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gurubob, 4 days ago to random

StackOverflow making me feel good about contributing to the community by reviewing answers and paying attention :)

thomasbeagle, 5 days ago to random

Evergreen quote about IT products:

"It is unusual and refreshing to see a product appearing on the market with its software ready to run"

That's from a review of the Vectrex video game system in 1982. 😂

gurubob, 1 month ago to Tokyo

I just tried the Windows CoPilot demo that seems to be part of Windows 10 now ... I get 30 free uses by the looks of it - here is my prompt: "make a picture of an american muscle car driving towards the camera with a wide angle showing police cars in pursuit. The style should be neo tokyo and the muscle car should be black with dark windows. The buildings should be tall and there should be a low sun in the background highlighting everything", and here are the results :) #tokyo #copilot

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gurubob, 1 month ago to random

Definitely cancelling everything and rugging up with some beers and YouTube tonight. Might even put the fire on.

futuresprog, 1 month ago to random

Last night I was lying awake attempting to remember the lyrics to Bob by Weird Al.

I had the ending of one line and was attempting to reverse it to calculate the beginning.

Very difficult at 0100.

gurubob, 2 months ago to random

Cool digger 🌈

gurubob, 3 months ago to random

Schnitzel night? Hell yeah! #oldschool #pubgrub #urbex

Xas, 4 months ago to random

40 years ago we had a '100 year flood'. Just six years after we'd had the last one. 🙃

Our family home was enough above ground that we just had surface flooding, but my Grandma and Uncle had to be rescued by boat from their place in Waikiwi. 🛶

Southland remembers the 1984 floods
Stuff/Southland Times
Rachael Kelly
January 26, 2024

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350154294/southland-remembers-1984-floods

le_friwi_56, 4 months ago to Spotify

Cancelled #Spotify. Can't justify the expense. Shall stick to the free version, #vinyl, MP3s & CDs.

XauriEL, 4 months ago to random

So it turns out that the guy who built his reputation as a once-in-a-generation engineering genius on the design of his futuristic electric cars actually doesn't know the first thing about vehicle design, the amazing truck he was personally responsible for creating is a laughable failure in every possible respect, and that a decade of fantastic successes happened only because he was actively kept away from the management of his own company by his executive staff

gurubob, 5 months ago to random

Beaver Moon, or so I’m told #ThatsNoBeaver

EmPenTen, 5 months ago to random

Two computers a metre apart, one on wifi and one plugged in to the router. The difference is a whole lot bigger than I expected. Bet you can tell which is which...

Screenshot from speedtest.net showing a download speed of 26 Mbps and upload 48

gurubob, 5 months ago to random

@RFPatterson Well met, young man! 👋 66.7% of my whanau are looking forward to seeing you and yours this coming Saturday.

gurubob, 5 months ago to random

Can anyone confirm this for me - it seems that the online school tekura.org.nz is using Chrome Enterprise to manage installed extensions you sign in with your @tekura.org.nz account. Of the extensions installed there is one called Prey (https://preyproject.com/) which includes location tracking, remote wipe, encryption, fetching of arbitrary files etc. Have asked Te Kura about it but have been told by the first responder that "it's not part of Te Kura" and "we don't own Google Chrome".

gurubob, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Shiny colours 😇 Cassels Milk Stout, but unfortunately the coffee machine was broken so they couldn’t drop a shot of espresso in it.

RickGaehl, 7 months ago to photography

Grass: so ubiquitous, so essential, so resilient, so varied. It really isn't in the least bit boring, once you get up close enough.

#Photography #MonochromeMonday #BlackAndWhite #Macro #Closeup #Grass #Nature #Gardening #Psychogegraphy

gurubob, 7 months ago to random

And while we're at it thinking about RSS feeds, what about the reverse? I loathe the process of submitting a web form, as there's no guarantee that a) it's going to work, b) that the info will get to eyeballs, c) that you will get a receipt. We're long overdue an application called "Submissions" that is used to manage the submissions you make to entities, almost like an email client. Entities define their submission schema and validation, you then progressively fill in and submit when ready.

gurubob, 7 months ago to random

Stuff have dropped X as a platform. Good move. But what's the natural replacement, or should we be looking back to lightweight self-published platform agnostic solutions like RSS? Thinking about this for all businesses or organisations who have a need to publish articles.

richardhulse, 7 months ago to random

I finally bit the bullet and switched from bash to zsh.