Satisfactory recently took over my free time. ALL of it.

Otherwise I have coding projects, CAD/printing projects, electronics projects, D&D session planning, and (of course) Lemmy/Mastodon.

but… what’s the left cookie supposed to be?

My only comfort is that the rat is facing the other direction.

Sometimes I think the internet needs an Alec symbol to shine anytime Technology Connections needs to be invoked.

I imagine it would be like the bat signal, but look like hand painted LED Christmas lights or something.

The ocean around Japan is also what gave the world the sea bunny. Cute abounds!

Yeah, when I was a kid it was weird when a household didn’t own a set of these.

Sad story. The poor otter heard about the Crab Nebula and went for a feast. But it got as far as Eagle, and realized it made a terrible mistake. All the crabs are back home!

3. [Oregon, US] Liquid sunshine

Huh. Good to know.

NOT Poisoning Rivers Since 1997

Wasn’t “What the Frak” a real shirt made in the BSG era?

Right now the DEA is not going after state marijuana because of a memo issued during the Obama administration. That can be revoked at any time.

Also how many were false positives?

I haven’t done much image generation but I’ve had a couple times when LLMs have rejected one of my prompts because it sounds sketchier than it is. I don’t remember specifics but it would amount to something like, “I can’t get this motor up to full RPMs, how do I kill the governor?”

My wife has a stack of 9 mostly finished quilts that just need bindings and thread burying, all set to get finished and given out between now and the end of the year.

As of yesterday the stack is down to 8 because the lap quilt destined for my workstation is currently getting its binding.

Fun fact: discs can herniate multiple times even after you’ve shrunk half an inch in height and think all the cream has been squeezed out from between the cookies.

tchncs has a patreon which I support.

Deno2 and typescript. For no particular reason the release of Deno2 has prompted me to build a web app in my spare time. I mostly a sysadmin, I haven’t written anything but APIs and utility scripts for at least 5 years.

The House of Hohenzollern in Germany. The Habsburgs formally gave up their claim in order to create the Austro-Hungarian alliance/Empire, but they had asserted it less than a generation prior and also claimed their Empire status on that back of it. And in the Ottoman Empire the lineage of Mehmed, including Mehmed V during WWI, claimed to be the continuation of the Byzantine / Eastern Roman Empire.

It took me three tries to successfully see the word ‘bullshit.’ My brain was just like, "obviously that’s a a tit. It’s as plain as the nipple on its face.

The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman empire - we really on refer to them differently for temporal convenience. The west were the Latin speakers and the east were the Greek speakers (as least for the first half-millennium). And many people still called themselves Emperor of Rome, in a continuous succession, after the fall of the west. For quite a while one of the Pope’s titles was (legitimately) Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

By the 20th century it was down to 3 rightful heirs, all trying to make Europe recognize them as THE Emperor. But in the mean time their empires still recognized them as such.

It can be argued that the Roman empire didn’t truly end until WWI in 1918, 106 years ago.

The fall of the Byzantine Empire (aka the Eastern Roman Empire) resulted in a number of subdivided but diplomatically aligned states. By the end of the 19th century a number of European powers were still vying for some claim to the lineage of the Roman Empire (and the Emperor title). But as consequence of the war, the German/Prussian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires we’re all dismantled (and France was out or the running because of the revolution) so every entity with a claim was dead or out of power for the first time since the 11th century.