Notices by Ian Brown :verified: (igb@mastodon.hccp.org)

I ♡ CSV

I asked ChatGPT to make me an image with a transparent background and this is what I got.

I can see how it got there, what with all of the pollution on the web (do a google search for "transparent PNGs" and you will get page after page of spammy image-selling thumbnails) but JFC, if anyone still thinks that the current generation of extra-large ML systems are actually "AI" then buddy do I have a "transparent" PNG to sell ya.

X (formerly Twitter) is just a pro-Trump platform that channels attention and money to #Trump.

Don’t be a part of that.

RIP Kris Kristofferson. He wrote some amazing songs that some other people played amazingly.

https://youtu.be/SJnfdEX0QWk?si=5HroF6Kz2YQYoJtR

From his Wikipedia page:

'"Kristofferson said that he would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohen's 'Bird on the Wire' on his tombstone:

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free"

Hell yeah.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson

Trump: "Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats *eating* together! Mass hysteria!” #PresidentialDebate

What the fuck is this opportunistic self-serving douchebag talking about?

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/09/05/governor-newsom-seeks-to-harness-the-power-of-genai-to-address-homelessness-other-challenges/

OMG! #Netflix

https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/20/monument-valley-3/

I’m sure Kendrick Lamar would be stoked to see a billionaire venture capitalist using his words in a post wherein the venture capitalist tries to deflect criticism and questions about his multi-million dollar donations to Donald Trump. #a16z

Steph Curry is good at basketball. #olympics2024

Turns out Tim #Walz is a Husker Dü fan.

If he comes out in support of The Replacements then this election is a lock

I was so excited to learn that abbreviations like "a11y" or "c14n" are called "numeronyms" that I wrote an #Emacs^H^H^H^H^H^H #E3s extension to make it easier to use them.

https://github.com/igb/numeronymize

Something something Plato’s cave.

I ♡ 280.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a monorepo." Now they have everyone else’s problems.

emacs > e/accs

What idiot called it "the barbarian conspiracy to invade Britain in A.D. 367" and not "the large Hadrian collider"?