Shannon Prickett @binder@wandering.shop

machine learning is amazing because you take a bunch of data you don't have permission to use and a few million matrix multiplications later you can generate the wrong answer to any question

If something is misaligned I don't want to know about it #crossStitch

a miner 🤝 coalminer
being able to mine coal

80's Educational Video Game Identification Help!

As part of a junior high extended science class we played a game where we tried to keep aliens alive in a lab. As new aliens were added it became harder to keep all of them alive and you had to experiment to keep them happy.

Anyone remember this? The graphics were primitive, even for the time. I played it on an Apple IIe.

#askfediverse #askmastodon #retrocomputing

non fungible tybeaniebabies

the same people who run Star Trek Online also run the D&D MMO "Neverwinter" and i just feel its a missed opportunity in Star Trek Online that you cant walk into a holodeck and suddenly you're playing the Neverwinter MMO

I'm trying to write a thing about the back and forth history of control over hardware, software, and data, and I stumbled upon this:

The company that became AOL was originally founded as a pay-to-play game company using dialup on the Atari 2600. (They tried to do the same with music, but Warner Brothers was not interested. Ha!)

I honestly didn't know that assholery about software ownership went back that far, but I should have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameLine

it really should be "trick xor treat"

pronouncing the name of the video game "runescape" as if it's a compound word of "run" and "escape"

I've released version 2.0.0 of my RSS to ActivityPub converter! This now provides functionality I'd hacked in to https://rss.friend.camp - it requires OAuth 2.0 authorization for someone to create a new AP account for an RSS feed.

I used to run this service "in the open" but was overwhelmed by spammers. Now the admin of a Mastodon (or Pleroma or any federated server that is an OAuth 2 provider) can provide this converter as a service solely to members of their instance.

https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Do aliens have inalienable rights

It is the end of the beginning."

education 🤝 meditation
being able to change your subjective consciousness

Well thank goodness *someone* has no opinion on whether we live or die.

Here's a picture of a Space Shuttle model under testing in a helium wind tunnel sometime in the 70s.

Just look at it! 😍