Thanks to the Cloudflare outage, Anthropic's Claude appears to be down. So, millions of software developers will have to use their own brains this morning.

My fedi server is behind Cloudflare, so right now, it's inaccessible from the outside. But, I can still get to it from the inside, so I wonder if this post will still go out, or if other fedi servers will reject it because they can't get talk to my server.

I was looking at how closely related I am to various famous people on FamilySearch.org, and discovered that I'm as closely related to Taylor Swift as I am to Michelle Obama. (10th cousin once removed)

Not sure what I should take from that.

I need recommendations for a very simple USB KVM switch. I just need to use it with keyboard and mouse: not monitors. Simple, easy-to-use, and inexpensive are my top priorities. So, recommendations?

Since a scrub is a guy "hanging out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, trying to holla at" women, then he's looking for a woman to holla back: a hollaback Girl.

So, if you say that you ain't no hollaback girl, that just means that you don't want no scrub.

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Although this map is silly and a joke, it's not exactly wrong, either. But it made me think, is there a pre-Columbian version of this map? Since these are both American plants, what would this look like before that?

Is it Olive Oil and Butter?

A map of Europe with a curved line dividing it roughly in half. The northern half, colored yellow, is labeled "Potato Europe". The southern half, colored red, is labeled Tomato Europe.
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A map of Europe with a curved line dividing it roughly in half. The northern half, colored yellow, is labeled "Potato Europe". The southern half, colored red, is labeled Tomato Europe.

Dan Jones shared a month ago
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Hymnal: This song should be played between 85 and 105 beats per minute.

Organist: Got it. 65 beats per minute.

Me (under my breath): I need to start attending a black church.

One of the benefits of remote work is that when I'm in a meeting, and I've got a song stuck in my head, I can mute myself and hum the song to myself without actually interrupting the meeting.

I wonder if the judges on The Voice ever want to choose neither contestant during the battle rounds.