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I am trying out just boosting some posts that I think are excellent. I have become increasingly bothered by "liking" posts that make me angry or that disgust me in one way or another. So many of the things that I read about Trump and his sycophants disgust me, and while I think that others should see these posts, I always get ticked off when I click the like button so I'm going to try just boosting things and see how I feel about that!

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

So i just threw together a first iteration of the switch engine PCB schematic in one crazed allnighter (thanks non 24 hour sleep schedules lol, its 0900 and I'm almost ready for bed).
It's missing some details like mounting holes and such, plus a few odds and ends like a 2.5V LDO and level shifter on the rs232 console, but I think it's 80% or so done. Lots of copy paste from kup-lulz and lcbringup which was of course the intent, those projects were intended to de-risk the s…

Was going to one bar but it turned out to be karaoke night so hard pass.
Walked on, past a bar called “The Eccentric“, and obviously I had to check it out. I am after all something of an eccentric myself, I hope.
The name is not misleading. You enter down a few steps into what looks like their liquor storage. The bar has more bottles of booze than I have ever seen in any bar. Apparently in fairly random order, but I am sure they have a very sophisticated system. Only customer so …

"#ResearchSoftware Is an Important Research Output. Let’s Act Like It." https://katinamagazine.org/content/art

I am at the same position as this post lines out. I’m neither hard core pro or anti LLMs. I think they are useful in specific contexts e.g. distilling and querying big chunks of text based information. They are not a hail mary solution to every problem.
„A lot of people like Rust and hate Go, and a lot of people like Go and hate Rust. That’s fine. That doesn’t bother me. But there’s something different about [AI discourse] that is driving me up a wall.“

02:31—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I just made myself a new banner for myself, using (mostly) open source software. The only exception was that I used a random website to add an outline to my Rudolf Rocker image, I was too lazy to get out of bed and use GIMP on my PC for that step. For everything else, I used this tool from GitHub: 

It's frustrating how many important services and channels of communication rely on questionable tech. For example, my neighbourhood uses Meta's WhatsApp to the point where if I hadn't accessed the chat I wouldn't have had an ETA on reactivation of our hot water that was out for several days. For this purpose, I've made a slight compromise (using a different phone number). But I'd like to #AskFedi

It’s gotten to the point where if I see a really well done illustration I’m convinced it’s AI and say “No thanks” and if I see a crappy drawing that looks like it was done by a blindfolded child I’m like “Hell Yeah! More of this please.”
#noAI #art

I don't think I like the new Plex app UI. Good thing I've been making my own custom Jellyfin UI.

I remember thinking somewhere around the mid seventies that Springsteen and the E Street Band, was like a version of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy.
But Phil Lynott did it with a lot less verses.
And this was from this side of the Atlantic, it took a long while to appreciate Springsteen more, perhaps 30 years longer.
Maybe because I kept Van Morrison (another Irishman), so close from the early 70's.
And then again watching this 75 gig on BBC 2 I'm mostly thinkin…

Love appeals from bots I ban after 5 seconds appealing like "I've always followed your rules"
bro. you're pretending to be a roofing company from texas? go away.
#Mastodon #mastoadmin

The Rest Is Entertainment has just informed me about Sleep Token who are apparently #1 in America and the UK and I am happy to report I don't hate them
Even though the first song on their hit album sounds like bit of songs by 5 different bands cut and shut together.
I'm getting nephilim, imagine dragons, Depeche mode, slipknot
And Coldplay

It looks like the RK3566 still uses the same DRAM controller as previous SoCs, but the PHY differs.
I could successfully apply a few things I read in U-Boot.

I've spent little to no time on Mastodon in the last few weeks, let alone posting...
The reason has been the illness and then death of my beloved dog “Sam”, aka “Unixdog”, which has left me pretty broken up.
The grief is still not out of my heart, and it doesn't look like things are getting better at the moment, but I will try to bring normality back into my life and thus post Linux and Open Source related topics here again.
And I hope that Sam is doing well in dog…

I saw a guy in San Francisco today dressed like Luigi. No Mario in sight. I know they're not Chang and Eng, but it's still suspicious.

I'm doing my French homework and the textbook is talking about the mid 90s and how the UK, ruled by an iron fist(!) banned outdoor dance festivals and "music with a repetitive beat". Leading to the "French Touch" - the rise of French groups like Daft Punk and Stardust.
It's weird seeing an era I was around for discussed like ancient history especially as it doesn't really match how I remember it.

