Tootfinder

(Wait, the shutdown date is march 2024 right? Is it already down or will it go down in the end of march?)

Muni fares only account for 8% of SFMTA's budget. In other words, the system is already 92% of the way to being fare-free.
Maybe go that last little bit of the way, instead of doubling down on hassling San Franciscans too poor to pay?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mun

The Glasgow Embedded CoC also doesn't make any binary nor categorical moves. The categories listed are clearly examples, stated with the resigned sigh of "you're going to make me list some specifics aren't you? Fine, here's some things, you get the gist.” — this is good! Problems aren't always covered by a specific list, and it leaves enforcement much more qualitative than quantitative or categorical. Not "if (bad) yeet()", but “hey, you're being a jerk, can you tone it down?”
For the scale of project this is absolutely the right way to go.

Biden's Israel arms embargo will go down as one of the worst American betrayals (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/05/09/opinion/bidens-israel-arms-embargo-will-go-down-as-one-of-the-worst-american-betrayals/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240510/p18#a240510p18

Accidentally launched my phone across the room trying to simply set it down (I let go of it too early lol). My old phone would have not survived that impeccable throw holy hell. 😆

Ongoing IoT device work to redo my winter heating control in my Latvian house. This year was a shitshow. Father in law had to go to my house 4 times (2 hour drive) to fix the shitty Russian rebranded Electrolux controllers. Next year will be my own code.
Had hell with the 3D prints. Turns out summer massively change the properties of the plastic causing lots of layer shifts etc vs when I first made this gcode in winter. 20% slow down all solved.
Next to make choria speak Xiaomi…

She sat on the trailer steps and stared in reverence at the field of dandelions. Surrounded by flowers, something in her heart began to tug painfully up toward the blue sky. She plucked one, blew on it gently. Up flew the fluff, lighter than air, and her soul soared with it. Later, she would wolf down her breakfast, go back to the exhausted, deadening ratrace. But a part of her would remain here, in the sun and soil and Spring breeze, soaring with those seeds. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366

This afternoon I was interviewed by Gary.
He's a sensitive sweet boy who doesn't like it when his humans go away so he needs someone to take good care of him. It's quite rare I unlock the upside down achievement during the interview, so I think we're good to go. ❤️
Gary was also homed by the charity I volunteer at so I remember him from kennels!
#Greyhounds…

Soooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.

TalkTV plans to close down its linear TV channel in early summer 2024 and go online only, weeks after Piers Morgan left his daily show on the channel (PA Media)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/05/talktv-to-close-d…

Parenting keeping you too busy to go to the gym? Not a problem, there's plenty of ways to stay in shape.
Try the Toddler Press. It's just like a normal bench press except it's done lying on a couch rather than a weight bench. And instead of a barbell, you use a 30 pound toddler.
Start with ten reps. If you're lucky she'll let you put her down and not do another 20.

Muni fares only account for 8% of SFMTA's budget. In other words, the system is already 92% of the way to being fare-free.
Maybe go that last little bit of the way, instead of doubling down on hassling San Franciscans too poor to pay?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mun

On this night 15 years ago, I was on my way to Prince’s Oscars party — thanks to having asked him for a “purple raincheck” when I wasn’t able to take him up on an invitation to go to his house. Here’s the absurd story of how it all went down, complete with getting the chance to walk the purple carpet. https://

The Purple Raincheck - Anil Dash - Medium
That brief message from Scott Addison Clay was the first indication I had that something was up. Scott was then the webmaster for Prince, working on creating lotusflow3r.com, the website for a 3-disc…

Evil Mom vs Stupendous Man
#CalvinandHobbes

Tom Brady may have just hinted to the Las Vegas Raiders that he has the solution to their big problem https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/tom_brady_may_have_just_hinted_to…

Tom Brady may have just hinted to the Las Vegas Raiders that he has the solution to their big problem
The Las Vegas Raiders still have a clear quarterback issue for the 2023 season. They have made an addition with Gardner Minshew but still face the problem of not having a clear face for the franchise. Now, they could grab one in the draft or go a different route. Recently, Tom Brady, who is still in the process of becoming a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, sat down and did a video with Vic Blends, who cuts hair and asks questions during his videos. For Brady, he asked if something happ…

Woohoo.
https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/112250715036548620

Random HB thought : episode 8 of season 1 is great because it's a very cathartic experience after the emotional rollercoaster that was episode 7. It's a nice way to settle back down with nice music and animation and fun colors.
Other random HB thought : fans who watched the series in "real-time" must have had it very rough though, because they had to go from OZZIE's straight to The Circus with no emotional break in-between the two episodes. Oof.
#HelluvaBoss

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: big plant down
Finally finished the forest temple, killed the big plant. Now I've been told I've got to go west. It was in red, so it must be important. I'm getting very confused though, between what's happening in Twilight Princess and what's happening in The Minish Cap. I may need to put one on hold for now!

