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Giants QB Russell Wilson: Jaxson Dart's presence 'doesn't change' my approach https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-qb-russell-wilson-jaxson-dart-s-presence-doesn-t-change-my-approach

Hey Google,
Now We Have This New Private, Offline Alternative:
A maps app that doesn't track you but lets you record your path on the map
https://news.itsfoss.com/comaps-launch/

Look Google, We Have This New Private, Offline Alternative Now
A maps app that doesn't track you but lets you track your path on the map. A pathbreaking open source alternative.

Bills QB Josh Allen's MVP 'doesn't change my life': Winning a Super Bowl is 'only thing that I'm worried about' https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-qb-josh-allen-s-mvp-doesn-t-change-my-life-…

when a network card doesn't work, it's ethernet grrrrrmii

Finally finished the VSC8512 writeup! Ended up being just a biiiit longer than I had expected but there was a lot to talk about.
I still want to refactor my code a bit to be cleaner and more OO, what I have now is a bit quick-and-dirty, but it works.
https://serd.es/2025/07/04/Switch-proj

How spyware, posing as an app from a humanitarian organization, spread among Syrian army officers via Telegram, and fueled the collapse of the Assad regime (Mobile Hacker)
https://www.mobile-hacker.com/2025/06/05/an…

Analysis of Spyware That Helped to Compromise a Syrian Army from Within
This case demonstrates that effective smartphone espionage doesn't always require expensive zero-day exploits or the development of sophisticated, custom and undetected spyware. Instead, attackers can achieve significant intelligence gains using older, off-the-shelf tools like Android SpyMax—especially when combined

It just doesn't stop....🍿🍿🍿
#trump #musk #politics

PSA it doesn't take greed to end up in a bad spot with companies extracting as much as they can. Only competition.

Genomic sequencers with massive security vulnerabilities. Company doesn't admit to wrongdoing but also says it "successfully remediated" various issues, hmm? Small $ relative to their revenues, but you take what you can get.

Doesn't sound the *least bit* cultish...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp takes a shot at elite colleges and says the company offers 'a new credential independent of class'- Business Insider
https://archive.ph/fNhkn#selection-1559.0-1559.121

The GOP doesn't really care how the pardons were signed (Philip Bump/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/05/autopen-biden-legality-pardons-maga/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5MDk2MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUwNDc4Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDkwOTYwMDAsImp0aSI6ImI2ZGJjOTUzLTJjYmEtNGQ3Yi05OGNiLTJkYjdiNjE1ZmJjYSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA2LzA1L2F1dG9wZW4tYmlkZW4tbGVnYWxpdHktcGFyZG9ucy1tYWdhLyJ9.ZkaG379HeQtZz74powSjPMhkEJB5Oa-zVX677wwhsW4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p48#a250605p48

All jokes about the disaster that is finding documents in Sharepoint or moving images in Word aside, is Microsoft really ready to unleash AI on the world? Outlook's 'book time to meet' feature doesn't recognise all of Outlook's options for pre-booked time, showing time marked as 'working elsewhere' as free.

Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see

I need a new #carryon #luggage, a #trolley and I want your opinions:
I'm leaning towards 2 wheels (in contrast to 4 or 8 wheels) because:
- better on rough surface
- doesn't float around in …

He's an OK guy. He's from the side of my family that doesn't horrify me.

I enjoy that sudo-rs doesn't have the "insults" feature of sudo, so the author pointed people at pam-insults:
https://github.com/cgoesche/pam-insults
which adds login failure insults to everything that uses PAM, including gdm and other greeters.
I'll never use th…

My JS Krups is resisting netbooting. I see it doing a DHCP discover, and I see Kea responding with an offer, but then it just sends another Discover. Hmph. I can get to the serial console and doing boot net from there doesn't help; none of the keyboard shortcuts for network diag etc seem to work (except the one that displays the help for it...). So I took the flash SIM out and now it boots to Net rather than flash by default; alas with the same DHCP behaviour. Time to try isc-dhcp.…

Any email address is a valid email address once it has at least one character before the @, one character after the @ and a character after the full stop (.)
You should _not_ be doing any checks beyond that. (Unless the domain name is a known spammy domain/TLD, of course, but that doesn't appear to be the case here)
My email address is a 1 character before the @, 2 characters after the @ and 2 letters after the full stop(.)
It is valid.
#noxp

The android GMail app has broken switching between accounts so now I'm in the market for an IMAP client that doesn't suck.
Why can't people stop breaking things?

