iolar @iolar@zitidar.barsoom.cc
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Passing on skills (by u/Mono_420)
(AI Alt-Text)
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What paywalls were made for!
New essay on how so many people have camped out, so enthusiastically, in the departure lounge of reality…
…in which I share the beliefs of some of actual real-life family members, and I do not want to get in trouble.
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/there-are-no-alternative-facts-some
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As a kid on the C64 this load sequence meant top shelf, best of the best. It also meant uncopyable.
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Whoever is complaining about stepping on LEGO doesn’t have a child that likes to leave these scattered about the house.
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#meshtastic #bbs #tc2bbs messaging service and bulletin board using meshtastic direct messages as an interface to a server #heltecv3 #ubuntu
https://youtu.be/XOg7WHpgqfk
and
https://youtu.be/d6LhY4HoimU
awesome ! With the meshtastic mesh you can retrieve messages and access bulletin boards. Reminds me of .... internet. With no service providers. Home-made net.
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The state of search in 2024:
Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up 
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Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"
DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"
Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)
Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"
Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"
Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"
Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]
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A more modern histomap constructed by Schofield & Sims in 2016
Compare to a similar timeline constructed by John B. Sparks in 1931
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A sad day for #retrogaming
Even the site itself is retro.
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So I feel like this should be obvious, in general, but it's a good, strong move to use your normal choice of cleaner (LA's, Simple Green, Super Clean, 99% IPA) to get most of the paint off, and reserve a special bottle of paint blitzer for the hard to clean bits.
On the other hand, I have cleaned like fifty minis in these two glass jars (using about 2/3 of my half liter supply) and they are still going super strong.
#paintingMinis #miniatures #painting #paintingMiniatures #miniaturePainting
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While I was working on compiling a PDF proof of some writing drafts this morning, I realized MS had "enhanced" office with AI. Without asking, without consent.
I was able to do the registry edit solution and now the AI.exe task does not appear to be loading when I go in to work on a draft.
https://thegeekpage.com/how-to-disable-the-artificial-intelligence-ai-host-feature/
I want to again remind people that AI is an equal opportunity robber. Your rough drafts? Private journals? AI don't care and will gobble that up.
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This is another of my favourites, just because it confused my son so much 😅 Are you old enough to remember rewinding a video game with a pencil? ✏️
Find this and many other retrogaming, TTRPG and nerdy goodness at https://store.streamelements.com/pixelbandits ❤️
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Yep...
(Mood, while trying to explain #ClimateCrisis as lived from Africa, with my 90yo father in EU)
