@cstross @the_lemonaut @qlaras there’s significant overlap but it’s not 100%, IMHO. I don’t think mundane sf insisted on forward-looking, utopian ideals.

@the_lemonaut does Kim Stanley Robinson’s work fit under Solarpunk? I’ve always loved his positive, utopian work

@neil @stefano thank you. With an impending employer change I may require a new machine in a few months.

@neil @stefano which thinkpad?

Hot take: the newest doom looks really damn boring.

@cks apropos, I recently started investigating migrating away from procmail, and my initial investigation left me disappointed

@cks @vjon @nev that list definition hurts Haskell as well fwiw

Bad joke sorry

School says “ofsted outstanding”… turns out they meant “overdue”

Intended to write an LLM position statement on my blog but didn’t get around to it today

@neal @CmykStudent was that on the mega cd, or a later port?

I'm further convinced (I was already pretty decided) that auto-closing issues/PRs is a bad idea. Searching for closed issues on a particular project, which auto-closes "stale" issues, and the search results are overwhelmed with issues which were closed without resolution. In this case they're at least labelled as such; but it's still a mess.

Kids buy an old plasma , but there’s something haunted burned in, everything they watch is tainted

Someone should write a ring-like movie that uses screen burn in as a plot device

Hypnospace Outlaw really captures the aesthetic of late-90s web

@mirabilos @venthur @Ganneff @wouter be gentle with Planet, folks. It’s been going for over twenty years!

New blog post: Orbital https://jmtd.net/log/orbital/ #music

Actually - and this isn’t hyperbole - it’s worse. Instead of wrangling one app you now need at least three. One of which is Activity Monitor because you are required to terminate a bunch of processes beginning ams* from time to time.