This sounds like passive suicidal ideation: something that’s always there in the back of the mind, but not about to be actively acted on. To quote Anna Borges:

I don’t always want to be alive. Yes, I mean it. No, you shouldn’t be afraid for me. No, I’m not in danger of killing myself right now. Yes, I really mean it. How do you explain that?

I keep her article in my bookmarks, and re-read now and then: https://theoutline.com/post/7267/living-with-passive-suicidal-ideation

There was an idea mooted over on Mastodon, that Flight Sim will be renamed Copilot Copilot. Rolls off the tongue.

I’m hosting the Decronym bot on a single-user instance, and it’s a real pain. The bot’s been down for weeks, actually, because an upgrade failed with some obscure error around the database schema…

I’ve ended up just today, wiping the whole thing and starting over, losing all data and having to refederate the bot. So yeah, I wouldn’t recommend.

[Acronyms to help the bot re-establish: LVM, HASS, k8s]

Really enjoyed the Daily Show’s quip about ushering in “a communist 9/11”, where every building takes a little damage.

This is Theresa May, predecessor to the Cabbage Lady. (Crazy how many prime ministers we went through in those few years.)

The equivalent long option is --fuck-you

Calling the SEC on Ea-Nașir over here…

418 is always a little disappointing though. Lots of projects out there touting their “full HTCPCP compatibility” when all they do is serve 418 to every request; no actual coffeepots I could find last time I looked.

Right, I self-host email and have done for ten years or more, but I don’t do it out of a server at home. Does my Postfix not count as selfhosting any more?

Sounds like HowToBasic (or Basics?), from memory.

Each show is unique, from what I see in the comments. I feel like he’s not doing the traditional ‘write a set’ thing, but he works backwards from an idea (“America feels like a Dollar General nowadays”, for example) and has the ability to conjure an hour of almost shaggy-dog-story material on the spot leading you to that endpoint.

Rare talent.

So this came up with this user a few days ago, and apparently ð fell out of use later in Old English and its usage was merged into þ for hundreds of years.

I remain unconvinced.

Whenever I come across ASCII art in the comments, it’s a good day. Here’s one from the day job:

So there are multiple people in this thread who state their job is to unfuck what the LLMs are doing. I have a family member who graduated in CS a year ago and is having a hell of a time finding work, how would he go about getting one of these “clean up after the model” jobs?

My leatherman was a little over a ton That thing must be huge!

The argument has been made that, even if another intelligence arises in 100 million years, there are multiple problems for them: the Sun will be burning hotter by then, easily accessible raw material will all have been used up (Cyprus is no longer covered in surface-level raw copper, for example), we’ll probably irradiate the surface on our way out, etc.

That was kind of the author’s point: that HTTP is so broadly specified, and at that point had so many unnecessary RFCs extending it, that you could halfway-sensibly write a hardware control protocol by HTTP alone even if that was a terrible idea.

Source: I wrote the tea-brewing extension to HTCPCP, which takes it another notch into the ridiculous.

Appreciate the linguistic lesson, thanks. I’ve always run on the modern Icelandic definition.

Appreciate the commitment to use of the thorn, but you know þ and ð are different sounds, right?

“þrough ðe Earþ” etc.

I occasionally come back to the time Colbert sat down with Anderson Cooper and they got onto the subject of the deaths of their parents; Colbert gave some deep answers, and Cooper went down a rabbithole afterwards of collecting stories about grief and the grieving process.

There’s more to the man than the late-show format allows to show, certainly.