Note archive: July, 2024

Lying on the warm rocks of Brighton beach, listening to Veedon Fleece after swimming in the cool sea on a hot day in the Summertime in England.

Just updated to iOS 17.6, hoping that the fix for this frustrating regression had been shipped, but alas, no luck:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273327

Hobbled datalist it is, then. 😞

Going to Belfast. brb

Starting a six-week sabbatical …now!

I love how this timeline of Irish inventions starts with the ancient Ogham writing system and culminates in the creation of the spice bag:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimelineofIrishinventionsand_discoveries

Kind of miffed that this evening’s traditional Irish music session in the Jolly Brewer has been cancelled because of the men’s football—I was looking forward to playing some tunes! 😞

Reading Ithaca by Claire North.

Very happy to see that in Brighton, “AI Steve” got fewer votes than the candidate from the Monster Raving Loony Party:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001130

I just downloaded and installed the Vivaldi web browser, a process which involved reading and agreeing to the end user license agreement, which was mercifully short and actually human-readable—major props!

https://vivaldi.com/

Fellow UK voters, please remember to bring ID with you to your polling station tomorrow.

Fellow UK voters, please also make an official on-the-record complaint about the requirement to bring ID with you.

Thank you.

The most stupid sentence ever published by Mozilla:

“To avoid confirmation bias and subjective interpretation, we decided to leverage language models for a more objective analysis of the data.”

Just use everyone else’s biases!