@GeePawHill

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GrandPaw, Geek, Software Development Coach, Writer, Ass Pain. Continuously startled by people and people-stuff. Pronouns: Don't care, will respect yours. https://geepawhill.org
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I am working on some CSV stuff, and every time I type Csv I type Cvs, and then I think of that 60' long CVS receipt wedding train from the royals' wedding.
Every issue of Byte magazine is now online. Old code. Old dreams. Still useful. The archive is a time machine. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09 #tech #history #STEM
Byte Magazine Volume 00 Number 01 - The Worlds Greatest Toy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Foreground p.20 RECYCLING USED ICs [theme Hardware] [author Mikkelsen] p.62 DECIPHERING MYSTERY KEYBOARDS [theme Hardware] [author Heltners] p.72 LIFE...

Internet Archive
Who do you find more attractive from Lord of the Rings: Aragorn or Legolas?
Straight Man: Aragorn
23.5%
Straight Man: Legolas
10.1%
Straight Woman: Aragorn
4.9%
Straight Woman: Legolas
1.7%
Lesbian Woman: Aragorn
3.3%
Lesbian Woman: Legolas
4.6%
Gay Man: Aragorn
8.3%
Gay Man: Legolas
3.1%
Bi/Pan Woman: Aragorn
10.1%
Bi/Pan Woman: Legolas
4.9%
Bi/Pan Man: Aragorn
6.8%
Bi/Pan Man: Legolas
5.6%
Enby: Aragorn
6%
Enby: Legolas
7.1%
Poll ended at .
Oh. The BBC is paywalled now?
A random curiosity poll! Have you ever had a portrait drawn, painted or photographed of you? (A sketch would apply as would a full oil or digital painting etc. But not simple snapshots, only a posed, deliberate portrait by a photographer!)
I have not
Photo portrait only
Drawn or painted only
Both!
Poll ends at .
I automatically mute anyone who is using AI “art” to promote their stuff, and that is in part a moral stance, but it is also an aesthetic one, because the vast majority of AI art is ugly as hell.

I have spent my entire social, political, intellectual, and professional career advocating for individuality, community, collaboration, excellence, ecology, and abundance.

LLMs -- for coding or any other activity -- are anti-individual, anti-community, anti-collaboration, anti-excellence, anti-ecology, and anti-abundance.

They are a corruption of virtually every ideal I hold and every practice I advocate.

#Via shauna
@goldengateblond
8:53 PM · Apr 25, 2026

"glad the press corps isn't alive to see this"

But the dinner is going to proceed, presumably on the assumption that all the targets are gone, and the guests are still hungry.
Prolly some administration figure backstage doing poppers on an open mic.