2025-11-22 17:33:33
Look what an old #macOS SDK in the “Command Line Tools" tree causes on Apple Silicon:
$ clang -o ghba geh.c
In file included from geh.c:14:
In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/stdlib.h:62:
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:784:2: error: Unsupported architecture
784 | <…
Crack along weld caused #NorthDakota Keystone oil pipeline spill in April, 2025
https://northdakotamonitor.com/briefs/crack-along-weld-caused…
Do I know any C programmers?
I’m fiddling with a 20yo *trivial* C program and my editor(!) is warning me about the twisted casts in the first line of this:
if ((int)(addr = (void *)inet_addr(argv[1])) == -1) {
errnum=errno;
strerror(errnum);
perror("ERRNO");
(void) printf("IP address must be of the form a.b.c.d\n");
exit (2);
}
I can no longer understand what I was thinking. Can anyo…
I have Unix “muscle memory” that is older than the millennium and remains valid on most of the machines I administer.
E.g. the old “net-tools” utilities (ifconfig, netstat, etc.)were supposedly replaced a couple of decades ago but they remain functional on most Unix-like platforms. Almost no one ever uses the iproute2 (i.e. ip, ss, etc.) tools. @…
What @… is quoting here is a testament to the waste and the cruelty and the uselessness of this regime.
It is also a testament to the effectiveness of ubiquitous, sustained, pervasive resistance. “What good does it do,” you ask, “to have crowds of random people just yelling and honking and filming?” The answer is that it makes these harassment campaigns unsustainable.
https://toad.social/@KimPerales/115583290500226180
Aerial view of west central #Minnesota. Thousands of lakes on this glaciated terrain.
Video of pyroclastic flow at Semeru volcano, Indonesia, Nov 19, 2025. #geology (h/t Drsadhbh on bsky)
https://youtu.be/T02pJdKARLo
Fucking amazing. Not surprising at all coming from such unfuckable losers, but still amazing.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115503363869254443
dear @… and @…👇 https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115510648656097685
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (among other programs) to be eliminated at University of Nebraska-Lincoln #UNL. A tragedy all around. #Geosciences #Geology
Blend of Finnish, Norse, and Native American accents.
And it’s not just Minnesota. It extends across northern Wisconsin and into the UP of Michigan and the northern half of the LP. @…
Vile. A landlord so horrible even Trump is prosecuting. @… https://bird.makeup/users/macfarlanenews/statuses/2001360643161813234
Aurora north of #Fargo last night, Nov 12 #northdakota
This is terrifying.
You could fit Solaris 8 into that. @… https://pleroma.pch.net/objects/5892a1e4-f070-4c5e-b6db-39566008802d
JFC. I always assumed that acquisition had just fizzled out. @… https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115736145336445402
LOL at the idea of someone paying money to Cisco for email software and/or appliances.
I don’t victim-blame, so all I can say is: do not do that and thanks for the giggle. @… https://
"Captured at Battle of the Bulge at 19, #Fargo WWII vet nears 101st birthday" - InForum #northdakota
No clue, as I’ve got no defined endpoint. Or direction. Or velocity. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115561098220894837
That’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…
New shape🚨! "Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ "| Scientific American (h/t Amanda Montañez on bsky)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-make…
Leon Panetta on New Yorker Radio Hour: asked to express his greatest worry explicitly given his broader and deeper knowledge of foreign affairs, he names the dysfunction of American Democracy.
That’s after having mentioned all the external crises we currently face overseas. He made the excellent point that our inability to handle our own business (e.g. immigration, health care, taxation) in a responsible way threatens our global credibility & security.
(He’s right)
🚨Job Alert!🚨Faculty Position in Low-Temperature #Geochemistry at University of New Mexico ⚒️ #geology
https://
How is this still happening?
We all knew that hard-coded credentials were BAD and WRONG 35ya.
#InfoSec https://infosec.exchange/@offseq/115528481041007501
Tons of #Garbage in 2025 music wrap. Also, Top 500 #Starcrawler? Was fortunate to see them together at First Ave #Minneapolis
They are a military force in a war that cannot be won.
Kinda a natural spot in the rankings… @… https://…
Research Experience for Undergrads (#REU) at Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences! ⚒️🧪
Geosciences, #planetary science, atmospheric sciences, #oceanography,
Somehow Detroit got safer without Federal intervention.
I’d bet that a part of that is all the immigrants we have. @… https://mastodon.hong…
Or one could use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice and not be dependent on some distant service provider.
