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John 3 weeks ago
Just accidentally put a space between 'rm -rf nvim/.local' and instead typed 'rm -rf nvim .local'. Nuking my Distroboxes, my Podman pods/container structure, but blessedly little of my data. I have backups but it is not going to be a fun night. It's going to be very tedious. 100% my fault. Totally idiotic. I'm going to link rm to some kind of kid friendly version next install. It was run as a standard user, not root, showing both the inherent advantages and drawbacks to Podman in the hands of a tired idiot.
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John 3 weeks ago
Wordle 1,626 3/6* โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ› โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจโฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 1 December, 2025 (yes. My feeling about LLM based AI are complicated. Computers, and computing in general are very useful boosters of human productivity and ways to spread knowledge in all forms. But the training data is, seemingly deliberately, often opaque, which is unfair because copyrighted material, including FOSS licensed material,, are sucked in as training data and laundered. At a minimum it's the equivalent of a person borrowong images or text from somewhere and changing it enough that they can claim it as their own. Which is impolite, bad form, and doesn't reward people for making and sharing because the reward is useable or useful things they can use and be attributed to. Furthermore in India and other places various companies are trialling bundling relatively premium AI subscriptions, cheaply, with phone contracts. That is not altruism. It's the standard playbook of offering it cheap now and being forced, by market and stakeholder financial pressure, to squeeze increasing monetisation from it later and the training data gathered from the inputted work of hundreds of millions of young Indians. There is a cognitive balance between reading and doing and the "forgetting curve" is a real thing. For lazy people and those who haven't learnt to learn it's going to make them dumber and for those who have learnt to learn it's going to make them smarter. Good questions are a skill. Added to the fact that, following the form of all other microelectronics from the 1960s onwards, the underlying technology will obsolete itself every few years making ROI calculations, let alone productivity and profitabity claims very, very, difficult to predict and dubious. And one of the early waves of attack on Bitcoin was the power consumption. The power required to produce AI slop videos alone will shit on that. Apart from that AI is great especially for smart people and those with existing knowledge. It will level up a lot of people who otherwise would not get the chance to learn. Not checked for spelling or grammar. T'is not robogabber.) "Neo-liberal produces writing with a lot of feeling?" (7) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 2 under the community par (25,938 solvers so far).
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John 3 weeks ago
Wordle 1,625 4/6* (3 was a prior answer I should have remembered) ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ› โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ› โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 30 November, 2025 "Sensitive hobbits in film trilogy originally pushed for characters to be taller" (5) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 1 under the community par (29,903 solvers so far).
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John 3 weeks ago
Wordle 1,624 4/6* (maybe should have been in 3 but 4 is fine.) โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›โฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›โฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 29 November, 2025 "Doctor Strange fled, concealing identity" (6) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 2 under the community par (27,220 solvers so far). #wordle #minutecryptic
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Wordle 1,623 5/6* (ouch. I woke up with a headache. This Wordle did not help.) โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ› โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ› ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 28 November, 2025 (followed by this which actually took me less time than the Wordle. Maybe the Wordle was an aperitif that mentally loosened me like a sportsperson doing calf stretches. I don't think so. I'm barely awake and I'm hungry which is not good because if I eat now the whole day will be out of sequence in addition to the moderate tiredness and somewhat of a headache. I was watching AI slop on Facebook which was about people waving flags and appeal to British patriotism. They were entirely AI generated and obviously so. Apparently not for many of the people watching. I don't thing the AI videos about migrants were even from UK and there is at least irony there. I suppose if a fundamental aspect of the online economy is attention and it's considered paternalistic or maternalistic or patronising to stop it then at least it will damage the brand of that sort of thing. And maybe, eventually, lead to herd immunity. Maybe I'm being idealistic. Not checked for spelling and grammar because I've been reading Facebook comments on patriotic AI slop and it has rubbed off.) "Log location if returning by sub" (9) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 4 under the community par (13,713 solvers so far). #wordle #minutecryptic
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John 0 months ago
Wordle 1,622 5/6* (1/4 chance on 3, 1/2 chance on 4, excluding previous Wordle answers) ๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ› ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ› โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 27 November, 2025 "Praise for animating Kate Winslet in "Flushed Away"" (5,4) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 3 under the community par (28,643 solvers so far).
