@swansonite Hmm, I'd say if you haven't read Blindsight by Peter Watts, that's a good one to get into.

Of course, Iain M Banks' Culture novels, too, if you haven't gotten into them.

Singularity Sky from Charles Stross was kinda neat too

@ernie you've heard of elf on the shelf, now get ready for...

@Stellar i can smell this picture and it smells like demon summoning

🤔 might have to replay Doom Eternal just for the soundtrack

@masukomi IMO she’s slippery, even if you’re not face blind, since she tends to use makeup and costuming and video processing to radically alter her appearance depending on where you see her.

Often very different from second to second even in the same music video. Rarely the same look between public appearances either

Signing up for a new account with a medical lab service. Their password requirements have a maximum length. :blobangery: But they let me set up multi-factor auth. :blobcat_thisisfine:

Playing with some machine learning & OCR using pages from my personal journal.

Seems a bit challenging since my handwriting appears to be too idiosyncratic for any out-of-box system I've so far tried. So, it seems like a decent case for learning about training a model.

I had the bright idea to use some cloud resources paid for by work under the umbrella of professional development. 👍

Then I remembered I complain about work in my journal. Might not be smart to upload that stuff to work-managed buckets. 😓

But now I've had an opportunity to think through a data privacy scenario! 👍

@benbrown @Wrewdison A whimsical christmas tree pig would be possibly injurious too

https://aiheystudio.com/products/whimsical-christmas-tree-pig-artisan-keycap

@paigerduty I like what looks like vines on your mic arm!

@jalefkowit I thought MinUI was a bit too minimal for me. Have you checked out MuOS? I've been fairly pleased with it so far https://muos.dev/

@Wrewdison @benbrown I'm also kind of picturing a full keyboard of gnomes with pointy hats, just to feel something

Torturing a CPU by running a task better handled by a GPU

It's not really a waste of energy because my office is cold.

Also, this baseline OCR model I'm trying has interpreted my writing "Cheddars" as "C heddles" and "Catsby" as "Cass B.T." which could be their rapper names

Been working in server-side Typescript for a long while now. So, when I started my Pebbling Club side project last fall, I reached for that out of habit.

But lately, I've been dipping back into Python. And that makes me miss Django and all its included batteries.

After a couple months' break from working on Pebbling Club, I'm very tempted to scrap the first 3 months' effort and restart in Django.

I think I'm just kind of fighting upstream against the node.js / Typescript happy path? Because I'm not using any of the combined frontend / backend magical mishmash frameworks like next.js.

Kind of want a pretty distinct backend and a minimal frontend built with Web Components. That doesn't seem to be the current flavor in node-world

If I'm being totally honest, I don't really enjoy the weird magical isomorphic javascript webdev world all that much after a few years living in it.

Feels like it makes a lot of things hard to reason about. Blurs some boundaries, interfaces, and contracts that feel better when a bit more distinct. But might just be me.

Also, you know, I really really miss having Django's backend admin interface tools. Seems like that's a pain to try to cobble together in node-world