Christmas present complete. Fun build. Loved the 3D-ishness and the way the designers created the different layers. #Lego
I think this is my favourite sim screenshot I’ve ever taken in several decades of flight simming. It feels very natural and quite beautiful to me. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 flying over Scotland.
So after telling us all that climate change really is a thing (and that appears to be beyond doubt now), current global opinion seems to be (at a government level) “We must do something about it for future generations, unless it’s going to be inconvenient or cost us money”. Is that a fair summary?
UK government: “How Labour will make Britain a clean energy superpower”. UK government: “Let’s build another runway at our busiest airport so we can get more planes coming and going”. Hmm. They must be referring to those new-fangled green planes.
This is hilarious - and pretty much sums up my feelings about AI at the moment.
I was going to take Bas out for a walk (well, a carry these days), but I couldn’t disturb this… Snuggled up with a hot water bottle and Pocus.
Tonight’s offering from my 4 year quest of watching Laurel and Hardy films - www.imdb.com/title/tt0…
I think I’ll just spend the next 4 years rewatching Laurel and Hardy films to cheer me up and hope we all come out the other side okay.
This trailer is better than most entire films. And even better in a cinema with a thumping sound system. Listen with headphones, loudly.
Trying out the AI Denoise on the Seestar - pretty good! Not sure about the blemish above M1 - possibly something on the lens. Will check when I bring the scope in.
Dear me - www.threads.net/@zuck/pos…
I was hoping (probably beyond hope) that 2025 might be a better year (yes, despite Trump), but it’s not a good start.
From the comments, it appears I’m not the only one despairing.
Sorry for another of these, but I just don’t get it. This is a beautiful spot that you need to take an effort to get to, so I assume the folk that come here do so because they want to. Yet a proportion of those folk also think it’s acceptable to literally dump their shit here. Why? Take it home FFS.
First Lego build for a while. Really enjoyed making this and love “playing” with it. Going to add a Bluetooth motor.
What’s Good for the Goose, AI Training Edition - daringfireball.net/linked/20… ;)
Bluesky
I’ve been experimenting with Bluesky since the exodus from X began. It’s definitely better than X (what isn’t?), but I’m not 100% sold yet. In my brief time there so far, I’ve had numerous dubious looking accounts following me, requesting follows, personal details etc. Also, a lot of crap in a similar vain as for X (I guess not surprising if there’s a lot of ex-X users coming over). I feel like Mastodon is more “me”. I still think the biggest block to big take-up is difficulty in sign up, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing in that it’ll probably discourage spammers etc. Having said that, it’s also filtering users to that subset that can be bothered to go through the process. On balance, I still prefer that subset. I find Mastodon interesting, fun and informative. With Bluesky, I’m not so sure.
If there’s one thing I dislike more than folk who don’t clear up after their dog, it’s those that do and then leave it in a plastic bag on the ground. That doesn’t solve the original problem and creates another one, e.g. litter. If you can’t be arsed to do it properly, don’t do it at all. The plastic bag is more harmful than the dog pooh. WTF is wrong with you?
