The GentleHacker

our "smart" coffee machine at work is broken today. I made a joke about it being related to the AWS outage but then we looked in the back and it's plugged into ethernet

It should not be as niche as it is, but I keep having to repeat it:

If your values don't apply to *everyone,* they're not actually your values. They are simply a favor that you do for people that you like.

Whichever is the default in VSCode, supposing that, if the default can't handle a simple task, then I've got concerns about the entire premise of Copilot.

(Perhaps other models and AI tools are better... But then why doesn't Copilot use one? An empty project isn't particularly onerous)

I have just discovered that Evernote is still installed on my Android device.

Discovered, and remediated. No need for that rubbish here, tyvm.

(Oh, how the mighty hath fallen)

Because I was asked to give it a fair showing, I have asked Copilot to generate me a project shell; nothing fancy, just a Typescript project with the Twitch API library.

So far there are 3 packages and it has invented four different API libraries, none of which exist.

Truly a marvel of the age.

YouTube video by BBC Maestro The ONLY way to cook lentils with Marco Pierre White | Meet your Maestro | BBC Maestro

Please enjoy this utterly unhinged video from the BBC featuring Marco Pierre White being needlessly intense about Lentils: https://youtu.be/5CozySQ1Roc?si=8BWvUEUM1077U5BB

The Art of Defenestration I'm fucking dying at this page someone shared on Bluesky. Behold, the Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide that forgot to close its <h3> tags.

Well.

kuurokaze.tumblr.com/post/7851957...

It is with the deepest of chagrin that I find myself enjoying an article in the New Yorker.

Perhaps it is time for excessive drinking and melancholic reflection after all.

Image of my FFXIV OC, Reiah, standing on the moon, cocking a handgun and saying "moon's haunted".

Additionally, Primarily, and Most Importantly:

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Lest We Forget.

#ANZAC #ANZACday

Today's amusing peccadillo: When pasting into @hetzner.bsky.social's web-based console, the Shift Status of characters is being removed.

eg
`ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL`
becomes
`ALL=9ALL0 NOPASSWD;ALL`

For reasons unknown to even myself, I find this _frightfully_ funny. Just have a care, #developers!

But are they *tasteful* children, or do they clash with the wallpaper and make the organza sticky?

I am *thrilled* anytime I get to touch a piece of Urushi Lacquerware. I encountered an Urushi keycap set once and was perilously close to buying the absurd thing.

I don’t think I’ve made a worse financial decision in my life than developing good taste

Notes of desperately trying to remain proletariat at least in this one thin; Good mouthfeel I think I don't know surely it all FEELS like wine; definitely Grapes in there somewhere...

An entertaining little factling:

If, say, an Australian political party were to send you mail then attempt to trick you into providing contact details when you try to unsubscribe, causing you to have to mark their emails as "Spam", it encourages _all_ their mail to be marked thusly.

The entire pursuit of AI Haruspicy via simple heuristics seems... Uniquely grim indeed. Especially as, it seems to me, actual interrogation of text is more important then even. Relying on punctuation augury is more likely to harm than help.

🔗 Key links for the DiscMaster Game Jam 🔗

(starting April 21st 2025 at 12:00 PM AEST and running until April 29th 2025 at 4:59 PM AEST followed by judging)

Jam Page: itch.io/jam/discmaster-j…
Jam Discord: discord.gg/7JQTtDQyy5
CanDev: canberra.games
Internet Archive: archive.org

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(And yes, Gentle Reader, I am aware that #Zelda is the name of the princess, not the little green fellow. He's named Luigi.)

I had not imagined that it was possible for me to dislike Zelda's voice acting *more*, but that was before #nintendo 's otherwise charming #Alarmo saw fit to see I awoke to it

Mayhap Ganondorf had the right idea.

As a further micro-aggression, the Month-Endian date formats are listed first, despite this being the Australia site.

A chat window saying "I would like to inform you that the reason QuickBooks is unable to import the CSV file is due to an incorrect date format. The date '20 Jun 2024' is not acceptable. QuickBooks requires the date to be in a numeric format, such as 20/06/2024".

I wonder, @qbhelp.bsky.social , if your colleagues over in Quickbooks Consumer are quite well, because this response is UTTERLY REDICULOUS.

"20 Jun 2024" is not an INVALID format, it is, for QuickBooks, an UNSUPPORTED format, and that in itself beggars belief.

A Data input form titled "Let's set up your file in QuickBooks". Below, a header says "Step 1: Tell us about the format of your data" There are three input fields. The labels read: "Is the first row in your file a header?" "How many columns show amounts?" "What's the date format used in your file?"

I do not understand how Intuit is worth 169.08 billion US Dollars peddling this user hostile TRASH.

Why ask these questions without showing an example? Why not guess? Why are there limited acceptable date formats?

I had not thought that In Quickbooks could vex me more, until I discovered that:

A: Their CSV importer does not understand space-separated dates, or months as abbreviations

B: Their support asked me to verify my identity, not at the start of the call, but after finding I wanted CSV help

But the families *weren't* alike in dignity.

I have successfully completed a task! You may send letters of adoration and praise as you wish.

Fly! Pow! Bye! giovanni

This remains as relevant as ever: fly-pow-bye.tumblr.com/post/7472070...

(It appears I can't add alt-text for embeds. I shared a 3 panel comic.

1: Meowth is behind a desk asking "Hey are you guys hirin?"

2: Geovani: "Oh My God a Talking Cat"

3: Geovani: "I'm going to make it commit crimes"

What's your favorite hobby?

1. sharing ennui with cats
2. cheese experiments
3. reading past bedtime
4. haunting the world

Friday, during which we have closed at least 40 tabs, but have not doing anything so productive as finalised our #Keystone schema.

He's a ten but he think's he embodies Holden Caulfield. She's a ten but she though Atlas Shrugged was "Engaging and Erudite".