Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Just married! (Earlier today)

My knitting machine clock, Tempus Nectit, is complete! I advanced it to the current time and mounted it on the wall. The white section is waste yarn to cast on, and the red stripe marks Valentine's Day. The shiny metal "tooth" marks the hour hand. Currently it is set to noon. The clock will advance every hour, completing a full circle (and row) every 12 hours, or two rows a day.

Now I have the massive task of the technical write-up for my site.

#knitting #3dprinting #electronics

PLUS: @zoeschiffer with another wild story from inside Twitter

https://www.platformer.news/p/tiktok-nears-the-endgame

#programmerhumor #programminghumor

Is the real threat of AI not that it will become superintelligent, but that we'll become dependent on it and become superdumb?

#ai #ChatGPT

Random first trial post: today, March 14th, is the 29th anniversary of the Linux 1.0 announcement.

Of course, there are other arguably more important dates in Linux history, but this is one of them.

Think you’re a #MarioKart master? Want to pit your skills against some of the best out there? If so, enter our upcoming #MarioKart8Deluxe tournament on the 15th of April! There’s a $150 top prize to be won!

https://gamingreinvented.com/news/gaming-reinventeds-first-tournament-of-2023-is-coming-soon/

With the return of Emotet, people should be on the lookout for malicious emails, even if they appear to come from trusted sources, call the target by name, and include previously sent and received emails. https://trib.al/2lyR6kS #press

I miss the time where no one branded themselves on the internet.

When people were just their goofy selves and didn’t take everything so seriously.

When social media was a public square and not pay-to-play arena.

When it paid to be human rather than some marketed version of human.

But everyone I’ve seen do this gets pushed out.

Because that sort of content doesn’t pay and money runs the world… maybe mastodon can evade this 🤞

Fascinating story: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979

At first the police just wanted two hours of footage from this guy's doorbell Ring cam.

"It was just the beginning.

They asked for more footage, now from the entire day’s worth of records. And a week later, Larkin received a notice from Ring itself: The company had received a warrant, signed by a local judge. The notice informed him it was obligated to send footage from more than 20 cameras — whether or not Larkin was willing to share it himself."

Enjoy your daily cat!

#CatsOfMastodon #caturday #jbotcats

I do not want Slack to provide a probabilistic summary of what I said. I don't want notion to guess what I'm going to say. I want to choose my words with clarity and precision in mind, and if people want me to take the time to read what they've written I would hope that they've taken the time to choose their words too

And I really want to take my words out of training data sets