Your pizza party has 6.2 minutes remaining, continue merriment for the prescribed time.

Proprietary tech with no existing laws telling the companies they have to keep supporting it, all so I can make a rich person richer? Where do I sign up?

I’m a longtime vim user and I use nvim+lazyvim for all my personal stuff these days, but I have to use enterprise managed VS or VSCode for work.

A FOSS alternative would likely be missing or have meh performance from many of the streamers. All the big ones use proprietary codecs that are expensive annual licenses. And even then the streamer controls what various access methods are allowed to see and at what quality. I think netflix still limits web browsers to 720p, for example. And straight web access isn’t great, you want an interface that can ideally be controlled with about 6 - 8 buttons (4 directions, OK, and Back are the minimum) which might require API access to these services, which introduces more access control. Netflix (and maybe others) even have hardware installed at the ISP level that give them a lot of control over individual access as well.

Basically for a full featured FOSS service you’d need to start with getting grants to buy to codec licenses, and then you’d need to hire people just to maintain your relationship with the streaming services to stay in their good graces while they know you’re working against their bottom line.

I don’t use Arch, BTW. So the biggest NPM threat vector on my machine is still VSCode.

Like most Shakespeare villains, Ted Cruz has a single redeeming quality. And it’s that he both understands and vehemently supports free speech.

In the past I think they’ve sealed off the leaky module and let it go low pressure. I wonder why that doesn’t seem to be enough anymore.

cite its sources

Just so you know, an LLM isn’t capable of actually citing its sources properly, that’s not how vector engines work. When you ask it to do so, one (or more thread) spits out what ever the algebra says is the best answer, then another thread tries to best fit that output to some article in its database. If the first thread was fully committing plagiarism, then the link is accurate. If it “reasoned” anything then it may not be.

What do you do when courts start to decide that you actively and willingly give children PTSD to make them psychologically addicted to a your trauma feed? Hire Momfluencers, of course.

I degoogled as a Covid project. Mostly it just made me feel a little bit better… and then GenAI hit. Hopefully I’ll go my whole life without ever having used Gemini. And hopefully, if they ingested any of my pre-pandemic emails, photos, docs, etc to train with, pulling it out of cold storage will at least have cost them extra time and money.

How could anyone limit themselves to 50 posts on apartheid-fan-boi.facist?

Wow. Very much the same. I always ate in order of texture, from worst to best. Now my favorite meals are things I generously call “burrito bowls”, when they’re just a bunch of stuff that tastes good together, mixed together.

The Jetsons promised me single pills that were full meals. Where are my meal pills?

Are they going to remake that 1 mobile billboard that’s been doing laps of the LV Strip for at least 30 years, with the same 3 bikini-clad women?

I didn’t need more reasons to not go to Disney*, but I’ll add this to the pile.

Akin to that old astronaut joke, “My life depended on 150,000 pieces of equipment – each bought from the lowest bidder.”

Who knows, it might be the find out millennium… or 10.

I also like a bit of beaver scent gland juice added in.

This isn’t as useful now that IR is a first class citizen, but the Broadlink integration has a pretty solid training routine built in. I have all the IR devices in my house integrated using RM Mini3’s.

I ended up writing my own Harmony replacement using the AppDaemon add-on a few years ago, so I could have the same sort of activity state machine that the Harmony Hub provided.

For anyone else who needs a quick Eurythmics fix now, I’ll save you a step.

Respect my -15, or I’ll be back with my -9