NanoRaptor

futurebird , 3 days ago to random

I don't know how my ancestors survived.

apex predator who could easily subdue and eat me in a tree

my brain: Kitty Cat! Little kitty cat! Let me hug it!

NanoRaptor , 3 days ago

@futurebird If there were ever giant carnivorous bunnies I'd have probably done the same. Look at its nose! look at that little &gahjhahhagack!

NanoRaptor , 9 days ago to random

20,000 followers! I would like to thank everyone for helping make this dream come true, I've wanted 20,000 followers on mastodon since I was six years old.

You're all gems.

NanoRaptor OP , 9 days ago

@gparker How about a 6th grade school report.

A close up of a school report for a small nanoraptor, stating "Dana needs to spend more time with her peers and less telling stories about wanting 20,000 "mastodon" followers".

NanoRaptor OP , 8 days ago

@alice Hello! fellow human and also all the good tags in bio.

vampiress , 25 days ago to random

You ever go back to re-watch a classic film you hadn't seen since childhood, only to discover you'd NEVER seen it in its entirety, just bits of it over the years?

Anyway I just watched James Whale's Frankenstien for the first time.

I think I had seen its sequel originally as a kid, and conflated the two.

The humanity this scene gives the Monster is just amazing for the time.
Dr. Frankenstein about to find out what it feels like to “be a God".
Torches and pitch-forks. Hope nobody needed that windmill for anything important.

NanoRaptor , 25 days ago

@vampiress All the time!

I'm rarely able to sit through a movie all the way on the first go, and returning is fraught with 'am I in the right spot? on this looks interesting...'

NanoRaptor , 27 days ago to random

Today's project is re-writing Catalina for 8-bit support, but I'm having issues getting logging in to work. Or actually anything at all. Honestly this is just fever dreaming isn't it. Am I real?

The 128D is real, though, and one of the better looking Commodore 8-bit machines.

NanoRaptor OP , 27 days ago

@vampiress I am too, I always liked the original Amiga and this is even better looking, like a kind of Pro pizza box. Also I picked this one up in almost brand new condition from CARE for $10 about 20 years ago. It's been floating around here for a long while embedding in my consciousness!

NanoRaptor , 28 days ago to random

A returning friend needs a clean.

I loaned this to work in 2017 when a display on one of the large guillotines died, as a temporary until they could find a replacement composite display. Seven years later...

It's a one-owner monitor. Me!

Bought when I was 16, brand new. Same desk both pics, too.

A photo of the same Commodore 1084 monitor on my old Amiga 2000, with a small fluffy himalayan kitten sitting in front of the keyboard.

NanoRaptor OP , 28 days ago

Also, all the ports you could ever need.

NanoRaptor OP , 28 days ago

@vampiress They're such a nice rock solid* basic looks-the-part Amiga and C64 display.

• internally solid. The case is just so much shit and I don't know how the front door has survived this long!

vampiress , 1 month ago to random

Words can't effectively describe how much I hate modern PCs.

Just fought a losing battle against the ghastly work heater I was issued years ago, which has decided it will now display nothing on the screen ever, because I changed cables between it and the monitor.

Even when I change them back, it doesn't work.

All the cables/plugs work fine with my various macs and raspberry pis.

NanoRaptor , 1 month ago

@vampiress The rants I do at work... oh so similar.

I have the opposite problem too, a HP monitor that when plugged into one particular RIP (a Win7 PC) will die to black screen in minutes. After that it just won't work with ANY other device.

Give it a few days in the pile of things to be thrown out, and it works again with anything for any amount of time, except the one PC that 'kills' it.

NanoRaptor , 1 month ago

@vampiress I'm reminded of a youthy modern computer user on some forum or other who set himself the task of getting his Mac II to work with multiple displays as a project, and five minutes after starting he has a photo of it working, going WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME IT WAS THIS EASY I'VE PUT THIS OFF FOR MONTHS.

The old things aren't perfect but goodness some new things keep needing to be re-invented and re-fixed

(Like good ubiquitous drag & drop, but that's a rant for a much longer thread.)

futurebird , 1 month ago to random

I've finally started saving the pdfs of the papers I read in organized folders by topic so I can find them again. I give them clear titles so I know what they are (not DOI345234.pdf) I even put the folder "in the cloud" so I can read them on my phone when I'm bored.

...

please clap

NanoRaptor , 1 month ago

@futurebird if I applaud you then I applaud me and I’m up for that. Relatively organised folders of well-named files <3.

futurebird , 1 month ago to random

Whenever complementing someone's pet I like to use the category that includes their pet along with ants.

Pet Bees "adorable hymenopterans!"
Pet Beetle "what a lovely insect"
Pet Crab "what a cute arthropod"
Pet dog "Such a charming bilaterian!"

NanoRaptor , 1 month ago

@futurebird rabbits are literal grass hoppers.

vampiress , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

The thing I hate most about the LLM image generation that is absolutely saturing the net these days is this: the uniformity. There's a Look(tm) to LLM generated art. Sure, you can force a certain style, but most people don't. So most of what you get is this gross, shiny, fake-looking crap.

And it'll get worse. As LLMs sample their own output, and as more people just generate the first thing that comes out, it'll get worse.

It's all shiny fucking garbage, and we're stuck with it.

NanoRaptor , 2 months ago

@vampiress I'd even prefer a return to overdone HDR effect photos compared to this gunk.

NanoRaptor , 2 months ago to random

For a co-worker.

A photo of a medication box for Spice melange 60 straws. The box has a blue sky and sand dune image, with warnings. CAUTION MAY CAUSE PERMANENT IRIS AND SCLERA DISCOLOURATION and PRESCIENCE ENHANCER RESULTS WILL VARY.

NanoRaptor OP , 2 months ago

@Limey_tank Bread.

vampiress , 2 months ago to random

What is a film that you loved when you first watched it, but you refuse to re-watch as you either fear it won't hold up, or know it never can?

NanoRaptor , 2 months ago

@vampiress Anti-Christ. I was in a very different place in life to now, and the one time I watched it and it made it to my top 3 was what I needed, and that's it, no need to think any more on it, it did its job and it will now stay where it is.

vampiress , 3 months ago to random

Bring back hidden tracks on albums so the streaming generation can experience the surprise cringe of suddenly hearing Marky Mark sing "you've got the touch" off-key when listening to the Boogie Nights soundtrack.

NanoRaptor , 3 months ago

@vampiress

Yes!

Xfiles album track 0 - 'Time jesum transeuntum et non riverentum'.

Found by starting to play track 1 then seeking backwards before the beginning for several minutes.

epic track too!