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from my link log —
A PostgreSQL developer's .psqlrc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826037
saved 2020-07-13 https://dot…

The oldest known pyre, located in Alaska, dates back 11,500 years and contains the created remains of a 3-year-old child.
But HOR-1 in Malawi is the oldest example of adult cremated remains found in a pyre.
We will likely never know the identity of this woman, or why her death inspired such a carefully coordinated ritual. But it seems safe to assume that the cremation was a significant event for the community that expended so much forethought and labor to perform it. 

Scientists Discover One of the World’s Oldest Cremations
Hunter-gatherers cremated a small woman in Malawi 9,500 years ago, revealing a glimpse of their capabilities and practices.

Blocked by yet another dude I proved wrong with #Mathematics 🙄 and a self-proclaimed "Mathematician" no less. It's incredible how people can't deal with finding out they were wrong... just learn from it and move on, seriously. It's not that hard!
BTW here is the proof he couldn't handle

At this point I think a good rule of thumb is: assume any white man with a net worth of over, say, $50mil is in the epstein files unless you hear otherwise.

Sam Altman:
I find this a very interesting thought experiment of what would have to happen for an AI CEO to be able to do a much better job of running OpenAI than me,
which clearly will happen someday.
How can we accelerate that?
What’s in the way of that?
I have found that to be a super useful thought experiment for how we design our org over time
and what the other pieces and roadblocks will be.
I assume someone running a science lab should try …

If you know people on social.cologne who aren’t Zionists/genocide supporters please let them know that they cannot see posts by me and others who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people as our instances and accounts are blocked by their Zionist/pro-genocide server.
I can only assume Zionist/pro-genocide servers will not be allowed according to mastodon.social’s new server covenant and suggested as safe spaces to newcomers to the fediverse (including Palestinians suff…

We can confidently assume that the #US admin, and
#Trump in particular are the subject of investigation at the #ICC.
Or at least, they should be.

How Raiders Can End the Season on a High Note https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-can-end-season-on-high-note

Does anyone know how (I assume this requires a greasemonkey script or similar since I haven't seen a config options for it) to make the Ubiquiti UniFi admin console show proper PHY standard names like "802.11ac" instead of "wi-fi 5" or whatever?

@… I assume we mean opened, because I can’t imagine anyone putting those things in the fridge prior to opening them.

Why do people use Matrix? It gets more/worse spam than email! I assume Matrix servers don't have any antispam software, unlike the huge ecosystem available for email?

no sign of my cat when I got home but my bed was covered in piss so I can only assume she's hiding from responsibility

Daniels was looking at just 10 easily quantifiable body measurements. How many important dimensions of variations are there in a human mind? How hard are they to measure? How likely is it that even one single “average” mind exists on Earth?? The odds are vanishingly small.
[Napkin sketch: assume there are a paltry 20 dimensions of brain variation. (Surely that’s low.) Assume there’s a 1 in 5 change of being completely “normal” in each. (Surely that’s high.) Even that absurd hypothetical gives a 1 in 11,490 chance that a •single• completely average mind exists in a population of 8.3 billion.]
5/

It seems that the #Telugu & #SouthIndian film wave hasn't reached #Indonesia?
When people refuse to accept me as an American, the Indian films/stars/songs they reference and I assume I know are a…

My inherited crystal box has quite a variety of odd and old ones. I must have a play with that big module which I assume is an ovened module.
#retro #electronics

smth smth aaah I am only one person, so many cool things happening in parallel at @… 🥴
FOSDEM::attend(DevRoom::Rust, me.clone()); // compile error
Unfortunately, I am not Clone just yet.
I assume I cannot implement that in a thread-safe manner.

Good Morning #Canada
I hope you're waking up to a scrumptious smell from the kitchen because it's National Bacon Day. While you're waiting for it to finish cooking, here are some facts to salivate over:
- Canadian Bacon, aka Back Bacon or Peameal Bacon, is a Canadian invention. It's also healthier than regular bacon, with far less saturated fats
- 42% of Canadians prefer their bacon crispy while 49% enjoy it limp. I assume 9% eat it raw?
- Winnipeg, home of the Bacon Centre of Excellence, is the Bacon Capital of Canada
- Canadians consume over 50M kilos of bacon annually. I ate my 1.25 kilos this year.
- Canadian Bacon, the movie, was a box office flop, only earning $178K on a production budget of $11M
- The average weight of a pig prior to processing is 111.2 kilos
- Canadian producers exported 18.6M kilos of cured bacon and 202K kilos of back bacon
- There are over 14M hogs in Canada
- 82% of Canadians add bacon on their burgers
- Kevin Bacon is not Canadian
#CanadaIsAwesome #MMMBacon

