Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

If the Carolinginoids or whatever they're called wanted for some reason to piss of Scotland even more, they could have, when the UK national anthem was sung during the Coronation, included this gentle verse which was once (briefly) part of it:

Lord, grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring;
May he sedition hush,
and like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush!
God save the King!

... Possibly the only national anthem ever to actually call for members of one of its constituent nations to be crushed.

It wasn't long ago when I'd see an idea so rote that I'd say "I could have written a perl script to come up with that one".

But we're really there, now. Unskilled people can simply ask a cloud app to quite literally have an idea for them, and it'll come up with a trite variant of something that always works. And it'll work.

We are so fucked. And it's our own fault for being so easily and predictably amused. Have fun sucking up algorithmically digested pap for the rest of your life.

I can't believe we're ALREADY to the point where "creating AI prompts" substitutes for every last skill on the planet. Even creative writing. Especially creative writing.

I mean if humanity is that over, then it deserves to be over.

One experience I've had that gave credence to the idea of nominative determinism.

I was once killing time before going to a play in Santa Fe, and wandered into a New Age shop. Suddenly a regular called out to the owner, "Charlotte Anne! Oh Charlotte Anne.."'

A New Age shop owner named Charlotte Anne. That did it for me.

Honestly, a crontab entry that simply executes ~/.bash_history every morning at 7 am and half my day's taken care of.

One nice thing about being in a rut is the way bash history comes in so handy to optimize your routine

#UNIX #Linux #Nerd #OhLookANerd #bash

As a background task I'm currently updating a desktop from one LTS Ubuntu distribution to the next. Using the graphical front-end, yet.

It feels weirdly old-school, like writing a PHP site, or doing anything at all with Windows. I wouldn't have an Ubuntu system at all anymore if the build scripts for half the FOSS projects on Earth didn't assume it. And even then it's better to do it in a container anyway, so why I still have an Ubuntu desktop is anyone's guess. Laziness I suppose.

Given that for the foreseeable future an awful lot of conversations will be about the threat, real or imagined, of AI (also real or imagined), I think we're overdue for a HAL 9000 emoji, don't you?

Somebody get after whichever unicode committee handles this, pronto.

When you get a quarter-billion pound coronation, do you have to sign some sort of agreement saying you won't drop dead for 10 years? Because it'd be such a ripoff to have to just do it again.

Still leaving the blue checks filtered out on twitter. You miss a bit but you get less annoyed. And it's fun inferring what the needy prats said from the responses they get.

British people: be sure to make the approved Charles III coronation sign to everyone you meet this week. It's three fingers pointed up, backhanded, accompanied by a slight upward-thrusting motion

I wonder how many people realize that the principal source of the exploits behind ransomware and trojans that to this day are costing us uncounted billions was a generation of programmers who whose entire career consisted of copying and pasting MSDN code without understanding it.

Russian-speakers in Latvia decline to be a pretext for the Kremlin:

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/04/30/7400059/

Anyone else not had a real haircut since the beginning of 2020? On the plus side I've become fairly adept with the Wahl trimmer.