Spotted on the BBC thing.
"No 10 insists RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombers"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmy56yvv1kxxo
Frankly, I'd have thought removing Merkin war machines would make the locals feel safer, rather than the reverse.
Earlier tonight...
"What're you gonna eat tonight Keith?
"Not sure. There a thing we talked about recently where no-one we know has ever admitted to eating a donner kebab whilst sober. I'm gonna give it a go."
"Keith, you've had five pints and a large rum. You're not sober."
"OK, well maybe I can put a lower bound on the threshold."
Later...
"Nomnomnom!"
Aargh, what do I do?!
Anyone who either themselves has to deal with depression, or has to deal with someone else that does, advice might be welcome.
My bestie has gotten 'the black dog' bad for a several days. He's basically ghosting everyone on messages and social. Phone off, no messages, etc.
I know *what* triggered it (which I can't change), but... can I help, other than just 'give him some space'?
At this point I'm 'concerned' rather than 'worried', but that'll change if it goes on much longer.
One of the ironies is that he has Power of Attorney over me, and could send me to hospital if he thought I was not 'competent' to deal with shit. I cannot do the same for him.
What are those subtitles that are not subtitles? Maybe 'audio descriptions'?
Anyway, I was watching a prog-rock thing from Jethro Tull, I believe, where they'd left that turned on.
Now and again you'd get a subtitle saying "spirited upbeat music continues" or similar, which I thought was wonderful.
OMG, @alice , have you seen this? 😀
Yay! My home instance its up again?! Good, good! Thanks @wild1145 !
Anyway, for the people talking about the AI stuff, I saw this earlier, and as someone who loves their music *a lot*, this was quite persuasive:
I am getting extremely tired of AI shit on YouTube, and specifically the huge numbers of vids that are all over Richard Feynman, and his very clever ideas.
Which would all be a bit of fun, except that Feynman died in 1988. And every single one of these pieces of wank-cloth is completely invented by LLMs, with added stolen video footage.
And you can click the little "Flag AI" button under all the YT vids these days (and it usually pops up and says "yeah, we already know" or similar), but nowhere that I have found can one filter the feed to remove all AI-positive vids, so really, what is the point of the button?
In the spirit(!) of supporting Canadian products rather than USAian ones, I want a good Canadian-made sour-mash style whisky, to replace JD. I've been told about one called "Wiser's"(sp?) about which I know nothing.
Do we know if this is any good? Also, if it's available in the UK?
Fine. Got home (finally) after 'moderate adult refreshment', and this hits tonight's mood rather well.
Can someone remind me what that intersection between ASD and ADHD is commonly called?
The last little while, I can't really watch a full movie, as my attention span shrivels and dies. Yet I can happily sit and listen/watch several hours of music.
E.g. there's a series of movies I downloaded weeks ago, and so far I've only managed to see one right through. In the last week however, I've gotten lost in my music files many times and listened to about ten hours of vintage Pink Floyd pretty much back to back.
Brains are weird. But we knew that.
I will not be controlled!
What was the 'rock track' that mentioned in the lyrics, "....and the inevitable pin-hole burns, all down the front of my favourite satin shirt"...?
In my head it's a Floyd thing, but I really cannot find it tonight!
Thanks!
...and apparently, Lord BinFace is going to 'win by a landfill' 😂 🤣
From The Other Place. Well done, whomever it was!
Chap in the pub watching the Wombledon thing. He just said "I don't understand why the boys have a pocket for the 'second serve' ball, but the girls tuck that spare ball under their skirt."
Young woman at the bar just did an eye-roll and said "young man, you have *no* idea!"
Maybe Count Binface might consider making "pockets for all" an election pledge!
OK, code geeks - way back when I was freelancing (20-noughties), I used a tool called 'purify' as a C compiler preprocessor, and it could spot buffer overruns (and much more, but those were the biggies for what we were doing at the time).
Later (couple of decades?) 'purify' was gone having been, I think bought out by IBM and then killed?
Anyway, later, there was a tool called 'valgrind', which I never got along with, and maybe could have done this, but the learning curve was silly-steep.
There *must* be something out right now in the FOSS community which can do this on a Linux box, no?
Okay, my friend and I were earlier chatting in the pub. I'm home now, and fed, thank you.
We somehow got onto to films, then Sean Connery films, and on and on about the ones we liked and the ones we didn't, and then at some point he went "You need to watch Zardoz!"
Now. Lovely people in the Fedi.
I was just chatting to a couple of guys who have had their boat in a dock in Bristol, to get her repainted. The work is done, but they are unable to leave, because "it's too hot to open the swing-bridge" to leave the docks.
The last time I saw the swing-bridge open (a few weeks), they had the Fire Brigade hosing the bridge down so that they could re-close it.
Hey @alice ,
I've had my regular picks for a while now, plus some dimple picks and shims etc.
But just got a small set of comb-picks. I'll see how this goes...
Ooo oo, where should one direct feature requests for the Mastodon standard WebUI?
What I would *love* is that when I click on 'bookmark' for a post, it asked me to choose or create a folder to put it in.
Basically, what I want to be able to do is organise my Masto bookmarks, like I can in my browser.