Are there any like 3rd party UIs for Heroic Launcher that can be used with game controllers? I know I can add stuff as non-steam games to Steam, but that process still has to be done with a mouse

I like Trader Joe's https://www.traderjoes.com/home a great deal (not their website though).
But one failure I see over and over is they don't seem to use their products and fix failures. I have had frozen foods that have like super glue holding on the top film so it won't come off…

When moving or copying large files between hard disks I like to see the progress to make the wait more informative and enjoyable.
If you want to achieve the same thing the "progress" package (present in the repos of all distros) allows you to do it. After installing it add to mv or cp the variable "& progress -mp $!", for example: mv file1 /destination-directory & progress -mp $!
If you like you can add the corresponding alias: alias mv='mv -v &quo…

Sonnet 111 - CXI
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisell 'gainst my…

So, tracked down the issue with Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2024. The default permissions for the HOTAS `/dev/hidraw` devices is too restrictive. This is why neither MSFS 2024 or Elite: Dangerous saw the devices. I added new entries into the `udev` rules to relax the permissions and both games immediately saw the HOTAS.
```
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="231d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0126", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="hidraw*&q…

In totally unrelated news I'd like to mention that I couldn't get the live session of OpenIndiana to run on my 2018 potato.
Given that this release is called Hipster, I call that a blessing in disguise.

In a valiant attempt to keep the world at bay, I have been doing another playthrough of Mass Effect. This time, it was misbehaving in various ways in the Citadel DLC. I restarted after it froze, which unblocked things but now if I invited person A for a hangout, person B would show up. Odd things like that.
It gets better.
During the party, after talking upstairs to the group including Traynor, I walked into the bedroom where Traynor was also standing, stock-still, unresponsive, in her underwear, even though a responsive Traynor was still on the couch nearby.
In the morning, waking up (next to Garrus of course), unresponsive Traynor was still standing in the bedroom. I hope this is a first in ME history, a sort of threesome or at least voyeur party.

In Bolzano I stayed next door to a Santner; in my next town, Florence, was near a Vettori. It felt like being in New Zealand, but also tells you what a great cricketing nation Italy could have been. #Italy25

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
ALIEN: [Her robes start blowing as if a breeze had sprung up] I thought you were the clever one. You're a fool, like Tarrant. The pain Tarrant is experiencing ... visualize that pain and much more. [Shot of Cally tossing her head back and forth.] You're as close to death as you have ever been. Think about human death, Avon. Irrevocable…

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Current obsession. Have no real need, other than not having a Floyd-equipped rock guitar in my arsenal. But if I were speccing one out it would look a *lot* like this... the skull inlays 😍
There's a mint used one near me that I've been offered a great deal on... 😩
#guitar #GearSquad…

KH-602

I've seen several requests to create a setting to hide the dropdown bar in #Jellyfin for #Roku.
I don't like this idea for a few reasons.
1. It permanently hides functionality
2. It permanently hides information
The dropdowns are how we let you know what filters ar…

If any of us #GenX-ers need hearing aids in years to come we'll be pretty chill with it as we're all so used to wearing earbuds so much of the time. I don't think a day goes by when I don't wear one (only ever one). Not all day like, but at some point.

The rosy windows shone as I stood outside the building, hand resting uncertainly on the door. It was a cozy structure—climbing ivy, soft moss, warm brickwork and good, solid timbers. Light shone from within, and I heard muted laughter, the playing of piano, the soft rise and fall of chatter. I could be a part of It seemed like such a nice collective, and the coffee shop sanctuary looked so sublime: I just had to gather myself, and open up the door. #MastoPrompt #Microprompt #WSS366

Trump learned about the timing of Musk’s departure in the same manner that the president himself has often used to share significant personnel news:
via a social-media post
"The president knew that Musk would be leaving soon, but not the exact timing until the post was sent"

'I don't like being surprised': Trump reportedly blindsided by Elon Musk comment
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a "complicated" relationship characterized by at least one recent instance of lack of communication, according to a new report.The conservative Wall Street Journal late Friday evening published a report entitled "Inside Trump and Musk’s Complicated Relationship" in wh...

SWTOR stream is LIVE! Join me for some Star Wars action on Twitch, brought to you by Linux! #SWTOR

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our photographer Martina and advertise her online studio with beautiful, delicate ceramics:
https://www.uferweiss.de/

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

Initial proof of life out of the flash: using normal x1 operation, it appears to be fully functional when driven by the MCU over APB.
