Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

Don't mind me, just catching up with some remedial study

https://archive.org/details/Artificial_Intelligence_Projects_for_the_Commodore_64_1985_TAB_Books/mode/2up

Saturday's Toronto Star

Y'know, Lucky Charms added blue diamonds in 1975, but it wasn't until 1998 that Pfizer made them actually do anything

I've just donated to archive.org for the first time. We've entered the age of memory-holing and we stand to lose far too much, far too quickly.

I wonder to what extent airlines with routes to and from Canada rely on connections through the US? For the safety of its citizens and visitors, I suspect Canadian airlines and their partners are going to have to open more direct routes to other countries.

Thanks to the risks and burdens imposed by the preposterously draconian blunt instrument that is the #OnlineSafetyAct (UK) of 2023, I've just unceremoniously closed down a collaborative website I've operated for almost exactly 27 years.

A week or so ago I received a rather bizarre email from the London Transport Museum Shop, telling me that if I didn't want to see Mothers' Day spam, I could opt out now. In other words, encouraging me to engage in a whole interactive experience with specific reference to Mothers' Day, in order to spare myself any potentially traumatic references to Mothers' Day.

The thought processes involved in creating this campaign beggar rational comprehension.

I'll be damned. All of my #Chromecast Audios are back, not even one day after a fix was announced. Unusual for a surprise to be pleasant lately.

Brussels Government: Seven-party coalition option to be decided by Monday

https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels-2/1487057/brussels-government-seven-party-coalition-option-to-be-decided-by-monday

Google support has announced in the Google Nest forum that they're pushing out a fix for the #Chromecast #ChromecastAudio expired cert problem

And the third one is working for this purpose as well, after unplugging it and plugging it back in. (No factory reset for me!) #Chromecast #ChromecastAudio.

Was wrong about the #SomaFM app though, it's no longer finding the devices.

Hang on, they're still working, for that purpose. Enjoying some Brubeck streamed off my own file server while making dinner.

#Chromecast #ChromecastAudio

Well, until this morning two of my #Chromecast Audios were still working with noncommercial apps like #VLC and #SomaFM, since they don't ask the devices to authenticate. But today those have dropped off the network as well.

Interestingly two of my #Chromecast #ChromecastAudio devices are still working for local media -- I can cast to them from VLC on the iPhone, using music that's actually stored on the phone, for example. But none of them work for internet streams.

Just took a cat to the vet today, and I think I finally begin to appreciate what an emotional toll it would take to be one. A veterinarian that is, not a cat.

I mean you can't be a good veterinarian (I hereby posit) without being a compassionate and empathetic animal lover, but there's no way to tell the animal that this bewildering, invasive and sometimes painful experience is necessary and done out of love and concern.

I don't know how you get over feeling that every day of your professional life. I don't know if I could.

(Personally I never mail my ballot, I take it to one of the drop boxes. Which are easily as common as polling places are in other states, so it works out to be the same except no lines or malicious poll workers.)