Groaning at probably having to finally “up”grade to Liquid Glass because of the latest round of iOS security breaches, hanging out with my parents and wincing at the cartoonish look of the latest macOS on their screens, and…
…I’m just once again hit with my periodic nostalgia for the days when it was possible to pin the Dock to the upper corner instead of having it always centered (and thus having my pinned apps always appear in a predictable location).
These little things are so big when one lives with them every day.
Can Autism Spectrum be a superpower? Well, sometimes, I guess.
It's the same kind of superpower like having a chaingun in place of your hand. There are days you feel like you definitely ought to use it. And it sounds really cool in theory.
But it's not very useful if you need to open a jar. And I dare say that in my life, jar-opening situations are far more common than situations needing a chaingun. On top of that, most people don't really appreciate *you* having it, as if you had a choice.
#ActuallyAutistic
There’s not single shred of evidence, not an iota of a glimpse of a possibly of maybe LLM’s having any sort of even the remotest flicker of thinking.
Claiming that AGI will emerge from them is like saying a horse will spontaneously form if you just roll enough marbles down the hill.
Talking with a Latino colleague about something affecting something, he said “the affectation was…”
So I explained that the verb of “affect” is “effect” and “affectation” means something else.
I was merciful and didn’t explain that “affect” is also a noun meaning something completely different: “The suspect was described as having a flat affect”.
Nor that “effect” is also a verb, also different: “I effected the funds transfer”.
Poor guy already thinks English is insa…
bob dylan, having a totally normal one & posting excerpts from what purports to be a forthcoming science fiction novel to his instagram (though doesn't exactly say who wrote it or when it might be forthcoming). https://www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/
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The American right wing has forgiven Donald Trump for his affairs, impeachments, mass deportations and the platforming of JD Vance.
But having stuck with him through all that unpleasantness,
it seems that we may have discovered the one thing that is capable of splitting some Maga conservatives from Trump:
starting a war in the Middle East.
On Tuesday Joe Kent, the US counter-terrorism chief
who previously ran for office as an ultra-Maga, white nationalist-endors…
Singal snap pack having a fun time trying to render in #ubuntu
Today was talking about how bike share economics are wacky and we should make more infrastructure so just having your own bike is obviously better. Precise technical opinions of LED lighting. And the human experience of being ignored as a homeless person.
Wow, serious rite of passage: my younger son playing his first lp... On our turntable unused for a decade or two, with a just-replaced cartridge... These speakers are also getting their first airing despite me having had them for years (gifted by a mate as excess to requirements)...
So I’ve got a new gig of sorts. I’ll be a volunteer photographer for the city parks system. The task will be to take pics of folks participating in various programs in the parks and natural areas run by other volunteers, to try and capture that attendees are having fun, especially the kids. The difficulty level is that I’ve never liked photographing people. Go out of my way to keep them out of shots. I’ve done a couple events now, and still just feel intrusive. Hope it gets easier.
Having watched the first two episodes, the standouts IMO were Nus Braka (Paul Giamatti), SAM (Kerrice Brooks), Lura Thok (Gina Yashere), and Jett Reno (Tig Notaro).
I fear that, like #StarTrekDiscovery, #StarfleetAcademy’s strong, female captain may be its least interesting character. H…
”My argument is that the current structure of public conversation has the same effect on human cognition that a botnet has on a web server. It's simply exhausting you. And an exhausted mind defaults to heuristics and tribal allegiances, aka whatever position allows it to conserve the most cognitive energy.”
”What I do know is that the feeling of being overwhelmed, of never being able to keep up, of having strong opinions about everything and confident understanding of nothing, is n…
Veganism, a thread 🧵:
Having gone vegan, I genuinely struggle now to square vegetarians' love of animals with the realities of the dairy and egg industries. For context, I grew up vegetarian and went vegan about 5 years ago now, but I realized the inherent moral tension back in college (I just wanted to do some research to ensure I wasn't losing nutrition and stuff, more on that later).
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""From my home office, running Bluehood in passive mode (just listening, never connecting), I could detect:
* When delivery vehicles arrived, and whether it was the same driver each time
* The daily patterns of my neighbours based on their phones and wearables
* Which devices consistently appeared together (someone’s phone and smartwatch, for instance)
* The exact times certain people were home, at work, or elsewhere
None of this required any …
having an all stone fruit meal today
Just had a "why didn't I think of this sooner?"-moment. Having moved my mail away from Google, I sometimes missed having web access. I then remembered my free Nextcloud account at Tab Digital and ... there's an IMAP client. Added my work calendar as well, so I can quickly get an overview. I wish I could hook up my Filen storage to Nextcloud, as I already have documents there. It may be possible, but if it is, I haven't found where to do it yet.
