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adr

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The librarian who went for Araldite. You may know me as https://mastodon.social/@adr from twitter. That's ok also. I mean OK that you know me from there. Twitter is not ok. pronouns: they/them/he/him

Sous les pavés, la plage!

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adr, to random
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Still sort of anxious/not really digging giving talks, but man, each time I use / to write slides I'm like, why does anyone write slides in any other way whatsoever. Powerpoint is an abomination.

adr,
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seriously makes zero sense. What are these boxes. Why can't I add an image and have it go where I want. Why is inserting slides a fucking chore. Why is EVERYTHING a fucking chore.

Google's powerpoint thing is almost as bad, too. gack.

adr,
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people please use your well-founded rage at Microsoft over Copilot+ and FREE YOURSELF from the entire ecosystem.

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I'm casually reading some 1918 history of the influenza epidemic (as you do) focused on how it originated in the Midwest https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140242/

reactions from people in 1918 are exactly what we saw in 2020, like this gem

"The church closure order was protested by Archbishop (later Cardinal) John J. Glennon to no avail, leading him to suspend temporarily the obligation of Catholics to attend Mass weekly"

Pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler wore a "Church is Essential" hoodie all thru early 2020

adr,
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@mathowie in a way, it's comforting, because at least people being utter stupid asses about public health has a long history and isn't just a product of our worsening political climate.

adr, to random
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I really love how there's a provincial party in British Columbia that is the "BC Liberals" but they are actually really conservative and there's another party called the "BC Conservatives" which, in the interests of balance, should be super liberal but no, they are not

adr,
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somewhat related: can we bring back the socreds. I mean what even were they. I'm mad that I wasn't around when they were

adr, to random
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sometimes I think about how I heard back in 1996 or something that Lexis/Nexis had Terabytes of information and how amazingly huge that was

adr,
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christ I'm old. I'm so fucking old. how did I get so old

adr, to random
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ffmpeg is like linux in a nutshell. It can do everything you ever wanted to do but man can it take Some Doing to get it going.

adr, to random
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LB: I am an immigrant and I am intensely, amazingly lazy

adr,
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MY BIBLE:

adr, to random
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You'd think I'd be someone who might do it, but I actually never use LLMs for work purposes beyond the research that I do on small models. Like I don't use them to write code that I'd use anywhere, or to write emails, or do any of that except occasionally I'll bounce an idea off of one as a sort of rubber duck thing. It's all still just me.

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“IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more

New owner makes redundancies across the Gamer Network portfolio”

Woooow. There’s so few independent sites left, most major sites are now under the same roof.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ign-entertainment-acquires-eurogamer-gi-vg247-rock-paper-shotgun-and-more

adr,
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@gamingonlinux aw cripes, I really liked RPS.

adr, to random
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It is entirely possible to critique completely terrible people without talking about their looks or how they're so old they should "go back to Facebook".

signed, an ugly old guy

adr, to random
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I wonder if I'll hear any "I don't want to learn fucking Linux" statements coming out of this Microsoft Recall thing.

adr,
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It happens from time to time, but yeah, they probably rarely do switch. Putting in a small amount of effort for your privacy and productivity just ain't worth it I guess.

adr,
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...huh. The tenor of the discussion on bsky on this topic (my go-to place for "lol Linux sucks" discourse) is...not bad? https://bsky.app/search?q=Linux+Windows+

adr,
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@djfiander I mean I wish I was that cool?

adr, to random
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Transferred that scoby. For fun, tried some of the tea from the scoby incubation jar, and man, I mean, it tastes ok, but WHOOF is it acidy. Could feel my tooth enamel.

adr,
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what's fun is that I actually do not care for straight up black tea, like Yorkshire or whatever, but that's what they recommend you use as it is the Most Nutritious, and I actually do love the (well, anticipated, once it's less acid-y) flavour of the kombucha stuff. yum man

adr,
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because I love talking to myself, let me rank tea styles from best to pretty okay but not something I really love

  1. Pu-erh (like Rose shou, this stuff: https://www.taotealeaf.com/rose-pu-er-tea-shou/ )
  2. Greens of various types
  3. White
  4. Tisanes (rooibos, others)
  5. Black

Have not tried yellow tea. There are probably others I haven't had either.

adr,
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I look at this list of tea and I'm like "Am I british enough" but british people like black and milk, so, maybe not

adr,
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worth noting that I first encountered tea in SE Asia as a kid, and that was just straight up plain green served at church, so that's where my tastes started. If I had been a southern US person, I'd probably be all about sweet tea, and if I only found tea when I moved to Canada or something, I probably would be black+milk

adr, to random
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zoom has a "AI companion" button now. :/ :/

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Microsoft copilot says that if I like Meat Beat Manifesto, then I might like Skinny Puppy.

adr,
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@djfiander odd. works for me .

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