Tootfinder

I installed the #Dia #Browser. Now with AI powers! I then asked it to summarize https://infosec.exchange/deck/getting-

Why the NFL's Bigger Media Plays Are Just Getting Started https://insidethestar.com/why-the-nfls-bigger-media-plays-are-just-getting-started

47 Tuc in Rubin Data Preview 1 - Exploring Early LSST Data and Science Potential: #Rubin Observatory is Just Getting Started: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/globular-clusters-the-vera-rubin-observatory-is-just-getting-started (based on ComCam images just released in bulk).

So, might've gotten a few things in the mail today...MUHAHAHA. The Minisforum MS-A2s have arrived and I've started getting the RAM upgraded and tested.
#homelab #minirack

Musk tried and failed to enact systemic change across the entire government.
Many tech executives and investors who support Trump have narrower goals that focus on creating a regulatory climate favorable to themselves.
While Trump and Musk traded barbs on their respective social networks,
a cryptocurrency company whose business had been hamstrung by the Biden administration went public on the New York Stock Exchange,
its share price popping 200 percent.
An art…

Musk and Trump are over. Silicon Valley is just getting started.
The Tech-Trump alliance has always had tensions. But its lucrative nature has outweighed the ideological differences.

Love this, by D.J. Grothe
We are truly only just getting started. All we have to do is to fail to kill everyone, and things will get better.
"Human civilization has existed for only 3% of the time that anatomically modern humans have existed. And modern industrial civilization has existed for just 2% of that 3% — just 0.06% of the time that anatomically modern humans have existed. Maybe we’re just getting started!"

Universal Pictures has started adding a legal warning at the end credits of its films stating that their titles "may not be used to train AI" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Pictures to Big Tech: We’ll Sue If You Steal Our Movies For AI
The studio is getting more aggressive about protecting its films from companies pirating them.

Really fast boot. Not for me. I'll stick to containers and the odd KVM VM using virt-manager.
https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main/docs/getting-started.md#running-firecracker

firecracker/docs/getting-started.md at main · firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing. - firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Getting Started with #Autoscaling in #Kubernetes with #KEDA

Getting started with Shiny to make interactive web-apps with R: #rstats

Overview | Building Web Apps with R Shiny
This class will teach you the basics of Shiny app programming, giving you skills that will form the basis of almost any app you want to build. By the end of the class, you will have created a custom app that collects and saves data, allows users to dynamically visualize the data, and produces downloadable reports.

So… My day yesterday
Was just getting started on my day and got notified I had a client onsite in an hour. An hours drive away. Called, client didn’t wanna reschedule said “oh 30m late, that’s not late”1️⃣
15m away on 495 TPMS alert goes off & tire pressure counts down from 38psi like a bomb timer…

No more new oil and gas projects! #fossilfuel #FossilFuels

Just Stop Oil – Just Stop Oil
Just Getting Started Just Stop Oil may have won our demand, but revolutionary change is needed now more than ever. Corrupt politicians serving the interests of billionaires. Ordinary people struggling to survive. Media shifting blame from their mates on mega yachts to the people in small boats. And the world is getting hotter and hotter.​

Getting started first day of @… with @… kicking things off
#FediCon

Ticket sales for #NixCon2025 are open! 🎉 🎆
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/ticket-sales-started-for-nixcon-2025/64756

Skies cleared up just in time for solar activity to get even higher (Kp 8)...
... and the sun to come up. I grabbed a single digit number of shots but the eastern sky was already visibly bright naked eye and my long-exposure shots started getting washed out.
Forecast shows activity will be decent all day (good luck Asian/European sky watchers!) and might persist into the dark for me tonight. Fingers crossed.

