Tootfinder

Now at #tdose in Katoen kamer, Tessel Renzenbrink from @… presenting an "Ask Us Anything" talk on getting really easy funding for your project.
@…

from my link log —
How to sync anything.
https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04/06/how-to-sync-anything
saved 2025-04-06

"The old-school traditional software engineering approach featured managers trying to get more productivity (measured in function points per day) from their over-stretched workforce. The new-school, post-Agile approach features managers trying to get more productivity from their over-stretched workforce, but now we measure in story points per day so that is progress, right?"

On The Absence Of Management
It is going to be hard to write anything about management for this month's issue, because the entire field is moribund. There has been no innovation in management for decades, supposed sea changes in thought have either failed to take hold or failed to deliver anything new, and we are all still mired in the industrialist, piecework thinking of Taylor's scientific management and workplace surveillance.

FWIW, I’ve yet to see any indication that the use of LLMs (pseudo-AI) has improved the quality of phishing as measured by how much gets past technical defenses.
LLMs are a great leveler. They produce median texts to fit their prompts. They cannot produce anything that requires creativity. They cannot produce high-quality fakes because they cannot produce high-quality anything. They are a play on the fact that 50% of people are at or below median cognitive capacity.

The first rule in Trump's Washington: Don't write anything down (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/29/first-rule-trumps-washington-dont-write-anything-down/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p19#a250629p19

Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
3/

anything that you "better figure out now to be ahead of everyone else" is something that will eventually collapse in on itself once everyone does figure it out.

Refactored file load/save logic in ngscopeclient to use a type safe ID table design instead of just blindly casting void*s around. Long overdue.
This should have no end user visible impact but if anything broke please let me know.

I don't need anything Teenage Engineering makes, but they're so beautiful that I WANT em

esolangs.org does not have anything called #gravy yet. I'm thinking the Gravy language should be a notation you can "pour on top" of some program in any other language, to make the program better. Sort of like literate programming, but more of a diner aesthetic

#MutualAid: https://mstdn.social/@catgirlfingies/114778730186175866

NIMBY war mir bekannt, aber
BANANA (an acronym for "build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything -or anyone") und CAVE people (citizens against virtually everything) kannte ich noch nicht.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY#BANANA_and_CAVE

NIMBY - Wikipedia

180gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

For any observant souls who spotted my #MicroPrompt before an edit, yes, I originally had a typo, sorry for any confusion! If Timeome as a word makes you think of anything I will also totally take that as a prompt word! Or you can just write inspired by typos in general! !

@…
The forScore website’s been down all day. Attempting to connect to
https://forscore.co or anything in it produces
"
Error establishing a database conn…

My mantra for today is that I’m not going to do anything that I don’t want to. We should get at least one day a week where we can live like that, right?

Fun post: Dave Farquhar, History of #overclocking
#Celeron:
> In 1998, Intel released the Celeron to compete with cheap CPUs from AMD and Cyrix. To make it, they took all of the Level 2 cache off a Pentium II, clocked it at 266 or 300 MHz, and sold it at an AMD-like price. But due to the lack of L2 cache, it was slower than a previous-generation Pentium running at 233 MHz, let alone an AMD or Cyrix chip running at 266 or 300 MHz.
>
> But the L2 cache was the Pentium II’s limiting factor in overclocking. So a 266 MHz Celeron ran happily at 400 MHz, or potentially even 450 MHz, the same speed as the fastest Pentium II at the time. It was slower than a Pentium II at the same speed, but it worked well for 3D gaming.
>
> But the only people who bought those Celerons were overclockers and people who didn’t know anything about computers. […]

Finished 1923 this week. Doesn't have the elŠn of Yellowstone/1883, esp when it comes to dialogue, but was a very solid ride nonetheless. My favorite thing is how they brought the era to life.
You don't have to have watched anything else to get it, but the other stories fill in context.
That said, I'd start with 1883, to this, to Yellowstone if I was new to it.
#film

1923
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

Sometimes I just google random ass programming questions just in case I get an answer that I could use at some point for who knows what even if I'm not really doing anything remotely related because I'm very normal

i hate that i even gotta say this but just so it's on record, anything you see me post online — blog or otherwise — is 100% my own voice! (and yes, those were em dashes, dangit!)
merely mimicking journalistic cadence is enough to get you accused of assisted writing now 😭 i do not like this timeline

Things you know are quite probably a lie
1. The cheque is in the mail
2. Truth to be told
3. Swear on a stack of bibles
4. I'll respect you in the morning
And the last one...
Anything DJT says will happen in two weeks.
There are probably others, but for me the top five.

