Tootfinder

What’s really fascinating about this graph is that used Tesla prices started plummeting circa fall 2022, about the time Musk wrecked Twitter, 2.5 years •before• the #TeslaTakedown movement started.
What’s killing Tesla? It’s not just the protests. The brand was already fundamental damaged. Protests simply gave coherence to a disgust that was •already• powerful and widespread.
Musk is permanently radioactive. Institutional investors take note — and get out while you can.
(ht to @… for the link)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/post/3lqxairloqc2n

CrossOver (and Apple silicon) continues to amaze me
(Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
#Steam #macos

"But Wall Street professionals, like so many other ostensibly smart people, refused to see Trump clearly, mistaking his skill as a demagogue for wisdom as a policymaker. “I don’t think this was foreseeable,” a mournful Ackman posted on X on Monday. “I assumed economic rationality would be paramount.” What an odd assumption to make about a man who bankrupted casinos.
Berezin thinks Wall Street still hasn’t come to terms with the cost of the nascent Trump presidency. “I do think that at this point we might have passed the event horizon, meaning that even if Trump backs off from the tariffs, there’s been enough damage done to the U.S. economy, to the global economy, to investor confidence, consumer confidence, that we’re probably going to see a recession regardless of what happens,” he said.""
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.q7Gk.5YS3EpoLnh8C&smid=url-share

I have been trying to find some Chili Rasboras for my new 16 gallon nanotank since before I even got the tank. They've been out of stock everywhere. I even signed up for text notifications on a couple of sites and when I got the text I was in the middle of a meeting, and by the time I escaped, they were out of stock again.
I went to a meeting of the Colorado Aquarium Society tonight and managed to snag six in the auction.
Here's a terrible picture of them being drip acclimated.
@… #rasbora

I'm 37 years old and I finally finished a #JRPG game for the first time in my life ( #SeaOfStars ).
I like them a lot, but I often get bored of the grinding, or I have to leave it for some time and when I come back I don't remember what I was doing.
Why I managed to finish it this time? Because I had more important, stressing and boring things to do instead, and my brain demanded procrastination. #ADHD

Tonight #Maven and Maven Exec plugin in combination with Weld brought me to me knees.
Weld refused to load my classes and resources even if Maven reports compilation is successful, I can see the classes in target/classes, and when using -X I see it adds the jars and target/classes to the classpath.
Still Weld throws a bunch of ClassNotFound exceptions.
To make things a lot worse, there're no good hits when searching.
😖 emoji-with-pulling-my-hair emoji-with-me-banging-my-head-against-the-desk 😩

Physical: No shoes, No service
Virtual: No SIM, No service
#travel #technology #comparison

I know some of the money is thinking what @… says here. The trouble here is that Tesla is currently wildly, absurdly, comically overvalued wrt its fundamentals, and there are really only two rationalizations for that:
(1) Musk is a brain genius who will innovate the company into magic unicorn fairyland of world domination.
(2) Musk has Trump on a leash and will reap the benefits of kleptocratic plundering of the US Federal budget.
Both of those justifications depend on Musk remaining at Tesla. If he leaves, there’s little reason for the P/E ratio not to correct to normal car company levels — which AIUI would mean a stock price drop of >90%.
https://hachyderm.io/@zzzeek/114637505037473139

I guess I can thank AI for all link previews I see anywhere being «Making sure you’re not a bot»…

#VideoGames I finished in April, 2025. All quite fun, but NORCO was by far the most interesting story.
I'm considering writing a review claiming Tangle Tower & Midnight Girl belong to the same low stress puzzle / #pointandclick genre/trend/style, along with Darkside Detective (not played in April)

hummingbird chilling on the fence mood

"The damage isn't theoretical. It's active. It's live. And it's reshaping the world. Trade routes are shifting. Investment is diversifying. Global power is rebalancing. China, Korea, and Japan are shaking hands. All of it is premised on a hard-earned truth: the United States cannot be trusted to lead. Not because of one man but because of what half the country has chosen to normalize. Not because of Trump alone but because every institution built to restrain him failed and then got in line."
#USPolitics
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/?ref=dispatches-newsletter

Since fire season has kicked in, a reminder that it's easy (it took me ~10m because I am a crappy solderer) to add an ESP32 to an Ikea Vindriktning air quality sensor and get pm2.5 data into HA so you can have it notify you when the air quality gets worse than usual.
It costs ~$25 for the esp32 Vindriktning. There are plenty of howtos out there, mine is at #HomeAssistant @…

Finally! I was able to install #nixOS back on my work computer. What a delight, everything just works and is declarative, customized to my preference. I really love #KDE #plasma6

Hey, folks who understand alt text and limited vision accessibility:
I have need to write alt text for the diagram below. The alt text needs to be comprehensible to somebody who is encountering this kind of diagram for the ••very first time••. I could describe the images using the relevant jargon, but that would only serve people who already know the thing this activity is teaching them!
Any suggestions for how I could write good alt text for something like this? Is it possible? (The horizontal black bars are minus signs, i.e. subtraction. This is clear from context in the text, but probably not clear in the image.)
PLEASE NOTE: I am looking for people with ••relevant accessibility expertise••, not just random best shots from people who (like me) don’t really know much about this kind of problem.

