minor plus side is that while last year I had a bunch of issues using my Linux laptop for video calls, it’s all working smoothly this time around.

maybe Linux just didn’t want me learning Swedish

It looks like £100/month is approximately $140 which is approximately 20,000 subscribers, apparently (1 email a day)

Buttondown gets a lot of praise but I don’t know how it compares price-wise.

And that's assuming the bus had even come on time, which I'd never rely on. (My usual bus journeys would be to/from east greenwich, and every route is usually so busy that I'd rather walk if at all possible.)

Cannot comprehend how reducing the number of buses would improve this situation.

We had a 20 minute wait for a bus the other day — on the middle of a Saturday afternoon, which seems to me like it should be peak service time. Along Woolwich Road / Trafalgar Road, Charlton retail park etc so not exactly an out of the way area.

Back-to-back traffic in that time, too, of course.

(It's possible that there are many times that it's adjusting it correctly, too, but obviously I don't notice those. But given that I don't seem to need much adjustment on the thinkpad, I can't believe that this is so complicated tha macos can't get it right.)

They arrested someone and had a dog out, I think.

Can’t find anything on their website but it seems like only a tiny minority of incidents get publicised, unless I’m looking in the wrong place.

only the royal society, i think

I can’t quite decide if Serkis is intentionally doing impressions of the actors from the film versions but his Bilbo sounds distinctly Ian Holm-ish.

incidentally audible is really heavily pushing its new Harry Potter versions, but fuck transphobes

Anyway, I decided to give the Lord of the Rings a go and it’s been pretty enjoyable. It’s narrated by Andy Serkis, who’s pretty good at it: nice speaking voice, different voices for different characters, etc.

There have already been a couple of different copies of it going around Mastodon

Even when we’d literally mentioned her name a minute or two before.

And just now I wanted to find a post by a particular person but had to just scroll back to find it because I couldn’t remember their name until I saw it written down.

A conversation about actors/directors earlier, and constantly having to say “… and she was married to that guy, you know the one, who directed all the films with her and that other guy in — oh and didn’t she go out with what’s his name at some point, you know…”.

Idk why you feel the need to defend LLM users but you can go and pester someone else about it.

My experience is that there’s so much LLM advocacy around that doesn’t only come in the form of management mandates: it can equally take place peer-to-peer.

If I’m not allowed to criticise (‘shame’) my coworkers’ AI use then I also don’t want to hear ‘you need to try the latest model’ from them.

That’s not at all the same thing, though. I’m not talking about management orders to use LLMs.

I wish this was more widespread. 🤷

(I will say though that my primary point is that “LLM shaming” is an incredibly bad framing, and the analogy to veganism is extremely missing the point.)

I don’t care. Did you read the rest of what I wrote?