@mrzarquon

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Angrydome resident

RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116191259136149635

Where’s the similar hall of shame for people who decide that a phone number input should either be:
absolutely digits only (+ -, spaces, just strip them out)
or
follow some prefix format like area codes are somehow distinct parts now

I’m looking at you Apple Store that provides 3 seperate fields for a number, with 0 example of how you expect a UK number to be split up except via trial and error. And it’s in a way no one else does.

Went to a ham/meshcore moot this morning and now getting lunch before D&D

Full nerd Saturday

So, free idea: don’t close Waymo doors, allow DoorDash folks to get an easy guaranteed $10

This is how they do a capitalism, right? Taking advantage of the market?

https://www.404media.co/waymo-is-getting-doordashers-to-close-doors-on-self-driving-cars/

Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars

The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get its vehicles back on the road quickly.”

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Start of this work trip off to a great start. Sitting on the tarmac in Belfast for an hour now.
Happy Solstice y’all. There’s a stream run by Irelands monuments group, where you can watch the inside of the 5000 year old passage tomb as it is illuminated by the winter sun: https://www.youtube.com/live/lRgumO6vzu8?si=qG_bZdrVHRNzeqki
Winter Solstice Live Streaming - 21 December 2025

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"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
“ "In the first century in Israel, Christianity was a community of believers. Then Christianity moved to Greece and became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome and became an institution. Then it moved to Europe and became a culture. And then it moved to America and became a business." --Richard Halverson

Servus and welcome to #TramWM in Vienna, an event described by an American friend of mine as “The most European thing I’ve ever seen. Period. And that includes Eurovision”

You can watch it at home on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/smp0voLUgk8

1st Official World Tram Driver Championship

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What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.