So far, I haven't tested actually reading/writing data, but it's doing everything I would expect from a fully functional, correctly soldered flash. Not sure why Vivado doesn't like it.
It's definitely hooked up to the right pins since I'm using the STARTUPE3 hard IP to interface with it.

I know it’s a personality quirk, but I HATE that thing people do where you can say something you like, and they immediately respond with reasons liking said thing makes you morally inferior, usually for reasons that don’t make sense #relationships #vent

Sometimes I feel like a broken record when #writing about #neurodivergence
But re-processing my past through the lens of #Autism

yeah my worst character trait is being too risk averse, over the last year ive been constantly doing things i should have done like 6 years ago

Sometimes I create really really really useful plugins for #NeosCMS.
I present: Norman Nodly, the super amazing AI assistant
He watches what you do, and gives you super motivational messages when you get feedback from the Neos backend, like when you publish successfully. He also understands more than 2 inquiries!

So, I climbed to the top of the pyramid of pain -- now what?
Vasilis Katos, Emily Rosenorn-Lanng, Jane Henriksen-Bulmer, Ala Yankouskaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24685

So, I climbed to the top of the pyramid of pain -- now what?
This paper explores the evolving dynamics of cybersecurity in the age of advanced AI, from the perspective of the introduced Human Layer Kill Chain framework. As traditional attack models like Lockheed Martin's Cyber Kill Chain become inadequate in addressing human vulnerabilities exploited by modern adversaries, the Humal Layer Kill Chain offers a nuanced approach that integrates human psychology and behaviour into the analysis of cyber threats. We detail the eight stages of the Human Layer Ki…

Today’s breakfast. Hummus, cheese spread, veggies, some of which pickled. Very healthy, I hope. I definitely didn’t feel like going for the very sausagey Hungarian option. At a posh café/restaurant close to the fine arts museum, where I am about to go. #Budapest

Dear men.
Please stop shaming our gender by being this kind of idiot.
Thank you.
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/114597143638854656

I just like saying the words “purple dragon”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits/

Calamus 18 City of my walks and joys!
A celebration of Manhattan. I love Whitman's embrace of cities as being just as vital as nature unspoiled. It reflects the humanist aspect of his joy in the world, not a Thoreau-like rejection of civilization.
I also love that Whitman is writing about cruising the streets, making eye contact with potential lovers, celebrating offerings of love.
as I pass, O Manhattan! your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love
Offering me the response of my own—these repay me,
Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
Whitman punched up the first line in later editions, escalating to "City of orgies, walks and joys!"

There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.

One of the things I like about the #Quartiles puzzle game in the Apple News app, is how many non-words there are that could very well be words, but aren’t. The sequence of letters follow basic general conventions that look & sound like a word, but nobody’s used it yet. With just the right buzz that sounds profound.

I feel like tech has gotten smarter, and I've gotten dumber. My Roku Ultra says it does Miracast (on the website) but in my settings I see only Airplay. And my phone (android) does not see it when searching. So does it not do it or am I doing something wrong? #feelingold

At some point I need to delete the extra test profiles of Keyoxide, I only need one...it will look more logical and less like I'm perpetually testing stuff without pause...
#KeyOxide

I have never opened a Reddit account. However they send me emails with titles like "Updates to Reddit’s Privacy Policy and User Agreement"
I think someone must be posing as me - or just using my gmail address. I have had a persistent "Stephen Rees" who uses gmail with the two names the other way round.
I can't close this Reddit account as I didn't open it. But its address is u/BagOk7706 - which you might be able to access and disabuse

If someone had to write a perfect book for me, it's hands down tracers in the dark. I just love reading about stuff like this

Really not a fan of this watch. I sort of hate it a bit. I knew I wouldn't like it before I bought it. I actually bought it mainly to check on some things and see how #Skmei is progressing in certain areas. However even with my low expectations it is disappointing.

I cannot figure out how to use Github Copilot in @… @… on demand.
Is it a way to make it work like code assist? Basically trigger it with a shortcut.
I don’t want it turned on all the time spewing text right in front of what I write.

Vaccinium myrtillus, Blåbær i blomstring, European. blueberry flowering.
#BloomScrolling

Stupidly, today I decided to play around with the DuckDuckGo ai (duck.ai) to see if I could get it to write the code for me to change the resolution of a dataset to the native model resolution.
I *knew* that LLM were bad at math. But I didn’t realize HOW bad.
I asked it to change a 0.25 by 0.25 georeferenced global array to 1 by 1.25 degrees.
Maybe I was naïve in thinking it would ‘know’ that there are 180 degrees of latitude and 360 degrees on longitude.