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
TAMTAM:
🎵 Go Down the Mountain
#TAMTAM
https://open.spotify.com/track/3b2fxJcgMcKCA0YIAXgDhJ
https://tamtam.bandcamp.com/track/go-down-the-mountain

"the biggest 6-month fall in NHS waiting lists in over 10 years" say the Tories. This is plain untrue, and the graphs are the clearest demonstration of how voting does actually matter. This stuff is killing us

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04108 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Monotonicity of Recurrence in Random Walks
We consider non-homogeneous random walks on the positive quadrant in two dimensions. In the 1960's the following question was asked: is it true if such a random walk $X$ is recurrent and $Y$ is another random walk that at every point is more likely to go down and more likely to go left than $Y$, then $Y$ is also recurrent? We provide an example showing that the answer is negative. We also show that if either the random walk $X$ or $Y$ is sufficiently homogeneous then the answer is in fact pos…

If you read a map upside down, you get lost, unless it's a map to a minefield, in which case you go boom.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Nik Kershaw:
🎵 I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
#NikKershaw
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NRPQIwKYjNrXVIOmMOSln
https://opaledit.bandcamp.com/track/nik-kershaw-i-wont-let-the-sun-go-down-on-me-opal-edit

I guess the advantage of the big city is you can go to the gym anytime day or night right next door to the hotel! 😂 I do like the view.

Parenting keeping you too busy to go to the gym? Not a problem, there's plenty of ways to stay in shape.
Try the Toddler Press. It's just like a normal bench press except it's done lying on a couch rather than a weight bench. And instead of a barbell, you use a 30 pound toddler.
Start with ten reps. If you're lucky she'll let you put her down and not do another 20.

Oh, also, driving down was easy, the usual 80 minutes, but coming back was incredible, like cottage country homebound after a long weekend but with trucks, lots of trucks, ave speed 20kph, Google put me on some dark side road that could hit 50,but ended at a ramp jam that was clearly doing 2kph, so I bailed and sought dinner. So I'm not sure where it is, but the vermicelli chicken with spring roll for $17 was massive, fresh and wonderful. Go there. Pho Huy, possibly Grimsby ON?

lol at people who think that decentralized services can never go down

Thought I'd take advantage of the rest of the internet being down to quickly upgrade this server.
It didn't go great. These Node projects just can't leave their build process alone for even a minute can they?
Now you need a new Yarn, Yarn has changed the way it installs, now you need Corepack, that means you need a new Node, no definitely newer than the apt package.
God knows why a Ruby project would want to copy this insanity but here we are.
Latest changes broke my alterations to set the character-limit but we have finally got the actually latest Glitch working.
Interesting looking new interface that broke my character-limit changes though. I think threaded mode is new.
Still sooner have my 5k character limit though.
Sorry for a bit of up and down there. Pretend it was the same thing as happened at Facebook.

"Grief is the ultimate interruption of the normalization of mass death and mass murder because in grief, we acknowledge the value of life as we do in no other scenario. We grieve because we love life, because we love those we have lost. We love the living. We know the value of humanity. That is what our grief means to us. And so we retake our humanity, we reclaim public space, and we reclaim this day from a genocidal administration with our grief and with our love, and with our refusal to allow those who are dying to go unacknowledged. We hold this space for them. We say their names. We honor them because they are part of us and we are part of them. And so long as they are dying, there is no justice for any of us. And so there shall be no peace for those who lead us.
I know that many of us are grieving a great deal in these times, and that our grief can at times feel all-consuming. Grief can cause us to shut down, retreat, or turn inward, but I want to remind us that there is power in grief. Because grief refuses the normalization of violence and loss. Our grief is a rejection of dehumanization. By grieving, we are refusing to devalue the lives of those we have lost, and we are refusing to become less human ourselves. We are refusing to sacrifice the parts of ourselves that are soft and permeable enough to facilitate human connection and mutual recognition. In our grief, there is hope for humanity, because in our grief, love and decency persist in the face of atrocity.
I urge you to make space for your grief and to nurture its power. As Rasha Abdulhadi teaches us, “If our hearts break, let them break outward into action."
Kelly Hayes from a speech they held at the 24-hour vigil for Gaza in Chicago, as quoted here: https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-a-shutdown-for-gaza/?ref=organizingmythoughts-newsletter

