Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 18

People are calling output from an inbred generative AI trained on a corpus that accidentally includes AI-generated inputs "Habsburg Art" or "Habsburg AI", and I approve.

I didn't expect this to be becoming a problem already.

#HabsburgArt #HabsburgAI
#GenerativeAI #AI

@silverwizard Sounds interesting. I always enjoy a bit of urban fantasy. Is it worth watching the 8 episodes they made?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred:…

He was a Romulan on ENT too! He is even the type specimen Romulan shown on memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/R… !

And a Dosi on DS9. And a Klingon on TNG. And a Jem'Hadar on DS9.

memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/B…

> rotary phones in their rooms with a QR code that linked to a youtube video that explained how to use them

@ghostdancer 😃

@SpaceLifeForm

@tom Just that eTax was a horrible Java applet back in 2010 and I haven't yet recovered. I'm sure the current eTax is just fine.

Also, I forget less easily when I get paper mail. I get my utility bills on paper too.

@Kermode This is a handheld correction tape, which replaces painting things over with correction fluid.

You apply the tip to the paper and pull it along the mistyped area, and boom, now there's a white layer over what you mistyped. There are glue tapes that work the same way, perhaps you have seen those.

There's a roll inside the tool, with glue or correction paint on it. As you pull, tape comes out and the substance attaches to the paper as the tape goes over the tip. The spent tape that has passed the tip goes back into the tool onto a collection roll.

I'm going downstairs to post my tax returns.

I'm holding the provided return envelope in my hand, the characteristic green envelope of the IRD. Anyone who sees it will know what it is and that I would have posted it two weeks ago if I had my life together.

I post the envelope. I can glimpse that the mailbox is full of characteristic green envelopes.

I feel validated.

@Angry Sun Every Amiga fan in 1993 knew that the Amiga couldn't do 3D games like the PC could, or they were in denial.

The AAA chipset was supposed to be our savior, but the mothership tanked while trying to deliver it.

And then to really put the nail in the coffin, the Pentium came. The 68k series was cooler, but Intel just brute-forced it and won on the MHz. Even when the 68060 finally came out a year too late to matter, it still couldn't compete on the MHz.

I guess some are still in denial three decades on.

Modern Vintage Gamer: "Doom didn't kill the Amiga...Wolfenstein 3D did"

Great overview of one strong technical reason why the Amiga faced challenges in 1992, as well as an overview of what's been happening in Amiga 3D or pseudo-3D gaming in the three decades since.

I have one quibble with the narrative: "chunky mode" isn't called "chunky" because of low resolution or anything else about how the output looks.

It's "chunky" because you can write a pixel in one write, one byte, one chunk of bits, instead of it being spread over multiple bit planes.

The comments explain why even fast chunky-to-planar conversion or a faster CPU wouldn't have helped -- the Amiga's Chip RAM simply had too low bandwidth.

I would love to see a video on the technical details on how 2020s 3D games for the Amiga manage to get around that and create an experience for the Amiga 500 that nobody in 1992 managed to create even for the double-bus-width, double-clock-frequency, fewer-cycles-per-instruction Amiga 1200.

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=wsADJa-23S…

#Amiga #Amiga500 #Amiga1200
#IDSoftware #Wolfenstein #Wolfenstein3D #Doom

“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet nonetheless free, because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

One moment #TheBoys is gratuitously slicing people's throats just for shock value or gross camp humor, the next it's quoting Sartre on existentialism.

"Person doesn't look like they did 30 years ago" and other non-headlines.

Especially when they look surprisingly similar for someone twice the age.

Migrated answer after the EDPS pilot server closed down and they moved to the new EC server:

♲ @EC_OSPO@ec.social-network.europa.eu: @clacke

Sorry, that we don't know.

And eh, happy 2023!

The churn keeps churning. Now living in the third place within 19 months.

The last move was a bit of a panic move. I'm aiming for this one to be stable. I moved here with more consideration and deliberation, and it already feels more at home than the place in the middle. I hope to be renting this until I've saved up to buy something.

It was cool to live on the top floor though, over 150 m up, now I've got that box checked on my bucket list. 😊