Hindi study words for today: Baahar - Outside; my mnemonic is to think of a Bear (Bea-ha-r)... which belongs outside. Aage - In front of; "age" is in front of you. Peeche - Behind; your "peach" 🍑 is behind you (assuming peach emoji means butt because recently someone said another thing...)

My professional opinion is that chairs need to be big enough to "criss-cross-apple-sauce" in without the arms cutting into your legs.

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are: 1. Getting up in the morning 2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

I hate that LLMs use emojis to punch up their text cuz I've used emojis forever as part of my assignments' names on Canvas for easier visual recognition and distinguishing types of assignments. Like... 💾 Lab 1: main() 🆕 Concept Intro 1: C++ programs 🧠 Tech literacy: Technical Debt 💯 Mastery […]

I love my cats so muchhhhhh

I just got a Kickstarter update from SpaceVenture. o.o

Ok posted like 3 videos relating to AI. One is reading the transcript between Vincke (Larian) and Schreier because it gives way more context on what was said. One video is JUST that transcript: https://spectra.video/w/9JdAjMhyZLJJY2p3JAtFeF I put my thoughts in a separate video […]

I just heard someone abbreviate "ChatGPT" to "chat" and now I'm mourning the death of another tech term to something terrible and corrupted. See also: grok (verb), gemini (protocol), ai (as in a field in compsci, or video game cpu players) ...

https://youtu.be/02Ah5VQrzvA Hideo Kojima answers questions. :3 Also HOW is this man 62 years old?!?!?

My OnePlus Twelve had an OS update and now the back ◀️ button doesn't always respond. 😒

What I'm doing tonight: https://loops.video/v/cLW7MKL_7z

Peeps like to ask me if I'm excited for travel and I keep responding I will be excited once I'm done with all the layovers, then I can start looking forward to being there. ... Though it just now occurs to me that this might have been a discussion cue to talk about what I'm going to DO in India […]

RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@moriel/115720295618610231 Santa, the extractive union-busting surveillance capitalist beloved by children around the world.

Thinking about how people react to anybody using AI in creative fields basically like that company/entity is scabbing (like when a company hires nonunion while there's a picket). We should ALL unionize and formalize this sentiment, so that using "AI" in creative works IS scabbing and against […]

Why is it so hard to find a plaaaace for everythingggg?? I mean, not having any non-bedroom closets except in the bathroom. I wish I had a pantry. 😭

Ever heard of Gemini? It's a lightweight internet protocol between Gopher and the Web - no JavaScript, no cookies, no tracking, just text and links over TLS. Think of it as the web before it got complicated. Pages are written in "gemtext", a minimal markup […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

Another thing I'm looking for resources and articles for as I do research between semesters for a presentation is #activelearning in classrooms. I'm especially interested in Active Learning for online / hyflex classes. Also looking for OER #openeducationalresources stuff. #education

There's gotta be some kind of academic tool people use to store a list of their saved articles plus publish date plus tags to be able to quickly find things, right? Is there a FOSS one? What would this kind of tool even be called? I know I could set up a lil' SQLite DB but I want to know if […]

'kay I'm downloading PDFs of AI-related articles I've read over, so that I can access these articles while offline and work on my presentation thing. Have an #ai related article you want me to look at? Send me a link. Current outline + some links I have are here […]

Why did we evolve to have arms that are only just a little too short to reach EVERY itch of the back? 🥲

Since we were talking about the 12 days of Christmas a few days ago, I came across this just now: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yhSRKP/ 12 parts of decolonizing Hawai'i. 💕

Maybe during my vacation I'll sketch out some webapp ideas in my notebook but not worry about coding them right away. I want to improve my flash card webapp, make a set of piano keys / sheet music / key names apps, puzzles, solitaire, etc. (probably in JavaScript) as well as little arcadey games […]

I kinda want to make my own jigsaw puzzle webapp but you can switch between puzzle mode and sorting-pieces-into-trays mode like you might with a real physical puzzle.

