Never cared for realism in games to begin with, so don’t particularly care to comment on how it looks, but I’ve been thinking that I genuinely find it creepy.

Not just Uncanny Valley material, but also having these faces stare at you, always fully lit, it just gives me the creeps, kind of like a panopticon situation.
I don’t fucking know, if that’s my own trauma playing into that, where for the longest time, people looking at me generally meant they’re about to bully me.

But either way, I’m about to head to bed and genuinely feel like there’s a 20% chance I’ll have a mild nightmare from that shit.
This whole AI craze has been a wild ride of all kinds of nightmare fuel, from depictions with missing/additional limbs to the weirdest warping of objects+limbs in those fucking generated videos. And the worst part is that some folks seem to just not see it or not want to see it, so they keep using the nightmare generators.

Yeah, IPv4 addresses use four bytes. Those four bytes are represented as four decimal numbers, separated by dots. And a byte can only represent the decimal values 0–255.

Everything I implement at work is open source because I don’t want to wait for a purchase approval.

Just to say, though, I feel like 99% of the software we deploy is open-source for that exact reason. Projects generally start out small, where you try to evaluate some concept. You’re not gonna spend months to go through the purchase process of some proprietary tool, if you can help it…

This is already the second meme I’ve seen with that joke, just different examples. Seems like the invasion in the Middle East triggers a whole lot of dejavuing. 🥴

Yeah, there’s a bias in these image generator AIs, because model photographs are:

• easy to get in bulk and in relatively high resolution etc.,
• relatively uniform (even lighting, facial symmetry etc.), meaning they reinforce existing patterns in the training data, and
• relatively easy to generate good-looking results with them, for obvious reasons, so more likely to be optimized towards by anyone involved in the training.

I think, why people perceive that right image as older is because the wrinkles carve much deeper. Yeah, same number of wrinkles, but it looks like they got chiseled down by 20 additional years…

Don’t forget SuperTux! It got a larger update just a few days ago.

https://www.supertux.org/news/2026/03/14/0.7.0

Yeah, if the fascists want to lock you up, they’ll declare you a terrorist. You need to make sure that the non-fascists know this is not true.

So, uh, if you’re already using jq, this should also format JSON:

echo "{\"key\":\"value\"}" | jq

😅

Oh man, with the monospace font, I was wondering, if it’s DCSS or Nethack or something. I even thought of Undertale, because of the white on black, but I don’t think that has a resting mechanic like that.

And then I realized, it’s a fucking pop culture reference and not niche at all. Probably the only popular video game to use a monospace font. 🫠

Yeah, it’s literally free to not litter. If you have the tiniest shred of care inside, you can just not do it, at no disadvantage.

Was recently thinking this might happen to Pinterest, too. Their webpage was never great, with how it tried to prevent you from downloading images, when that was literally the only reason I would ever visit. But at least, they did have a big database of images and a decent algorithm for detecting visual similarity.

And well, they have an even bigger database of images now, but the majority of it is not worth looking at, because the images are not real. I don’t bother visiting anymore, because you can’t find anything worthwhile on there anymore.

They did announce going all-in on AI at some point, but I don’t know, if they actually decided to generate images themselves. That seems almost too stupid.
Could be that they have some financial incentives for folks posting and that alone lead to tons of AI-generated uploads. I don’t actually know how Pinterest was supposed to work…

Well, even before those, there were machines which wouldn’t spin the can. It would just conveyor-belt it under the sensor, not find a barcode and then conveyor-belt it back out, until you turned it the right way around…

World user thinks confirming a prejudice they hold is humor. Shocker, I guess?

These machines used to require you to put the barcode into the right position. Maybe they’re still used to those machines and therefore look for the barcode on each container?

I guess, that’s not my kind of humor then…

Yeah, it’s usually used by somewhat kooky folks, who think gay pride is a political opinion and somehow at odds with their own existence.

The kind of people where you’re also really not sure how secure they really are in their straightness and them overcompensating does not help with that at all.

Yeah, but what’s the joke in the meme?

I don’t get it…

A colleague is leaving the job at the end of the month and our vacation booking system said she had 16 vacation days left, so she booked those at the end of the month, her supervisor approved, she handed over all her tasks, returned the hardware and everything, and thought she was done working here.

On her first day off, the supervisor calls her to let her know that she can’t actually take that many vacation days. Because she quit in the first quarter of the year, she only gets a quarter of the vacation days for the year, which the vacation booking system did not account for and well, the supervisor had not noticed while approving either.

Like, it’s kind of just how the contract and laws and everything works. I don’t know, if the supervisor offered to convert it to unpaid leave, but that’s kind of the only real thing, they could’ve done here. But yeah, still just such a dumb situation after all…