Yay, I finally figured out how to build HTML documentation of my custom :nixos: #NixOS options. 🥳
Some thoughts:
- It still contains *all* normal NixOS options (it's a 13MB HTML file...)
- I don't see a way to filter for only my custom options - be it just by regex for example
- It's the documentation of *possible* options, doesn't include the actually chosen val…

📝 `nix build .#docs` now builds a HTML with NixOS options config (including custom ones) (b7be1d09) · Commits · Yann Büchau / 📦 Yanns NixOS Config · GitLab
My NixOS Config

Why doesn't Apple's TV app not remember my language setting? Why does it pop up a second "are you over 16?" box in another part of my screen after I confirm the first "are you over 16?" popup? Why doesn't it have a hotkey for fullscreen mode? F, ctrl-F... no. I need to click the green title bar blob every time.
#badux

I think if proof were needed that self-criticism doesn't fix our problems, all we need to look at is how much we criticise ourselves and whether that's fixed our problems to date. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-193-laziness-is-a-myth…

@… Hey, do you have any intention to release a Kagi plan without the assistant? I canceled my subscription a few months ago and would like to return. But supporting the development and especially other peoples usage of Kagi assistant just doesn't feel right.

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
Should AI coding be taught in undergrad CS education?
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I teach undergraduate computer science labs, including for intro and more-advanced core courses. I don't publish (non-negligible) scholarly work in the area, but I've got years of craft expertise in course design, and I do follow the academic literature to some degree. In other words, In not the world's leading expert, but I have spent a lot of time thinking about course design, and consider myself competent at it, with plenty of direct experience in what knowledge & skills I can expect from students as they move through the curriculum.
I'm also strongly against most uses of what's called "AI" these days (specifically, generative deep neutral networks as supplied by our current cadre of techbro). There are a surprising number of completely orthogonal reasons to oppose the use of these systems, and a very limited number of reasonable exceptions (overcoming accessibility barriers is an example). On the grounds of environmental and digital-commons-pollution costs alone, using specifically the largest/newest models is unethical in most cases.
But as any good teacher should, I constantly question these evaluations, because I worry about the impact on my students should I eschew teaching relevant tech for bad reasons (and even for his reasons). I also want to make my reasoning clear to students, who should absolutely question me on this. That inspired me to ask a simple question: ignoring for one moment the ethical objections (which we shouldn't, of course; they're very stark), at what level in the CS major could I expect to teach a course about programming with AI assistance, and expect students to succeed at a more technically demanding final project than a course at the same level where students were banned from using AI? In other words, at what level would I expect students to actually benefit from AI coding "assistance?"
To be clear, I'm assuming that students aren't using AI in other aspects of coursework: the topic of using AI to "help you study" is a separate one (TL;DR it's gross value is not negative, but it's mostly not worth the harm to your metacognitive abilities, which AI-induced changes to the digital commons are making more important than ever).
So what's my answer to this question?
If I'm being incredibly optimistic, senior year. Slightly less optimistic, second year of a masters program. Realistic? Maybe never.
The interesting bit for you-the-reader is: why is this my answer? (Especially given that students would probably self-report significant gains at lower levels.) To start with, [this paper where experienced developers thought that AI assistance sped up their work on real tasks when in fact it slowed it down] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089) is informative. There are a lot of differences in task between experienced devs solving real bugs and students working on a class project, but it's important to understand that we shouldn't have a baseline expectation that AI coding "assistants" will speed things up in the best of circumstances, and we shouldn't trust self-reports of productivity (or the AI hype machine in general).
Now we might imagine that coding assistants will be better at helping with a student project than at helping with fixing bugs in open-source software, since it's a much easier task. For many programming assignments that have a fixed answer, we know that many AI assistants can just spit out a solution based on prompting them with the problem description (there's another elephant in the room here to do with learning outcomes regardless of project success, but we'll ignore this over too, my focus here is on project complexity reach, not learning outcomes). My question is about more open-ended projects, not assignments with an expected answer. Here's a second study (by one of my colleagues) about novices using AI assistance for programming tasks. It showcases how difficult it is to use AI tools well, and some of these stumbling blocks that novices in particular face.