Death Stranding Christmas Shareware Version: Sam, I'm Ginger Breadman. Big Redman needs help delivering gifts!

@Moosader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_(web_browser)

Has anyone made a graphical web browser for DOS?

Christmas Horse delay due to stress / just for the sake of our health: https://moosadee.itch.io/christmas-horse/devlog/1149338/christmas-horse-6-delay-due-to-stress #christmashorse #gamedev

Every-so-often I make another batch of "here's the fediverse and how it works and its perks" short-form vertical videos and post 'em to TikTok. :T

If you find the fediverse useful, don’t forget to support your instance (assuming they accept support). While the software is free, running instances is far from it. I am glad to be part of the community and want to see it continue on as a viable alternative. Thank you all for being here and I […]

Alright everyone, gather 'round. Time for standup. - What did you work on yesterday? - What are you going to work on today? - Do you have any blockers?

I honestly wonder how "popular" all the "AI" features would really be if it was all OPT-IN. I think we'd see some striking numbers if it weren't shoved into everything and turned on by default, if companies had to convince users of the value of it so that they'd opt-in willingly.

Oo, Fantasy Life i free DLC soon.

Follow up from a few days ago: Ope I was wrong, GitLab does default to - for bulleted lists, not *. I'm wondering where I thought * was used for bullets. Or maybe I've just been typing * this entire time because it *is* valid Markdown but perhaps not the standard way.

I should make a T-shirt that says "I spent $xyz at the fertility clinic and all I got was this T-shirt". :T

what all goes into a tim curry? is there a tim vindaloo?

https://youtu.be/QAkO0xvCFL4 Now if you'll excuuuuse me I have a four hour video essay on an Xbox 360 era RPG I never played... *twirls moustache all fancily*

What are your internal echolalia / phrase stimming your brain does to clutter up your mind? Sometimes it's songs (which is why I don't listen to English lyrics stuff anymore), sometimes it's phrases. Right now my brain is just going "two cows for the price of one TWO COWS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!!"

I played some Beyond Divinity yesterday after doing a lot of grinding in Divine Divinity between Let's Play "episodes". Starting off BD is kinda rough but I got through to the Barracks last night and once you're talking to other guards it all feels pretty silly. :P Enjoying that part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoBxVRaGdfc Posted playing thru the first part of Divine Divinity, though I didn't really know what I was doing yet. I played a lot more then started a new character for the "second episode". #divinedivinity #divinity

Today I'm angry at DRM in ebooks.

I spent the last few days absorbed in video games and NOT being perceived by the world so today the inertia of socializing again (and thus masking) was jarring. :T

Me rn

I got a house, we bought the fridge with a water/ice dispenser in the door, so I'm officially fancier than what we had growing up. Now I yearn for a pantry so hard. 😭

Well I thought of doing gamedev today, but today and yesterday I've slept *so much* throughout the day so I guess I just need to rest now that classes are over. I don't have a lot of time to work on Christmas Horse though before we leave for India, but I'm trying to not stress myself out. :(

Gonna eat lunch then work on some #christmashorse today.

GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol

Playing games at 800x600 is so nostalgia. Even 1024x768 doesn't have quite the same feel.

The last four months of this year I started writing my important notes all in several orgmode files but combined into an "index.org". Mostly work notes, but also reference (emacs, i3), game/MUD notes, and for a while I did weekly plans. Gonna do the orgmode planning doc all through 2026 as well!

So to actually read and comprehend a document, do you basically have to rewrite that document or reformat it in your own preferred style? I've done this since I was a student. Anyway I just converted several emails to be in my emacs notes doc and reformatted everything so I can actually read it.

How to tell an author's preferred writing style: MARKDOWN: # Header * list A * list B EMACS: * Header - list A - list B AI CHATBOT: <h2>Here is the header written in totally human readable text 😜</h2> <ul> <li><strong>☑️ list A header</strong> more English text so it feels very […]