Tootfinder

Time to Migrate
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate
"Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill. Where by “downhill” I mean any combination of “less useful”, “less safe”, or “less fun”. T…

11/16/85 long beach: rare post-’74 2nd set TENNESSEE JED, last time as set opener, more juice than usual; same for CUMBERLAND BLUES, a lesh slot. 57-minute CRAZY FINGERS > DRUMZ > SPACE > COMES A TIME > GIMME SOME LOVIN’ > TRUCKIN’ > BLACK PETER > GOOD LOVIN’. shaky CRAZY FINGERS lyrics, but deep wounded COMES A TIME holds achingly steady. solid Beamin’ melts to thoughtful garcia/weir SPACE. GIMME SOME LOVIN’ vocal jamminess. weir takes mic off stand & wanders for GO…

A: "I don't understand how you're so relaxed when you don't hear from the kids. Everyone in my family is like, 'msg me right when you get home!'"
me: "Ah, [13yo] is fine. He went home and is 100% watching videos when he's not supposed to be, hoping we forgot about him so that he can get away w/ as much screen time as he can. If he were stuck on the subway or something, he'd have messaged. Actually, I'd be more worried if he DID message.&qu…

Hey I managed to lock up the Finder on two different Mac at the same time! I'm getting really good at this...
Sometimes I think I just use computers to their limits way more than other people do.

"'We do respect and appreciate the temporary activation but it’s time to start moving forward on the original purpose for this site,' Mahmood said, referring to affordable housing."
Ok good start, now do Parcel K in Hayes Valley. Or is this Mahmood's stance only in poor parts of his district?

S.F. moves to accelerate stalled housing at Tenderloin food hall site
San Francisco officials have changed course and committed to seek developers for the La Cocina site within the next two years.

You know it's a good time when you've just typed
cabextract PowerPointViewer.exe
on Debian

Tried to make a square shape New York Cheesecake for the first time yesterday. It was meant to be shared at a party and I thought it would be easier to share in smaller pieces. It came out good I think. The base was solid enough to get the out of the pan. I also properly caramelized the top of the base so it doesn't soak as quickly
#NewYorkCheesecake

Somehow Bill Watterson published this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about generative AI 40 years ago.
#genAI #CalvinAndHobbes

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Condition Green:
🎵 Sugar Baby Good Time
#ConditionGreen
https://open.spotify.com/track/5CyU5G6Zvg6KbsNg3WYA78

I regularly get random animals (well, mainly cats and foxes) come and stare at me outside my studio. That is already uplifting, but today was especially good in in that one actually came in and stayed for a while. Hopefully it’ll not be the last time. My next mission is for a fox to do the same. Anyone know how to befriend a fox?

It's been a fun project but finally time to shutdown lanecloud.
https://blog.lane-fu.com/posts/2025/11/rip-lanecloud/

Years ago, I started saying "have a great day" and "I love you" every morning to my kids when sending them off to preschool or school. I did it because I had a realization there's a possibility, however remote, this morning could be the last time I say something to them, and I wanted it to be something good.
I can't imagine the heartache the parents feel who sent their kids off to school, preschool, or even college, to never see them again.

The Paris agreement is 10 years old today.
How time flies. But how little really has changed.
"Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly."
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2015/12/1…

Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly.
A lot has been written on the Paris international agreement on climate change.  To try and cut through all those words to the essential issues, here is our very brief analytic summary. The good Asp…

me: *low whistles*
me: "Damn, check out THOSE bollards!"
8yo: "What?"
me: "These metal things. they're nice, aren't they? No drivers parking on this sidewalk!"
8yo: *lays down on one*
8yo: "Yeah, they're good, I guess."
#SafeStreets

Finally, we've automated copy-pasting from Stack Overflow

RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/115707071905814326
This is a really good talk. Worth your time. :)

Mailbag: Favorite memories from season? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-favorite-memories-from-season

The HRRR, a NOAA real-time 3-km resolution, hourly updated, cloud-resolving, convection-allowing atmospheric model, initialized by 3km grids with 3km radar assimilation,
predicts a whole lotta water will fall on coastal Southern California in the early morning https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/11555228330

AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image HRRR says... 5am. TBD if the forecast pans out, but HRRR usually is good. #rain #CAwx

Oh oh, I haven't done anything here for a really long time—but health comes first.
And to make matters worse, I lost a very, very good friend more than a week ago, who was taken by the damn MRSA germ... Rest in peace, my friend, you will never be forgotten! 😢
But during my own convalescence, I had enough time to return to my roots with Linux and switch my systems back to the tried and tested, beloved, and familiar. And I'm now leaving the time of experiments and trials …

I've learned the ultimate secret to making good (steamed/rolled) oatmeal in the microwave.
2:30 minutes, then let it sit on your desk to absorb all that hot water for 5 or more minutes. Since the grains are precooked and dry, they'll have time to absorb the hot water and get plump. Patience is the secret ingredient (who would have guessed).
The previous method was scooping lava oats into my mouth.

10 years on, believe it or not, the Paris Agreement was signed.
This was our very short reaction at the time. Prescient, you might think.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly. | Steady State Manchester https://…

Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly.
A lot has been written on the Paris international agreement on climate change.  To try and cut through all those words to the essential issues, here is our very brief analytic summary. The good Asp…

"Strip away the rhetoric and what remains is simple: there is no military option that delivers what Trump has promised. The symbolic strike is too weak to matter. Decapitation risks installing a junta. The sustained campaign courts state collapse and regional conflagration"
https://time.com/7345293/…

Trump Has No Good Options On Iran
"As brave Iranians challenge the repressive regime in Tehran, the U.S leader faces three paths, each worse than the last," writes Bobby Ghosh

Now would be a good time to remember that the 2nd Amendment is about maintenance of an organized militia so that local authorities can put down uprisings, particularly those of enslaved black people, and not about an individual right to own a murder weapon.

one of my hottest takes is that shared laundry machines in an apartment building is better than in-unit. it's a good example of how individual solutions can be worse than collective ones.
with shared machines you can use two machines at once at a less-busy time. a single in-unit machine would take twice as long. in-unit means the noise the machine generates is inside your apartment, so you can't have guests over or take a meeting while it's running

Yesterday was my last day of this term's teaching Communication at the School of Engineering. So time to say good by to the little fellow living in TH547 and attending all lectures! He was there even on days none of the 33 students showed up
#AcademicChatter #TeachingElephant

@… "This Isn't a Battle" seems like a good time to slide in your version :-)
Long overdue.
@…
#devil…

Don't threaten me with a good time.
En o ja, Dilan ... GL-PvdA was toch de partij die zover van de rest afstond? Of zit het echte gat soms tussen CDA en VVD?

Back to the HMCAD1520 FA.
This is sample 6A1 after initial partial decap. It's still covered in the north and easy because I guessed how big the die would be and apparently underestimated its size.
The good news is that it's gold ball bonded, so more time in the acid shouldn't risk damaging the bond wires at all.
Time to re-mount it with a bigger mask and try again.

So I’m teaching a friend who doesn’t have any development knowledge how to get started with Small Web development and I thought it would be a good opportunity to start creating and sharing the course on the Kitten web site, one lesson at a time.
Here’s the link:
https://kitten.small-web.org/course<…

Favorite landscape and time of year.
(Upper glacial valleys are often so colorful and especially in autumn, when the colors of the many different types of rocks are complemented by those of the tundra vegetation up there... it's a harsh climate/environment, at the same time so peaceful/friendly [if the weather is right] — a feast for the eyes and good for the soul... yet, each time also a bittersweet experience, seeing how fast glaciers are disappearing)

Watched Solar Opposites, a cartoon started by Justin Roiland like Rick and Morty with lots in common.
Including Roiland being kicked out after a couple of seasons for his crimes, and being replaced. This time not with an impersonator but just a new more british actor. Stayed pretty much in vibe with his style though.
Four aliens stuck on earth, plus the adventures of the tiny people that one of the aliens shrunk to keep in his wall like an ant farm. And the Silver Cops.
Pretty good fun. Watched the five seasons on Netflix in a couple of weeks. Apparently there's another if I search or wait.
Interesting how the machine can just keep churning it out even when the lead folks disappear. That's the ideal I suppose. Create the show then let it run on without you.
#watching #tv #solarOpposites