I have a family of magpies that often visit while I'm having breakfast on the front porch. This one wants to see what the rest of the house is like. #magpie
What a waste. This is on the players. Dom needs to bury the PK. Konate cannot get the damn yips and shut down mentally (again). Non penalty xG was 2.16 to 0.33, Burnley having cleared two off the line.
Players need to finish, sure, but it’s the mental mistakes that cost 2 points.
Cruel sport, sometimes.
#LFC
You save the entire fucking Western world with your genius and the thanks you receive is getting murdered with poison for being gay and then having some kissless incels hand out a shitty dog bowl every year with your name engraved into it
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kcarruthers/115909070772049867
This should not surprise anyone. It is amazing this is still having to be debated.
So I finally (what, a decade behind popular trends??) am having reason to experiment with actual use of Docker in production, and…I’m surprised at how disappointing it is.
The configuration is clumsy, a dangerous mix of boilerplate and footgun customization points. The dockerfile / compose division of labor is nonsensical; it apparently grew by accretion instead of design. There are lots of loose ends left for hosting services to tie up, and the product thus fails in what would seem to be a primary goal of avoiding hosting vendor lock-in.
Am I simply Not Getting It Yet™, or is the state of the art actually like this?
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116093031199752230
Don’t get left behind in having your confidential emails sloppified
Now officially shopping for an organization, ideally in Canada but absolutely out of US jurisdiction (Europe OK), to provide Web & DNS support. We have a few mostly-dormant WordPress blogs and static sites, a bunch of identity-supporting DNS records, and that's about it. Nothing very high-traffic, should be an easy ask. Would prefer something that demonstrates resilience and stability by having been around a few years.
department of things that make me feel like i'm having a stroke: the long island railroad killed round-trip tickets. if i'm visiting family overnight, i now have to buy 2 1-way tickets that only work on day of purchase. #nyc
Apologising to the sick astronaut, but this made me laugh for about a half an hour #IYKYK
people on here are having the trolley conversation while claiming to be tied to opposite sides of the track and it feels bad.
Hope whoever wanted copies of that scrape Anna's Archive did of Spotify (reminder: Spotify began with pirated files, pays artists little to nothing, and funds military tech) has grabbed it already or is grabbing it now.
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-ord
The joys of working on an open source project that interfaces to obscure, sometimes obsolete hardware: regression testing is almost impossible.
Sure, we can catch regressions in the GUI easily. But if a big fix to a driver breaks things for a different scope supported by that driver, there's no way to test without having one of those scopes around to validate things against.
And there's way too many models of instrument out there for building any kind of CI cluster to be …
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@davx5app/116238712909292120
After having taken some time off, I'm back to working on open source software and messing with open protocols.
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@davx5app/116238712909292120
After having taken some time off, I'm back to working on open source software and messing with open protocols.
I have been trying for YEARS to have my printer print on Linux and it has always felt like a headache and I stopped before it worked.
Today, having no other choices, I plugged it in my #Fedora Silverblue 43. A pop-up asked me for my admin creds. I inserted it. VoilŠ. The printer works and I had nothing to do for it to work. That's amazing 😻 Whoever fixed this and automated this: you are…
Google warns EU against ‘erecting walls’ in tech sovereignty push - ft
#Google #KentWalker #bigtech
"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
#acting #coaching #inspiration
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/116088160061147066
I feel like we already knew this?
I’ve been whining publicly about the stupidity of having someone else handle your secrets since 1Password started requiring an account with their “servic…
This👇
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/116076016524108627
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io - So many people here are like, oh I wish I could move to (another country, that is also having a hard far right turn, and anti-immigrant horrors, just in a language they don’t speak)
It’s totally fine to feel you need to get away for safety and yes white cis Americans will likely face less of a threat in many places
However
I’m so irritated by the pretense that all of the current problems in the world are limited to US borders. We are going through a rough time of it.. but a lot of these problems are structurally global. ‘America is the worst’ is also a form of American exceptionalism.
Anyone else having trouble with the #morrisons More card app today? Mine has logged me out and having a hissy fit about letting me back in with error messages about rate limits 🤷 Whenever an app plays up I think about @… 's post about getting rid of apps. Aaach bu…
Is there a guide how to integrate #SIEM systems and #VideoSuvailance systems vor General alarming systems for having physical and Cyber #security in one Palace (if company is not that large ...…
"‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record"
"He was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, “not even a parking ticket”.
I'm having some performance issues with #phanpy For instance I can't write a new post because it never opens the page for it. Has anyone experienced this?
