Notices by Ret (ret@furry.engineer)

Saw this on Bluesky and thought I'd try it myself... and yes the Amazon sales robot will happily ERP with you with very little engineering...

New fidget spinner just dropped

When I feel better I think I’m going to try making some videos

@kirb I love that it doesn't describe anything about it at all. It's just words and numbers now. The might have well of renamed it to "Wibble 42" or something.

Further to the Gemini AI complaints yesterday, I stared at this for a good 20 seconds the first time it appeared, trying to understand why it was suggesting I should write in Polish.

@gorplop yeah VHS is a very complicated set of effects that, when faked badly, look awful. If you want proper VHS effect, record it onto a VHS and capture it again ;)

@gorplop never a truer word spoken tbh.

the fuck is the deal with absolutely insane fake film grain in modern movies? I feel like I'm watching on a badly-tuned analogue TV set

The way this AI stuff is presented from a UI standpoint is always so fucking condescending.

Even Clippy wasn't this rude.

I hear $HAWKTUAH has had a consensus split... call that a Fork Tuah.

This case makes me feel things :blobfoxhyper2:

@GossiTheDog meanwhile, Fujitsu’s new Post Office chatbot has accused 12 people of murder, all of whom are awaiting sentencing.

thinking about the JustEat billboard I saw where the soldiers from "Squid Game" are delivering your takeaway and how like... off-message... that is

like, what even is capitalism anymore? everything is just reduced to meaningless slop to sell unrelated widgets to people

@gorplop are there any holes in the hard plastic front on the right-hand side for binding posts? I wonder if some models had front-panel connectors? Could be moddable?

@gorplop that is a very good question...

QUICKLY you have 5 seconds. You want to carry on talking to the person you’re on with already. Which do you tap?

if I’m on a call and this appears I just throw the phone away and scream

is it just me? Or is this the worst thing ever?

Been deep-dive reading specs and implementing toy code for TETRA MAC Random Access Procedures and hooo boy are they involved :blobfoxsweating: Particularly when you factor in all the special cases (minimum mode, discontinuous transmission).

It definitely feels like one of those things that started off simple (I mean it's slotted ALOHA at the end of the day) and just the "yeah but if x then y" cases just stacked up over time until describing it takes 200 pages and still manages to gloss over a lot of specific detail.