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I’ve finally sorted out my heating in order to have a consistently warm flat so you can all thank me when summer comes early next week.

Companies running mailing lists, you’d have a way better chance of me not unsubscribing if you could resist emailing every single day just to remind me you exist.

I must know, was the Notepad RCE demonstrated by using it to launch Notepad?

“I’ll quickly put this smart switch on my water heater over lunch”

Reader, my hot water system is currently held together by Wagos and controlled by turning that loop on and off at the breaker box due to a missing part in this puzzle, and being unable to get the old switch back on. I truly hate electrical work.

Things that weren’t on my todo list for today when I got up this morning: going to the Apple Store so they can make my work laptop less of a fire hazard.

To Apple’s credit this is the only damage I can detect from it being dropped on a concrete floor from about 4 feet up.

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@eniko @catsalad I thought you meant this for a minute.

@alice @alice_watson I genuinely believe this is a big part of why LLMs are being heralded so much by people. The internet has become an unusable maze of ads and misdirection for anyone who doesn’t know how to install ad blocking.

Today in things The Orange Site found controversial: Stalking and harassment are worse than property theft, and given a choice the former should be prioritised over the latter.

I am once again pleading with music streaming services to provide the non-deluxe versions of albums.

An album is (or should be) a coherent authored experience with a beginning, middle, and end. It is not enhanced by slapping a few half arsed remixes and acoustic versions on the end.

My most hated chore of the year, filing my tax return, is done. It’s always fine, and I always find it incredibly tense in the lead up because no other chore comes with the threat of criminal prosecution if I get it wrong.