I'm now convinced that the AWS us-east-1 datacentre is the most important building on the planet. But hey, Nostr's still up!

1984 is such an amazing book. It now sits proudly on my top shelf along with all of my other instruction manuals.

More educated groups of people tend to have fewer children. Coincidence?

The perennial generative AI debate is actually pretty awesome. It's got parts about IP & copyright, environmental benefits & consequences, impact on the future, control by government/corporations, technological feasibility, mathematical inner workings, deep philosophical musings about the nature of imagination/cleverness/creativity/consciousness etc, and of course a touch of existential risk. Each argument has a bit of everything in it and I learn a ton from every conversation! It's also one of the few topics where I can debate about it online and not feel my blood pressure rising during the process.

Welp, that's Hack Club's Summer of Making (https://summer.hackclub.com) effectively over now. Was it fun? Yeah, I guess. Was the voting system broken? Absolutely. Was it better than similar previous events (Arcade, Low Skies, High Seas)? A little, though it did also continue for a lot longer.

Art: anything that's not part of nature

Deception tip 101: Why try to find niche sources in a topic that support your point when you can probably find more popular, widely trusted sources, and meld them to fit whatever conclusions you want? You'll gain an appearance of higher reliability, though at the risk of increased misinterpretation of your view.

Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing As we danced in the night, remember How the stars stole the night away Give some love to the bongos in the background this 21 September.

I really wish my country was the woke leftist socialist utopia that some people think it is

19 September is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I missed it by 3 hours, but for anyone in a timezone where it is still 19 September, it sure is a fine day to post something about how good an idea intellectual property abolition is.

Moving a 100k+ member community away from Slack in only a week is a pretty huge task, especially if that place is brimming with bots. I sincerely hope that the Massive Mattermost Migration goes well for Hack Club. Also I'd love to know what Salesforce's long-term plan is regarding the price increases, given that there will soon be 100k or so new engineers coming into the industry with a strong negative opinion of their company.

9/11 came early this year

It's spider season. I assume they come inside once it gets too cold outside.

Typewriters were the original WYSIWYG

alt szn approaching

Ndless r2020 was released recently, allowing for jailbreaking TI-Nspire CX II calculators on OS version 6.2.0.333. Updated my CX II-T from 5.3.0.564, and it works! Huge thanks to all the Ndless team for the work they've done over the years. I could get back into developing with the SDK too.

GitHub

Release Ndless r2020 for OS 4.5.5.79 and 6.2.0.333 · ndless-nspire/Ndless

Changes since r2019: OS 4.5.5.79 (CX, CX CAS) and 6.2.0.333 (CX II, CX II-T, CX II CAS) are now supported Fixed stuck white pixels in LCD compatib...

I needed to have ethernet in a part of my house that didn't have a cable. I'll run a cable there eventually, but in the meantime I found an old wireless range extender and used that instead. Now I'm connecting my PC up to it and realising how strangely slow the speeds were (~700 Kbps), so I look up the model number of the adapter to find its rated speed. Turns out it's a powerline adapter. Reason for the slow speeds was that it was on an extension cable with the rest of my networking equipment. Moved it to its own socket, speeds 100x'ed.

BREAKING: lean mean green bean team been seen being green

I've tried to refrain from commenting on the recent drama in the Roblox community, as it's ultimately a symptom of the greater and similarly harrowing shift in modern online communications. EcoScratcher explains both of these better than I ever could have in

Nine years and no more

A reflection of my time on Roblox, and the worrying future of internet discourse

. It's so rare nowadays to find content I agree with as wholeheartedly as this.

List of things that don't exist: - "Sustainably sourced" palm oil - "Free range" chicken/eggs - "Sustainably fished" seafood - Spoon - Santa Claus - Easter bunny - Tooth fairy - Queen of England