Like, oh no, I'll be kidnapped and forced to dance until I go mad. But will they lay me off? How are the benefits?

Just learned about Dr. Pepper Man, who tracks down IRL live streamers in Japan and silently hands them a single can of Dr. Pepper before walking away. I love it

I just tried to put my glasses on over my glasses because I have too many pairs of glasses

I've been very very tempted to just get, like, an optometrist's kit or something where I can just dial in the power

@nelson You could fine tune a model, but what might work just fine for you is Retrieval Augmented Generation atop an existing LLM.

That's a fancy term for feeding search results to the LLM as bulk context and then following up with your question. Works surprisingly well.

Just got an email from Experian thanking me for being a customer and asking me to take a survey.

I don't think I'm a voluntary customer of Experian (i.e. a credit score bureau) and I don't think I have anything good to say about them?

The only time I think I actively interacted with Experian services was when I spent a year trying to resolve an identity theft situation and they were absolutely no help at all

@tithonium I wanna be stylish like this

@annika fuck yeah

@requiem And yet somehow also hot

Found my way into lurking in a startup-oriented Slack because I was curious and thought I could maybe use a few more contacts there.

But sweet merciful crap does it read like a stew of live-action LinkedIn posts and performatively saccharine toxic positivity

Like, I enjoy whimsy and gallows humor but this is like rictus-grin grim meathook denial shit

@Cat_LeFey "but it's natural"

@jim I continue to be pleased with the handful of $10 - $20 per year linux hosts I found through there 😅

@mhoye eh, just throw em on your handlebars, they'll have a blast just like old times!

@Mnemonic Oh dang, I hadn't figured folks would *actually* take the advice to dump their hardware. I'd love a few more servers to putter with 🤔

@thraeryn ✨ enterprise ✨

I kind of miss the days of dumpster diving and building computers from garbage. Maybe, in these times of tariffs, that will come back in vogue

beowulf cluster of absolute trash, hottest rig around

The thing I really want to find in a dumpster or at a charity shop is a PC that I could use for producing a live stream with decently complicated browser-generated on-screen scenes in OBS. Ideally with a few cameras and maybe a capture card.

i.e. I want a semi-trash computer that still does well enough to do a live stream from my workshop

I’ve stumbled along at times using a laptop to produce some live streams, but at some point after an hour or two, the thermals just get overwhelmed and throttling commences

(Of course, my laptops are old trash, too)

@gnomon I do have an appreciation for old trash, though