Posts by tilton@fursuits.online
(DIR) Post #AwAjoR59DIDODfijc8 by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-07-15T22:43:53Z
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The hottest thing in local Seattle politics is the city's war on Saint Rat / Hot Rat Summer, a mosaic that someone put up (without permission) on the old pumphouse in Cal Anderson Park last year. Recently, city workers have been painting over the mosaic, and good citizens have been cleaning off the mosaic to restore it when they do so. It is a fierce battle, and one I hope the citizens win. We must fight for Hot Rat Summer.
(DIR) Post #AwSqOMlEMUPqLArsDg by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-07-24T15:20:00Z
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I still hate cryptocurrency culture, but I’m going to keep beating the drum that we need to look at strategies for alternate currencies when payment processors control what we can and cannot see and do. Angry queer disillusioned tech people have some power here. If we can do it without burning the planet, please let’s do it.
(DIR) Post #AxCXxQI0SzJXYwB1LU by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-08-08T23:18:02Z
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One of the things that pisses me off most about today's "AI" hype is that I grew up loving symbolic AI. That's the kind of AI that flourished before a big "AI Winter" killed off funding and research. It was based on the idea that you could fill a computer with facts, rules about how to operate on those facts, and build expert systems that could reason about things like a human would. It was promising! But all that's out the window now, LLMs sucked all the air out of the room.
(DIR) Post #AxN7Koi9H0NFwRtVR2 by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-08-20T19:53:18Z
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Inshallah, let it be true 🙏
(DIR) Post #Ay4kdmbxYVi0wOJL4C by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-09-10T21:10:35Z
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Sign at the local hardware store
(DIR) Post #AzmEnvRm0KSOEqj43U by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-09-20T19:55:20Z
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Never forget: It must be necessary to read carefully manual before using.
(DIR) Post #B09g9165iQUkzZWNyC by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-11-12T01:50:44Z
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Watching a cartoon from 1989 that I loved as a kid and have fond memories of, and suddenly:WHAM!Outrageous over the top Asian stereotypes. Thick accents, buck teeth, narrow eyes behind glasses, all look alike, bowing in unison. Yikes, uncomfortable as hell.I know "it was a different time", etc., but damn. It's ironic that you ABSOLUTELY COULD NOT get away with this today, but blatant, all-out, naked white supremacy gets you a podcast and a big following now.
(DIR) Post #B0LcBOqcTLwnYNf2aO by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-11-17T17:26:51Z
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Ever wonder why the "vi" editor uses H, J, K, and L keys for cursor navigation, and why Unix shells traditionally use "~" as an alias for the home directory?The ADM-3A terminal was a very popular and inexpensive Unix terminal in the 1970s. Notice where the arrow keys are, and where the "~" key is? It influenced a lot!
(DIR) Post #B1Pvfjl9ZAmPQIhM7k by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-12-19T19:14:04Z
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Rather a larger display than I had on my C64 when I was a kid.
(DIR) Post #B1PvflLhelbuLwo3jU by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-12-19T19:35:46Z
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Compare and contrast: A Polaroid of me in 1985 after unboxing my original C64
(DIR) Post #B1aHOuPr6JrIaiTI1Y by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-12-24T16:40:50Z
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Building my workbench in America with American tools and American lumber and American screws has reminded me how much I loathe US customary units, and much I long for everything being metric. They make these ridiculously expensive construction calculators because everyone fucking hates trying to figure out what 38 3/4” divided by four is, or how many square inches 2’ x 19 1/2” is.
(DIR) Post #B1aHOvuNYJrvDflBEu by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-12-24T17:45:58Z
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We were in the process of going Metric in the 1970s. You know who killed it? That’s right: Ronald Reagan(This is a gross oversimplification, but it’s not *wrong* either)
(DIR) Post #B1cIkoVeEM5Euh6qi8 by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-12-25T19:33:13Z
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I’m looking for some advice. I’m going to be insulating and drywalling our garage, but the electrical panels are a problem area. As you can see, the generator subpanel is deeper than the main panel and sticks out quite a way. I’m going to move the two sockets that are between them, but I’m not sure what the cleanest solution is for this. I was thinking of framing out a box around them and adding cabinet doors for access, I think that is allowed by code. What would you do?
(DIR) Post #B287ytMKnCyscmIUYS by tilton@fursuits.online
2026-01-10T02:44:35Z
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Score! I found a porno mag stuffed into the rafters while I was prepping for insulation. Great place to hide it from your wife, I guess.
(DIR) Post #B2QtEXX9ceGBzi9OjY by tilton@fursuits.online
2025-12-23T16:06:53Z
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If you haven’t seen it yet, I encourage you to watch Benn Jordan’s latest video about Flock cameras, in association with 404 Media, and share it with people who might not know about Flock. It’s only 11 minutes long. If you have access to city council meetings where they might be considering Flock, go to them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo
(DIR) Post #B39Mvu0n5Xk16UpBOy by tilton@fursuits.online
2026-02-09T16:14:10Z
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It is not lost on me that the “think of the children!!” movement that’s ruining literally everything right now is spearheaded by people who either fuck 14 year olds or hang out with people who fuck 14 year olds. It‘s never about the kids. They just want to control you, that’s it.
(DIR) Post #B3FnL0D4wb3ZK6xdbc by tilton@fursuits.online
2026-02-12T18:26:24Z
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Say it with me, and internalize it: “Statistically likely text is not intelligence!”If you’re more of a nerd you can replace “text” with “tokens”, same thing.Fuck, it’s so easy for our brains to trick us into seeing meaning when there is no meaning.
(DIR) Post #B3FnL4Ux05jGchLy1A by tilton@fursuits.online
2026-02-12T18:36:03Z
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The LLM’s model has ingested every piece of text that has ever been on the Internet and built a huge matrix of weights of what strings of words are related to other strings of words. Then it uses this to generate new strings of words that are very statistically likely. It looks like magic, and it’s technologically very spiffy, but I assure you it’s just a combo of math and our own brains going “wow!”
(DIR) Post #B3G7Q9J0YJ5u42SwFs by tilton@fursuits.online
2026-02-12T22:13:31Z
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In Canada, engineers are presented with iron rings that were once apocryphally made out of metal from a failed bridge, as a reminder of the solemn duty to their work. I’m convinced CS graduates should have to wear rings made out of a Therac-25.
(DIR) Post #B3K0zJvT8UDs5i7Rya by tilton@fursuits.online
2026-02-11T18:47:40Z
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Post a picture of the inside of an American main electric service panel to horrify a European