Working with spreadsheets can be overwhelming. Introducing Grist's Focus Mode, a new way of working with spreadsheets that lets you make the most of your data: one cell at a time.

Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
3/

#LLM tech is about to kill anything where people are able to contribute:
The Future of #Comments is Lies, I Guess
https://

My kingdom for a datasheet where all of the coordinates in the mechanical drawings are referenced to a single datum. I don't care if it's the center or a corner or what.
Anything but... this.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City: completed!
It turns out that pootling around finishing up side missions was actually the right thing to do. I started by finishing up the taxi and ice cream van missions, unlocking the regular payments from them, then I headed for the golf club to see if there was anything more to do there. It turns out that there wasn't, but I jumped in a boat and found myself on Prawn Island where there was a film studio in need of some tender care.

ZeroSep: Separate Anything in Audio with Zero Training
Chao Huang, Yuesheng Ma, Junxuan Huang, Susan Liang, Yunlong Tang, Jing Bi, Wenqiang Liu, Nima Mesgarani, Chenliang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23625

ZeroSep: Separate Anything in Audio with Zero Training
Audio source separation is fundamental for machines to understand complex acoustic environments and underpins numerous audio applications. Current supervised deep learning approaches, while powerful, are limited by the need for extensive, task-specific labeled data and struggle to generalize to the immense variability and open-set nature of real-world acoustic scenes. Inspired by the success of generative foundation models, we investigate whether pre-trained text-guided audio diffusion models c…

#GrindayFriday for this week is TRADING HANDS from the UK and their new EP 'I'm Going Out of My Mind, Does Anyone Want Anything?'
Trading Hands play a wild mix of powerviolence, grind & fastcore. This stuff is FAST, heavy, raw, tons of breakdowns. You can listen to this in no time at all. Blink and you might miss it. Weird, dynamic, I can't get enough. Easily one of my favo…

217gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

With years, I accumulated devices on my #local #network, which in general run on Linux. I meticulously added them to my /etc/hosts/ file, so as not to remember their IP. Something puzzled me, though: my Synology NAS was readily available as nas.local on the network, without doing anything. I have close to z…

For any observant souls who spotted my #MicroPrompt before an edit, yes, I originally had a typo, sorry for any confusion! If Timeome as a word makes you think of anything I will also totally take that as a prompt word! Or you can just write inspired by typos in general! !

I have a new fun game. Towards pay day I start putting anything on eBay that I'd like to buy into my basket - this month bathroom scales, various health foods, saddle soap for my leather hat and a canvas laundry basket - then on the day I'm paid I can just hit the button. It's similar to fantasy shopping but you do actually have to pay for the stuff £££

SAM4D: Segment Anything in Camera and LiDAR Streams
Jianyun Xu, Song Wang, Ziqian Ni, Chunyong Hu, Sheng Yang, Jianke Zhu, Qiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21547

SAM4D: Segment Anything in Camera and LiDAR Streams
We present SAM4D, a multi-modal and temporal foundation model designed for promptable segmentation across camera and LiDAR streams. Unified Multi-modal Positional Encoding (UMPE) is introduced to align camera and LiDAR features in a shared 3D space, enabling seamless cross-modal prompting and interaction. Additionally, we propose Motion-aware Cross-modal Memory Attention (MCMA), which leverages ego-motion compensation to enhance temporal consistency and long-horizon feature retrieval, ensuring …

Amazing quotes with obscure sources
“There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see” (random Jordan Peterson tweet)
“How strange it is to be anything at all” (random YouTube comment under a Twilight fan video)
“You cannot kill me in a way that matters” (random Tumblr post)
“I will face God and walk backwards into hell” (random dril tweet)