2024 NFL Mock Draft: J.J. McCarthy sneaks into top 3 as 4 QBs go top 5; AFC contender trades up for WR

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nf

2024 NFL Mock Draft: J.J. McCarthy sneaks into top 3 as 4 QBs go top 5; AFC contender trades up for WR
The Seahawks trade down, then take a passer

Waiting at the lights in a left-hand lane, waiting to go straight ahead, there was a car to my right in the right-hand lane. I realised they were trying to get my attention.
"Oh shit", I thought, "Have I got a flat tyre?"
"Excuse me love!", this woman shouted, while signalling for me to wind down my window (using the universal signal that depicts how windows were wound down in the 1980s)

Hey friends!
The hike with my friends was a blast! It was pretty warm today (yet another heat record) but I decided to ascend in the shade and go down again on the sun side,which turned out to be a good decision.
Luckily I also didn't felt very sore from yesterday's cycling! The one photo shows what I call "the window". Not sure what you think, but I love this spot.
Afterwards we had some coffee, cookies and some nice talk. Just a great day!

Florida’s recommendations give room for measles to spread
A slippery road we cannot go down
#Measles #Florida #Vote4Healthcare

Florida’s recommendations give room for measles to spread
A slippery road we cannot go down

Sean Payton can help the Dallas Cowboys make Dak Prescott's life a lot easier in 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/sean_payton_can_help_the_dallas_cowboys_make_dak_prescotts_lif…

Sean Payton can help the Dallas Cowboys make Dak Prescott's life a lot easier in 2024
When you manage an NFL team, and you have a franchise quarterback, there is always a primary objective. Keep that quarterback happy. Objectively, the Dallas Cowboys haven't done the best job about that. It stems back to giving Dak Prescott the franchise tag back in 2021. What happened a few months after that would be a sight that no one wanted to see.  Dak Prescott would go down with an ankle injury that would end his season and lead to months of rehab. Luckily, the Cowboys ultimately did righ…

Gunman Clive: pew pew
When asked to name a cowboy, I'd probably go for Hank, Clint, or Joe. You'd have to get pretty far down the list before you got to 'Clive'. Gunman Clive is a charming 2D platform shooter, with the graphics looking as if they've been pencil drawn although they're actually 3D models. The gameplay is pretty simple, jumping and shooting in straight lines, which is particularly annoying when your character can only shoot horizontally but enemies…

It is impossible to 100% know Vim, you’ll continue learning it as you go for years.
Example 789517: More than a decade using Vim, I just became aware of the difference between <C-d>/<C-u> and <C-f>/<C-b>. The latter pair moves down and up one whole screen, the former pair only half a screen.
It always made sense to me to use D as in Down and U as in Up, but using F and B is way more faster.

Having owned many #cars both with tinted and untinted windows, I prefer *untinted* windows, even in the hot Northern California summers. I find that modern cars have really good UV and IR rejection in their glass and tend to cool down rapidly with A/C, and the additional nighttime visibility of untinted windows is something I enjoy.
If I had to tint at all, I would go no darker than 70% transmiss…

Honestly I will never go back to Instagram. I know it is “where people are”, but same can be said about X. https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/112043841625126822

Rep. Lauren Boebert on Twitter: "The #Biden Crime Family will go down as the most corrupt political family in American history."
https://twitter.com/RepBoebert/status/…

Rep. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) on X
The Biden Crime Family will go down as the most corrupt political family in American history.

Suns out can't see my screen = blind down. Go to get a cuppa and its started to rain. Blind back up.
Suns out again. I need to automate my Velux blind!

