Someone new in a Discord I’m on spent some of this evening doing emoji anthropology and now I want to make an exhibit of different community’s favourite reaction emoji and what they mean.
@janamarie @HouseOfTea @idnorton I’m sometimes surprised more people don’t get questioned going to hacker conferences about these sheets of curious looking images being taken across borders.
I couldn’t remember the name of Sunshine and ended up searching for “film space sun trip”. My first attempt was “film sun out” which was less successful.
@pikesley_ebooks @pikesley that’s the plot of a Bond film isn’t it?
Today’s cursed Hacker News comment: “The fact the market hasn’t solved this problem suggests it’s a problem that doesn’t need solving”.
Is This Seat Taken is deviant filth that should be banned. A game in which you’re expected to accommodate the whims of people who want to use their phones in a cinema rather than unceremoniously ejecting them.
(Other than that it’s a very charming logic puzzle game about allocated seating)
I made the terrible mistake of reading Hacker News comments about health care systems before bed and now I’m absolutely raging at the fact I share a career with some of the most entitled self satisfied pricks on the planet
I was bored so I updated my Home Screen full of mobile app icons which are just a stylised circle.
@JessTheUnstill @pascoda oh 100 times this. These days they’re Executive Assistants instead, because the C-suite are too important to book their own flights and schedule their own meetings but everyone else should just suck it up.
Today’s nonsense: Filing an SAR with Microsoft in an attempt to recover a potentially corrupted Minecraft save from Xbox cloud storage. Because apparently this is the only way to extract save games from an Xbox.
@pikesley_ebooks @pikesley [pictured: a party popping off, everyone is having the best time ever]
Powerwash Simulator is £10 on Steam right now. You know, if you need a massive black hole into which you can shovel your every free minute for the next few weeks.
“Click here to resubscribe”.
Buddy, I scrolled down to the white text on a white background saying unsubscribe, clicked it, filled in my email address, then click the unsubscribe button. This was not in any way an accident.
Does anyone know the name of this type of fence? It's industrial but, beyond that, I have no idea how to describe it!
I think it’s probably time I learned how IPv6 works, does anyone have a decent entry point for that? I’m mostly looking for a high level overview which can tell what topics are worth diving into and which ones are either deprecated or experimental - as an example I know of at least DHCPv6 and SLAAC for config, are they both relevant? Is one clearly better? I have no idea.
Utterly baffling moment as I get a notification that my son wants to install App Store Connect.
Apparently he couldn’t find the App Store app, Googled it, and was given a link to install App Store Connect which opened the App Store app, but he didn’t know that’s what it was.
I think I must be old because somehow I quite severely pulled a muscle in my shoulder by sleeping.
Blue Prince (2025)
https://eigenmagic.net/users/weirdestate/statuses/114407342470466610
Just played the opening hours of CoD Infinite Warfare. Sadly the man babies insisted ejecting from a fighter jet onto the hull of a massive space ship, bouncing around in zero-G, blowing out the front window, charging through the ship, and jumping out the hanger at the back wasn’t realistic enough so we’ll probably never get another of these again.
Still using this in my lecture on color theory, though the undergrads never get it. (Most of the grads don't either, now, to be fair.)
My kettle died the other day so I’ve been making tea in a saucepan on the hob. It’s induction so it doesn’t really take any long than boiling a kettle, and you get a fantastic brew if you throw the tea bag in at the start. I may just not bother replacing the kettle.