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Things. Stuff. Silliness. Humour, probably.

I'm going to have to add something more here, aren't I…

Just DON'T use cause when you mean because. It's stupid and it causes misunderstanding; use 'cos (or 'cuz), or at the very least use an apostrophe.

OS:devuan: Devuan
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Watchingthe world burn
Whyare you reading this? 🤔

VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN.

(Unless you'd be voting Tory or, even worse, Deform.)

#LocalElections #CouncilElections #Election #Elections

ISA Over TPM To Your PC

Sometimes you really want to use your legacy SoundBlaster instead of emulating it for classic games. While modern PCs don’t have ISA slots, [TheRasteri] is fixing this shortcoming with his dI…

Hackaday

Microsoft: We write 30% of code using Gen AI.

The rest of the world: That explains the current state of Windows 11, MS-Office and all other products.

#ai

@artemis part of it for me is a negative reinforcement loop. You have initial task avoidance, and then every time you think of it, you recoil from it. Your brain learns 'if I think of x, I will feel bad', and just...stops thinking of x. Until you think of it again, and you recoil even more because you still haven't done it.

And then, every once in a while, my brain relents, and I Do All The Things in one wildly productive morning/day/week. Maddening.

"My family is fleeing the country.

We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation."

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/

Why I Am Leaving the USA - Dame Magazine

My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house. Instead of planning summer vacation and planting flowers, we're tackling a mountain of overdue home repairs, painting, carpeting, and deep

Dame Magazine -
I know I'm increasingly in the minority, but I can't stand learning most things from videos. If you must share information by making a video, please *please* also make it available to read.

Apparently #PerplexityAI CEO is annoyed that people are sharing that article where he is quoted saying that their browser will track everything users do to sell more ads.

> “That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you,” Srinivas said.

This is that article, in case you'd like to share it:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

Receipt:
https://xcancel.com/AravSrinivas/status/1915812398470205461#m

#SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #StreisandEffect

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch

Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

TechCrunch

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/apr/28/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-50th-anniversary

Ah happy 50th anniversary to one of the comedy classics, "Monthy Python and the Holy Grail"

#MonthyPython #Comedy #Movies #Ni

Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 50: a hilarious comic peak

The endlessly quoted 1975 comedy remains both a clear product of its era and a timelessly funny masterwork

The Guardian

Having just seen more examples of miscapitalised units, I'm trying not to think of changes in electrical charge per unit temperature.

C/℃.

You know how some people will mess that up.

(Although, to be fair to them, they probably haven't found out how to type °.)