Avocadia

1st July 2023

This seems extremely cool. I am 100% here for nntp in all its glory and warts.

https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110637361651638656

30th June 2023

Every chef or cook I’ve ever met has said, when faced with one of those Cook Your Own Steak stone grills has said “Fuck off, make my steak for me” and yet I have shaved so many yaks in my time.

https://mastodon.flockofnazguls.com/@flockofnazguls/110627127357199666

Tears of the Kingdom is a lot of fun, but boy is it extra fun in the boss battles when the key NPC is supposed to stay close so you can ask to use their ability meanwhile they’ve decided to charge into the middle of a melee.

28th June 2023

Blanket ban on gambling ads unreasonable, says the gambling industry.

Yeah, well.. you win some you lose some. I guess they should have bet with their heads, not over it.

21st June 2023

Look, far be it from me to question the marketing geniuses of the American film industry, but trying to build tension in a TV ad by having a military guy in the mid-1940s question if there is a possibility the Trinity test could blow up the world lacks a certain frisson of uncertainty.

20th June 2023

🔖 Seven Ur Languages

Stupid brain immediately wants to go out and learn all of these

Like blogging engines and the ironically named distraction free text editors, Jira is perfect for enabling nerds to futz around with setup rather than actually doing the thing the tool is supposed to enable.

10th June 2023

🔖 How to Grow a Three Sisters Garden

A Corn + Beans + Squash garden. The more I think about this, the more I want it. But I'd struggle to find a place for it. I'd never be able to keep it safe from the dogs.

🔖 Honey Bastard Chicken

Nat's What I Reckon's Honey Mustard Chicken. It's fucking bastard good

9th June 2023

I hadn't been doing my homework for Sydney Technology Leaders and needed to put the meetup.com events together quickly. So I asked ChatGPT to write the text for me, and then because I am me, I asked it "Make it more cynical". Reader, despite my cold dead heart of jade, I was impressed. Not that it produced usable copy, I'm not at all surprised that the plagarism machine trained to trick humans came out as seemingly coherent. No, I was impressed that even I thought it might be a bit much.

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