He visto esta comparativa de navegadores y me parece sublime https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/30262814

I don't envy "vibe coders". I mean, let's for a minute assume that their vision is not a pipe dream, but an accurate prediction of the future.
For a start, what's their plan for life? Driving a tool whose primary selling point is that anyone can use it. And I'm not even talking about all the inside competition. I'm talking of people realizing that they can cut the middleperson and do the coding themselves.
The way I see it, vibe coders are a bit like typists (with no offense to typists). Their profession is a product of a novelty. And just like typists largely disappeared when typewriters and then computers became commonplace, so are vibe coders bound to disappear when vibe coding becomes commonplace.
And are true programmers going to become obsolete? Well, let me ask you: did the proliferation of cars and corresponding self-service skills render car mechanics obsolete? On the contrary. The way I see it, the proliferation of slopcode will only make competent programmers ever the more necessary.
What vibe coders are saying is basically this: "This new automated self-service kit makes car maintenance so easy. Car mechanics will become obsolete now. Everyone's just going to hire *me* to run this kit instead."
#AI #LLM #VibeCoding

Assume this loutocracy is lying about ICE until proven otherwise (George F. Will/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/27/trump-noem-deportation-ice-border-control-minneapolis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p1#a260128p1

Assume two machines in the same network each have a link-local address (LLA) and a unique-local address (ULA). They could talk to each other with either address. Is there some kind of prioritizing the one over the other, e.g. always use LLA if available else use ULA?
#ipv6 #networking

Why do people use Matrix? It gets more/worse spam than email! I assume Matrix servers don't have any antispam software, unlike the huge ecosystem available for email?

#minnesota #minneapolis
https://naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/ho

New Social D record next year (May 2026, no day announced yet)-- their first in 15 years. I've always kinda had a soft spot for the D. Hearing some of the new songs they've been playing live and I dig em. Supposedly the first single will come out next month (January).
I assume these will be on the record.
"Tonight" live in 2022: https://

Here’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.

I love working with a team that knows our products and each others' strengths. At the Omni Group our average tenure is now over 15 years.
“OK, Ken, by ‘average’ I assume you mean ‘mean’? But some of you old-timers who have been there 30 years are skewing that curve, right?”
Well, I suppose that's true. If we look at the median tenure, that's now at 13.99 years.
(The 2024 report at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates the median tenure across all indust…

Dorts! I assume he's still over there on Twitter threatening to spill the beans about all the sordid back stage goings-on at #TOTP but never actually spilling any beans at all.

Very unclear to me of they used the new rule to keep Trinity? I would assume but the details seem sparce.
#nwsl

Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/comcast-…

Comcast Extends Michael Cavanagh Contract Through 2029, Gets $35M Stock Award
Michael Cavanagh, as he's set to assume the role of Comcast's co-CEO on Jan. 2, extended his employment contract with the cable and media conglomerate that runs through Jan. 1, 2029.

I only do when I fall asleep reading. https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115583283629981078

There is one thing that American don't seem to understand about Canadians.
For us, there is no "after Trump".
They have elected him... twice!
What guarantee do we have that they won't re-elect some other fascist moron in 4 years, 10 years or whatever?
None. There is none.
We have to assume the population of the whole country is not trustworthy and distance ourselves from them as much as possible.

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

Lately, I’ve been feeling burned out by how much people in my life assume things about me and my beliefs, so let's talk about it.
I spend some parts (not all) of my evenings online, usually from around 20:00 to 22:00 or sometimes even until midnight (00:00), not because I am consumed by politics but because I like to learn and reflect on how society could be better. I enjoy exploring ideas about justice, solidarity, and human rights in a way that feels meaningful to me. For me, spe…

@… Thanks! I’m a bit more optimistic than an hour ago, since retrospective license changes seem to be possible, and the SNSF should assume the charges.

@… Thanks! I’m a bit more optimistic than an hour ago, since retrospective license changes seem to be possible, and the SNSF should assume the charges.

