mastodon 4.6.6Certified dilettante
(posts will self-destruct, somehow)
Dear website designers,
Please stop disabling text selection (highlight) on your websites.
First, it isn't exactly rocket science to bypass;
second, there are people who highlight the paragraphs they are reading.
More of this and I will copy and paste them somewhere else out of spite.
Not a line I expected from a cookbook...
"All ingredients need salt. The noodle or tender spring pea would be narcissistic to imagine it already contained within its cell walls all the perfection it would ever need. We seem, too, to fear that we are failures at being tender and springy if we need to be seasoned. It’s not so: it doesn’t reflect badly on pea or person that either needs help to be most itself."
... but wish I've read it earlier.
One of the biggest benefits of ageing is you give less fuck.
My vague attempt to #3goodthings
1. I'm not dead
2. I currently have no plan to commit suicide
3. I'm sure out there someone would rather I'm dead, but I'm still alive
Daylight saving could you please fuck off
Old enough to remember coffee and cigarette classified as a meal.
There was a behavioural study about how human sometimes do the opposite of what their ancestors do just for the sake of it.
But I couldn't remember the details.
Anyone?
There are some people that I'm not sure if they should be on social media.
The older I am the more I appreciate Nigella Lawson.
I slowly and unwillingly came to acceptance that I won't be making every single dish with pedantry.
I still make a mirepoix, I still do equilibrium brining... but sometimes I use apples or whatever veg I have instead of sticking with the holy trinity; and the 72 hours schedule is slowly drifting towards a week.
Pragmatism is taking over.
Estate agents are such parasites aren't they
I find cooking relaxing and sometimes even meditative.
The output can be problematic sometimes.
Poppy Ackroyd new release from her upcoming new album
Let them have muffins.
I don't like poor journalism and this time MIT really gets on my nerves.
Grace Huckins wrote and I quote:
"... denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib..."
".... discover the agent had retaliated with a blog post"
It phrased in a way to suggest the AI, as a tool, itself retaliate; but it is a human-led harassment utilising AI/LLM.
A human opened the github account Rathbun, and prompted the AI (openclaw?) to retaliate with a blog post if a PR is rejected.
It might even be a separate prompt after a human discovered that the PR was rejected.
At the moment we can't tell - Unless a journalist find out the human account holder and interview him/her.
This article looked like it didn't fact-check, didn't investigate, and simply copied from other mainstream tech journals.
The "journalist" probably didn't even ask AI to check the capability of OpenClaw.
Let's introduce some anarchy...
How do you arrange your bookshelf?
@bookstodon@a.gup.pe
Obsession is the bane of my obsession
Another flux of newcomers eh?
I rang into a weird bug that my note disappeared in Joplin.
The entire note.
Luckily it wasn't important and only about 500 words of gibberish.
I have a guess on the possible logic behind it, but seriously I am too tired to care.
Are we the second generation who experienced both pandemic and industrial revolution in our lifetime?
A very good argument against social media ban that I don't see often:
It lets them off the hook for making systematical change
It might be a soldier who pulls the trigger, but it is the malice of a politician that deals the damage.
Guess I'll have to accept that my brain won't work before coffee.
On the upside, if you still listen to radio (gosh it makes me sound old),
Radio droid is back online!
Brave is such a beautiful word for stupidity.
The account holder has passed away from procrastination.
It sounds suspiciously like people want a photographer to painstakingly wait for the perfect moment for a mere photograph.
The craft of capturing a moment has been elevated by some to an art form; but not everyone treat it as a piece of art. Most people have more important to get on with in their lives.
Yeah crime and punishment stands the test of time and all that but stop gatekeeping flick novels from publishing.
You might see a lamb but I see a thousand ways to cook it.