Mailbag: Favorite memories from season? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-favorite-memories-from-season

Just finished "The Raven Boys," a graphic novel adaptation of a novel by Maggie Stiefvater (adaptation written by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge).
I haven't read the original novel, and because of that, this version felt way too dense, having to fit huge amounts of important details into not enough pages. The illustrations are gorgeous and the writing is fine; the setting and plot have some pretty interesting aspects... It's just too hard to follow a lot of the threads, or things we're supposed to care about aren't given the time/space to feel important.
The other thing that I didn't like: one of the central characters is rich, and we see this reflected in several ways, but we're clearly expected to ignore/excuse the class differences within the cast because he's a good guy. At this point in my life, I'm simply no longer interested in stories about good rich guys very much. It's become clear to me how in real life, we constantly get the perspectives of the rich, and rarely if ever hear the perspectives of the poor (same applies across racial and gender gradients, among others). Why then in fiction should I get more of the same, spending my mental bandwidth building empathy for yet another dilettante who somehow has a heart of gold? I'm tired of that.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike Johnson
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/12/3/2356684/-Don-t-threaten-us-with-a-good-time-Mike-Johnson

Troubling signs that the Linux demographic at the Register is now made up of people yelling at the clouds.
https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/115867723149851024

Two screenshots of the lock screen on my iPhone 17 Pro whose difference confounds me. In one the contrast is good and I can read the numbers on the pad, but the time and battery status are hidden. In the other, the key pad is pretty much invisible but I can see the time and battery. I have no idea how to trigger the contrastier one; it just sometimes does this.
Is this phenomenon known? Explicable? It's as if the new UI is sometimes ashamed to show how unreadable it is and compensates before hiding again.
Somebody made this happen. Any idea why?

The fascist who killed Heather Heyer at Unite the Right helped turn the tides against the last Trump administration. He said there were "very fine people on both sides." The resistance grew, antifa doxxing fascists started getting those fash fired.
But some of those fash didn't stop. They kept organizing their terror cells. The fash who killed Heyer was with a group called Vanguard America. Patriot Front is a Nazi group that split off from Vanguard America. They started terrorizing people by loading up in box trucks and piling out for spontaneous marches.
That box truck tactic probably sounds familiar. Patriot Front basically disappeared at the same time that ICE started recruiting hard.
Let me make it more clear. The very same Nazis from UTR who killed Heather Heyer, who Trump called "very fine people," are now employees of DHS. They've been carrying out the ethnic cleansing they always dreamed of, and they're being paid by the government, *with your tax dollars*, to do it. And now, just like in Charlottesville, they've murdered an unarmed protestor.
This feels similar because it is. These are the same people killing daughters and mothers. Killing unarmed protestors, out of rage not fear, then lying and claiming self defense. This is the same tactic it's always been. This is the same thing they've always done.
It seems like we may have reached the Heather Heyer point of this administration early with Renee Good. Now would be a good time for everyone to get into the streets and stay there until this is over. Everyone turned the tides before, and now he's so much weaker.
This can all be over if we fight like hell to end it.
#USPol

Thought I had a good sabbatical plan for the spring, but it's been upended by a one-time opportunity: I've ended up on the committee creating India's new national 11th and 12th grade curriculum/textbook in computer science. So much for the best laid schemes, but also exciting!

RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115855415960085751
I have such conflicted thoughts on this.
What happened? Gross. It's very much a harm as a systemic effect of "AI"
But also _open source industry_ is in fact a thing I think has been deeply destructive and somewhat replaced the collectivist work done before. We could go back to that. That was good stuff.
But TailwindCSS is super popular.
I also think it's a bad technology, meant to undermine the foundations and design of CSS, leading us to technically worse places.
Also the business? It is selling themes and components.
That's a really hard business to be in. The time to buy a license comes in a project's lifecycle too early, so people avoid it. It's a weird business. Not one I think people should plan to have work.

Just ran across https://openwebsearch.eu/news/ for the first time. A small number of years ago I would have called the idea ridiculous. Now I think that, if you got the right people together, it could have a good outcome.

