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@JohnBrady Business needs to turn some verbs into nouns to make up for platforming so many nouns as verbs.
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@manton I don’t mind if you build AI writing tools in micro.blog, so long as they remain behind the “never let AI touch me” checkbox. I suspect there are better uses for your time though. And anyone using them would probably not be on my follow list.
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- $193MM investment leads to $1B fantasy value
- $2.7B Google deal gives early investors massive exit
- Unsustainable biz model and multiple legal losses
- $50MM+ in the hole
- Nothing left but a few bones Disney is willing to pay fire-sale prices for
The schadenfreude is strong here.
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@mattwebbdev Today in Eugene it was fall till about 10AM and then summer afterwards. At least it meant getting a good range of photos!
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@mitch Yeah if I’d made a career out of being an asshole I’d probably be preaching forgiveness too.
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@NeilHawkesford Thanks for writing that. Your story isn’t my story in the details, but the constant reinvention certainly resonates. I’m in my own 7th decade and still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. Best of luck!
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@manton Obsidian’s Markdown editor works the same way.
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@genehack There was a large clump of (probably) chanterelles where I was camping last night. It’s that “probably” that keeps me from harvesting & eating.
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@mitch Somewhat related: Cloudflare has announced crypto-based micropayments for AI agents. Despite the fact that I abhor both crypto and AI, I hope this might point the way forward to more generalized micropayments.
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@NeilHawkesford A good reminder that people in the USA are spoiled on fuel prices. Here people are practically ready to riot over diesel being $6.85/gallon, which (if I’m doing the conversions right) would be about 135 per liter on your pump.
Of course the main reason it’s such an issue here is that we truck goods over incredibly long distances so it’s a major inflation driver.
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@rom I suspect this one will get thrown out for lack of a proper claim. Their justification for being harmed seems very slim. (As always IANAL).
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@hollie You might also appreciate www.osprey.com/featured/… if you end up in the market for a backpack.
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@mitch By the way, thanks for all the meme postings. My family doesn’t read micro.blog so they think I’m some kind of genius for digging this stuff up when I drop it in the family chat.
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@gregmoore It was a pretty epic hike too - 30 miles in a bit under 24 hours (there were about 4 hours of sleep in there, terminated by a leaky sleeping pad).
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@JimRain You’re not the only one having those thoughts: Why Trump May Not Serve Out His Presidency in TNR.
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@rom Maybe keep an eye on docs.mrchromebox.tech ? But Google has been locking down ChromeBooks ever more tightly so I’d hate to bet on being able to liberate a GoogleBook.
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@Miraz Interesting. Apparently my brain has stored more of this sort of trivia than average.
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@manton FWIW: I had an old iMac gathering dust, so I repaved it with Mint Linux, threw on an external HD, and used Resilio Sync to mirror docs and such from my working computer. $0 cost to get me backup copies. I don’t figure it will all fail at once (unless the house burns, in which case I have bigger problems).
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@manton No worries, that’s why I posted in the forums and gave you a week to catch up :) Also that should make it more discoverable if someone else is puzzled by the same issue.
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@manton Any idea on help.micro.blog/t/sources… ?
(And is there a better avenue for support than posting to help.micro.blog and then hassling you?)
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@manton Reminds me of the reason I got out of colocating my own physical servers decades ago. The more things change…
Though I guess you don’t have to drive two hours if a server needs a hard reboot. Progress!
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@JohnBrady You should be able to do this with the Compose key
compose - o gives me ō
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@johnjohnston Thanks! Sometimes the completely unplanned shots are the best. I passed that one on the trail, got about ten steps down the mountain before my brain processed, and had to climb back up.
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@manton Reading the technical info, it does seem that Apple has done a good job with privacy vis-a-vis recording and AI features on the watch. I still fear that this further normalizes a pervasive surveillance society that I don’t want to live in. Their competitors won’t be so squeaky-clean.
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@hollie Happy to offer waterfall suggestions! Salt Creek Falls is 90 minutes by car from Eugene, but worth the drive. Sahalie & Koosah are an impressive pair. For lesser-visited, I like Spirit & Moon, or if you’re up to a bit more strenuous hike, Upper Trestle Creek.