Go to your local library. Many have a great selection on blu-ray and dvds. Having to select something from a shelf is way more enjoyable than the endless scroll of junk streaming services give you. I am now actually purposefully selecting movies and shows to watch and making time and effort to finish them instead of just streaming random stuff.

Plus you get commentaries and bonus features.

Yup. When I entered college in computer science in 2001, there was an all your base belong to us joke in it, which means it was at least a year old

In early versions of Linux when manually setting up your sound card, Redhat came with a test audio clip of Linus Torvolds saying “I province Linux as Linux”. Even though it is named after him he did not pronounce it like his name: Ly-nix.

The time on my phone changed.

And in my library I actually know what version I have not some 2018 “remix”.

Same with my movie library. I can have theatrical and directors or unrated extended version.

😭

Last year’s murder rate in Birmingham was caused by a single person known as the enforcer for a gang. He was finally caught and is being charged with 23 murders over an 18 month period! There are quite a few more he is suspected of!

Edit: fixed autocorrect changing murders to borders and nurses

During the Civil Rights movement, it wasn’t until TV started showing live the treatment from Bull Connor in Birmingham against African Americans that the mood of the nation started to change to be in favor of Civil Rights.

So yeah, more people need to see people being abducted harshly every damn day until this country finally says enough.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson

This is very, very early, and I am sure I will introduce breaking changes along the way that will require your music to be re-indexed (I’m not sure I’m happy with how I am normalizing all dimensions).

The server, boldaric, is available on github. This requires navidrome (or other subsonic compatible server). It will take a LONG time to index all your music, as it is doing heavy machine learning on it.

There is also early work on an iOS client, called Tor Jolan, also available on github. You can register for the beta on apple’s test flight

This is very, very early, and I am sure I will introduce breaking changes along the way that will require your music to be re-indexed (I’m not sure I’m happy with how I am normalizing all dimensions).

The server, boldaric, is available on github. This requires navidrome (or other subsonic compatible server). It will take a LONG time to index all your music, as it is doing heavy machine learning on it.

There is also early work on an iOS client, called Tor Jolan, also available on github. You can register for the beta on apple’s test flight

The model itself does not contain spyware nor is it filtered. Using the models locally (via ollama or llama.cpp) or in a secure hosted environment like AWS bedrock is safe. I was DeepSeek that way all the time.

I would never ever recommend using DeepSeek or Alibaba’s Qwen service though!

Same but I use navidrome for music (Jellyfin is create for my tv/movie collection)

I’m also working on a new open source server and front end for a personal pandora like service, that uses machine learning (not popularity from last.fm) to find songs that are statistically similar across 150 dimensions.

What OS are you on? Virtual desktops on Mac and windows are just terrible. On Linux I’ve been using virtual desktops on Linux since the 90s and when I see my colleagues on Mac using a single desktop with 20 windows trying desperately to switch between windows I just shake my head.

I use dynamic virtual desktops and have a separate desktop for every task. That keeps me focused on that task, but also lets me easily jump to something different. I couldn’t imagine trying to be productive any other way.

If ‘—first-parent’ was the default way that git log worked, I don’t think we’d even be having this argument over how to merge branches.

In my opinion, the best strategy is to always use a merge commit, and then when viewing master, always use —first-parent which will ONLY show commits on master. This gives you:

• a very clean, linear history
• the ability to let people work in their branches in their own way (it is ok to merge master into your branch multiple times without rebasing)
• you can dig into the history of any branch if needed
• it makes it easy to backport changes as you can cherry-pick out the merge commit which contains everything.

The problem is just the default log view of git and tools.

Even in 1st grade in 1989 we used to say “and justice for oil”

The problem is all that ends up in the groundwater. Obviously industrial use is the problem, but I think it is responsible to avoid any herbicide especially if it is just to make your yard “look nice”.

Since 2013 we’ve seen disenfranchisement in Alabama in real time. Require strict new voter id, then close the DMVs in black and left leaning areas. Combine polling places in democratic leaning areas so they are further away and have long lines. Move polling places so they are no longer accessible by bus. Those are just the obvious ones, but the Republicans’ strategy has been to do anything they can to stop people from voting.

And every time a city tries to do something good, the state steps in and stops it. This happens daily in Birmingham, Alabama where the state is constantly overturning things the city has passed or the state takes the ability away from the city.

Except we can barely afford the bread and circuses right now. This is true of people like me that 5 years ago thought they were doing really well…