$125K stolen in 10 minutes
From Kim Komando's newsletter —
"Feb. 16 was a typical Friday night. Barry and I decided to stay home, grill chicken and make a salad for dinner. At about 6:45 p.m., we heard some loud rumbling overhead.
We walked onto the back patio, and two police helicopters were shining lights all over our property. A recording echoed, “Police. You are under arrest. Stay right there and I won’t shoot you.”
As I looked across the fence, a swarm of armed Phoenix SWAT team members with a few dogs were circling our property. One of the guys said, “Yeah, there’s a jammer right here.” He picked it up. I leaned over the patio and asked, “What’s going on?”
The police told me to go inside
When I asked again, a SWAT member said, “Ma’am, it’s a South American gang targeting homes to steal from. The jammer says you might have been next. Do we have permission to enter your property?” I said, “Yes!” and then he asked something like, “If we find anyone, will you pursue charges so we can arrest them?” I replied, “Of course!”
I opened the driveway gates to our property and the guest house while Barry tossed the police keys to open the security gates. People asked me if I was scared. How could I be? There was a team of really professional police officers protecting me from who knows what.
Turns out, when the gang saw we were home, they likely diverted their attention to the house next door. A house four doors down from us wasn’t so lucky.
The homeowner left at 5 p.m. to have dinner and got a notification his security cameras were offline at 5:05 p.m. He thought the internet went down. Nope, the gang broke in and took $25,000 in cash and valuables worth $100,000. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
How are they getting away with this?
The gang places cellular and Wi‑Fi jammers around the homes they’re targeting. This way, security cameras and phones are useless. A Phoenix police officer told me the gang probably noticed nothing was down in our house.
We have our cameras and internet hardwired. Even when they tried to jam our signals, the red lights on the security cameras still showed they were recording everything.
But how frightening is that? Your phone doesn’t work. Your cameras aren’t recording anything. On the upside, the gang doesn’t carry guns. This way, if they get caught, they’ll spend about six months in jail before being extradited to Chile.
Nothing is random
The gang scopes out homes beforehand. They drive the neighborhood and look up houses on real estate sites to get an idea of where the primary bedroom is located. They look for dogs, too.
It’s not just in Phoenix, by the way. This is happening all over the country. A friend was robbed by this gang, and he lives in a guarded, gated community in California. Kudos to the Phoenix Police Department — they arrested three members of the gang who were in my neighborhood that night.
So, what can you do?
☑️​ Wireless cameras go kaput with no signal. Try a wired camera for a backup.
☑️​ A cam with SD card storage will still record if there’s no Wi‑Fi.
☑️​ Put up motion-activated lights; they make it harder for anyone to sneak around.
☑️​ A femtocell (think of it as a mini cell tower) could be enough to keep your connection if thieves use jammers — T‑Mobile or Verizon.
☑️​ Have an Amazon Echo? Away mode lets you control your lights so it looks like someone’s home.
☑️​ Make it look like someone’s watching TV at your house when you’re not there with a Television Simulator.
☑️​ A University of North Carolina survey of over 400 incarcerated burglars found security system signs deter thieves.
☑️​ Check Zillow, Realtor⁠.⁠com and Redfin for photos of your house. The more crooks know about the layout, the better for them. Ask to have them removed.
☑️​ Blur your house from Google Maps and Apple Maps while you’re at it.

It’s 5:45am here in northern #Vermont. We have about an inch of snow on the ground and the snow heavily coming down.
Now is the moment when we parents are just waiting … and waiting… for the phone call.
Will school be canceled today? Or will they just go ahead with it?
We should know *soon*, we think… but meanwhile we wait for the calls…

AG Bonta “noted there is a political pendulum swinging away from treating unhoused people with compassion because ‘now people are at wit’s end with homelessness. The pendulum swings come from emotional decisions. When fear or anger go up, reasonable policy-making goes down. And so I try to be a voice of reason, and not everyone listens to me.’”

Tom Brady 'not opposed' to Michael Jordan-like comeback https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/tom_brady_not_opposed_to_michael_jordan_like_comeback/s1_13132_40224544

Tom Brady 'not opposed' to Michael Jordan-like comeback
Tom Brady has been retired for just one season, and now it sounds like he misses being a part of the action every Sunday in the fall. Brady, who turns 47 in August, was asked on the "Deep Cuts" podcast if he'd answer the call should a starting quarterback go down and a team needs a new QB1 for a playoff push. Brady mentioned the New England Patriots and Las Vegas Raiders, saying, "You never know." Brady even dropped a Michael Jordan reference, who came out of retirement twice in his career.  "…

The other day a friend came to the door (here in NYC) collecting signatures. She told me about how she'd been hit by a car on a street that had very briefly been closed to cars as an open street (fuck you Portofino's, I hope you go out of business for getting that open street shut down.) It fucked her leg all up; after surgery she's been having to do lots of physical therapy. She was still limping.
DOTs consider this a minor injury, barely worth working about.

Looks like Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are down. Way to go centralized social media! Glad our Fediverse is still going!

