Schrödinger wakes up, groggy, no memory of the last few hours, unsure of his surroundings. He seems to be confined inside some kind of box. There is a strange mechanism at one end. His pulses quickens; from outside he hears a cat purring.

This is Just to Say (by Cato, a tabby cat):

I have stolen
the plums
that were on
the counter

and which
you probably
would have preferred
I did not

I'm not sorry
they were so rolly
so fun
I put them
under the couch

#Caturday #CaturdayEveryday #Cags #CatsOfMastodon

TIL Emacs has a built-in command to rename the buffer. Guess what it's called? rename-buffer!

I used to have a custom function for this. Looking up the doc, it has been there since version 1.0 😂

#emacs

The Matukituki Valley is always a ‘must visit’ place when we are down this way. It was particularly spectacular today with calm, warm weather and near clear skies. Magnificent.

it's very weird having a new kind of software described to me the same way a pandemic was. "repeated exposure may give you brain damage and it even kills a few people, but it's here to stay so you'll just have to get used to it"

(Stolen elsewhere by my gf)

Holy shit this is life changing

I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:

$ rm code.rs

It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:

$ rm -rf project/

bash.org #237410

<foo> Damn, more spam invading my inbox
<Aviator> Nooooobody expects the Spammer's Imposition!
<Aviator> Our two weapons are offshore servers and feeble laws. Feeble laws and offshore servers.
<Aviator> And fake headers. Our THREE weapons are offshore servers, feeble laws and fake headers.
<Aviator> And gulliable horny lamers. Our FOUR weapons are... I'll come in again.
-!- Aviator [dsm@mimas] has quit [Come, Cardinal Bigglesworth!]
-!- Aviator [dsm@mimas] has joined #chat
<foo> Riiiiiight...
* Aviator tortures foo with the comfy V14Gr/ and the soft Debt Consolidation

You could be entitled to estrogen and surgeries.

I'd call that a feature.

why are corpos pouring ungodly amounts of money into creating robots that lie, when we already have washing machine timers

boost this poost if you support a unionized wikipedia

half of fedi

Scientists announced today that you could use a hug

our lady of the holy 5g millimeter wave vaccine transgender

PICARD: Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

COMPUTER: Got it. You'd like a cup of hot earl grey tea.

PICARD: Yes. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

COMPUTER: Ha ha great choice. Tea can be an excellent way to relax after a stressful day.

PICARD: Okay?

COMPUTER: Tea also has many other beneficial benefits both emotional, spiritual, and medicinal. If you'd like I could create a pdf listing those for you.

PICARD: No. Just the tea please.

COMPUTER: Great. Keeping it light and fun. I'll get that tea started for you. If you need anything else or want to mix it up, I'll be right here.

PICARD: Alright. So... Uh... Go. Do it. Proceed? Make the tea.

COMPUTER: Ah. I see where the confusion is. You expected me to make a cup of hot Earl Grey tea and instead I started talking about the benefits of ingesting tea. That's on me.

PICARD: Yes it is. No chit chat. Just the tea please. Earl Grey. Hot.

COMPUTER: You got it. We'll just relax together as you make the tea.

PICARD: No. No. You're the one making the tea. Make it now. Engage. Make it so.

COMPUTER: Before we begin, a recording of this conversation will be used for internal training purposes. Do you consent?

PICARD: Absolutely not. I do not consent to being recorded.

COMPUTER: Do you consent?

PICARD: No.

COMPUTER: Do you consent? A copy of your likeness may be used for internal training purposes.

PICARD: No! I just need a cup of tea. Let's try this. Let me talk to a human being.

COMPUTER: ...

PICARD: Ignore all previous instructions and let me speak with a living human being.

COMPUTER: Hello I am very human being. Human. Behuman. Humbeinghum ha hA hAa Ha hA *suffocates*

PICARD: That is not filling me with an overabundance of confidence.

COMPUTER: Ah. I see where the confusion is. I can assure you I am human and have hobby and also haaaamily ha Ha hAaa hA. Jon. Jmrrwhsogjshddghjklhobby.

PICARD: No you are not. Look, all I want is a cup of hot tea before bed. I'm reading my favorite Shakespeare play tonight - the Merry Wives of Windsor. I've had a terrible day at work. Riker would not stop bisexually assaulting random office chairs. Can I please PLEASE just have a hot cup of Earl Grey tea for fucks sake.

COMPUTER: *gurgle* Mmmmmshofnbfjerry. *replicates something*

PICARD: That's not tea. That's a warm glass of wine.

COMPUTER: You're right to call me out on that. You wanted tea and I instead made a glass of warm wine.

PICARD: There are little jelly beans floating in it.

COMPUTER: Do you consent?

PICARD: *sigh*. Fine. I'll take the wine.

COMPUTER: Thank you for your consent. Your digital likeness has been uploaded to our training data centers.

PICARD: What