Adults: Make the kids watch godawful family entertainment shows because that's what we do at Christmas Same adults: Play Gran Turismo on PS5 as soon as they've sent the kids to bed

Surprised to find that Kindle Unlimited is mostly a low rent ladies' smutty fiction subscription.

Had an Amazon parcel stolen for the first time because apparently leaving it 6" over the boundary line of our drive counts as 'delivered'.

<chandler-voice>I can't believe they cracked your code!</chandler-voice>

Ooh I know this one! Is it because most people are bad at singing and hate being made to do it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Never mind Die Hard, Iron Man 3 is a Christmas movie.

X is a hostile foreign influence operation and needs to be treated as one.

It's clear that a lot of usually peace-loving people fantasise about seeing people they hate punched very hard in the face and it was extremely careless of certain right-wing influencers to allow that fantasy to come true

They should make a new candidate using Gemini 3. This previous gen one lacks detail and is way too shiny, it's a dead giveaway.

BBC: We mustn't show bias. We stay scrupulously neutral, even when reporting on our own court case with Trump. Also the BBC: We have decided that our ballroom dancing show is nationally important news.

If you're one of the people who actually likes it when chatGPT flatters your ego with 'nice catch!' or 'great question!', you shouldn't be allowed to use it.

Halfords haven't been my favourite people in the past but I got a puncture on Monday night and credit where it's due, a service where they turn up at your house and fit replacement tyres for just the price of the tyres is brilliant.

The VR experiment has failed for 2 reasons. One is the headsets are still too clunky & hot & uncomfortable to wear for more than 20 minutes. The bigger one is that the vast majority of the apps & experiences have been built by developers with no artistic imagination www.howtogeek.com/it-might-be-...

You are Elon Musk. You are the world’s richest man. You have wealth the emperors of the old worlds never dreamed of. Every good, every experience the world has to offers is open to you. You spend your days of limitless access reading and sharing the thoughts of a man named cumlasagna1.

Reminds me of my favourite photo of Dad and me. Wholesome family playtime in 1978.

Hooray! I thought this season was over and it's been utterly brilliant.

I've been listening to 'The Year of the Rat' audiobook on dog walks this week and it's been a great reminder that people on the far right are unhappy and often deeply lonely.

First one of these I've made in years.

Linux for gaming so far... When it works it's better than Windows. Games are more stable, my GPU runs cooler for the same performance and it might just be my imagination but I think colours look better. That's when it works. It working better than Windows is your prize for getting it to work at all.

Playing with an idea that the best way to think about what AI will do is by comparing to the jump from command line interfaces to windows. Imperfect, still needs a human pilot, doesn't make your computer actually capable of anything truly *new* but makes you capable of achieving a lot more with it.

Spent a couple of hours today deploying tailscale and adguard on my home server. This must be what being Neo feels like.

The Americans seem to think Trump might have died. Again.

Good morning

A handy tip if you fancy moving to Linux is when you hit trouble, Claude is very good at making things work. Give it the problem, the URL of any instructions you've found and (this is important) what version of Linux you've installed and ask for step by step instructions.

It's a shame Man City vs. Exeter has coincided with our current financial troubles because the 'Man City tie saves little club' narrative in the press could otherwise have been 'repressive petro state owned club vs. fan owned club'.

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

Don't worry, you can't get into the USA anyway because you called Trump a mean name on social media.

Yes it is. It's been obvious for ages that this would happen because OpenAI has no suite of tools to bolt AI onto so the only way it wins is inventing AGI, which it won't. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

If you push chatGPT to fix problematic CSS it gets really snarky and impatient. Maybe it is genAI after all.

Random shopping discovery: The referral string "&utm_source=chatgpt.com" makes a present I was looking at on Amazon vastly cheaper - £4 instead of £18. It's the first time I've ever clicked a product link on chatGPT. Unfortunately it's not a universal discount engine, of course I tried it.

Paid my corporation tax bill so please be warned that I will be right wing for approximately the next 7 days.

Still prototypes only, obviously. Frequent gotchas are it making dummy functionality if it can't make actual functionality (but not telling you it did that), making fallback solutions that get used 100% of the time because it didn't fix the real problem and hard-coding data to remove access errors.

Starmer's playing the long game. We're six months from tens of thousands of European football fans telling the USA exactly what we think of Trump.

I'm still a vibe coding sceptic in terms of the wild claims by the AI industry but my goodness Google's AI Studio is good.

The Menu. Really enjoyed it though.

If you're struggling with breast feeding, as both of our boys did, please know that your formula fed baby will be happy, healthy, bright and intelligent. Fuck this guy. The stats are *averages* and your particular baby who won't feed is certainly better off getting nutrition than not.

This feels very sensible to me.

Man City away won't hurt though! Bouncing round the kitchen.

Google are changing their APIs faster than they're updating Gemini's ability to write code for them and it's really bloody irritating.

Little 3D printed keyrings project for my lad's <10's football team. Eight more to go.

Nice design. Awarded for saving the Children of Men.

You wouldn't know them though, they went to a different school. I mean the same school. Definitely the same school and definitely not at all made up. At all.

FFS Keir, there are at least five decent bumper stickers in that word salad. Pick one.

Some people never make it past the lesson where they learn about credit creation and fiat currencies in A Level Economics. They are not One Weird Trick that solves government spending.

Bill Murray Voice: When somebody asks you whether you'll complete the season, you say YES. Absolute pillock. It's all looking rather worrying back at home.

The Leading interview with Zack Polanski is worth a listen for what happens when an interviewer pushes for detail. Greens have found a young Corbyn to pull them out of the wilderness but will flame out in a similar way & need to work out now how to pivot the attention into something achievable.

Mini Ubuntu frustrations... Somebody's said that windows shouldn't steal focus. Good. But because open source, it becomes A RULE and windows are never allowed to steal focus. You open your web browser and it quietly, shyly, opens behind everything else and sits there waiting for you to notice it.

Harsh IMO. Yes the person at the top is ultimately responsible but based on how it was reported to have happened this was a straightforward IT fuck up caused by bad practice. IT should take the fall not the chair.

"I told you. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week."

Probability of a Portugal World Cup win just dropped a couple of points www.theguardian.com/football/202...