@Daojoan I’ve spent the last ten years placing money on the election outcome I don’t want. It ever so slightly softens the blow to be able to get a huge takeaway and some booze on the day after.
@CatherineFlick they’re in luck, I’ve thrown it in my bag for use after cooking.
I debated wearing the Mario costume but it’s quite flammable, and I’m cooking a roast dinner soon.
I feel like the abusive mode of software business models is so embedded at this point that we have a generation of designers who don't actually know how to prioritize user utility — which was already complicated for folks to understand even before the enshittification started.
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of having a single beefy server tucked away somewhere and a bunch of thing clients scattered round the place. Were thin client laptops a thing? I’d like one.
This series of YouTube videos by someone who acquired a bunch of 2000 era Sun thin clients was an unexpected rabbit hole this evening, which has left me wanting a terminal server at home. https://youtu.be/9BW-mbC7Xag
@hugh I tend to be in the office once a month or so, which is just long enough for me to forget how nice it is each time.
@pikesley a definite yikes there this morning. Let’s automate the taking of exams rather than reconsidering whether regurgitating raw information from memory is the way to assess ability in a world with Google.
Concluding the day in the best possible way, with a git branch stuck in an inscrutable state. I thought I’d seen all the ways a rebase can break, but apparently there’s another.
Seriously. I have no idea how this boy is going to adjust to normal levels of enjoying music after by fluke his introduction was a lovely video message after his first gig, introducing said artist on stage at his second ever live gig, more of the same at the third, and then coming away from the fourth with memorabilia. Support small artists folks, it result in marvellous things.
A deeply bizarre evening as we bump into the tail end of D&B on a Bike, and then Professor Elemantal continues giving my son a wildly unrealistic introduction to live music and following an artist with a personal welcome, followed by winning one of his hats in a raffle. A somewhat bittersweet party as our local queer art/live music/community support space has its last live music before going into hibernation due to obscene rent increases.
@Edent it takes me straight back to the 90s where we’d sit round and watch it as a family. 30 years later we still make bad jokes about Wesley “Two Scoops” WhatsHisNane every time there’s ice cream.
Gladiators is some wonderfully wholesome TV. Just a bunch of incredibly fit people having a good time hitting each other with giant q-tips.
@james @VeryBadLlama they have to be chaperoned by someone of good standing.
Got to love how most websites now resemble yer da's popup ridden malware infected pc from 20 years ago
Just got back from Dune, and holy shit, they only went and pulled off a faithful adaptation of a book I thought was impossible to bring to film well. No idea whether it makes any sense to people who don’t already know the book, but as a lifelong fan it was awe inspiring to see.
Sad to hear they're discontinuing work on the Apple car
If you make a commercial product that allows someone to remotely access video, audio, or location data from a device, I am begging you to threat model for domestic abuse BEFORE YOU SHIP YOUR GODDAMN PRODUCT.
@pikesley you need to be careful, otherwise someone who can predict which seed you used might be able to know which LEDs are going to light up next.
@pikesley fine, I guess I’ll work then. If it’s sunny in four year’s time though, my god there will be a revolution.
Once every four years we get an extra day, and yet we willingly allow it to be stolen by The Man unless it falls on a weekend. It should be a bonus bank holiday, a quadrennial party day in which we all go outside and enjoy the early springtime.