Names like Agatha and Edith and Florence are coming around again in kids, because they were popular around the 1920s and so the generation who had them are mostly now all dead.

Which means the names are once more free from expectations and ‘available’.

If you name a child something that had a huge burst in popularity only sixty or seventy years ago however, the holders of the name are generally still alive and almost all old, so it still has a strong connotation of being an “old-person name”

So yeah. Old names become new and fashionable again if you wait. But the trick is to wait long enough.

Non-technical people don’t have any idea what a LAN is, and can’t imagine any reason for WiFi to exist other than to get their device on the Internet.

So WiFi becomes a synonym for “Internet connection”, perfectly interchangeably.

“Suddenly” interests me the most. Not a condition or even a means, just a manner.

Like a catch-all for things they didn’t understand; heart attack, brain haemorrhage, things where someone’s fine one minute, and dead the next.

All i can say is, you have been a very lucky individual.

It’s clear what is required. There are no blockers to contribution. It’s immediately rewarding, and progress is rapid and measurable.

Just about the opposite of any other project you might be involved in

Different experience for everyone I suppose :)

I found the space controls and conservation of momentum to be such a fun aspect. I loved getting consistently good at it, and feeling like a competent rocket pilot when I nailed fancy manoeuvres.

Silksong on the other hand, I had to give up because it was way too hard for me!

Outer Wilds (not Worlds) is incredible, I doubt you’ll regret playing it.

Well, you might. Some people do bounce off; usually due to not knowing where to go next, or what to do next. But if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t want your hand holding and are okay to persevere a little, you’ll probably have a good time.

No other game for me has ever matched the feeling of exploration and discovery, and that is only possible because the game gives you a long leash.

Or how flashlights make a little circle of light in otherwise near-total darkness, as opposed to real flashlights which light up a pretty wide area.

1-2 years

I think it’s just New York

“Party-size” bread stick.

Is that a baguette?

Looks like a bash shell command to me

Pro tip: It’s easy to be clothed and on the couch at 6AM if that’s how you fell asleep

I’m glad to see people going public with these sorts of shenanigans.

The thing about maker communities is that makers generally appreciate the importance and ethics of “not stealing other people’s shit,” and putting companies on blast for it does in this community hurt their bottom line.

And when it hurts their bottom line, that drives action.

Elegoo wouldn’t release their firmware for the Centauri Carbon claiming it was proprietary, until someone proved it was just modified Klipper, and therefore in breach of Klipper’s license. And the community backlash was strong enough that Elegoo were compelled to release it.

So yeah, do the good work and keep making these companies accountable.

If the attachment is what makes it a screwdriver, then the attachment is also what makes it a drill.

An electric kitchen mixer is not a drill. At least, it wasn’t designed to be one. But I could weld a drill bit on there and turn it into something which can maybe drill - if terribly.

Similarly, the ‘device’ part of what we call an electric drill can’t drill anything, not until you put the drill bit in. It’s not a drill in its base form - just a handheld spinny thing waiting for a purpose.

But I could add a whisk and turn it into a kitchen mixer…

We generally call the body part of a drill ‘a drill’ because that’s what it was designed to be. It’s got speed settings and torque control and hammer function and all the things that were engineered to make it good at drilling. But it’s not a drill without the bit - both practically and philosophically - and what community is more philosophical than showerthoughts.

The PS5 version of GTA6 is going to sell pretty well then

For sure yeah.

I still end up having to use ffmpeg directly (in combination with other CLI tools) because there’s always something the GUIs haven’t caught up with yet. Most recently for me it was converting animated webp’s into something I could actually work with

I find it wild there are countless “convert videos online for free!” sites on the Internet full of bonus malware which are all just thin wrappers around ffmpeg. And yet they persist because people want googleable answers to their problem which don’t need a command line or downloading anything.

Personally I’ve got a Python script which provides a slightly friendlier wrapper around ffmpeg for my common use-cases.

But honestly ffmpeg is such a beast, so much of what we use daily depends on it under the hood.

I think the comic is creating a false dichotomy (as comics often do) because in reality people will often be a little bit of both.

I’ve got assorted mugs and glasses acquired over decades, and my favourites are among them.

I’ve also got some matching wine glasses and matching tea cups, because sometimes it’s just nice when everyone is equal and gets the same.

I miss the world of three years ago where this image would silently tell a mildly amusing story of corporate error, rather than being dismissed as AI slop.

And you could imagine the chain of events. Marketing manager is like “Hey, I like it but can we get his arm around her?” and the artist goes off and does the change but forgets the other hand. Marketing manager loves it, nobody notices, poster gets printed, poster gets put up, and still nobody spots a thing until the public do.

Of course, it’s still corporate error even if it’s AI. Someone should have spotted it and didn’t. Heck, there’s a chance even in 2026 this was good-old-fashioned human error all the way down, with no AI involved at all. But it doesn’t hit the same as it used to because AI has ruined our default assumptions.