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lyonsinbeta

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Host of Nostalgia Goggles, player of too many and not enough video games, and a third thing because lists come in threes.

This is a personal interest account. Professional me lives elsewhere.

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mattwilcox, to random
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That’s the joinery finished. Alas I am out of shellac or varnish; so it’ll have to wait now. Need to fit a backboard once that’s done, and decide if the bottom compartment will be for a basket drawer or to put some doors on it.

It’s not perfect, but it’s not too bad.

A close up of the top section showing that the top shelf is made with a lapped dovetail joint.
The side table is on top of my workbench. It has no backing board yet and no finish applied. It is made of redwood (a softwood pine), and it has two internal compartments.
A photo of the side table with clamps applied during the glue up process.

lyonsinbeta,
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@mattwilcox that looks nice. And also sturdy! Those joins are legit.

lyonsinbeta,
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@mattwilcox haha dark

metin, to IT
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Follow @itnewsbot for the latest IT ne… Wait, what…?

#IT #news #screenshot #fun #funny #humor #humour #LOL

lyonsinbeta,
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@metin @itnewsbot can you believe they missed using "MAYsturbatation"?! smdh

lyonsinbeta, to apple
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Every iPad hardware announcement is a deep breath and then several months later at WWDC when software is announced that deep breath is used to blow a raspberry.

Will this be the year that it's used to say "Ta-da!" and show us something that makes use of all that power?

No. Probably not.

lyonsinbeta,
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@mattwilcox BUT IT IS BETTER AT AI TASKS.

lyonsinbeta, to science
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was down overnight when the new episode should have gone live but it's back now! Go learn you some from this .

https://nostalgiagoggles.audio/sg15/

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

lyonsinbeta,
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@ben I recall hearing somewhere that all that content is a super permissive copy left license and it turns out it is! One that requires attribution and transformations to declare what was changed. I'm sure nothing will come of that but if any lawyers out there want to take up the banner, a person could make a strong argument that open AI is incapable of honoring the license. 🤔

https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

lyonsinbeta,
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@ArneBab @firecat @ben here's hoping for some definitive case law to fix that mess. But I'm not holding my breath. 😓

lyonsinbeta,
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@ArneBab @firecat @ben I'm not even sure "case law" is the right term here in the US either. 😬

lyonsinbeta, to languagelearning
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I officially finished my first lesson book with my piano teacher this morning!

💪 🎹

#piano #learning

mattwilcox, to random
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Doing a thing I never do. Bought a new book; having a coffee. Out of the house. Score.

lyonsinbeta,
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@mattwilcox also that dessert looks delicious.

anubiarts, to random
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hi !

just wanted to let you know that art posts as a whole will slow down, as its starting to take a toll on my mental health to keep trying to post things everyday

it was between this or taking a break, and I honestly prefer this over that

sorry for the inconvenience

lyonsinbeta,
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@anubiarts no apologizing for rest! Only rest!

harrymccracken, to random
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This is ridiculous:

  1. MKBHD is as fair as they come

  2. Honest reviews are a huge favor to any company smart enough to pay attention

  3. If Humane has its act together, it paid someone with reviews experience to evaluate the product and knew what to expect

https://www.businessinsider.com/youtuber-mkbh-dtrashes-humane-ai-pin-firestorm-over-damage-startup-2024-4

lyonsinbeta,
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@harrymccracken I don't regularly read Business Insider; is their entire value proposition linking to tweets from people commenting on something that doesn't concern them or is this an outlier?

This is barely business, and it's definitely not inside.

girlonthenet, to random
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Now THAT'S what I call a headline.

https://defector.com/cybertruck-deliveries-halted-due-to-car-being-a-big-piece-of-shit-that-doesnt-work

lyonsinbeta,
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@girlonthenet 👏👏👏

kerrielake, to pixelart
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New baby mushroom designs are coming to Pixel Moon soon in the form of pins, and something else too!

I only chose three of these colours though...which do you think I chose to add? 🍄

lyonsinbeta,
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@kerrielake red... Purple... Green. Maybe?

lyonsinbeta, to random
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Vacuum wasn't picking anything up and when I started removing attachments to see what the problem was this fell out.

lyonsinbeta, to VideoGames
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Oh hey it's my . Please enjoy my and , Nostalgia Goggles, at http://nogog.show

If you already do, maybe tell a friend that would also enjoy it.

Also? You look great today.

mattwilcox, to random
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Painting skirting boards and door frames is slow and boring.

I am painting skirting boards and door frames.

I am bored.

Why must we adult?

lyonsinbeta,
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@mattwilcox if you are willing to have everything in the room be the same color you can use a high-pressure paint sprayer. 😏

lyonsinbeta, to random
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I want to make more time to write and draw but it's hard to have more than one hobby as a working parent. I'm getting a solid 45min of piano almost every day and I don't want to cut into that time to have three 15 minute hobbies. 🫤

Ductos, to StarTrek
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A final Kelvin #StarTrek movie, huh? Never thought they'd actually get to end this series in a proper way. https://variety.com/2024/film/news/star-trek-origin-story-movie-set-andor-director-star-trek-4-still-in-development-1235868141/

lyonsinbeta,
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@andycarolan @Ductos Star Trek 4: A universe with instantaneous infinite-distance teleportation would not have any need for space travel

lyonsinbeta, to random
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@Edent hi! I just found your blog and was getting ready to subscribe to the RSS when I noticed the RSS button in your header doesn't work.

Just thought I'd let you know!

amxmln, to random
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Perhaps I’m overwhelmed by all of my side projects. 🤔 So instead of picking one and working on it, I end up working on none, even when I technically have the time. 😅

Doesn’t feel good. 😕

lyonsinbeta,
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@amxmln 🫂

lyonsinbeta, to random
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Video Game Advisor with a solid reminder.

lyonsinbeta, to random
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8yo's audiobook: ...once, twice, three times...
Me: 🎶 A lady! 🎶
My partner: wtf?

That song was maybe not as well known as I thought. 😂

mcc, to random
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Currently looking down an unusually strange YouTube rabbit hole

lyonsinbeta,
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@mcc 🤔

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