Microes
I may have just flipped a setting that will halve our utility bill. Equal parts happy that I discovered this, and annoyed that I had been pissing away money for so long.
Backblaze randomly stopped backing up for many Mac users on 3/13 (myself included), and the only information about this problem and its fix is in this reddit thread(!?)
https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/1jdlzop/bb_stopped_backing_up_after_macos_1532_update/
tl;dr:
1. Restart the computer
2. Manually update the app via the latest installer
3. Invoke a magic command to make it rescan your drive(!?)Sage words from the 4 year old:
You need to be the first to tell mommy that she’s pretty. Say it first thing in the morning, as soon as she wakes up. That’s the kind of adult _I_ want to beSo what’s the best way to feed my car’s user manual to an LLM and have it answer all my questions? Or every appliance in my house, for that matter.
New toy arrived!
Kyoto Railway Museum
- Good grief, I thought this was The Onion.
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/ - So the latest Stormlight Archive book is apparently the last of its arc, so I guess I will read it after all.
And I don’t remember what’s been happening at all, so I guess I will go read all five of them now… - What to call these short-form social media postings?
They aren’t "tweets" anymore, "post" can’t distinguish from long-form content, and "toot" is just silly.
The Japanese term for them means "murmur", which is fantastic. - The solution I've landed on:
1. Post to fediverse from nice mobile clients.
2. Blog pulls latest posts when building, and includes them in the generated site.
The order is backwards from a POSSE standpoint, but it's easy and it works.
