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@icing reading more, this is probably not a serious proposal (it glosses over and ignores the hard things, and even some not so hard things). It's fun to think about, I guess.

Taxes done. It always sucks more than expected, and I always expect it to suck a lot. I had to contact my optometrist to figure out how much I'd spent on my HSA card. Making me talk to people in order to send the (probably) correct amount of money to the government is an especially egregious offense.

Allbirds, the shoe company (pretty nice shoes, I like them, have several pair) has pivoted to AI. And, the market couldn't be happier about it. Somebody should ask them where they'll be buying the GPUs and compute from. There is a shortage of compute for AI, currently, but it's not because there aren't enough people building data centers. The shortage is higher up the chain. https://www.tipranks.com/news/allbirds-stock-bird-rockets-660-as-footwear-giant-swaps-sneakers-for-ai-servers

@vampiress I love the idea of "everybody gets the same map each day". I immediately thought there ought to be a "Rogle" (Rogue+Wordle) type thing when Wordle got popular..a million other people did, too. But, it's a good idea!

The damned things keep bricking themselves, too, and my coworkers at the office who have physical access can't seem to figure out the incantations to re-image them to get them booting again (I've done the process with the one I have here, and didn't find it all that tricky, but it's so unlike anything anyone who uses regular computers has ever seen, it seems to just cause a mental shutdown...multiple people have tried, and I've tried to talk them through it, maybe it really is perma-bricked).

@swelljoe "You knew it was a snake..."

Orbán got wrecked. All these fascists bound to lose. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/12/hungary-election-latest-results-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-fidesz-tisza-russia-europe-live-news-updates

@randomgeek I think I would be happier if I were making $340k having Claude make a SaaS. I'm making a lot less than that having Claude make robots do stuff (though I also still write a lot of code myself and do a lot of IT/dev ops stuff that hasn't yet be subsumed into things LLMs do easily).

Making my CLAUDE.md nothing but writing advice from Strunk and White: "Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."Motherfucker just cannot stop carrying on.

@bryan I don't trust biometric authentication. But, I guess I have to, in this case, because Apple is going to make life miserable if I don't agree to its way of doing things.

I think this is why I can't watch the Expanse, because what are we doing here?

Almost forgot to celebrate Rex Manning Day.

Jesus, Flock is run by supervillains. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YwVBsFD7v84

@can yeah, I mean, I plan to release apps to the App Store, so I have to pay for the developer account, regardless. I'm mad about it, but not as mad as having to buy a Mac. If Google hadn't implemented a similar system, I'd have bought another Android tablet. But, since they did implement a similar verification system (cheaper and less onerous, but still...the same category of user hostility), and since Android hardware is remarkably worse, here we are. The enshittification continues.

The prose in Moby Dick is all killer no filler.

What they want to charge me for a new contract vs. the rate switching gives me. The rates are always more complicated than this, with various discounts and other stuff, so that 9.1 cent per kWh hour probably won't actually be exactly that...but, still. It'll be cheaper than 13.7.

Some say he's still rolling down the stairs today.

I was going to install another disk my headless dev box, only two find it already has a second disk. I just checked and it was advertised as 2TB, but I didn't remember that and assumed it was 1TB as that's what I saw when setting it up (I chose automatic partition, so wasn't looking very close)...and it turns out it's two 1TB NVME disks.

Gas prices out of control? Consider the horse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

The year of Linux on the desktop humming along nicely. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p