Tootfinder

”My argument is that the current structure of public conversation has the same effect on human cognition that a botnet has on a web server. It's simply exhausting you. And an exhausted mind defaults to heuristics and tribal allegiances, aka whatever position allows it to conserve the most cognitive energy.”

”What I do know is that the feeling of being overwhelmed, of never being able to keep up, of having strong opinions about everything and confident understanding of nothing, is n…

For work I have a script that archives a bunch of files from time to time (they are usually around 4.5GiB). After compression with 7-Zip defaults they get reduced to about 515 MiB but since it is a limited VM this takes half an hour. I played with 7z options and got it down to a reasonable size (685MiB) in around 48s, which is great but playing further with other compression options I found a Zstandard combo that got it down to around 800 MiB in only 20 seconds. Much bigger but small enough …

If you're using #Debian 13 and you're wondering why the `ping` command has stopped working for non-root users... `apt install linux-sysctl-defaults` will fix that for you.

…OK, that plus human training on basic usage opsec, but that’s mostly not a stuff app vendors can fix. Although usability defaults would help with some of it.

Did anyone regularly listen to double LPs in the intended order? Digital renderings should offer sides 1, 4, 2, and, finally, 3 as one of two defaults (along with the theoretically correct order).

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

'xxd' is a command that is both a hex dumper, and an undumper - i.e. it can turn the hexdump back into a binary.
Being able to go both ways makes it good for being able to edit a hex file in your favourite editor. Other tricks it can do are to generate a C array declaration with the contents. It defaults to hex numbered address (unlike 'hexdump' which confusingly uses octal!)

🔧 Zero-config single executable setup - no tuning required for VictoriaLogs or the operating system. Reasonable defaults automatically adjust for available CPU and RAM resources. Much easier to set up and operate compared to Elasticsearch and Grafana Loki.
🔌 Accepts logs from popular collectors including Fluentbit, Fluentd, Logstash, Vector, Promtail, #OpenTelemetry, DataDog Agent…

@… Ouf! Donc mon code n’est pas complètement pourri ;-)
Je n’ai pas modifié les defaults de Zettlr pour l’export – effectivement, je trouve intéressant qu’apparemment, Zettlr ajoute automatiquement tous les filtres dans le dossier lua-filter…

@… Ouf! Donc mon code n’est pas complètement pourri ;-)
Je n’ai pas modifié les defaults de Zettlr pour l’export – effectivement, je trouve intéressant qu’apparemment, Zettlr ajoute automatiquement tous les filtres dans le dossier lua-filter…

material for mkdocs is very very good overall but this option feels like a fever dream
> alternate style
> the only supported style
> defaults to not using it
???

I wasn't expecting #qemu to get name checked in a @hossenfelder.bsky.social #video but there you go. Despite spending quite a lot of time experimenting with #ai tools I too get irritated by the defaults as bi…

Obvious inflammatory rhetoric.
Also, "because X11 did it that way" is the single stupidest reason possible for deleting a feature that has been standard on *nix platforms since the 1980s.

Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will
garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months.
“It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,”
says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
To student debtors fac…

So, I guess no one has any idea how to fix Wayland vs. Chromium?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1559959/chromium-apps-scaling-wrong-in-wayland-kubuntu-25-10

The #WordPress List View isn’t very useful by default with complex blocks. This experiment defaults to expanding 20 items more evenly across block levels, with options to change that number.

{ggblanket}, a wrapper around #ggplot for quick, explorative plots with sensible defaults and less code. https://davidhodge931.github.io/ggblanket/

“Dear Mozilla, I don't want an ‘Al [sic] kill switch’, I want a more responsible approach for all”
https://hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-kill-switch/
Unlike Hidde, I think the alt text argument is mostly bunk (

TIL my preferred Browser @… actually supports JPEG-XL – and better than Safari, because it animates.
Shame that Firefox defaults to nope & Google/Chrome does evil…
https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

playing whack-a-mole with app notifications that get enabled by default when you get a new phone. geez, how do people get anything done if they just keep the defaults!

A paradox I think about:
If advertising doesn’t work - why is that the business model nearly every internet business defaults to?
If advertising online is so lucrative, why are marketing departments all over failing to meet targets and struggling to show any results?
Everything is ads and none of it is working. And I’m just a lone marketer screaming in this forest of nonsense hoping some tree falls and hears me.

I'm running into a really annoying render bug with the latest Kubuntu, which now uses Wayland. Anyone else seen this issue, and know how to fix it?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1559959/chromium-apps-scaling-wrong-in-wayland-kubuntu-25-10

I wasn't expecting #qemu to get name checked in a @hossenfelder.bsky.social #video but there you go. Despite spending quite a lot of time experimenting with #ai tools I too get irritated by the defaults as bi…

Don't miss this keynote by @… and @…!
> #SocialMedia: We Can Change the Defaults
📅 Th. 27 Nov. 2025 at 8 pm
online and #Amsterdam
> @…, … co-author of #ActivityPub, … will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.0 era? She will introduce the work @… is doing to make a positive future possible.
#SPUI25 #SaveSocial #Fediverse #OpenSource #FOSS #sovereignty #EuSummit25