@RolloTreadway @cstross @zakalwe
UK plugs and outlets are brilliant. A power switch — ON THE OUTLET! I love them.

US plugs: Eh, maybe it'll stay in if I bend the prongs a bit ...

@winkleink @cstross Always keen to jump on a bandwagon, I just asked Gemini to draw me a diagram of how to wire a UK plug. And, well, I'm not asking Sundar Pichai for any DIY help any time soon.

@DJDarren @cstross @winkleink Looks perfectly fine to me.

@DJDarren @winkleink @cstross at least this one won’t burn your house down?

@josh0 @DJDarren @winkleink @cstross

Yeah that fuse will last about 0.001 seconds. Safe!

@DJDarren @winkleink @cstross I was going to say that at least that fuse blew when I just looked at that diagram, but on second thought, that's impossible.

@cstross An observation that if an appliance did come with a pre-wired plug (nb not moulded ones), that didn't mean they were safe. First thing I learnt to do was check the wiring. Yikes in so many cases.

@cstross ooooh thought you were talking about the US. I did know that about the UK.

@DJDarren @winkleink @cstross On the contrary. I think he should be the *only* person required to use these instructions to wire up a plug.

@th @cstross This made me quickly move my hands away from the phone. It still makes me uncomfortable just looking at it. Excellent!

@DJDarren
LOL looking at the picture with WTF on my face, and after while read that it's AI genera^W hallucinated.

@winkleink @cstross

@shaknais @oddhack @cstross

I have nothing but:

@cstross Oddly, you might live. That drawing was SO %$&*ed up that it appeared to have a whole extra pin!

@th @cstross

No, just no. It's a good quality socket (MK are one of the best, and used to be the automatic choice for the building trade), but you have no idea what's behind that faceplate and if it's been correctly wired. Sticking _anything_ conductive into an electrical outlet is a very bad idea. (And a metal door key is probably one of the worst things you could use.) 3:O(((>

@Phosphenes @josh0 @winkleink @cstross In fairness, there aren't many sockets that could accept that plug.

@cstross ah the elusive 3-phase UK plug

@dotcolm @cstross for countries that use 0VAC

@DJDarren @Phosphenes @winkleink @cstross you know what they say: when you have a hammer, you can solve any problem with it.

@elaine1helen @cstross Yes, one key point of failure for asking "simple" questions of genAI is that they are designed to generate something original, combining and randomizing their training inputs instead of just copying one.

And for something like this, there's the issue that they don't really have a 3D model of the world, so every different angle of an image is like a different variation on the diagram, and these then get combined in ways that don't make sense from a real-world perspective.

@th @cstross Yep that's fine. Everyone knows sockets use Yale keys, but it was a Chubb you'd be in trouble