computers, family mention
@softgoat I seem to recall that sometimes it's the microsoft account thing that asks for a phone number for 2FA stuff?
Haven't used it for years so I don't know but could plausibly be what's going on there
Ooh, shiny, new Seiko Prospex watches
Two tunas, two arnies, all in the "street" lineup
https://www.fratellowatches.com/meet-the-seiko-prospex-urban-safari-watches/
I do like the concept of the arnie but my wrists aren't anywhere near big enough to support a 47.whatever mm case size
@mavica you wobot
gore mention
@mavica oof
uspol, covid-19, bleakly silly (I hope)
News report from 4th November 2020:
...and the winner of the 2020 presidential election is, the first candidate ever to win the election as a write-in vote, coronavirus!
Really, we should have seen that coming
Now for updates on the alien invaders who are eating everyone's faces we go to Zzzzworp McGee...
imagining a @mavica cover of Take On Me where byte is just saying "beep"
beepbeepbeepbeep beep beep beep beepbeepbeepbeepbeep
blatant misinfo
@Waces the IOC didn't like that three cruise ships were called Olympic-class and tried to sink all three
They failed with the RMS Olympic, and succeeded with the Britannic and Titanic
Yeah, the IOC did the Titanic
@mavica I've had a think and come up with some ideas, no idea if they're any good
Assembly robot: you always see industrial robots making cars and you can too! just like, with scale models of stuff
Computer vision: there's a thing called https://www.bemyeyes.com/ where you can volunteer to identify visual things for blind people, could be a helper robot!
AI doing things: mechanical turk or similar maybe? Short tasks that just have you working as an AI, also gets you some beer money
@twitter@mastodon.technology @djsundog minus the quadcopter bit that's a thing
very good at wiggly walls
Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
"i never thought someone could be such a watch nerd and yet here you are" ~ @maple