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A conversation:
You asked for an image: Generate an inage of a lion working in an office
"ai" responded: an image of a crude but very cute lion typing at a computer showing 📈 on screen

A conversation: You asked for an image: Generate an inage of a lion working in an office "ai" responded: an image of a crude but very cute lion typing at a computer showing 📈 on screen

This website is the best thing ever.
youraislopbores.me

07.03.2026 19:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A fake ai prompt where i have written draw a capybara having a relaxing bath and am waiting on a human pretending to be an ai to respond

A fake ai prompt where i have written draw a capybara having a relaxing bath and am waiting on a human pretending to be an ai to respond

The response to the prompt, a basic drawing (from a human) of a capybara in water with a little heart above him

The response to the prompt, a basic drawing (from a human) of a capybara in water with a little heart above him

Oh my god

Lmao

youraislopbores.me

06.03.2026 15:36 👍 121 🔁 45 💬 5 📌 24

All I know is that kindness is not one of them

02.03.2026 20:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looking for this symbol, I found people on metastackexchangeoverflow saying that it was meaningless/there is no relationship between A and B, but I think it means that A and B form part of a weak ordering. The bus may come in 3 minutes, or 84.2 minutes, but not in the identity quaternion minutes.

25.02.2026 18:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of my local bus routes used to advertise "up to every five minutes or better" which I can only interpret as the interval between buses being greater than, equal to, or less than 5 minutes.

25.02.2026 17:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I feel like @ericof.com and the rest of the Plone community is responsible for this

09.02.2026 22:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

I just checked. It managed to bill me correctly a whopping 25% of the time (the only time I left without purchasing something). The procedure to fix misbilling is to _print the receipt and go to speak to a member of staff in person_.

Such a perfect microcosm of the AI user experience.

27.01.2026 22:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Attending BETT at the ExCeL last week involved hearing a lot about AI, as you would expect. Coincidentally, just about the only shop without huge queues was an unstaffed "Just Walk Out technology by Amazon" stall, that uses 'AI' to detect purchases.

27.01.2026 22:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

BREAKING: something that happened last week, but I just got around to reading

26.01.2026 06:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looking at renewing my Yorkshire Cricket Club membership for another year, and I spot that they now offer lifetime memberships.

"Well, that's an interesting idea", I think. I wonder when I would break even. Assuming 4% inflation, I would be 70.

24.01.2026 18:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Set it to 73, but convince yourself it isn't base 10. It is even in base 9.

19.01.2026 11:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have the good fortune to be turning 40 on the last day of EMF this year. No amount of transformation could compete with EMF madness.

03.01.2026 20:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is the opposite for me this year. For the first time in at least 5 years, the TV has not been switched to internal speakers, bypassing the sound bar.

24.12.2025 19:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh god.

13.11.2025 20:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That was the last hostel room I stayed in, and by far the most fun

13.11.2025 20:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It installed from the app store for me!

31.08.2025 09:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was in Edinburgh for the weekend. This morning I tried to get a square and egg roll, but they gave me link and egg.

Disaster.

17.08.2025 23:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This was a great trip

14.08.2025 12:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A large crowd at an outdoor stage. Almost all taking videos on their phones.

A large crowd at an outdoor stage. Almost all taking videos on their phones.

Watching the Kaiser Chiefs at Temple Newsam on Saturday, and they start being very Leeds United. Something tells me that for most of the attendees, something amazing is happening.

Great concert, I just don't know my trophies and my strikers.

02.06.2025 20:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I finally got around to trying gandalf.lackera.ai and it was a real fun way to kill an hour (even if one tricke solved many step)

10.05.2025 13:30 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Just tried it, that was fun. Level 7 was the most fun, I got it so close a few times before it would clam up.

10.05.2025 21:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why are people so keen to outsource all their creativity and artistry and _fun_ to LLMs?

10.05.2025 20:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The latest depressing experience with vibe coding.. A really fun little self-contained project, a treat for myself around the less technical tasks. Anyway, some more junior engineers have some free time, and offer to help. Their first suggestion, outsource it all to Gemini.

10.05.2025 20:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The only time I remember seeing a 4 order-of-magnitude speedup was early in my career, when one engineer (who guarded his code like a dragon's horde) told another "you won't get more than a few milliseconds out of that, I've microoptimised it".

28.02.2025 08:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks, you got me with this too. I thought I'd see what words start with homophones of other English names for letters. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped, e.g.:

A is for Aisle
C is for Cane
D is for Djinn
O is for OEstrus
Q is for Queso
S is for Seek
W is for Wyes
X is for Xenic
Y is for Yuzu

06.01.2025 21:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Only connect 2nd round answer screen. Christmas bank holidays.

Thursday
Thu 25th Dec
Fri 26th Dec

Friday
Fri 25th Dec
Mon 28th Dec

Saturday
Mon 27th Dec
Tue 28th Dec

Sunday
Mon 26th Dec
Tue 27th Dec

Only connect 2nd round answer screen. Christmas bank holidays. Thursday Thu 25th Dec Fri 26th Dec Friday Fri 25th Dec Mon 28th Dec Saturday Mon 27th Dec Tue 28th Dec Sunday Mon 26th Dec Tue 27th Dec

I'm not at all sure about this Only Connect answer.

Shouldn't it be:
Sunday
Tue 27th Dec
Mon 26th Dec

When Christmas day falls on a Sunday, the Christmas Day bank holiday is substituted for the Tuesday but the Boxing Day bank holiday remains on the Monday.

25.12.2024 17:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Have been accused of "having dropsy" after dropping a knife twice in one day.

25.12.2024 15:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Seems fine to me?

20.12.2024 23:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A pallet containing 10 cases of club mate

A pallet containing 10 cases of club mate

Happy Club Mate day to me

03.12.2024 13:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If collections count, then Sonic 1 for the Megadrive. Otherwise, maybe Steredenn (Steam, Switch Digital, Switch Physical)

29.11.2024 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0