I use Duplicati for my backups, and have backup retention set up like this:

Save one backup each day for the past week, then save one each week for the past month, then save one each month for the past year.

That way I have granual backups for anything recent, and the further back in the past you go the less frequent the backups are to save space

If you haven’t heard of the game Blood on the Clocktower, you should definitely check it out! It’s a bit more involved than the other games on your list, but it’s become my holy Grail of social deduction games

Also a big recommend for Manifold Garden for special thinking in a fractal space

https://www.newsweek.com/googles-ai-chatbot-tells-student-seeking-help-homework-please-die-1986471

Make sure to read the actual message, it’s a lot worse than the headline makes it sound lol (It’s also nice that you can look at the link of the full conversation to see how normal it was until the last message)

I would love a source for this to pull up in future discussions

Not xkcd in this case

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensive-and-precise-spec/

I also highly recommend the movie, one of my all time favorites (and not because of this scene)

Ooo and there's even a serious looking page "explaining" it as the first result when looking it up on Google

I'm definitely stealing this idea

Funny enough, that's a feature of GitHub copilot: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/github-copilot#_generate-git-commit-messages

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/write-your-git-commits-with-github-copilot/

You might be interested in https://inworld.ai/origins , a detective game where all the characters can be interviewed in natural language and respond with AI. They seem to be doing a pretty good job so far

I have no idea, but that would be pretty cool

The PDF multitool I've been using is Stirling-pdf, which has support for adding/removing passwords

Funny enough, I also learned about this tool from a previous edition of this newsletter haha

Gyoza/potstickers/dumplings

I will inhale plates of em and the time it takes to wrap em made me both appreciate the food more and appreciate the premade ones so much more

If it has to be Christmas

With such lines as

If it has to be Christmas for you to be nice

You're an asshole

If you think the season is the reason

You're a piece of shit

And calling people spineless if they can only make a change for the better if it's New Year's and hints that so much of the holiday just appearances

English is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though