Online office suites confuse me. It’s unclear what *modern* problem they address. Sharing files is a solved problem. Common data formats exist. https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/11
Happy New Year 🎊🎈! #HappyNewYear
Unclear to me why no one ever mentions Strongbox in #PasswordManager reviews. It is a perfectly fine PM for macOS/iOS/iPadOS that has a rich set of sync options, most of which don't involve any 2nd/3rd party storage. It stores its databases in KeePass2.x (kdbx v4) format, so it is data-compatible with the many variations of KeePass.
(I use it with SSH/SCP sync, so as long as I’m at…
Just heard a story on the Indiana Senate showing some spine in the face of violent threats, it occurs to me that if one had billions of dollars, one could probably buy a LOT of untraceable threats. There doesn’t need to be a mass populace making threats, just a paid staff.
Ammonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1
He’s castrated himself, hasn’t he?
Established correlation to longer life…. @… https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/1158…
BBC=Bari’s Blocked Content
I hope MacFarlane still has his job today… @… https://bird.makeup/users/dougfromdc/statuses/200888759131646783…
So, I still have not updated my iPhone to v26 because I hate everything I’ve seen about the “Liquid Glass” and Apple still had a v18 update last time around.
But I expect I will be forced to upgrade since Safari with Lockdown Mode on in v18 chokes on almost every page, redrawing a couple of times before giving up. I also see this in a couple of apps which are probably just thin wrappers around Safari WebViews. Turning off lockdown mode for the site ends the problem.
"Law enforcement, protesters clash as federal agents make arrests in St. Paul" | MPR News #Minnesota #ICE
xkcd: Geologic Core Sample
https://xkcd.com/3171/
The GOP conspiracists in Congress so desperately want to find a conspiracy against them that they asked Jack Smith a bunch of embarrassingly stupid questions. @…
They have a great “big” point here about incrementalism but also: fiber, water, and even minimal activity specifically are great first steps towards feeling better.
I suspect that a lot of us 1st-worlders feel lousy in part because we’re each paving our own way to T2D, colon cancer, and heart disease. @…
I guess that every generation of D&D players needs to learn the same lessons over and over again. Like preverbal hominids. @… https://mastodon.social/@Viss/115838792855…
This log entry always appears at the top of my cable modem's web view of the log. Every 36 hours, the timestamp changes. It's not new,. just the same line with a new timestamp.
It has been this way for years, I believe for the whole decade that I've had it, although its rock-solid regularity may have started with the last update (2019) or with some upstream behavior change. It is harmless (DHCP clients must tolerate unrecognized options).
And people wonder why I e…
Apple makes it unnecessarily hard to set up a new Mac with a case-sensitive filesystem. They COULD just make it a setup option. The boot partition is always CI, but to get the data partition switched they force a full reset, reactivate, and reinstall FROM THE NETWORK. 15.5GB of download just because I am finicky. Then the install. Hours, when it could have been a checkbox and a few seconds
#IWeep6Colors
Not arguing...
However, there's a long history of lazy coders doing evil in the other direction by emitting diagnostic output to stdout (a cardinal sin) or arbitrarily joining the streams (see the classic "Csh Programming Considered Harmful")
I really wish everyone coding anything would get the same sort of grounding in fundamentals like this that were part of every CS 101 course in 1990.
For the past week or so I’ve been following @… posts about the events at this years “Ashes” cricket series.
I am enjoying being quite mystified by the terminology. I know very little about the game beyond it being a distant relative of baseball with a much harder ball and wickets with little baubles on top instead of a strike zone judged by an umpire. I have concluded that …
Edmontosaurus #dinosaur fossil found in #NorthDakota to be researched at Winona State University, #Minnesota #FossilFriday
Entirely true.
However, it is important from a strategic standpoint to maintain the argument that today's GOP is an aberrant degenerate personality cult rather than a real political organization with a rational view of the world.
The GOP is a zombie political party disconnected from its past and reduced to a mechanism for blocking sound government which might impede one man's lust for power.
Makes me almost glad to have outlived all of my elderly family… https://federate.social/@mattblaze/115600998838282974
Looks like the Danakil Depression is trying to become a bay…
I’ve always wanted to live through a major geologic event. I missed the Zanclean Flood, the filling of the Black Sea, and the glacial outbreak of Lake Bonneville, but hopefully NatGeo or someone will get some cameras out to that Hell-on-Earth location. It could be really big…
(keep it to yourself if you just want to tell me it’s not happening. Do you think I don’t know?)
Tyrannosaurus rex and #mammoth fossil finds in #Northdakota announced! 🦖 #dinosaur #paleontology