I’m tempted to make a pun about today’s #Wordle, but I really don’t want to give anything away.
#Wordle1471 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
R&D:
🎵 What A Triumph To Make Anything (Mean Anything At All)
#R #D
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://r-and-d.bandcamp.com/track/what-a-triumph-to-make-anything-mean-anything-at-all
https://open.spotify.com/track/225uOnqZ4JM9EdesVdhkDC

James Jani is one of the best serious YouTubers out there and he burned out. So far, so common.
What I find interesting is something what he says that doesn’t resonate with me at all: “you gotta enjoy the process”
For me, I’ve NEVER enjoyed the process of creating ANYTHING.
I always:
1. wanted something to exist (sometimes out of spite 😇),
2. hated every second of making it happen,
3. enjoyed that it exists.
Guess there’re 2 types of creators. 😅
…

Conductors really do have to be ready for anything! @…
https://youtube.com/shorts/rOXcQx0u5ZM?si=TJBMbwWsP1mpYjxq

Ever buy earbuds that are so damn good that you don't understand why anyone would use anything else? I purchased these Shokz earbuds while I was in Tokyo last year, and they seem to just always work (unlike my JBLs).

were you ever a directionless young person. did you used to be unable to tell how you felt, or unable to feel, about anything. did you used to lack the capacity to want anything. did you used to never feel fully real. if so, how did you fix it

195gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

And if it is: Holy shit can tech dudes just stop showing us how little they understand text or anything? Like, we understand. You can't read.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114580482764268200

The challenge of HEPA filters in the classrooms.
h/t @…
source: https://xcancel.com/kadamssl/status/1938267359233429683#m

sad :3 https://github.com/qilingframework/qiling/issues/253
someone's gotta retry ^^

Rewrite in Rust · Issue #253 · qilingframework/qiling
Python is a poor choice for anything remotely complex, especially that affects the execution times like emulation. Projects like Angr and Miasm met a bottleneck of Python, it's slowness, GIL, memor...

My #F1 App is configured to not spoiler anything, but then they push this… #AustrianGP

173gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

If you though #Google was achieving anything in relation to reducing carbon emissions, read pages 80-82 of their environmental report.
They try hard to make it look like they’ve achieved something by calling out “avoided emissions” on a graph showing a multi-year upward trend in actual emissions.
Even when, as a planet, we’ve seen multiple years of unprecedented destructive weather anoma…

So @… announced an upgrade for #ActionText with "No #Trix".

Jorge Manrubia
A huge editor upgrade is in the works for Action Text. No Trix, no House, no Tiptap, no ProseMirror. A drop-in replacement that will take rich text editing to the next level in Rails, and lay a foundation far better than anything we ever had with Trix. We will start using it internally in the new product this week. We’ll test, we’ll polish, and we’ll ship. (Yes, I’m shamelessly teasing here. And yes, I am VERY excited about this one)

I am seeking speakers for my @… & @… meetups. We prefer in-person presentations in Frankfurt or the Mannheim area, but remote talks are also an option.
If you have anything interesting to share with us, let us know. We'd be …

Writing anything on iOS is such a PITA. What a joke of useless UI this shit has become. The autocorrect. The selection shenanigans. The copy and paste. The undo. The scrolling. The autocorrect. The positioning of the cursor. The autocorrect.

Fuck, I shouldn’t have deleted receipts of a breakup Doscord DM, because now the person on the other side has all the “evidence” that she can cherrypick and lie about me with
never delete anything, kids, no matter how much anxiety it gives you

It takes a special brand of political incompetence to see millions of people marching in opposition to the Republican president and not do anything to seize that momentum
but it appears dem leadership has decided to do just that
https://bsky.app/profile/ndrew.bsky.so

The joy of working on a #PHP package upgrade that isn't supposed to do I/O or anything OS dependant somehow fails on #Windows. This is going to be a fun debug session

Aww, Serge Fiori died: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/24/quebec-singer-songwriter-serge-fiori-founder-of-rock-group-harmonium-dead-at-73/
That name won’t mean anything except to Canadians o…

Quebec singer Serge Fiori dead at 73
Quebec singer-songwriter Serge Fiori, founder of French-Canadian rock band Harmonium, died Tuesday at the age of 73.

