My parent’s are in the priority assistance list for things like the water outage we had this week. In a display of utter incompetence Southern Water delivered bottled water to them a day after the mains supply was restored.
I’m constantly forgetting Threads is a social media thing so whenever people mention it I think of the harrowing 80s TV film.
A large chunk of Southampton and surrounding areas is currently without running water after a failure at the water works. Current projection is that Southern Water hope to have it fixed “by the weekend”. It’s given me a new appreciation for being able to just turn on a tap and have water come out of it.
We need an armistice on [Insert Thing Here] Wrapped. It’s got out of control. Music, games, films, books, money, grocery shopping, even the company I buy train tickets through has jumped on the band wagon. No more.
Why are Wikipedia constantly reminding me of the date and time? Am I late for something? I’m late aren’t I.
@tychotithonus @pascoda I’m Jon Wood, and once worked with Jon Ward. We were constantly redirecting emails sent to the wrong one of us.
Here is a video of a lady kissing different shelter dogs to see how they react, if you need a palate cleanser:
Started on the new Indiana Jones game this evening, which alongside the modern Wolfensteins cements Machine Games’ place as the leading “beating up fascists” studio.
Can someone please get on with making widely available electric aircraft please? I’d really like to learn how to fly but I can’t even slightly justify the emissions involved in flying a private plane for fun.
I saw a teacher complain that ChatGPT has led to students submitting papers full of mediocre ideas with perfect grammar and I can’t get over how spot-on that description is.
Putting this on the record so I can be smug when it happens (or quietly delete this in January):
This year’s plague of [Insert Service Here] Wrapped will include LLM generated personality profiles based on your top 10.
@CrypticMirror @Santaclaus @gsuberland but is he? He has a legitimate reason for collecting the data, and he’s clearly taking his responsibility to ensure the data is accurate seriously. We’d need to know more about retention policy and exactly what data he’s gathering to be sure.
You discovered what now?
https://infosec.exchange/users/acarsdrama/statuses/113538923197414434
The Flight Sim 2024 launch did not go well. 2 million user long queues just to get to the loading screen, and from what I’ve heard it’s flakey once in. The old folks who do nothing but fly their replica Airbus cockpits back and forth all day are taking it predictably well, and acting like it’s an actual airline that’s been grounded rather than their living room.
I’ve just learned that Deliveroo now offer two subscription tiers at which they will refund some (tier one) or all (tier two) of your order value if they arrive late.
A *food delivery company* has managed to make delivering your food before it goes cold an optional extra with a recurring subscription fee.
"EULAs of Despair"
https://www.pilotlab.org/eulas-of-despair
As an example, the first three tiers of the Amazon EULA terms total over 642,000 words of text, which translates into OVER 53 HOURS of reading at the rate of 200 words a minute.
I ordered a single top from an online store recently. Since then I’ve had an email from them at least every two days, does this shit work, or are people just guessing that it might?
The Comments Below, so called because they’re the gateway to Hell.
I decided to learn how to fly the A320. Very much a case of the I Have No Idea What I’m Doing dog, but flying a jetliner. Took me an hour to start the thing up, 30 minutes to fly to Manchester, and then I missed the approach and had to land it by hand because I couldn’t make the autopilot try again.
I am quite irritated because I am trying to write an email to someone in an American prison and not only do they charge you extra for every jpeg you want to attach, but the filesize limit is 1MB and they do absolutely nothing to resize images for you automatically nor offer any advice on how to do it yourself. The average phone-photo jpeg has been larger than 1MB for many years. Most nontechnical people would be utterly roadblocked by this
Got home from a Halloween party where I’d drunk half a bottle of wine and immediately sat down for a 400 mile flight through the Himalayas in Flight Sim. Take off was a bit hairy, the landing was one of the best I’ve done despite having to weave through some foothills to get to the runway. Turns out being slightly drunk is the secret to a smooth landing.
The CAA may disagree with this statement.
Not sure what I’ve interrupted here but I’m pretty sure it won’t be good for us.