RE: https://retro.pizza/@SKleefeld/115697051330750103
Longread van Matt Gurney over onlangs gehouden Halifax International Security Forum*
Het laat heel indringend zien hoe de verhouding met de VS veranderd is en hoe de VS waarschijnlijk niet in staat is om de verandering snel ongedaan te maken. -zelfs al zou de VS dat over een paar jaar willen-
* 'Funded by NATO, the Canadian government and private-sector sponsors, the event is a major part of Canada’s “soft power” offering to our allies — we host the big party and show everybody a good time.'

RE: https://pdx.social/@VisualStuart/115537033906269990
Man, I remember that video clip as a crummy RealPlayer or AVI file back at the turn of the century. How time flies. Good thing they were able to restore this in better quality using the original tapes…

I wanted to just share one story about a kid who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good died today. Prince got married at Park United Methodist just down the street from 34th & Portland; he went to high school at Central High a few blocks in the other direction over on 35th. Prince spoke several times about a particularly formative memory of growing up: During a march against police violence in 1967, the cops responded brutally, leading to uprisings all over the …

Call 1-202-762-1401 for a good time 😉

Good morning, I have coffee for everyone who wants one! ☕️ Today I felt good checking the headlines for the first time in I don’t even know how long.

☕ Sociology, meet ecology: How the variability of coffee harvests can teach us about sustainable farming
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-sociology-ecology-variability-coffee-harvests.html

Sociology, meet ecology: How the variability of coffee harvests can teach us about sustainable farming
The rootstock of a coffee plant can live for 20 to 30 years. In that time, a generation, it will have good years and bad years, years where it bears large quantities of fruit and years where it fails to produce as expected.

Here's a very interesting read about life as an academic and how you're never "good enough":
Under pressure: Becoming the good enough academic
By Milena Tekeste. Some quotes below (I removed citations for smoother reading):
"I learned publishing in specific journals would lead to tenure. It was the first time that anyone had sat me down and explained “…

Hmm. Ordered some extras alongside my C64 Ultimate. Since the homepage says they use semi-local warehouses, I felt pretty good about it. For some reason they send the three extras one by one, and I received the first one from Europe. Being a bit surprised by the delivery time for the next one, I decided to track it, and it’s coming from the US :-S. I sure hope this doesn’t mean additional import fees.

I hope there's a special place in hell for all the MSc program directors that decided it was a good use of everybody's time to require recommendation letters.

From time to time I need to lookup some rarely used vi commands. Good to have a vi reference card laying around at my desk 😀 #vintagecomputing #cray #vi

Today is Monday. 😪
A new week begins. 📆
And it is December. 🌨️
A good time for cuddles. 🤗
Have a cozy start into the week, y'all! 🧡

Because the painting ☝️is good and the picture came out well, my wife and I printed a 20cmx30cm copy of the picture, put it flush in a borderless glass frame (reminiscent of the door the painting was on), and gave it to the child. Hopefully it will be a warm childhood memory for a (very) long time. 🤞

Whatever happens to our democracy, history will remember our 3 good SCOTUS justices as a voice of clarity when civil society was unraveling around them.
Future generations will point to their writing and say, “Look at this. It’s not like people didn’t understand what was happening at the time. They knew perfectly well.”
EDIT: I said Sotomayor at first; this is Jackson!! “What would you do with a brain if you had one, Paul?” I’m sure I have no idea.
https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/115504618482036124

@… I'm using groups.io for the first time. (I know! Sorry, I usually avoid mailing lists.) It's very good, thank you for running this valuable service.
I found the locked topics feature very interesting. It never occurred to me to have that in a mailing list, since the underlying tech doesn't allow it. Does it work well in practice? Do people use it? The group I'm on uses it extensively.

it's all happening on https://otterchan.net

React has taken down Cloudflare twice now so is this a good time to talk about Enterprise scale or is it still too soon

Hey all,
today was a totally grey day. Very low hanging clouds. Actually a superb inversion -- if I would have had the time for a walk to the mountains. Yet other topics were on my schedule for today.
But hey, this is what photos are for: having memories about good time, right? I wrote more about it here: https://www.

