Mad Engineering

@FlohEinstein@chaos.social Case in point, those horrible corporate printers.

@mosssupply if I ever have to make a pc out of 7400 chips and microcontrollers, I'm going to be so angry.

@geekysteven@beige.party Covid is also here to stay, "thank" you, "medical freedom" jackasses. :blobangery:

@YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw I think these are the same people as the ones who insist that I was forcibly converted to Islam back when I was in the seventh grade because they couldn't handle the fact that religions other than their particular flavor or Baptism exist. They also believe I've been murdered at least 17 times. So yeah, not exactly the best grip on reality.

@Ardubal @hanshuebner @plexus The dilemma is while I'm getting the welding torch and spare sheet metal to fix the holes, I note the executives approaching with a cutting torch and a book called "the benefit of additional holes in your bucket."

@halva@mk.absturztau.be Oh, that's going to leave a Marx. :awesome:

@peachfront@toot.community Land of the ornithologist's pride?

@glassdelusion@mastodon.social Oh no, poor Burt....

@niq This building looks like it should be telling me BE NOT AFRAID.

@Etch9@tech.lgbt @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt @aks@scalie.zone @thomholwerda@exquisite.social We are announcing a recall of our product, car that randomly explodes. Buyers of this product will get a free replacement with our new product, car that explodes for different reason.

@thermia I'd rather use math, facts, and.logic, personally. Ai bro better not come crying to me when his code has bugs.

@pierogiburo There's also the " fun" world of worms and rootkits.

@grant_h@mastodon.social @Andii@mas.to @oscarjiminy@aus.social Aren't these the same people currently insisting that empathy is bad? (Because accepting empathy would argue against the morality of their actions.)

@Lana@beige.party Actually no, the young lady is correct, music is indeed most excellent. You dude bros just have poor taste.

@4censord@unfug.social @pierogiburo@tech.lgbt Apparently what's in those clown pantaloons are a very silly bicycle horn and like 12 cream pies. And a long rope of knotted silk-like napkins.

@mullvadnet On the spirit of the "don't dead open inside" meme that I see is already being quoted at you, this poster could be read as "Stop. And then? Censorship."

@petko Well shiver me timbers, it be captain pizzacake.

@futurebird@sauropods.win My normal handwriting is a weird demented scrawl that my 11th grade English teacher joked that it should be rented to the CIA as a form of encryption. It is none the less satisfying to write. I also have a slower and more legible print for when other people being able to read it is important.

@OctaviaConAmore @lycanmatriarch @ShadowJonathan Japan doesn't surprise me, because it's largely run by men in Their 70s who will continue.to use the same (1970-1989) technology until they die. Germany did surprise me. Fax machines in 2026, really?

@RickiTarr@beige.party Welcome to customer service. :blobfacepalm:

@kirch @argals You'd want to a society where the rich use mass transit because mass transit is so good, not one where the rich ride mass transit because there's a vehicle shortage and the only alternative is walking.

@nomdeb @amalia12 Remember the Green brothers' slogan, "Understand people complexly?" Maga takes three opposite approch: "Get in this oversimplified box."

@neurovagrant okay, now the weakest link is the human who decided "I think I'll outsource my work to a dumbass who's wrong about everything."

@etherbloom@chaos.social Yoh Toh Ho!

@Xibanya@mastodon.xyz The first software engineer was female, and lived in an era when electrical service was only really available in New York and London, and most transportation was by horse. Men are the late comers.

@pezmico@mastodon.nz You're raising a person of profound wisdom.

@jleedev @phooky oh no.oh no. ... :blobtoofast: worker crabs, do do do do :blobtoofast: :blobnotlike: noooooooooo

@Lydie I'll never buy a Peloton after their cloud service debacle, and I'll never fly Lufthansa after that thing where they sued skiplaggers. These were untrustworthy behaviors, and at this point any claim to have changed is just meaningless words. Edit: the air travel thing is called skip lagging, not skip jumping. My mistake.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca Who came up with personal brand? Oh well, it's not important.

@slop So you're going to make a happy little cloud in a somewhat more literal way?

@Ninji@wuffs.org Before you break my heart. :blobbandage:

@jonty@chaos.social :blobfacepalm: i fell for it again.

@Daojoan If knowledge is power, most of us on mastodon must be at least demigods.

@thermia I'd rather use math, facts, and.logic, personally. Ai bro better not come crying to me when his code has bugs.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca Also, triangle man? That's weird as hell.

@cloudhop@equestria.social Software development is about as typing constrained as storytelling.

@evacide@hachyderm.io Security is a spectrum, and what's appropriate for, say, a military base would be cripplingly restrictive for an individual person. That said, we're definitely biased for convenience over security.

@kboyd@phpc.social @mcc@mastodon.social @raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie If it resists being uninstalled, what else is is doing behind your back?

@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ai is the intern on seven tabs of acid. He can no longer tell the difference between truth and fiction, and this will lead to lots of mistakes, most of which will lead to you staring at your monitor in confusion. You must at a minimum verify the work, make sure it corresponds to reality, and get ready to wtf.

@FayeDrake@furry.engineer @Rycochet@furs.social @zzt@mas.to Sounds like an exasperating repeat of that nonsense about "Oh, you're a racist for not liking GMO and wanting it labeled so you avoid it" from 15 or so years ago. It was an imbecilic claim back then too.

@wohali Sounds like a bit if mad engineering were ever a TV show: Me: computer, run the air resistance numbers.on the new.product. Computer (inexplicably female): how about you kiss me first, big boy? Me: ... you are a metal box with no lips.

@quixote@mastodon.nz @psf@oldbytes.space Or worse, the abbitoir.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social His grace seems like a delightful fellow. Does he have some kind of merch store for his fans overseas?

@jonty@chaos.social Difgerent Dyson, although still a crank in other ways. (Sphere Dyson actually signed on to the chemistry is a socialist plot crowd out of sheer contrarianism.)

@warandpeas Good kitty, have a treat.

@th @ErinRose "....but you don't care for power safety, do Ya?"

@tommorris@mastodon.social Do you take dogecoin?

@Pepijn@mastodon.online Had training on horse riding as a boy scout. ... Mechanical vehicles are superior on every way.