1997, the main router connected to the server had a sign over it:
“WHEN IN TROUBLE, OR IN DOUBT,
PULL THE PURPLE CABLE OUT!”
Replying to
@jackemled@furry.engineer Before that, I WAS hosting my own email server, but it got to be a nightmare of whack-a-mole with spam and ending up on IP range block lists, sigh.
Replying to
@colinstu The native stuff has much thinner stalks that are purple / reddish, smaller thorns (that still hurt!!), and stays close to the ground or climbs like a vine. “Himalayan” has thick green stalks that shoot up tall to find things to climb on, and huge thorns.
I finally got a set of pallet forks for my mini track loader at an auction. I’ve been looking for like six months, I guess the supply dried up over the winter! Ironically, they came strapped down to a pallet, so it would have been really useful to have some pallet forks to lift them off the truck with.
“You know what, Stuart? I like you.
You're not like the other people,
here,
in the trailer park.
Oh, don't go get me wrong, they're fine people, they're good Americans!
But they're content to sit back, maybe watch a little ‘Mork and Mindy’ on channel 57, maybe kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer...
They're good, fine people, Stuart.
But they don't know what the queers are doing to the soil!”
I really really want a small dump trailer, like a 5 x 10, but MY GOD they are astronomically expensive. You basically cannot find one for under $5,000 here in any condition, and they quickly go up. I can't afford that! I'm not made of money! 😩
Replying to
@colinstu@birdbutt.com @aetus@birdbutt.com You will both really enjoy all the sassy chicken cameos in this new Mike Festiva video X3
Replying to
@janusfox I'm too much of a noob to know for sure. The bottom penetration (heh heh) looks good, but the side penetration doesn't look acceptable.
Replying to
@keirFox@tiggi.es I’m sure the AI companies pinky swear not to use all the context window input for anything nefarious! Honest!
Replying to
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Very much my own feelings. I've been writing software in some form or another since 1985, and getting paid for it since 1995. I didn't do it because it was a paycheck, I did it because it was fun, and I did it because I loved practicing and improving a craft. I'm so disillusioned these days, it's tragic.
Replying to
@xoagray All the sources I've read say yes, this is valid and acceptable, especially because that was the standard in Quebec until surprisingly recently.
Replying to
@colinstu Tempting! X3 But really for a dump trailer I'd want a 7K axle setup, which conveniently is the towing capacity of my truck!
Replying to
@noxypaws@packmates.org I keep telling people I like Vegemite! Not exactly the same, but similar root flavor.