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Oh good, the current profile management is a little bit clunky. Having the option to launch random profiles wherever and whenever would be nice.

Astrum makes space stuff videos? I dunno, been a while.

Fireship makes videos about programming. Has series about “(Programming language/Framework) explained in 100 seconds”, for example. I think people are complaining that the channel is slipping into AI dudebroery.

Hoog is a history/explainer type channel, I think.

Oh yes. The Great pathlib. The Blessed pathlib. Hallowed be it and all it does.

I’m a Ruby girl. A couple of years ago I was super worried about my decision to finally start learning Python seriously. But once I ran into pathlib, I knew for sure that everything will be fine. Take an everyday headache problem. Solve it forever. Boom. This is how standard libraries should be designed.

In the 1980s, home computers were sold like this:

“Look at these awesome games, kids! And as for your parents, uh… well, you could use the computers to… uh… I dunno… keep track of the contents of the fridge? Yeah, let’s go with that.”

Nobody ever did that. Not then, not now.

Don’t buy a smart fridge, it’s a scam

Easiest way to avoid formatting the list is to put a backslash before the dot:

12345\. Blah blah...

This was a common problem in Reddit in NaNoWriMo when people posted their daily wordcounts and what they had been doing.

Chud: “There are some who seem to be ignorant of my ancestry. As I have subtly hinted for some time, the answer should be very clear: very European.”

Europeans: “…We’re kindly requesting you should never set foot on our beautiful continent. Thank you.”

Limiting the power mod reach is a good thing, but still, this will break Reddit. Ordinary users will not be lining up to step in as small time moderators. Especially if Reddit Inc is going to remove them if they do anything they don’t like.

Reddit Inc will just go “what the hell, we’ll throw more AI shit in the Automoderator. It’s not like it’ll do worse than the current arbitrary quagmire of moderation rules - or maybe it will be, who can tell the difference anyway”.

Well, whoever right-wing funnyboy made the original never went to school, so how would they even know?

Edit: …or if this is parody, then we must assume that a Platonic ideal of a right-wing funnyboy never goes to a school.

I use inverted Y look with pad controls. Because that makes so much more sense. (Normal mouse look is fine)

I like how many new games show accessibility settings on start but it’s still rare for them to have both subtitle settings and invert Y right there. And always a celebration when they are.

Games that don’t even let you invert Y are hella silly. I’m so glad Xbox lets you force the invert. Gotta figure out if you can do that in Windows/Linux.

“Redux” is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. “The Final Cut” is basically the definitive extended version.

The most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen, oh, this week, I guess

A lot of people are filming in 6K or 8K, but only because it gives them more editing leeway when the final video is delivered in 4K.

Yeah, well, Law and Ethics are two separate things which - very rarely these days - seem to cross each other. This is known.

Courts will say “no, that’s not what we meant by that” and will slap you silly.

AI companies aren’t on the side of copyright reform or abolition, they just want an exception for themselves so they can keep doing whatever they’re doing now. (And they also want more IP laws to cover the current grey areas, so they can stop pretending to give a damn about open models)

Being a “thinker” isn’t exactly a high bar. A fish can do it (depending on the definition). I mean I suppose I can think, but I wouldn’t brag about it.

I was born in '79. I know a lot of 1980s/1990s stuff that’s floating in popular consciousness right now is fictional romanticised bullshit, because it’s based on romaticised fiction made in that era.

For example, I knew most kids didn’t hang out at The Mall. I was a kid. We didn’t have a goddamn mall. American movies and TV showed kids hanging out at The Mall. Maybe hanging out at the Mall was an aspirational thing. Or something.

It’s a thing that happened for some people but it’s not the entire truth about the era. It’s not just that people tend to remember the good bits, they tend to remember the good bits that happened to someone else.

There’s a reason why nobody makes AI slop about the Finnish 1990s banking crisis and its wide systemic repercussions felt to this day. Edit: Sorry if none of this makes sense, just ate something other than cheap potatoes for the first time in a week

Oh wow, Elon figured out how we’ll finally get AGI. The key thing is to publish an automatic mobile client update every single hour of the day! That was the secret productivity metric that every single other company was missing. Thanks, big brain business boy!

Some poor sod at the US government: “Hold on! HOLD ON! We’re getting hundreds of payments a minute. We need some time to verify all of the new vote orders. It’s very complicated. All votes will happen in due time!”

My parents live in a fairly small town. I tried to go looking for my late father in the Streetview pics. There were a few more Streetview photos from the last few years, after his death, but before that, there was just one set from over 10 years ago, and nothing beyond that. Couldn’t see him on Streetview, but saw his car in front of the place where he worked in his spare time.

Martin: Organized crime?
Cosmo: Hah. Don’t kid yourself. It’s not that organized.

– Sneakers (1992)

Twitter is absolutely going to say “well, we’re definitely not an organised hate group. Sometimes people just hate stuff. We’re just a social media platform, helping people organise. Oh shit”