Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈

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Location: Western Norway
Website: https://berglyd.net
GitHub: https://github.com/vkbo

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2026-07-08 16:02:44 UTC

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The only suspicious part here is the account making those claims. 🤔

2026-04-30 20:58:10 UTC

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) has just been patched on Debian 13, with kernel version 6.12.85-1 from trixie (security).
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431
#CopyFail #Debian #Linux #InfoSec #CVE

2026-04-28 17:41:20 UTC

I recently posted this, but since it is #TerryPratchett Day, I'm reposting.
If my text editor app @npub16k6…q9cx crashes (Offler forbid), it will use one of the following Discworld error messages as the window title of the error dialog. 😁 🧙‍♀️
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/483/549/230/302/176/original/72d48cfe0766105f.png

2026-04-13 20:38:17 UTC

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I see he claims he thought the image portrayed him as a doctor. Considering how utterly ignorant he is of Christianity, it is at least probable, but I'm still not buying it. It's more likely just another TACO.

2026-04-05 21:05:42 UTC

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Aside from the way it demeans the position he holds, it also shows Iran that he's losing control and that they're getting to him.

2026-03-27 19:04:20 UTC

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As expected, this thread brought out some bigot JKR fans for my blocklist. 🙄

2026-03-04 15:30:26 UTC

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Unfortunately, the Velociraptor of Jurassic Park/World is made up. The actual Velociraptor is definitely not rideable unless if you're maybe a cat or something. :ablobcatreach:

2026-02-03 16:29:32 UTC

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100% Agree. I remember Rebecca Watson kept a wall of hate website with the worst stuff because guys kept claiming she was exaggerating. She most definitely was not, and "just ignoring it" only helps the people who prefer to pretend the problem doesn't exist.

2026-02-03 13:29:05 UTC

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What the hell does that even mean? They are horribly designed cars, and I hate bad design. Don't get me started on the ridiculous screen.

2026-02-03 13:25:56 UTC

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How the fuck do you know that? I encountered Teslas long before Elon came out as a Nazi, so my dislike has nothing to do with politics and predates the current issues by many years.

2026-02-03 13:22:45 UTC

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For something to be intuitive, you must right away understand how to use something without assistance. That is most definitely not true for Teslas. The first times I was in one the driver ended up opening the door for me. I hate those cars, and avoid them whenever I can.
In any case, the safety claim is not about whether they're intuitive or not, but that they stop working when it matters the most.

2026-01-19 19:11:09 UTC

Apparently Trump has replied to the Prime Minister of Norway that he doesn't believe him when he explained that the Norwegian government doesn't control who the Nobel Committee awards the peace prize to.
Trump doesn't seem to understand how separation of power works, and that we do not live in a regime where the government wants to control everything from media to theatre boards to elections. We're kindof invested in this thing called democracy over here.
#USPol #Trump #Norway #NobelPeacePrize

2026-01-16 15:47:38 UTC

The Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis (known for the viral song What Does the Fox Say) has cancelled their participation in this year's Eurovision Song Contest due to Israel's participation.
Good on them!
#Eurovision #ESC

2026-01-08 06:55:07 UTC

Meanwhile in Norway ...
(Photo by the insurance company If)
#Meanwhile #Norway #Cold #Winter
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/858/152/161/413/226/original/d898a2b9ab6d3124.png

2025-12-19 14:52:47 UTC

A good piece on how GenAI is flooding the field. I too have worked with ML for a while and feel similarly.
"Having done my PhD on AI language generation (long considered niche), I was thrilled we had come this far. But the awe I felt was rivaled by my growing rage at the flood of media takes and self-appointed experts insisting that generative AI could do things it simply can’t, and warning that anyone who didn’t adopt it would be left behind."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129179/generative-ai-hype-distracts-us-from-ais-more-important-breakthroughs/
#AI #GenAI #ML #CompSci

2025-12-11 21:48:18 UTC

I'm currently rewatching Designated Survivor. I saw it around when it came out, so it's not new to me. It's a political thriller/drama, and the bulk of it aired in 2017-18. It's very progressive in its politics – so much so that it is a little cringe at times – and it stands in very sharp contrast to the the political reality of the time. It feels completely detached from US political reality in fact, which also undermines it.
Still, it's an interesting show and concept.
#TV #Politics #Drama

2025-12-09 22:04:49 UTC

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$ rm -rfv /capitalism
... because I want to see it destroyed piece by piece.

