People assume that because I’m into technology that I can unlock stolen phones or do XYZ whatever with their Facebook/Twitter/Instagram accounts or whatever. One, I don’t touch stolen devices. Two, I don’t have any accounts with any of those sort of services, and ain’t about to start one to learn the ins and outs for other people.

Incorrect. You don’t mirror flip it, you swap the images to convert between cross/parallel view.

Source: I wrote my own stereogram software, I know the difference.

Boo, these are cross-view, not parallel-view.

Everyone counting legs, nobody counting arms.

My lady had a limb for every day of the week!

Don’t ask what the Friday limb was…

CIF - Compressed Image File

No particular reason, except that it’s a proprietary format I wrote myself, comparable compression to PNG, but totally different codebase and format.

Needs more almonds, and garlic salt…

I am not traumatized by it at all.

From what I recall, it tasted like ever so slightly salted cardboard. Basically edible, I’d give it an 8 out of 10, if I happened to be starving.

I ate a dog biscuit when I was 5 years old.

I’m 42 now, do I need help?

Your free trial of the Clock application has ended.

He just needs some back scritchies. I think they prefer the brass wirebrush…

Back when they did actually work, they weren’t even cold water…

Sorry no top side photo, the top side stainless steel is fine. But whatever they used for the bottom panels clearly wasn’t rated for outdoor use…

I have 378 hours on…

Calculator, Doom Scroll Edition

I thought Gidget was cute, back when I was like 12…

Interesting.

I saw a couple weeks ago where someone said TACO TOFU…

“Trump Always Chickens Out, Trump Only Fucks Up”

Fun fact:

STRAP ON spelled backwards is NO PARTS

You’re welcome.

We are a result of our own ancestral design.

Think about it for just a few moments. When our ancient ancestors figured out how to make fire, rather than carry it around in a sled thanks to a lightning strike, everything changed…

You want more water? Turn off AI…

It’s done all three, more or less in that very order.

Initially, modern tech was a progressive tool, helping immensely with science, mathematics, and documenting history and literature.

Then it became commonplace, everyone and their grandma has the internet, posting their random brainfarts, cat memes and fails of the day.

Now we’re digressing, people using AI left and right, while simultaneously losing their own critical thinking skills, and also finding it harder and harder to double check anything without running into another AI brick wall.

Yes I realize your question is more about how tech has affected civilization. Technology has always been affecting civilization, so its done all three, evolved us, stagnated (I think peak useful tech and functioning generally happy civilization stagnated around 2014), and has been regressing since.

You just reminded me I have the first version of that game around somewhere, I might dig it back out one of these days soon.