Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

> Maybe it’s useful to know that Sam Altman uses a knife that’s showy but incohesive and wrong for the job; he wastes huge amounts of money on olive oil that he uses recklessly; and he has an automated coffee machine that claims to save labour while doing the exact opposite because it can’t be trusted. His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste.

more of this, please. you can learn who a person really is by how they do housework and carework.

https://www.ft.com/content/b1804820-c74b-4d37-b112-1df882629541

If you can stomach an AI generated placeholder image, this post about WiFi only working when it's raining is similarly hilariously strange, again with a logical explanation.

https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/

My apologies, it was 500 miles. Anyway, if you haven't seen this story you owe it to yourself to give it a read. It's absolutely absurd, and yet there's a perfectly logical — if strange! — explanation.

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

When I see something like this, or the "I can only send an e-mail 300 miles" post, or the "my wifi only works when it's raining" post, it's tempting to think of ordinary computing as being something like AI: subject to mysterious and seemingly random behaviors.

The difference, though, is that these *incredibly strange* bugs all have explanations rooted in an understanding of how computers work. You can go find those explanations by using logic!

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/114499808416423984

Seems like I'm not the only one noticing an uptick in channer and nazi memes being boosted.
Is something specific going on? Or is it just the normal ebb & flow?

The last paragraph of this week's Crux, from @daedalus ...

Yes.

Fuck yes.

Baby steps.

I made a little #rustic step-ladder for the living room using a maple yoke piece that I ripped down the middle. And I added a removable slide for the junior woodworkers to have a some indoor playground fun.

#woodworking

I don't think #spooncarving will ever be my main thing but it's such a nice way to practice and experiment. This little spoon is for the sugar bowl. It was a piece of birch around a knot that I almost threw in the compost but then I thought it might be worth trying to work that swerving grain.

#sløyd #woodworking

In retrospect, maybe organizing the whole world via Teen-Chat and Celebrity-Quip products was not a good idea.

An organic, fair-trade, community-governed, collectively-owned, open-source oil rig is still an oil rig.

Intentions, governance, ownership, etc. are all super important, but you also need to be honest about what the thing does and the consequences.

I'm lookin' at you "Open-Source Local LLMs".

is there like a list of computer hardware stuff outside of pcpartpicker's categories? pcie cards for example are excessively lacking on pcpartpicker

(i know how to build a computer)

Heb ik volgers die zich bezighouden met de front-end van veel bezochte Nederlandse websites én affiniteit hebben het beperken van energieverbruik van het totale internet?

Ik help @fershad met het vinden van partijen die mee willen werken aan zijn grid-aware websites project

My own testing has shown it outperforms the others *and* doesn’t box you into weird licenses and questionable leadership promises.
https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/114497582785089366

I fucked up my repo so bad

i FUCKING HATE doctors. if you're not willing to operate on fat patients don't become a fucking doctor.

my sister has been desperately dieting and losing weight and has lost 63.5kg over the course of a year and she booked a consultation for some cosmetic surgery, video consult, doctor said it was fine and she should drive from Wales to Birmingham to get this done. she gets there today, sees another doctor who tells her she's *too fat to get the surgery* and then slams the door in her face when she starts crying.