From the Internet:
“Isn’t it weird how we as a society arrived at ‘monetize all your hobbies to support yourself’ before ‘rich people should pay their workers better’?
After some time wondering *why* the royals would go to great lengths to fake Kate being alive and well it has come to me. They’re frantically preparing Queue infrastructure before revealing the truth. Some investigative journalists could blow this wide open by trying to hire pedestrian fencing in London.
@q have you got to the bit where if you want to show the current time you have a Python script running in the background doing an API round trip once a second to update a variable yet?
@gsuberland Factorio 2.0 scares me. I’m not sure I’m ready to have my life consumed by factory building again just yet.
@q the worst thing to come out of this EMF is more people being afflicted with InfoBeamer.
@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@strangeobject.space @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