EU: Okay so we’ll stop buying US munitions to send to Ukraine.

US: “No wait no like that…”

Fucking good. I’m tired of the petty North Atlantic and Arctic sabotage missions. Ukraine can keep hitting oil refineries and eventually they won’t be able to afford to buy foreign fuel.

And yet my own skills and experience are still at my fingertips.

Every new low in casual cruelty sets back the date when America will be trusted on the world stage a decade further out. I’m confident I’ll be dead before an American leader would be held in the same regard as other leaders on the world stage.

My kid is growing up in this reality and distrust will be their generation’s default sentiment.

So you sanction those people so they can’t get so much as a side of fries at Euro Disney if they step out of the US. It’s not justice but it’s something.

Non-browser companies I don’t like are sponsoring a browser engine alternative so they don’t all end up getting hosed by Google’s lock-in.

As long as the end result is what I want I am alright with jerks I don’t like footing the bill if our separate self-interests are momentarily aligned.

This is a wait-and-see for me.

I have my library serving from an old work M1 Max MacBook because it has a lot of GPU oomph. GPU transcoding is available when needed.

Jellyfin users, how is the transcoding situation? I have a mix of AV1 and H265 and I need to get smooth playback to my living room Apple TV for families’ sake.

Getting quick access to autofill 1Password items in Alfred via the 1P CLI was one of the last feature parity nice-to-haves remaining to fully switch to Proton Pass. Great to see progress here.

They already have cut off weapons. They have no leverage to force a deal.

Look at me. EU is Captain now.

I’m just hoping whatever comes next isn’t space junk that makes colonization and satellites in general impossible.

The sooner the better. Less LLM infatuation means better customer service, less overall environmental impact, and more water available to cities.

C’mon, be fair. Country writers are toiling in their Victorian libraries to come up with such literary marvels as rhyming “suds” and “buds.”

There are only so many words in the English language to describe one’s ideal pickup truck going down a long dirt road.

Bzzzzzzzzz! Bzzzzzzzzzz!

Sometimes there’s a seconds-to-minutes delay between when the browser plugin saves and when it shows up in the standalone app.

Getting easily-manipulated Islamophobics out of NYC is a feature, not a bug.

I pay for it. Finding good results in the first page saves me time and I enjoy the optional AI filters and domain-based weighting.

All social platforms get worse all around us. Fedi isn’t perfect or drama-free but around here every third post isn’t a targeted ad that knows too much about me trying to make me feel guilty or inadequate.

And welcome to the jam!

There will never be a good trade deal with Trump. There will always be an excuse he will hide behind or manufacture.

Get those fucking elbows up before it’s too late and we’re back at the polls listening to PP’s lost Liberal decade sloganeering all over again.