The sliced eggs go alongside other toppings; none of the toppings requires a lot of cooking time, so the eggs won’t get overcooked.

This is a twist on a common local (Brazil) pizza flavour, pizza à portuguesa (lit. “pizza alla Portuguese”):

Except I’m subbing tomatoes for mushrooms.

Wow, this looks delicious - and I have all ingredients in my kitchen+front yard! I’m probably trying it this week, barbecued, as soon as I get a non-rainy day. Thank you for sharing this!

I checked the recipe, and it looks really good! A bit on the laborious side, but it could worse. (Worse as in “cleaning sardines from their scales and guts at home, so you can grill them, for five people”.)

From the questions you often ask here, it seems you really enjoy movies - I hope you two have fun!

Thanks!

Tuesday I’m going to bake myself a pizza. I’m planning olives, ham, bell peppers, boiled eggs, mushrooms, onion, basil for toppings.

It isn’t just for me (my mum asked pizza Saturday, but a bit too late for dinner), but I feel like treating myself. Ah, I’m almost certainly buying some wine to drink alongside it.

Agreed. It’s the best of both worlds: retro-inspired games can pick what the retro games did right, and still add modern improvements.

Quebecois French is 50% English. English itself is 99% French. This means Quebecois French is 50%+99%=149% French, making it more French than French itself. So it’s ULTRAFRENCH. It’s one of the main candidates for the mother of all languages, alongside Hebrew and Sanskrit.

I actually like cinnamon in some meats. Never tried it with pork, but why not?

And the sugar probably caramelises once you fry the bacon, so it’s probably not as sweet as it might look like.

The analogy is perfect IMO. And it goes deeper:

Typically when you’re missing some micronutrient you tend to eat more, since your body assumes you’ll eventually get enough of that micronutrient this way. But if you keep eating junk food all the time, no matter how much you eat, that nutrient won’t be there; so you end overweight and malnourished at the same time.

I believe the same applies to information. The “information” we need is actually multiple things: we need cathartic things, thought-provoking things, info on the state of people we care about, useful info that directly improves our lives, info about the dangers and opportunities out there… we need all those things, and a lot more.

However our brains won’t crave for all of them equally. For example, cathartic content - that makes you release strong, bottled up emotions - is as addictive as fat. It’s that cute cat pic that makes you “aww”, it’s someone getting wrecked for Schadenfreude, it’s the “main character of the day” to direct your hate towards. And, sure, you do need catharsis - much like you need fat - but you don’t need that much of it, and specially not as much as social media shoves down your throat, at the detriment of almost everything else.

Peer reviewed by my neighbour’s dog. She’d probably add “even if you see no threat, and even if you don’t give a fuck about humans, it’s better to bark anyway just to be safe”. Except in posh paper speech.

That’s good. The more Microsoft boycotts itself, the more people shift to Linux.

Using AI tools sometimes makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t. And by forcing the usage of a tool that won’t necessarily help, MS is only adding more meaningless busywork to its own development, like sand in an engine.

I hope so, too. Their current situation isn’t currently the best (a lot of them went away in the late 10s, simply because people were using them less); I’m kind of hoping to see a revival, but that’s at the mercy of the STF, so I can’t completely rule out that the situation will evolve exactly like in the UK. It’s “let’s wait and see”, you know?

I’m also wondering the impact of that on chatrooms, that used to be extremely popular here.

TimeSpeed? I use it. Unless I limit myself, it makes the issue worse - then I’m trying to get a clean farm day 1*, and rich in the first Wednesday (rain day, spent mostly fishing catfish).

*I do the same with the SNES version of Harvest Moon, since time doesn’t pass at night. I wonder why I always marry Karen in that game /s

When something similar happened in the UK, it was pretty much exclusively smaller/niche forums, run by volunteers and donations, that went offline.

[Warning, IANAL] I am really not sure if the experience is transposable for two reasons:

1. UK follows Saxon tribal law, while Brazil follows Roman civil law. I am not sure but I believe the former requires both sides to dig up precedents, and that puts a heavier burden on the smaller side of a legal litigation. While in the later, if you show “ackshyually in that older case the defendant was deemed guilty”, all the judge will say is “so? What is written is what matters; if the defendant violated the law or not.”.
2. The Americas in general are notorious for sloppy law enforcement. Specially Brazil. Doubly so when both parties are random nobodies.

So there’s still a huge room for smaller forums to survive, or even thrive. It all depends on how the STF enforces it. For example it might take into account that a team of volunteers has less liability because their ability to remove random junk from the internet is lower than some megacorpo from the middle of nowhere.

Additionally, it might be possible the legislative screeches at the judiciary, and releases some additional law that does practically the same as that article 19, except it doesn’t leave room for the judiciary to claim it’s unconstitutional. Because, like, as I said the judiciary is a bit too powerful, but the other powers still can fight back, specially the legislative.

For context:

There’s an older law called Marco Civil da Internet (roughly “internet civil framework”), from 2014. The Article 19 of that law boils down to “if a third party posts content that violates the law in an internet service, the service provider isn’t legally responsible, unless there’s a specific judicial order telling it to remove it.”

So. The new law gets rid of that article, claiming it’s unconstitutional. In effect, this means service providers (mostly social media) need to proactively remove illegal content, even without judicial order.

I kind of like the direction this is going, but it raises three concerns:

1. False positives becoming more common.
2. The burden will be considerably bigger for smaller platforms than bigger ones.
3. It gives the STF yet another tool for vendetta. The judiciary is already a bit too strong in comparison with the other two powers, and this decision only feeds the beast further.

On a lighter side, regardless of #2, I predict a lower impact in the Fediverse than in centralised social media.

I like how Stardew Valley has a calendar and seasons, but I don’t like how it keeps track of the year. It makes my inner min-maxer go like, “I need to complete the CC before year 1 ends!!!”, and I grind instead of enjoying the game. It also feels off to see the kids never growing up.

Yellowcake, sponge… lemon flavoured sponge cake?

Kent Overstreet, Bcachefs maintainer. There’s new drama going on between him and Torvalds.

We need a cosmological law dictating harmful to humans = boring-looking. I mean, it isn’t just plutonium, look at uranium yellowcake! It’s lemon flavouring!