Tootfinder

Finally working a bit more on the post about old Mac Performa games. I started it around this time last year. Takes a bunch of research, etc, is why, I wanna have emulation links, etc. And of course I play each a little. It's a blast, really. If you want me to tag you when I post it, lmk here.. I still have the older post where I'd talked about it and those folks are in, too- but just to be sure I don't miss you. Hope I finish it soon (eventually)😂

So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.
Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D

from my link log —
I spent a year of my life making an ASN.1 compiler in the D programming language.
https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/asn1-compiler-in-d/
saved 2025-10-23

Some more footage from my cycling loop :-D It was a bit tricky there and on some section I wished I had spikes.
If I'm really lucky, the breast strap mount for the action cam comes today ... which could mean that I also have to test it 🤔
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/2zQhJo3fk

I'd love to but...

New Books Network Podcast Interview mit Kate McDowell zu "Critical Data Storytelling for Libraries: Crafting Ethical Narratives for Advocacy and Impact" (ALA, 2025): https://newbooksnetwork.com/critical-data-storytelling-for-libraries

I found a curious document in the archives and followed it down a rabbit hole. The internet's great for this, but it has its limits - sometimes we need to sit down with a collection that hasn't been digitized and put online. So I located the local repository that's liable to have the most complete collection, thinking I'd write them an email inquiry... Only to find they only have a phone number! Now I want to visit even more.

If I was Paul Nicholas I'd have spent every penny I had to find some way to get this performance deleted from the BBC's archives. #TOTP

Q for my fellow Trek fans:
To my surprise, my husband's been watching - and enjoying TNG. He's never seen Trek before. I'm tempted to show him TOS next, but wondering if I should interrupt TNG to do it so he has background info for upcoming episodes like "Sarek", "Unification", and "Relics". We just started Season 2.
I'm not sure what he'd think of TOS, and it's a long detour, but I think it'd enhance his appreciation of tho…

here's my new solution for "i need to send a file to someone and i really don't want them to need anything but the browser"
unsurprisingly, it uses https://codeberg.org/git-pages/git-pages

I regret to inform you all that I went back in time intending to only fix one little thing, but I couldn't help myself and I messed with some other things too. Now I've changed the present to be all wrong; not only do you have to deal with that Berenstain Bears nonsense, but you also now have to deal with Trump and Mamdani being besties. I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm really not - it was totally worth it*.
* My lawyers have advised me not to say anything further.

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“Would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration?” TRUMP: “I would. I really would.”

I agree with him. I'd like to see The Several States end straight-ticket voting. Even better, I'd like to see them remove the political parties from the ballots. Make people look for names.

Sonnet 028 - XXVIII
How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarred the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eas'd by night,
But day by night and night by day oppress'd,
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grac…

I'm still learning #OpenSCAD. This part, the lower knuckle for the four-bar linkage of the #Tricycle, isn't as smooth and aerodynamic as I'd like. But it's good enough, certainly for now.
The blue colour is just to make it easier to work with; the finished part will probably be c…

I lost a lot of work by accident that I didn't push yet. 🥲
And I excluded them from #backups because I thought that I'd #push and publish them "soon" anyway.
All it took was a mistake when running #rsync

Non-Lagrangian phases of matter from Wilsonian renormalization of 3D Wess-Zumino-Witten theory on Stiefel manifolds
Shouryya Ray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18966 https://…

Non-Lagrangian phases of matter from Wilsonian renormalization of 3D Wess-Zumino-Witten theory on Stiefel manifolds
I study the renormalization of D-dimensional level-k Wess-Zumino-Witten theory with Stiefel-manifold target space $\mathrm{St}_{N,N-D-1} \cong \mathrm{SO}(N)/\mathrm{SO}(D+1)$, with a particular focus on $D = 3$. I investigate in particular whether such a theory admits IR-stable fixed points of the renormalization group flow. Such fixed points have been suggested to describe conformal phases of matter that do not have a known dual (super-)renormalizable Lagrangian for $N \geq 7$ in $D = 3$. The…

celtic won so this guy yelled UP THE IRA UP THE RA and bought prosecco for all of us
also did a sticker trade, gave em some tons stickers
asked if I'd be back Sunday I said hell yeah despite the fact that kickoff is at 7 goddamn 30 in the morning lol

