@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.
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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.
I’ve made a very silly thing. My Home Assistant instance now has a button that will tell my Linux desktop to boot in Steam Big Picture mode, then turn on the TV on the correct input.
This is never in a million years going to save me more time than it took to build it, but I have learned a whole lot about how NixOS does things in the process.
@thoughtbot @csara they make the tests less noisy but I’ve never understood the value of what is effectively testing Rails works. I can safely assume that if I put validates_presence_of :foo in my model it’ll validate the presence of foo.
The curse of knowing how things work is knowing that there’s no good reason for them to be subtly shit all the time.
This thought brought to you by a TV popping a needless notification in the corner whenever it’s turned on, and the response “oh, I just ignore it, it goes away”. If it were my TV I’d be hunting down the option to turn it off before anything else got watched.
Unprompted thought of the day: Is Karen (as in a person who just loves to complain) now a valid word in Scrabble?
The boy also enjoying climbing is generally good, it’s great to have something active we can do together. It does make a session very demanding though; in the gaps between boulders where I’d usually sit and relax I instead find myself climbing halfway up something to show him something.
Anyway, I’m ludicrously proud of him today, he’s got to a point where he’s willing to keep trying at things rather than bail after a couple of failures.