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I’ve worked out what’s been going on with all these Cloudflare outages lately.
https://mastodon.social/users/simple_sabotage/statuses/115759707567428478

I’ve realised why CEOs are all so into LLMs - it’s because they all have the same energy as a CEO, spouting complete bullshit based on half remembered think pieces, but in a way that comes across like they know what they’re talking about.

The boy’s gaming laptop has decided the week before Christmas is the time to self-destruct. Mostly it does nothing but turn the power LED on. Occasionally it’ll crank all the fans to full power while doing so.

I hadn’t really planned on tomorrow’s holiday activity being to remove every part from a laptop one by one, but here we are.

It’s usually fine but days like today I wish I had a car. I’d like to go climb but the gym is a 25 minute walk away and it’s pissing down with rain and will be for some time.

There’s a genre of “I learned/did [thing] in [n] hours” YouTube video which always includes a picture of the creator looking miserable in the thumbnail and it’s such a turnoff. Why would I want to watch someone have a terrible time learning something new?

Deeply amused by Google trying to upsell me on More Security while I look at last year’s Christmas dinner spreadsheet to remember what needs ordering.

Ugh. Once again realised I have to work out content moderation if I ever want to release my silly game to the world at large because a core element is users posting photos.

Watching a video on Blender, I feel the need to admit I made an “oop” noise when the guy popped the roof of this little building like it was tipping its hat.

The platform announcer at Southampton Central this morning was giving information about trains with all the enthusiasm and lack of coherence I’d expect from someone commentating a horse race.

Someone new in a Discord I’m on spent some of this evening doing emoji anthropology and now I want to make an exhibit of different community’s favourite reaction emoji and what they mean.