Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

If this is true then Google are not merely scanning files for software fingerprints but are parsing them through ML and deciding what users are permitted to read. Absolutely disgraceful.

https://twitter.com/BreesAnna/status/1384763150109716481

Nothing says 'job targets' like getting 2 emails and a voicemail a week from a vendor and then silence when you ask a question.

IT sales people are like sales people everywhere; 80% of them are completely useless. They'll bombard you with calls and emails but the second you need them to be useful they're mysteriously busy.

Well this is just lovely from Tamsin Greig.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/07/tamsin-greig-without-paul-ritter-the-world-is-a-less-brilliant-place

Probably the first laptop that really delivers on marketed battery life.

I know Apple Silicon is basically stuffing phone/embedded tech into a laptop, but holy shit the battery life is absolutely bonkers good.

RIP the amazing Paul Ritter.

https://youtu.be/rFYbe91tPJM

Dropped into campus to pick up a laptop. It feels normal. 77F and people enjoying the sun 🌞 The last time I did this, it was a ghost town. Barricades in dark corridors like Hadley's Hope.

77F here today. In the heat you can't picture the sting of midwinter cold, and in the depth of that cold you can't remember that film of sweat on your brow when the heat comes.The mind is a funny thing.

I enjoyed this short about Larry Mullen jr, especially his comments about inspired amateurism.

https://youtu.be/3isbbRnbxW0

I'm getting am M1 Mac for evaluation, should anybody have any app questions. Quite curious to see what's native and what isn't, for when the kids come back armed with them in Sept.

An oldie but goodie (Via Chris Rock)

The electrons are back. I am pleased. I didn't want to go to bed and be woken up by all the electronics coming back to life simultaneously. My NAS for example, emits a shrill beep when it spins to life.

Update: It was indeed a transformer, the next street over. At least 300 properties affected.

Lots of sirens so some clown probably drove their brodozer into a transformer. Who knows...

The lights just went out. I am tooting on cellular in the dark.