Notes for Americans:
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross Elon Musk's Grok has its own quirks:
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross Ok I think I know who did the wiring in my house now. They literally painted the end of the wire when they used the wrong one.
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@darckcrystale @auxonic @cstross
Oh, you'll fly all right, but the landing's gonna hurt.
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@cstross Escher's Suicide Plug
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
How the Holy Hell did they generate that? I mean, the UK has had more than enough competing designs over the years (some more dangerous than others), but that one's a physical impossibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets:_British_and_related_types
I've used most of those, over the years, plus the bizarre one with standard earth pin, one round pin and one rectangular (rotated 45 degrees) with fuses for both small pins (Bi-phase 240V centre-tapped to Earth!) That one was at Dunlop, and now gone. (Thank the Gods.)
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@cstross yeah right….
@cstross i told it how useless and dangerous the slopmachine is and in the end i shamed it into giving me parameters of its python sandbox
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross I figure at the rate of the Accelerando, we are no more than weeks away from "agentic AI" demanding access to people's financial accounts. Hopefully some of those people will be billionaires drinking their own Kool-Aid.
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@cstross I do these threads every so often. My most recent one was on my Bluesky where I got four LLMs to draw maps progressively getting more zoomed in (the World, Europe, UK, Yorkshire, York).
Things got worse each time you zoomed in, sometimes with "memories" from the previous image. My favourite was the attached version of Yorkshire.
I'll do another one in a month or two.
A plan that I am sure pleases many a #Yorkshire person.
I was going to ask where all of t' soft southerners get to live in this vision of t' future, then I noticed that t' Isle of Wight was not labelled.
So: T' #AIs have roughly t' same plan as t' U.S.A. government had in Escape From New York.
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@cstross I do these threads every so often. My most recent one was on my Bluesky where I got four LLMs to draw maps progressively getting more zoomed in (the World, Europe, UK, Yorkshire, York).
Things got worse each time you zoomed in, sometimes with "memories" from the previous image. My favourite was the attached version of Yorkshire.
I'll do another one in a month or two.
@tautology @cstross
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RE: https://nomenloony.com/@nomenloony/116019280517956996
Notes for Americans:
1. Until 1992 you had to wire your own plugs onto new electrical appliances (they were sold without pre-molded plugs).
2. Mains voltage is 230VAC, not 110VAC. It'll kill ya.
3. If you follow ChatGPT's advice *YOU WILL DIE*.
@cstross 1.a) The UK still had homes wired with the old round pin (2,5,15 amp) plugs until stupidly late.
A 2a round pin gave just enough energy to use a wee heating element to boil a cup of water.
For 13A plugs, the lowest available fuse was 3A so an old boilette could overheat for minutes before the fuse would blow....
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RE: https://nomenloony.com/@nomenloony/116019280517956996
Notes for Americans:
1. Until 1992 you had to wire your own plugs onto new electrical appliances (they were sold without pre-molded plugs).
2. Mains voltage is 230VAC, not 110VAC. It'll kill ya.
3. If you follow ChatGPT's advice *YOU WILL DIE*.
@cstross It's OK, I've called the Darwin Award committee, they'll sort it out.
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@cstross Blive implies the existence of a Bdead
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RE: https://nomenloony.com/@nomenloony/116019280517956996
Notes for Americans:
1. Until 1992 you had to wire your own plugs onto new electrical appliances (they were sold without pre-molded plugs).
2. Mains voltage is 230VAC, not 110VAC. It'll kill ya.
3. If you follow ChatGPT's advice *YOU WILL DIE*.
@cstross You...you had to wire your own plugs? Seriously?
How many people killed themselves each year because they didn't know how to do it properly and were too impatient to wait for someone who did?
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@cstross M.C. Escher would have been proud.
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross the yellow wire is to report when you have put a coin in the appliance to pay for the electricicles
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@darckcrystale @auxonic @cstross lick the outlet then I touch the sky
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RE: https://nomenloony.com/@nomenloony/116019280517956996
Notes for Americans:
1. Until 1992 you had to wire your own plugs onto new electrical appliances (they were sold without pre-molded plugs).
2. Mains voltage is 230VAC, not 110VAC. It'll kill ya.
3. If you follow ChatGPT's advice *YOU WILL DIE*.
@cstross as an American who was awake and aware prior to 1992 and growing up in a house with multiple appliances from the 60s, I can attest that the only household appliances I ever saw that did not include pre-molded plugs were washing machines, and the one I bought in 2024 was the same way. Agree with the other two. Most houses of the day had a 230 outlet specifically for the air conditioner. Washers tend to be 230 as well. We have standardized on dumb.
