All translation services use AI, and have done for decades. There's pretty much no other way to do it.

I do have a telly, but it's not hooked up to any aerial or anything; it's purely used for streaming or DVDs.

I haven't watched straight up broadcast TV in literally years. Maybe 2016?

All Discover is is a graphical front end to your repositories, so the real question is "is everything in my repositories safe?".

There are no guarantees in life, but if you're using only the default official Debian repos you're just about as safe as you can get. If you add extra repos, whether deb based or flatpak, Discover will only be as safe as whatever you've hooked it up to.

Currently getting perilously close to the end of Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer (the fourth and final book in his Southern Reach series).

I'm enjoying it, but it's a trip. Every 100 pages or so my wife will ask how the book's going, and I'll respond "er, it's gotten stranger...".

This seems insane to me. I see foxes at least every month.

I literally just had a pair yelling their terrifying night music outside my window.

They're common as fucking pigeons in towns and cities.

Yeah...it's autumn.

Presumably this isn't your first autumn.

There are lots of spiders because it's spider season. There are always loads of spiders in September and October.

And you're noticing all the foxes because this is their mating season, and they make a horrendous amount of noise when they're mating.

You'll be panicking about all the leaves on the trees dying and falling off, next.

Do the fish need to be in North Tyneside in order to be sexually attractive, or will any fish from the Tyne & Wear area do?

Would probably be pretty useful as a way for getting my son to eat it. He's a right chilliphobe.

I cook all sorts of spice-free spicy food for him; the grown-ups can always add chilli at the table to liven it up a bit.

Interestingly, Swindon is becoming a bit of a drone manufacturing hub. This is the fourth company to announce a Swindon factory in the last few months. The others being:

• Stark
• Munin Dynamics
• Flyby

This one (Tekever) is by far and away the largest of the four, though.

I didn't really have "Swindon becomes major arms manufacturing hub" on my Swindon bingo card, but there you go.

It's been a very hot summer, but it's back to more normal temperatures now.

Although it's still pretty warm, to be honest. I think today might be the first day it's failed to get above 18 C in the day.

Being a scrooge in a house which has all the thermal efficiency of a pile of wet cardboard, my thermostat is set at 18 (and occasionally creeping up to 19) anyway.

I'm just glad that things are finally cooling down to a more civilised temperature...

Having thoroughly learnt their lesson, Mercedes now partners with Geely Autos instead, under the Smart marque. Although I think at this point the flow of knowledge and R&D might be the other way around.