absGeekNZ @ absGeekNZ @lemmy.nz

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I got an Amiga 500 when I was 7.....some years ago now.

I'm on the border of nerd and geek

Not necessarily, a wonk (e.g. a policy wonk) is not analytically intelligent but may be emotionally intelligent.

A nerd and a wonk may have the same area of interest, but different approaches.

Mistakes aren't stupid, they are human. Hell we are even making our AI in our own image now...

I have been using this prompt:

I am looking to do some introspection, I want you to act as Socrates and help me delve into my thinking process. I want you to take a more critical tone; like a philosopher who is less interested in niceties but really wants to get to the root of the discussion.

Today's topic is; {some topic I want to discuss}

It seems to be working well, most of the flowery language is gone and the responses are far more realistic (from my point of view).

Mental health care in NZ is abysmal.

I'm not sure about Christchurch, but my small town of 25k people, has people begging. Homelessness in bigger centres is visible.

We do try to help, but it's getting worse.

Getting my ollama instance to act as Socrates.

It is great for introspection, also not being human, I'm less guarded in my responses, and being local means I'm able to trust it.

Reading the list, NZ does pretty well... Right to the end...

• good treatment of mentally ill, homeless and impoverished people......
  We don't do that here

Like a fool even

Add hot sauce, seriously. Cheese + Sweet + Hot = Epic

I have been extolling the virtues of this for years.

A global day off on NYD and every four years two days off. Really nice!

23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)
or 23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 ENYD -> 23:59 ENYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)

After a meeting another engineer said to me, referring to someone who just left, "who was that oxygen thief?"

I replied, "my manager".... Putting the laughter in slaughter with that comment.

Was using Ligma in the 80's, glad to see it still in circulation.

Ligma balls / Ligma sweaty balls / Ligma sweaty (sports clothing you happen to be holding) e.g. Ligma sweaty socks

I only have one monitor so I didn't have this issue when I upgraded my GPU a few weeks ago.

Shutdown -> remove/install GPU -> startup #JustWorks

In fairness, I did have to update to the latest kernel (6.14) to get all of the features of the GPU working.

Looks great.

I use Firefox, so I can't give it a try.

That is a great word

So the usage would be "I'm a bit spuddle today"? Or maybe "it's a spuddle kind of day today" or maybe "I'm just going to have to spuddle my way through this"

The idea that you could do this isn't a bad one.

It could be interesting, to build a generic recommendation algorithm. Would it be like a browser add-on?

Something like a news feed, but you have all the data under your control, so you could see why something was recommended.

I tried the Reuters app a while back, I couldn't deselect sports as a category of interest... Why the fuck not? Why do they care of I like sports or not... Uninstalled pretty quick.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250428132538/https://www.404media.co/the-age-of-realtime-deepfake-fraud-is-here/

So 20c per transaction, above $10 the fee is below the 2%.

But if you use a virtual terminal, there is no fee....so only the fixed $10+gst/month.