I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
@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.
@rachel I’m playing on basically the easiest mode available, almost all PAYE but because of some slightly annoying circumstances I still have to do self assessment.
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.
@pikesley I tried a few earlier in the year and decided I don’t have the patience for it.
@an0key god, what a loser. Why would you spend your Friday evening doing such a thing?
(Note, this is sarcasm, please see the post I made at almost the same time: https://activitypub.blankpad.net/@jon/posts/537658997830755400/)
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.
@jarkman you drastically overestimate my sewing skills but maybe it’s time to learn a new thing.
@herdingdata I genuinely don’t get how we’re meant to make things better when one side is trying and the other just makes up lies because they’re convenient.
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.
@internetsdairy it’s infuriating but not unexpected, way easier for the government to ban something for a group of people that it is to properly regulate big social media providers, despite the latter actually improving the state of things for everyone by removing the worst excesses.
Unprompted thought of the day: Is Karen (as in a person who just loves to complain) now a valid word in Scrabble?
@Nickiquote I want to know the story of the heated argument that led to this poll.
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.