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: About two billion tons, I would say.
TARRANT: Range one hundred thousand and closing.
DAYNA: Well, then I say the whole scheme's crazy.
AVON: Why?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/9 B7B5

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

#writingcommunity Please, I'd love your thoughts, insights, advice. I have two books trad published, very different, different publishers. One is a big publisher and has been in print for 30 years. But even with that, what I am writing now is so out there, I don't think a trad publisher is going to pick it up. So where and how to publish? 1/2

I'd be surprised if Ukrainians have the slightest trust in 'security guarantees' provided by the Trump regime. Or by European NATO members, for that matter.

@… I assume you know about this https://www.threads.com/@maddowshow/post/DSnrGV4FvtV . I'm lost for words.

Being a noob as I am in the #devops space, I'm facing a strange problem when trying to build OCI images inside rootless #Podman containers:
https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/27360
anyone has a clue as to why running a simple `echo "hello world"` command would require networking (ping) capabilities?
Note: the same happens with Buildah.

The universe is on my side this morning. Breakfast was a delicious hot salmon sandwich left over from the picnic @… brought to me at lunchtime yesterday, together with the last few spoonfuls of coleslaw. I fumbled the coleslaw tub and it just glided to the floor right side up with the loss of just one wee shred of cabbage. A different day I'd have been w…

I'd think that what was required to get the #faydown cloak/double jump would make me a platform timing expert. I'd think wrong. #silksong

Semigroup rings and algebraically independent sequences with respect to idempotents in commutative semigroups
Guoqing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18724 https://

Semigroup rings and algebraically independent sequences with respect to idempotents in commutative semigroups
For any finite abelian group $G$ and commutative unitary ring $R$, by $R[G]$ we denote the group algebra over $R$. Let $T=(g_1,\ldots,g_{\ell})$ be a sequence over the group $G$. We say $T$ is algebraically zero-sum free over R if $\prod\limits_{i=1}^r(X^{g_i}-a_i)\neq 0\in R[G]$ for all $a_1,\ldots,a_{\ell}\in R\setminus \{0\}$. Let $d(G,R)={\rm sup}\{|T|: T \mbox{ is an algebraically zero-sum free sequence over } R \mbox{ of terms from }G\}.$ This invariant of the group algebra $R[G…

For a moment I was afraid I'd missed the Nordic Adventure Film Festival - but it's on next week.
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #NAFF25
https://adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/nature-the-call-for-reconciliation/

Improving QAOA to find approximate QUBO solutions in O(1) shots
A. Yu. Chernyavskiy, D. A. Kulikov, B. I. Bantysh, Yu. I. Bogdanov, A. K. Fedorov, E. O. Kiktenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19035

Back in March I got coronavirus and lost my framework laptop. Looking in tailscale the last time I used it was in the house and I didn't remember taking it anywhere else. I'd given up trying to find it, thinking someone must have just walked into the house and taken it or something. Then two days ago I was looking for my son's laptop and my wife found mine. It was on a table downstairs the whole time. For seven months !