This thread is the kind of quality content we keep coming back for here on the fediverse.
And it’s well past time i re-read The Lord of the Rings. https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115582067479688962

@… I assume you know about this https://www.threads.com/@maddowshow/post/DSnrGV4FvtV . I'm lost for words.

“In research [doctoral candidate Colin Domnauer] is preparing for publication, chemical extracts from lab specimens produced behavioural changes in mice similar to those reported in human. [sic]”
So, is it safe to assume that the #mice perceived that they, in turn, were surrounded by even tinier mice? 🤔
#science

This article just cited the Finnish Michaux study. There are others. The whole "industrial renewable energy capture systems" wager has inadequate foundations, which is why the only way is to use much less energy. Hence #degrowth See my article and linked report for the UK case.
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil? - CounterPunch.org

Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
A key issue for the accomplishment of renewables is power storage because of the impact of wind and solar intermittency, both of which are highly intermittent. Most studies assume gas will be the buffer for intermittency. Other than using fossil fuel such as gas as a buffer, an adequate power storage system to handle intermittency will require 30 times more material than what electric vehicles require with current plans, meaning the scope is much larger than the current paradigm allows.

"In Phrack Magazine, this author learned at the end of the 1990s the subtle art of smashing the stack, an exploit that would become the starting point of many a computer security book afterward.
There is one magazine that has been around for a decade: the “International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out”, or “PoC||GTFO”.
(I should have probably warned readers about the profanity in the title, but nah, I assume them to be adults at this point.)"

Pastor Manul Laphroaig, T.G. S.B.
Paraphrasing a well-known software mogul who shall remain nameless in the pages of this magazine, insecure software is eating the world. The reasons of such sad state of things are varied and range from social to economic; the technological aspect is usually the one that concerns me the least. In this sea of unusable things and insecure networks, there is a “subculture” (a horrible word, but bear with me) of highly skilled individuals who teach each other how broken those things are. And ye…

If you tell me we're gonna "go Dutch" I assume we're going to ride bikes somewhere, shoot some photos (on an angle) along the way, and then enjoy some chocolate.

as an urban pedestrian, LED highlights are totally awful. if i see them coming towards me, i just assume it's a cybertr**k & the driver is likewise awful (& am so blinded i can't tell otherwise). https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/115858218762869656

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740501470592801
I agree in theory that "assume good faith“ is the right way to go and a very pragmatic maxim for communities, but Mozilla has been testing that assumption for quite a while now.

@… I fastidiously remove the stalky part from all pre-cut lettuce leaves.
I usually assume that providers are unwilling to remove the stuff that most people find distasteful.

@… Love seeing the openSUSE community tackle Y2K38 openly and transparently. Thank you for putting this on the radar.
Also important: we’re not at the finish line yet, even if many assume we are. There’s still real work across toolchains, libraries, and long-lived systems.
#Y2K38

The UK Web Archive has been unavailable for two years now.
Is it reasonable to assume it's never coming back?
https://www.webarchive.org.uk

Oook. Free advice for people who collaborate on community support for FLOSS projects: Don't treat users as if they had cognitive development problems.
I understand your urge to assume the worst, I really do, but a little bit of respect goes a long way.

I have just become resigned to the fact that Oklahoma will probably be without PBS sooner or later, especially since Arkansas dropped it. I assume I can just sponsor an out of state entity once that happens and watch it over the internet However. . .
#pbs #oklahoma

#IT sent out instructions to all employees to use #Powershell and a dozen commands to run in it to get computer information, which we were to email back to IT:
`$sys = Get-CimInstance Win32_ComputerSystem`
`$sys.Name`
etc.
A dev (I assume) pointed out that Active Directory does this for breakfas…

@… Great idea! One suggestion if I may: I assume the address is in Germany? If someone were to send you an item by mail, it may be helpful to add the country to the address you listed on the page, just to avoid any confusion.

My thermostat app can read the current setting and temperature but cannot change the settings. I assume this is related to the Cloudflare outage but seems really strange behavior! (Glad I went with a thermostat that has local control)

My takeaways from the bincode situation:
* Assume good intentions (while verifying), never dox (duh).
* Normalize having a non-empty .mailmap in repostiories so that name changes can be done less intrusively without calling attention.
* When doing a full-tree rebase, provide a simple text along with it that gives a filter-branch-or-so command that converts an old history into a bit-identical new one (where the old name/data can sit in a nonspecific regexp).

