I hate LLMs for everything except summing up those endless Genshin quest dialogues. I want to know roughly what the quest is about, but not going to read/listen to hours of extremely dry and stilted thesaurus-wanking. But I’d never use it for anything where I actually care about the accuracy of the output.

reminds me of Hyperbole and a Half’s cake story :D

wow this is fascinating, thanks for sharing!

I love this clip 😄 It’s even better with sound!

I only do manual backups, but I’m the kind of person who does it multiple times a day anyway - whenever I do a major edit on a work or hobby file - just for my peace of mind :)

And yes, only “airlocked” backups. I manually use FreeFileSync to mirror my files to a local backup folder on another HDD (I have multiple paired folders set up inside that, so FFS doesn’t have to check tens of thousands of other files if I only edited a particular project that day), and keep only that synced to Google Drive. So if either the active local copy or Google Drive is corrupted or lost, the file is not automatically lost on the other end. I also found it a neat surprise that Google Drive retains past versions of files, it came handy a few times.

their personal, legal files

Google doesn’t even care about hosting pirated content on Drive as long as you’re not sharing it to others.

two drives in the same PC/server count, but it’s sketchy on its own

If your house/office burns down, all your data is lost. At least one backup should be off-site!

I use Macrodroid for similar notification handling shenanigans. I even bought it bc it’s so beautifully customisable 👌

We bought a smart TV a couple years ago, and it was so hard to find a model without a built-in microphone… No I don’t want my fucking TV to listen to every word said in the room.

I kinda like it, feels cozy :)

We had Mastodon, which worked perfectly

tbh several of my colleagues complained that they found discovering new content and/or content outside of their servers really hard, and the whole federation is just too complicated for not-technologically-minded people 🤷

(no personal experience because I don’t use any microblogging platforms)

This really reminds me of Peter F Hamilton’s novels about the Void 🙃 (Void Trilogy and Chronicle of the Fallers)

as the kids say, this sent me 💀

there is also Where is Libgen which is apparently also powered by Wikidata

If anyone’s interested in that time period, James Clavell’s excellent Shogun novel is set a few decades into the process. (Before the shogunate rose into power, banned Christianity and massacred tens of thousands of Christian converts 😐)

For me it immediately starts downloading the file instead of opening in the browser as PDF. Maybe it’s already in your download folder?

The relevant images are:

As a Hungarian I can confirm. We mostly read words letter-by-letter. No weird shit like “rebel” and “rebel” sounding different because one is a noun, other is a verb 🤡

Or “queue”, are you drunk, English? And the native speakers’ favourite mixups, “there” and “their”, “it’s” and “its”.

but then you combine differently acting painkillers, not just take 20 times the safe dose of one O.o

like Ibuprofren and Paracetamol can be safely combined up to their allowed doses, which is what I did after surgery, spaced them out to half-time between each other’s next allowed pill 🤷

holy fuck how did that guy make it to adulthood without braincells…