Oh crap. Reminds me that for some reason or other (Mostly just time issues I guess, and because dualbooting Windows was pain I guess) I never completed Max Payne 2. As a giant fan of the first game I loved it.

Wonder if I need to go dig out the discs. Wait wait what, I already have MP1&2 on Steam? How? When did I get them? Never mind. Hope these aren’t a massive headache to get running

My favourite is Emoji Turtle Daily which is exactly what it sounds like. Sadly on hiatus but the archive is solid gold.

Time to quote the Bible to the boomers who always hypocritically claim to love it so much:

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” - Ecclesiastes 3:1

…and mayonnaise should be used extremely wisely: never in vain, never merely due to tradition - and no matter what, it should always be used with full knowledge about its true, if somewhat mysterious and indescribable-in-words purpose. Those who never consider these mysteries are not fit to decide whether it is appropriate to use mayonnaise or not.

[mic drop]

“We’re building the Eschaton Immanentising Machine, from the famous theological treatise ‘Don’t Immanentise the Eschaton’”

(Also, using LLMs sounds a lot less efficient than the exhaustive search described in The Nine Billion Names of God)

One of my recent software projects has an “ignore” list feature, but I guess I have to update the terminology to “include/exclude” if that means chuds will stay away.

This is starting to get dangerously close to some SCP-1981 shit.

(I know, I know, real life already vastly surpassed all potential of art in the realm of presidential incomprehensibility in Trump’s first term.)

Come to think of it, the Covenant have a lot in common with American brand millennial Evangelists. Leaning really hard on immanentising the eschaton.

Heh, I’m getting back to physical media, and this big 4K TV is literally the first time ever where I’ve actually constantly noticed that DVDs might get a bit pixely.

(And even so, I usually blame not so great digitisation. Some transfers of old obscure titles were really sloppy, you really didn’t need a great TV to see the problems. Original was a black and white movie, the DVD was a bunch of grey mush.)

Funny thing, over here, OSM actually got weird rural stuff for a couple of rural towns I visited frequently about a year before Google Maps (and other proprietary services) was usable there. I think it had to do with some open-data drop from the government.

And seeing the services grow side by side also kind of gave away what their priorities were. Google: putting the local businesses and services on the map. OSM: document every single cool and convenient foot and bike trail.

They’re completely safe what comes to Potassium-40 radioactivity! You need to eat a massive amount of them to even reach the point where you experience radiation sickness. Actually, you might experience excessive potassium toxicity levels first. (Or you might not! Human bodies are equipped to get rid of excess potassium.) Or, you know, you might experience the problems of stuffing too much stuff down your gullet. There’s only so much stuff you can fit in your stomach at one time.

I’m a girl. I’m not interested in Haskell, that’s too frigging endofunctiorific. Erlang! That’s what all the cool guys are doing.

I actually like it how “expert” becomes “Thing-Knower” in Finnish. Finnish language has such a beautiful system of deriving words and new terms. I actually find it really disappointing to look at Estonian when they obviously just nab a lot of words from Latin/Greek roots. I mean, really, Disco Elysium? “Kontseptsualisatioon”? I mean, you could translate conceputalisation into Finnish as “konseptualisointi”, but why the hell would you use a weird Latinate shit when we have a perfectly useful Fenno-Ugric term already in use, “käsitteellistäminen”?

(“Käsitteellistäminen” comes from “käsi” (hand) → “käsite” (concept; something to be grasped, to be held in hand, I guess figuratively speaking?) → “käsitteellistää” (to make a concept, to conceptualise) → “käsitteellistäminen” (noun form of the verb, conceptualisation).

Yeah, long ago, Netflix was pretty nice even if the selection available in Finland was limited compared to what other countries had. Then the Cambrian explosion of streaming services happened, and all of that stuff I was interested in was suddenly hopping all over a handful services. I just couldn’t justify to myself subscribing to a bunch of services I only watch a few times a month.

I’m actually finding that YLE Areena, the free streaming service by the public broadcaster, has much more interesting stuff these days. That’s my current plan. Areena, and my giant wall of DVDs and Blu-Rays.

From computer science standpoint, they’re all just chunks*

* “chunk” doesn’t really have any agreed upon definition, it’s just a word software developers like to use

I’m just a nerd girl who knows next to nothing about cooking. But I have to reverse-engineer my late grandma’s plum tarts one day.

I’m fed up with the streaming services, so I’m getting back to my big pile of DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.

I was randomly reminded of the “BD-Live” thing that I tried long ago. One of the most janky joyless things I had ever seen. Some marketing person had decided to do a marketing thing for movie promos and trailers and had forgotten that the thing was to be visited by actual people.

This sounds like it was cooked up by the same people. Looks like marketing people building a Thing.

I’m not working as a developer right now, so most of the stuff I write are supplementary for my creative projects. If I have a problem involving too much manual work, I want to figure out a solution to minimise it. Mostly done in scripting languages like Python and Ruby. Also doing number crunching and plots in the R programming language.

For example, I’m working on tools to help my photography workflow. I sometimes get weird ideas like “I wish I could have a better idea where I have taken photos in”, which turned into a script that takes coordinate metadata from photos and spits out a .kml file a mapping software can read.

I don’t really copy/paste code much. Sometimes the tools you use in the scripting language land spit out automatically generated stuff which you then develop further.

I don’t have the exact timeline at hand, but Microsoft Accounts (originally Microsoft Passport) as a Microsoft service wide SSO were originally cooked up at Microsoft, while Hotmail was a separate service that Microsoft acquired. And this was in the late 1990s. I guess they originally designed the account system to be independent of the whole web portal nonsense that was fashionable at the time.

…anyway, I think it’s good thing that Microsoft let you use whatever email address you want with it and not force you to use Hotmail/Outlook.

Like I said, the AI companies are not on the same side. The AI companies in the fight for their own selfish reasons. They’re eventually just going to make the copyright situation even more byzantine. They also make the copyright reform/abolition people look bad.

It’s like if I say I’m an Anarchist and then I have to constantly say “well actually I don’t advocate for looting and vandalism nonsense, those dipshits don’t know shit about Anarchism”. Do you know how hard it is to advocate for more reasonable copyright policy reflecting modern times, when the current big crisis in the mind of artists and creators are the dipshit companies blatantly violating the law?

(Imagines a timeline where absolutely everything is still written in PHP)

Oh hell no