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I am trying to print a spool winder at the moment. To be honest I do this for the last days already.
(Hope I did the simple present and present progressive right on this one, so my english teacher can be proud. ;-))
Various printing failures are driving me crazy. I just want a tool to transfer the wood filament from the large spool to a small one. It can't be that difficult.
So todays hashtag is

I wonder if I have now mowed the lawn for the last time in 2025. (I hope so.)

My usual sentiment for this US holiday: If you're observing it in some way, I hope it's a good day with family, or a friendsgiving if family isn't an option.
If you aren't, have a good Thursday. Ignore the doom for a day. Don't worry, it'll still be there tomorrow.
As for me, I'm going to the parent's where I will be avoiding most of the food (many thyroid surge triggers so I gotta be careful) and upgrading Dad's 8yr old Acer lappy with an SS…

So Intel have added a so-called On-Die Certifying Authority (ODCA) with ME gen 3 version 15 based platforms.
That is also explained in the recent CSME whitepaper.
I figured that the FTPR CPD manifest contains a new extension now for certificate revocation, including a URL to CRL data.
That extension's data itself is encoded as ASN.1 DER, so I need yet another parser. Uh-oh... which one should I choose, does anyone have recent experiences to share? 🙃
I am checking t…

Let's hope this helps Robert Roberson's case. I don't understand why Texas is trying so hard to kill him. It's okay to admit that the state made a mistake.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/202

Robert Roberson asks court to consider NJ landmark shaken baby ruling
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Thursday that a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis, also known as abusive head trauma, is not generally accepted within the “...

Tweety Amin
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: I hope you'll lol, not take legal action.
#satire #potus45

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

"I’m Naomi Alderman, I co-created Zombies, Run! with Six to Start and I’ve been lead writer since the first episode. I am incredibly delighted to be taking ownership of the game. This isn’t a big corporate takeover, it’s me buying back the game I made and love so I can look after it. Every Runner Five means so much to me, and I want to make sure the game continues to be a welcoming home for all of you for… well, I hope, forever. Forever is the plan."

Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
SERVALAN: I hope so, Egrorian. I've waited a long time for this.
EGRORIAN: His death is a mathematical certainty. The product of a simple equation.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/202 B7B6

Arriving at Act I, The Alters is quite engaging. It's a video game, in case you are reaching for your favourite search engine. So far, the sci-fi aspect has that structured feeling of the Eastern European/Soviet branch of the genre, mixed up with the post-Soviet era shift of values and cultural trends -- still kind of bland, but looking at the Western guilty thrill of the dystopian. It's a damn good, well-made game. I hope it holds up in that way until the end.

Teenager has just suggested some of the programs, which I was under the impression were via the browser, may need to be on desktop.
This might mean Wine I guess?
And probably some kind of microsoft office install? I was hoping to get away with libreoffice..
Anybody have any experience with wine?
I will in any case have to contact the IT support at the school I think. I hope I am not the only parent doing so with the #EndOf10 .
Meanwhile, over on the laptop, the Linux Mint is installed (in danish even) and seems to be restarting without the USB
holding breath here...
🤞
13/n

Anyone out there able to help Nadeen out at the last minute so she can pay her (and her sister’s) tuition to continue their studies? You would be gifting the world two new dentists for the low price of $2,000.
The last day for them to register is tomorrow.
Please share donate if you can.
💕
#academia

Good Morning #Canada
No nonsense news or fun facts this morning. I'm taking a few days off due to a busy schedule and a compressed family gathering. My oldest daughter has scheduled radiation treatments this morning and early on Boxing Day, so we're having a Christmas Eve dinner and exchanging gifts early tomorrow. I might post if something snark-worthy pops up but otherwise look for the next Good Morning post on the 26th.
I hope all Canadians have a safe and happy holidays.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MerryChristmas

Me: Oh no, I forgot to eat my cheesecake. I hope it is still good!
The Ever So Humble Mold Spore:

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when we could have avoided incredible harm to incredible numbers of people here in the US simply by giving the absolute stink eye to people spouting deranged fascist crap, by saying “ugh, wtf, get out of here” instead of finding ways to describe fascism politely enough to give it equal time in the news.
I don’t know what’s coming. I hope for the best; I fear the worst. But shunning and shaming sound so, so, so much better than even the best-case scenarios that follow from here.

