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Tautology @tautology.uk · 31/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.

Cover of the Dark Tranquillity's album "The Gallery"

Tautology @tautology.uk · 19/07/2026

Procrastinating by cleaning up the garage. Found my old CD case, which contained these this CD from about 20 years ago. I'm half curious as to what's on it.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 19/05/2026

Decisions, decisions. The ancient Nokia phone which can not hold a charge or the even more ancient Olympus camera that requires 4 AA batteries, which it will use up in seconds and I had to write my own code to extract images from its storage (or find a smartmedia card reader).

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 18/05/2026

There are the Raspberry Pi 400 and 500 models. It's not quite a wedge, but it is a whole computer embedded in a keyboard.

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Grok. The second image is terrible, hallucinations and random text. The first does seem to be trying to show images like those seen by Hubble or JWST. It's not bad looking, but it's not what I asked for. 33/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Copilot. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this was the previous image, it's just added some more galaxy smudges. Terrible. 32/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Gemini. Now this I like, it's tried to show the cosmic web and has referenced both the Sloan Great Wall and Cosmic Microwave Background (although it hasn't understood what they are). 31/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

ChatGPT has tried here, it's a selection of galaxies, but it's highlighted some galaxy clusters. It's okayish, but it's not the universe. 30/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Grok. Both are just random dots and labels. It seems to be trying to show the local group as seen from a planet's surface, but the locations and sizes don't make sense. 27/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Copilot has thrown in the towel now and is just painting science fiction magazine covers. It's painted one galaxy and then copy and pasted it four times at difference sizes. And what's with "Ursa Minor", that's a constellation, not a galaxy. 26/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Gemini has more correct galaxies and the relative sizes are better. But the labels, they are so out. Placing the Magellanic clouds and dwarf galaxies inside other galaxies. Spelling has gone out of the window too. 25/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

ChatGPT. has drawn some galaxies, scale is out of whack. The galaxies are in the local cluster, although it's chosen the Milky Way, Andromeda and a selection of dwarf galaxies. Size and location of the galaxies is way out. Could be better, could be worse. 24/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Grok has gone left-field and done something unexpected and spectacular. It's drawn the Milky Way from the surface of a planet. I have something similar in photo form mounted on my wall. It's not what I asked for, but they are good images. 21/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Copilot's gone back to just drawing covers for science fiction magazines. I mean, it's a swirly thing in space. It could be a galaxy. It's not a labelled diagram of our galaxy though. 20/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Gemini. This is more what I intended and it's done a good job. It's a barred spiral galaxy with the solar system and centre labelled (I will dock a point for using the AE spelling of "center"). The labels are less good, there are duplicates and are not well placed. 19/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

ChatGPT. I honestly don't hate it. It's a barred, spiral galaxy which looks okay. The labels show local galaxies which isn't what I asked, but then again I didn't say what to label. Good one. 18/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Grok. I just can't really, this looks like a load of snooker balls. Placement and sizes are random, labels are put on random objects, things are confused. We also appear to have found a black hole called "Tcau"! 15/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Copilot. Honestly, this is my favourite, okay it gets Mars, Venus and Mercury mixed up, Saturn and Jupiter have been merged and Uranus is labelled twice. Planet sizes are just weird. But, it's less bad than the previous two. 14/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Gemini looks like a five year old has slapped stickers randomly on a picture. The labels are misaligned and include hallucinations ("Uranuu"). It references the asteroid and kuiper belt. Orbits go very strange. The moon Io gets two mentions, as does the unknown to science asteroid "Gurogan" 13/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

ChatGPT initially doesn't look too bad, but then you start looking closer ... All the planets are included, but in the wrong order. Pluto is the only dwarf planet, but I can let that off. There are two unlabelled objects next to the sun, no other features. And the orbits and, well, different. 12/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Grok. And after you thought co-pilot was bad. We have two images which show a blue Saturn. The second has the five major moons, but with weird sizing and labelling. As for the first, I would really like to see a probe go to "Cootipibles". 9/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Copilot. Well, um, well. I mean it gets the planet, rings and five major moons, although it looks more like the cover of a science fiction magazine that a diagram of a planetary system. 8/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

Gemini This is interesting, it has drawn a blue Saturn and has drawn 28 moons. It gets the five major names and images correct. Orbits and sizes are random and should be interspersed with the rings. There are hallucinations in the names and non-Latin characters. Also "Epson"?? 7/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 30/03/2026

ChatGPT honestly makes a good effort. It has Uranus, rings and more moons than I expected. The moon order and orbits are totally wrong and the rings are too close. All the moon names are valid, but seem to be a random selection of the possible moons. 6/35

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 05/03/2026

Oh. I'm horrified. For ScrollUp it does an LDIR, for ScrollDown it does an LDDR. But the way it implements it is ... manky. Self modifying code! (Labels and highlighting mine)

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 04/03/2026

Now with colour (the Sharp uses colour blocks)

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 02/03/2026

Some before work messing with my PNG -> sharpscii convertor. At the moment it's only black and white, but it's good enough. Image shows original -> B&W -> sharpscii

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Tautology @tautology.uk · 17/02/2026

Have you looked at my avatar? Let me take it to full 2008 resolution.