mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I told you, you can have an ice cream when we get there.
What killed Google Glass the first time around was calling the wearers “glassholes”. Someone needs to do the same thing for Facebook glasses.
Nice.
Péter Magyar isn't great, but he's not Orbán. And this is another pushback against the fash, globally, and that's a good thing in itself. I hope Magyar does the right thing by Hungarians from now. And that this is one more harbinger in a whole sequence of ongoing harbingers.
awh. I just looked up Juju's Cafe in Brum. I used to live very close to it and had quite a few very excellent breakfasts in there: it was the sort of place that did a slightly frou-frou fry-up (wild boar sausage rather than a greasy spoon; I like both) but I was up that way a few weeks ago and it was a building site. I thought I'd see when it might re-open and... https://www.jujuscafe.co.uk says that Jules died! I didn't know that. That sucks. Sorry to hear that, Jules's family. I liked your mum!
This is probably not gonna go this bloke’s way, legal-wise. But I admire him, especially since my guess is that he will deploy the “plums” defence, i.e., when he’s told using a duress password to wipe your phone is unlawful, he’ll say: suck my plums
RE: @brucelawson@social.vivaldi.net
I’d love to see the Safari team say, we could make our platform the absolute best at web apps. We could lead on that. And people would trust us more than Google. There’s an open goal right there for us; all we would need to do is be allowed to take the shot.
switched my desktop back to light mode a couple of days ago because of sun position, and... it's actually nice and I'm keeping it. Not sure why I stuck in dark mode for so long. Just 'cos it was trendy? have I actually changed my opinion on which I like?
faint worry that the answer is "it's easier to read and your eyes are rubbish now", mind
Do I know anyone who works on the Royal Mail web team?
If so, why is the parcel tracker so terrible? It doesn’t seem even possible for someone to create a link which shows you tracking for a tracking number. It uses #/hash/navigation like it’s 2011. You can’t refresh results to update them.
Maybe there are good reasons for this. Maybe it’s just not been touched for 15 years. I’m happy to listen. But please make it better.
Apparently now three people in my #DnD party have horses and they can all talk to those horses. So now I get to embody three horse NPCs. They never told me about this at DM college.
I hate timezone code SO much. It confuses me like nothing else
OK, the latest HMRC government wheeze for people who work for themselves from home is that I gotta set up a "rental agreement" between Actual Me and Company Me for use of the house. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-tax-removal-of-the-tax-relief-for-additional-homeworking-expenses/removal-of-tax-relief-on-non-reimbursed-homeworking-expenses has all the gory details.) The accountant tells me that such agreements are available online -- I can look, obviously, but has anyone already done this and got a recommendation for such an agreement template?
hey nice, a series of interviews with Laravel people by Dan at Jump24. @jumptwenty4@www.youtube.com
things that are a tragedy: there was only one Le Crunch Bunch advert for golden delicious apples and not a whole series
There are people who think that #DnD DMs who want to inflict their lore on players should stop doing that, and they have a good point and I partially agree. I'm not talking to those people, here.
So, my sisters and brothers of #DnD DMs who like to lore dump. I see you. And I ask: why is the legend lore spell so expensive? It is a gift to us as DMs! It's the players literally asking for a lore dump, which is what we want to do anyway! Why should it require expensive components? Cast it every day!
You know what I fancy? Bread pudding. Nobody sells it any more.
RE: @zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com
Mr. Blue Sky
Please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long
RE: @matthiasott@mastodon.social
This is an interesting post, which I need to re-read in a lot more detail to formulate my thoughts about it!
I read this yesterday, but https://britishprogress.org/reports/ai-and-the-uk-labour-market-the-evidence-so-far is encouraging. People are using LLMs, but they’re not being fired in favour of them. Obviously the way such things are created is largely with theft, which is why I’m part of the big class action about that. But I would like them to become one more tool in the toolbox for real people, to be used when useful, and made without stealing, and without ceding power to Valley arseholes, and maybe that’s happening.
I got to go back to Snowshill Manor, which is just as cool as it was last time (https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2017/10/15/charles-paget-wade-and-the-underthing/). Still impressed with the carved ivory ball inside another carved ivory ball.
woo, I have a ticket to see Game of Thrones: The Mad King at the RSC! Hooray! Rather looking forward to this; I've never been to the RSC. Many thanks to my secret web of contacts for helping. And I presumably get to find out what actually happened at the Whents' tourney at Harrenhal, which as far as I can tell was the bloody omphalos for literally everything that has happened in Westeros for the last twenty years
