It’s funny how three or four AI models have become the equivalent of the electronics engineer’s “jellybean parts.” Need a little AI to get people to look at your company? Just grab one out of the jar!

Relevant xkcd:

If your employer wants to spend its money on certification, by all means go for it

For real, if you haven’t already try to find every bit of employer-paid training that’s available, it’s worth looking into. My workplace has a corp Microsoft learning account that will pay for one certification test a year, and other deals with online training platforms for free classes that don’t result in “certificates” exactly, but do provided verifiable proof of completion you can post to your LinkedIn or socials. (The real benefit is the knowledge you gain of course, but it’s nice to have some acknowledgment of what you’ve learned.)

Who lives in a pineapple under under the sea?

Yup, that happened to me once.

/shitpost, sorry

Found this, can’t vouch for its accuracy but it has an .ics version: https://game-releases.com/calendar/

Top voted answer

“Why would you want to?”

You know, eating a windowpane meant something very different when I was a lad.

Peeping Tom scientists – have you no shame!

I can’t find their website right now, but there’s a charity that “borrows” suburban yards to grow produce which they then donate to local food banks. It sounds pretty cool.

a disease which has no cure

Thrill-seeking recklessness.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” To this day, especially in times of “disaster,” I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

• Fred Rogers

Growing up in a rural area, my school taught us that farmers were basically god.

Sadly, this isn’t true: it’s a reprint of a humor article from a zine called the Hermenaut in 1999. Editor & Publisher did a piece on it here, and it’s mentioned in Griffeth’s book Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy. It’s a great story though – it’s so beautifully plausible.

Wow, Moses Malone signed your bible? That’s awesome!

Okey-dokey.

Dang it!

sudo deluser lurch sudo

There’s a large number of legal IPTV streams – a lot of them are just the streams you would normally be able to access via Pluto, Plex, and other services. There’s also a lot of public access/public media channels are legit and free All of the ones available at the link I posted should be legal. There are “pirate” IPTV streams out there, but I don’t know any off the top of my head. I would check with the c/piracy community.

The really tricky part is getting an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for free. Very few EPG providers are willing to give that away. You can roll your own for free but it’s complicated enough that I basically gave up on it.