Mastodawn

If any good comes from bad people it's the renewed appreciation for good people. #gratitude

Ouija is the OG #chatbot! 👻 #AI

Had to interface with #Grok recently. Not proud of it but the outfit I work for does business with #Starlink, I'm updating our interface to work with their API v2 upgrade and they use Grok for technical and customer support. I gave it the endpoint, HTTP method and payload in question. It should have been able to provide a solution based on that information (the endpoint method changed from POST to PUT) but my manager and I (humans, both of us) figured that out instead. Useless! #noAI #AI

Tarraccas Feb 27

"Oh, you don't have to wear a #mask."

Someone at a local small town grocery store said this to me … before she cured my #cancer and reimbursed me for the cost of #chemo.

j/k Fragile, triggered #Karen was unable to mind her own business. I just stared at her blankly, having just come off a run, was tired, had my Muscle Milk and was only interested in the Quest protein cookie that this rude thing and her diseased brood of cracker spawn were currently obstructing.

#MaskUp 😷

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Tarraccas Feb 24

@BikingViking In the last photo, the snag looks like it's presenting the scene behind it. "Behold these rolling green hills under a glorious blue sky!"

Tarraccas Feb 22

I love these guys! Pitching in for some good ol' riffing. #Rifftrax #MST3K

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rifftrax/rifftrax-makes-mst3k?ref=thanks-copy

RiffTrax Makes MST3K! — Four NEW episodes in 2026!

Mike, Kevin, and Bill are heading back to the Satellite of Love for Mystery Science Theater 3000: THE RIFFTRAX EXPERIMENTS!

Kickstarter

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Tarraccas Feb 21

@Pomegranatepirate I help my dad figure things out sometimes and assure him that it's poor #UX design, not him. How I or anyone is supposed to know that pressing and holding on a poorly marked element brings up a hidden but essential menu of options is beyond me. I just tell him to start clicking trying to move things around, never know what might shake out.

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Tarraccas Feb 21

@Pomegranatepirate Incidentally, I am considering using some of this so-called #AI to help literally screen read Facebook posts into #RSS feeds. So far, I've just tried to get Google Gemini (company account) to do it but it's useless. Just goes on about how Facebook prevents scraping (yeah, no shit) and offers to give me #Python scripts so that I can do it myself (no, I want you, robot, to do it for me). Anyway, it's not super important I guess.

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Tarraccas Feb 21

@Pomegranatepirate Once upon a time, Facebook could be better integrated into other systems. I had an #IM app, Trillian, setup to popup a little preview whenever a contact posted in real time. But they restricted that so now I have to go to their site (I refuse to install their battery-guzzling spyware app) and dig through it, hunter-gatherer style, rather than having it delivered to me. I can get some via #RSS but it's delayed and number of posts is limited due to imposed quotas.

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Tarraccas Feb 20

@Pomegranatepirate It'd be like getting any of my normie contacts to switch from the social media silos to a federated option like Mastodon. Or clients to secure their email correspondence with a public key. To some extent at least, gotta meet people where they are even when they themselves complain about how much it sucks there. It's the reason I have Facebook Messenger installed ... because apparently texting is too sophisticated or something.