One point I have been raising is that, even before #V2G, smart-charged EVs can deliver both upward and downward capacity to the grid. This paper examines the Danish (DK2) market using data from Clever, the largest aggregator.
Per #EV yearly revenue: €170–210
(most profitable: aFRR down and FCR-D u…

Der Hauptschuldige diesmal war Metas meta-externalagent und geholfen hat nur alle von Meta Crawlern verwendeten IPs zu blacklisten. Geht in dem Fall relativ einfach:
/usr/bin/whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep ^route | sed 's/route6\?:\s*/deny /' | sed 's/$/;/' > /etc/nginx/conf.d/ip_blacklist_meta.conf

Paint samples arrived today and it was obvious which was gonna work better so I ordered a full 2.5l can.
Only to get an email back saying they can't make that colour in that varnish. Weird. That was literally the only actually blue they said they'd do last time they said they couldn't deliver what the website let me order.
After some discussion they have referred it to the Tainting Supervisor and it's apparently going to be here Monday.
Similarly for the wood, failed to arrive again today. They reckon Monday this time really for reals. Fingers crossed coz the carpenter can't do more until the wood arrives really and he's going on holiday this time next week.
So assuming the wood comes, four days to build the doors and finish off the walls of the closet and stuff.
Hopefully it can all be done in that time. Or at least the hard bits leaving the easy stuff for the less carpentery builder.

"The Oscar-winning director likened AI tech bros championing "natural stupidity" to the blind arrogance of Victor Frankenstein.
Guillermo del Toro on Generative AI: 'I'd Rather Die'
https://gizmodo.com/guillermo-del-toro-ai-frankenstein-netflix-2000676639

It's time, for a new job.
I'm an experienced software developer, who prefers Python, and C . Though I'd also like to learn a new, modern language, like e.g. Rust.
Yes, I've been using AI for code completion. Yes I know current versions of my preferred languages. No I have no hard restriction on the industry.
I'm not cheap, I'm good.
If you're aware of any positions in Europe, preferably in Zürich, or remote, let me know.

Direct Paths in the Temporal Hypercube
Austin Eide, Martijn G\"osgens, Pawe{\l} Pra{\l}at
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18931 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

"I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. On the other
hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out."

Do you have a device with an AMD Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that you actively use? I could use your help testing support for monitoring AMD NPUs in Resources!
I'd really appreciate it if you'd check out the amdxdna-support branch of Resources' GitHub repository and check if NPU utilization correctly shows up in Resources.
You can find more info in this GitHub issue:

'mtr' is a TUI traceroute with a bunch of extra features (which I occasionally find more of) - in it's default mode it shows all the network hops between you and your destination - and shows packet loss on each link, which is great for finding who is to blame for a *partially* dodgy connection. Hitting 'Z' shows you the ASN for each hop, which lets you find who owns it; Hitting D gets a scrolling display so you can see where momentary blips happen.

Pareto-optimal Tradeoffs Between Communication and Computation with Flexible Gradient Tracking
Yan Huang, Jinming Xu, Li Chai, Jiming Chen, Karl H. Johansson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18129

Space missions that could have been ... found this report - #Moon in the 1980s, visiting the poles where water ice was suspected. And using a lander to be built in LEO from components launched on three space shuttles. Not an option for Artemis III today, I'm afraid ...

Precoloring extension with demands on paths
Arun Kumar Das, Michal Opler, Tom\'a\v{s} Valla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18936 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Precoloring extension with demands on paths
Let $G$ be a graph with a set of precolored vertices, and let us be given an integer distance parameter $d$ and a set of integer demands $d_1,\dots,d_c$. The Distance Precoloring Extension with Demands (DPED) problem is to compute a vertex $c$-coloring of $G$ such that the following three conditions hold: (i) the resulting coloring respects the colors of the precolored vertices, (ii) the distance of two vertices of the same color is at least $d$, and (iii) the number of vertices colored by colo…

As you know, I'm working on new tooling to succeed the work of me_cleaner and add more.
I'm watching Dšvid Török's talk on how he found the HAP bit for ME v12, and looking at his corresponding PR and his comment:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/pull/…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
D’Angelo:
🎵 I Found My Smile Again
#DAngelo
https://traadsaru.bandcamp.com/track/dangelo-i-found-my-smile-again-traadsaru-soulful-house-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3S4EcM2vITQtPuVRzyZegT

