Looking forward to our dystopian future where technology becomes a form of magic frozen at its current level when all the people who understood it have died and the junior people never got trained because they were replaced with an LLM.
@weilawei "Life on benefits will not be an option under Labour, says Liz Kendall" is a very generous, and frankly weaselly & cowardly, way of saying "People who aren't able to support themselves financially ought not be allowed to live"
@james@strangeobject.space this is very true, I put it down to the book’s communication of those aspects being long passages in which characters introspect on themselves, or excerpts from the Princess Irulan’s many histories of what happened, both of which are not going to make a great film.
One day I’ll learn that the world isn’t universally shit and I just need to eat something. Today was not that day, at least until I had some dinner (swearing profusely throughout cooking it).
@james@strangeobject.space my favourite nuance of these is that so many sites when toggling tracking off bundle ad conversion in under the “legitimate interest” category, which will remain on unless explicitly turned off, even if you decline everything.
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.