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This is the most glorious thing I have seen in some time. WiFi at 35,000ft, tunnelled through the "first name" field of an air miles account. https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/
PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights | Robert Heaton

The plane reached 10,000ft. I took out my laptop, planning to peruse the internet and maybe do a little work if I got really desperate.

Robert Heaton
Some of the advancements in AI are genuinely cool. Sophisticated autocomplete, “magic eraser” type features, neat. But the assistant stuff has got to go. It’s dishonest and dangerous. The LLM technique is inherently flawed for anything that is supposed to be *true* and the tech industry deliberately lying about this is a scam basically on the level of cryptocurrency if not worse. I can’t wait for it to end.

22 January 1889 | A Pole, Wincenty Rozmus, was born in Podlesie. A Catholic priest.

In #Auschwitz from 16 January 1943.
No. 88558
He perished in the camp on 25 February 1943.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2  #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #otd #priest #Catholic

Be sure to check your kid's candy this year! I found an unreviewable gigantic PR.
Therapist: Sorry, our space heater died
Me ⁽ᵗʳʸⁱⁿᵍ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵖᵃⁿⁱᶜ⁾: The... the sun?
With apologies to @helmickeymouse who I don’t *think* has already done this joke?
Whomst needs bluesky invite

Look, it's time I shared my theory with you. The theory is that there's no such thing as a transistor. The idea that a rock can be made to think? Nonsense. It's been black magic this entire time. That's why computers stop working if you let the smoke out.

But more than that, the magic requires a drop of blood to work. They do that in the factory for you, but when you're doing it yourself it won't work without some of your own blood. Which is why these things are part of the mix:

There goes the neighborhood 👋