Out of nowhere the boy just silenced everyone at this family gathering to say “when you think about it the mythological gods had a lot on their plate”.
No, TV, when I hit the standby button on the remote I don't want to be given a selection of attractive wallpapers to be displayed, I want you to go into standby. How is this even a thing?
"Welcome to our gander reveal party!"
"Don't you mean..."
"No."
Geese emerge from everywhere. There are no fireworks. Only geese. There are no balloons. Only chaos. There are no genders. Only honk.
@geekygirldawn @Conan_Kudo that’s what I typically go for in work settings, but does it work so well for open source where it’s possible if someone won the lottery they’d be very happy that they no longer need to find funding for the project they’re working on?
@flauschpolizei @james we work four day weeks, but if there’s a bank holiday that’s the day off. (Like an idiot I forgot about this, and didn’t work Monday anyway, so will be working on Friday, or maybe taking a day of leave)
Thought I’d killed one of our devices because it fell offline just as I flipped the configuration to test a new feature which had caused issues on test devices. Turns out coincidence had struck, someone unplugged it to take out to a client site for install at that very moment.
@thegreatgonzo it’s worth looking at office clearance sites, I got a Hermann Miller from one at about 25% list price. Still expensive, but it’s the comfiest chair I’ve ever owned and everything is replaceable when things break.
Capitalism is such a miserable thing. I look at the developments in machine learning based creation and it should be a joyful silly thing, I love that I can ask a machine to make me an industrial metal song about Crème Eggs being smaller now, but it’s all tinged by the fact it’s just another step along the road to putting people’s basic survival in jeopardy as we take their livelihoods and hand them over to make three people marginally richer.
@NanoRaptor my friend next door had a dot matrix printer in his room, and we also had a network cable running between our houses. I may have once started a print job at 2am just to annoy him.
@james as for Valheim, I like it. Not my thing usually but the boy loves an open world survival game and I couldn’t take any more Minecraft, so it’s nice to have something where we can build stuff and kill the occasional troll together.
@james I’ve been going to and volunteering at EMF events since 2012, EMW is the only event I didn’t go to, been on the organising team since 2018. This year I’m mostly looking after the small army of volunteers needed to make the event happen, which is mostly shuffling spreadsheets around and software development at the moment, we’ll use push notifications to remind people they signed up for a shift, and to send out pleas for help when needed.
@james I will be:
* Getting a release out to some devices for testing.
* Running to the shops to buy food so I don’t starve.
* Fixing the device we use for hardware CI.
* Fixing the inevitable broken tests.
* Playing a bit of Valheim with the boy
* Making dinner
* More work on push notifications at EMF
* Collapsing into bed and reading a bit
@tef I have hopes that Little Kitty Big City is going to do a better job of this. We shall see.
@hugh it would certainly be quicker than waiting in the pizza van queue.
I have just discovered that those odd waste/recycling bins that are all over the oldest bits of Bergen, Norway, link to an UNDERGROUND PNEUMATIC WASTE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. The waste collects for a bit and then WHOOSH... it's off to the recycling centre. All underground. No bin lorries (garbage trucks), fewer road vehicles, less noise... amazing. @davidho says that my (considerable) excitement about this is entirely unreasonable. I disagree.
https://www.envacgroup.com/how-it-works/the-envac-system/
If your flashing a balenaCloud image using balenaEtcher then it really should detect that and skip over the ad once you're done suggesting that you use balenaCloud.
@Ryanteck @solderandchaos what I've seen of LTT strikes me as too shallow to have much correlation with computing. It all seems to come down to "I spent a shit load of money on some parts, and whoda thunk it, if you put those parts together it makes a decent computer".
VSauce: No idea
Mark Rober: Glitterbomb revenge
DanTDM: Please make it stop
Tom Scott: Interesting places
Alia: No idea
LTT: Obnoxious techbro
(I may be being less than generous to DanTDM there, in my defence there’s only so much of him you can be exposed to, and over the last three or four years I’ve been pushed way over that limit by the boy)
@CatherineFlick @gsuberland get the kids involved, the boy and I have picked it back up again lately. We’ve barely got to having bronze but it’s great fun.
@misty someone misheard and thought they were meant to be implementing talltips.
While helping a taxi driver use the new version of his card payment app he perfectly summarised Big Tech: “They show me lots of ads, but not what I want to do”