Swanksalot's Tumblr of Solipsism

Last week during a cold snap I took a photo out of my office window. The photo was very popular on Flickr, and eventually crept into the bottom of the Flickr Explore of that day ((top 500 photos of the day)) (click to embiggen) Since Large Language Models (LLM) and AI are in the news, as an experiment, I wondered how they would describe my photo. I’ve been taking photographs for a long time, but…

I cannot wrap my brain around Kamala Harris losing to a convicted felon who ran a perfunctory, half-assed campaign. Unfathomable.

Printers suck, we all know this. Still, irks me that my Xerox 8570 ColorQube is refusing to print because of an error (93,598 ), which seems to be a faulty magenta sensor (or something else related), and I cannot repair it, nor find service to fix it. I’m relatively handy with electronic repairs if I have good instructions and proper tools, I like to think I could figure this out. I bet the part…

Since I had to search this recently, I’m posting it to helpfully trigger my memory. Maybe… To be as evil as possible, the carriers do not promote or tell you about the existence of this keystroke. Furthermore, the key to press is different with each company: * for Verizon 1 for Sprint # for AT&T # for T-Mobile Every time you dial a number, you’d have to know which carrier that person uses. Which…