@…
For mains power, I can never remember which icon means On, which icon means Off, because both icons are O-shaped.
Does the O with a line in it represent On?
I hope so, because your plumbing observation seems relevant.
Please tell me that my decades of confusion have come to an end.

I used the new Iphone feature to load my US passport into the wallet.
It worked. But I discovered that my passport was about to expire.
So I discovered that I can renew the passport (and card) online - so I sent for it.
It is rather picky about photographs, but after taking about 30 shots I got one that it would take.
So, in a mere month and $160 expended I'll get my new US passport. I hope.

a feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)

Hope that moderation lists make it over from Bluesky as a feature on here.
E.g. I'd love to share onr of alt-right people and their collaborators in the Ruby community so it's easy to mute or block them.

Last photos from that day in the #schwarzwald . We were pretty surprised when we came to the part shown in the last photo. The #moss was so thick there - like a real carpet! I've never seen such before. I found it pretty hard to get a photo that pays the situation justice. I hope it works for …

@… just FYI this kind of thoughtful thread on anarchism is exactly the kind of thing people would miss if you weren't on here. Please feel free to tell me to shut up and go away if my engagement is unwanted or feels like a burden, but I hope you're in a better headspace now than earlier. You're valuable and worthy as a person regardless of what you post here, but this is something I can point to concretely and say "I appreciate that" so that the beginning of this long sentence isn't just a platitude. ^.^;

I went on a little bike ride after lunch at work today to check out the missing bridge from the flood back in August and got approached by a woman who wanted to ask me some questions...
Local TV reporter, had a camera operator with her, so I put on a lav and talked about the (missing) bridge for a few minutes...
I stood with my bike and had my helmet on during the interview and talked about biking to work so I hope I leveled up on my bike advocacy journey.

Thank you all for 3,000 followers on here! Here’s a photo of Danny to celebrate the occasion ☺️
3 years into being part of Mastodon, I continue to be impressed with how wonderful the people here are and how much this social network actually FEELS social. People replying to one another, having conversations, learning things, sharing moments of joy, making friends.
Mastodon brought my business clients, helped me gain confidence in my own voice, freed me from dependence on big tech and algorithms, rekindled my interests, introduced me to incredible people and projects, and served as a source of hope in humanity in the times when cynicism and nihilism felt all but inevitable.
I love our little corner of the internet, and am so glad that it’s still here despite everyone who professed it was doomed to fade into irrelevance.
Thank you to everyone reading these words for being here on the Fedi. The world is a little better thanks to your choice to support an independent web.

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

:heart_trans: Margaret Cho Tells JK Rowling to ‘Shut Up’ in Viral Video! :heart_trans:
#LGBTQIA #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights

My daughter sent this to me, and she doesn't know where it originated, so I can't credit the creator. I hope that it's not scripted because it's incredibly funny.
#FinalWishes #Legacy

TIL that the original Mozilla dinosaur logo was designed by Shepard Fairey, later of Obama "HOPE" poster fame
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/the-original-mozilla-dinosaur-logo-artwork/

As usual, my sentiment for people at this time of year: Merry WTFever you celebrate. If you can do so with family, awesome. If not for whatever reason, I hope you have a date, or friends to chill with. If you don't bother with the holidays/people, have a decent day. Don't forget to find yourself a little bit of peace and/or joy. #Xmas

Hello there! Sorry I’ve been dumping annoying news things the last while here instead of chit chatting.
I really like it here and enjoy it, perhaps, most of any online text box.
But, regrettably, circumstances have conspired to require me to make a living. This takes up an inordinate amount of time. So, the best I have been able to manage is to drop newsy bits or Gist links.
I hope, like all of my vintage, that next month will quieten down a bit.