Read this article, not because it trashes UF’s new president to be, but because it cuts to the core of the challenges facing U.S. universities and how we need to stand up, fight back, and restore meaningful shared governance.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/santa-ono-flees-for-florida?sra=true

How did I just learn today that #OpenAI is retaining all #ChatGPT chat logs due to a court order: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davemackey_openai-slams-court-order-to-save-all-chatgpt-activity-7336194682093273088-3ode

After spending way too much time looking at schematics and datasheets of the components of a cheap eInk display I finally understand what’s going on.
Once I make a couple tweaks my toy project battery should last for multiple months. Good enough!

I installed the iPhone Google app.
Can you guess how it decided to be useful?
Without any configuration it hijacked google.com URLa from the default browser to open them in the Google app.
This is how desperation smells.

"The Republican Party is a hollow, decrepit husk. It is not a political movement. It is not a governing apparatus. It is not even an ideology with any internal coherence. It is a decaying vessel for a set of impulses: authoritarianism, greed, cruelty, nostalgia, and fear. And now, with the party marching in lockstep behind a man openly exploring how to violate the Constitution to seize a third term in office, it is fair to say the Republican Party has collapsed into something far worse than irrelevance. It is a clear and present danger to democracy."
#USPolitics
https://www.theindex.media/the-gop-is-the-most-dangerous-organization-in-america/?ref=dispatches-newsletter

I just typed “spreadsheeps” in an email and the possibilities are horrifying???

If you're trying to do the trick that was shared for #nintendoswitch2 where you can use a USB HDMI capture dongle HDMI to USB-C cable to use your iPhone as a camera - don't use the True Visage app mentioned in the video
That will rely on screen sharing mirroring and you'll potentially get an aspect ratio mismatch and see the dynamic island floating in your view
I'd personally suggest the free "Blackmagic Camera" app instead, and then go to:
Settings->Monitor->HDMI Out
Switch from Mirror Display to Video Feed and it will cleanly output your camera. Works for a Lightning to HDMI out adapter for older phones, too
Then just tap on Lense and FPS and pick which combo you like.
Also, if you're not getting any output signal make sure the capture dongle you're using supports 1080p out - not sure the Switch 2 supports anything higher as camera input

SWELL (old-timey use) Vs SWILL. What a difference a letter makes.
#English #language #difference

45 years ago today I flew to New Jersey to start my job at Bell Labs Research.
High five!
https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/114444093458846892

OH on Slack:
they call it microsoft 365 because there are outages 365 days of the year

The text I have conveys the •meaning• of the diagram, and it’s better than nothing:
❝Three different trees showing possible interpretations of 1000 - 100 - 10 - 1. In the first tree, subtraction happens from left to right. In the second tree, it happens from right to left. In the third tree, we first compute 1000 minus 100, then 10 minus 1, then subtract those two results.❞
That’s probably the best I can do in the current format. But if there were a way to make convey more of the spatial sense, I’d do it!

Why iPhone Safari "Listen to page" is not available on the macOS?
What is the Mac missing to make this feature impossible?

Great parable by @…
#AI #vibe_coding #dev

Brb, burning down the house to get a better negotiating position with the mice.

"You should know Trump isn’t doing this on his own. The Hoover Institution has been plotting revenge against FDR since 1932. Groups like the Heritage Foundation and Heartland Foundation are generations old. The Federalist Society has been promising to overturn liberal justice since the 1960s. The Religious Right started working to overturn Roe v. Wade the day it was promulgated. All these groups have big money, and they play the long game.
What’s happening today is their platform, backed by their research. The fact it won’t work, that the 20th century won’t be put back into a bottle, that the Amendments put in place after 1865 somehow aren’t part of the “real” Constitution, is yet to be proven by events."
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/all-in-the-family

The proper way to do this for a blind student would surely be some kind of physical manipulatives, not verbal descriptions. The thing is, I don’t have any blind students currently, and if I did, we’d work on individual accommodation and assistance.
With this alt text, I’m just trying to get •something• in there to be at least minimally accessible: head start on those accommodation, something helpful if I ever share this online, etc. If there’s any way for text to convey the spatial relationships, that would be better than the text I have.