Every post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_writing-journali…

Tired: Seeing a logo redesign and immediately going to social media to complain about it
Wired: Seeing a logo redesign and immediately going to social media to complain about the people you assume must be complaining about it

AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
«A cognitive bias, where people with little expertise or ability assume they have superior expertise or ability. This overestimation occurs as a result of the fact that they don’t have enough knowledge to know they don’t have enough knowledge.»
🤯 https://…

Sable Offshore Corp. has successfully petitioned federal authorities to assume regulatory authority over its Santa Barbara County oil and gas pipelines
-- another move in the company’s attempts to restart production.
The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration decided on Wednesday that two Santa Barbara County pipelines operated by Sable are interstate pipelines,
removing them from state authority.”
—and subsequently:

Sable Receives Federal Approval to Restart Oil Pipelines
Sable Offshore Corp. says it has received permission to restart pipelines connected to the Santa Ynez Unit, a week after it successfully petitioned to

#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 5, still trying to catch up with @…

Advent(ure) in System Seeing — Day 5 — Key Systems Concept: Feedback
Let’s gather some of the thoughts that have been percolating around systems. Let’s assume that you are designing the introductory page of…

Piraten van het Antroceen?
https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/pirates-of-the-anthropocene?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx

Pirates of the Anthropocene
"I assume we're going to keep the oil."

Of course @… is mentioned in iOS dev weekly 😍😍

Apparently today is International Men's Day. It also happens to be World Toilet Day.
I’m going to assume there is some sort of connection and go on with the rest of my day.

when im older i hope im just sitting around all day roasting bitches like this

Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.

I assume it is time to learn how to file bugs for Apple. My recent experience synchronizing Apple Notes, Journal, Reminders, and now Calendar across devices seems to get worse.
I could imagine some extra complexity handling Notes and Journal.
I cannot imagine how Apple hasn’t figured out a fast, reliable, and consistent sync for Reminders and Calendar.
It’s an extremely frustrating experience. I am wondering why there isn’t an AppleSynchGate yet.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115888676146482712
Wow. There’s a lot going on in this North Korean malware campaign. Red Asgard has a full writeup. The easy button here is to block access to Pastebin.com and Vercel.app (again). I assume this ki…

reclaim conservative phrases and ideas to make them meaningless with the same fervor republicans work to destroy liberal phrases.
be pro-life which I assume means right for food, shelter, and bodily autonomy.
be pro masculinity which I assume means community building and mutual aid.
be MAGA which probably means fighting for immigrants and advancing civil rights.
I'm sure there are problems with this idea but I bet there are good parts we don't get to enjoy.

So let's assume someone told van Weel (our foreign minister) about the Dutch Venezolan crisisof 1908 where the Dutch navy ousted the then President Castro. Maybe he knew, I didn't, wasn't mentioned anywhere in our history lessons. Today somewhere in my timeline a saw a mention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch���Venezuelan_crisis_of_1908

Stolen from @… as I thought it was such a great idea: a thread of all the books I read in a year.
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession, read for a #bookgroup that unanimously loved it. Set in modern day Ireland, it's a contemplative and gently humorou…

Insider Delivers Massive Update on Raiders Head Coach Search https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-massive-update-head-coach-search/

Been noticing a tinned mango shortage in the UK supermarkets, I assume because of problems with the harvest https://www.fruitnet.com/fresh-produce-journal/peru-mango-collapse-dents-uk-supply/260507.article

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115595385817254733
"Oops, not those inauthentic engagements!"
Another case of right wingers accusing others of what they're doing—they assume everybody is disingenuous and are then shocked to find out it's just t…

“I know that none of us set out wanting or intending to exclude people. But I’ve also seen how too often in our stratified communities — segregated by access to wealth, by race, immigration status and language access — it’s too easy to assume that the world we encounter reflects the experiences (and access needs) of others.”
…

I'm trying to buy polycone (LDPE)-sealed caps for my DIY fragrance hobby.
Any number of results from China, UK and US, mostly one-click purchase.
Butr I want them from DE (or EU), don't I?
So far I found at least five different, unreliable names for the product., and the websites are:
- old school catalogue ones with PDF and, I assume, fax ordering process
- min 1000 pieces
- min 100 € order
- no photos
- 404
- 2€ per cap (10x regular…

Heat pumps are efficient but small electric generators very much not so.
Anybody know how the cascade performs? If you have a fixed amount of propane and a suitably large generator and wish to heat a house, are you better off running a generator heat pump or just burning it? Assume for the sake of discussion that utility or local solar electrical power are unavailable and that you can't easily capture waste heat from the generator exhaust

I assume there’s some logistical reason for this? Like…they must have security that prevents the general public from wandering in and pulling the fire alarm? Genuinely curious.