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

PG and Pete just getting started. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pG_sKJC9ao

#Matplotlib has a lot of "image comparison tests" that are horrible fragile. Technically, most of them permit some deviation from the reference images, but quite often I've been getting higher RMS than that. So for a long time, we've been maintaining patches that increased the tolerance in tests, and regularly either had to be rebased and updated for new tests.
At some point upstream started adding conditions permitting higher tolerance on non-x86_64 platforms. Of course, these changes forced me to rebase our patches. Curious enough, my previous overrides often happened to be close to the tolerance given for non-x86_64 platforms.
Today, it finally occurred to me that instead of updating the patch once again, I can try dropping it entirely and just sed-ing all `platform.machine() == 'x86_64'` with `False`. And guess what — down to 3 failures (related to TeΧ). And I don't have to spend 15 minutes manually doing what effectively accounted to the same thing.
#Gentoo #Python

Why Jeremiah Trotter's terrifying Jalen Carter revelation for Eagles should put NFC East on notice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-jer…

It has been a while since I checked my version of Libre Office. I was using 24.8.2.1
I am now using 25.2.5.2
There is also a new Getting Started Guide
I will boost that

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

No more new oil and gas projects! #fossilfuel #FossilFuels

Just Stop Oil – Just Stop Oil
Just Getting Started Just Stop Oil may have won our demand, but revolutionary change is needed now more than ever. Corrupt politicians serving the interests of billionaires. Ordinary people struggling to survive. Media shifting blame from their mates on mega yachts to the people in small boats. And the world is getting hotter and hotter.​

When you are a swift developer, every day is Xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-sdks-for-webassembly-now-available-on-swift-org/80405

Swift SDKs for WebAssembly now available on swift.org
As the Platform Steering Group accepted the vision document for WebAssembly support, we’re excited to announce that Swift SDKs for Wasm are now available at swift.org/install. The website now also hosts a getting started guide for Wasm with installation and build instructions. You may notice "Swift SDKs" is in plural. The reason is that artifact bundles for Wasm distributed from swift.org include two Swift SDKs: one with the full feature set of the Swift standard library and Swift Testing, a…

Started an Illustrator trial and the installer already crashed Explorer. glad to know I'm getting my money's worth

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

Leigh Sparks has returned to her studio in Carpenteria California after leaving for several reasons, including a cancer diagnosis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the birth of her grandchildren. 
“I’m just getting started and I want to show other women that they can do the same,” Sparks told CVN. 
Now, Sparks has elected to share her space with several other artists,
who all pitch in to pay for the cost of the space and work in the gallery throughout the week. 
Other artist…

Andry Is Free. Trump's Barbarous Immigration Regime Is Just Getting Started. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/andry-is-free-trumps-barbarous-immigration-venezuela-maduro-salvador-cecot-deportation-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p56#a250721p56

I *always* used to get sick when I traveled on planes.
Now I wear a (kf94) mask in the airport and during takeoffs & landings, and I haven't gotten sick since I started doing that.
https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/114892834963771706

CAIDA Ark now has an active measurement programming environment for qualified researchers. https://www.caida.org/projects/ark/programming/

Getting Started: Ark Integrated Active Measurement Programming Environment
CAIDA’s Archipelago (Ark) infrastructure provides a programming environment

Today was the Neos Contribution Day right after #NeosCon in Karlsruhe. The idea is that members of the @… Neos Team help interested people getting started with contributing to #NeosCMS

😲 Started getting complaints that an email newsletter signup form I forgot about years ago quit working -- at such a rate that I must have accumulated at least a thousand emails in a DynamoDB table
#programming #sysadmin

Language learning has been part of me since high school. I'm solid in 2 non-English languages, crappy but survivable in 2 others. I've played with & started learning others many times.
I'm real busy rn, but language learning could be a fun thing to do for myself & make me feel like I'm still me.
But I'm stumped about my language picks. I learnt the obvious European languages in school; later tried key Asian languages. What do I want to do now?
African languages? I won't be getting a chance to use them much in Aus, & I'm unlikely to get to a stage where I can read literature.
I tried Slovenian/Slovene on a whim & really love it, but I'll never go there. Is the practical but unfun answer grind out more kanji/hanzi? Or is whimsically learning a language spoken by only 2.5 million people reasonable? I will continue struggling through with Ukrainian, 'cause I think it's important.
#LanguageLearning

Cowboys kicking tires on former star OT, familiar face amid injury woes https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-kicking-tires-offensive-tackle-lael-collins-amid-injury-woes

🚀 Getting Started
For Developers:
Quick API integration
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.moonshot.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create( model="kimi-k2-instruct", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Build me a we…

Started laying out the power supply for the switch engine board. Still needs some work but it's getting there,

Chargers LB Daiyan Henley determined to build on breakout year: ‘There’s so much more for me’ https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-lb-daiyan-henley-determined-to-build-on-breakout-year-there-s-so-much-more-for-me