2025-11-20 11:25:52 UTC

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I always name my PCs after female characters from film and TV. The one I'm writing this from is named Ahsoka. My laptop is named Xena.
Servers I usually name after Greek goddesses. My current two are Athena and Eris,

2025-10-15 06:36:06 UTC

I've worked in the renewable energy sector for over 4 years now, but as a physicist by education I still get annoyed by how we treats physical units.
My least favourite unit is MWh/day, which is just energy divided by 24!
People have been very sloppy about mixing MW and MWh as well because the market has been divided into 1 hour chunks so they're the same number. Now we've moved to 15 minutes instead, so that assumption no longer holds. A good illustration why making such assumptions is bad!

2025-10-05 10:16:41 UTC

I'm not very good with the coffee machine milk steamer, and rarely bother, but at least today I managed!
#Sunday
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2025-09-13 16:38:30 UTC

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The Democrats are a right wing party in any other part of the world than the US. The US has only the right and the far right.

2025-09-13 14:36:31 UTC

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It's the whole conservative "Christian" idea that if something bad happens to you, it isn't just random bad luck, but because you're a bad person and therefore deserve it. Likewise, the rich have done something to deserve it. Possibly the most un-Christ-like idea in all of the conservative Christian mindset.

2025-08-16 21:24:48 UTC

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Of course, Twoflower is named Zweiblumen there ... 😆

2025-08-16 21:19:25 UTC

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In the book, when they jump universe to ours, his parallel universe self is described as 33:
"All this was however totally lost on Dr Rjinswand, 33, a bachelor, born in Sweden, raised in New Jersey, and a specialist in the breakaway oxidation phenomena of certain nuclear reactors. Anyway, he probably would not have believed any of it."

2025-08-16 19:11:26 UTC

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It always bothered me because I always imagined Rincewind as much younger. 😁

2025-07-27 13:21:46 UTC

Sometimes the layers of silliness of Discworld stories add up to some quite hilarious paragraphs. 😁
#Discworld #Books #Reading #TerryPratchett
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2025-07-20 13:17:33 UTC

Never mind the 30 °C heat, what's with all the pollen! 🤧

2025-07-10 12:51:21 UTC

"Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist."
– Sir David Attenborough
#Quotes #Nature #Economy #Capitalism

2025-07-09 16:22:11 UTC

I decided to finish watching Person of Interest. I was only half way through the series.
The show builds on mass surveillance post 911, and a bunch of ridiculous conspiracy theories. But I have to say it's still a little weird watching the now ±10 years old show in the context of current AI tech, which isn't particularly intelligent and therefore very different, but also in the context of the big tech surveillance industry. Sometimes the stories are a little on the nose. 😅
#TV #SciFi #AI #Tech

2025-06-27 19:53:33 UTC

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Now, the real question is: can you get AI to use AI to game the AI metrics so you can focus on actually doing your job properly?

2025-06-27 19:48:40 UTC

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"Our tool is so great we have to force everyone to use it."

2025-06-24 07:51:54 UTC

I wish my oven and microwave didn't have clocks, because then I didn't have to set them on DST changes and every time there is a power interruption.

2025-06-12 12:08:41 UTC

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Or a computer store called "All Computer, No Tesler" 😄

2025-06-01 07:32:01 UTC

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Having a CERN email address was a magnet for crackpot emails. I did keep some of them though. I too found them fascinating to a point. I had a folder called "Mixed Nuts" where I saved some of them.
Pretty much everyone ignored them, so one guy started to send emails impersonating famous scientists recommending his work.

2025-05-28 07:55:05 UTC

Any database wizards out there?
I have a table with an ID column. The ID column is unique together with a valid date, so the ID itself is not unique.
However, I also need a name column that is unique under the condition that any given name can only correspond to one specific ID (but not necessarily the other way around).
The database is PostgreSQL. Is it possible to formulate, for instance, a UNIQUE INDEX to achieve this?
#Programming #Development #Help #Database #PostgreSQL

2025-05-17 19:45:30 UTC

Non-political my ass. Eurovision is making a political choice either way, and they chose evil. I will never forget it. Seeing it unfold makes me sick. I'm logging off until this is over.

