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Last night we were idly discussing the kind of nonsense you could buy with the Euromillions win and I remembered that there is such a thing as a Fabergé potato.

He must have been giggling the whole time he was making it.

And because all the search results are the most watery stool AI slop imaginable, I have found a genuine picture of it for you to see. (Edit: put the pictures into the toot to save you a click)

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collections-including-property-three-northeast-collectors-glenn-c/gold-mounted-agate-box-form-potato-220/234201

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A Fabergé potato. A brown speckled lump of agate with a gold hinge and clasp. It looks like a muddy potato.

Christies.com

A GOLD-MOUNTED AGATE BOX IN THE FORM OF A POTATO

Oblong, realistically carved as a potato, the gold-mounted hinged cover with a fleur-de-lys clasp at the front, marked throughout with workmaster’s initials 33⁄4 in. (9.5 cm.) long

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: boosted

nixCraft 🐧

@nixCraft@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs

https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to-buy-its-gpus

Following the departure of now-former NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, a new report has emerged alleging that NVIDIA artificially inflated the ongoing GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups that would go on to buy NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers. The reason behind this was to maintain the perception of ongoing high demand and to move an oversupply of semiconductors from TSMC.

TechPowerUp

NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs

Following the departure of now-former NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, a new report by The Wall Street Journal (via Wccftech) has emerged alleging that NVIDIA artificially inflated the ongoing GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups that would go on to buy NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers....

Ben boosted

Blackened Green's rotting corpse

@swampgas@metalhead.club yesterday

What other tree saps are as delicious as the blood of the maple?

Ben boosted

Staff Chief of Joints

@the_etrain@beige.party 20 hr. ago

Dearest Gertrude,

It is day 96 of the Great Email Outage. The slow pace of our communication by post makes me yearn for you stronger than ever. Especially since the post office has been fucked for many years now. The Polaroids of your bosom are quite welcome. But, alas, they do not hit the same as a JPEG. Please enjoy the enclosed 35mm slide of my nethers.

Yours truly,
Chief

Jonobie

@jonobie@social.coop 43 min. ago

A timeline cleanse with horse insanity:

https://apnews.com/video/city-of-detroit-says-drivers-will-get-additional-training-after-horses-were-allowed-to-board-city-bus-378eb9e6f42d434fa4eae8e59a50aa43

Never in a million years could I have gotten my horse to step aboard a public bus. Those are calm horses! (And for serious: Thank goodness they didn’t spook while in there. That would have been dangerous for everyone nearby.)

City of Detroit says drivers will get additional training after horses were allowed to board city bus | AP News

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net 58 sec. ago

@jonobie such good ponies tho' ^_^

Ben boosted

Mat B

@TwoClownsEating@beige.party 13 hr. ago

I don't want to kink shame but this urinal in Manchester seems keen.

(This may just be my filthy mind admittedly)

Photograph of a white urinal. The opening looks a bit like a gaping mouth, and the design kind of makes the rim look like lips. Top center there is a nose like protrusion and either side the fixing bolts look like a pair of eyes.

In my fevered imagination it looks like a face opening wide for a stream of hot man wee. — Photograph of a white urinal. The opening looks a bit like a gaping mouth, and the design kind of makes the rim look like lips. Top center there is a nose like protrusion and either side the fixing bolts look like a pair of eyes. In my fevered imagination it looks like a face opening wide for a stream of hot man wee.

Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

@foone@digipres.club 35 min. ago

I'm hacking on some BepInEx code, which is a Unity Game Modding framework, and one of the samples in the docs involves patching the random number generator to always return 4.

which is an example that has gotten a lot funnier since last month

Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe

@gsuberland@chaos.social 1 min. ago

@foone lmao I forgot about that! damnit I could've made that a timely reference

Ben boosted

Mat B

@TwoClownsEating@beige.party 5 hr. ago

It's late here, but this Manchester hotel room duvet self portrait is giving me vibes.

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Photograph of a white duvet with a series of narrow pointed ridges/folds reaching into the distance (my legs beneath the covers).

It looks, not really but a bit, like the iconic sound wave illustration on the cover of the famous Manchester band Joy Divisions album Unknown Pleasures. — Photograph of a white duvet with a series of narrow pointed ridges/folds reaching into the distance (my legs beneath the covers). It looks, not really but a bit, like the iconic sound wave illustration on the cover of the famous Manchester band Joy Divisions album Unknown Pleasures.

Cover art for Joy Divisions album Unknown Pleasures. A black background with a series of white lines that form peaks, like a narrow mountain range, but which are in fact an illustration of sound waves.

futo_tech

@futo_tech@peertube.futo.org 2 min. ago

Immich - A Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Photos

bgm

@bgm@musicians.today 8 hr. ago

@brothersoul
wtf???

sknob :noai:

@sknob@mamot.fr 3 min. ago

@bgm @brothersoul big wave of racist spam on owncast recently. It hit @meljoann’s gravitons festival this week, and @wordsmith wrote some scripts to try to contain the damage…

https://writing.exchange/@wordsmith/117593566376836332 🤬🤬🤬

Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🎃 👻 8647

@mdhughes@appdot.net 3 min. ago

DONKEY KONG CEREAL
https://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=127

with TV ad below. Mmm. Marketing branded Cap'n Crunch.

Mr Rogers shops for cereal with PAC-MAN, DONKEY KONG, Buck Wheats, Total, etc.

Donkey Kong Cereal

mʌp ᯅ :antifa:

@map@xoxo.zone 8 min. ago

I am increasingly of the opinion that we'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And that even the trees have been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

René Fouquet

@renef@mastodon.social 3 min. ago

@map Digital watches are neat though.

algernon the deobscurator boosted

Randahl Fink

@randahl@mastodon.social 2 hr. ago

After Hungarians voted Viktor Orbán out, investigations into corruption under his government have begun.

This week, investigators in the case against his former Development Minister Miklós Seszták found cash in Hungarian forints, euros and dollars worth about €17.7 million. Some of it was buried in forests, and the rest was hidden in farm buildings, warehouses and safes.

The money has been paid into the Hungarian state treasury. May this inspire the US Congress.

Julian Oliver

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social 10 hr. ago

@random_sapiens
Self-host?

Our consultancy has deployed many data-sovereign, high-reputation mail servers for small orgs, for use with any client. Roundcube, for instance, for webmail. Can be nested in Nextcloud, for calendar, agenda etc.

A small VPS, no more than EUR40 month, can provide for dozens of accounts, plenty of (encrypted) storage.

IME this is by far the best solution long term, esp where we're headed. With sufficient training, it can be v low maintenance, with excellent uptime.

Random Sapiens

@random_sapiens@mastodon-belgium.be 4 min. ago

@JulianOliver my company and my family has a lot of self-hosted stuff (mostly web applications), but mail servers are scary for reputation and the challenges of proper spam filtering. Also if things break, I'm afraid I will be on my own.
You actually have clients without an IT department that run self-hosted mailservers for years with say 50 - 100 users?