Now perhaps might be a good time for the reminder of a truth always obscured:
Black People (not Black "women" -- ALL BLACK PEOPLE - you have to watch how they do black men dirty here) are the practical always-voting correctly BASE of the Democratic party -- which in turn makes them the moral center of voting in America.
#uspol

While I'm wittering on about #books, these are two of my to-read piles. One is in a bookcase as I knew I'd be a while getting round to them. I bought those for 50p a pop at a Christmas bazaar. They often have some mid-century gems but not this time. The other is by the bed, the Active Pile. The top three are proofs sent to a bookshop in town which offers them to

It's a good question about the French public AC charging infrastructure: why? Caught between unreliability and high time-based pricing, who does it serve? Not those who need it, I would say.
https://www.numerama.com/vroom/2134433-bor

Coûteuses et capricieuses, le grand mensonge des bornes de recharge publiques à charge lente
On installe des bornes lentes, sauf qu’entre les pannes, les tarifs absurdes et le matériel douteux, la recharge publique ressemble encore trop à un parcours du combattant. Voilà de quoi nourrir l'édito Watt Else du jeudi 4 décembre. Les bornes AC (ou courant alternatif) représentent 80 % des 180 000 points de

Do you need a laugh?
Go straight to the comments 🙂
#DavidLeeRoth

Rob Lockhart on Instagram: "David Lee Roth! Cincinnati 2025! 🤘🔥❤️💯 What a great show!!! Such a good time! @davidleeroth #davidleeroth #davidleerothband #fyp #livemusic"
13K likes, 14K comments - the_rob_lockhart on August 24, 2025: "David Lee Roth! Cincinnati 2025! 🤘🔥❤️💯 What a great show!!! Such a good time! @davidleeroth #davidleeroth #davidleerothband #fyp #livemusic".

Man, I bet we’re all relieved today that Obama shut ICE down the first chance he got. And then Biden… remember when he shut it down a second time just for good measure? (And while busy funding and arming a whole friggin’ genocide in Palestine, what a legend!) *Phew!* Imagine what could have happened if the Democrats had just kept going with business as usual.
#theRatchetEffect

Evening all! Anyone got a good batch watermarking app for #ios? Have to send some photos with date/time/place info somewhere.
Thanks!

1. Plan going to Opole, via Kościan.
2. When you enter the train to Kościan, you discover that the change to Opole is delayed 15 minutes already. Consider changing in Leszno instead; if the delay increases, you'd have more options there.
3. Discover that there aren't any more options in Leszno today. Your change is delayed 30 minutes already. Return the reservations, and take one the other way, to Poznań instead.
4. Train station in Kościan. The displays aren't showing any delays, trains are announced normally. Tell people about the delays, so they won't stand in the -10°C waiting for the train to arrive.
5. Take the train to Poznań, and try to figure out what to do next.
6. Discover that the only reasonable choice going forward is Inowrocław: no delays and good return connection. It's the same train, so take another reservation. Your current seat is already taken there, so move elsewhere.
7. Your train should be followed by another one in the same direction, that departs from Poznań 6 minutes later. However, your train ends up waiting for another delayed train, so the other train goes first. The delay further increases as your train needs to slow down after the other train.
8. Reach Inowrocław 10 minutes later. That's not a problem, since you didn't have enough to see for all the time there anyway.
9. Discover that the town is more interesting than you thought, and you'd use more time.
10. When you almost get to the station, discover that your train is 10 minutes late. Not that you have any use for that time at this point.
11. When you're at the station, the train keeps increasing delay while waiting at the previous station, in Bydgoszcz. The station displays are completely useless, as they show only a random subset of regional trains, for no apparent reason. The announcements include all trains, but are rarely given.
12. The delay keeps increasing. Start thinking about getting a reservation for the next train to Poznań, in case it arrived first. You can't return the reservation after the planned departure time, and you can't have two reservations simultaneously, so reserve the seat from Mogilno, the next station.
13. The next train arrives first. While on board, you discover that you're not going to have any train home for 1.5 hr. Take another seat reservation to Leszno, where you can change into a suburban train and get home 15 minutes earlier than from Poznań. This time, your seat is still free.
14. The train departs 15 minutes delayed from Poznań. After all, you're changing trains in Kościan.
So I was going to go south, to Opole, via Kościan. Instead, I've ended up slingshotting north to Inowrocław, and getting back home via the same train as if I were in Opole.
#rail

