Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

thinking i might have to redo our battery % calculation… 8 hours after hitting ‘20%’ this one is still going lol

This weekend is the Belgian Grand Prix - a firm favourite on the calendar. The track can be a bit confusing with many different names given to the corners over the years. Here's the most recent names you'll hear during commentary.

Many thanks to Nyte Cheetah for uncovering Turn 18's name.

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I don't believe in gatekeeping knowledge, especially not knowledge that forms part of our intangible cultural heritage.

Drystone built some of the very first structures on our planet. As useful now as it was then.

So, here's a beginner's guide.

https://www.thedrystonecompany.com/drystone-diary/how-to-build-a-drystone-wall-part-one

#UNESCO #Drystone #Knowledge #Skills #TraditionalCrafts #Perthshire #Scotland

Decorating my walking cane for the trans pride march this weekend 🙂

Oh gods it's true it's so fucking true

WSJT-X SuperFox verification method is flawed.

Additionally it's closed nature makes goes against the spirit of amateur radio.

A lot of thought went into how this should be disclosed. In the end we thought it was important to give developers a chance to change their direction and approach

I've written up notes to demonstrate some of the core issues, but won't be providing technical details until after Jarvis Island dxped

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2024/07/24/superflawed/

#AmateurRadio #hamRadio

Don't roll your own crypto.

I guess a blog post coming in the future.

*Angry fox noises*

my "i did not smuggle a wallaby home" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

experimental lineless style! this was harddddddd but a lot of fun and learned a lot! will definitely give this style another go sometime :3

#Furry #FurryArt #Samoyed

That thing transphobes do, where something trips in their brains and they end up doing nothing but obsessing about trans women, while probably in a darkened room with no clean underwear surrounded by empty pot noodles and bags of their own urine.

There is a pop-psychology concept amongst tech geeks of a "basilisk". This is something that, once you become aware of it, it breaks you. You cannot come back once you have experienced the basilisk. It's a one way ticket to, usually, madness, or perhaps total system shutdown. It's generalised from the idea from antiquity of the basilisk as a creature that turns you to stone.

There's a fun story called Blit - linked here, infinityplus.co.uk/stories/bli… about a visual basilisk. Another example is something called Roko's Basilisk which is basically Pascal's wager for atheists who spend too long in Silicon Valley (it's stupid, but some of the terrible people with more money than sense, like Musk and Thiel, actually appear to believe it, and are therefore broken by it, and I reiterate, it's really, really stupid).

Anyway, in the latter case, Roko's Basilisk breaks you by becoming aware of it, BUT, here's the thing: it only works on certain people. They have to be susceptible, and in the case of Roko, the susceptibility lies around a particular weak spot in the ability of otherwise intelligent people to think critically and realise, "this is fucking stupid".

But, here's the thing, TO THOSE WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE, I've realised that trans women are a basilisk.

Look at people like Graham Lineman, J K Rowling, and a load of less famous people who have ended up in the same state. They all reached a point where SOMETHING relating to the fact that trans women exist tripped them into some downward doom spiral that has basically pushed their brain into a self-reinforcing state of insanity that they can't recover from.

There are probably several psychology PhDs for the taking on the subject of this.

But it seems I, and many women like me, are basilisks. This is a public post. Some of the people hate reading it have already passed the trigger condition. If you're one of them, you should probably empty some of those bags of your own wee and eat a fresh vegetable, if you can. Good luck!

My name is Sarah, and I am a basilisk. Fear me.

can we get a moment of appreciation for the colors of the arcade's sign in town?

#KitsuneTails

Attack for Cherryvixennn!

“When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind. – R&A IT Strategy & Architecture”

https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

> No really: ChatGPT doesn’t summarise. When you ask ChatGPT to summarise this text, it instead shortens the text. And there is a fundamental difference between the two. To summarise, you need to understand what the paper is saying.

This is why LLMs frequently make subtle but devastating errors while summarising