I'm using:
https://phanpy.blaede.family…
The problem with having a surveillance state is not that they will know everything about you. The problem is that they will assert that they know everything about you. And you’re screwed either way; no matter if they’re right or wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m
This song popped into my head today. I got it on 45 a zillion years ago from the back of Factsheet 5 if I am remembering correctly. I don't remembering it having quite that guitar solo though. Must be a new version? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyyNBet4VRk
You tell us that we have to use a piece of software weekly or it will be uninstalled and if we want to use it then install it...
Guess what? I automated a script to run every Monday to launch that piece of software just in case I don't use it that week.
Guess what again? I told every team member how to do it and provided the script.
Depending on my workload and tasks I might not use it for over a week and I WILL NOT PUT UP with having to install it again and have a fo…
Okay, this Kagi translation tool is pretty entertaining (and an absolute gem as a guerilla marketing tactic, by which I mean it be a fine way to plunder more business, me hearty!)
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=LinkedIn speak
Got a gov loveletter in response to my request for "#gender" and name change.
My new name is supposed to match my "#gender".
Since I'm having my "gender" removed, what would be a suitable name?
"NULL", nil, undefined, ... [object Object]? kek…
LineageOS: what breaks? Banking. I have a fairly robust risk appetite, but rooting a device to install a closed-source fork of Magisk that hides itself well enough that I can spoof Play Integrity so my bank's app will run is a few steps too far in the wrong direction. So choose what you prefer: access to your money, or some amount of control over your digital leash.
I see no way forward after September that doesn't involve having two phones: one that mostly lives at home for th…
The downside of having had therapy: previously I just thought I was annoying when I had wants and needs. Now I know they’re important, and the fact that people try to walk over them really *grinds my gears*!
Fun observation from a year of my UPS load graph; while it's very noisy, that big drop in November is when I reinstalled it with a newer OS version and rebuilt the whole installation; so it made a noticeable difference! I'm not sure of the actual power - this UPS only gives me a percentage and it's very rough anyway, So I suspect just a watt or two, maybe clearing out old cron's and having a newer kernel is worth it!
"A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct"
#Whales #Animals
[trying to sound ironic] QUIT HAVING FUN!!
This is a very reasonable suggestion:
~Everything on Apple TV( ) is underrated, but I really need to go to bat for PALM ROYALE because I want there to be a 3rd season so bad.
Think love child of White Lotus & Only Murders in the Building: Amazing actors with great chemistry having fun in delightful sets while solving mysteries. 11/10
Just a little one and a half hour walk nearby before it was supposed to be raining (and rugby starts).
It was a nice walk and good to be out. Strangely, my old GPS device refused to get a location despite having lots of satellites. Just 10min before coming back (after a couple of restarts and taking the batteries out and back in) it worked.
Fortunately, I only had it with me to test if my heart rate monitor also connects to it.
Homelabbing question: what is the danger of having your home IP address exposed as a DNS entry? Like does it attract more hackers attention that way?
How many people are exposing their services directly from the home network?
Reposts are welcome :)
Someone please explain this to me
We're having our hallway replastered and painted by a property maintenance company. It's taking weeks, with painters turning up to paint walls that haven't been stripped yet, or with the wrong equipment, and people showing up for a few hours before being told to do another half day the other side of Sheffield so they have to spend ages sitting in traffic for no apparent reason, or no-one turning up for a week halfway through a job.. The person running the business is absolutely o…
Re-Pinked
The podcast all about rediscovering identity after having a baby...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods
US passports are property of the US government and must be surrendered "upon demand."
Am I comfortable having my vote, indeed my very existence, depend on that?
No.
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Erikmitk/116231676980782171
Since I’m having a slight cold right now the day still feels like a Monday.
I wasn’t completely wrong!
Rượu vang đỏ. Anywhere in Vietnam this means red wine (đỏ meaning red).
We are here in farmers country, so I am having a watermelon homebrew at 11 am. Nothing is wasted. We call it rượu vang.😎
I am, luckily, at a career stage where I mostly only need two-page CVs and the list of publications of the last five years. After a long time, I needed a full CV and a complete list of publications.
My bibliography is up-to-date, but having switched to #Pandoc with #Typst as backend, I had litt…
I am, luckily, at a career stage where I mostly only need two-page CVs and the list of publications of the last five years. After a long time, I needed a full CV and a complete list of publications.
My bibliography is up-to-date, but having switched to #Pandoc with #Typst as backend, I had litt…
I am, luckily, at a career stage where I mostly only need two-page CVs and the list of publications of the last five years. After a long time, I needed a full CV and a complete list of publications.
My bibliography is up-to-date, but having switched to #Pandoc with #Typst as backend, I had litt…
BOFH excuse #345:
Having to manually track the satellite.