If Trump/USA is playing silly buggers* with medical & food aid to people worldwide who desperately need them, then we (the citizens of rich countries) should demand our governments step it up & increase the overseas aid budget. If we do that, we can collectively replace the US #auspol
*Australianism

#WaPo: Reagan National Airport expected to close for up to several hours on June 14 for military flyovers,...
As loyal subject, I happily volunteer this sacrifice for my king's birthday. 🙄
But won't tolerate the extra "up to" in the report.
#uspol #parade

Is there a guide for how to start a command line Go project in 2025?
\(^-^)/

Thanks for the thoughtful replies. Answers to questions:
Many people asked for the context. This is for college students using what they already know about the order of arithmetic operations to start analyzing the structure of code. In the activity, they visual code structures using these kind of diagrams. The important thing here is thus not just subtraction; it’s this way of visualizing the relationships — and there already is a sight-centeric word, “visualize!” But I suspect a blind reader could also use these spatial relationships as a learning tool…if there were a good way of conveying the spatial relationships.

"Sometimes it is more loving to allow someone else to experience the natural consequences of their actions, even when it is painful for us both. In the long run, both of us will benefit. Today I will put love first in my life."
- Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 124
#love #courage #detachment

Sorry, investors, Tesla is simply not going to expand to be larger than •the entire rest of the auto industry• as your “buy” recommendations implicitly posit.
If they make robotaxis, the public will see them as Nazi robotaxis. If they make robots that aren’t just demo smoke and mirrors, the public will see them as Nazi robots.
Your money is in the Titanic of car brands. Get it out while you can.

A timer on the WatchOS and iOS can be easily repeated.
I don’t see how to do this on iPadOS. Is it possible?

I built myself a tear sheet section on my photography page.
Just a tiny thing to cure my impostor syndrome in photojournalism. But I'm kinda glad I have something remotely decent to showcase.
Hope I'll have reasons to update this page over time.
https://lukaszwojcik.photo/tear-sheets/

I just wanna hang out with Esquie, the sweetest NPC of all time.

Whoops, testing in prod I see

Just to spell it out, because there are people who really do not get it yet:
Even if the protests blow over (they won’t, but even if), even if Musk gets his filthy nose out of politics (he won’t, get real, but even if), even then, the public will still remember that Musk is a Nazi and the Tesla brand will still be toxic.

"The world is full of darkness. So much is going wrong. Experts agree that America has succumbed to right-wing authoritarianism; call it fascism or something else, these are extraordinarily difficult times.
This post is a break from all of that. At least kind of.
In this piece, I will try and convince you that Doctor Who is the best TV show ever made, explain to you why it matters, and why it’s particularly important in our current context. In a time when cruelty and fear dominate headlines, it’s worth celebrating a show that insists on the power of kindness, intellect, and hope."
#DoctorWho
https://werd.io/2025/doctor-who-is-the-best-show-ever-made-heres-why

Tariffs are a supply chain attack

A good counter-explanation from @…, although it’s not entirely consistent with the data: if this were merely aging vehicles, we’d expect to see a slow, steady decline. But we don’t; we see a •very• sharp turnaround that coincides precisely with Musk’s fascism entering full public view, and not with any sort of sudden aging event in the vehicles.
But yes, surely normal depreciation is a contributing factor as well.
https://mstdn.ca/@alessandro/114637425697204963

size comparison to launch day LED

Anyone has the impression that virtually all LLMs use a sort of "hyper-allistic" language?
As if we had a spectrum for allism disorder and LLMs were an extreme case of it.

Just to clarify: this is not a complete list of things I want for the world. This is not even a complete political platform. It’s just a single simple, clear, core message that I suspect would work much better in elections than that fash-lite mush all the Newsomesque political consultants are oozing out of their pores right now.

"Affordable Care Act" is commonly called "Obamacare" in recognition of the US president who got it passed.
"Big Beautiful Bill" is similarly called "The Big Ugly" in honor of...
#uspol #BigUgly #Trump

So some Democratic politicians actually got the memo, but clearly others are flailing. To help them out, I’d like to offer my sage political wisdom. Try the following message:
1. Kick Trump out.
2. Tax the living shit out of billionaires.
3. Use the money to get folks back on their feet and clean up this mess.
Just that. Simple and direct, no fussing around. Give that a try and see how it lands. Float a trial balloon in some minor swing district election and see what happens.

