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[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Basically. Also, we'd have to think about the ethicality of keeping cattle for plastic production.

[–] zout@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Do you still have the component? You could try repairing it, there's a youtube video where your last picture came from. edit: in case you didn't already have the vid.

[–] zout@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Upvoted you, then realised you probably didn't mean "privacy conscious Linux Wank" as referring to a type of person. Keep the upvote.

[–] zout@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know what part of the world you live in, but the late 1980's and early 90's were wild, the whole eastern bloc fell in 1989, there were revolutions in the Philipines, South Korea, South Africa, and dictatorships in Argentina, Paraguay and Suriname elected democratic governments.

[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

I graduated at 40, never felt embarrassed.

[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The person you responded to said reversed, so 1 atmosphere on the outside, vacuum on the inside. I agree it would be crushed.

[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We have those kind of people in the Netherlands (their god is white haired), and if I wouldn't know better I would think everyone had gone mad with how loud they are.

[–] zout@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago

I would choose to work closer to where I live, not the other way around unless the only available job was hours away. That said, there are jobs closer to home than my current job, but I think they kinda suck.

[–] zout@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago

Last few weeks I've been reading "the hydrogen sonata" by Ian M Banks and I'm almost half way through. I really like this book, it's got some of my favorite elements from the culture series like the Minds, and it reads like a "proper" SF book and not half fantasy which isn't my thing. Now only to make time to read...

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

At least fifty years, and according to my mum at least 75 years.

[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

Well, if no one could observe them, you could say that they both existed and not existed.

[–] zout@fedia.io 8 points 4 days ago

Whomever made that map has never met someone from Amsterdam.

 

So, in the last ten days I've been reading the "dumb luck and dead heroes" series by Skyler Ramirez. I stumbled onto this series on Goodreads, probably in the "also enjoyed" section for another book.

Initially, I tought the books were ok, but reading them, I found the storyline going in some strange directions. I also find it strange that there is hardly any character development in the books. I dug into it a little deeper, and found that all of these books have been published in the last two and a half years, together with some other books 14 in total.

So, digging a bit further into his profile on Goodreads; He's currently reading his own books, books by an author named A.B. Franklin who just published his first book, and an author named Jack Bodett who has published six books this year. A.B. Franklin is returning the favor and reading Skyler Ramirez' books.

All in all, this makes me guess that these writers make extensive use of LLM's while writing these books. I googled Ramirez' name, and found his website. Visiting the website only confirms the feeling that it's all LLM and AI imaging.

Any toughts on the subject?

 

The toilet seat in the bathroom upstairs has two part hinges, where you mount two pins on the toilet and snap the seat and lid on. Something broke in the snapping part this week. Fixed it by removing some plastic from the clamping mechanism, put some epoxy putty in there and around the pins, then placed the seat back. It's still on there today, so it worked I guess.

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