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  • I received an email for both my personal and for my work account. They link a form that you have to fill in to justify why you don't want your information to be used for that purpose, and how it would affect you. So quite a lot of work to opt-out.

    But I took the time to write something, if you wish to copy it for your own opting-out, feel free!


    Please explain how this will affect you. (required)

    I consider products based on generative artificial intelligence to be unethical, harmful to society and environmentally destructive. My personal data must not be used to encourage this unbridled race.

    Please provide us with any additional information that may help us to review your objection. (Optional)

    Human creativity needs to be treasured, and automating artistic expression is shameful. Automatically generated images and texts are soulless, and if no one has made the effort to write or draw something, I don't see the point in spending time reading or admiring it.

  • Maybe there's a reason why the comments are off on that vid :D

  • This was painful to watch, I would have stopped and asked her to continue on foot.

  • I would play the piano more, read all the science fiction (Azimov, Herbert, HG Wells, Orwell, Bradbury, AC Clarke, UK Le Guin...), play Boardgames & Magic the Gathering with my friends, probably start making content for youtube or twitch, make pastry everyday, do gardening and building projects around the house...

    The question is, do I have any budget to do all that, or are my basic needs covered but I can't choose where to live, what I eat etc?

    Honestly, I don't find any satisfaction in work because I love doing so many things and would rather do one of them for money.

  • Ding Ding Ding! :) Wine racks, shelves with crates for flower bulbs, potatoes and other root vegetables... Which will mean we have to secure the entry, our (lovely) elderly neighbor has already mentioned coming over at night for a drink ^^

    But it will probably serve as a tool shed for the coming year until we have the rest of the garden levelled and laid out, it's the first of many projects, we will come back to it for the aesthetics (lime render, floor tiling, door, outside cladding...).

  • I don't know all the words in English, as a Frenchman living in Germany :') Apparently it's a "wooden formwork", according to this page: http://mkolar.org/travel/Cechy/new-house/index.html

    We were lucky, as our neighbor who is also renovating offered the steps of his old staircase. I modelled the thing in SketchUp to be able to measure all the angles and dimensions. We then made templates out of plywood for the 2 kinds of segments and used a flush router bit to reproduce the shape.

  • Yup I'm already there but it's hard to get any traction, im posting stuff into the void, its gonna take a while to get the typical Meta users over there :/

  • Merci baku !

  • I discovered Jenny's channel last week and I am 4 videos in, the 4 hour Star Wars hotel video was a work of art

  • And the yearly Christmas lights video :D

  • If you ask me at what time we should meet, there's a 78.8174% chance I'll say somethink like "8:51" or "12:27", then i message you shortly before and say "sorry I might be 17 seconds late" (but I'll make a point coming precisely at the time I said)

  • me_irl, whenever Hbomberguy or Jenny Nicholson publish a video essay about someone or something I had never heard of

  • Considering they declared all annexed parts of Ukraine being officially part of Russia, the Ukrainian army have been bombing Russia for a while now anyway

  • It all began as a "quick and easy project to learn the ropes before making the bigger construction elements" (retaining wall, stair, maybe pool even), and then we started looking at hobbit houses, fancying nicer materials, adding an alcove... It now feels like it will be the most complicated thing in the whole garden ^^'

    Were you planning to bury a life-size skeleton wearing a construction worker’s outfit nearby?

    i wasn't... until i read your suggestion! :D

  • Thank you! Wine definitely, probably also plant bulbs in the winter, root vegetables... we have a passive house built on a concrete slab, every room is 19°-23°C all year round, it's too warm for those.

  • Yes great idea, I'll go to the engraving company to have a stone inscribed with our names and the year, it will feel nice to leave something tangible behind, and maybe burry a time capsule too.