Amelie
@amelierosalyn.com
Dev thingy and musical kid herder. I do techy stuff for 💰. Also available on other social places: same username. 🇫🇷/🇬🇧
Personal account. Views are my own.
Personal account. Views are my own.
I’m honestly fed up of seeing this every day.
February 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM
I’m honestly fed up of seeing this every day.
Well, at least I’m not imagining it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(I’m not in the town they’re focusing on, but mine’s definitely seen the same weather)
(I’m not in the town they’re focusing on, but mine’s definitely seen the same weather)
Most consecutive days of rain since 1908, Reading University says
The only Januarys wetter than this year's were in 1939, 1995 and 2014, meteorologists say.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Well, at least I’m not imagining it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(I’m not in the town they’re focusing on, but mine’s definitely seen the same weather)
(I’m not in the town they’re focusing on, but mine’s definitely seen the same weather)
One of the most impressive octochamps I remember seeing a few years back claimed his strategy was literally to memorise every 9 letter word and also to look for words beginning with “out” as they are commonly missed 6+ letter words.
January 25, 2026 at 7:16 AM
One of the most impressive octochamps I remember seeing a few years back claimed his strategy was literally to memorise every 9 letter word and also to look for words beginning with “out” as they are commonly missed 6+ letter words.
We're technically FTTC but because we're miles away from the both the cabinet and the exchange it doesn't really help much. Openreach came to redo the phone line last year and wondered why we were bothering. After confirming there were no plans for FTTP they moved the phone line for free, heh
January 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
We're technically FTTC but because we're miles away from the both the cabinet and the exchange it doesn't really help much. Openreach came to redo the phone line last year and wondered why we were bothering. After confirming there were no plans for FTTP they moved the phone line for free, heh
It's usually better than that (20ish mbps) but today it's sloooooooow for some reason
January 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
It's usually better than that (20ish mbps) but today it's sloooooooow for some reason
Also not a fan of my current internet speed being 720kbps. One day my area will be upgraded to fibre but that day is probably not happening anytime soon. Stuck with ADSL for the foreseeable future, it would seem
January 3, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Also not a fan of my current internet speed being 720kbps. One day my area will be upgraded to fibre but that day is probably not happening anytime soon. Stuck with ADSL for the foreseeable future, it would seem
I did it at 00:07.
Hmm. Well, it’s better than 2am. Kids helped so it was all done in like 20 minutes.
Anyway, happy new year everyone!
Hmm. Well, it’s better than 2am. Kids helped so it was all done in like 20 minutes.
Anyway, happy new year everyone!
January 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
I did it at 00:07.
Hmm. Well, it’s better than 2am. Kids helped so it was all done in like 20 minutes.
Anyway, happy new year everyone!
Hmm. Well, it’s better than 2am. Kids helped so it was all done in like 20 minutes.
Anyway, happy new year everyone!
Last year I decided to undecorate the house at 2am as well. Might skip that one this year.
Or do it at 00:01 this time.
Or do it at 00:01 this time.
December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Last year I decided to undecorate the house at 2am as well. Might skip that one this year.
Or do it at 00:01 this time.
Or do it at 00:01 this time.
One of those landed in the field behind my parents' house a few months back (for a neighbour friend of theirs, as it turned out). Once saw it land in front of me on the M4 as well. Interesting to see, but not one that's nice to see about since the reason it's there isn't normally very nice...
November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
One of those landed in the field behind my parents' house a few months back (for a neighbour friend of theirs, as it turned out). Once saw it land in front of me on the M4 as well. Interesting to see, but not one that's nice to see about since the reason it's there isn't normally very nice...
Yeah. That porch project? Nightmare. Can't be signed off because we forgot to file some paperwork before it started that we had no idea about. So now we've got the lender threatening some really scary stuff unless we basically start again.
October 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Yeah. That porch project? Nightmare. Can't be signed off because we forgot to file some paperwork before it started that we had no idea about. So now we've got the lender threatening some really scary stuff unless we basically start again.
So if you go off-script (which we do, because at the time we got this my kids had no idea what half the cards meant), then you'll never get a correct answer out if it.
October 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So if you go off-script (which we do, because at the time we got this my kids had no idea what half the cards meant), then you'll never get a correct answer out if it.
It completely changes the game. The game isn't now to guess what the picture is, it's to guess whether the AI will guess what it is.
Which it doesn't, because *if* you can get the thing to work, then it only has a fixed set of answers it picks from.
Which it doesn't, because *if* you can get the thing to work, then it only has a fixed set of answers it picks from.
October 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It completely changes the game. The game isn't now to guess what the picture is, it's to guess whether the AI will guess what it is.
Which it doesn't, because *if* you can get the thing to work, then it only has a fixed set of answers it picks from.
Which it doesn't, because *if* you can get the thing to work, then it only has a fixed set of answers it picks from.
That was fun for about 10 minutes. It's now in a cupboard somewhere and hasn't seen the light of day since.
October 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
That was fun for about 10 minutes. It's now in a cupboard somewhere and hasn't seen the light of day since.
Fun fact: I got given this one year.
It's as terrible as it sounds. You draw stuff and scan it into a website which doesn't work and it guesses what you drew and you win or lose or something depending on how close it got. We gave up on it and just drew dodgy stuff instead to get it to guess that.
It's as terrible as it sounds. You draw stuff and scan it into a website which doesn't work and it guesses what you drew and you win or lose or something depending on how close it got. We gave up on it and just drew dodgy stuff instead to get it to guess that.
October 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fun fact: I got given this one year.
It's as terrible as it sounds. You draw stuff and scan it into a website which doesn't work and it guesses what you drew and you win or lose or something depending on how close it got. We gave up on it and just drew dodgy stuff instead to get it to guess that.
It's as terrible as it sounds. You draw stuff and scan it into a website which doesn't work and it guesses what you drew and you win or lose or something depending on how close it got. We gave up on it and just drew dodgy stuff instead to get it to guess that.