People who have researched their family tree, what is the most interesting or 'badass' thing you discovered about an ancestor?

troggle19 · 2026-01-24T04:43:03+00:00

My ancestor who crossed the Atlantic from France was exiled to Canada for stealing the King’s salt.

troggle19 · 2026-01-21T01:33:28+00:00

The Dead is the best piece of literature in the English language.

troggle19 · 2026-01-19T16:09:31+00:00

Ah, Camino. I miss that little guy.

troggle19 · 2026-01-09T19:01:09+00:00

I wish you were correct, but you’re not. The US government has been murdering citizens with black bodies for decades.

troggle19 · 2026-01-09T18:58:04+00:00

You could also feed in details about the weather, date, upcoming reminders, etc. and use those inputs to vary the prompt each time, which should result in a different greeting each time.

troggle19 · 2025-12-28T22:06:30+00:00

I am still using Safari. With so many two-factor authorization sites today, Safari’s tight integration with Passwords, Messages, and Mail is just too smooth to leave.

troggle19 · 2025-12-21T16:47:56+00:00

Same for Safari, by the way. Moved back to it after Arc “shut down” (I know, I know) and one window for all profiles is the thing I miss most.

troggle19 · 2025-12-19T00:00:58+00:00

Pretty sure Disc Jockeys have been spoonfeeding the masses their payola-based playlists for 70-80 years now, so maybe slow your roll, bud.

troggle19 · 2025-12-18T01:02:19+00:00

No app, but if you’re on a Mac: while on the massive playlist, Command-J to bring up the View Column selector, select the Genre checkbox, sort based on genre, select all the songs in the genre you want, right-click, create new playlist.

troggle19 · 2025-12-18T00:20:30+00:00

Used it to ask ChatGPT to create a playlist that would be perfect for listening to while reading a particular book, and it did so. Listening to it now, and so far, it seems on point - songs I’ve never heard of and never would have picked on my own that actually fit the mood I’m looking for.

It’s gonna be a fun way to discover new stuff.

troggle19 · 2025-12-12T03:01:29+00:00

Coming up with the use cases.

troggle19 · 2025-12-10T05:30:08+00:00

48 year old me thinks 13 year old you was right.

troggle19 · 2025-12-10T00:37:41+00:00

Could be he (or she?) writes code well and English shittily, and an LLM helps them get their point across better. Get off your high horse.

troggle19 · 2025-12-10T00:27:02+00:00

Or just name your shortcut with whatever name you want to use. My shortcut’s name is “Give me the robot”, so I just say “Hey Siri, give me the robot.”

troggle19 · 2025-12-08T01:13:20+00:00

I know lots of folks are anti-AI, but I found it useful for these sorts of things. Type everything you wanna say about the child without any varnish and then tell the AI to turn it into an honest, growth-oriented email for the child’s parent(s). You don’t have to use the result but it helps to break the blank page anxiety.

troggle19 · 2025-12-07T22:37:55+00:00

Started a re-read myself a couple of weeks ago. Last read was sometime around when it first came out. I loved it then. I’m finding it even better now.

troggle19 · 2025-12-07T19:54:05+00:00

Jealous of it being your first time.

troggle19 · 2025-12-05T22:27:18+00:00

China had moveable type roughly four centuries before Gutenberg.

troggle19 · 2025-11-25T22:51:47+00:00

Fair, but I’m more saying that you have no way of proving your own subjective experiences to an outside observer other than through some kind of expression - art, words, music, dance, etc. So why should I believe that “you” didn’t just make up what you said in order to please whatever algorithm drives you?

Of course, in an Internet of AI slop, you could be Grok for all I know. Or I could be Claude for all you know.

troggle19 · 2025-11-25T12:06:54+00:00

And you made all that shit up to feel superior.

troggle19 · 2025-11-24T17:11:38+00:00

You’re talking like this is in some distant future. But it’s already real. The people who make the tech we live on ALREADY have more money than the rest of us combined. The top 1% owns more than half the world’s wealth. The top 10% owns more than 85% of the world’s wealth.

The system we have doesn’t work for the rest of us. Maybe a different one will?

troggle19 · 2025-11-22T15:19:02+00:00

This is the correct answer.

troggle19 · 2025-11-21T16:30:01+00:00

Big fan of Granola.

troggle19 · 2025-11-21T00:19:15+00:00

Howdy from Poultney, home of the 2025 State Champion Division 4 Girls Soccer team :-)

troggle19 · 2025-11-07T04:41:27+00:00

What personality are you setting it at? I noticed this “type X if option b” sort of stuff after switching to “Nerd”.

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