@peter I’m upset that I already knew that without looking it up.

Of course my writing sounds like an LLM. I've been writing technical doc for 40 years. Who the fuck do you think the LLM trained on?

TIL: “ai;dr”

@joyousjoyness (At least, I *think* it was a compliment)

@joyousjoyness “Ives, you baffle science.” [My friend Steven, Easter 1985, when I went to the university cafeteria after “work” (I got paid to sing in a church choir) wearing a black hat with a HUGE pink cabbage rose on one side and a vintage suit]

@christineburns They might have, but I quit reading after I finally got to the One Cool Trick. 😆 That is really useful to know, though.

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@MichaelRoss/115800541723611386

TL;DR Tap & hold to speed videos up to 2x; release to return to 1x. I read the clickbait headline + several paragraphs of fluff so you don’t have to.

I was brought up to believe that people who were still shopping on Christmas Eve were inefficient procrastinators. But folks, I was at T.J. Maxx at 7:20 this morning, and got some awesome presents AND a recommendation for a hairstylist from a woman whose hair I complimented. People were cheerful & nice. It was altogether delightful. Might be my new tradition.

@jzb The weather is not helping. I keep reading “unseasonably warm” as “unconscionably warm.” Anyway, hope yours turns out OK and you can sneak in some quiet movie time. We’re grilling for Christmas Eve bc a) empty nest; and b) see “unconscionably warm.” 🤣

@jzb On Saturday I told the obviously stressed-out tech at my optometrist’s office “By this time next week, Christmas will be over!” and she visibly cheered up.

thinking about how TVs originally had curved screens, then through advanced technology we made TV screens flat, now via Even More Technology we made TV screens Curved Again But The Other Way

#3184 - Funny Numbers

Yes more good news for the shortest day - my heart is positively racing it canna take it 😂

Cranes made a comeback in #Scotland after a 500-year absence. The crane — once a mainstay of medieval banquets — disappeared due to hunting and habitat loss. The birds are now recolonising naturally thanks to the restoration of their wetland habitats by conservationists. This summer up to six breeding pairs were recorded in #Aberdeenshire.

#Crane #BirdsOfMastodon #Conservation #Habitat

It is the end of the year and you're walking through fresh snow under the Northern Lights and you feel a little endless ❄
#pixelart #dinchenix #auroraborealis

Santa and Elves stole $3K worth of food from a large grocery store chain in Montreal and distributed it to people in need.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/santa-claus-montreal-police-grocery-store-theft-9.7020673

@jalefkowit @g I like those. I bought some fancy Bosch ones that I can’t get to clip on, but also can’t return bc I no longer have the weird box they came in 🙄

How musicals use motifs to tell stories https://pudding.cool/2025/12/motifs/

@rednikki I’ve been using Vivaldi on iOS (and Windows and Mac) for a couple of years, and I like it a lot.

@madeindex Built-in VPN too, but I had to turn it off bc it seemed to conflict with my other VPN. :-)