Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 5

Any one know what this card is? Yes, it’s one card with dual 16-bit ISA. (My best guess is early 90s videoconferencing.) #retrocomputing

Live your life in a way social media servers don’t crash from too much celebration when you die

✅ Exhaustive list of things at "AI" generated text has made better:

❌ Non-exhaustive list of things that "AI" generated text has made worse:
- Search results
- Scientific studies
- How-to articles and repair instructions
- Cooking recipes
- Information on poisonous plants and mushrooms
- Information about disease symptoms
- News
- Marketing copy
- Customer support replies
- Product descriptions in online stores
- Bugs and data corruption through subtly wrong generated code
- Ripping off authors

When I’m president I’ll mandate mechanical keyboards and plasma screens on laptops, sorry not sorry

It’s fascinating how many people constantly discover that America has a center-right party and an ultra-right party.

@amigalove oh nice! I have a Commodore 64 PSU that looks like that, probably from the same guy?

OMG @amyhoy got me a shitty camera for my birthday!! #ShittyCameraChallenge

@foone well, obviously they stored it on duotronic cartridges

@amigalove Atari 800s? I think this is much likely earlier. I’d say maybe early 80s.

@Gargron @codinghorror Yes, they would, however building inherently safe systems and media literacy aren’t mutually exclusive

@Gargron @codinghorror if we IT people do our jobs right the average user shouldn’t have to think about these things

@amigalove where how want

Good question, website!

1. Faster page loading
2. Content doesn't get obscured
3. Not getting tracked by data brokers
4. Not getting infected by ransomware via vulnerable ad networks
5. Forcing publishers to pursue sustainable revenue streams instead of racing to the click-bait bottom

@foone @gewt

Does anyone know who won this?

@foone @dosnostalgic stop ruining things by these... uhm... revelations

The first season of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo went harder than I remember

⚠️ PSA for US peeps: please don’t forget, new COVID boosters are available now and recommended for everyone.

Schedule an appointment right now to be better protected.

Tech bros who are ostensibly worried about ethics towards "sentient AI" are weirdly extremely blasé about ethics when it comes to human beings

Periodic reminder to not use Google Chrome (they’re moderating bookmarks now) https://strangeobject.space/@silvermoon82/110969122337810598

Use Firefox or Safari, they have proper end-to-end encryption (browser maker can’t read the data) of bookmarks and other private and personal browsing information (like your passwords!).

I can’t stress enough just how ridiculous it is that most of you just hand Google your passwords to everything from your bank accounts to porn sites.