Tik Tok - a shite mine

Who would have though it - but no one will be held responsible for the harm it causes.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/31/more-than-half-of-top-100-mental-health-tiktoks-contain-misinformation-study-finds

#TikTok #MentalHealth #Harm #Shite

I thought I might start an irregular post series called Shite AI.

#1. The loose fruit/veg scales in my local supermarket now have an AI camera attached in order to automatically determine which produce is being weighed. Weighing produce now takes 2 to 3 times longer. Thanks AI.

#shite-ai

#VE #VEDay #PalkyWorld FYI My father returned from #Japan in 1948. #War is #shite. Today their will be much #flagshagging . I will be avoiding this by listening to #BBCRadio3 and #BBC6Music. and sitting quietly in a community garden 'reflecting'. As my Muslim friends say 'peace be upon us'. As Dave Allen was wont to say "may your God be with you#. From me just love and 🕊️ ☮️

#shite

Yesterdays #hack get: “80s tech to work with 2025 tech”

“Hack, hack, watch Jack hack”

I’ve got a stack of CDs I usually listen to in the car. Car is permanently broken. The replacement car has no CD player (#tape or #8track 🤣) so I’ll have do some tinkering.

* First get out an unused #SONY #BoomBox to play #CD s. 📻

* Second locate a #bluetooth transmitter. Check bluetooth standard is BT 5.0 compatible.

* Third, find USB-A to USB-C power for the XMitter

* Four, power supply for boombox, C6.

* Five find a 3.5mm AUX cable to connect to XMitter.

* Six and dodgiest, PAIR bluetooth from boombox XMitter to car.

Now I can run the car audio without #streaming #shite music 🔊, not have to mess around with BS phone issues. ☺️

#Audio / #sound / #RockMusic / #Music / #Media

Bing Wallpaper, which normally provides a daily scenic background which I enjoy, has decided to blork up everyone's desktops today with some AI awfulness.

Look in the bottom-left quadrant of the image. "Would you like the turn lane that runs you into the building, or the straight lane that just ends in the sea?" Also it reuses the same multi-lane road cropped from the bridge over and over. Absolute garbage, this.

#ai #garbage #images #pictures #wallpaper #shite

@dim0kq #shite hope this #madness #war stops soon https://infosec.exchange/@Linknation/113958174235007123

Ho Ho!! what's this, #Gitlab VScode plugin #Feature advertising #Enshitification delivered to your editors next new line !?

Oh well Gitlab, your plugin is now gone, removed from my #VScodium instance..

Keep your #Shite pushy feature advertising out of my text file editor.

Guess that's the queue to find a new on-prem git server .. if they'll push paid features on #FOSS users in an editor plugin with an `Opt out` styled delivery, folks with ethics and concerns will walk, from *all* their products ...

(Like they all did for #Microsoft when they bought GitHub, ring any bells? )

When the work instance comes up for serious upgrade/renewal, I'll be pushing for a change. Consider it instant dismissal if I see it in the Gitlab CE on-prem code.

Wonder if #Gitea does this sort of bullshit for their on-prem git server code, chime in if you have seen such ??

impossible to heart or laugh emoji the #shite !

#MumpRegime
#cabinetofincompetents #hegsethisunfit #drunkforhire

I bloody well detest acronyms.

Pretentious shite

#Acronym #shite

#leon #smuck #melonia #engineers do the work. All of Starlink satellites block ground based #astronomy observations Coming back to #melonia that #shite should not be allowed to live.

ok, a word of advice, don't use messenger on the PC. The latest update is pretty useless. It keeps logging you out every few days which means you have to go through the login process again every so often. #shite!

Even the #england players can't be bothered with International Break. What a shit state of affairs.

#InternationalBreak #NationsLeague #shite #fedifc

#tepublicans know they cannot win without doing this kind of #shite.
they don't win on the issues. they don't win on facts.
#electioninterference #votersuppression #arson

https://x.com/rawstory/status/1849497039572287791?s=42

Shite French

The difference between someone named Shite wanting tutoring about French, versus some unknown person wanting tutoring in Shite French.

#tutoring #French #shite #difference

iOS18 canNOT come soon enough if it does ANYTHING to improve the predictive (laugh) facility in the iOS keyboard.

I’ve only owned my iPhone for years and years and Apple only has my name listed in 42,000 different places, so it’s understandable that when I swipe

Alan

I get

Allen
Alen
Alun
Eric
Graham
Bernard
…but so often NOT (for fucks sakes)
Alan

#ios #apple #shite #ux

Feeling low. It doesn't usually hit until about November, so this is new. 🫤 #mentalhealth #shite

There is so much going on right now and I want you to make sure you understand that it's ok to feel lost or bewildered or even hopeless sometimes.

But it's also easy to miss the bright spots -- the things that are out there which require a bit of digging and a little bit more of believing exist before you find them.

For instance, did you know that recently it was discovered that Derek Blasberg spent the night at Gwynneth Paltrow's place, and shit the bed and then ran before anyone woke up?

It’s an office day today. I’m up early to start my exercising and to get some shite* done and here I am typing in this completely useless blog post.

Motivation level = Zero.

Hey! I am trying to pick off another episode of Torchwood because I am trying to finish off the show (even though I don’t exactly love it) and here is season three episode one and Peter Capaldi is in it! Doctor Who Number 12’s actor in his second of two Doctor Who related roles from before he was actually cast as The Doctor. Fascinating.

Where was I?

Oh yeah. The morning routine. Let’s start my exercising and maybe get some shite done before I have to drive in to work.

*Back in the 1980’s I started obsessively reading the novels and short stories written by Clive Barker. Mr. Barker, in at least one of his works, used the word “shite”. I had never heard or read that word before. Mr. Barker is from Liverpool. Is shite a Liverpudlian thing? I don’t know. I do know that I am currently a little more than half way through the audio book version of Weaveworld and hearing the word shite get used again is making me feel nostalgic for the old days of language discovery and shite.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/07/03/up-and-unmotivated/

#books #cliveBarker #doctorWho #exercise #motivation #peterCapaldi #shite #Television #torchwood #weaveworld