Thought I'd briefly do a list of my favorite EPs of 2025, maybe 10 or 20. How tough could that be to narrow down? (Famous last words). During the year, I keep a list of all the EPs, demos and singles I listen to and like. Over 300 total of those this year, wow. Okay, I cut out the demos and singles. That left around 200 EPs. So I was like, okay, I'll focus on JUST the ones I mentioned here on Mastodon. 90 of those. FUCK! 🤣

Sådan! Nu hedder det bare: vent to til tre uger, med jævnlig udluftning af det overtryk der kommer til at danne sig efter et dŸgn eller to. Især i starten kan det godt ske, at overtrykket skal lukkes ud flere gange i dŸgnet.

I became a programmer because I found it much easier to program computers than to talk to people. Why would anyone in their sane mind claim that I'd be better off talking in human language to machines that pretend to be the kind of smug humans who have no clue about coding, but are going to fulfill all the assignments given by me by googling and copy-pasting whatever they can find?!
#NoAI #AI #LLM

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

The Trinity-One PeV-Neutrino Telescope
David A. Raudales O., A. Nepomuk Otte, D. R. Bergman, J. Bogdan, A. M. Brown, M. Doro, M. Fedkevych, F. Giordano, C. Hao, D. Kieda, M. Mariotti, Y. Onel, E. Schapera, D. Soldin, W. Springer, S. Stepanoff, I. Taboada, K. Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18237

I have a trick I call "The 1920 Method".
I resize most images to 1920 pixels wide before I post them to Mastodon or to my own web site. This has allowed me to keep things small, and fast, and not have to increase server space or feel like I'm putting a burden on other systems.
You'd be surprised how many images we share online work just fine at lower resolution.

Like if one of those wannabe edgelord troll neckbeards would compliment me I'd feel I'd have to take a shower.

I had thought we'd see Ekitike on the left, with Chiesa on the right. Slot, instead, puts Ekitike on the right and leaves Gakpo in.
Happy to see Jones make it into the midfield, as he's been good all year and a) Gravenberch needs to rest that ankle; and b) Mac Allister needs to rest period. Will be interested to see how far forward Szoboszlai plays.
Robbo and Frimpong make sense. I think Bradley has been better than the general perception, but Frimpong should get a run ou…

I am looking forward to my next hardware upgrades so I could contain Windows to a single PC that I'd absolutely need for Windows dependent stuff. I mean, now I am literally signed-in by default in Notepad?? And when I click my profile pic in its toolbar, it has one cheeky "Sign out" option??? I give up coping with this enshittified OS. Microsoft should pay me to use me as a research subject.

Google wants me to move my account from a $20/year to a $17/mo.
There's nothing in between.
I'd say "fuck off" immediately.
Except the space I use are my photos.
This is a perfect example of vendor lock-in and how they can screw you whenever they like.

In a dream last night I was trying to write a post. I kept being interrupted and when I returned I'd find what I wrote had changed. The keyboard kept changing as I was typing to be "helpful." I put down my phone and picked it up again to find the app had "helpfully" filled my screen with Nazi shit. Then I realized the app was an AI post assistant, so I uninstalled it and used the website.
The post I was trying to write was, "I want to be able to have the confidentiality of cheap hot dog meat in the 90's: no one should know who or what I actually am."
It feels like a relevant manifestation of the anxiety of existing on the internet today.

Quaternary crystals CdZnTeSe: Growth via the vertical Bridgman method with different compositions of raw materials
S. V. Naydenov, O. K. Kapustnyk, I. M. Pritula, D. S. Sofronov, I. S. Terzin, N. O. Kovalenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18634

Do I know any C programmers?
I’m fiddling with a 20yo *trivial* C program and my editor(!) is warning me about the twisted casts in the first line of this:
if ((int)(addr = (void *)inet_addr(argv[1])) == -1) {
errnum=errno;
strerror(errnum);
perror("ERRNO");
(void) printf("IP address must be of the form a.b.c.d\n");
exit (2);
}
I can no longer understand what I was thinking. Can anyo…

CPR renewed for another two years.
Have I mentioned how much I hate bagging mannequins? If they made CPR dummies out of soft fleshy silicone instead of hard plastic they'd seal to the BVM so much better. 50% of the time I squeeze the bag on a dummy it leaks and I barely get any chest rise.