Maybe it could even guess when you've been around someone, setting aside blocks where your hrv, etc. seem to be fairly uniform...and one could then identify that block as being x or y (could be a person, ones pet, watching a TV show) and then it could watch for similar patterns of measurements and ask if you were in xs proximity again, over time we might find unique signatures associated with specific people, activities, locations?

Troubleshooting infinite recursion is my least favorite #nixos problem.

Walmart did me right

Just tried putting one of our open source repos thru Devin's DeepWiki document generator and its pretty amazing https://deepwiki.com/tc-functors/tc

Here's the article. It's a fun piece of history. Lots of well-known names.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/17/business/business-technology-harnessing-hundreds-computers-improve-speed-efficiency.html
https://social.v.st/@th/114437577349237616

Curtis Yarvin is Tucker Carlson but a software engineer.
#uspol #Yarvin #Carlson

A shiver of fear whenever I see URL that ends with ".php3" in 2025.

This past night I had a strange nightmare. For some reason unknown to me I found myself visiting the US.
Minutes after passing through all the airport checks I was detained for terrorist conspiracy... because the other day I wrote about zip bombs as a defense against adversarial thief bots.
The crazy thing about this is that I find it plausible to happen in real life.

I’m very tempted to speculate that this report is banned in corporate C-suite and HR:
Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/12/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried
What do you think?🤔

ಈ ಸಲ ಕಪ್ ನಮ್ದು. 🏏🏆
This time the cup is ours.
#IPL #Cricket #RCB

I can read English, French or German fluently enough to understand a complex topic like this

What does it mean when % is displayed before a buffer name in #Emacs Ibuffer?

It's #sourdough #pretzel night again
First batches out, pizza topped on the way, and for SCIENCE we have tried to make a pretzel dog for the first time

#DevOps people, Is there any well known good approach to combine #Terraform / #OpenTofu with #Ansible ?
I suppose most #cloud environments have relatively good & complete providers and perhaps that makes it easy to have single sources of truth and all that jazz... but I'm using #Hetzner's cloud and there are some things that can't be exported through datasources outputs (for example private IP addresses).
I had to script my way around, adding Moonrepo and Deno on top of that... but my setup is extremely custom and probably not taking advantage of some common practices in the field.

Tailscale support for Plan 9.
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-enterprise-plan-9-support

Oh hi there

pizza #sourdough #pretzel batch is done - and the pretzel dog is _definitely_ going on future bake nights

Released 0.19.2 of ha-mqtt-discoverable.
This is a pure-python library for creating #MQTT entities that will be automatically detected by #HomeAssistant
https://github.com/unixorn/ha-mqtt-discoverable/releases
Fixes Select behavior (Thanks mhentschke!)
@…

Do people recommend any good, properly researched books/articles on Ukraine & Russia & their histories?
So that I can get to know the views of both sides (even if I'm biased to believe one side more than the other). I'm most interested in socio-cultural and political explanations, I'm not interested in military strategy etc

Alright, alright, alright. My team, RCB, finally won the #IPL trophy. 17 years of the league and four finals appearance by the team. 🏏🏆
I suppose RCB had to win today, what with the divine support. 😀
#Cricket #sports

"The administration’s claims to monarchical power are a real threat to America’s constitutional order. But its executive orders and policy feints are so haphazard and poorly articulated that they amount to a kind of autocratic takeover written in smudge-able crayon: terrifying, cartoonish, and vulnerable to erasure, all at once.
This is not to say that Americans should ignore Trump’s efforts to make confetti of the Constitution. Rather, when evaluating any one Trump policy, one has to keep front of mind the possibility that it simply won’t exist by the end of the week. Despite an energetic effort by some right-wing intellectuals to make Trump out to be some kind of 14-dimensional-chess player, his approach doesn’t resemble chess so much as a denial-of-service attack on a functioning government."
#USPolitcs
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-self-destructive-agenda/683013/

Ed is the standard editor.
https://bsd.network/@ed1conf/114610213692350435

"We got hit with the new #tariffs for the first time this week. After importing $167k of inventory, we paid an additional $255k tariff. Yikes! That's literally more than our CEO got paid last year..." - Wyze Email (4/30/25)

What you do with this information is up to you, but whatever you do, I assume you do responsibly. 😆
BTW Krishna Navami is the 9th day of the waning moon phase. The next one is on this 19th (and every 28-30 days thereafter).
Excerpt from: #trivia #cheeky #calendar

#ai #prompt_injection @… #StarTrek @…

Night before the #AustralianElection2025 :
Looking up all the small, weird & often racist parties to figure out your preferential voting list.
Laugh-crying at how bad their websites, photos/bios & policies are.
Shuddering, knowing you'll have to decide a number to put in their box.
Voting is compulsory.