From @…’s excellent microfictions horror advent calendar 7th Dec…

I'm sure that VMS is completely documented, I just haven't found the
right manual yet. I've been working my way through the manuals in the document
library and I'm half way through the second cabinet, (3 shelves to go), so I
should find what I'm looking for by mid May. I hope I can remember what it
was by the time I find it.
I had this idea for a new horror film, "VMS Manuals from Hell" or maybe
"The Paper Chase : IBM vs. DEC". It's based on Hitchcock's "The Birds", except
that it's centered around a programmer who is attacked by a swarm of binder
pages with an index number and the single line "This page intentionally left
blank."
-- Alex Crain

This new #OCR feature in #KDE is fantastic! 🎉 Sadly it's only for Spectacle for now but having OCR as a library is on the road map and I hope it gets added to Gwenview next. The built-in OCR in macOS Preview is so useful that I wondered why KDE still doesn't have it natively yet.

Still feeling a little depressed and down about the #bluejays loss.
I think the worst part is they had so many chances to win it. They came so close so many times in so many different ways.
But this will all fade eventually. They are a wonderful team full of excellent players. I hope they can keep the core together and improve next year. Maybe we will have another shot.
#worldseries

I'm expecting tonight's https://dsasf.org general meeting to have a bunch of new people inspired by Zohran's win, so I hope we're not gonna do anything weird, like have a big singalong. Now let me take a big swig of coffee and check the agenda—

I hope I can get some clemency from Facebook for this deadline

Hmm, starting to play with ESP-32; I've got the rust toolchain going; my first attempt at flashing I think worked, but it was with a bare image that didn't do much; my 2nd attempt ahem...it doesn't enumerate on USB any more, and wiring up the GPIO 0 doesn't seem to help. I can see on power on that the real-serial outputs an ID string, so time to wire that up and hope the tools can unfuck it.

@… Ok, so I went off on a tangent for no reason. I hope it really was vaguely interesting and you were not just being polite. 😜
Yes, in summary you confused GNU tar and since it cannot make zip files, it did it's best fallback (just made an uncompressed tar). Then in turn the .zip extension confused Windows.
So it was, your fault! Sor…

Bully talking to bully...
I hope that it will help the people in Gaza and West Bank...
Trump to Netanyahu on Gaza talks: "You're always so f***ing negative"
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/05/trump-netanyahu-call-gaza-peace-deal-hamas

I hope that people noticed that ol' J. Kushner was in the background of many of today's photos of JD Dunce in Israel and Gaza.
Kushner has not hidden that he wants Gaza bulldozed so he can replace the Palestinian people with tacky beach hotels.

It's been a fun project but finally time to shutdown lanecloud.
https://blog.lane-fu.com/posts/2025/11/rip-lanecloud/

My profession (software design, programming) makes me so sad currently.
A speedrun to rock bottom chasing non-existing sand sentience with ever more abstruse magical thinking while whole swaths of my peers are masturbating to fascism in hopes of striking it rich.
I hope after the bubble pops and the boomers are gone there will be a reckoning and a reset to making software that actually strives to make human lives better.

Have just been playing with Meta's Hyperscape on the Quest 3 - and have been totally blown away. Quick and Easy to capture a room, 8 hours to process (it is preview so hope that comes down), but WOW!
The first 5-10 seconds I was waiting for it to show the virtual room then realised it already had! The detail it captured was amazing and there were times I forgot I was in a virtual environment!
Its not often that I get totally really impressed but this is really well done!…

Hey everyone,
Nadeen and her sister need your help to continue their education in Gaza.
They need to raise ~$2,500.
Would any of you consider taking up this cause and helping them to fundraise? Or sponsor their education?
Please share thank you 💕
#Gaza #education

From my perspective ->
1. So much construction. It is almost impossible to go anywhere without lane closures.
2. Buses are less than reliable and the last update nuked one route I took and it leaves me one and only one route to the transfer point near work.
3. LRT construction. Going to work isn't too bad, getting home I have to travel AWAY from home, transfer and hope the bus going home arrives. Alternative is to take three buses and that is double the time than …

So Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" is what they would call a "visual feast". Lavish production barely does it justice. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and it is as poignant as one would hope. Well worth it!
The only thing that grated on me was the weirdly unnatural composited lighting. I've seen this in other films and it bums me out. Gives me the same vibes as AI generated Art… Makes me wonder why it was decided to go that route, rather than lighting things pra…