I just took an electric scooter from the park and ride, and was congratulating myself on how I'd not been passed by any buses. Then I arrived to find the museum shut for another fifteen minutes, during which time four buses arrived full of warm people who paid less to get here. But they probably caught the flu, so there is that.

told my sister the other day I had a gift for her. for some reason she immediately said "is it chlamydia?" I said wtf no she said "idk it'd be funny if my sister got me chlamydia for Christmas. let other people figure out how that happened"
when I got home I ordered one of these to her house lmao

If I could live my life over again, I'd be much more involved in historical research. This kind of stuff fascinates me now. #GreatLakes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/science

At the Great Lakes, Unearthing the Submerged History
Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist and diving instructor, has helped uncover more than 100 shipwrecks across the region.

Wow, I'd like to be able to ski like those guys.
Btw, the dialect he's speaking is the dialect in my region. I Love it 😍
I just tried to get rid of the dialect when I'm speaking english 😉
https://youtu.be/L0AwqY49bPQ?si=1z0ZV_ntyjZjEPEO

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: Do you think you can plot its exact course?
SOOLIN: Avon, there's no possible reason to assume he'd still be holding that course.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/207 B7B3

CayleyPy Growth: Efficient growth computations and hundreds of new conjectures on Cayley graphs (Brief version)
A. Chervov, D. Fedoriaka, E. Konstantinova, A. Naumov, I. Kiselev, A. Sheveleva, I. Koltsov, S. Lytkin, A. Smolensky, A. Soibelman, F. Levkovich-Maslyuk, R. Grimov, D. Volovich, A. Isakov, A. Kostin, M. Litvinov, N. Vilkin-Krom, A. Bidzhiev, A. Krasnyi, M. Evseev, E. Geraseva, L. Grunwald, S. Galkin, E. Koldunov, S. Diner, A. Chevychelov, E. Kudasheva, A. Sychev, A. Kravchenk…

I was lucky enough to be given an M&S voucher by my employer on Friday. I bought a lovely black top that arrived today and works exactly as I'd hoped with my new trousers. I've gone mad and bought a cream one of a similar shape but slightly different design. What's the betting it fits *completely* differently and I hate it?

The ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which oversees public buildings,
is investigating leadership at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for what he says are
"millions in lost revenue, luxury spending, and preferential treatment for Trump allies."
The committee's ranking member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter outlining the claims to Kennedy Center president, Richard Grenell.
Gre…

Mass dependence of overshooting beneath convective envelopes
J. Pratt, I. Baraffe, M. -G. Dethero, M. Stuck, D. G. Vlaykov, T. Goffrey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18543 https://

Mass dependence of overshooting beneath convective envelopes
Although the dependence of convective core overshooting on mass has attracted much attention, no corresponding work exists for overshooting below a convective envelope. We aim to quantify this relationship for pre-main sequence stars of intermediate mass ranging from $1.2 M_{\mathsf{sun}}$ to $6 M_{\mathsf{sun}}$. These stars have a similar thermal and density structure, making this a suitable choice to isolate the effect of changing mass. We produce a series of two-dimensional global simulatio…

Ryan Lizza details his relationship with Olivia Nuzzi, saying she had a relationship with ex-MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and presidential candidate Mark Sanford (Ryan Lizza/Telos News)
https://www.telos.news/p/part-1-how-i-found-out

Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its contents scattered on the floor.