Welp, I hope there's something good on TV cuz I don't think I'm getting my arm back any time soon.
#dogs #sleeping

signs you're having a good time: you have some rust code. it is panicking. this is the only debug information you are provided with:

that was such a good save followed by the second time now I've seen a celtic player block a shot with their actual face
#fedifc #europaleague

Something broke (changed) in Inkscape where I can no longer export a DXF file at the correct size for our laser cutter software. The DXF Export also seems to mangle the file a bit.
Time to try the "export every combo of options until I find what works" thing again. (Which I last did maybe 8 years ago, so I had a good run.)
#inkscape

Progressive lawmakers are demanding that the Democrats use the upcoming government funding deadline to hopefully reduce the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to wreak further havoc.
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNNThursday.
“I know we can’t fix everything in the appropriations bill but we should be looking at ways we can put some commonsense limitations on their ability to…

Schumer, Jeffries Refuse to Join Democrats' Growing Calls to Slash ICE Spending | Common Dreams
The killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent sparks outrage as Democrats debate funding for the agency. Should they use their power to rein in ICE's violence? Progressive lawmakers demand action, but top Democrats seem hesitant. Is it time for a change in leadership to hold ICE accountable? #ReinInICE #EndViolence

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 30 — the day I skipped
30. Share some good things about how your work went this month!
---
I am burnt out, but hey, no time like the Present Continuous.
I have approached the 100th page of translation for #DarkScience aka

Having a turntable for the first time in 25 years means I get to listen to music I've only thought of in passing since the 20th century. Some of it's not so good. This one really stands up, though.

I think it’s time for new brake discs on the 2010 Tesla Roadster, these used to be slotted. The new ones are a bit bigger and come with spacers and longer bolts for the front calipers. I put the old discs on soon after I got this car in 2013, about 40k miles ago. Same AP calipers as Lotus Elise, and it was good to get some hands on wrenching time again. #WeirdCarMastodon

A classic in the numerology of #Eurostar, maybe a good omen? 6️⃣1️⃣, as well as Hermes and St Christopher from @… 🙏
Certainly my fastest transit through St Pancras security, starting over 90 mins before departure time.

I am happy to pay another 2% of income tax. BUT ONLY IF there is also a 2% tax placed in individual wealth above £10 million.
It’s about time that we all paid for good services, including those that can afford it.
#ukpolitics

Hear me out: two things can be bad at the same time.
For example, Ed Zitron's writing (objectively not good) and calling him a "grifter" or "charlatan" (objectively not true).

I've been away for some time now but today I'm back. My NUC has a new install of #popos and I think I like it (so far). Not everything works as I would like, but it works good enough to work on.
So I'm back in the saddle working away reading student work for wednesdays seminars.
What do you do this cold (-14 degrees celsius) evening?

My bike came back earlier than expected so it's time to get a new winter virtual trainer subscription. I love(d) FulGaz: high-quality videos, great locales, zero gamification if you want it, good display. Has Rouvy broken that? Any similar alternatives? Otherwise I'm going to default back to them…

"O'Hara revealed he asked several federal agents on-site about whether there were any other injuries.
"I was very specific about asking if anyone else was injured," O'Hara said. And at the time I was told that it was only the woman," referring to Good."
Trump admin's story on deadly ICE shooting unravels as police chief kneecaps key claim - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674858804/

And finally Bilbo comes to the end of is speech:
"I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT.
I regret to announce that - though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW.
GOOD-BYE!
#lego #hobbit

The live performance of "America" by Prince is worth watching. See how he turns a mediocre song in a mini-concert/jam, how he controls/directs his band (The Revolution) and how he clearly is having a good time 🙂
https://youtu.be/Pq98n2j75XA?si=V-m6zQ5YTomfFeTQ

Good morning! Today it’s back to full time TelemetryDeck, plus a bit of working out! I also want to make January my Snow Leopard month where I don’t work on any new features, just bug fixes, improvements, and quality of life upgrades.