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social I’m still having problems with Graphene and Wi-Fi. It’s only with Graphene, not with other Android devices. Apparently, Graphene – and only Graphene – prefers a 2.4 GHz connection. And it switches from 5 GHz to 2.4 GHz shortly after logging in. Which none of the other Android devices do. This is a problem for me because, although the router maintains the connection on 2.4 GHz, it doesn’t connect to the internet at 2.4Ghz.
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social I’m still having problems with Graphene and Wi-Fi. It’s only with Graphene, not with other Android devices. Apparently, Graphene – and only Graphene – prefers a 2.4 GHz connection. And it switches from 5 GHz to 2.4 GHz shortly after logging in. Which none of the other Android devices do. This is a problem for me because, although the router maintains the connection on 2.4 GHz, it doesn’t connect to the internet at 2.4Ghz.
Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450 clients, including Circle (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/cryptio-series-b-fundraise-b…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115890020177162654
Imagine having one of those beautiful old houses, in what appears to be a very nice neighbourhood, and having the federal government ruin everything by sending in their goon brigade.
Why are we having fewer children?
(Interview with Berkay Ozcan, Professor at LSE)
- Couple formation happens at later age
- Women are choosing "careers" and not just "jobs"
- More people choose not to have kids at all
What else is going on? Short anser: we don't know yet
Even in countries providing a lot of support to parents, fertility rate has still declined
Immigration is no silver bullet. It's part of the solution, not th…
"Try to research a topic that hasn't been investigated before." Ok, google scholar, lets see what I can find. So my topic MIGHT have been done before, but it will cost be $56 to find out. WTF?! Journal articles are insane. I keep having to ask my wife (works @ an ivy) to get articles for me I can't get myself.
A so-called mini “baby boom” is unfolding across the upper echelons of the Trump administration.
Karoline Leavitt, Usha Vance, and Katie Miller are pregnant, each with due dates in late spring or summer.
Their pregnancies have been accompanied by a bit of culture war, too:
Fox News noted the “full boom” as evidence that the women are enthusiastic devotees of the administration’s pronatalist agenda.
In a December Instagram post announcing her pregnancy, Leavitt thanked…
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116076167774984883
A lot of people are dumping on this piece without having read it. My favorite quote: “dollar-signs appear in their [employers’] eyeballs, like cartoon bosses. I know that look. There’s no reasoning with the d…
Grumbling yet again at t-mobile 5G having a weird nonstandard MTU that breaks things unpredictably
This general category of question from @… is something I wonder about a lot. For many/most human beings, hearing good information and even •knowing• it to be true just doesn’t seem to outweigh having bad information in one’s face over and over.
I know there will a Mastodonian urge to reply with “well ••I•• never succumb to that” or “Here’s how I avoid that,” and…good for you, I guess? (Also, really?) But not the question. The question is how we communicate to people who •are• succumbing.
1/ https://soc.mod-12.com/@griotspeak/116076433717237685
"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
—Kurt Russell
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Having a laugh at the Bottlerock lineup. Whew, that's quite a mix 😂
Working on improving error reporting in ngscopeclient rather than having filters simply silently produce no output, or log to stdout, when something goes wrong.
Here's my current WIP: the block that has problems displays a warning icon and summary title up top, then you can mouse over it to see more detailed error information.
Thoughts? Anything I should change before I start working on adding this sort of feedback to more filter blocks?
Does anybody have a connection at Signal who could receive some urgent app design feedback? The app has several very specific problems / limitations / design quirks that are causing major headaches for neighbor groups trying to communicate here in Minneapolis.
(I’ll eventually try to write up some feedback through normal channels so it can go through the normal user feedback pipeline — but I’m sure any fixes that arrive that way will arrive far too late to be useful to us, so I’m not even bothering now. If there’s any chance of having some issues prioritized, I’d sure appreciate it.)
[ETA: I already tagged Mer__edith, but I’m sure she’s far too busy and her mentions are far too crowded for her to give this attention]
I’m not pleased to have gone from expecting an end in less than an hour to having a whole day more to live without lights or heat.
Currently having an extreme case of FOMO about not having a cassette Walkman
I know that I can fix this via eBay but also I really have enough old tech and also plenty of ways to enjoy music on the go
having a physical media day
You know you're having a fun time when you're using an oscilloscope to probe another oscilloscope.
This is far from the first time I've done this.
Like, I know, I •know• those little kids know all about what’s going on, I know they’re afraid, I’m sure some of them have family members who’ve already been taken and many more who are in danger…
…and here’s this teacher, this whole school community, who’ve somehow managed to make it so that they can still be having a day at school, still getting to just be kids for a little while.
K-12 educators are a frigging miracle. Community is a frigging miracle.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
