@alice @alice_watson I genuinely believe this is a big part of why LLMs are being heralded so much by people. The internet has become an unusable maze of ads and misdirection for anyone who doesn’t know how to install ad blocking.
Today in things The Orange Site found controversial: Stalking and harassment are worse than property theft, and given a choice the former should be prioritised over the latter.
I am once again pleading with music streaming services to provide the non-deluxe versions of albums.
An album is (or should be) a coherent authored experience with a beginning, middle, and end. It is not enhanced by slapping a few half arsed remixes and acoustic versions on the end.
My most hated chore of the year, filing my tax return, is done. It’s always fine, and I always find it incredibly tense in the lead up because no other chore comes with the threat of criminal prosecution if I get it wrong.
I’ve made a very silly thing. My Home Assistant instance now has a button that will tell my Linux desktop to boot in Steam Big Picture mode, then turn on the TV on the correct input.
This is never in a million years going to save me more time than it took to build it, but I have learned a whole lot about how NixOS does things in the process.
@thoughtbot @csara they make the tests less noisy but I’ve never understood the value of what is effectively testing Rails works. I can safely assume that if I put validates_presence_of :foo in my model it’ll validate the presence of foo.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I *really* don't want European Hyperscalers to be a thing. Hyperscalers are at best a market/regulation failure and at worst a huge risk to create another one of these "too big to fail" scenarios.
I want a sane and healthy landscape of small- to midsize competitors in the hosting landscape.
It makes everything more robust and reliable.
Not sure why this is not a shared understanding anymore.
The curse of knowing how things work is knowing that there’s no good reason for them to be subtly shit all the time.
This thought brought to you by a TV popping a needless notification in the corner whenever it’s turned on, and the response “oh, I just ignore it, it goes away”. If it were my TV I’d be hunting down the option to turn it off before anything else got watched.
Unprompted thought of the day: Is Karen (as in a person who just loves to complain) now a valid word in Scrabble?
The boy also enjoying climbing is generally good, it’s great to have something active we can do together. It does make a session very demanding though; in the gaps between boulders where I’d usually sit and relax I instead find myself climbing halfway up something to show him something.
Anyway, I’m ludicrously proud of him today, he’s got to a point where he’s willing to keep trying at things rather than bail after a couple of failures.
I’ve got a working CO2 sensor again and I’m not sure I like it. I’m constantly being informed levels have gone above 1000ppm again because realistically I don’t want to have the windows open all the time when it’s 7c outside.
Truly living the life as I spend my Saturday afternoon migrating task management software to something that isn’t only available on Apple devices.
May I strongly recommend https://lunatask.app for those with spicy brains, it’s got a great model for tracking things, and has a really nice story around encryption/import/export.
@quixoticgeek @idnorton @stefano in a previous job we got acquired and spent a chunk of time working out what would be needed for a major pivot. As a team we came back with “this can’t be done in less than a year”, but Project Management stepped in and said “well, if we do all these things in parallel it could be as little as six months”.
I quit a little over a year later, nothing had been shipped. My understanding is it went live a few months after that.
Today, in incredibly petty things I’d change if put in charge, I would outlaw Brands. No more of one company having different lines of products to hide behind and vary pricing around. You may be a Company, but that company has a name and a logo, and they must feature prominently wherever you’re selling a thing.
Fuck up your reputation with a terrible product? Bad luck. You should have made a good one instead, no rebranding to throw people off the scent.
@bob @marquisdegeek I see your beer barrel urinals and raise you some mad horses. (Despite appearances, not generated by a machine, because that didn’t exist when I took this photo)
@mhoye @solderandchaos this is the best thing I’ve seen all day, absolutely losing it here.
@edbilodeau @misty I dread to think what cursed combination of features resulted in that. Presumably if it were allowed Frontpage Extensions would be automatically enabled or something.
I wish we had spent the last 26 years teaching people that the reason the 2000 bug didn't destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because *we caught it* and *spent thousands of hours fixing it* BEFORE the year 2000
Because within that little perplexion - people thinking the problem was a hoax because it was fixed before it destroyed shit - is an encapsulation of the current era of Western politics, including COVID mitigation, lesser evil politics, fascism, and crime rate hyperbole
I have watched a lot of ER over the last week while being ill and I think my favourite bit is the music they roll out everytime a moment happens between Doug Ross and Carol Hathaway. It’s only ever used then, like they wrote a theme tune just for their messy relationship.
A democratically elected council of #trans people sounds amazing tbh.
Plus you'd gain a UK rail system that worked and amazing IT infrastructure.
What's not to like?
Whenever someone tells me their name, I enter my Memory Palace, stand around for a bit, and then say "what did I come in here for?"
I have been reduced to drinking coffee made from Costa beans because that’s all the local Tesco had in stock for delivery. Easily the blandest coffee I’ve had in some time, they say it has “legendary caramel notes”, and I can only assume they’re using the “a thing that can’t be proved but has been mentioned over the ages” definition of legendary there.
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115826683070912702
The UK government’s official internet policy:
1. if you run a web forum or fedi instance, you need to do a bunch of paperwork to comply with the #OnlineSafetyAct to protect the kids.
2. if you are rich and run a neo-nazi website with officially posted virtual CSAM, politicians won’t leave despite that being a million times worse than anything you’d read on a forum about fixed gear cycling or a mastodon server run by some queer furries running arch for their polycule.
Incredibly coherent.
This is exciting. Probably won’t jump in just yet but DP alt-mode is the thing that’s been preventing me from running Asahi on my laptop as macOS slowly circles the drain.
https://social.treehouse.systems/users/AsahiLinux/statuses/115816896637542636