Who else wants :vim: #vim line editing in `nix repl`?
#nix

This is my ocassional reminder that this live performance from 2009 of a song released in 1977 slaps extremely hard and has never been topped by anything so far!*
* Don't at me.
https://youtu.be/QMvE0yFnR0I

«Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears»
And this is just the beginning: Most big scientific conferences are not only already committed to 2025 venues but also 2026, given the long contract deadlines for such events. Academic societies are very reluctant to cancel existing contracts given how expensive doing so is.
Imho, 2027 will be the conference year to watch (if anything resembling a US academy is left by then).
https://archive.is/20250524023504/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5

(this might piss off both sides but hey)
One of the weirder parts of the AI debate for me is the "destroying the environment" bit.
Love it or hate it - my $500 graphics card with open source downloaded models is absolutely keeping up with the big boys for anything remotely useful and my electric bill is the same
#AI

92gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

APPARENTLY web kits like Wix now offer an AI assistant that builds your web template, but of course you are trapped.
So, asking for a friend 🤣, is there anything similar that spits out a WordPress template his father can actually use? 🙄
Admittedly his wix looks good, but I could-a tol' him, only noooo…

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

Alright, got UPS monitoring and info via `nut` on the homelab network. The three Proxmox nodes are all net clients, and I took the fifth RPi4 that wasn't doing anything and tossed Raspbian on it to be the net server. After a bit of configuring: all of the servers are getting the information without issue.
As a bit of a note: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS _does not work_ on ARM64 because [insert reason here]. I think you can compile it yourself and it's fine, but the packages in the repos…

I did lol at the #CSS #font rule for @…’s PIxel Envy blog. Is “Literally Anything Else” (ahead of #Arial

What a great reminder of what am amazingly funny person Akilah is.
Will There Ever Be Flying Cars? | Akilah Hughes Asks Hank Anything
Complexly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUnR0szT4mg

Yesterday I asked a vendor at the farmers market if anything they were selling was vegan and learned that they had absolutely no idea what it means for a food item to be vegan.

There is an open letter on BlueSky moderation practices as they apply to Gazans which I was invited to sign.
I have been feeling pretty helpless so I read the letter. It was very balanced and reasonable. The asks are not- as I saw them being misrepresented as immediately- to allow anyone who says they are in Gaza to post anything.

no one is home so i'm cranking it up and ... uh oh ... that sounds BAD. do i need new speakers? sob! i've had these fishers since 1986. I don't think they were anything special back then, but they have grown on me. and oh no, new speakers are expensive. 😭
oh wait the balance settings all screwed up here ⚙️ just a sec 🛠️ and 🔊 ok everything is fine. phew.
my stereo is ok — just ok — but i don't care because all i do is play scratchy old LPs anyway.

Preconditioning: "And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
Money is king, therefore he must be king, too? "Many general election ballots have already been printed, and it would be expensive to change them. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to replace him as the Republican nominee."

LOVED "Deaf President Now!" by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim. It's on Apple TV, now! If you're like me and prefer to go in without knowing anything, skip the trailer. :)
https://youtu.be/m-gIp9CDFtM?si=-zzyj9-T8kU8-Igs

So wesnoth music what you got?
Got anything sexy?
#SexyMusic

On my side of iOS 18.5, automation based on application start seems to be completely broken.
This doesn’t do anything

I visited the local lambs again
#sheep

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: To make sure none of his victims did anything rash like attacking the weakest point of the ship!
VILA: It's here, I know it's here.
KERRIL: If you say so.
VILA: How would he hide it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/457

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Hm, do Firefox and Vivaldi really not accept my system-wide custom CA(s)? On Windows, at least Firefox works fine if you set “security.enterprise_roots.enabled” to true, but on Linux it doesn't seem to make any difference. While in Firefox I can at least import a custom CA, I can't find anything similar in Vivaldi. 🤔
#firefox

Gutierrez: In new role with Raiders, Tom Brady's goal is unchanged https://www.raiders.com/news/tom-brady-las-vegas-raiders-mark-davis-nfl-new-role-goal-is-unchanged

