I was trying to figure out how to program an epaper display from the arduino IDE and google dumped me in a "heritage swine AI dot com" PDF about doing phrenology on your pigs to figure out which ones have the most potential.

"AI" meant "Artificial Insemination" in this case, apparently.

@foone I've been wondering when battle of who claimed "AI" first will begin.

I got it to work. well, with the native pico SDK, not the arduino.

but that's progress! and no pig semen was involved, for once!

@foone huh - is that one of the small Waveshare ePaper displays? Looks like their design style.

@foone

no what

@lyceris yup

@foone
I'm cackling so badly here

@foone I was following util the last sentence, eh?!?

@allpurposemat you need to scroll up to the previous post for that to make sense

@foone hrm, I can't see it, at least on Tusky. It shows "continued thread" but I see no post.

@allpurposemat weird. It's here: https://digipres.club/@foone/114407286683900911

@foone thanks! More funny now that I have context 😄

@foone wait what

@gloriouscow see https://digipres.club/@foone/114407286683900911

For some reason mastodon is not doing a good job of threading this post. The "pig semen" is in reference to the previous post, here:
https://digipres.club/@foone/114407286683900911

@foone “AI slop” takes on an entirely new (and worse?) meaning in that context 😬

I don't think that's my IP, actually.

well, I guess it's half of my IP. but only the second half

@foone
P(ig semen)

That's more like it. There's some weirdness with the address.toString() not working how I'd expect. but this compiles too slow to bother figuring out why it's broken, when I can just bypass the broken.

@foone love eink but last time i checked the displays cost more than LCD ones

@foone

There is something so classy, spartan, elegant about an ip address in eink. There is an implied design language to this that has the functionality, flexibility and permanence of ‘the future’ I always wanted (contrast with the one we got, please) But, I guess we need to build it ourselves, right?

Last week I was whining about how “nothing feels futuristic anymore (without also being retro futuristic)” I knew I was wrong. I wanted to be proven wrong: just like THIS.

@foone Yeah, I'm down with IP: P

@futurebird
This is so right! I think/feel that the fact that we have to build the future that I want, is part of what makes it the future that I want. The fact that we have to do it despite everything, swimming upstream, less so.
@foone

@foone
That is what it always meant.