I found an old plush that had a voicebox in it… I’ve not touched it in 25+ years but wanted to show it to my daughter, so I pulled out the battery box, expecting the worse, and there was no corrosion at all. I pulled out the generic brand batteries and put in new batteries and it started speaking.

I was amazed.

I was able to get it setup and logging my data locally very quickly. So far everything works just as advertised!

I have a local LLM that I use to create an auto journal of my day, and this was a huge missing piece. Now that it knows where I’ve been out can do a better job of inferring my day.

Thanks for this, it seems to be exactly what I needed! I don’t think I’ll need the pro features, but I’m going to do a year subscription to verify.

In every new parent class I took leaving up to the birth of my daughter, no one EVER mentioned the importance of pulling the little frills out on the legs after changing a diaper.

I heroically volunteered to change her diaper during a hockey game, and when I got back to our seats I handed her off to my wife. About 5 minutes later my wife was covered in pee and asked why I hadn’t pulled out the frills.

That’s a mistake you don’t make more than once… and I try to warn all new parents so they can learn from my mistake.

This looks really interesting! Getting away from Google Maps has been difficult for me for many reasons, and the Timeline feature is just one of them. I haven’t been able to find a good alternative, and this gives me hope. I’ll certainly be checking it out, thank you!

Agreed… the problem is that the damage is already done and there’s no way to really make it right to the copyright holders so mandating that all AI models and their weights should be treated as public domain would at least help a bit.

Tailscale is a private treehouse. Everyone gets an official member badge, has their name on the roster, and can walk in anytime to hang out, share toys, and see everone else in the club.

Tailcat is two tin cans tied together with a string. There is no club, no badges, and no rules. You give one can to someone, whisper a secret through the string, and as soon as you hang up, it’s gone.

I chuckled the other day when I heard that the planned attack on the UK airbase used by the US for attacks on Iran, is being blamed on Iran, and also being called terrorism.

I don’t think it’s terrorism when it’s a legitimate military target that takes place during war time. While it is possible for terrorism to exist during a war (you know, something like bombing schools, hospitals, residences, etc), an attack on an enemy’s base doesn’t fit.

Agreed, I’ve had a lot of fun watching this series, including season 4. I can understand why some people don’t like it, but I really appreciate the silliness with this series.

Those look nice, but they don’t look all that comfortable or functional.

They might be raising the price, but at least they are also adding ads to all subscription levels.

I’m thinking more like Coruscant fashion:

I have no hair on top of my head, so I’m always wearing a hat. A Tilly in the summer and a toque in the winter. But I don’t wear them for fashion purposes, strictly functional.

What I do wish would come into fashion are robes. So comfy and functional!

Buyers in the US would definitely give a shit about buying EVs… if there were more to choose from, and there were cheaper options. Basically just open up the US market to Chinese vehicles and we’d get there in no time.

Right, but the sensors can be designed for semis, and the trailers should have the sensors just like they have brake lights.

Eating horse is actually very common across the world… it’s really only places like US, UK, Australia and most of Canada where it’s taboo. I don’t think it’s kosher either.

Honestly I wouldn’t have a problem eating horse, as long as it’s being honestly sold as horse and it is safe.

I’ve often wondered why every new passenger vehicle sold in the US over the past decade or so has sensors that let you know if there’s something in your blind spot, but semis are not using this technology even though they have much larger blind spots. I would think you’d see trucks adopting this other safety equipment before they go full self-driving.

Now they can burn through more of the expensive diesel than before!

I was a deckhand on a tug boat for 1 year when I was 18.

Among my coworkers I had the most teeth, the least number of arrests, the least number of ex wives, and the least number of tattoos. I also was involuntarily involved in a felony that ended with one of my coworkers attempting to rape me. Also, working on the river during winter really sucked. Oh, and part of the job involved cleaning fertilizer out of empty barges, so now I have periodic chest scans to look for cancer. One of my other coworkers also tried to light a cigarette whole we were sweeping up the fertilizer dust.

I understood the value of a college education after that year.

I grew up in Kentucky in the 80s and I grew up calling it a racial slur… and there was no shame around my neighborhood in calling it that because that’s just what it was called. I had no idea what the word meant until years later and now looking back on it I’m disgusted at all of the adults in my neighborhood who let us call it that.

Last week I watched O Brother Where Art Thou with my almost 10 year old daughter and at one point in the movie after it had been said a few times my daughter turned an looked at me and asked “What does ‘negro’ mean?”… and with that I feel like I’ve done a good job at stopping institutional racism in my family line.

A koi is ok, but if you want the best living fleshlight you’ve gotta get a rattlesnake. Just be sure you have the fangs removed first, and then use it before the next set of fangs come in, otherwise that’s a VERY embarrassing trip to the ER.