I got a UPerfect 15.6" portable monitor (4k) as a second screen and am quite impressed with it, particularly for the very low price. Main problem is I am having a hard time finding a good stand to use it as a desktop monitor. Very few options for something this small!

Last evening of Christmas vacation before getting back to work for the new year.
Aiming to make it a good one. Working on GPU acceleration of the TIE filter and maybe the histogram block so I can do jitter analysis faster.
The peak at T=0 in the jitter histogram is related to use of the GPU CDR block and doesn't show up in the CPU implementation. It's likely caused by transients of some sort at thread block boundaries and I need to spend more time chasing it, I wouldn'…

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Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
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Spending time in #Udupi #India, I've to be extra disciplined to eat healthy because #food is plenty and plenty of food is #unhealthy (but tasty). My success requires the understanding of both hosts and the serving personnel, and most days they take very good care of me.
Today was especially moving because I was at a place and people new to me, but they heard understood my needs, gave me a prime spot where they could monitor what was being served to me, and they made sure I got plenty of whatever I wanted; and nothing I didn't.
It's amazing how many people it takes for just one person to live well, and how generous, tolerant, and welcoming Udupi people are. 🙇‍♂️
Anyway, you should come visit: https://hachyderm.io/@smurthys/115546234528151408

For a project to be truly #OpenSource (not to mention #FreeSoftware), it really needs to:
1. Have a *public* issue tracker that enables you to browse and search through issue reports *without* having to create an account.
2. Accept issue reports, with no strings attached. Yes, expecting registration is fine. Yes, expecting some effort to file a good bug report is fine. No, expecting people to ask permission, donate or otherwise put a lot of extra work to report a problem is not.
3. Do not close issue reports as "stale". Yes, it's fine to close a report if you really believe it was fixed, or if you asked for something and the user didn't reply for a long time. It's not fine to run a bot expecting users to jump every month so that the issue report that *you are ignoring* doesn't get closed.
If a project doesn't meet these, it's just a glorified throwaway code.

Oh good! Someone from the @… community can weigh in on the benefits.
Oh wait…
Anyway, sooner or later the time for computable reals will come. I'm still HODLing stock in continued fractions (and teaching them every year to my first-year students).

This tragic misshapen lump is the last time I stuff a bauble with batting. It's polystyrene balls all the way from now on. 70mm balls with 3.75mms and DK all works very nicely. If everyone's very good I'll post a photo tomorrow of the one I made for my sister in law, which is on a polystyrene ball and looks much better. I've thrown in the towel for tonight after going wrong testing a chart I've made for another one.

One of USA’s last remaining independent journalistic outlets… *checks notes*… Teen Vogue… is shuttered. https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands/115491522193236227

azteclady (@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club)
Attached: 2 images #PSA #CallToAction #TeenVogue Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning. That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine. If you or someone in your family has a subscription, now it's a good time to explain what boycotts are and what they can do. Note how "facts" becomes "prog…

Just saw a toot about the #brexit and I only remember one thing from that time:
I admitted that I don't have much clue in international politics - but when Trump AND Putin said that the Brexit was a good thing, I knew that it was very likely to be bad for the EU and the UK.
#politics…

Think of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbaske…

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

Had a nice weekend out in Devon with friends. I had a lovely time. Blustery but dry during our walk, nice time watching them play in the folk band, lots of good friends in the house party and easy walk to hotel near by.

Upgraded the microscope bench workstation to Debian Trixie earlier today and the driver for my Quadro K5200 finally stopped working (end of support, doesn't compile on the Trixie kernel. no newer driver available).
I guess it's time to turn it into microscope food. 2012 to 2025 is a pretty good run for a GPU, right?

Good morning on this #siletSunday - it's windy and rainy outside. Maybe I'll just have a walk later. I'm quite happy that we did a hike yesterday!
And just now I used the time to write about a hike I did this May:

It's that time of year... Cold, dry, washing your hands a lot from holiday travels and cooking.
If you're not a fan of greasy stinky lotions I can recommend this. You know it's the good stuff when it comes in a featureless white gallon jug with barely any branding.