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geordie, 1 day ago to random

AI is going to spark a new dawn of human understanding and the valuation of knowledge. It will do this by making everything you read online almost certainly complete bullshit, leading to a renaissance of people engaging verified experts on a commercial basis.

geordie, 2 days ago to random

Super farty over here.

geordie, 3 days ago to random

I asked for lidocaine at the chemist, the chemist immediately started acting like I'd asked for oxycontin.

"It's unusual to ask for medicines by their chemical name, why do you need it?"

"I have an ulcer on the roof of my mouth."

"You should use mouthwash."

"Weird that you call it mouthwash and not Listerine. I'm doing that, but it still hurts and I'd like you to tell me where the lidocaine is."

geordie, 3 days ago to random

Innovative!

From: @verge
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112486868652615309

geordie, 3 days ago to random

A lot of action movies have a central plot of a massive explosion from the bad guys killing heaps of folks in an iconic building, but in reality if you blew up a relative handful of water treatment plants, electrical substations, sewage facilities and all those railways stations that get real busy at peak hour it’d probably be several orders of magnitude worse. Just thoughts.

geordie, 4 days ago to random

In the office. This is becoming a habit.

geordie, 4 days ago to random

Nothing says "I wasn't expecting to support Windows" like "c:\program files\software\usr\local\bin"

geordie, 5 days ago to random

Today I am working in the office, which is like regular work but instead of being at home there's a place owned by the employer you go to.

geordie, 5 days ago to random

Sometimes the president of a nation hostile to the US just dies in a helicopter crash.

geordie, 5 days ago to random

Can you get GU10 or MR16 bulbs or lights that aren't spots/downs?

geordie, 5 days ago to random

OH:

"Have you tried turning it off... ?"

"... and back on again, yeah I have."

"No, just turning it off."

geordie, 6 days ago to random

There's a new button in Outlook to request invitees to attend a meeting in-person, because the default is online now.

geordie, 7 days ago to random

When recipes call for a 4cm piece of ginger I feel like there was an agreement on uniformity in the two other dimensions that I missed.

geordie, 9 days ago to random

LBT: Apple very deliberately went with “your next computer isn’t a computer” as a strategy and now they sell a computer and a “not a computer” and everyone is scratching their heads.

geordie, 9 days ago to random

So we used to have a nanny. When the kid first went to school we had a new parent's information evening where they told us all sorts of boring stuff, some interesting stuff, and concluded with "and after school care is extremely limited so good luck with that goodbye" except said as one word over the space of about a second, the principal then decamped. When we rushed to book afterschool care they could accommodate him Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but not Tuesday or Thursday, so we paid a woman we'll call Jo (because that's her name) to pick him up from school two days a week, and look after him at our place until 6pm. As the years went on, he'd come to get public transport to her house, she'd look after him there while he did homework etc. and bring him home at 6pm. We no longer needed her as of this year, kid is old enough to look after himself.

geordie, 10 days ago to random

You know those 90s movies where a hacker in a hoodie told a computer "bypass security" and it worked?

https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112441889190313713

geordie, 10 days ago to random

By the way if you didn't know, "20/20" vision means that for each of your eyes you can see what you should be able to see 20 feet away, from 20 feet away. If you need to be 10 feet away to see something to see it the way someone with correct vision does at 20 feet, with both eyes, you have 10/10 vision.

geordie, 11 days ago to random

Not particularly technical friend had several drinks, changed their laptop password and set the password hint to "lol" so I'm dealing with that now.

geordie, 12 days ago to random

So today I learned that there have been so many episodes of Law and Order, that with a comparatively capped pool of actors in New York, several actors have been in the show multiple times as different people.

geordie, 13 days ago to random

Wife got invited to a charity dinner where her ticket was covered but she had to make a personal donation to the salvos. She said she wasn’t going to do that because they discriminate about who they’ll support. The offer was rescinded. She’s made a donation to Twenty10.

Folks she’s the one.

geordie, 16 days ago to random

geordie, 17 days ago to random

SO, if I was feeling old before...

Wife: "You can't write the trivia answers because of your handwriting."

Me: "What the fuck are you talking about my handwriting is great. It's neat, cursive with the occasional restrained flourish from a gorgeous pen filled with gorgeous ink."

Wife: "and that's the problem. The folks running the trivia are in their twenties. They don't ever write by hand or read handwritten words. They read screens and printed pages. They can't read your answers."

geordie, 17 days ago to random

"iPads Pro" er... @decryption I'm not sure about this.

geordie, 18 days ago to random

Thing is, they can’t. Australian privacy law forbids Google hitting back. This is why A Current Affair features a squillion people saying the bank did them wrong and the bank “declines to comment.” It’s not because they’re embarrassed, they’re literally banned from defending themselves publicly. The debanked on ACA are meth hoovers and banks can’t do shit. Google can’t say “Unisuper typed terraform destroy”, even though that’s what happened.

From: @GossiTheDog
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112398849195395148

geordie, 19 days ago to random

The woman at the cafe where I get my lunch squealed "mong mong!" which is "puppy" in her language. That heralds the arrival of Brolly. Brolly is a genetically engineered hybrid of a bulldog and an MRAP and is an Extremely Good Boy.