Woke up to a dead mouse on the floor next to my side of the bed. One of the perks of having a cat door to the back yard 🥴
Why do I blog?
Boar’s Head Shuts Down Virginia Meat Plant After 9 Deaths Linked to Listeria
I’m sure they’ll do all they can to ensure the other facilities are up to code but it makes ya wonder how it got so bad in the first place. Shit happens but I don’t think I’ll be eating Boar’s Head any time soon 🤢
Flappy Bird announces its return, but with a… twist
So, who is the Flappy Bird Foundation? Well, get ready for a big ol' bummer. When you dig deeper, you realize the foundation specializes in the selling of everyone’s favorite Ts, NFTs.
Yes, unfortunately, the company behind the game’s return snagged the copyright after inactivity and is using it to sling crypto. Dong himself is not directly involved here.
I was so excited for Flappy Bird to come back but not like this 🙃
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
You cannot trust any medium, so you copy important things over and over, into fresh storage. “Optical media rots, magnetic media rots and loses magnetic charge, bearings seize, flash storage loses charge, etc.,” writes user abracadaniel. “Entropy wins, sometimes much faster than you’d expect.”
Backups are important
One of my favorite things about Linux is feeling like I got a whole new computer every few months when I get bored and try a new distro
Switched over to Vanilla OS after running KDE Neon for the last ~3 years. I missed GNOME! It took a minute to figure out fractional scaling from dconf editor, I was used to Plasma where it was just a default setting. Feels nice doing a hard reset every once in a while
OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
The training behind o1 is fundamentally different from its predecessors, OpenAI’s research lead, Jerry Tworek, tells me, though the company is being vague about the exact details.
With o1, it trained the model to solve problems on its own using a technique known as reinforcement learning, which teaches the system through rewards and penalties.
Most 78s were 10-inches and held about three-and-a-half minutes of music. They were primarily made of shellac, which, believe it or not, is a resin secreted by lac bugs in the forests of Thailand and India.
TIL old records are an insect product 🤯🎵
Ohio’s oldest continuously operating inn appears to be for sale
At 212 years old, the Buxton Inn is billed as “Ohio’s oldest continuously operating inn,” and has even housed multiple celebrity guests throughout its tenure, including Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Garner, Henry Ford, and Yo-Yo Ma.
This place is a few miles down the road from us. It’s always been touted as one of the most haunted places in Ohio. It’ll be interesting to see what the new owners do with it when it sells! Hopefully they keep it operational. Ghosts or not, it’s a cool piece of history.
It’s physically impossible to watch this and not smile.
Major Holley - Laughing in Rhythm
Ford Seeks Patent for Software That Records Your Conversations to Serve You Ads
If this kind of thing catches on I’m trading in my car for a Huffy. My phone already knows enough about me.
Instead of mindlessly scrolling “for you” feeds, I now spend that time reading posts from other bloggers I follow via RSS. It’s been a wonderful experience.
There’s great content out there, but you must curate it yourself. An RSS reader is a great way to do that.
I’ve been doing the same thing for a while now too. I blogged about quitting social media and shifting over to Micro.blog recently. I don’t think that would’ve been possible without a well curated RSS feed to fill the void!
I waited for the public beta of iOS 18 before I installed it on my daily driver last night. An official Apple ROM is obviously a lot more stable and easier to install, but it felt a little like the good ol' days circa 2013 when I used to flash a new custom ROM on my Android phone every week or two 🥲
Right side of the bed
The old man down the road
I woke up to the doorbell ringing this morning. Who in the hell could be here this early?
So I got up and opened the front door. There was this little old man standing there in a brown Member’s Only jacket and some khakis.
“Hey, I’m your neighbor from two houses down,” he said. “You guys have a grey cat?”
I don’t even know how this collab happened but it’s a good seltzer 😆🍻
Drafts + Micro.blog
Woman started wildfires so she could flirt with sexy firefighters
A 44-year-old woman from Tripoli, Greece, was sentenced to three years imprisonment after deliberately starting two wildfires. Local media reports that she wanted to flirt with the sexy firefighters responding to douse the blazes, which did not spread far before being put out.
Sounds like one of those “only in America” things but not this time!