@lproven @theregister yeah, and sadly it's a particular egregious one, where to opt-out of everything you have to scroll and click 10 or so separate things.
Just realised I've spent 20 years in Academia training my Spam filter that "Dr Dowland" was a sure sign of junk, and that's no longer true!
@lproven @theregister Liam do you have any leverage to get the reg’s cookie pop-up to be less dark-patterny?
@lproven @dan613 @theregister even Debian support on that platform must have stopped about a decade ago. (Still have one in my loft)
If anyone has great examples of using llms.txt, CLAUDE.md (etc) to poison LLMs, please share. I’m aware Anubis tried this at one point. I’m thinking Nuclear semiotics, “nothing of value here”, that kind of thing!
Start the Week today was excellent. Naomi Alderman, Corey Doctorow and Oliver Moody https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002md19
@etchedpixels @Gina in the UK, a significant problem IMHO is you can book flights and thus plan travel 6+ months ahead of time but not UK mainline rail tickets (approx 3 month horizon)
PSA: a test throwing a stack trace on failure is not friendly. Related: tests which reference deeply-nested dictionary keys without checking the components exist are hostile to people debugging with them.
A blog I just discovered: Version Crazy: “Celebrating vinyl / CD / cassette / memorabilia releases of musical gems and curiosities from the punk era onwards”
http://www.versioncrazy.com
http://www.versioncrazy.com
I thought I would power through some stuff today on a MacBook Pro but things didn’t go according to plan. Xcode refused to install metal sdk which is mandatory for OpenJDK (I think), and I couldn’t resolve it so ended up ssh’d into my threadripper instead.
@fazalmajid @neil oooh their N100 (8”) is the class of device I’m looking at. Hadn’t heard of them before. Thanks!
@neil I’m on a quest for something a bit like this; the closest I’ve seen in modern stuff is a 7” GPT Pocket clone or something styled similarly. Not a phone though