I dunno about you but I’d rather take a $12 Five Guys burger over a cheap In-N-Out served with a side of Jesus saves.
@gedeonm we had a Five Guys here but they went out of business. We have Culver’s. It’s better than both.
if i don't continuously adjust the location and composition of his food, he doesn't eat enough and just makes confusing, loud, and triggering noises
this has been breaking me for years now
if i don't continuously adjust the location and composition of his food, he doesn't eat enough and just makes confusing, loud, and triggering noises
Fireside Fedi Panel (Very Low Quality Recording)
Verizon Is Going to Charge $10/Month for iPhone Handoff
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/10/18/verizon-handoff
@daringfireball The carriers shouldn’t be charging for it AT ALL!
I suspect as a consequence of single-use plastic bans, the hotel no longer supplies the little peel-top individual serves of Vegemite.
Instead there’s a bowl filled with the stuff, and a teaspoon with which you’re expected to somehow scoop a scant couple of cubic centimetres, AND THEN get it off the spoon onto your plate in some act of defiance against the laws of viscosity, ALL THE WHILE keeping the non-toast items on your plate more than tripping distance from the mound on the way back to your table.
It’s probably not malicious compliance on the part of the hotel, but if they wanted to perform malicious compliance, they’d do this.
@futzle @MelissaBearTrix drop into a chemist for a 5ml syringe?
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New dwarf planet just dropped.
For now, it's called 2026 ED138. It appears to be ~1000 kilometers (600 miles) wide. If confirmed, that would make it a dwarf planet about half the size of Pluto.
https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-first-dwarf-planet-candidate #space #science #astronomy #nature
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the commenters seem legit
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Probably not 90%? This post seems to be receiving an unusually high amount of push-back, less than a day after its posting, which honestly we all probably should have predicted would happen to any such post - at the very least all of eicker’s alts are going to be on the warpath against it?
Maybe people are downvoting bc it’s so much detail but only about a single account, I dunno.
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そういえばUSBひざ掛け買ったのだわ。テスターでみてみたら低温設定時に秒単位でオンオフを切り替えてておもしろかったのだわ。
I reason that to make this work well I'd need nice text-entry & menu navigation! I'm thinking a joystick-switch & 2 buttons for primary input, a grayscale eink screen for primary output. Though I still have to get around to experimenting with joystick-typing.
This would be very power-efficient, & *just* enough to offer those features without getting clunky.
The most open-ended of the features I listed would be that file-viewer...
2/3!!
You'd be able to load files onto this "merephone" like a USB memory stick, to enjoy & share them on the go. I'm thinking supported filetypes would include:
* Audio
* Plain text (editable)
* Images
* eBooks & HTML (since I'm taking code from an ereader)
* EPD fonts
* VCard
* iCal
* Maps (custom lightweight format based on DGGS)
* Kiwix? (offline Wikipedia)
* Apple PKPass
3/3 Fin!
game dating simulation
i was home alone for a couple of nights, i was looking for something kind of mindless.
this one was overstuffed, in a way - enough plot gimmicks for a dozen of the kind of shows you'd put on a streaming platform around halloween. a bunch of them just kind of trail off. i'd say it pulls punches but it's more like the script just kind of decides to go somewhere else.
it could have been a better show, but i liked it well enough to spend the time.
good cast, cool setting, ending just kind of... fizzles right where you think you'd expect some rampaging monster vengeance.
if they get a second season, they could do worse than turning it into kind of a small town hangout thing a la letterkenny but with moderate generational trauma, a little dusting of climate angst, and some murdery giant squid pals.
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eicker links several websites in his bio, such as this one:
it scares me that 90% of Fediverse users do not recognize his obviously LLM writing.
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I often think about that exact, particular, specific comic lately… for some reason! 🤔 😞
That said, OP said elsewhere:
The third screenshot is me asking if it was written by AI and not receiving a reply. The user pretty much does not reply to people, just obviously-LLM summaries to his own posts. Almost all such comments are the same amount of lines.
So if the account in question mimics a human exclusively in order to spread spam about particular websites that they are paid to promote as “authentically”-looking as possible, then I would argue that the mission is not “fucking accomplished”. Or rather, at least not our mission of being able to converse with fellow humans, possibly with the assistance of the occasional bot so long as they are properly labeled as such and not trying to manipulate and scam us.
A properly labeled bot - e.g. that posts daily comics - is a great tool (even if some people choose to opt-out of such, which is their right). It’s the deception that people do not like (mainly).
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they always end the comment with some sort of wry contrast.
I do not consider this kind of preaching to the choir constructive at all: it oversimplifies any nuance in articles posted into building the echo chamber. what’s constructive for discussion should be what challenges!
Flavio Bolsonaro to be announced as the next White House Press Secretary
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Fellow Melburnians! I have a favour to ask.
I'm compiling a definitive list of Melbourne icons for a project I have in mind, and I'd appreciate your help. By Melbourne icon I mean it must be widely recognised as such across the city; so your favourite local pub might not qualify, but the Espy in St Kilda would. (Having said that, I'm sure the final list will reflect my own biases.)
To give you an idea, here are the first 25 entries on my list, which has grown to 120 items so far:
Flinders Street Station
Princes Bridge
Montague Street Bridge
Queen Victoria Market
Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne GPO building
Trades Hall
Parliament House
Windsor Hotel
Bourke & Wills statue
Hook turns
Federation Square
MCG
Royal Botanic Gardens
Skipping Girl Vinegar sign
Nylex clock
Trams
Southern Cross Station
Werribee Mansion
Luna Park
Acland Street cake shops
Esplanade Hotel
Canary Island Date Palms
West Gate Bridge
Vault
This list suggests no precedence BTW, it's just the order in which they popped into my head.
What else can you suggest? All suggestions welcome. Also, please boost for reach.
@timrichards For better or worse:
• Chadstone shopping centre
• Dandenong Ranges National Park (Sherbrooke Forest and Mount Dandenong)
• Point Nepean
• NGV
• Chapel Street
• Camberwell Junction
• Cooks’ Cottage
• Some of the CBD lanes, lessee: Hardware Lane, Degraves Street, Hosier Lane.
• Myer Music Bowl (perhaps this is built into Botanic Gardens)
• Several Zoos Victoria properties (there are three arguably in Melbourne)
• Pin Oak Court aka Ramsay Street
• Explodey gas things on Southbank, do they still do those?