But I had to do 5 prompts to get that piece corrected. Admittedly, I did not correct it directly— I corrected it as I would a student by prompting that there was an error in a particular line. (And yes- I realize it isn’t human and this is the wrong approach.)
I think I’m done with AI for now. I would have failed a student taking a class with me who didn’t have this most basic of knowledge down the first 5 minutes of class.
I keep thinking that LLM are sewing machines. They do a lot of good in the hands of someone who knows how to make them work, but they are only marginally better than hand-stitching when given to someone like me.
Is there a LLM that can write code in FORTRAN?

I like that there's a word for when a plant carries its seed up out of the earth when it germinates (epigeous) vs when the seed stays in the ground (hypogeus). Literally, epi- (above) the ge- (earth) vs hypo- (below).

My mantra for today is that I’m not going to do anything that I don’t want to. We should get at least one day a week where we can live like that, right?

I spent an enjoyable evening talking to a guy who restores Jaguar E-Types, swooning over an immaculately built one, and another mid-rebuild. Oh, and a Daimler 4.2, a pair of MG/Austin Healy Sprites, a Volvo 123 GT and an rather swish Mercedes Pagoda. (Along with an MK Sportscar build, at the other end of the scale, but looked like lots of fun)
#JustLookingNotBuying

@… for me it looks like Dreamweaver old, that's all... And after seeing that I was reminded that in the good old days (nearly) everybody was using dream.....

A couple of folks said I should replace the pop-over email signup form on my blog with a much more subtle inline signup form at the top of the page. So! If you'd like to reward the more user-friendly design with your patronage and support (it's free, I only ask for your attention), you can sign up to get my new posts in your inbox just by sharing your email address. I won't spam you or sell your email, and don't post too often.

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A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

I'm a fucking Anarchist, and I’m not shutting the hell up! Stop trying to convince me otherwise. If you don’t like my path and my knowledge, then I have a damn good option for you!
Move the fuck on with your life. Find new friends, meet new people, connect with those who share your interests. Stop wasting your time trying to change me.
Fuck off telling me to vote in some bullshit election. Stop trying to talk me out of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism. I’m done with th…

I just ran across this on LinkedIn: yet another study showing that LLMs embed and amplify human biases in the training data—this time in resume screening.
Yet this is the technology Trump, Musk, and DOGE want to use to rewrite things like HUD regulations and to replace human support agents.

Gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrieval
Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies.

i hate that i even gotta say this but just so it's on record, anything you see me post online — blog or otherwise — is 100% my own voice! (and yes, those were em dashes, dangit!)
merely mimicking journalistic cadence is enough to get you accused of assisted writing now 😭 i do not like this timeline

@… I'm pretty sure I've seen the same exact thing before, too. And like you, I did not memorise the cryptobollocks address.

Tonight on the show I mistook Dan Nigro (co-songwriter for pop artists like Lorde, Chappell Roan, Taylor Swift etc.) for Chad Hugo from N.E.R.D. when talking about the announced tracklist for Lorde's upcoming album Virgin (Dan co-wrote What Was That) and I just want to say to the popgirlies and the HHH community that I have made a continuous lapse in my judgement, I will do better.

I hope Andor season 2 does not have any Jedi or light sabers in it. I love how season 1 and Rogue One are more like war movies without magical space wizards.

We sold about 200 items in our yard sale last Saturday, and today, I took two carloads of stuff to the donation site at our recycling centre. I feel like I'm being judged by the quality of my junk (" OH... we don't want that") even though I realize the community thrift store is flooded with donations and can't take everything. Only about 10% of my junk was deemed trash, so I'll take that as a win.
#Recycling #Donation

Someone – I blame my family, of course 😜 – used up all my mobile data for the month, so I’m now surfing like it’s 1999… 🐌 brb
Great that all “websites” are now basically 10 MB of JavaScript! 👏😂

“Here be dragons and sea monsters, my fellow genital cartographers, and we have a lot to learn from poking them.”
— Mira Bellwether, “Fucking Trans Women”
https://archive.org/details/fucking-trans-women-mira-bellwether-october-2010.cleaned…

My mind boggled the first time I was walked around some major Canadian city and came across a Hudson's Bay Company store. It'd be like walking around Kolkota and running into an East India Company store—not just the same name but also the same company.

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: We picked up a whole flock of 'em. But we should outrun them in seven hours.
JENNA: It's almost too easy, isn't it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/133 B7B5

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I just called AI bullshit on Marriott's web support. It's infuriating when a company can't be bothered to actually read what you send them, and responds with long, detailed instructions that contain made-up facts (I don't even have an iPhone), and that are unresponsive to a fully reproducible issue I repeatedly described in detail.
