damonism

damonism, 1 month ago to random

It occurs to me that you’d only use AI to write for you if you believe you’re not good at writing, and if you’re not good at writing you have no way of discerning if the AI is wrting well for you, and in the process you’ll never get any better at writing yourself.

damonism, 7 months ago to random

What are your favourite insults that aren’t swears, ableist, sexist, racist, misogynistic, any-other-ist, or overly aggressive? I tend to like “dipstick”, but I’m always keen to expand my vocabulary.

damonism, 1 month ago to random

Some doofus thinks my email is his email and mostly he just signs me up to spam but yesterday I got emailed a login and password for a medical patient portal for him.

damonism, 17 days ago to random

It’s so long ago that I last used ICQ that even with an email archive that goes back almost 20 years I have no record of what my ICQ number was.

damonism, 10 months ago to random

Just discovered a fresh cut on one of my fingers and I have zero idea how I got it. Apparently I developed a spontaneous laceration from just sitting at my desk having a Teams meeting.

damonism, 7 months ago to random

My drawer of cables-and-crap is in a particularly dire state at the moment. Also I don’t understand why I have 8 unused hdmi cables.

damonism, 6 months ago to random

I’d occasionally said one of the few news sources I’d subscribe to with my own money is The Economist, and they have a 50 per cent off sale at the moment for the digital edition so I’ve put my money where my mouth is.

damonism, 4 months ago to random

My first package reshipped from the US via HopShopGo arrived today and looks fine. I’d generally give the experience a cautious thumbs up. My only issue was there were more days than I expected between when the US Postal Service said it delivered the package to the reseller and when they said they had it.

damonism, 2 months ago to random

This winter will be the first one where I’ll been catching the bus regularly and I’m not yet sure I have the right wardrobe for that.

damonism, 1 year ago to random

Finally finished Star Trek: Picard last night. As a Next Gen fan when it was in its prime it was good fan service (much more fancy servicey than the previous seasons), but I wonder if it was anything other than good fan service.

damonism, 11 months ago to random

TweetDeck access is being restricted to verified users soon. I’ve been using Twitter for work (to monitor things rather than to post mainly), but without TweetDeck Twitter no longer has any value left for me.

damonism, 8 months ago to random

Builders finished the deck today and I just sent off the final payment and they did a fantastic job and we’re really pleased with it but it’s always quite something to just make that amount of money vanish from your account with a few taps on your phone.

damonism, 7 months ago to random

Aussies: if you haven’t already (and you probably already have), don’t forget to vote tomorrow.

damonism, 4 months ago to random

Haha. Kogan is selling the Vision Pro for $6350 in Australia. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/828871

damonism, 11 months ago to random

Took the car in to be serviced last week and to fix a warning light. The warning alight, along with another, has continued to come on so I took it in again today. They called me not long ago because they now have a boatload of tests to run on it and they’d like to keep it until tomorrow, so I guess I’m Ubering home tonight.

damonism, 20 days ago to random

I worked from home today so I ended up spending most of the evening tweaking my home keyboard firmware to make it work better with the sorts of computery things I do for work.

damonism, 2 months ago to random

Have seen a bunch of people walking around this bit of Canberra in academic gowns so I can only assume there is a graduation ceremony at the Comvention Centre, because there are no universities around here.

damonism, 5 months ago to random

Got an early mark and am now off work for a week and bit. Hooray!

damonism, 11 months ago to mechanicalkeyboards

Current home and work desk setup. Pretty happy with both, tbh. See the alt text for the details. #MechanicalKeyboards #FountainPens

My desk at work, showing a green leather desk mat with (the mat is not dirty, it’s just nicely scuffed) a Lulu split keyboard with KAT Cyberspace keycaps, a purple coiled cable and a greyish Logitech MX Master 3 mouse. Above the desk mat to the left is a Lucrin pen tray with three fountain pens (a Lamy 2000, a Pilot Vanishing Point and a Montblanc something-or-other) and to the right of the desk mat is a Hub20 number pad and an old Anker Qi charger stand. A boring Dell work laptop is tucked under the monitor stand upon which sits a boring Dell work monitor.

damonism, 4 months ago to random

In Melbourne. Anyone know where I can get a decent coffee in this town?

damonism, 4 months ago to random

This is a mood.

damonism, 2 months ago to Canberra

Winter is coming. #canberra

damonism, 4 months ago to random

The fact that you don’t have to pay for parking in most places in Canberra on a public holiday is a stark reminder of how you do have to pay for parking in most places in Canberra the rest of the time.

damonism, 5 months ago to random

Had a whole list of things I wanted to do this Christmas/New Year break, and I’ve completed precisely one of them: finishing Baldur’s Gate 3. This took me about 170 hours. Time well spent!

damonism, 5 months ago to random

The term “crypto scam” is a tautology.