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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’d be esteemed British author Georgie Orrell, author of such whimsical classics as “Now the Animals Are Running The Farm!”, “My Big Day Out At Wigan Pier” and, of course, “Winston’s Zany Eighties Adventure”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE PERIODIC TABLE OF TAYLOR SWIFT👩🏼‍🔬🧪🧫🧬🔬⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s really clever. If you’ve not noticed it yet: if you hold your phone at arms length and blur your vision it looks like a vague blob that doesn’t look like Taylor Swift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “The anxiety of an man with the ability to be rendered into glue after death of a horse.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A metaphor for capitalism?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dyke Delta

  Nice try, but I ain’t Googling that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who oversees a shop like that, I’ll just say: if there was an even vaguely competitive option, I’d jump at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what you’re referring to, and I thought that too until he said “northern lights”. Ya gotta learn to listen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, me.

  Here’s the rule of thumb: do you think the food benefits from being cooked unevenly? For meatballs as you mentioned, I’d sear them in a frying pan to get a little bit of crispiness before I cook them through in the sauce in the microwave. Hunters chicken, cakes, seafood, all good. The microwave will cook far more evenly than a convection oven, though sometimes the unevenness is desirable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, don’t you be dragging down microwave cookery like that. People who depend on LLMs are not like people who cook with the microwave; they’re more like people who don’t know how to cook, refuse to learn, eat takeout for every single meal, and still demand you address them as “chef”.

  And now I’m going to talk about microwave cookery.

  I think people who object to microwave cooking and see it as ‘lesser’ are either snobs, or people who have never used anything less than 100% power and get food that’s both scalding hot and still frozen.

  If you’re in the second camp, try cooking for twice as long at 50% power. For most foods you’ll get an even heat well beyond anything a convection oven could manage. In some dishes the unevenness (e.g. crisping) is desirable, but in most it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. Whether I start the day with a strong mug of coffee, six litres of olive oil, two cartons on concentrated prune juice, or just a simple handful of laxatives pills, the result is always the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems crazy that a company that’s only really known for cars, motorbikes, tuning forks, heat pumps, brake pads, pens, tractors, fertilizer, display panels, outboard motors, pneumatic systems, oil tankers, furniture, bricks, solar panels, ATVs, generators, dinghies, hydrogen fuel cells, crop dusters, jet engines, cultivators, hedge trimmers, lawnmowers, precision optics and robots would suddenly pivot to rockets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For giggles, I’d like you to explain how the President of the United States launching his old overpriced phone on his own overpriced network with every possible element named, adorned and even priced after himself could be considered anything other than abusing their power?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thing makes noise wallet goes empty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same in the UK. We have an annual MOT tests and even with that some drivers let their cars slide so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Done and done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they forget the “to”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can also explain Microsoft’s straglehold on enterprise/government/institutional IT in two words: Group Policy. Nothing - absolutely nothing - from any other OS maker comes close to the granular level of configurability, customisation and flexibility that comes with Group Policy, not even ChromeOS or iOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern birds are more closely related to tyrannosaurus rex than tyrannosaurus rex was to stegosaurus. Modern birds are, by any reasonable definition, dinosaurs and sometimes they act like it.

  Clever girl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I’ve seen and I’d take what Purism say with a grain of salt: they’ve acted like pretty shitty gatekeepers themselves. Nothing they mentioned in the article seems too egregious in truth and they’re exaggerating the scale of it: Play Store app DRM exists already, and the restrictions on browser-downloaded apps they mention can be bypassed (albeit by having to go into settings) and don’t apply to apps installed through other apps stores (F-Droid, etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Decentralized Social Media Matters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Unfortunately, ActivityPub just isn’t geared up for that kind of thing. It’s why BlueSky uses a different federation protocol called AtProtocol which is a lot more demanding than ActivityPub but is specifically intended for Twitter/TikTok style services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare you bring nuance, experience and moderation into the conversation.

  Seriously, though, I am a firm believer that no tech is inherently bad, though the people who wield it might well be. It’s rare to see a good, responsible use of LLMs but I think this is one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re surprisingly wrong. Landlines exist but there is basically nowhere left in the world where landlines outnumber mobiles (except places like North Korea, obvs). Mobile networks are literally cheaper to run than landline networks and that gets more and more true as the quality of infrastructure drops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was once in New York using an AT&T payphone and trying to place a reverse-charge (or “international collect”) call to the UK and the operator REFUSED to accept that UK phone numbers are ten digits long. You better believe I put that thing through it’s paces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace “inside of a highschool” with literally any location with reasonable footfall to get the same answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As you are doing it you never realize⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the North of England that’s called ‘shittin yer keks’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They tried doing the same thing in the UK with a comedy duo, Mitchell (PC) and Webb (Mac). They were best known at the time for a Channel 4 show, Peep Show, where Mitchell played an educated, qualified, no-nonsense, go-getting, straight-talking realist who was a bit awkward and frumpy, while Webb played an entitled, self-aggrandising, directionless, scatterbrained half-wit convinced he deserved greatness… I forget where I was going with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flanian Pobble Beads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once we get the Americans to write the date properly we should probably agree on the symbols we’re using as decimal and thousand delimitation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your cognitive ability changes with you. Your human thoughts, emotions, memories, reasoning, skills, understanding and desires are destroyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The universe doesn’t distinguish between “intended effects” and “side effects”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re one of those people who can’t click their fingers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rhubarb⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You misunderstand. Phil’s abilities and agency are not in question. Phil can read. Phil chooses not to.