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Wordle 1,621 4/6* (this was a tough one IMHO, unless one got lucky with better matches in the starting word. ) โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 26 November, 2025 (this was a genuinely tough one. Which should be rephrased as 'this was a tough one for me', because there are likely to be people who found it easier, or harder. so the assertion that it was a genuinely tough one in a general case is more nuanced in reality. Especially given I'm a few hours short of sleep today. I had a 4/10 sad moment yesterday, depending on your perspective, when going through a folder on my laptop and finding something moderately complicated and not being at all capable of understanding it, Hermann Ebbinghaus-like. Then I looked at the dates of the last files in that folder, they were around August 2024 as my father got, imminently, terminally ill.) "Run-down backpacker loses backpack" (5) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 3 under the community par (23,230 solvers so far).
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John 1 month ago
GR postbox - King George V 1910-1936, probably a 1930s example because that's concomitant with nearby houses and infrastructure. image
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Wordle 1,619 3/6* โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›โฌ› โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 24 November, 2025 "Unlocking kindness, insight and humility, starts with reflection!?" (5) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 1 under the community par (31,638 solvers so far).
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Wordle 1,618 4/6* โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 23 November, 2025 "โ€œOut-of-control carousel catapults youโ€ declared fortune tellers" (7) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 1 under the community par (27,300 solvers so far).
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If I've posted is already, apologies, it's not showing up anywhere. I was tired AF yesterday so maybe I didn't press post. Wordle 1,616 4/6* โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ› โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ› โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸจ ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 21 November, 2025 "Small diamond rings upset love... you've done it now!" (6) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 2 under the community par (22,720 solvers so far).
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John 1 month ago
Wordle 1,617 3/6* โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›โฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 22 November, 2025 "Exclusive school's tall characters expelled by petite principal" (5) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 1 under the community par (33,998 solvers so far).
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John 1 month ago
Testing an upload from Amethyst in AVIF (which, annoyingly, has converted it to JPEG). A Victorian postbox. I wish more things supported AVIF. image
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Wordle 1,615 3/6* โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ› โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 20 November, 2025 "Ancestors of polar, grizzly, panda and teddy counted out loud" (9) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 2 under the community par (30,195 solvers so far).
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Wordle 1,614 4/6* (1/4 on 3 and zi suspect my 3 guess was already used.) โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ› ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ› ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจโฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 19 November, 2025 (this was a good one, which between a late night working on something, a cold morning, and general stupidity, took me longer than is necessary. But I enjoyed it and learnt from it.) "Splatter half-baked waffles" (8) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 3 under the community par (35,703 solvers so far).
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Wordle 1,613 3/6* โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› ๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 18 November, 2025 "Shape of _ountain" (4) ๐ŸŸก๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 1 hints โ€“ 1 under the community par (33,818 solvers so far).
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John 1 month ago
Wordle 1,612 4/6* โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ› ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 17 November, 2025 "Girl swapped clothes with boyfriend for a lark, perhaps?" (4) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 1 under the community par (25,890 solvers so far).
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John 1 month ago
Wordle 1,611 3/6* โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ› โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจโฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 16 November, 2025 "Former partner ate mostly quinoa for special date" (7) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 2 under the community par (28,223 solvers so far).
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Wordle 1,610 3/6* โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ› ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ Minute Cryptic - 15 November, 2025 "Warm fluid, cold air" (7) ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ๐ŸŸฃ ๐Ÿ† 0 hints โ€“ 2 under the community par (37,660 solvers so far).
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