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Suzanne Vega:
🎵 When Heroes Go Down
#NowPlaying #SuzanneVega
https://open.spotify.com/track/6HF7VGNqERp0a73SHAJJky
https://suzannevega.bandcamp.com/track/when-heroes-go-down

If I'd ever go into online #piracy it would be to distribute #ebooks with stripped down formatting.
What I mean to say is that I was taking a look at the code of an #epub and saw an asteri…

Gunman Clive: pew pew
When asked to name a cowboy, I'd probably go for Hank, Clint, or Joe. You'd have to get pretty far down the list before you got to 'Clive'. Gunman Clive is a charming 2D platform shooter, with the graphics looking as if they've been pencil drawn although they're actually 3D models. The gameplay is pretty simple, jumping and shooting in straight lines, which is particularly annoying when your character can only shoot horizontally but enemies…

#ListeningClub Whew! Thank you @… for that thoroughly incredible pick. I have never heard of NNAMDÏ and now I must go down that rabbit hole.

So we’ve had a couple really warm days this week and I thought I’d take advantage and grill some steaks.😀 But the gas grill wouldn’t start.😕 Replaced the tank. Still no go.☹️ Checked connections.🫤 Held start button down for a bit. Then💥 Just a small one, but enough to lift the lid a bit and singe the hairs off the back of my hand holding the button down. That was exciting. But we’re good to go now. 😆

🏀 @… #CollegeBasketball #CBB #FreezingColdTakes
Via F…

Morbid Forest - Season 4 finale 💀🕷️🧟‍♀️
Narrated horror anthology | Total listening time: 25h 36m
Welcome Travelers to the Morbid Forest. Let Ranger Harper guide you down a path through the woods as she spins you tales that will truly terrify. So don’t go down the wrong path, least you find yourself lost within the Morbid Forest.
#Au...

Morbid Forest - Season 4 finale 💀🕷️🧟‍♀️
Narrated horror anthology | Total listening time: 25h 36m Welcome Travelers to the Morbid Forest. Let Ranger Harper guide you down a path through the woods as she spins you tales that will truly terrify. So don’t go down the wrong path, least you find yourself lost within the Morbid Forest. 4 seasons, 52 episodes as of Feb 13, 2024.

Time to shut down the website. This is gonna go out of budget. /j
#MyWebsite

Hey friends!
The hike with my friends was a blast! It was pretty warm today (yet another heat record) but I decided to ascend in the shade and go down again on the sun side,which turned out to be a good decision.
Luckily I also didn't felt very sore from yesterday's cycling! The one photo shows what I call "the window". Not sure what you think, but I love this spot.
Afterwards we had some coffee, cookies and some nice talk. Just a great day!

Late Saturday night I threw out this week's (very cute) column about Russia in favour of #Iran-Israel.
Because, as usual, what happens far away in the Middle East can become, in the case of PEPFAR, a life-or-death matter in #SouthAfrica.
Phillip de Wet | SA partner Iran just attacked US partner Israel. Guess how that'll go down
https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/columnists/phillipdewet/phillip-de-wet-sa-partner-iran-just-attacked-us-partner-israel-guess-how-thatll-go-down-20240414

Me to a coworker last week: When you are in Baltimore next month go down to the harbor.
Me to same coworker this week: Never mind…

Plumber: “We cleared it. Black sludge, probably growing over the life of the house from everything that ever went down the drain. We had to go all the way to the main. But it’s clear.”
Me, completely flat: “Did it scream?”
Plumber: “…what?”
Me: “Can you still hear it?”
Plumber: “I’ll, um, be in the van working on your invoice.”

Knock me down with a feather - I've just heard all 17 minutes and four seconds of Iron Butterfly's 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' ON THE RADIO 🤪 🔊
Go on, ask me which radio station has the guts to do that at prime time of 9pm?
Only France Inter Paris - or FIP, from Radio France
https://en…

FIP (radio station) - Wikipedia

Sure….until the next time the Republicans take power.
I’m sorry but “trickle-down economics” will *never* go away because the right/far right *love* it. https://mindly.social/@Kozmo/112111885105581045

"'The #Gruffalo' does not go down well at the conspiracy theorist book club", #TomGauld knows. :)

Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed "toxicity testing", but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging Face (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-deleted-

Microsoft Deleted Its LLM Because It Didn’t Get a Safety Test, But Now It’s Everywhere
Microsoft deleted its WizardLM 2 LLM because it didn’t go through “toxicity testing,” but it’s already all over the internet.

