nostr:npub1juf6ze538wqzha77y448hghtqlzhppt9grkv58sasyssfawsjuhqpsqxhd nostr:npub1tktxnn8vnm5lxrs338zwksqdfmnk9l7nykv6yyez80gd4te8akrsql6g6q This is precisely why I'm waiting for Apple to push out a folding phone. AppleCare+ cover is a life-saver. (And it doesn't hurt that the nearest Apple store is 500 metres from my front door, on foot.)
After upgrading to macOS 14 I had a weird networking problem — nothing in, nothing out. The interface config looked fine, so DHCP had worked. Same on Wi-Fi and Ethernet, with and without firewall switched on.
But below the firewall button, under Filters, there was Little Snitch! Switched it off and lo, it worked.
Paging nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 as he intended to upgrade, too.
nostr:npub1sl6tg309yu22tahd0nu88m7pmadpwyyl0uyr8fpva4julaelz82qsjkxct Yeah, I already had to disable Little Snitch *before* I could update my Macbook Pro. (Now updating the big iMac I do most of my work on.)
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7
I'm really enjoying this thread and all the comments.
Aside from all the Laundry Files goodness(??) of training an LLM on the Necronomnicon , my first thought went the other way.
Take the sleazy marketing pitch, and shove it in an Accelerondo-like sentient program. Go as meta as you like. A story about an author training their own LLM on their own work to co-author with their digital ghost. But it gets bought by a sentient software corporation entity and takes on a life of its own.
nostr:npub1pdj9m9yfqfhsn2pz06rj7pmkz7fwtuawtdknvlkz94gj9grkzemsvjp8d3 This might work if you posit actual artificial intelligence. (What we've got now that's being sold as such *isn't* intelligent—it's just autocorrect on steroids—which is what makes the current hype bubble so societally dangerous.)
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 Will you be allowed to bring it back to the UK? Will there be any to bring back to the UK?
nostr:npub1lm9cm0vck6rrq2zrkc7xqf3f9ea9fxwv0wmztnp9d5wzpamsuqnqeu7n48 I can't eat 3kg of cheese before I travel home on Monday/Tuesday (by overnight ferry)!
My next typewriter is going to be made of fossilized giant spider bones!
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7
If I were CEO of Apple, that phone would have a prominent "Scorpion Stare" Icon and the camera would capture Charlies facial expression when turns it on the first time and notices that :-)
nostr:npub104e6xt23sdp5z9nlfv9cukey28ahtzjsrewuwjqv9v7y89tjqj4qmmr4uy BRB, looking for a shop who do custom back vinyls for iphones (mine will say SCORPION STARE INSIDE)
nostr:npub1tcwn9tl3ya4g3qh6he4dle4037a6hvzxfvkvnxkws39sm7w2659qmpkkca it's a business expense, so no.
nostr:npub1nl47yqcdytpn04euhvld8e3ll90m9l20v6s00zw42s0nsfq6uz2suu3gd4 yup. (Already got 400Gb used on my 512gb phone; going large seemed like a good idea if I want this one to last me 3-5 years.)
nostr:npub1cnhpe90xl06r4gj5xurkk87n2r3dzkaexpk5c53r7jgmdey87ruqc5xm8p no remorse, Ii knew I needed it before the product details were confirmed—only Apple announcing a turd would have stopped me!
Reminder that Batman is just Elon Musk on anabolic steroids with a rubber fetish and a bad habit of beating up and crippling people so marginalized they can't hold down a regular job.
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7
You don't have those in the UK? Norway does it twice a year, on the first (second?) Wednesday of January and June, 12:00.
nostr:npub1qtkynp3ktk3z8trzhue5jzj4pwgaj2a3nh2s7pghk9mfyua6904s4yt8dz The UK quietly retired them in the 1970s, I think, when the Soviet megatons pointed at us were so ridiculously many that >60% fatality within the first hour seemed likely across the nation.
nostr:npub19kdxqvj7x7lnkq7quf2x7795cdx6z000zknqfs4tzjmqejdcreusnv4jdw Nothing in particular, just tourism and vacation!
nostr:npub1xjczyh5z5z9r82uyscz0qn3efu6qvyhrc66ds63xgeevdg4600cs35yr9e nostr:npub13l8jtkxddjw0gwpzk7d9rhzm9hdxp6pa96xlczxfgnyst34xm5vseaazlm And almost as non-lethal for the crew as the Space Shuttle turned out to be!
nostr:npub16u7alxzkjugh6535altqqk5gx7g0a63x6m300l898nenys0rsjuqguuend nostr:npub1w69ew7utwmmfuaf8ajyy2kxadm3ymq43ssx3n36mfrds8ytqqt8qfh9wks Also, flights are steeply discounted today! Especially US domestic ones to NYC, DC, and Chicago. Good day to fly, airports are half empty!
nostr:npub1rvc47rlw34edsjycqvdjk3qv24rlkl4qr2sh4jmv5zlj6msjlgqqn0kkvf Yes: Amsterdam (reading at ABC the week after next), also maybe an informal beer garden session in Hamburg some time after this Wednesdy.
#WritersCoffeeClub sept 9: ever abandoned a writing project that wasn’t working?
nostr:npub1zl93dtqgvm78n7gqsse3tncf3x958p9dnyxr036y3qqsy0c7gq3swg76w7: "This is a weird question because maybe the vast majority of words I’ve written are in abandoned projects. Isn’t that how everyone works?"
Not me, if I can help it! But I write for a living, so abandoned projects are wasted working hours. (Or days, or months, or (in extremis) years.) You learn not to do that fast, if you want to eat and keep a roof over your head.
nostr:npub1txd79zqd977yhjzzaemsq3qp55p8wgrjqe0pf7z2xny89g8yf4tqg3txmn
"Has anyone ever tried writing a novel purely through speaking?"
Tons of folks dictate novels. Per his own story, David Webber took a header off his deck a couple of decades ago and broke both wrists with a deadline looming. One copy of Dragon Dictate later, he had a book. Then another, and another. (The style changed somewhat, and not for the better IMO, but he was still producing.)
nostr:npub1gkqp4u640srgwcl2hynsxzyymwxav5kcucjl9zf4sxl7z45snq4sp5t4n6 I'm talking about me, not you.