Kidflix sounds like a feature on Nickelodeon. The world is disgusting.

How surprising is this really, considering we’re still paying COVID-inflated prices for most things after COVID came and went, and was gone, and is still gone, and it’s a couple years later and it’s fucking gone.

Moving to 32 hrs on paper and really expecting 60, instead of 40 on paper and really expecting 60.That’s a bold move, Cotton.

Beating up pedophiles sounds great, so does beating up rapists and murderers, but remember you can be called a pedophile for leaning in close to a kid in a photo. “B-but in this case it really WAS a bad guy” doesn’t justify mob violence. I don’t want my safety to depend on the right people being in a particular mob on a Thursday.

Aircraft are sort of expensive and they can cause large scale damage to the public

Sounds like what somebody would say to carefully lay the groundwork for abolishing online anonymity. Computers can cause large scale damage to the public, and they’re cheap!

Maybe they’re rich people saying fuck y’all, but TBH we’ve been able to keep website registration info private for years, and privacy is such a big thing now, sure why not.

The term “dependency hell” reminds me of “DLL hell” Windows devs used to refer to. Something must have changed around 2000 because I remember an article announcing, “No more DLL hell.” but I don’t remember what the change was.

Small thing about filesystem dialogs. In file open/save dialogs some apps group directories at the top and others mix them in alphabetically with files. My preference is for them to be grouped, but being consistent either way would be nice.

Yes, Mint Cinnamon. Weird combination of names tho, I don’t even want to think about combining those flavors.

It’s not my LLM, but like most software developers I admit I “stole” the same training data to learn programming.

And yet people can somehow be fascinated by how technology itself works without caring about the latest flap over copyright infringement or more proof that Elon Musk is loony. There are enough news forums for that material.

Just checking back after 3 months… it’s nice to see improvement. There’s still some sociopolitical crap, and one item about reddit’s stock tanking - how TF is that even tech-adjacent? But overall lots more threads about actual technology than last time I took a hard look. Nice!

I’m happy with Linux Mint so far (2 mos in)

I googled it for you. Yes, they advertise “From Studio Ghibli, Pixar, and Disney Classics to The Simpsons, South Park, and more.” Not sure why everybody is focusing on Studio Ghibli.

To me “next generation” and propellers just don’t mix, but I know nothing. Just want my jetpack.

I see it as enabling people to make images in a style they admire and would like to draw but don’t personally have the skill. To me the concept of copyright is the only difference between AI art generators and say, springy leg braces that let you slam dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar. I understand there are business ramifications some people might object to, but I don’t get the moralistic part of the outrage. Maybe somebody can help me understand by explaining it rationally without screaming or calling me names, but spitting rage at me is pointless.

edit: from the abundance of downvotes and lack of explanation I take it people know they’re supposed to be outraged but don’t know why. The telltale mark of meme culture, wear it proudly!

This schedule is ludicrous even if they cut all the Agile meetings in half and skip Sprint Grooming altogether.

This reminds me of the pang I felt when I recently discovered my trusty heavy-duty crowbar aka “Mister Crowbar” had disappeared. Presumably some guys we hired to work on our deck walked off with it. When I was younger and did all my remodel work myself, I did a lot of demolition with my li’l buddy. He was pretty heavy and only came out for the really tough jobs. I hope he’s having fun somewhere.

Supporting neurodivergence, unlike some conformity-obsessed bigots. Just not always.

We called our old Honda Odyssey the Batmobile, because we got it on Halloween day and stopped at a novelty store where we got some flappy rubber bats for house decoration. On the way home I laid one of them on the dashboard and boom, the car got its name. The Batmobile was part of the family for more than 20 years, through thick and thin, never failing to get us where we needed to go. My daughter and I both cried when it was finally towed away to a donation place. Personifying inanimate objects and developing an emotional attachment for them is absolutely normal. I even teared up a little just typing this.