I guess we have different coping mechanisms #fyp #foryou #fypシ #easterneuropean #west #storytime #japan TikTok video by Xena

Reminds me of this story from the redoubtable @xenasolo.bsky.social: "I remember that one time at a bar when a drunk Australian man tried to guess my ethnicity…"

I think it’s just that he doesn’t understand being loyal; of course he understands others being loyal to him, but he has no concept of being loyal to anyone or anything, including America, or even his family. Complete narcissist.

Thanks… I actually needed reminding, and now realise I'm parched. ADHD, dammit.

My Dad taught computing and had a LOT of nice historical equipment hoarded away, but it all predated public-use internet, and with all telephone calls (even local) being metered in the UK, BBSes, etc. just didn't get any traction the way they did in the States.

I was back from Uni for the summer and had to dig through old kit in my parents' attic to get online… persuaded my tutor to arrange Uni dial-up not usually allowed to undergrads. Wrote it up for extra credit when I got back!

The person I was trying to contact on ICQ hadn't set up IRC at the time

I've accessed ICQ over an acoustic coupler running 1200/75 baud, using a client machine I'd previously loaded software on from paper tape. I can't say it was a fun experience.

7-digit ICQ #? Pah. Tourist.

So, a bit like the Hebrew calendar, then?

My position: everywhere should use UTC+0 and adjust business hours accordingly, probably splitting the difference between the current summer and winter times. Biannual clock changes are bad, and apparently lead to fatal accidents.

My kid's school starts at 8.25am. I mean, it'd be insane to try to start at a crazy time like 7.55am. How could they possibly cope with such arbitrary numbers?

What gets me is when they start saying this is for the sake of farmers, so they get the maximum amount of sunlight. Y'know, the whole world went to shit once we gave cows wristwatches.

“CUMS” *snigger*

Oh, medical students are so frightfully witty.

That's the one thing I'm probably most annoyed with Biden and co about: after Trump's first term, was _anything_ done to stop future presidents from making the same abuses of power?

I keep wondering what the fundamental constitutional flaws which have now come to light that need fixing are… powers that assume an ethical president.

What would be the most urgent new amendments, to "never again" Trump? Is anyone really planning this?

24 months on Monday.

I assume the UK Foreign Office wanted to be absolutely sure before they, y'know, accuse Putin of breaching the Chemical Weapons Convention. And, he's not getting any deader, so better to take the time to dot the "t"s and cross the "i"s.

…………?

Navalny died two years ago.

Ah, but… have you considered losing weight?

ARGHGHGHRHRHGHGHGHGH

quantum quantum quantum

I've fallen back into the dot-space-space habit again.

So, fifteen years on, I've updated "Space Honker" to v0.2, a little macOS menu-bar app that honks when you type dot-space-space.

github.com/tomgidden/sp...

I wish they'd at least put a bridge and extra PCIe socket on all PCIe HAT+s so they can be stacked.

Yeah, not good. I'm running my AI HAT+ Pi on a fairly fast Crucial USB SSD, and it is noticeably slower than the otherwise identical M.2 HAT+ Pi next to it.

It's also just more _fragile_… a dangling SSD, or a card that wears out, esp. after huuuge LLM downloads and updates.

So we're meant to load LLMs from an SD card?

I'd hope they'd learn since the previous AI HAT+ and put an optional NVMe slot and appropriate bridge on it.

Roll on a hypothetical Pi 6 with an NVMe slot…

More detailed "manifesto" in the README of github.com/tomgidden/mi... -- plus a Fabric release for 1.21.11, in the "Releases" tab.

(Use At Your Own Risk, Your Mileage May Vary, Don't Blame Me For Anything, etc.)

I'm not sure there's any demand for a mod like this, but it's scratching my own itch. I'm sick of the random re-roll grind for a librarian trading hall, and the Villager Trade Rebalance experiment looks woefully half-assed in design. I agree with the exploration focus but their solution sucks.

As I've pretty much zero experience with writing Minecraft mods, and my Java coding has been dormant for… um… about 25 years, the mod's a bit of a mess. I've had a lot of help from Claude, so I want to go through it all carefully.

…unless the book/item has "Curse of Copyright", which allows the use of the book for enchanting gear, but not for teaching villagers how to make the book.

Oh, and nerfed re-rolling trades by breaking the lectern... a villager's trades are seeded by their UUID. So, to get decent enchantments, you have to explore/adventure/archaeologise, but then can bring the books home and teach librarians in a trading hall…

This works for librarians, armorers, smiths and fletchers, all able to learn enchanted (and trimmed) items. Enchantments can only be learned to the level of the villager, so a Novice given an Unbreaking 3 book will only learn Unbreaking 1.

Made my first non-trivial Minecraft mod… a proof-of-concept alternative to "Villager Trade Rebalance", where rather than that biome-based mess, now Librarians (and other professions) don't produce enchantments by default, but when an enchanted item is picked up, they "learn" how to make it…

Maybe they reckon they've still got some unused credit on their bribe… with the Trump loyalty card, your fifth bribe is free!