The only documentation I can find about using the `:custom` keyword with use-package is "The :custom keyword allows customization of package custom variables."
I have no idea how to read that.
1. Can I do (recent-mode t)?
2. If I am to set a config option like dired-dwim-target to t do I write that: (dired-dwim-target t) or (setq dired-dwim-target t)?
#Emacs #UsePackage

Wrote a post summarizing the recommendations I give to new #neocaridina shrimp keepers
https://unixorn.github.io/post/aquarium/2025-05-31-advice-for-new-neocaridina-keepers/
@… @…

Well then. I killed the final boss with a single 388,000 point hit, by far the biggest I've ever managed, the finale cutscene begins, and the game crashes for the first time.
Round we go.

This is an app #Apple promotes in the App Store.
When I look at the IAP list I feel deep inside that #Apple protects me from scams in their App Store.

If you are a #DiscoElysium fan, you might like to see this before it is (likely) taken down from YouTube. It purports to be an internal presentation on X7, a project ZA/UM cancelled, that was set in the DE world but written largely by Argo Tuulik and Dora Klindžić:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dde8H1YhP-U

TACO with fake ear wound

No cloud IOT firmware upgrade goes unpunished.
#iot #homeassistant #homeautomation @… @… @…

In addition to the mutual aid giving circle link upthread, @… is raising money for the family of a student there:
https://techhub.social/@shantini/114619633818679727
In both cases, this is money that is helping to meet basic needs under dire conditions right now. If you’re distressed by the news from Gaza (as I am), this is a way to at least •do• something concrete.

thirsty

Wonderful thread from @… on moral panics, press coverage, and people living through a time of change. https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/112253975617354814

OH on slack:
Microsoft: Are you enjoying the new Teams experience?
Does Sisyphus enjoy the cardiovascular benefits of endless futility?
@… @… #sre #devops

Meanwhile, free speech thrives on #Bluesky. 🙄
That post has the same content as the Mastodon post here (minus the edit note):
https://hachyderm.io/@smurthys/114593880388311757

I maintain #macos #osx #macosx

👀👀👀

Information pollution.
AI slop is the microplastics of data. https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/114616913983544628

Describing a coup as an “invasion from within” seems fairly accurate to me, and maybe useful to people who are having trouble getting their heads around the danger of the moment.

This is a provocative framing from @… — deliberately so — but is it wrong? https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114605851641345030

Newark’s radar fiasco has been making headlines, and there was a wave of alarming incidents early in 2025 — but what’s the larger picture of air safety in the US right now?
Do we have good data on whether there have been more incidents or near misses across the country this year on an ongoing basis?

Watch as the Supreme Court’s newly elevated “major questions doctrine” suddenly melts away in the next round of SCOTUS decisions. Just watch. https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/114606283686912236

Right now, there is a •preposterous• amount of money devoted to propping up an AI industry that is causing massive environmental damage, sits on unethical foundations, is enriching some of the worst people on earth, nurses a whole mountain of fascist fantasies (https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114559604028049328), and isn’t even profitable.
For all those reasons, I’m really, really careful about what kind of hype I share. And — this is important! — I’m careful about what kind of hype I allow to get inside my own head.
7/

Right now, there is a •preposterous• amount of money devoted to propping up an AI industry that is causing massive environmental damage, sits on unethical foundations, is enriching some of the worst people on earth, nurses a whole mountain of fascist fantasies (https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114559604028049328), and isn’t even profitable.
For all those reasons, I’m really, really careful about what kind of hype I share. And — this is important! — I’m careful about what kind of hype I allow to get inside my own head.
7/

And yes, really, truly, all of that truly is what the term means when researchers and engineers use it.
A confession: this whole thread has simply been a thinly veiled attempt to drum up attention for Brown’s essay, which I hope you will now read and ponder. “‘Artificial intelligence’ is not a technology:”
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
/end

Realizing that “artificial intelligence” is a vague, broad, shifting, and relative term for potentially •any• activity cuts through a lot of our instinctive bad reasoning about it — and thus cuts through a lot of hype. As Brown says, it doesn’t mean •anything• about a technology itself, only about how a technology is situated relative to the world.
6/

For example:
- Telling apart photos of cats and dogs is “AI.”
- Making up fake but plausible facts on an arbitrary topic is “AI.”
- Walking is “AI.”
- Doing long multiplication is something we might call “intelligence” in humans, but it is not “AI” because computers have •always• been good at it.
- Winning at checkers •used• to be “AI” because computers didn’t used to be able to do that, but now it’s not “AI” because computers have been good at it for too long.
5/