Tootfinder

First #AI came for the artists, and I did not speak out—
Because I did not make art.
Then AI came for the coders, and I did not speak out—
Because I did not code.
Then AI came for the shitposters, and I did not speak out—
Because I did not post shit.
Then AI came for the #coffee

"My vision of a world with computers is a world in which people have a lot more time to do what they like. Playing tennis, jogging… they’ll have plenty of time to go to the shore. I’d go to the library. I could do my work at home. I could have a computer at home and talk to my office. I could live up on top of a nice mountain in New Hampshire and smell pine trees and it would be the same as if I were here in the sub-sub-subbasement of the Pentagon."
– Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper & David Letterman
Among the many documents available at the Computer History Museum website there is an interesting artifact: a commercial brochure published in 1957 by the Remington Rand UNIVAC, "a division of Sperry Rand Corporation", titled "introducing a new language for automatic programming". In it, we learn about the advantages of the new (at the time) FLOW-MATIC programming language, the brainchild of United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.

It's June, so I've got my Javastation off the shelf for the first time in a couple of decades. This is a Javastation Krups, with 100MHz sparc, sold as a diskless workstation. I never realised it had a PPP ROM boot in! Anyway, I should get on and set up networking and a boot server.
(Note: the plastic on the clips on the doors is fragile, 2 just pinged off on me)
#retrocomputing

So, I hear that on during the Imperial FFOTUS Triumph parade that they are going running the tanks and stuff only on Constitution Ave (I suspect that the Potomac bridges aren't up to the weight) and that they will be laying those steel plates used in road construction.
During WW-II the resistance found that the steel wheels of locomotives would slip if there were oil or grease on the steel rails. So a bit of grease spread along the rails on an uphill stretch could stop the progres…

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
---- - Mikhail Bakunin - ----

I’ve never seen this memory issue on #MacOS before. I had left Safari with Mela’s share sheet/importer app snippet open overnight and came back to a nearly unresponsive computer. I assume one of these has a memory leak. I was able to reboot via the shell using SSH from another device.

This is an interesting article about FFOTUS's cell phone.
Apparently many people know the number. And apparently FFOTUS often picks up and answers.
If I had the number I would publish it so that all of us could carry out our First Amendment right to "right to petition the government for redress of grievances".
"The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone"

The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone
“Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.

“Onward #Pride-ful Soldiers.” I don’t know what precisely inspired my then 10-year-old daughter to paint these fabulous miniature army men and flag in 2016, but I was then and am today here for it. 🏳️‍🌈

If an "undercover" officer is seen and known to the press then I would not hesitate to publish their face image and identity - in part because they have failed actually be "undercover".
That said, the fact that agents can't be identified as actual Federal agents, much less identified down to the individual actor when they do ill, is simply unacceptable.
TSA at least has numbers on their "name" badges, so one can make a complaint about a person …

The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please
After taking four people into custody at SF’s immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents’ faces.

I am noticing that many websites are no longer giving cookie choices, rather they merely say "we are spying on you" (they use nicer words, but that is the meaning) with only one option:
"I Understand".
To my mind that knocks out the last prop underneath website operators' argument that those of us with ad blockers (and more) are somehow on the wrong side of the ethical fence.