my favorite thing about resonite is that people can just send you things

@nora
semirelated, what do you use for procgen art? When I was a kid I used some 3d fractal program and some 2d program that I can't remember the name of that was kind of like povray, but 2D. seeing people use it to generate baobab trees blew 14 year old me's mind

@yassie_j
you know me, selling loosie blu rays of Twin Peaks to 12 year olds

@nora
mood. Any time I post hater takes I have someone like "ok but I run a local model trained on my own text files"

like, ok? I am not talking about you then

@nora
I love how all the major "AI/LLM action groups" putting out petitions and stuff is a bunch of silicon valley bros wringing their hands over Roko's Basilisk, while ignoring the fact that it is perhaps not a wise decision to build your company entirely around The Plagiarism Machine

@yassie_j
It's funny when people get weird about poor people neighborhoods. Like, if you live there you usually get left alone! It's the weird tourists going on slum safaris that get shaken down.

I was in san francisco back in 2017, and was going to visit a friend in the tenderloin district. That is one of those districts that people insist are a "no-go zone."

Only hassle I got was one guy who asked "hey where are you going? are you lost?" and, when I told him I was visiting my friend in the section 8 housing for HIV patients down the road, he went "ah ok cool, have a nice day!"

It's the eevee! There he is! It's him! Wow!

art: @Wyrdlittleguy

Spent most of the day wrapping and delivering presents to needy families. Old lady at the lodge tried to warn the husbear that we were going into "a bad neighborhood" with the families we were delivering presents to.

spoiler alert:

1. it was fine. Not the taj mahal, but I have lived in far sketchier places than an apartment complex that happens to have a lot of single moms

2. poor families tend to live in "bad neighborhoods." That is kind of how being poor works, Linda

Was at walmart, waiting for my husband's phone to finish being repaired.

I saw that they had a god deal on the blu ray box set for Twin Peaks, and the box set for Channel Zero, so I figured I would buy them for some classic zoned out tv viewing.

At the self checkout, before I could pay, it said an associate needed to check my ID. I guess because the twin peaks movie is rated R? I was nervous, as I left my ID at home on accident and didn't know how strict Maine was about ID laws.

The walmart employee walked over, gave me quick look up and down, saw that I was buying blu rays of a 90s show, and silently scanned her badge thingy to let me finish the purchase, no questions asked. I guess buying blu rays is proof enough of being over 30.

@SeanCasten
Matthew Yglesias espousing shitty right wing propaganda? and the NYT publishing it without checking any of the facts? Guess it must be a day that ends in Y.

@yassie_j

@usernameswift @aperture @puppygirlhornypost2

"fresh, without bits"

they did bottom surgery on an orange

@kurrikage

@AzureBat

they indicate a big heart?

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adulau/115752460078075878

This is a super cool resource!

The "UNIX v4 tape" running in simh PDP11 emu on IRIX:

A random red panda picture

@sapphicselene
yes! with a window under the inner circle showing a number representing the cipher's distance from the standard alphabet

Just received a package from @runZeroInc , and I have to show it off a little bit.

I am not normally one to get excited about corporate swag but, on top of a nice hat and some cool socks, I was sent this challenge coin that spins, and works as a decoder ring. This is, without a doubt, the coolest challenge coin I've received. Thanks RunZero!

Here's the document release you were waiting for today!

The UNIX V4 tape!

https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

Credits:

* Jay Lepreau for holding on to this tape
* Aleksander Maricq for finding it
* Jon Duerig for driving it to the Computer History Museum
* Thalia Archibald for doing a huge amount of research into the tape, its history, and file formats, and the upload
* Al Kossow for the tape-reading equipment and doing the actual read
* Len Shustek for the lab where the read was done and the software used to decode it

#retrocomputing

homf