Disney giving Open AI a free run on it's IP, and investing *one billion dollars*.. I can only assume Bob Iger has already been replaced with a skin-job?

@… @… may I assume that you both dislike prejudice?

And you don't need to accept the trap of authoritarian masculinity on logic alone, the proof is right there in male influencers like Andrew Tate and their followers. These dipshits get so obsessed with gatekeeping they don't realize that the gates they're tending keep them in, that the more walls they put up to protect their privilege, the smaller their identity can be. They huddle in tiny pens, terrified of crossing imaginary bounds that they imposed *on themselves.*
They have built their own torture chambers and locked themselves inside, and for what? They turn themselves into dragons, hoarding what they see as valuable while repressing every emotion including joy. And if they let themselves experience joy, they would, perhaps, realize that all these privileges are inconsistent with it. They might, perhaps, recognize that they have built up these privileges so they don't have to admit that their suffering and fear are not, in fact, admirable. They might have to face the fact that they have lived lives that are deeply pathetic, might have to face the fact that only empathy can give one access to deep satisfaction, might have to face the fact that they have lived their whole lives on a treadmill, going nowhere.
But I assume that they won't ever do that, because to do so would force them to face the enormity of the emotional debt, the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the world, and those are big feelings. It's far easier to hide in a hole, forever alone, making up silly rules to keep everyone inside scared and keep everyone outside from seeing in.

If I am coming to Discord to ask a question, noting that "I've tried all the obvious stuff", you can safely assume I also have run web searches. Pasting the Google AI Overview response for my question is not helping.

Asimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other.
His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong.
#ai #anthropic

Keir Starmer appoints 25 [right wing, I assume] Labour peers to strengthen support in House of Lords | House of Lords | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/10/keir-starmer-appoints-25-…

@… the experience with an SSD will be good.
I assume that you chose packages (pkgbase) when you installed the OS. True?

Not a fan of products that assume your email inbox is *actually* a todo-list app that anyone can add entries to.

@… I assume you already saw this, but i wanted to share it just in case you didn't. This was posted almost a month ago, and not sure how I missed it.
htt…

I don’t know anything about “Wicked” but since it features an Orion I assume it’s part of the Star Trek universe?

“Tariffs are an import tax, plain and simple. I would assume the administration understands that.
“I actually am surprised that it was so lacking,” Senator Maria Cantwell added, of the administration’s case.
The court did not appear persuaded, either.
“You want to say tariffs are not taxes,” said the liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor. “But that’s exactly what they are.”

If you're in the UK and supported blocking 4chan, but oppose blocking Twitter, then I'm going to assume your position is mediated by personal inconvenience.

There's something cruel in how our culture treats in-between times.
We have words for achievement
and words for burnout,
but we lack vocabulary for the necessary pauses that precede new growth.
If you say you're
"between projects," people assume you've been cast aside.
The idea that you might be in a natural winter,
that you might be dormant in a way that's preparatory rather than pathological,
doesn't compute …

The Harvest Will Come
I spent most of my twenties believing that purpose was something you found once and then held onto. A winning lottery ticket you kept in your wallet forever. The self-help industry reinforced this: find your passion. Discover your why. Land on the thing that makes you leap out of bed

@… so much, so very much to read today. If I skip the link, am I safe to assume that it's something to do with his nappies?

Porsches assume they've been stolen and driven into a car-sized Faraday cage if they can't see a satellite... which is apparently prone to outages?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/09/porsche_bricked_russia/

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car
: Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck

Government assurances they are not creating "a centralised master database" is aimed, I assume, at people whose understanding of computers dates from the '60s-'90s. Anyone of the Internet Age knows that "master database" is a meaningless in this context.