Divya and Shantini have vetted that yes, these are real people in real crisis who need help.
The two of them aren’t professional fundraisers or anything. They’re just doing their best with the tools they have, trying desperately to help a few people.
Yes, I wish that we had proper organizations — NGOs, international aid, a functioning democracy! — to help •all• the people in need all at once. We don’t. Elbow grease is all we’ve got.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

Some lineless art of my otter sona Jay!
I'm an hour and 30 minutes late for my timezone, but it is what it is.
I love this lil guy, I should make more art of him 🦦
#Art #DigitalArt #FurryArt

I am seeking speakers for my @… & @… meetups. We prefer in-person presentations in Frankfurt or the Mannheim area, but remote talks are also an option.
If you have anything interesting to share with us, let us know. We'd be …

Divya and Shantini have vetted that yes, these are real people in real crisis who need help.
The two of them aren’t professional fundraisers or anything. They’re just doing their best with the tools they have, trying desperately to help a few people.
Yes, I wish that we had proper organizations — NGOs, international aid, a functioning democracy! — to help •all• the people in need all at once. We don’t. Elbow grease is all we’ve got.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

Even more than usual, the path ahead isn’t clear.
Still, there was barely any reaction in market prices. -- Nor has anything else seriously disrupted major markets.
That’s noteworthy, when you consider the crises that are looming:
the highest tariffs in decades;
a contentious crackdown on immigration
and a swelling budget deficit in the United States;
and, in the Middle East, an escalating war between Israel and Iran that could sharply reduce global o…

The Markets Are Balancing on a Knife’s Edge
The world has been anything but peaceful, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the markets.

«Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears»
And this is just the beginning: Most big scientific conferences are not only already committed to 2025 venues but also 2026, given the long contract deadlines for such events. Academic societies are very reluctant to cancel existing contracts given how expensive doing so is.
Imho, 2027 will be the conference year to watch (if anything resembling a US academy is left by then).
https://archive.is/20250524023504/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5

Movie idea: 28 Centuries Later and there are no more humans or infected or anything, just bugs and amoeba and stuff

"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need."
On chatbots as a bad design paradigm
(Original title: “ChatBot” is bad design)
https://t…

"ChatBot" is bad design
As anyone who has ever seen anything I have created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do have many designers amongst my friends and I do think that a lot of software engineering falls within the domain of design to a certain […]

I'm confronted with a very similar problem, has anything changed about the situation. (I.e. is it possible to start a process manually and then manually mark the systemd unit that would normally start it as running and have it behave like the service was started by systemd?) https://

131gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: To make sure none of his victims did anything rash like attacking the weakest point of the ship!
VILA: It's here, I know it's here.
KERRIL: If you say so.
VILA: How would he hide it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/457

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Monsterwatch:
🎵 Anything Hell
#Monsterwatch
https://monsterwatch.bandcamp.com/track/anything-hell
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ysibouf3XB2eoYJONqJ7Z

Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump's Travel Bans? (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-23-trumps-bigoted-travel-bans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p57#a250623p57

65gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…

66gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

«Lidar Lasers on Volvo SUV Fries Smartphone Camera Sensor»
As I'm not that kind of biologist (anymore): is there anything known about the impact of IR light pollution on wildlife?
/cc @… as you'd be my closest guess for someone who could know 😅
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/20/lidar-lasers-on-volvo-suv-fries-smartphone-camera-sensor/

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: [Enters] Orac, where did you get this information? [Holds up a data card. Avon takes it]
ORAC: I was instructed to obtain anything relating to the planet. The data was obtained by cross-referencing prisoner and execution lists. It is standard procedure.
https://blake.torpidity.n…

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«Lidar Lasers on Volvo SUV Fries Smartphone Camera Sensor»
As I'm not that kind of biologist (anymore): is there anything known about the impact of IR light pollution on wildlife?
/cc @… as you'd be my closest guess for someone who could know 😅
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/20/lidar-lasers-on-volvo-suv-fries-smartphone-camera-sensor/

122gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

116gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

207gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.