They’ve changed the worksheet tabs in excel and it’s like someone I have always know with a beard has shaved

Got an email from the archlinux team about their plans to license PKGBUILDS and stuff (https://rfc.archlinux.page/0040-license-package-sources/). Made me nostalgic.

I wrote some pretty freaking complex PKGBUILDs in my time, though they were never in official repos.

As an autistic person, I can dramatically improve my life expectancy by not killing myself.

The only sane response to the trolley problem is to do nothing. If you can be (philosophically) responsible for deaths by inaction, then we’re all guilty of that anyway.

eBay sent me an email detailing things I could improve in the listing. Said the descrption was no good… their AI wrote it.

“I’m only doing this on the precondition that I can lie, and no-one will call me out,” is definitely the way to run a democracy.

Did this “common sense” survey.

With hindsight, I feel like there is a critical distinction between common sense and common knowledge. Most of these questions were related to common knowledge, so a statement of fact, which you may or may not know, or might disagree with.

To me, common sense is the ability to predict an outcome based on a broad awareness of previous outcomes. For example, if I am careless with a knife, the knife could cut me. Or, you can’t carry water (very far) in a sieve.

Common knowledge is something else altogether. For example, “the sky is usually blue during the day”, I would say is common knowledge. An example from the survey, “a grizzly bear is larger than a dog”, I would say is neither common sense or common knowledge. You may not know what a a grizzly bear is. “Water is a liquid” is probably common knowledge but, still, don’t you have to know what liquid means?

Either way, I don’t think you can apply any previous experience to these questions and predict the answer, so I don’t see how they could be described as common sense.

My co-workers want my collaboration on “a thing”, with no notice, today. They don’t like it if they don’t get it.

I want a yes/no answer from my co-workers on a simple question, that I have to ask them every month. Do you think I can ever get that one word answer?

My pitch for a new social media platform:

Our app will allow children of any age (but we’ll put 13 in the T&Cs), to engage in completely unmoderated chat with total strangers of all ages from all over the world! They’ll be able to freely exchanged photos, videos and any kind of file without restriction!

Can you imagine pitching that and getting investment? The current situation with kids and social media is ludicrous.

The rules for “branded content” on Instagram are very clear but there is no way to report Posts that don’t meet the requirements. Funny that.