I’ve spent the last 45 minutes idly reading the internet in the cafe because I can’t quite face it yet.
All services except the ones I want to use should shut down when the average temperature goes above 25c. Anyone unavoidably still working because I want to use their service gets double time.
I have made it as far as walking to the gym and already feel like I’m melting. Now working up the energy to actually get on some walls.
@herdingdata the press once again unable to see past today’s headlines and extrapolate to some real analysis. (See also: the six monthly cycle of “energy prices have been cut/raised, see how it will affect your annual bill”… not at all, because the cycle will happen again when winter arrives)
@pikesley it’s a sign of my ongoing trauma from the e-commerce era of my career that I can identify what software they’re using from that URL.
@fesshole given this is Fesshole I can only assume channel stuffing is some form of fetish.
Jeff Bezos went on TV to whine about Zohran Mamdani to stop demonizing billionaires and the very next day Mayor Mamdani responded by forcing Amazon to pay $9M in fines accrued by Amazon delivery trucks for illegally idling and blocking NYC traffic.
This is what happens when you elect a mayor for the people, not the corporations. We need more of this.
@fesshole I’ve always wondered whether the cleaning staff turn off any alarms that have been set while turning a room over.
I am moving to a usage-based billing
Dear employer, I will no longer charger a flat monthly salary, instead I will move to token based billing. Included will be every token I receive as input, including but not limited to emails, slack messages, spoken words and mandatory multi-modal meetings that could have been emails. Included will also be output tokens in the form of code, documentation and small talk. Tokens will also be consumed by my internal monolog as I reason about problems.
@kunsi if you’ve got a soda stream handy it’s dangerously drinkable when carbonated.
… more at https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/ for those interested.
I have received what I hope is a very exciting email (I’m currently 80% sure it’s very exciting and would really like the follow up to be replied to l).
@nikitonsky “Resigned to the fact I have once again gone deep enough into my savings that I’ll have to sell my soul for a few months before I can once again quit and follow my true dream of living in a yurt”.
@jackeric it feels like cargo culting to me. People no longer know what hashtags were for, not least because they’re being spammed to the point of uselessness on most platforms but they see people using them and feel they must as well.
@jackeric it’s completely #baffling behaviour. Not #only is it useless because #nobody is searching for those tags, it makes the post borderline #unreadable.
Just discovered the social engagement I thought was tonight isn’t and I’m inordinately relieved by that fact.
@ketan in any sane world the follow up to this would be “government plans to legislate against private use of gas generation”. Even if the law doesn’t get passed suddenly all these data centres will find another way rather than pay for gas generators they’ll be forced to turn off.
@an0key I kind of enjoy that someone clearly sicced trading standards on the VPN vendors and now they’re all clutching at straws with “it might get you better prices on flights? Idk?” or giving barely veiled “it’s for piracy ok” pitches by suggesting you might enjoy the Costa Rican Netflix catalogue.
Fuck you annoying message. Topped another. Turns out incandescent rage is a powerful antidote to a normally quite nervous climbing style.
Just got notified of some deeply annoying news while halfway up a climbing wall, which has completely killed my mood, which had been quite good from smashing a few boulders I’d been struggling with for a while. Really need to remember to turn on do not disturb and leave my phone in my bag.