The axes make no sense for Pulp who are equally angry, sad, and horny.

Also not technically Pulp, but it turns out cunts are still running the world.

I use Orgzly, but that’s mostly because I sync it with Emacs on other devices. I tend to organise things in a tree, but it’s quite flexible.

Literally any chatbot, probably

I just started using finamp a couple of weeks ago and this inspired me to install the beta.

If I find any problems I’ll try to get involved on the repository. Discord is a bit of a turnoff though.

Make this sound better: we’re aware of the outage at Site A, we are working as quick as possible to get things back online

How does this work in practice? I suspect you’re just going to get an email that takes longer for everyone to read, and doesn’t give any more information (or worse, gives incorrect information). Your prompt seems like what you should be sending in the email.

If the model (or context?) was good enough to actually add useful, accurate information, then maybe that would be different.

I think we’ll get to the point really quickly where a nice concise message like in your prompt will be appreciated more than the bloated, normalised version, which people will find insulting.

Image: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson.

Ouch

This sounds like good engineering, but surely there’s not a big gap with their competitors. They are spending tens of millions on hardware and energy, and this is something a handful of (very good) programmers should be able to pull off.

Unless I’m missing something, It’s the sort of thing that’s done all the time on console games.

A GPU is forever

I found this blog post which gets into activitypub location metadata and integrating it with OSM.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/

Sound promising actually.

Any suggestions for avoiding Google maps reviews? The best I can think of is looking for threads on local subreddits for e.g. restaurants. Unfortunately there’s not much of a local community on the fediverse yet.

They can do that, but I believe the various laws about openness in advertising make it pretty hard to hide ads from the client.

Isn’t the bluesky client open source? That would make it harder to force ads on everyone.

Something that worries me about that is attestation. This is the advice from the GrapheneOS Devs:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

They’re asking app developers to trust their keys specifically, which would mean that the app might work on GrapheneOS, but not my fork of GrapheneOS with some cherry picked fix I want.

It would be much better if we stamped this out now, before all online services require attestation.

That Purple Mountains album is great. It’s just heartbreaking that it ended up being a suicide note.

Yeah, likely true without some sort of legislation.

Well at least there’s a business opportunity for someone to reanimate these things and use them to push gacha games and energy drinks on the innocent children they’ve bonded with.

Surely in that case they could open their software so the community can figure out what it would take to keep it running.

So, should I start hassling my ISP about my missing 350 Mbps? Is there some other obvious thing I should test before I hassle them? I certainly don’t want them to say “have you turned it off and on again”?

My ISP will treat anything under (I think) 90% of advertised speed as a technical problem, assuming it shows up on the modem speed test.

I had a problem recently where it was consistently slow, but only in the evenings. I was pretty sure it was a neighbourhood issue, but I still had to go through the whole troubleshooting script, replace the modem, get a tech out to check everythting, etc.

After none of that helped, the regular tech support didn’t know what else to try. Luckily there was a form on their site to escalate an issue. That put me in touch with an actual person with an email address, and they were able to get the issue sorted relatively quickly.

There’s actually a whole escalation process up to making a complaint with the regulator, but this is in Canada, so YMMV.

I used to have one, but everything I’d use it for should really be going in the compost, not the sewer.

I’m in Canada, and I sent a cbc.ca news link to someone in instagram chat. It showed a preview of the post with a picture and summary, but when the link was clicked it went to a page that said:

People in Canada can’t view this content.

Content from news publications can’t be viewed in Canada in response to Canadian government legislation.

This seems reasonable. I don’t feel like Canada necessarily in a less precarious place than (e.g.) California.