Transform Mozilla from a company to a democratically run collective and see how long management will still be overpaid and hires rentier capitalists.
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115746707589261530

Today's SYP (Support Your Parks) #HamRadio #POTA #QRP CW adventure had limited time, so I wasn't sure I'd actually stay for 10 QSOs. But then I discovered that park

a feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)

With several fresh fathers and Italians in our group, a relevant link to share: https://www.ilpost.it/2025/12/21/padri-nord-europa/

I papà di Copenhagen sono diversi
Per gli italiani che visitano la città è molto evidente: c'entrano i lunghi congedi parentali della Danimarca e in generale dei paesi del nord Europa

Silksong is very well designed. Even though I'm not into metroidvanias, I've found its analysis very interesting.
BTW, metroidvania without platforming and combat would be… the classic point and click adventure?
https://nebula.tv/videos/gmtk-the-world-d…

Game Maker's Toolkit — The World Design of Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry returns to the world of Hollow Knight with Silksong - a new game, with a new character, in a whole new world. In this episode of Boss Keys let's look at how the developers designed Pharloom and the Citadel.

"For ideological reasons I'd like for my CPU to be faulty and known insecure and also for nobody to ever be able to fix that for me, as well as probably several other parts of my computer. Is there any Linux distribution that helps me achieve that?"
Sure!
https://blog.josefs…

Boosts appreciated.
Sign making advice:
#NoKings was my 5th protest since 2017 and my 3rd this year. I'd love to get better at making signs.
I was thinking of buying a cheap projector I could hook up to my Mac, project onto poster board, draw light outlines from the projection, and then fill them in with markers.
Anyone have a recommendation for a sub $100 projector?
…

Da vi kom ned på bildækket efter endt overfart til RŸdby, stod der en mand og spurgte om han lige måtte se om vores bildŸr ville ramme hans bil når man åbnede - for det var en helt ny bil og nu havde den fået en stor bule. Jeg svarede at det var ligegyldigt hvordan dŸrene stod i forhold til hinanden, for hans bil var der slet ikke da vi gik ud. “Jeg har taget et billede af jeres nummerplade”, sagde han så. Jamen, det kan ikke lade sig gŸre, rækken her var helt tom da vi kom. “Jamen, måske ka…

Wanted to make a list of my favorite EPs from 2025- narrowed it down to a top 10, from over 200 I'd liked and documented this year. The list contains multiple genres & I've written a brief blurb about each. Most of these I've talked about here this year. Might be something here for everyone!
Mood Bored - Too Much? (shoegaze/alt rock from the Netherlands with great female vocals - Breeders, Pixies, that dog, Throwing Muses vibes)

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

'k3b' is a CD/DVD burner with audio ripper - now, I'd have to say I've not actually burnt a disc in many years, but I do still use the CD audio ripping. It's got some nice settings for retrying slightly tired discs.
https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/k3b/

K3b
Disc Burning

Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …

Day 19 (a bit late): Alice Oseman
As I said I've got 14 authors to fit into two days. Probably just going to extend to 30? But Oseman gets this spot as an absolute legend of queer fiction in both novel & graphic novel form, and an excellent example of the many truths queer writers have to share with non-queer people that can make everyone's lives better. Her writing is very kind, despite in many instances dealing with some dark stuff.
I started out on Heartstopper, which is just so lovely and fun to read, and then made my way through several of her novels. The one I'll highlight here which I think it's her greatest triumph is "Loveless", which is semi-autobiographical and was at least my first (but no longer only) experience with the "platonic romance" sub-genre. It not only helped me work through some crufty internal doubts about aro/ace identities that I'd never really examined, but in the process helped improve my understanding of friendship, period. Heck, it's probably a nice novel for anyone questioning any sort of identity or dealing with loneliness, and it's just super-enjoyable as a story regardless of the philosophical value.
To cheat a bit more here on my author count, I recently read "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao, which shouts out "Loveless" and offers a more expository exploration of aro/ace identities, but "Loveless" is a book with more heart and better writing overall, including the neat plotting and great pacing. I think there are also parallels with Becky Albertalli's work, though I think I like Oseman slightly more. Certainly both excel at writing queer romance (and romance-adjacent) stuff with happy endings (#OwnVoices wins again with all three authors).
In any case, Oseman is excellent and if you're not up for reading a novel, Heartstopper is a graphic novel series that's easy to jump into and very kind to its adorable main characters.
I think I've now decided to continue to 30, which is a relief, so I'm tagging this (and the next post that rounds out 20) two ways.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

