@FinchHaven Fair point.

That feeling when something in the aquarium setup is vibrating just enough to cause a faint intermittent buzz, but I can’t diagnose it because even the act of shifting in my seat or taking one step causes it to stop briefly. 😖

#aquarium

You know what would be a great Mastodon feature?

“Boost with added CW”

My client (Ivory) lets me do that manually via quote post, but IMO it really should be a standard option.

#mastodon #morningthoughts

@karlauerbach God, look at that picture. It’s sad, but apparently someone forgot to turn the Zuckbot on.

It doesn’t stop the need for water changes, of course, and I still need to watch my overall feeding amounts, but it should help a bit. I might get a separate pothos plant for the tank, though; our cutting is still pretty young and I’d hate to accidentally hurt it. (Nice to know I can both feed *and* water it with aquarium water, though!)

Amazing synergy discovered tonight:

For Christmas last year, my mom gave each of her kids a cutting from my grandmother’s pothos plant.

I often have trouble keeping the nitrates low in my aquarium, because I miss water changes and/or overfeed.

Guess what plant thrives on nitrates?

TIL aquarists sometimes grow pothos cuttings hydroponically, then transfer them to an aquarium. The roots are submerged, and the rest of the plant cascades over the side. 😁

#aquarium

@kagan My wife figured it out before I even reached the punchline 😆

Can we all agree that commas and periods/full-stops should just go outside of quotation marks now? It never made sense to put them inside the quotes in the first place unless they are explicitly part of the quoted text.

#morningthoughts

This week we start “summer hours”, which this year means “half-day Fridays for the last week of May and all of June and THAT’S IT”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still extremely grateful that we do even this, and I know they were cut back because management expects a busy July and August — but that’s hardly “summer” hours. 🤔

*Being and acting "futuristic" is not just classy, but actually fun -- unless your increasingly dystopian society is on a visible downward spiral and everybody knows it

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/keeping_up_appearances

It is still wild to think that, aside from college courses, my daughter is *done* with school. It’s somehow stranger to contemplate than when I graduated back in ‘97.

She will probably live with us for a little while still, at least, so there won’t be any drastic changes for a bit… but it’s still wild that we’re entering yet another chapter in our lives.

If an industry can’t survive without stealing resources then it isn’t a viable industry.

If a baker couldn’t afford flour they wouldn’t be allowed to steal it from the supermarket

If a car plant couldn’t afford parts they wouldn’t be allowed to break into their nearest Halfords

@gavi I’ve been saying this for a bit now too. Most non-techie people are fine with LLMs being “good enough” even if they’re blatantly wrong at times. It’s infuriating, but true. We need to focus on mitigating the negative effects, rather than trying to achieve some ludicrous pipe dream of eradicating it from existence.

@timixretroplays I still have my beige variant — albeit a bit yellowed now. And it still works perfectly.

@avocado_toast @QasimRashid They say “Judeo-Christian” because Revelations requires them to support the Jews “rebuilding the temple” so the Second Coming will occur (at which point, said Jewish people will be cast into hell for not following Jesus). To them, the Jews are a useful tool to bring about the apocalypse, nothing more, and their lip service pretending otherwise is utter bullshit.

@darfplatypus @eff Hell, the way our country is now, I figured opting out of facial ID puts you on the “FastPass to CECOT” list. (/s, mostly)

@corbden Probably not, since I haven’t had Netflix for a while; I mostly watch various Youtube storm chasers, meteorologists, and weather researchers.

I just watched a video which was originally in Italian, but then the script was manually translated into English, and the result fed into AI heuristics to dub the voices and faces into English. Aside from some visual/auditory artifacts and a few bits of odd timing, it felt like magic. THIS is an actual, legitimately good use of LLMs.

(The authors still used manual translation presumably because they felt machine translation still isn’t up to the task; I’d tend to agree.)

@JessTheUnstill Copyright is corporate capture of common culture. It doesn’t help the individual creator one bit, because (as you’ve pointed out) the richer entity can afford to stall any sort of legal proceedings until the poorer entity is totally bankrupt and no longer able to defend their work.

@corbden as a kid I was terrified of tornadoes and fires. At some point, that fear diminished as I realized that bad shit is gonna happen that nobody can control… and then I switched to watching storm chasers and tornado/hurricane/fire videos all the time. I’ve seen so many videos about Joplin, Moore, El Reno…

I don’t know what this means, exactly. Maybe it’s just me seeking out dopamine via excitement, in safety, now that the fear has passed.