2025-05-17 12:01:12 UTC

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Watching them perform on stage while their soldiers commit unspeakable crimes is so far beyond anything I can stomach. It's sickening how people pretend it is business as usual.

2025-05-08 22:45:19 UTC

The latest chapter of Andor ... holy shit what a tense and emotional ride. Not only is it excellent story telling, but it also feels very much relevant for our time.
"We have friends everywhere."
#StarWars #Andor #TV #SciFi

2025-05-02 22:18:47 UTC

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Yeah, purists always have to ruin everything. Reading is reading, regardless what you're reading on. I agree that listening is different, but the point is to be entertained (or learn) so who cares? Why does everything have to be a contest?

2025-04-19 12:54:13 UTC

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Snow? No thanks!
It's finally warm enough that I could have my coffee on the balcony. It's only just possible when there's no wind and the sun is shining.

2025-04-14 19:26:23 UTC

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In the 1860s, my great great grandfather built this house. It's about 40 sq. m, with a small loft and a boathouse below. It's a stacked timber house and the timber was transported by row boat. It took years to plan, prepare and build.
They had 12 kids in this house. 3 died while young, and 9 lived. His brother also lived there, so they were 12 in total.
Two of the daughters never married and lived there their entire lives. My dad renovated it in the 90s after it had been empty for decades.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/337/926/752/608/764/original/3d11b2862e4b6a91.png

2025-04-14 19:13:41 UTC

I went back to my home town yesterday for an overnight trip, and this moring I drove to the small town my dad grew up in, which sits in a narrow Norwegian fjorth surrounded by steep mountains.
These images are from the innermost part of the fjorth where the two oldest remaining houses stand. My great great grandfather was born there in 1840.
The rock overhang is below a large cliff face, and there are traces of habitants dating back about 6000 years. The site is now a historical site.
#Norway
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2025-04-10 07:53:12 UTC

Excellent!
A Norwegian court has determined that crypto mining is not "industry", and therefore can be excluded in local zoning plans for industry.
Municipalities in Norway want to exclude them because of the huge energy demands and very few jobs created.
This is a good decision. These data centres are a massive waste of energy and resources.
#Crypto #Miming #Energy #Law #Norway
https://rett24.no/articles/staten-vant-ankesak-om-reguleringsplan--kryptoutvinning-er-ikke-industri

2025-04-09 16:30:49 UTC

Ooooh, a trailer for the Murderbot series!
I love those books, and I've read them all. 😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEioDeOiqEs
#SciFi #Murderbot #Trailer

2025-04-03 10:01:28 UTC

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Yay, more space pollution. /s

2025-03-28 10:59:43 UTC

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Same!

2025-03-25 19:17:23 UTC

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Haha, good one!
#Cryptography
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2025-03-25 19:09:32 UTC

Whatever it is those incompetent clowns are doing over there in 'murica, I got multiple contacts who weren't on Signal popping up there in the last day or two.
It's good advertising for the service at least!
#Signal

2025-03-24 08:24:30 UTC

The Trump regime is requiring ideological compliance from collaborators in other countries, losing all credibility as a nation of science, and becoming more and more like Stalin's Soviet Union.
"Caspar Van den Berg, president of Universities of the Netherlands, which represents 14 universities in the country, said the survey was an example of the deteriorating climate for the freedom of scientific practice in the United States."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00850-5
#USPol #US #Science #AntiScience #Nature

2025-03-19 21:59:29 UTC

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Yes, this happen a lot around the world, and it is cruel regardless of who does it.

2025-03-19 21:45:50 UTC

A couple of years back I wrote a blog post about linking my static blog posts to Mastodon threads so that the threads can serve as blog comments.
I realise I never pinned that post to my profile, and I have since deleted the Mastodon thread, so I'm sharing it again. I'm pinning it this time!
https://berglyd.net/blog/2023/03/mastodon-comments/
#Static #Blog #Hugo #Comments #Mastodon

2025-03-13 18:14:09 UTC

There's a beeping something something close to the coffee shop I'm at on this airport that sounds exactly like the one in the hatch in Lost. I'm ready to type 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 any time!
#Travel #TV #Lost

2025-03-04 15:17:52 UTC

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These people always mean "freedom of sanctioned speech".