This John Catsimatidis guy can just F right off. If he cared so much about the birds he could have sent trucks to have them taken away... of course.. good luck with US Border agents letting birds in that have been exposed to Avian Flu and have an active CFIA cull order on them.
I feel bad for the people who feel so connected to the birds themselves. Some people simply won't understand and I feel sympathy for them. But the owners of the ranch have always known better and they have used this to raise money and increase their profile.
And now we get the crocodile tears as the adults have finally taken over.
I hope this is the last we ever hear about Universal Ostrich.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-ostrich-farm-decision-scoc-9.6968394

Today the builder painted most of the walls. Not the whiteboard-wall yet. Least not with the overcoat.
Painted the radiator-pipes. Radiator itself was removed and put back on.
When he left I went for a shower and found the water cold. Boiler saying error and pressure gauge too low, so I turn the tap to re-pressurize the loop. Probably just coz the radiator was removed I guess. Boiler boots up. Had a quick shower.
But alas, now I find the radiator is splaying a fine jet of water from it's bleed valve 😬
Intercepted that jet with a towel into a bucket, where most of the water has ended up. Dripping a bit still. Hope spraying the drying paint with water isn't too damaging.
Hopefully he can fix that up somewhat tomorrow.
Meanwhile the pine has arrived. 15 square meters of it. Good chunk of the cost getting all that wood.

I did not in a million years expect another Animal Crossing update. I hope this isn’t the last. There is so much they could add to this game.

I'm reading "Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren and it's both fascinating and beautifully written. Usually I wait until I'm done to post a review, but I wanted to share this excellent excerpt as a teaser:
"So how to combine a liter of fluid with active agents, customized according to the patient's weight and status, while keeping everything sterile? If this is for the ER or the ICU, we have about ten minutes to make it happen. Fortunately for the patient, there is a sleep-starved teenager apprenticed to a chain-smoking barmaid in the basement who is ready for action."
#AmReading #ReadingNow

All you AI boosters, you're encouraging creating something we cannot understand or control, using law breaking and slave labor, and destroying the planet... So that we can generate more convincing propaganda and lies than ever before in human history.
I hope you're proud of yourself.
https://youtu.be/90C3XVjUMqE

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

Gosh, Nancy Pelosi is retiring so young! I hope she's saved up enough money for retirement.
#USPOL

"This is a new reality that we are dreaming and weaving together."
This is either the last or second to last section of Kairos I'm writing. This is the most specific so far. After that it's editing and making it feel more like a single consistent text than a bunch of essays. I hope it's worth the read.
Feedback is always welcome, especially editing (typos, grammar, etc), and questions.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-creating-a-viable-system-91h5

A quick Gaza Verified update:
I’m currently traveling so I won’t be online all the time in the next week.
I’m also working on a new automated verification call scheduling system that I hope we can start using next week. It will automate everything but the actual video calls themselves and add some more checks to our verification process. It also removes Signal from our process, replacing it with an embedded Jitsi video call component.
These developments are based on our exp…

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
SOOLIN: Oh yes, it was a crime all right. It just wasn't illegal.
VILA: That's what I meant.
SOOLIN: I hope so.
TARRANT: Planet must have been a draw for every crook and killer in the quadrant.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/115 B7B2

A US Federal person would be sanctioned for the costs and perhaps prosecuted if he were to check out a motor-pool car and then proceed to give it to a junkyard to be dismantled.
So why is the US not being sanctioned for the cost of converting US Federal property - the East Wing - to his personal use and sending it to the wrecker?
I do hope that if we ever get past the maga era that our government goes after to ill doers to recoup at least part of the vast damage that they have do…

After the first door of the #Svelte #Advent calendar I expected every svelte team member to run while explaining a feature, so now on day two I am already a little bit disappointed. ;)
Maybe I need to hope for @dummdidumm.bsky.social to see another running video?

In the spirit of #FOSDEM2026 being sponsored by Google, I hope HackerTrain is brought to you by Ryanair.
#google #surveillanceCapitalism

After the first door of the #Svelte #Advent calendar I expected every svelte team member to run while explaining a feature, so now on day two I am already a little bit disappointed. ;)
Maybe I need to hope for @dummdidumm.bsky.social to see another running video?