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.
@cmconseils I’m going to put it in the Queen Mary II, just before it departs for a transatlantic crossing.
Every now and then I remember that the UK tech startup scene is actually about 25 people who all know each other. If you hit the right pub on the right night you could cripple the UK economy.
@0xabad1dea oh no, they didn’t optimise it for the user. The user experience has been optimised for better metrics on the Product Manager’s quarterly review packet.
@mdione oh wow. What I’d give to be able to watch DS9 for the first time again, you’re in for a treat.
@mdione I heckle but I love it dearly. Star Trek has had a disproportionate influence on my world view from an early age. 30 years later and I’m watching TNG/DS9/Voyager in order for the umpteenth time.
Oh no, Moriarty just phished Picard and got the command codes for the Enterprise! Starfleet really should require 2FA for things like transferring command of their flagship.
@dave I had to remove it from my phone. It’s a big screens only game in order to allow for doing anything else with my life.
@AlisonW please drop us an email (contact@emfcamp.org) - we can make accommodations for things like this, and will do so wherever possible.
@CatherineFlick I have the Sage Smart Grinder Pro, which is in fact not smart at all. I bought it after many years of replacing crappy grinders that would die after a year or so and it’s been rock solid.
Sat down on my bed with my phone. Never. Ever. Do that. It’s now an hour later and I’ve done nothing but aimlessly read the internet rather than going to bed.
@vkc also I assume “continue” is an evasively labelled “enable personalised search for me” button.
@vkc “continue” / “ask me in 3 days”. How about instead you go away and stop hassling me you infernal machine.
@pikesley the AI they talk about in the context of merging different datasets stands for Actually Indexes.
@gsuberland @munin I just want to give a shout out to checking this - I’ve interacted with way too many “security researchers” who have no comprehension of how anything works beyond “my vulnerability scanner says you’re vulnerable, cash please”.
I have reached DS9 in my rewatch of the Star Trek I grew up with, Next Generation, DS9, Voyager. I’d forgotten how hard it goes from the outset, and how well they used season 6 of TNG to lay the groundwork.
(Sorry Original Series fans, I tried watching that as well but I’m afraid it’s aged like a pint of milk on a summer’s day, especially the “HD” version where it’s incredibly obvious everything is made of polystyrene)
@catsalad I think I might just be forced to try all the flavours. You know. For science.
@internetsdairy I love it when the BBC are forced to report on the BBC, doubly so when it’s specifically BBC News.
“BBC News have approached BBC News for comment”, as if the journalists are somehow completely impartial and have no real thoughts on who the director of BBC News should be.