2025-03-04 14:12:51 UTC

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I got my information from the news feed on Norwegian media, but here's an English source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-issues-permanent-ban-on-illegal-protests-as-students-threatened-with-arrest/ar-AA1AdR1x
He wrote: "All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested."

2025-03-04 14:01:08 UTC

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When watching SciFi series like Babylon 5 in the past I always thought it was a little unrealistic how obvious these fascists were.
Looking at the US today I realise that this isn't unrealistic at all. These people aren't subtle. They don't have to be, because enough people, who'd otherwise agree this was wrong if it happened elsewhere or at another time, will go to great lengths to convince themselves this is fine and it doesn't affect them.

2025-03-04 13:52:15 UTC

The Trump regime has already threatened legal actions against businesses w/DEIA policies. Now he's threatening universities that allow "illegal" protests, and threatening to imprison, expel or deport students.
This is another step towards the criminalisation of dissent, and full-on fascism. No doubt inspired by Putin. Whether it will get that far remains to be seen, but it's inching closer.
This reminds me of the same steps from the 90s SciFi series Babylon 5.
#UsPol #Fascism #Trump #Babylon5
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/104/406/534/911/200/original/2e2360f99494428f.mp4

2025-03-01 21:30:35 UTC

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The source didn't just post the screenshot. They also talked to the owner, which has been refusing service to Russians since the invasion. It has also been reported by Norwegian state media (which is my main news source). But I'll keep an eye out for more info.
Edit: It was in the feed before, but state news published a story just a few minutes ago, and also talked to the owner. https://www.nrk.no/urix/norsk-drivstoffselskap-nekter-a-selge-til-amerikanere-etter-trump-utskjelling-1.17322128

2025-03-01 21:16:57 UTC

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I don't have facebook, so can't say. I can only point to the source of the news story. Sometimes the news gets fooled too. 🤷‍♀️
If I see a retraction, I'll post the info here.

2025-03-01 20:50:55 UTC

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Even so, they're not the source of this information. It comes from Norwegian media.
Edit: Source https://www.kystens.no/nyheter/nekter-a-selge-drivstoff-til-amerikanerne-vi-har-et-moralsk-kompass/2-1-1786648
Edit again: That said, it's good to point out when someone shares links to fake/propaganda outlets.

2025-02-28 19:06:44 UTC

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Incidentally, one of the filtered posts were yours actually. 😁

2025-02-28 19:05:02 UTC

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I keep the filter visible so I can read if I want to, but there's so much of it that I don't want to read it continuously. But thanks!

2025-02-28 19:00:02 UTC

My filter is rather busy today. It only filters on three words. I also checked. Those are posts from different people.
#UsPol
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2025-02-26 15:46:41 UTC

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Why can't this asshat just board one of his space dildos and take off into space? Preferably bring the Space Nazi with him? They can go and establish a free market on Mars or something.

2025-02-24 22:46:00 UTC

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While I agree that FOSS has a bad UX problem in many apps, Microsoft has practically made bad UX a business model.

2025-02-18 10:27:38 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 18: Do you agree with Flannery O’Connor, who said, “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”?
Broadly, no. I tend to think things through thoroughly in advance. Although this mostly comes from the fact that most of my writing in the past has been opinion pieces and essays.
That said, the act of writing always triggers new ideas, so I approach writing as an iterative process with a sort of feedback loop, which may be similar to the same idea.

2025-02-14 18:03:14 UTC

Ok, but have you tried reversing the polarity?
#StarTrek

2025-01-28 11:21:31 UTC

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See also rule 34. 😅

2025-01-25 08:48:25 UTC

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Yeah, I don't quite know what to do about it. I'm paid up for quite a while still.

2025-01-23 07:53:58 UTC

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Great! But this is incorrect:
> Just in the last quarter of 2024
Your graphics says it's in the last year, Q3 to Q3. Neither is it the last quarter of 2024.

