https://archive.is/J31rj

Tori Amos commented on the allegations:

And if the allegations are true, that’s not the Neil that I knew, that’s not the friend that I knew, nor a friend that I ever want to know. So in some ways it’s a heartbreaking grief. I never saw that side of Neil. Neither did my crew. And my crew has seen a lot.

Gaiman is the godfather to one of her kids and apparently she was pretty close to him. If she didn’t know, I feel like Terry Pratchett wouldn’t have known either. This isn’t like with Epstein where association implies knowledge of what was going on. After reading all that I have on the allegations, I’m comfortable believing that Pratchett wouldn’t have known anything about the alleged sexual assault and if he knew anything, it was that Gaiman was known to sleep around… consensually… with adults. (Because apparently this seems to be known among people close to him… including that he and Palmer allegedly had an open marriage)

So unless further info comes out that indicates otherwise, I will continue to enjoy Pratchett’s works.

Freeze your grapes… wash them and pull them off the stem and lay them on a baking sheed in the freezer. Grapes will last longer and they taste good frozen.

https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure-cooker-chicken-stock-recipe

tl;dr: 45min on high, let natural release, skim off fat. When it’s done I just strain it and then let it cool and then freeze it.

Also a pressure cooker works really well for making stock.

One time I went to buy a power tool that was on sale at Home Depot. I did the self checkout and the sale did not ring up correctly. I got one of the employees attention and they just told me there was nothing they could do, whatever it rings up as is the price and they can’t change it. No amount of pointing at the massive sale sign would change that.

So I put it back and bought it from an online site that was having the same sale. Fuck Home Depot… Since then I go out of my way to not shop there.

Same with firefox

It’s not illegal to modify a gun, it’s illegal to modify a gun into a gun that meets certain criteria to then become illegal. The crime isn’t modification of the gun, the crime is the possession of a (now) illegal gun.

No, in your case the crime isn’t the fact that you modified the rifle, the crime is that you modified it into an illegal version of the rifle. The crime is possession of a full auto rifle.

If I take a rifle that was setup for one caliber and modify it so it can shoot a different caliber, that’s not illegal.

He asked employees to print out their code so he could review it.

I think what you want is either plex or Jellyfin which will give you a nice UI to browse your already downloaded files.

Now how do you browse new releases and figure out what you want to download? I just setup https://overseerr.dev/ to go along with sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget, transmission… it’s a lot of different services but they all work well together. Now to look for new movies, I or my family goes to Overseerr to request downloads, then plex to watch.

I had a coworker come to me with an “issue” he learned about. It was wrong and it wasn’t really an issue and the it came out that he got it from ChatGPT and didn’t really know what he was talking about, nor could he cite an actual source.

I’ve also played around with it and it’s given me straight up wrong answers. I don’t think it’s really worth it.

It’s just predictive text, it’s not really AI.

I’ve been listening to A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs and let me tell you, the music industry can fuck right off. Small indie label? I’ll probably buy it, but one of the major record labels? Set sail mateys.

If you are looking for FOSS, I highly recommend joplin. It’s simple but works well. I used it for many years until recently I switched to Obsidian. I dislike that Obsidian isn’t FOSS but I’m using the free tier and the community plugins really make it so much more powerful than Joplin. They both store things in Markdown so I’m not locked down to their ecosystem which I think is a requirement for any note taking app.

It used to require a PlexPass membership. Now it doesn’t.

I did, I couldn’t seem to get it to work. Mobius just didn’t seem to be able to connect to the obsidian app folder. Maybe I’m just doing something wrong but this would be ideal for me because I already had syncthing syncing to my NAS as well. Maybe I’ll revisit it at some point.

Nice, last night I self-hosted a couchdb server and setup https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

So far it’s working well though I had forgot to set the encryption key on one device which caused it to try and sync the encrypted version so I had a bunch of conflicts to resolve. Once that was sorted though, it’s been working well and I can sync stuff to my iPad now. We’ll see long term how it works.

I haven’t, I’ll have to check it out. I have an iPad but need to figure out a good way to sync notes without paying $10/month. (The iPad doesn’t working with Syncthing or google drive :( )

Yeah, the MD at the end stands for Markdown which is the format it uses to store it’s notes.

I’ve been using Syncthing to sync my notes… it doesn’t work on my iPad (because of the way the iPad file permissions work) but I’m able to sync between my phone and my personal computer and work computer. (I also have Syncthing running on my NAS so it’s automatically backed up!!)

Syncthing doesn’t cost anything. You could also use dropbox or google drive or whatever so you don’t have to pay. I agree, it’s a pretty steep fee for what it is.