Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

daily #CalvinAndHobbes comic:
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2023/12/25

It’s Christmas eevee!

Health PSA: Sudafed PE and other oral phenylephrine decongestants do not work. (Like, "might get pulled from the shelves" doesn't work: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-two-pharmacists-figured-out-that-decongestants-dont-work/)
Instead, go to the counter and ask for pseudoephedrine (generic Sudafed). You will have to show your ID. You probably cannot do this online.

I am currently sick, and on the worse days I was unable to look at screens much. Certainly not enough to parse this out of the bull shit SEO articles that pass for "the web" these days. So maybe a good thing to really make sure you know before you get sick. Because I only sort of knew and couldn't confirm it.

thinking about how every time someone points out that LLMs aren't actually "intelligent" someone, without fail, crops up to say, "you can't say that, I bet you can't even define intelligence!"

people have been grappling with the difficulty of producing workably rigorous definitions of even basic concepts and the limits of their application in critical reasoning for thousands of years. this is literally Philosophy 101 material.

Matt Gray is Trying: Pyrotechnics.
My new begis now, and I'm starting off with a bang!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZVRK1kZK_E

Can everyone please not say "deadname corporations!" It is not deadnaming, they are not people, they do not have feelings, identity, etc, they exist solely to make money, renaming usually being to make more.

Comparing that to the bigotry of deadnaming is really uncomfortable.

The corporate web is so fucked like how do you have "1486 partners"
Yeah sure let me just go through all of these and make an informed decision on whether I trust each one

@Atatra Ah, true, true. My apologies to the Welsh and Scottish.

@auravulpes it technically is, you have to remember that it's possible to be welsh or scottish and be ethical, the english are the real bastards

do you have a fire extinguisher in your house?

if not, I highly recommend grabbing one if you can afford it. powder is a good place to start, since it works for almost all household fire types and is safe around electricals. a brand new 1kg one is about £15 and a 2kg one is about £20.

a few years back I had an incident where having a fire extinguisher in our kitchen saved me from severe burns and limited the fire damage to stuff I could cheaply repair. coincidentally, I had bought it that day.

there's no reason to use Google Chrome