Statistician and programmer, bad chess player, sometimes fedi bot maker, extremely amateur wildlife photographer (mostly my cats these days fr), sewist, various other hobbies I pick up.
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Last Notes npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra How did we go from 'omg the workers are quiet quitting' to 'everyone must use the disengage-from-your-job machine' in less than half a decade? npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @nprofile…pfuj that's so neat - underground pastorialism npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @nprofile…pfuj what do the scale insects eat? roots? npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @nprofile…pfuj does the whole colony go, or is this for ants-as-individuals? npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @nprofile…sdjc bit naff. Did you see this from last week about Air NZ using image generation to edit in its new uniforms on old marketing photos instead of taking new ones? https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/technology/nzs-early-ai-adopters-are-already-reaping-the-benefits npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @nprofile…pfuj 'tramp' is the word here for what you might call a 'hike', so my mental picture is a little different npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @nprofile…7760 it's so bad! npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Starting a cruise line that visits Namibia and Null Island, but I'm having difficulty submitting paperwork npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra I have been distracted for the last hour and have only belatedly registered the lightning flashes outside the window npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra What *is* the current state of play with self-hosted IRC servers? npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Given our elections have an extra three months of wiggle room, but nobody is going to want to schedule one in December or January if they can avoid it, I wonder if it's practically feasible to have one late enough in November that the next one can be in February of the year after it would normally be expected npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @nprofile…v6rh wireguard - wirecard is a german payments processor that went down for fraud about five years ago, and wireshark is a network packet analyser my friend showed me in highschool but which I've not had any use for on account of not being a l33t hax0r. I haven't heard of yggdrasil, at least not in this context npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra The fact that my brain keeps confusing wireshark, wireguard, and wirecard probably has a lot to do with why I've never got around to setting up the one that would be most useful to me npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Spent 20 minutes trying to work out if the third of @nprofile…mrzh's #gloryinthethunder novels was available anywhere or if I'd just dreamt it; discovered when saving a copy that it was already in my downloads folder... npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra podcast players need a 'force mono playback' mode, because whenever I hear stereo in that context I assume my headphones have broken or I've suddenly gone deaf in one ear npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @nprofile…36ma I'm pretty sure I have other issues, alas, but if I want to check to see if I'd do better with a better quality utensil do I need a fountain pen - or will any old wide-bodied pen do? npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Happy caturday, have an Otto npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @nprofile…yqv9 I remember that place, what happened to it? npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Hello I'd like to report a bed theif? npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra pico-8 might actually be the best thing about this little #gamedad npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @npub1vu7…nmuv genious npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra For maximum chaos value, I propose that in addition to 9999-12-31, 1900-01-01, and 1970-01-01, we should also sometimes use 1900-02-29 as an NA value for dates npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra You're cute, Otto - but are you entire middle of the bed level cute npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Today had *some* highlights I suppose npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Do you think she missed me? npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra I'm told it's comfy npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Trading turns: Otto npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Taking turns: Odette npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra It's been a big day npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra We're having a sleepy evening npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra @npub16uk…pv7k @npub1lcc…qrmm neon is great although the recent couple of days right after 6 dropped where the shutdown button didn't work were kind of funny npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra A potent mixture of boredom and hunger npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra A belated caturday to you all npub1c5fv4njnj6ttmheyle20k0eu2ukd65d94ysx9qndfgxvl6cwe74qvcv5hg Petra Look at him. Look at my boy