First day with #freshRss :
I love the feature to mark items as read based on keywords. This could be exactly what I was looking for.
(this was THE thing that I was missing in Feedly - maybe it's possible there on a paid plan, but that's what I didn't want. I'd rather donate to opensource

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can i have some RIPE Atlas credits, please?
edit: got 'em :D they're cheaper than i thought

I wrote a blog post that could be seen as depressing, but I think it's full of hope and perhaps you'll agree.
I'd like to hear what you think.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/12/16/the-book-of-pete/

The Book of Pete
Something for when I am gone I guess...

Folks, I have a friend's internal hard drive here that is likely still good, but will not mount. There are family photos on it. What are good solutions for this, especially in the Seattle area? I'd like to hand-deliver if possible.

WELL.
We have a newly installed @… version on an old #EndoOf10 laptop.
All user files have been moved across (will require some organisation still, and that alone will be a shock to a GenZ used to just dumping stuff on the cloud - honestly the desktop looked like my parents... 😱 ).
Most important programs are there (I had to explain difference between program and app along the way too).
And overall it's been a pretty positive learning experience for both of us. I have had to compromise on a few things and teenager has a few programs installed that I'd rather not - but let's see this as a gateway out of #BigTech if at all possible...
There will be a few more follow up points I suspect but thanks all for your friendly encouragement and helpful hints so far
#MastodonRocks
15/n

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
BELKOV: Well, I do have one or two good cards to play, I suppose.
AVON: For instance?
BELKOV: You're on an approach which takes you below the Mecron moons and Orbiter.
AVON: Yes.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/145 B7B6

The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.

And another couple of etch cycles on the PIC12F683 done.
On the home stretch, I've almost got the last of the dielectric off. But I don't want to be too aggressive because ideally I'd get a beauty shot of intact poly across the whole die first, *then* undercut the poly and get a substrate image.
So I'm still doing my usual 2 minutes etch, then image routine. It'll take as long as it takes.

okay I thought I'd see a name and it'd click or something but it hasn't.
⚠️but also if you've ever had a cat get real sick and throwing up/not being able to eat pls tell me your advices. hydration broth already acquired (not my cat btw so i do not require emotional support abt this)
https://j…

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Well I'm in the BIOS finally. Man I'd almost forgotten this existed...
An LM logo has appeared, but now it's all gone dark... 😬
Oh wait I do believe we are live...
It's time to Install linux mint

Just published a new blog Post about a bike & hike that I did earlier this year. Actually I walke
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/a-long-awaited-bike-and-hike-adventure-in-the-mountains/d a route that I wanted to do since .. long…

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
TARRANT: I've never seen currency of that size.
DAYNA: Neither have I.
VILA: I just can't believe my eyes.
SOOLIN: Avon, why didn't you tell us that you knew who it was who was setting us up?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/416 B7B6…

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
VILA: [Trips and sits down heavily in the pile of sand] Funny, aren't I? If I died it'd be a real joke. Who'd care? Who cared about Cally?
TARRANT: You know, I have a theory about all this. Keller's base was wiped out by a mysterious virus that left the corpses supple and undecayed. I say corpses; if we were able to search the place we'd find the others. I'm sure of that. What else have we got? A planet that registers a life re…

I have some more #photos from the lake from the previous post 😄
For these I went on another side of the lake where there were quite some heather around. - While my wife was taking a small snack, I walked around and searched for nice foregrounds with which I could play and make an appealing memory
And even though I'd also have taken a small rest, I'm more than happy that I spe…