2025-01-22 21:51:26 UTC

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I've been doing the same. Even more so lately.
Although I've been skeptical of Proton, I've moved my calendar there. I was already only using GMail for junk, since I stopped using it around 2017. I got rid of their authenticator too.
I still need the account for some things since I have an Android phone. I make sure I'm not logged in to it in my browser though, and use YouTube (if I must) anonymously.
I've also gotten rid of all Amazon subscriptions, and don't use their webshop.

2025-01-12 11:10:33 UTC

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💜

2025-01-05 20:51:57 UTC

I'm not only slowly removing Google from my life, but also Amazon. It's hard to find a more despicable company to do business with.
I no longer buy anything from their regular store, but I do have a ton of audio books. I used up a bunch of credits (and bought some more) to buy out the remainder of my wish list, so now I'm done for good.
However, I do need a new audio book player for Android. Any good tips? There are so many really bad ones!
#Android #AudioBooks #Books #Help #Amazon #Audible

2025-01-05 16:10:40 UTC

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Context: yet again I edited posts to remove redundant "also"s. 😅

2025-01-05 16:09:48 UTC

Also, I tend to use the word "also" too much. 🤔

2024-12-31 14:02:07 UTC

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I've arrived at Wormhole X-Treme!, the 100th Stargate SG-1 episode. It's definitely a favourite among the sillier episodes. They do make fun of many of the goofs and plot issues of the series, like why you can phase shift to walk through walls, but don't fall through the floor. 🤔
Next up is Proving Ground, where they're training new people. I do feel like yelling "forget the gua'uld, she's a cylon!" when watching it though. 😄
(Grace Park is in it.)
#Stargate #SciFi #TV

2024-12-29 17:37:27 UTC

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I rewatched it not long ago when I bought the Blurays. It is definitely among the best SciFi shows of the 2010s, if not *the* best.

2024-12-25 18:21:54 UTC

Any of you open source people come across Latta AI? A tool that claims to want to help developers fix bugs in open source projects.
Someone suggested a patch generated by this tool for a feature request on my project. The patch is a poor implementation of the request (unusable), it breaks two existing features (i.e. adds two bugs), and leaves redundant code. Not exactly impressive.
I hope we're not gonna get a ton of AI bots making BS pull requests to repos now?
#Code #GitHub #AI #OpenSource

2024-12-24 07:54:58 UTC

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Stargate SG-1 does their version of Star Trek's "transporter accident" trope as well. The stargate is a sort of transporter sitting on a worm hole, and Teal'c does get stuck in the memory buffer in one episode.
They also do a couple of the "beam out" at the very last second to save the day, but for most of the series, they don't have access to that technology.
#Stargate #SciFi #StarTrek

2024-12-24 07:54:29 UTC

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As all shows, Stargate go through their SciFi tropes (I believe it is compulsory), and this is their time loop trope episode. A very good execution of the trope, and Richard Dean Anderson gets to be extra goofy in it. 😀
They also do some fairly decent parallel universe trope episodes, which is by far my least favourite trope. Star Trek does it waaay too much.
#Stargate #SciFi #StarTrek

2024-12-23 21:02:07 UTC

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Speaking of the Ancients. They do like to mess with time, and I love the episode where they activate one such device and get stuck in a time loop. Perfect chance to do things you wouldn't be allowed to do. Like play golf in the gate room!
Brad Wright, one of the creators of the series, wanted to find an excuse to play golf at the stargate, and this is the episode where they made it happen. 😁
#Stargate #SciFi #TV
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/704/148/349/621/606/original/8328d22173a65eb5.mp4

2024-12-22 17:39:32 UTC

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The Ancients are my favourite Stargate aliens. My least favourite is probably the replicators - to the extent they can be called 'aliens" that is ...

2024-12-22 17:03:46 UTC

I've reached the "candle light is fire" part of my Stargate rewatch. 🕯
Love this part of the story line 😊
#Stargate #SciFi #TV

2024-12-21 16:53:23 UTC

Happy Solstice! 🌞
For us in the north, days are getting longer again, thankfully. We're down to 6h 12m of daylight today where I live, and that's not nearly enough. 😴
For those in the south, tough luck. It's your turn now. 😄
#Solstice #WinterSolstice #SummerSolstice

2024-11-30 09:20:51 UTC

Someone told me yesterday of a minutes app for meetings they'd found. Knowing how these apps work, I checked the security policy. I got my fears confirmed. It collects data and share it with 8 third parties, including use for ads & analysis.
I showed her this, and said she should probably get consent from others when using the app. Today she told me she'd uninstalled it and thanked me for the warning!
We can't expect people to figure this out. We need better regulation.
#AI #Security #Privacy

2024-11-18 08:14:58 UTC

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"Å" is a very uncommon but valid last name in Norway. A former colleague had a friend with that. Boy, did that cause a lot of problems.