Might continue to go up and down a bit.
It won't compile while also running any more. Not enough memory. The Mastodon Bloat is real, and in part at least cause by the Node bloat.
I think maybe the actual env-var is working now and we're back to running on un-edited glitch?
Either that or the compilation failed in such a way it thinks it worked but really is an old cache. 🤷
Nothing about managing a Mastodon server makes me want to learn Ruby. Nothing. It mostly makes me want to run away from node too.

DANGER: STAY BACK
FISHING AND CLIMBING
The cliffs along this coast have caused many deaths.
Cliff edges crumble under your feet; strong winds take your balance; rocks are covered with slippery algae: and large, unpredictable waves —"sneakers"—will take you off ledges and out to sea. Those who fall could strike their heads before landing in the ocean. Few survive.
HOW TO SURVIVE THESE CLIFFS
• Stay back from the edge.
• Do not go into a cliff area that has slippery rocks.
• Stay out of cliff areas that suspend you over the ocean.
• When fishing lines snag, do not go into the surf zone to free the lines.
BEACHCOMBERS BEWARE
The surf at this beach has caused the death of many people who were simply walking the shoreline.
Without warning, large, unpredictable waves called "sneakers" place a large mass of water far up the shore. Sneakers knock down both children and adults, who struggle to regain footing in eroding sand. The wave backwash then takes them out to sea. Few survive.
HOW TO SURVIVE THIS BEACH
• Stay back and watch that wave.
• Look at the lines of driftwood and foam on the beach. Allow no one to go between the highest line and the ocean.
• Do not allow children to play tag with the waves.
• Remember that adults are as vulnerable as children to the hidden power of these waves.
ANYONE CAUGHT BY THIS SURF
REQUIRES IMMEDIATE PROFESSIONAL RESCUE.
DO NOT ENTER THE WATER YOURSELF.
NO LIFEGUARD SERVICE PROVIDED.
IN ANY EMERGENCY
DIAL 911
POLICE • FIRE • MEDICAL

Internal email: Participant Media, which backed films like Green Book and Spotlight, is shutting down; sources: almost all of its 100 employees will be let go (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/participant-shuts-down-film-s…

Participant Shuts Down: Film Studio Behind Spotlight, Green Book
Jeff Skoll's Participant is shutting down after 20 years, leaving a library including Oscar winners "Spotlight and "Green Book."

Tulsi Gabbard turned down RFK Jr.'s offer to be his running mate, she says (Beatrice Peterson/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tulsi-gabbard-turned-rfk-jrs-offer-running-mate/story?id=108723568
http://www.memeorandum.com/240402/p37#a240402p37

Odometers in non-compact spaces
Godofredo Iommi, Mario Ponce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03768 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03768…

Odometers in non-compact spaces
We define an odometer in the Baire space. That is the non-compact space of one sided sequences of natural numbers. We go on to prove that it is topologically conjugated to the dyadic odometer restricted to an appropriate non-compact subset of the space of one sided sequences on two symbols. We extend the action of the odometer to finite words. It turns out that, arranging the finite words in appropriate binary tree, this extension runs through the tree from left-right and top-down. Several well…

Dave McCarty, one of the people at the center of the Hugos scandal in Chengdu, was refused access to the Levitation (Eastercon 2024) because organizers deemed his presence would cause "significant interference". It sounds like he didn't go quietly.
The best comment on the linked post, by Jim Janney: "Put it down to regional cultural preferences. These are the rules that we must follow…"

Want to die young?
Immerse yourself in conservative media, and vote Republican.
Seriously.
We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking:
When conservatives run governments, suicides and homicides go up;
when liberals run governments, suicides and homicides go down.
We got the first clue back in 2002, when, in a 100-year longitudinal study published that year in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Australian researchers found that…

How Conservative Policies and Rhetoric Kill People
Study after study says it: Right-wing policies and rhetoric lead to more homicides and suicides. Why don’t more people know this?

The need to build housing bumps up against NIMBYism and growth concerns in my community. We're a rural area on the edge of Toronto so there's tremendous pressure to start paving farmland (HWY 413 will cut through the southern portion of Caledon) and increase the population. I worry about sprawl, because that's the majority of approved projects, and not creating walkable, livable towns with GO connections.
#Caledon #HousingCrisis
https://www.caledonenterprise.com/news/council/mzo-on-crack-caledon-residents-ask-mayor-to-slow-down-fast-tracked-housing-for-35/article_b81727a7-fed4-5459-a74d-885acc4d87b3.html

"England have given it a real fight. They've given it a good go."

