Gerva

alternate account to @Sherwoodinc

Getting to know this server and possibly moving over in the future.

interests: #ComputerScience #Teaching #Gaming #Parenting

@rl_dane well, they do it because it's, uh, `fun`
*ducks*

@Prma reaching my mid 40's I choose to believe it applies to 30's as well

@matdave self fulfilled prophecy

@Prma you're barely out of your teens (?)

Gerva boosted:
2025-06-09

@bfbcping

Photo of an old fence in a park. It's made out of wood and has moss growing on it. On the fencepost, someone has affixed a sign that says "Please like and share this post".

#Alt4You

@alice [when it's SSL but the certificate is self signed]

I used to think that -living in Argentina- no political development could ever surprise me.

Enter US.

The joys of trying to determine if a weird student request message is just weird or LLM generated

@safiuddinkhan I think actions like "check" or "present source" don't even apply to what an LLM does...

@molly0xfff garbage in, garbage out, I guess

Gerva boosted:
2025-05-30

Bike security in Bristol is reaching new levels.

A bicycle attached to a Sheffield stand with a U-lock. It is guarded by an entire swarm of cute honey bees, hanging from its handlebars.

@alice all hands on deck

@pluralistic ...what the fact?

@fedops @ParadeGrotesque @justine unsuitable for the desktop -> the user

Gerva boosted:
2025-05-28

My business model of selling tours of people's homes doesn't work if I have to get their consent.

Gerva boosted:
2025-05-28

playing with this concept over the weekend. I like how the colors/glow turned out.

Gerva boosted:

I made this size comparison of the most iconic Star Wars ships from the 90s from 3D renderings whose source site I have unfortunately forgotten. (Ship names in alt text.)

Compared to corvettes and frigates, Dreadnaught cruisers are very big boys.
Victory class Star Destroyers are just stupidly massive.
And Imperial class Star Destroyers are unbelievably, insanely gargantuan.

(Super Star Destroyers are just silly. I pretend I never saw them.)

#StarWars #scifi #SpaceOpera

Top to Bottom:
Interdictor Cruiser
Victory Star Destroyer
Nebulon-B Frigate
Action VI Freighter
GR-75 Freighter
CR90 Corellian Corvette
Imperial Star Destroyer
Dreadnaught Cruiser
Carrack Cruiser
Lancer Frigate
Strike Cruiser
MC80 Star Cruiser
Gerva boosted:
2025-05-26

You wake up to discover that a piece of software you rely on has been rewritten in ShiftLang, a programming language you might have vaguely heard of somewhere. The new maintainer cites ShiftLang having "generalized meta-proto-zygomorphic types" and "hashtable safety" as the reasons for rewrite. Though you think the software was fine as it was, clearly the maintainer knows better.

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst