Tootfinder

it clearly needs to be repeated that layoffs are a leadership failure, full stop.

It’s lost in the noise now, but I felt very clearly on that first day of real violence in 2020 — and still maintain now — that the Minneapolis Police turned the protests violent to send a signal to the city that charging police with a crime was unacceptable.
“You hurt us? We hurt your city.” That was the message, clear as day. That’s why police instigated and fomented violence. That’s why they stopped firefighters from putting out fires.
Yes, I am still angry.

So... that's a new one: I got a mail that clearly looks like some kind of scam, and they ask me to contact them via @…
It looks like they link to the legit signal installation source, and want me to contact them via a signal number or username. Is that something Signal would want me to report, and if so, where?

ngscopeclient is pretty fast, but it's never fast enough.
NVTX instrumentation has been super handy for helping to understand what's going on and which shaders are bogging things down.
I really need to make the CDR PLL both faster and not have artifacts at block boundaries. That's my single biggest pain point at the moment.
I'd love to find more people to help out with this side of things eventually. But where the heck do I find an AAA game shader developer …

If you think I don’t support trans people, then we’re clearly not on the same page. I love my fellow trans folks so much, you’re powerful, brilliant, and completely valid.
🌈✨:bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈
Keep shining with pride and standing tall in who you are. The world is better with you in it, never stop being your unapologetic, amazing self.

You can do it, little thyme plant.
I’m not ready for actual snow season to start in #montreal quite yet.

@… it always amuses that if you have to care about my privacy, you clearly don't

It was a revelation to see Nigerian Modernism at the Tate, especially seeing the rooms full of people who clearly felt a strong, personal connection to the work. Here are some of my favourites.
#Art

AI generated videos are fun
Me and my wife got featured in a youtube video of "top richest person in the world", apparently we are billionnaire, the video has our public photos and names.
30,000 views of this garbage.
And a family member spotted it and got forwarded to us, so clearly it's getting distributed somehow.

Apropos of yesterdays #vibe coding thread I do have one other observation. Looking at the #api usage stats you can clearly see how many more api calls and tokens are processed when using it this way. All those tokens can quickly add up to extra costs - my individual queries are basically noise at this poin…

An American Wigeon (duck) about to take a drink. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #bolsachicaecologicalreserve #duck

Steelers' Aaron Rodgers takes another shot at Jets with latest Mike Tomlin comments

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-jets-tenure-steelers-mike-tomlin/

Man, I have run out of fucks to throw at this project for the moment. So be it. Clearly I'm in the extreme minority in being interested in correcting this issue, so I won't feel too pressed in making a generic solution to my specific problems.
I'm guessing that the subset of people who care within the subset of people with the talent to solve the problem within the subset of people who use KDE is fairly small. Seems like all the cool kids are running tiling window managers …

Clearly what ICE is missing is a modern Đorđe Martinović incident. Would putting a bottle up ur ass and saying Somalis did it still get attention nowadays or do they gotta go more niche

I decided to be properly cyberpunk, my bar for Neotropolis needs exhaust fans on the outside. To be cinematic, the fan should turn pointlessly slow.
I bought a fan with a speed controller. It seem to use 5V PWM. Sending my own PWM, ~8% is the lowest speed. Below that it shuts off. But I want slower still.
I'm surprised this isn't a brushed DC motor or universal motor - it uses a BLDC motor.
I suspect the easiest route will be replacing with a

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses https://www.404media.co/border-patrol-agent-recorded-raid-with-metas-ray-ban-smart-glasses/

I really hate to play the “age card,” folks, but back in my day (2023 and 2024), I distinctly recall that a president with apparent mental infirmities was nigh unto scandalous.
For a press so dedicated to sanewashing the Trump administration’s open sewer of corruption, the kid gloves treatment still seems the order of the day.
This week, The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire published a lengthy exegesis of the “President Trump is increasingly isolated” variety, titled “The Bubble-Wrapp…

"The Joy Index would measure national progress. Community satisfaction, creative engagement, and laughter frequency would embed tenderness in the infrastructure."
—from the piece by Na’I’Cesses McKether ’25 M.A.R., "Care and Repair in the New Eco-nomy," in the new issue of Reflections

Pages 25-27 show that the USA are clearly scared of Europe.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

The National Security Strategy of the US is worth reading. It clearly shows that the USA is no longer an ally of Europe and that NATO should be worried about the reliability of the US. It also shows how completely unhinged and extreme right the US government has become.
https://www.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Ostracods are crustaceans that look like tiny clams. "Seed shrimp" have distinct shell-like carapaces that are well preserved in the fossil record and found in many waterbodies in benthic or pelagic realms. Planktonic ostracods extend their antennae and appendages to swim and capture food. They can exhibit green or blue bioluminescence and are very nume…

Sam Altman says the Anthropic Super Bowl ads are funny but "dishonest", and Anthropic serves a "product to rich people" while OpenAI is committed to free access (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189

This is my peet. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

35,000 homes without power in Berlin for days after 'left-wing activists' attack power lines | World News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/35-000-homes-without-power-in-berlin-for-days-after-left-wing-activists-attack-power-lines-13490546
' "It is unacceptable that once again clearly left-wing extremists have attacked our power grid and thereby endangered human lives," Mr Wegner said.'
Het is bijna nog meer onbestaanbaar dat een stroomuitval van zoveel mensen zo lang kan duren. ... 😇

❗️Zelenskyy: Everything clearly indicates that diplomacy is definitely not a priority for Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/18/zelenskyy-everything-clearly-indicates-that.html

Funny to see that Vietnam's timezones are still split in North and South Vietnam in the FreeBSD installer. Saw it before obviously, but now I will apply for an installer change. It's probably a leftover from the BSD days, when there were clearly two different countries, but it has been one Vietnam since 1975.
#freebsd

I admit, I am seriously wondering about the RTX 5070 Ti, compared to the RX 9070 XT. But these results clearly, and bafflingly, show its advantages lay in 4x frame gen. Ray tracing? Sure, in a handful of Nvidia titles that snub AMD. DLSS? 99% of these games can be modded to FSR 4. Longevity between the two cards is an interesting question. And I don't believe Nvidia has much room for next gen improvement.
RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | Tested in 15 games

The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and

"Out of curiosity, I used this brand-new search engine you might have heard about, “Google,” to learn more about the subject. I found a copy of CaptureNet, a freeware packet sniffer part of the SpyNet/PeepNet by Laurentiu Nicula; then I looked up for the port number used by MSN Messenger (it was 1863 in case you were wondering.) Finally, I found out how to enable “promiscuous mode” in the network card in my laptop."

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
AVON: How do you know about this?
KEILLER: Me? [Chuckles] Look at all this surveillance. I'm a little more than a purser, you see. I'm a security man. A poorly paid one.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/37 B7B4

So I busted out an old laptop and installed headless ubuntu minimal (I like to start small) so that I can start setting up some autonomous agents. My first step was to install Claude Code so that it could setup everything else for me, but after a few hours at it, both Claude and I admit that Claude Code is broken on a headless install. We tried a bunch a different way to get it to take a damn key, but the installer insists on an OAUTH auth that requires a browser.
I have a dislike fo…

The US under Darth #Trump has published a “National Security Strategy,” parts of which appear to be an attempt by the authoritarian regime to intimidate the #EU.
I think this clearly shows how difficult Trump and his entourage find even the weak resistance of the EU.
The EU should not allow itself to be i…

Why is it that not a single university knows the correct plural of "alumnus"
Or for that matter, the singular. If a university refers to graduates (or graduates refer to themselves) as alum(s), they should be entitled to their tuition back because they have clearly not learned.

Jira is clearly not made for software engineers.
It hasen't been when it was in use at previous jobs, and it isn't now in 2026.
Edit: Gemini agrees.

Some amazing photos in this collection at London's Natural History Museum. You can vote for your favorite through Wednesday, 18 March.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-choice/2025-along-for-the-ride

If you're an American, I'd like you to watch Alec from Technology Connection here starting at about 1:16:30 (link contains jump to that time).
Ideally of course watch the whole video too, but the end here is I think really important because there's so few people who saying this so clearly.
https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?t=4594

Why Dallas Cowboys weren't flagged for offsides in second quarter vs. Detroit Lions https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/detroit-lions/news/why-dallas-cowboys-werent-flagged-offsides-second-q…

Guardian faffing around the issue.
The government should clearly overturn Javid's cruel decision to strip this victim of grooming of her citizenship.
But they won't, being on human rights, even worse than the last Tory government.
Ministers cannot go on ignoring the Shamima Begum case, for two important reasons | Shamima Begum | The Guardian

Since it's getting misreported everywhere: this image of the stellar stream of the #galaxy #Messier61 by #Rubin - from A #StellarStream around the Spiral Galaxy Messier 61 in Rubin First Look Imaging: #AmateurAstronomers in 2020, 2024 and earlier in 2025: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/50665292533/ and https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-61-astrophotography and https://app.astrobin.com/i/0az5qv and https://app.astrobin.com/i/ldptvo - and these are just the results I could track down easily.

"The attorney general is the people’s attorney, not the president’s attorney,”
as former Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy put it in 2017.
But Trump and Bondi clearly agree that she’s there to work for him,
to protect him, to spare him from the very law enforcement that she is responsible for.
It hearkens back to the medieval model of attorney general as legal representative to the king. 
This is the rotten core of Trump
-- beneath all the makeup and slurre…

Alec Watson clearly explains the vast benefits of solar and batteries over any other energy source. At the end, at timestamp 1:16:38, he also goes into a powerful, emotional speech on how the political leadership of the United States is embracing fascism.

I recommend the whole episode, but if you judge that you don’t have time, watch the final 15 minutes (from the provided timestamp). And then watch the whole thing. 😉

In positive democratic news (for once!) the results of the BC Electoral Reform Committee and a recent EKOS poll of BC residents about Proportional Representation is very encouraging!
The question, as always, is whether we can convince the government in power, this time the BCNDP, to advocate for what the people clearly want and feel they deserve!
#BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ElectoralReform #Democracy #ProportionalRepresentation #Polarization

Has anyone thought about redefining what valuation makes a startup a "unicorn"? 🦄
Clearly, $1B floor is too low these days. 🧐
#business #investment #capital #question #unicorn #startup

I'm going to smack the first person saying that 2026 can only get better.
Clearly the lessons of every year after 2020 hasn't been learned.

It's clearly #Caturday

I tried to put a stake in the ground for how I have used and will (not) use the collection of technologies loosely and collectively referred to as ‘AI’ for content on my blag-o-tron:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/my-use-of-ai-on-this-site.html
Boring read…

spent some time looking at rust html5ever and the vibe-translated python justhtml and its vibe-translated js, ocaml, swift descendants.
there are some weird things going on.
tokenization in the html spec is a well-defined state machine. one state is Data, which is normal chars between tags. it's a small, simple state.
the vibe-translated Data states are all different, unrelated implementations, clearly not derived from their example code. they're hallucinated from a…

eheheh

I knew it.
✅ Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up - The Onion
#humor

Not off to a great start this year: wasted 300g of filament and 9 hours of print time because the designer of a model created two different versions with a 5 mm difference in size and just put all the files in one folder without clearly labeling them. And since I had to print them in batches and didn't realize the slight size difference I now have a bunch of parts that do not fit together and I'm out of that particular filament (which is apparently also no longer produced). 😒

After seeing American Beauty in the cinema I clearly remember trying to convince myself that I was too cynical and that the movie wasn't actually pretentious.
#movies
#AmericanBeauty

It's #footpathfriday and it is #winter ... So I searched for a photo that would show exactly that. -- a couple of years ago I went to a nearby mountain after some fresh snowfall.
The trail usually clearly visible was sometimes barely visible directly, but the landscape just showed th…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
MOLOK: Wait. Over there. Quick.
MOLOK: You are Cally.
CALLY: Yes.
JENNA: What's happened to our friends?
MOLOK: They're dead.
JENNA: What?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/577 B7B4

Okay, Rep Omar was clearly about to knock that dude tf out before he got tackled. *I* certainly wouldn't cross her.

Found this while updating my screensaver tree -
#FionaTheCat in stealth mode #cat #caturday
ETA: Mom made the quote for my wife and I but Fiona has decided since it has cats on it it _clearly_ is hers.

Earlier today, someone in admin, clearly frustrated, said to me, "You're so busy!" Apparently using my organization's calendar as a to-do list has been keeping me from unwanted meetings. You could do this too.

This is what BBC news articles look like nowadays: Every single sentence is its own paragraph, and I absolute cannot stand this “style” at all. I suspect the editors only care about making articles look nice in the mobile app.
IMHO, paragraphs are specifically meant to intuitively communicate which sentences belong together because of content/meaning. Just separating any sentences is what full stops do. If actually no two consecutive sentences belong together, the article is just incoh…

Still, even before this the only reason I didn’t refund this game is that I left it open while having lunch and when I thought about refunding it was already 1 hour past Steam’s 2h limit
Like, from the very start of the game you’re told to “uncover the code” of the revolution and then “the code” is a fucking huge blue arrow. I’m all for making things clearly visible, but at this point just use quest markers?

Controversial Maxx Crosby Decision May Spell The End In Las Vegas: Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-raiders-ir/

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115943375233985270
Clearly they’re not evil enough.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

‘The glacier is slowly melting, it’s clearly visible’ – This is climate breakdown https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/nov/10/lake-palcacocha-glacier-melt-peru-this-is-climate-breakdown…

Before I was on #Mastodon I thought most of the web and social media was in English. Clearly you knew it wasn't like that all. The ease of translating a post on the fly is a revelation / revolution. Thank you #translation

It's clearly a deliberate choice for the government - and the BBC - to centre "asylum seekers" as the source of abuse, when a closer reading suggests that it's taxi companies ripping off the commercial providers of asylum housing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjn2y…

ICE is clearly out of control. This week the Senate can actually do something about it. (Mike Zamore/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/ice-funding-alex-pretti-shooting-senate-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p19#a260125p19

Think that's two left footed shots from Gakpo tonight, which the second wasn't half bad. He clearly is trying to diversify the known commodity of always cutting in, reverse Arjen Robben style.
#LFC

A friend in #Gaza, living in a tattered tent with a sick child, just wrote to me 'I hope things improve.'
It makes me want to cry. I don't believe that, in all my long life, we've seen a population anywhere in the world suffering such terrible punishment and, at the same time, being able to communicate clearly with the outside world. How can things improve for her?
It wou…

I have no idea what #musk has been huffing but clearly no one is willing to tell him no. #spacex have developed a really cool re-usable launch system but it seems like hubris to claim managing data centres in space gives you some sort of competitive advantage. Aside from making hardware swaps impossible…

Good on Biffa. Their renewed commitment to customer service means they won't 'action' my email. Instead I can use their portal, only I can't because I'm not an existing customer. But that's okay because I can use their phone line instead, which forever send me through a loop of repeating menus and never puts me through to someone. Well done Biffa, you are beyond parody and clearly don't want any new customers. And I thought Veolia were shit. Well they were, but B…

This was written by an old friend and I found it pretty packed with good info. It’s also an example of using NotebookLM for research and content development. I found this inspiring enough to give it a try. I’ve found that it is a “Centaur" enabling tech that helps one to create on their own the overall content and leaving details to the NotebookLM tooling.
——
SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan: A Classification Framework for Thinking About Incidents -Geoff White
"Your SLOs can be green, and your systems can still be falling over. That doesn’t mean SLOs are broken. It means they were never designed to describe every class of risk we encounter in complex systems.
I’ve released version 1.0 of SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan as an open, living framework hosted on GitHub.
This is not a book you read once, and it’s not something you consult in the middle of an outage. It’s a way to think more clearly about incidents—across the incident lifecycle.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/slos-cant-catch-black-swan-classification-framework-thinking-white-ybc0c/?trackingId=ShCzMMVCQTChcTi8xT19tg==

I know everyone’s already dragging the living shit out of this already but 🤷🏻‍♀️:
All ICE/BP should have:
Clearly marked vehicles
Clearly marked names on uniforms (large TEXT for both)
ID/badges
Dismissal and/or prosecution for failing to comply.
QR codes are just unneeded “tech” complication
The current regime talks a lot of shit about ID being required to vote, but is fine with armed agents of the govt having less ID than a teen trying (and failing) to…

Anyone else in south Ōtautahi smelling a lot of smoke? There's clearly a fire somewhere nearby, but not in sight. Smoke is drifting into our valley near the bike park.

Releasing this on New Years Eve, clearly trying to bury it...
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-12/Smith-Depo-Transcript_Redacted-w-Errata.pdf

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
MOLOK: Wait. Over there. Quick.
MOLOK: You are Cally.
CALLY: Yes.
JENNA: What's happened to our friends?
MOLOK: They're dead.
JENNA: What?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/577 B7B4

Someone generated a poster from AI, but didn’t bother to upscale it before printing it out for a 1m tall wall frame.

Mice can be trained to drink water
as a way to ‘tell’ researchers they see something
https://theconversation.com/gazing-into-the-minds-eye-with-mice-how-neuroscientists-are-seeing-human-vision-more-clearly-…

As much as there's to dislike about Newsom and as much as this is an opportunity for self-serving purposes, he does seem to be the only one (at this level/forum) who speaks out clearly at this point and I much respect to him for that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfDK84LKHjA

No, @…, emphasizing the safety of vaccines is not a strawman. For everlasting fuck’s sake.
Come back to planet Earth, where:
- scare-mongering about vaccines is running rampant,
- right-wing propaganda is intentionally fueling that fear for profiteering and political gain,
- parents are very clearly afraid of the vaccines themselves right now,
- diseases like measles are making a return because of that fear, and
- people are dying as a result.
Your post is a non-sequitur. Whatever stick you have up your butt about lockdowns or whatever this post was about, please keep that stick in your butt and out of vaccine safety discussions. https://mastodon.online/@dennmans/115631732594437886

watching bf play Elden Ring, it strikes me that we're close to peak graphics. the realism dial can still be turned up a bit, but games are generally better when they're a step away from reality.
what's missing though is physicality. when characters swing weapons at enemies, it's clearly just sprites doing canned animation, and there's no actual contact happening.
a couple decades from now, perhaps average 3d games will have processing budget for procedural ani…

Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great (Jasmine Sun/@jasmine's substack)
https://jasmi.news/p/claude-code

I've been working on a toy project that analyzes local ADS-B traffic (next to YUL), and alerts when planes are taking off and landing.
It's surprising to me how much the number of commercial planes at YUL changes throughout the day. There are clearly morning/evening/night rushes.
Looks like there's only one (or two) commercial plane(s) at YUL right now, but in 3 hours, there will be dozens of take-off/landing events in that hour.

"Technical communities provide software businesses with an audience, a test bed, and eventually, a customer pool for their products and services, but this only works if the products are good enough to begin with. This insight was clearly defined by Guy Kawasaki, arguably the person who invented the field of Developer Relations, during his tenure as Chief Evangelist at Apple from 1983 to 1987."

Colts continue skid as QB Jones limited by injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47157620/colts-continue-skid-qb-daniel-jones-battles-injury

Things I wish every board I debugged would do

Friday Links 25-29
Clearly, I have been slacking for the last weeks.
Just look at all the links from other people at the bottom!
This might also be the last post for the year, as I will be enjoying the festive season.
Nonetheless, a lot of great content this week. I discovered a few new blogs that will keep me busy for the future.

Phanpy doesn't support quoots yet, so I'm using Mastodon's stock web interface and.. it's bad. Compare how busy it looks with unnecessary stuff (do I really need a "post" input form on screen at all times? Do I need a link to "favorites" visible at all times?), but also - the fonts are bad. Bad, bad, bad. Just so much harder to read. And the timeline toots just kind of run together, rather than being clearly delineated by whitespace in phanpy.

Maxx Crosby Throws Shade at Justin Herbert Over Flopping Incident https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-justin-herbert-flop/?adt_ei=[email]

It’s amazing that it’s almost 2026 and so many otherwise clearly intelligent people do not have the slightest clue what LLMs actually do

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
GAMBIT: Yes, Belkov.
BELKOV: [O.M.S.] Position please.
GAMBIT: Your orbit is stable, you are approaching optimum departure co-ordinates.
BELKOV: [O.M.S.] Fine. Sever guidance links, give me automatic control.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/503

Trump’s attack on higher education is being driven by a couple of different ideological and material forces.
First and foremost, authoritarian and fascist regimes historically have targeted various sectors of society.
If we look at fascist Spain, fascist Italy, or Nazi Germany, or if we look at Victor Orbšn’s Hungary and his fascist or illiberal regime,
what we see are three sectors that are clearly always identified and targeted.
One is the press,
one is the…

The problem with the Apple Watch campaign, is that it's clearly just a sanitised version of the Reebok nightmare "belly's gonna get yer" advert from about twenty years ago.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/29/apple-watch-motivation-ads/

Jimmy Cliff,
Jamaican reggae singer,
actor and cultural icon,
dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come
had hits including
You Can Get It If You Really Want
and I Can See Clearly Now
https://www.

My brain looked at this log and merged the last two plugin names into "yiffing".
I've clearly spent too much time on the internet.

Donald Trump’s hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday
blaming immigrants for crime, “social dysfunction” and economic hardship
is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics,
which show clearly that immigrants dramatically bolster the US economy
and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US.

Added a scrollable list of errors to the filter graph editor so you can see multiple problems more clearly.
The error message automatically spawns, docked to the south side of the filter graph editor, when an error appears and disappears when the last error is resolved.

Mr. Pretti, wearing brown, is filming with his cellphone
when agents approach m,
then bring him to the ground.
An agent begins shoving the demonstrators,
and squirts pepper spray at their faces.
At this moment,
Mr. Pretti has both hands clearly visible.
One is holding his phone, while he holds the other up to protect himself from pepper spray.
He moves to help one of the protesters who was sprayed, as other agents approach and pull him from be…