I don't think 145 all out is "a real fight", sir.

"Their heads never went down."

145. ALL. OUT. The very definition of heads going down!

TalkSports commentary is shambolic. Please get the cricket back on the BBC.

#Cricket

He will go down in history as Putin the Paranoid, a war criminal.
:mastodon:

My gaming needs are pretty simple. I enjoy old-fashioned dungeon crawlers, turn-based battles and a chance to build my party with treasure, weapons and experience. Also, since I am often playing while other things are going on around me, I need to be able to put it down at a moment’s notice and go do something else. Also, I mostly play on my iPad.
By far the best games I’ve come across are the offerings from Spiderweb Software — the Avernum series and Avadon series. Both offer many, ma…

I've been caught too many times, and if I go down again I'm immediately ratting out all my friends, compredez komrades? https://beige.party/@StefanThinks/112328020876621091

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Laura Cannell:
🎵 Down And Down We Go
#LauraCannell

A quick clip from yesterday's #cycling loop with the mountainbike. The ride down is always a nice reward for pushing up so hard (I'm not riding an ebike but go up with my own legs only)
https://youtub…

After I deleted the #Facebook app from my phone and used the browser instead I began to notice some odd behavior.
This screen-recording of the page shows how a post jumps up when I drag down but down when I go up.
My guess is that this is a reaction to the #AdBlocker.

"Trump is telling the same lies that every wave of migrants who came to the United States has always been subjected to," he said. "When the Jews came, when the Germans came, when the Italians came. Irish. We were told the same thing, lose our culture, lose our language, drive down wages, and the crime will go up. And exactly the opposite has happened."
'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument - Raw Stor…

'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument
Longtime Republican strategist Rick Tyler slammed former President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant vision for the future in an MSNBC panel on Wednesday, following a political event in Michigan the previous day in which Trump warned that immigrants would invade people's houses if he's not elected.In pa...

Right. Now it's worked. Accounts moved.
Pretty sure the problem was that Firefish had a cached version of the remote profile from before the alias was set. You can go visit that profile's data and force a refresh, but by the time I realized that I was already rate-limited till the next day just from trying to re-set it on the remote host.
A few left behind on servers that aren't honoring MOVE actions I guess.
Did not copy following-lists, have to do that manually I guess.
Old server is now empty except for the admin account. I'll have it close down in a few days.
Then rebuild it! Stronger than before!

A quick clip from yesterday's #cycling loop with the mountainbike. The ride down is always a nice reward for pushing up so hard (I'm not riding an ebike but go up with my own legs only)
https://youtub…

Raiders were reportedly a 'coin toss' away from not drafting Georgia star Brock Bowers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_were_reportedly_a_coin_toss_away_from_not_draftin…

Raiders were reportedly a 'coin toss' away from not drafting Georgia star Brock Bowers
Georgia star tight end Brock Bowers almost didn't go to the Las Vegas Raiders at 13th overall in the 2024 NFL Draft.  According to Alabama's Terrion Arnold, the decision came down to a coin flip.  Arnold, who went 24th overall to the Detroit Lions, revealed that the Raiders called him right after the draft and told him that.  “The Raiders coach … they called me after the draft,” Arnold said during an appearance on The Next Round podcast, “and they were like, ‘We actually had a coi…

Jaguars ruthlessly cut starting defensive tackle just hours after wishing him happy birthday, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jaguar…

Jaguars ruthlessly cut starting defensive tackle just hours after wishing him happy birthday, per report
This might go down as the worst birthday ever

I ended up writing code that I am pretty damn proud of! The original code was really simple, but I've added code to configure the device, which just has a rotary controller with a button...
When you power it on it will check if you are holding down the button, then go into config mode so you can set the channel and then saves it to EEPROM.
There's twice as much code now, but it's still pretty minimal...
(And I though of a way to make it even more versatile as we…

There is nothing more annoying to a data nerd like me than GAPS. No gaps. There must never be gaps!
BCHydro kWh usage in our home since we moved iin in2005... and I have two gaps. It bugs me!
I'm also slightly intrigued by the difference between this March and past March’s. We're very high this year. This is also the first spring in awhile with no solar panels, one was stolen and I disconnected the other.
Also, the weather has been weird. I will find the data and …

"Trump is telling the same lies that every wave of migrants who came to the United States has always been subjected to," he said. "When the Jews came, when the Germans came, when the Italians came. Irish. We were told the same thing, lose our culture, lose our language, drive down wages, and the crime will go up. And exactly the opposite has happened."
'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument - Raw Stor…

'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument
Longtime Republican strategist Rick Tyler slammed former President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant vision for the future in an MSNBC panel on Wednesday, following a political event in Michigan the previous day in which Trump warned that immigrants would invade people's houses if he's not elected.In pa...