But what about intermediate students? Might there be some level where the AI is helpful because the task is still relatively simple and the students are good enough to handle it? The problem with this is that as task complexity increases, so does the likelihood of the AI generating (or copying) code that uses more complex constructs which a student doesn't understand. Let's say I have second year students writing interactive websites with JavaScript. Without a lot of care that those students don't know how to deploy, the AI is likely to suggest code that depends on several different frameworks, from React to JQuery, without actually setting up or including those frameworks, and of course three students would be way out of their depth trying to do that. This is a general problem: each programming class carefully limits the specific code frameworks and constructs it expects students to know based on the material it covers. There is no feasible way to limit an AI assistant to a fixed set of constructs or frameworks, using current designs. There are alternate designs where this would be possible (like AI search through adaptation from a controlled library of snippets) but those would be entirely different tools.
So what happens on a sizeable class project where the AI has dropped in buggy code, especially if it uses code constructs the students don't understand? Best case, they understand that they don't understand and re-prompt, or ask for help from an instructor or TA quickly who helps them get rid of the stuff they don't understand and re-prompt or manually add stuff they do. Average case: they waste several hours and/or sweep the bugs partly under the rug, resulting in a project with significant defects. Students in their second and even third years of a CS major still have a lot to learn about debugging, and usually have significant gaps in their knowledge of even their most comfortable programming language. I do think regardless of AI we as teachers need to get better at teaching debugging skills, but the knowledge gaps are inevitable because there's just too much to know. In Python, for example, the LLM is going to spit out yields, async functions, try/finally, maybe even something like a while/else, or with recent training data, the walrus operator. I can't expect even a fraction of 3rd year students who have worked with Python since their first year to know about all these things, and based on how students approach projects where they have studied all the relevant constructs but have forgotten some, I'm not optimistic seeing these things will magically become learning opportunities. Student projects are better off working with a limited subset of full programming languages that the students have actually learned, and using AI coding assistants as currently designed makes this impossible. Beyond that, even when the "assistant" just introduces bugs using syntax the students understand, even through their 4th year many students struggle to understand the operation of moderately complex code they've written themselves, let alone written by someone else. Having access to an AI that will confidently offer incorrect explanations for bugs will make this worse.
To be sure a small minority of students will be able to overcome these problems, but that minority is the group that has a good grasp of the fundamentals and has broadened their knowledge through self-study, which earlier AI-reliant classes would make less likely to happen. In any case, I care about the average student, since we already have plenty of stuff about our institutions that makes life easier for a favored few while being worse for the average student (note that our construction of that favored few as the "good" students is a large part of this problem).
To summarize: because AI assistants introduce excess code complexity and difficult-to-debug bugs, they'll slow down rather than speed up project progress for the average student on moderately complex projects. On a fixed deadline, they'll result in worse projects, or necessitate less ambitious project scoping to ensure adequate completion, and I expect this remains broadly true through 4-6 years of study in most programs (don't take this as an endorsement of AI "assistants" for masters students; we've ignored a lot of other problems along the way).
There's a related problem: solving open-ended project assignments well ultimately depends on deeply understanding the problem, and AI "assistants" allow students to put a lot of code in their file without spending much time thinking about the problem or building an understanding of it. This is awful for learning outcomes, but also bad for project success. Getting students to see the value of thinking deeply about a problem is a thorny pedagogical puzzle at the best of times, and allowing the use of AI "assistants" makes the problem much much worse. This is another area I hope to see (or even drive) pedagogical improvement in, for what it's worth.
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AI can be useful but doesn't "understand" a thing..., this funny AI general picture illustrates that perfectly, it looks nice at first glance 😆
#AI

As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.

