#meme #CorporateMemphis

Move slowly and fix things.

I don't know who made this but ngā mihi! #KiaKahaTeReoMāori

Gotta love Japan

Yay, its here!

@amin @nantucketebooks

Please see our sparkly new about page for updated information and rules! 🎉 https://photog.social/about

Much of this was taken from the previous admin(s) writings and the rules are largely the same except more specific.

The first rule will take effect immediately of course, and all others in a week, thanks!

Also there are many more rainbows!

and sign-ups will be reopened in a bit!!

My brother just told me on the phone that the company he's been at since he left university is the one that created all the diegetic computer graphics in Alien

🤯

I feel sorry for people whose art style involved saturated colours and exaggerated over-defined edges before genML made it repulsive to everyone.

To kind of summarize some of the recent #Bluesky drama. Yesterday Bluesky changed their Terms of Service to require binding arbitration. Users are unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go. Today, Bluesky banned a user for wishing ill of J.K. Rowling for her anti-trans hate. Users are very unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go.

Get it?

Oh wow... JayzTwoCents did a 'I switched to Linux for gaming' video. Mind blown.

"It was a pretty seamless experience."

Kudos for Bazzite for making it a smooth run. Must be a heads up to either Fedora for keeping 32-bit around or Valve to bump support to 64-bit. #linux #linuxgaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8nMiEoti0

still find it hilarious that the official windows twitter account posted a picture of a windows bootleg once

I’m constantly amused by the idea that we will invent AGI and AI will solve all of our problems. We don’t need AGI to solve our problems, even ChatGPT can already tell us obvious solutions to our current problems.

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change. The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.

Digging into the drive in my NAS that faulted, I'm reminded that magnetic hard drives are preposterously magical technology.

Case in point, using Seagate's tools I can get the drive to tell me how much it's adjusted the fly height of each of its 18 heads over the drive's lifetime, to compensate for wear and stuff. The drive provides these numbers in _thousandths of an angstrom_, or 0.1 _picometers_.

For reference, one helium atom is about 49 picometers in diameter. The drive is adjusting each head individually, in increments of a fraction of a helium atom, to keep them at the right height. I can't find numbers of modern drives, but what I can find for circa ten years ago is that the overall fly height had been reduced to under a nanometer, so the drive head is hovering on a gas bearing that's maybe 10-20 helium atoms thick, and adjusting its position even more minutely than that

This is _extremely_ silly. You can buy a box that contains not just one, but several copies of a mechanism capable of sub-picometer altitude control, and store shitposts on it! That's wild.

Anyway my sad drive apparently looks like it had a head impact, not a full crash but I guess clipped a tiny peak on the platter and splattered a couple thousand sectors. Yow. But I'm told this isn't too uncommon, and isn't the end of the world? Which is, again, just ludicrous to think of. The drive head that appears to have bonked something has adjusted its altitude by almost 0.5 picometers in its 2.5 years in service. Is that a lot? I have no idea!

Aside from having to resilver the array and the reallocated sector count taking a big spike, the drive is now fine and both SMART and vendor data say it could eat this many sectors again 8-9 times before hitting the warranty RMA threshold. Which is very silly. But I guess I should keep an eye on it.

Mastodon is perfect for GenX because we’re all just roaming from house to house totally unsupervised and unless something goes really wrong nobody cares #GenX

I love optical illusions.

Also, I don't know who drew this image. Sorry for not giving credit!

@divbyzero @edemaine ok I did a bug fix and added gamma correction and can confirm: this works really well

all of these scan just fine on my phone

anyway the code is at https://codeberg.org/andrew-t/dithered-qr-codes but it's not good code, it's something i threw together in an hour or so and then tidied up like 15%

The @dino and #Conversations_im developers have a booth at @FrOSCon. Come find us to talk about #XMPP and grab some merch.

Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025)

"These days, binding arbitration is everywhere, allowing corporations to proceed with total legal impunity. When a woman died of allergens in her Disney World meal (after being told it was allergen-free), Disney told her widower that he couldn't sue because he'd clicked through a binding arbitration waiver when he signed up for a free trial of the Disney Plus streaming service [...]"

Link : https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/#by-clicking-this-you-agree-on-behalf-of-your-employer-to-release-me-from-all-obligations-and-waivers-arising-from-any-and-all-NON-NEGOTIATED-agreements

#bluesky #moderation #socialmedia #enshittification

#cycling #memes #meme #bicicleta