In this day, I’m a proud Debian user. (…STS-83 and STS-94 took Debian Linux to the orbit in 1997.) Open Source can into space!

Reminds me of the Cathode Ray Dude’s video on the nicotine ad display. Weird aspect ratio display, with an industrial PC with an immensely locked down Linux system.

I use the YouTube TV app.

If I see ad breaks that are longer than ~20 seconds, I just back out and try again (if I’m just starting to watch a video) or go to history and resume (if in progress). YouTube can try to show another godawful long ad, but I’ll just back out again and again until they stop being stupid.

Protip: Number may go bigger, but I’m not changing this behaviour.

I hope the advertisers demand meticulous statistics, and are asking YouTube why so many users balked after 1 second.

Actually over the Easter holidays, my tablet was having horrible time with YouTube (the Android app is absolute garbage and doesn’t like old devices, and by old I mean 5 years) and sometimes ads made the YouTube app go suck mud and the tablet needed to be rebooted (!!!) before it worked again. So I watched YouTube on my laptop instead. With uBlock. Silence. Beautiful silence.

“Don’t put in any of the Top 10 vulnerabilities. But if you put any from the 11th place and down, that’s okay, I don’t even know what those are.”

(Also, getting flashbacks from Shadiversity plugging “ugly art” and “bad anatomy” in the negative prompt as he was no doubt silently wondering why it didn’t work)

I’m old enough to have eaten burgers out of styro boxes, and IMHO it’s not one of the things I get nostalgic over. They held heat a little bit longer than cardboard/paper, but that’s basically the only advantage.

The places here that offer kebab/fries and sausage/grilled whatever to go still use larger styro trays here, and they’re less convenient and sturdy than the styro burgerware was. I’m actually hoping someone comes up with an alternative.

It baffles me people don’t call it a “clickity-clunk” genre.

Foreign terms always make things sound fancier than they actually are!

Oh crap, I thought that sounded familiar. The Bad Webcomics Wiki. I binge-read that site at some point long ago.

Why are the handhelds powered up (edit: Oh it’s a 3DS and a… WiiU pad. Nobody bought those?)
Why does the NES gamepad not have a wire and and and! also isn’t the dpad black and not white
This comic was clearly made by a fake gamer guy

Well, we’re barely in the era where people can safely say “MPEG-1 is definitely out of patents and we’re pretty damn confident Layer III (MP3) is too”. Patents expire on the day they’ll be set to expire, but unfortunately, patent lawyers hired by big companies don’t expire that easily.

Sorry, had to go reread SCP-1981 again for some inexplicable reason. What were we talking about again?

The only problem I see with it is the usual pitfall of LLMs.

“We’re not stupid”, the AI fans say. “Of course we look through the output carefully, and will meticulously make sure it makes sense.” And then they don’t actually do that.

“It’s only one of the tools at our disposal, don’t worry!” …so what other tools did these giant AI fans use, again? Oh.

I mean, if people genuinely actually use LLMs just as one tool among many, and actually genuinely find a way to use them to improve their own output, it’s great! (For example, I’m using AI for image captioning and it cuts down a lot of work.)

I’m just saying that I often need to take claims that people are using these tools responsibly with some grains of salt, though.

I sank quite a bit of time and money on Train Sim World on Xbox. Now looking at stuff on PC, will probably get SimRail or something

Of course Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz.

It is famously a prison where the worst criminals went. And just as famously, a prisoner escaped, never to be seen again.

He’s just planning ahead. Personal plans. They’re not particularly good plans, they’re not cunning plans - in fact, they’re pretty stupid plans, to be perfectly honest.

Ohhhhhh the newbies don’t remember EsounD (Enlightenment Enlightened Sound Daemon). Basically, it was an attempt at doing PulseAudio-esque stuff way back in the OSS era. Which is to say, it just supported software mixing of multiple audio sources, because OSS usually only allowed single process to output audio. EsounD was janky and didn’t work well, obviously. Probably the neatest thing about it was that it exposed the mixed output stream to any other app, so that made visualisers much easier to make (edit: another thing that newbies in this day and age don’t realise, but I cannot emphasise enough how crucial visualisers were for the late 1990s / early 2000s music experience). ALSA basically supported hardware mixing (if available) out of the box, so of course it immediately became my favourite.

Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.

I’m from Finland. It never stops being weird when Americans talk about 2 liter sodas. First, it being in liters, and second, 2 liter sodas are huuuuge. (Large bottles are usually 1.5 liters here.)

I’m a photo nerd. Uhhh… keys, flashlight, swiss army knife, phone, pocket camera (Ricoh GR III), wallet. If I go anywhere I usually pick up a bigger camera (Nikon Z fc, or if I get serious, the D780, with 50mm / 24-120mm / 70-300mm lenses). There’s also a whole lot of random mystery stuff in my bags. I don’t want to think about that stuff too much, I’ll just get a headache

By the way, speaking of changed colours of planets: if you haven’t been keeping up with the latest news in space imagery and want a real mindbender, check out what has recently happened to Neptune. You may have been thinking, ooooh, what an enthralling blue planet! - bzzzzzt, turns out it’s a pretty bland and boring gas giant, the colours were exaggerated on purpose because otherwise you can’t see shit.

My first thought was Power Automate, the same thing is probably pretty easily doable with it.

American police forces have never really considered the optics, have they? Or sociopolitical implications? Yeah, these are not in their vocabulary. (I don’t know if the word “vocabulary” is in their vocabulary, it has too many syllables.)

Anyway, you need to think about the optics and sociopolitical implications before you rush headlong and grab a dick. This is common sense. Not to these officers, though, apparently.

Fun thing, I just booted up an old computer. Started right up. It had Ubuntu 11.10 on it.

Now, I obviously didn’t connect the thing to the Internet. Updates would have probably failed hard. Not because it’s missing over a decade of updates so there might be some complications on that front, but because it’s a Pentium III with Definitely Not Even a Gigabyte of memory. (Oh and a Nvidia GeForce 2 MX. I’m pretty sure that’s not supported by… any driver any more.)