I don't use linux solely because of privacy. The biggest reason is because I want an OS that works. I need something that doesn't hinder my work. #linux #arch #archlinux

it is now possible to set arbitrary strap pins with #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer! use `glasgow multi <...> gpio --pins B0:3 B0=0 B1=H B2=L B3=1` to strap B0 strong low, B1 weak high, B2 weak low, B3 strong high
the GPIO applet doesn't take up USB endpoint resources, so this is "free": you can append ` gpio` to any applet command line you'd like

Trump's proposed budget is a fiscal tightening relative to current policy.
And it doesn't even include the extra tightening from tariffs.
https://x.com/firstadopter/status/1930317264252793138/photo/1

tae kim (@firstadopter) on X
Great chart on the budget bill (Source: NYTimes)

‘Plausible’ Chance Cowboys Part Ways With $3 Million Free Agent RB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/part-ways-free-agent-javonte-williams/?adt_ei=[email]

Anybody know what tupa actually smells like?
Every time I buy tupa scent milk it just smells like regular milk.
Wumpa scent doesn't smell any different either.

'Doesn't have the authority': TX governor gets basic law lesson from Newsmax expert - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/andrew-napolitano-greg-abbott-redistricting/

Doesn't apply if you buy it from 3rd party resellers like Amazon, but still... wow: A mandatory subscription just for free delivery?
✅ Anker Will Force You to Sign Up for a $10/Month Subscription If You Buy Its Newest Power Bank
https://www.

Anker Will Force You to Sign Up for a $10/Month Subscription If You Buy Its Newest PowerBank
Companies love to get customers to sign up for monthly subscriptions. Anker is taking it too far.

I was asked if I could send a screenshot of my Rust learning project to possibly help to be installed. A server that deals with binary encryption, among other things, is not so simply clear to see 😅🤷‍♂️
(This is now in the INFO login, it's just for showing the request as a demo and doesn't make sense)
#rust

CEOs predicting AI taking half of white collar jobs (or predicting ANYTHING) doesn't mean shit, both because most CEOs have never done an actual day of real work in their life, and also because companies trying to replace human workers with AI are already reporting failures at massive scale

Former Raiders rival thinks Geno Smith is overrated https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/former-raiders-rival-thinks-geno-smith-overrated/f56e7888c24d0a20fc5de235

If I chant "Death to the IMF", it doesn't mean I want to kill all bankers!
Maybe I do, maybe I don't, but that statement doesn't resolve it.
😆

Now this is uncool: Today morning it rained slightly and I only did a walk instead of a cycling loop.
During the day it was amazingly great weather.
Now as I finished working I see a thunderstorm outside ... this doesn't feel fair

I've been using phanpy for a couple years now, but mastodon 4.4's web interface is such an improvement that it doesn't feel painful to use any more. The boosts carousel is a big missing feature, though.

Hopeful Marxists: "If the #OneBigBeautifulBill doesn't produce some class consciousness of those getting impoverished, then nothing will!"
<time passes>
Marxists: "Alright, nothing will!"

Browns QB Sanders doesn't want Deion at camp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45899865/no-deion-no-distractions-camp

Comparison of Rochester with Buffalo shows why cities should remove, not underground, their bad highways.
Draws one good lesson & one bad one:
Yes, plan in advance for what you want to do.
No, don't try to "build consensus". Build support. Consensus-seeking doesn't avoid "paralysis by analysis," it creates it.

Rochester gave up on a highway and filled it in. Should Baltimore?
Rochester gave up lanes of highway traffic to turn a trench into green space — and wants to do more.

Ha, great news. One of the rather embarrassing points about nixos, to my mind, is that it doesn't work with SELinux. But it seems like things are beginning to move. https://tristanxr.com/post/selinux-on-nixos/

It doesn't take much to create a #fedi alternative to #Linkedin. We just need structured profiles (featuring experience and education) and posts (that let people know if they could still apply or position is taken).

6. AFAIK: Navidrome doesn't have an automatic playlist generator, mood analysis thingies, recommendation engine, etc. That's not a huge downside for me since some of the third-party apps I use have queuing and playlist functions that satisfy my needs, but it could be a dealbreaker for some. That said, I heard Plex had kind of Sonic Analysis thing and NGL, I was kind of jealous. 👀

Spam calls 🙄

I noticed that @… now allows you to set a custom handle, so this account is now mirrored as jws.dev on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jws.dev). I still want to do the same thing with @…, but their support for @… doesn't appear to be complete.
Bravo and thank you, @…. 🙂

Good Morning #Canada
So you think you're pretty smart. Well, if you're Canadian, then it's obvious you are very smart... and pretty. Canadians have contributed some important inventions to the world, and this short video highlights just a few. It doesn't include some life changing Canadian inventions, like the athletic cup and the Wonderbra, but the rest are just as incredible. If you're not Canadian, don't hate us because we're awesome.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Inventions
https://youtu.be/cC0nuASZBfY?si=r_RWq9s0jCl6n4Nt

With the growing quality of distro's out there, and thus less breakage, there's not enough attention to the plight of the hopper. The availability of the latest applications as flatpaks doesn't help either. Why hop if it doesn't break? Way less distro-rage these days 😭

"tough on crime" ruins lives and doesn't make us safe.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-teen-defendant-substance-treatment-alternative-prison-sentence/

A 19-year-old in S.F. treatment program passed some notes. Now, he faces years in prison.
SF aims to both get tougher on crime and put recovery first. How many second chances should a teenage defendant with addiction issues get?

The question about
Settings --> System --> "Enable updated fan control"
I turn it off now...because I like noise!
Gonna attach an image where I try to archive a page but it doesn't go very well at this moment...but I'm not complaining, I just tried to but it will probably appear at a later time...
That page I archived does not contain much "info"...but more decisions that people took regarding cooling versus noise and many being ok wi…

I trust Jonathan Frakes's A Space Adventure Hour in #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds 3x04. The Riker Maneuver during the end credits was perfectly executed 😀 This has nothing to do with mocking TOS, and certainly doesn't stop me from enjoying TOS immensely. Celia Rose Go…

"Autoformalization of mathematical theorems? No shit!"
"what mathematicians need is ... not elementary statements of math olympiad problems, but the most advanced mathematical concepts that the human mind is capable to grasp despite the fact that they involve extremely intricate and sometimes combinatorically involved constructions.
"I am not sure that we fully know what it means to understand these concepts, but I am certain that it doesn't reduce to being…

Help wanted: Can we get someone to go through the build/link time dependencies of ngscopeclient, identify every third-party open source library we use, and ensure that they're all credited properly in the documentation, and include/link to the text of the appropriate licenses?
https://github.com/ng…

Add full text of third party licenses as appropriate · Issue #22 · ngscopeclient/scopehal-docs
Section 2.4 mentions a bunch of third party libraries but doesn't actually include the license text.

Rust's Stable MIR project is being slept on. It's pitched as a tool for formal verification, but it's more general than that. Once stabilized, it will almost be a stable compiler plugin API!
It doesn't just include what you get from `--emit=mir` (IR for each function), but also has full type and trait information, and will likely even support interactive queries like "does type implement trait”.
In short, it'll be perfect for metaprogramming!
[1/2]…

Yes! More of this sort of thing please, News Websites.
"He just likes being a giant cat. He doesn't frighten our dog."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmvvy2d9p4o

QB Wilson a mentor for all Giants, not just Dart https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45459241/wilson-natural-mentor-all-giants-not-just-rookie-dart

Having an ongoing volcanic eruption less than 50 km from my home doesn't change anything in my daily life except that I need to be aware if there is a chance of smog made up of gases such as sulfur dioxide. So wind is the key factor.
People are rarely killed by the lava from an eruption. If you are close enough the gas can be immediately fatal.
Eruptions beneath glaciers can cause massive life threatening floods.
The most frightening immediate danger is the pyroclastic …

george takei isn't a national treasure, he's a global treasure. the united states doesn't deserve him or his books, some states banning them only proves that

Turn of events this evening:
- wanted to try out @…
- v1.3.4 doesn't seem to have a #macOS binary in the release but release notes mention that 1.3.4 includes upstreamed fixes from MacPorts
- look at the

from my link log —
The web server doesn't render anything.
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/the-server-doesnt-render/
saved 2025-06-18

Year of our lord 2025 and you can buy a 122TB NVMe drive for $12,400 each, but you'll have to use UEFI to boot it and EFI still doesn't understand any software RAID, zfs, etc.
https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#RAID_for_the_EFI_System_Partition

The reading of IETF RFC 2119 going around reminded me that I had recorded myself reading the classic e2e paper and Clark's later design philosophy paper for my students. I certainly am not a trained voice actor, but I seem to recall at least a couple of students appreciating that format.
I'm pretty sure I did this around the mid 2000s when iPods were at their peak popularity, but the Wayback Machine doesn't have a record of them until much later.
If I ever teach agai…

"it feels like the hope with generative AI is that no matter how much you may hate it, the goal is to bombard you with its horrors and its excesses so frequently that you become numb to it."
(Original title: I’m Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn’t Have AI Crap In It)
https://

I'm Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn't Have AI Crap In It - Aftermath
It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue

Welp, got another device to get working under Linux. The new rudder pedals came in: Honeycomb Aeronautical Charlie Rudder Pedal. I can see inputs coming in from the device, the `/dev/hidraw` permissions are perfect, but outside of that there is nothing.
Verified the registry settings in MSFS 24 but MSFS also doesn't see the pedals unfortunately. Very frustrating.
#linux

is it just me, or did keyboard controls for video players stop working on macOS Safari a while ago? pressing k or space to pause works, but pressing again just jumps forward one frame or something instead of resuming. disabling all content blockers doesn't help & having the same problem on Nebula oO
EDIT: it was just me! I had the StopTheMadness For Web Apps extension active!

Tried Wayland Plasma 6 on openSUSE on a ThinkPad P14s G5 AMD last night:
-Firefox doesn't render properly
-TrackPoint is nearly unusably twitchy and doesn't respond to speed/acceleration settings
-Input latency makes it difficult to control the mouse pointer accurately
That was enough for me to log out and return to an X session. Once they finish deleting X11 from all distros and removing any X support from modern DEs, I guess I'll just get a Mac. We had a …

Does anyone know how to get a competent Comcast business support engineer to actually talk to you? I've called their support line three times, each time they tried rebooting the modem (saying they would only do this once, liars) and then disconnected me saying that I could call back if I was still having problems.
I have yet to reach even a level 1 support drone.
I'm trying to a) get my CPE password reset because the password in my password manager doesn't work anymor…

The difference between an ATM and your dad is that an ATM doesn't bitch and moan when you try to get a couple of dollars out of it.

Trump Says He Doesn't Expect to Extend July 9 Tariff Deadline (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-29/trump-says-he-doesn-t-expect-to-extend-july-9-tariff-deadline
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p42#a250629p42

"But Google's AI summaries are bad, no one wants them"
Both of these things may be true (probably are), but that doesn't matter if it works for Google (90% of people don't scroll beyond them).
So yes, AI works, in the same way shitting on my doorstep works so it's inconvenient to leave the house.

It's the year 2025 and Microsoft have released version 21 (Twenty One!) of Sql Server Management Studio and apparently they've lost the secret to the technology that makes it so that when you double click a file to open it, it doesn't start a whole new instance but instead opens the file in the running instance
I mean you read the stories about how NASA forgot how to be able to read the tapes full of Mars data or whatever but you don't expect it to happen to something y…

Brian Schottenheimer doesn't care to hurt feelings, only championships https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-doesnt-care-hurt-feelings-only-championships

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

Cal Newport: Why you should quit social media | TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/cal_newport_why_you_should_quit_social_media
> Does quitting social media make you an unemployable Luddite? Computer scientist Dr. Cal Newport doesn't think so. I…

'No sir': Ravens asst. Pagano done with being HC https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45459783/ravens-chuck-pagano-says-want-head-coach-again

This is really wild: Microsoft is pushing more and more #spyware features into everyday products to steal all of your data:
"#Copilot #Vision is an extension of Microsoft's divisive Recall [...] is de…

How was Joe Biden forced out of a presidential race for a disastrous debate and for looking frail and for confusing names,
but this man, one of the most ignorant men to ever be elected to any office, allowed to continue on as president and treated as a normal, serious leader??
https://bsky.app/pr…

Trump doesn't want information on ICEBlock to be shared, so... UPDATE: I understood however there are possible serious security issues with this app
#trump

Using "AI" is no longer optional at Microsoft. Reminds me how when Meta had to force their engineers to use their "Metaverse" product.
If your product doesn't even gain traction internally, maybe it's just ... shit?
(Original title: ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work)

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work
An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much t…

Dez Bryant, Roc Nation fire back at Jerry Jones blaming Jay-Z for why he doesn't like negotiating with agents

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dez-…

Brett Kavanaugh says he doesn't owe the public an explanation (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/422035/supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-shadow-docket
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p40#a250802p40

Jordon doesn't love Bill for his body. She loves him for his beautiful football mind.

In fact, the KSZ9031 (my usual 1000baseT PHY) doing this might actually be technically noncompliant.
They provide a vendor defined way to read back the negotiated speed and duplex state in register 0x1f.
But it seems like IEEE doesn't actually officially say that reading back register 0x0 is how you do this? is there really no standard-compliant way to figure out the final negotiated link config?

Rodgers brings an MVP résumé to Steelers -- but their offense goes against his playing style https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44222079/aaron-rodgers-signing-pittsburgh-steelers-offense-qb

using kobo forma with koreader makes me feel like i'm from the Star Trek future holding a powerful artifact
it does what it should, it's pleasant to interact with, it has good aesthetics, and it helps me understand books in a way paper doesn't (context sensitive dictionary lookup turns out to be really important for me)
it's been a day and the thing already feels like an extension of myself; and i never have to work around it

Dez Bryant, Roc Nation Dispute Jerry Jones' Claims Amid Micah Parsons Drama https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/dez-bryant-roc-nation-dispute-jerry-jones-claims-amid-micah-parsons-drama

It's time to lower your inhibitions towards just asking a human the answer to your question.
In the early nineties, effectively before the internet, that's how you learned a lot of stuff. Your other option was to look it up in a book. I was a kid then, so I asked my parents a lot of questions.
Then by ~2000 or a little later, it started to feel almost rude to do this, because Google was now a thing, along with Wikipedia. "Let me Google that for you" became a joke website used to satirize the poor fool who would waste someone's time answering a random question. There were some upsides to this, as well as downsides. I'm not here to judge them.
At this point, Google doesn't work any more for answering random questions, let alone more serous ones. That era is over. If you don't believe it, try it yourself. Between Google intentionally making their results worse to show you more ads, the SEO cruft that already existed pre-LLMs, and the massive tsunami of SEO slop enabled by LLMs, trustworthy information is hard to find, and hard to distinguish from the slop. (I posted an example earlier: #AI #LLMs #DigitalCommons #AskAQuestion

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit.
When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground
https…

What goes up must come down: How megaconstellations like SpaceX's Starlink network pose a grave safety threat to us on Earth
Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground.

Musk says he doesn't 'wanna take responsibility' for all Trump actions (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5327997-elon-musk-trump-administration-bind/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p62#a250601p62

Steelers' Aaron Rodgers offers retort to Terry Bradshaw criticism: He 'doesn't know me' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-aaron-rodgers-offers-retort-to-terry-bradshaw-criticism-he-doesn-t-know-me

Eagles' Jordan Mailata doesn't want defending champions moniker: 'We're not defending nothing' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-jordan-mailata-doesn-t-want-defending-champions-moniker-we-re-not-defending-nothing…