I don't think even the laziest, sloppiest human would produce a response like they just sent me.
And this is like the 10th message…

6 AM Thought:
I like getting up early to watch the sun rise. I couldn't see it today because it was cloudy, but I know it's still there.
(Can you tell that I had a decent night's sleep?) 😉

It's complete madness, I now have to use several extensions in Firefox to stop autotranslating on sites like Youtube and Reddit, since there is no way to deactivate that in the settings of each site. The internet is getting more stupid everyday.

The rosy windows shone as I stood outside the building, hand resting uncertainly on the door. It was a cozy structure—climbing ivy, soft moss, warm brickwork and good, solid timbers. Light shone from within, and I heard muted laughter, the playing of piano, the soft rise and fall of chatter. I could be a part of It seemed like such a nice collective, and the coffee shop sanctuary looked so sublime: I just had to gather myself, and open up the door. #MastoPrompt #Microprompt #WSS366

I'd like to praise #NorcoGame. I've finished Act 1 and didn't get confused at all. I usually get stuck and need to consult online help, even in #PointAndClick games. The flow of Norco and the way it unfolds is very, very good.

Looks like I should get back to working on Fiedka 🐙 again. 😅

Slid the dust jacket off Nnedi Okorafor’s “Death of the Author” to reveal a full-color cover for “Rusted Robots.”
From what I know about the book (just starting it tonight), I really like this design choice.

«At this point, things are so ridiculous that I feel like I'm huffing paint fumes every time I read Techmeme. If you're a member of the media reading this, I implore you to look more critically on what's going on, to learn about the industries in question and begin asking yourselves why you continually and blandly write up whatever it is they say.»
🔥🔥🔥
https://www.wheresyoured.at/measures/

I think, at this point of time, all fediverse software supports markdown, some even support LaTeX formatting. But, Mastodon still doesn't support any of that. I sadly observe that everyone around me posting per posts with bold, italics etc, while I can't.
Mastodon feels like the gnome of fediverse software.
#FreeSoftware

Join "3D Printing Adventures Penguin Style" today! We're channeling the Force (and our 3D printer) to create an awesome Darth Vader plant pot. Don't miss it! #StarWarsFans

Crappy weather or not, we will visit the farmers market this morning. I like supporting local farmers, and there is a major improvement in the quality and freshness of their produce versus the big chains. I also pay in cash, so they get EVERY dollar!
#shoplocal

Hrmm, seems like my HOTAS setup doesn't work with MSFS 2024 under Linux which is very annoying. Not quite sure _why_ it's not working other than as far as MSFS is concerned it does not exist. `usbreset` shows it and I can see outputs from the device, but for this specific game it's a no-go at the moment. Very annoying.
#linux

Someone mentioned the "awesome" web site for Milwaukee Critical Mass, but I think they may have been taking the piss...
But honestly, I'd rather see this than an overdone 'full of shit' web site with too much.
As it is, it gives the basic info. Sometimes that's all you need.
Although (sigh) it looks like it hasn't been updated since April.
➡️

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: We picked up a whole flock of 'em. But we should outrun them in seven hours.
JENNA: It's almost too easy, isn't it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/133 B7B5

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@… Hi! I'm not sure my emails have been getting through to info@linkstack.org regards changing my email address. I'd really like to continue using your great service. Thanks!

I really don't like the "AI Backgrounds" on video meetings. Peoples hands and arms keep disappearing. Its making me a little annoyed.

Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.

I just ran across this on LinkedIn: yet another study showing that LLMs embed and amplify human biases in the training data—this time in resume screening.
Yet this is the technology Trump, Musk, and DOGE want to use to rewrite things like HUD regulations and to replace human support agents.

Gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrieval
Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but the top looks like Homer Simpson and the bottom looks like my mother accusing me of doing something I didn't even do.

So it looks like most if not all dual row SFP /SFP28/zSFP cages are integrated connector cage modules that are PTH, even for the data pins.
This feels like it would be stub city... obviously I'd want to do the high speed signals on the back layer but even so I don't like the idea of 25G on PTH pins.
Thoughts? Anyone have experience with this?

Yeah, I won't be playing tennis tonight, despite wonderful weather.
On the plus side, I've managed to retain both lungs, and my throat now only feels like a brillo pad rather than a cheese grater.
Feeling much better thanks 🙂

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DAYNA: So how could Egrorian have planted it aboard?
AVON: He must have reprogrammed that automatic landing bay of his.
SOOLIN: And you moved it on your own?
AVON: I couldn't find Vila.
VILA: I'm glad about that.

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ELDON: Hmm.
PRELL: Check its code number.
ELDON: [Puts on a visor with an attached single lens] Fourteen twenty- nine.
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