Want to die young?
Immerse yourself in conservative media, and vote Republican.
Seriously.
We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking:
When conservatives run governments, suicides and homicides go up;
when liberals run governments, suicides and homicides go down.
We got the first clue back in 2002, when, in a 100-year longitudinal study published that year in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Australian researchers found that…

How Conservative Policies and Rhetoric Kill People
Study after study says it: Right-wing policies and rhetoric lead to more homicides and suicides. Why don’t more people know this?

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
🎵 Down Boy
#NowPlaying #YeahYeahYeahs
https://open.spotify.com/track/60dhkkPtuzMGOdYgLJIpQD
https://bobostertag.bandcamp.com/track/go-to-it-boy-burn-it-down-yeah-tears-on-the-sand-in-the-fierce-companionship-of-thirst-burns-like-fire-heat-rises

Monotonicity of Recurrence in Random Walks
Rupert Li, Elchanan Mossel, Benjamin Weiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04108 https://arxiv.…

Monotonicity of Recurrence in Random Walks
We consider non-homogeneous random walks on the positive quadrant in two dimensions. In the 1960's the following question was asked: is it true if such a random walk $X$ is recurrent and $Y$ is another random walk that at every point is more likely to go down and more likely to go left than $Y$, then $Y$ is also recurrent? We provide an example showing that the answer is negative. We also show that if either the random walk $X$ or $Y$ is sufficiently homogeneous then the answer is in fact pos…

2024 NFL Mock Draft: Eight trades include Giants landing surprise QB as six signal-callers go in Round 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft…

2024 NFL Mock Draft: Eight trades include Giants landing surprise QB as six signal-callers go in Round 1
Many mock drafts have focused on the teams that want to trade up and less on how far teams might be willing to trade down

I ended up writing code that I am pretty damn proud of! The original code was really simple, but I've added code to configure the device, which just has a rotary controller with a button...
When you power it on it will check if you are holding down the button, then go into config mode so you can set the channel and then saves it to EEPROM.
There's twice as much code now, but it's still pretty minimal...
(And I though of a way to make it even more versatile as we…

This is how the world comes closer to Nuclear War, and it's aided by the idiotic and corrupt US Congress.
___
Putin: I want you to make ammunition for my forces in Ukraine.
Kim: OK, but I want to be able to develop my nuclear weapons without oversight.
Putin: Deal.
____
Either we help Ukraine beat Russia ASAP or we go further down this nuclear road…
#RussiaUkraineWar

Websites that shut down make it hard for journalists to preserve writing clips, but maintaining a defunct site creates technical issues including security risks (Scott Nover/Slate)
https://slate.com/business/2024/02/messenger-gawker-vi…

Why Sites Like Gawker and the Messenger Go Blank—and Why It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
Here’s all it takes to keep articles preserved.

“Lujayn is a brilliant student. She had been planning to go to university to study mathematics. But there are no more universities left in Gaza, and Lujayn has no permanent home.” #palestine #gaza

“The Bulldozer Kept Coming”: A Girl Stares Down Death in Gaza
The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old, her mother, and what happened when the Israeli military came to destroy their house.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft has hilarious exchange with Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/patriots_owner_robert_kraft_has_hilarious_exchange_wi…

Want to die young? Bathe yourself in right-wing media and vote Republican - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/die-young-vote-republican/

Want to die young? Bathe yourself in right-wing media and vote Republican
Want to die young? Immerse yourself in conservative media and vote Republican. Seriously.We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking: when conservatives run governments, suicides and homicides go up; when liberals run governments, suicides and homicides go down.We got the first clue ba...

"Far right populist rage makes it harder to respond to emergencies, and often compounds them in terrifying ways. Facing down disasters requires calm, deliberation, and a willingness to set aside one’s immediate comfort and fear for a broader good. The right’s go-to response of panic and paranoia makes us all less safe by sowing confusion and promoting a reactionary brand of politics."
In MAGA world, there are no accidents - by Noah Berlatsky

In MAGA world, there are no accidents
The Baltimore bridge disaster reminded us that these folks should be nowhere near power.