Bill’s PC. As in Bill Gates, probably. You’re lucky it didn’t get overrun with malware.

(No idea who/what inspired the Japanese name マサキ though.)

Yes. Have done so several times, and have had people come up and talk to me out of the blue as well. Sometimes it has gone well. I’ve had a few good conversations with random people on long distance transport (planes, trains, and such) when I struck up conversations with whoever ended up in the seat next to me, and a few times (more rarely) in grocery stores when I’m having trouble finding something (or vice versa). e.g. got asked about uses for unusual ingredients I was having trouble finding and traded some recipe tips.

Usually when other people come up to me they just want me to give them money, or join their religion though.

Nom!

(src: Twitter - Danbooru)

I don’t care which way they go. Hell, split the difference and move us to a 30 minute offset if you can’t make up your minds. Just stop changing the bloody clocks twice a year. Please!

Hmm. I don’t think I’ve seen seeds/nuts used directly in pasta before (other than as an ingredient in pesto). That’s an interesting idea. I’ll have to experiment with that one.

Huh. I don’t think I’ve ever seen goose eggs for sale. Usually just chicken, plus sometimes duck or quail too.

Do you keep geese or do they sell goose eggs in the stores where you live?

For ceramic, maybe see if someone can do a kintsugi fix for it instead of 3D printing?

All of them? No. I can remember some details of a lot of them, and some of them very well, but there’s others – especially from when I was very young – that I no longer have a good full mental map of.

I definitely do not remember the layout of all my schools. I moved a lot and some of these are just disconnected fragments of areas to me now. I have no idea how my classroom and the cafeteria were connected in the school I was at in 3rd grade, for example, and I’m struggling to even remember how I got home from school then – even though I do remember taking the bus to school at that age, and I remember some of the places I had to wait to catch the bus home when I was even younger than that… It’s strange what sticks in memory and what doesn’t, sometimes.

I believe we’re now talking about how he murders children

Unfortunately, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike

I’ve been using the HTML only version of DuckDuckGo as my default since Google made JS mandatory to run searches. It works ok for most of the simple queries I make. (e.g. looking something up from the Python docs, MDN, etc.) I resort to Google still for the stuff it completely flubs.

Gone from probably 99% Google + 1% of other to maybe something like 95% DDG + 5% other (mostly Google).

I haven’t seen compelling enough evidence to believe in the supernatural.

That said, we do seem to be well on our way to engineering ghost-like phenomenon. People will set up LLMs and generative AI systems that imitate dead people, if they haven’t already…

No ghosts IRL? No problem! We’ll make ghosts!

Thanks Humanity. 🙄️

I just played it recently for the first time. Took me about 50 hours from start to rocket launch (the win condition) in the default, recommended free-play campaign + a few more hours before that to go through the tutorial stages.

Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.

At some point a few years ago, I went to https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top and just downloaded everything from the list that day that looked interesting and threw them all on an old kindle. They haven’t all been winners for me, but a decent number were readable enough.

IM-based: AIM+MSN+etc… -> IRC -> Google Talk -> SMS -> (nothing for many years) -> Slack (for work)

Web-Based: forums (esp. GMC) -> Digg -> reddit (mainly) + HN (sometimes) -> kbin -> lemmy

I don’t know about bears, but I wouldn’t it put it past a bonobo…

Edit: Dolphins are also famously kinky and some of them would probably do it if they could.

We use VPNs at work a lot for protecting traffic as it passes over the public internet between distant sites. From a security perspective, it’s better not to give devices direct access to the internet if they don’t actually need it. That’s stuff we’re running ourselves though; not a commercial VPN service we’re paying for.

I liked the UI when I first encountered it, but it being invite-only killed what interest I had in it pretty quick during the 2023 reddit exodus. Seems to still be invite only in 2026.

I use container tabs for that. Makes it easy to keep two logged in accounts side-by-side.

I wonder how they’d take to being called “morbidly rich”? 🤔️

Sounds like we’ve followed similar paths in cooking. :p

Did you ever try Isaac Toups’s chicken and sausage gumbo recipe? That’s another good, hearty cold weather dish. I think this was the video on YouTube that I learned it from. (I usually prefer to do it with just chicken though personally.)