<p>Every time I see someone use the word &quot;gock&quot; rather than something less abbreviated / unambiguous like &quot;girldick&quot; I read it as &quot;Glock&quot;.</p><p>And get very confused as to what handguns have to do with their transition.</p>

<p>experimenting with this small e-ink display</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> just tried it. It&#39;s fantastic 👏</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@robpike" class="u-url mention">@<span>robpike</span></a></span> </p><p>I&#39;m partial to a plague of possums running amok re-cabling the routers.</p>

<p>Oh, and it did mess up time zones. Of course it did. Timezones will remain the last bastion of human engineers.</p>

<p>Ah, the splendors and miseries of LLMs… Asked llama3 to generate an .ics file from a set of 6 appointments, vaguely formatted and copy-pasted from an email.</p><p>It worked! But:</p><p>- It forgot the end marker of the format, which I had to debug myself, using my brain.<br />- When asked to make all 6 appointments one hour long it did it for one, the second one was 45 minutes, the rest 5 minutes. Fixed manually in a text editor :-)</p><p>But yeah, it&#39;d probably take me longer to do it manually.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick" class="u-url mention">@<span>Some_Emo_Chick</span></a></span> they should include Ukrainian naval drones into these. For greater educational effect.</p>

<p>Iran, China and Russia launch annual joint naval drills </p><p><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/iran-china-and-russia-launch-annual-joint-naval-drills/a-71877839?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dw.com/en/iran-china-and-russi</span><span class="invisible">a-launch-annual-joint-naval-drills/a-71877839?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>international</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iran</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drills" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>drills</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>security</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> The generic device from Windows 95 Device Manager is real.</p>