2024-11-13 13:25:42 UTC

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The depressing part is that climate policy is often very unpopular, and politicians are nothing if not morally flexible and inclined to short-term thinking.
Maybe real, experienced consequences will change this in the public opinion, but for now it seems too many think that the problem will mainly affect someone other than themselves.

2024-11-13 10:00:50 UTC

As expected, I've started to get requests for adding generative "AI" to my writing app. Here's my response to the latest request:
“I'm sure people will keep trying to generate low quality content with AI. But this project is for writers, and actual writers write their own material. AI relies on stolen work to generate a cheap imitation of the real thing. It will never be added.”
#Writing #WritingCommunity #AI

2024-11-12 23:18:58 UTC

Back when I first wrote text processing code in the 90s on my Amiga 1200, I always used the ¤ symbol as a placeholder character for splitting and replacing to exclude things I wanted skipped without affecting character count. It was available on the Norwegian keyboard, and practically never used in text.
Recently I discovered that Unicode has two "Not a character" symbols perfect for the same usage: \uFFFE and \uFFFF.
They can be really useful!
#Code #Python #TextProcessing #Unicode

2024-11-12 22:27:40 UTC

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In the sci-fi universe of my own writing, the US has already taken Greenland, so I was quite amused when he actually proposed it last time around.
Edit: The same novel draft talks about the Artemis moon missions before they were proposed too, but I was less happy about that because now it isn't a prediction any more.

2024-11-12 22:00:08 UTC

So, it turns out a certain US Felon Elect called the Prime Minister of Norway the other day. I guess they had a lot to talk about, because "drill, baby, drill" is basically a corner stone of our energy policy too ... 🙄
#Energy #Climate #Trump #Norway

2024-11-09 15:42:34 UTC

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That video reminds me of the current era in politics.
(Spain has a lot of experience dealing with that too.)

2024-11-07 08:36:18 UTC

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I absolutely believe he wants to do the things he said. I hope he will not be able to and be limited by the fact that his ideas are often detached from reality. I also hope the checks and balances will limit him, but now he knows how to deal with those. But people who think he will moderate himself for any other reasons than these, are plain delusional. We saw how he behaved last time.

2024-11-06 11:51:17 UTC

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I have to admit I'm really bad at paying attention to the following/follower lists.
I'm very on and off on here. I'm actually burned out with social media in general, but Mastodon is mostly OK.

2024-11-06 11:47:22 UTC

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I'm still here at least!
(I should probably do the same ...)

2024-11-06 08:37:47 UTC

Trump will eventually fade from relevance, and become the shitstain on the pages of history that he is, but I was hoping it would happen sooner rather than later.
#USPol

2024-10-30 23:46:26 UTC

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Is that a US thing? Mine looks just like always. I'm disappointed!

2024-10-20 08:36:00 UTC

I just love those outside-humanity observations and internal dialogue by the protagonist of @npub138f…hy5y's Murderbot Diaries, like: "She had full control of her neural tissue", and "41.32 minutes later ..." 😄
Currently reading "System Collapse".
#SciFi #Books #MurderbotDiaries

2024-10-17 15:54:23 UTC

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Not to mention the forced restarts. At work they push updates with a 2h restart countdown. It *always* disrupts work. Sometimes at critical times. I hate it so much!

2024-10-14 18:54:09 UTC

I haven't made progress on my novel in a month. I tried to write yesterday, but got distracted with my world building instead, so not a total loss.
I have the plot points of act one and two all mapped out, and a pretty good idea of act three. But right now I'm stuck trying to get the middle part of act one done. I have to introduce my world and my characters, and get the story to the point where the core story kicks in. I just can't bridge the gap!
I'm sure it will come to me.
#Writing #SciFi

2024-08-15 12:20:20 UTC

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Sometimes other things you post have AI-images in it, like news articles and other links.