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• Commented on Announcement time!
  You're only hearing about this now, in the comment on an obscure blog, because public attention would be an own-goal for the IT-industry's lobbyists. I am interested in what that own-goal is. Easy to assume regulatory capture, is that it?...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I mean, I suppose it might be legit. They don't actually seem to be advertising themselves that celebrity comedians will be at the event. Only media reports through anonymous cutouts are making such claims. So when people show up and...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Looks like one more in a string of cons. https://www.thenational.scot/news/24244303.nathan-fielder-distances-la-recreation-glasgows-wonka/ 18 days out, and the only visible promotional material is an eventbrite site to buy tickets, and "a spokesperson for the event" says so...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  FWIW, I found some humor in the law of small numbers. Imagine the space of nested ven-diagrams of interest here... We all have our own corners I don't have to know about increased public transit, but the free or deeply...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  And thus the scam cycle is complete. Monorail Music's ebay pictures did look similar to the photos from the event, but not the same. Both heavily influenced by an image over a year old. This etsy image was the earliest...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Happy to help!...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Yeah you would definitely need to build a delay in to be safe. Some pictures will take longer than others (and whatever background processes that are running at the time will affect it) Most modern applications can be completely driven...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  You could probably get another app that can record the keystrokes and mouse events that you use to process one photo and select the next. Then have it replay the inputs X number of times...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  It might depend on version number, but it looks like Affinity can do batch processing https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Macros_Batch/batchjobs.html&title=Batch%20jobs...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Off-off topic- that "pulsetasmania.com.au" article is meant to be satire, no? Sharing this image from the Booking page of a wonky experience, because I don't think many have seen it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240225010300/https://willyschocolateexperience.com/main-img/booking-hero.png I was amused that one of the prompts apparently...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  There is also http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff//releases/v4.5.1.html Has a tool called raw2tiff...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  While DMT would work better and probably be safer... It seems like a missed opportunity for "Spice" https://www.dea.gov/factsheets/spice-k2-synthetic-marijuana...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  800 years ago, I wouldn't know.. 80 years ago, I could maybe work it out with some contemporary documentation 8 years ago, bitmaps could be recreated with some paints and i's and o's 8 days ago, I can't even tell...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Adding PCP to semi-(sweet-)hallucinated fully immersive experiences might just be the missing link! Enhance your imagination! *Offer varies by region and international criminal law treaties...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I wonder if there are any laws that prevent a judge from using ChatGPT to write the decision... Codes of ethics, sure, but would it be illegal?...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Update: house of illuminati claims "copywrite" https://filmstories.co.uk/news/the-unknown-willys-chocolate-experience-event-organiser-unaware-of-film-plans-we-will-protect-our-interests/...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  The social media rumor to actual news article pipeline has gotten frighteningly fast...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I'm not saying it's not scammy. But the whole thing does have vague hints of someone being conned by MRAs and AI peddlers...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  Didn't you once spend an afternoon fixing the Markdown implementation for this blog because you knew nobody upstream ever would?...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I could see that maybe he thought it really would work, but he had to start selling tickets to fund the hiring of those expensive projectors. By the time it became abundantly clear that the AI-generated code was no where...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  I haven't downloaded the entire internet, but I would expect some correlation of usernames from people who post on MathOverflow type websites and SciFi fan sites...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  I do live near my town's end Somewhere else around has an abundance of Li+ in the water supply Sorry if I forgot if you had a Q...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  Oops! "Is this yew????"...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  Since Cory Doctorow has already been mentioned here, and "tapeworm economics" recently on another post, I am reminded of this article by him from 2010. https://locusmag.com/2010/05/cory-doctorow-persistence-pays-parasites/ "All complex ecosystems have parasites." Although there were no homophones or homoglyphs in the...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Haha, in my searching I did come across this blog post by a vacuum instrument manufacturer https://info.teledyne-hi.com/blog/can-smartphones-actually-measure-pressure Of course don't use a MEMS oscillator for a system clock if you work "near evaporating liquified gasses such as helium" - it...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  No, really! MEMS barometers are accurate and cheap https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/05/pressure-data-from-smartphones-could.html None of my phone's have one, but I won't be surprised if my next one does. Fun fact, android apps require no permissions or notifications to grab pressure data....
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Huh, I guess phones now come with barometric sensors too!...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  FCC requires ±3 meter accuracy on the z-access for most locations. The implementation details seem to be trade secrets, but I'd guess that it includes known WiFi positions on top of GPS and 4g triangulation...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Please point me to one currently in production or at least is being sold Hence my "Oops!" I bought one of these a few years ago for $20 in case of emergency https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/spareone-emergency-phone-att Where you would expect a screen on...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Mr. Tim | February 22, 2024 00:04 | Reply | 1424: I know the conversation got confusing I think I got a handle on some of it David L replied to this comment from anonemouse | February 20, 2024 23:48...