Tootfinder

I'll be getting my main laptop back soon, on which—for reasons that aren't relevant here—I've had to temporarily install Windows.
Now I'm faced with the dilemma of choosing a distro. Since my ThinkPad runs Arch Linux, I'm wondering if it's time to reinstall Fedora.
What I do know for sure is that it's time to give Wayland and Hyprland a try, after years of using i3wm.

Switch project continues to make progress, although at a slow pace.
Spent a couple hours at my friend's shop tooling up the PnP for populating the back side of the remaining line cards, but didn't have time to actually run the job.
25G SI tuning is going well, I'm carefully rerouting all four of the 25G pairs and doing a ton of simulations to make sure I absolutely nail it.
The rest of the transceiver lines are going to get a once-over but they're 5 Gbps so …

Giants' Cam Skattebo on viral backflip fail, wild reputation: 'They wanna say I'm brain-dead ... who cares?'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-skattebo-backflip-b…

I'm still sad so many sysadmins told me twitter would go down and never come back up or be down for days when Elon fired everyone and then it had a bump ride but was mostly "fine". fine in that the posting continued mostly uninterrupted.

I made a little very specific program that you probably only need if you are me.
I keep getting sidetracked during work. With nobody to judge me and nothing to interrupt my tangents I do a lot of interesting things throughout the day but none of them are the work I am supposed to do.
This little message will pop up at regular time intervals and ask me if I'm doing work right now. I have to answer honestly. The time interval is shortened/lengthened based on my answer.

damn, three months ago i never thought i'd be a hot lesbian

Look out world, I'm back!!
Drivers license was on hold until the ophthalmologist said my vision was good enough.
Had my appointment at the drivers license office this morning. Glad all they wanted to do was the eye test in the little box. Was able to read the little itty bitty stuff abet with a little difficulty. But I passed. Only restrictions glasses which were a given both outside rear view mirrors and no night time driving.
Probably will stick to letting the wife dr…

Giants' Cam Skattebo won't alter approach after injury: I'm going to get back to 'running people over' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-cam-skattebo-won-t-alter-approach-after-injury-i-m-going-to-get-bac…

@… I saw a post recently that asked "What is a hobby that you quit?"
My answer was something like "I don't know that I've ever quit a hobby. Sometimes I take a break for a few months, years... even a decade, but I might come back to it. And since I'm still alive there's a chance I can revisit some hobby that I've ignor…

Some old white dude decided to jump all over yelling "Ackchyually, no one forced you to buy a car!!", and I'm just blocking. This shit is so easy to research. Like, yeah, people were forced to buy a car by minimum parking zoning that spread out cities, mass transit being (very intentionally) destroyed, and giant cars that murder people. There are actual laws that very intentionally made things worse, and then there's the intentionally created prisoner's dilemma of ever expanding car sizes.
This shit is extremely easy to research. At this point I'm just assuming it's trolls or the type of people who would be like "but no one has *proved* smoking causes cancer" back in the 90's. Yeah, that was a thing, and they sounded *just fucking like these people today.*

Got tired of having to disassemble my entire-ass computer to get to the second SSD (it's a Streacom DB4 passive cube; everything is an ordeal), so I implemented an external PCIe disk attachment point around the open rear of the case. Now any SSD on a standard PCIe carrier can be swapped out easily!
Many years ago, I discovered that one of my ASUS 2nd-gen Core i motherboards would let me hotswap PCIe devices, under Linux anyway. I don't think I'm brave/dumb enough to try tha…

#MeMade Today I'm wearing a bolero I knitted. I sewed a couple of tops that I wear quite often, but I very rarely wear anything I've knitted as I'm never happy with it. These boleros are an exception. I've made two, one a mid-blue to go with the blue I wear so frequently, and one an eye-popping orange to go with a dress I used to wear when I was more slender! It's really hard to…

Country Roads Taking Me Home
I'm back in West Virginia for the annual family reunion. Short post this week.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/country-roads-taking-me-home/

Country Roads Taking Me Home – Bob Mueller
It's a short post this week from West Virginia as I travel for my fourth visit to the annual Smith family reunion.

"What's your favourite emoticon or emoji and why?" - How can you ask me to choose amongst my babies??! 😭😭😭
There are some emojis I actively avoid for visceral reasons (couldn't explain why) and I'm partial to 😅 , 💪 , and 🤷‍♀️ , because they're just so useful. But I'd probably pick the otter floating on its back, because I think that's just design genius 🦦 :aawwww: #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

i gotta say i'm pretty put off by the whole messaging of the new #commodore company. "present bad, past good, go back to the 80s, blah blah blah". yeah, fuck your palingenetic bullshit.
how aren't we all sick of promises to restore some golden age, when the consequences of this shit stare us in the face every day?
if your project seems like its slogan could have the …

Giants' Cam Skaettbo won't alter approach after injury: I'm going to get back to 'running people over' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-cam-skaettbo-won-t-alter-approach-after-injury-i-m-going-to-get-bac…

Booked Zephyr for an overnight in Truckee and back. But hey, since I'm in layoff land, taking recs.

I have another fun project idea that I'm not going to realize.
What I'd love to have is a heat map of "how soon can I get there". One where I select my train station, and get a map of all train stations I can reach within N hours, each marked with the earliest arrival time and colored by how late I'll get there. Including all the reasonable transfers.
Say, the first train from here goes to Konin, so I get its arrival times marked on all stations towards Konin. Then, I can transfer to a few trains in Poznań, so I get their arrival times on their respective stations. And then all the transfers there, and so on.
So what I'd get is a pretty colorful map, with arrival time getting later with distance, except for major stations where IC trains get earlier than suburban trains, and then backwards from major stations where I can get via IC and then change into suburban going back. It would be such a cool experiment!
And honestly, I could start playing with it even with a partially automated tool: one that lets me select a given train and updated the map if it arrived somewhere earlier than I had before.
#rail

I'm rrrreally looking forward to the #Pika Pulse reboot, and I think it's good that @… is taking its time with it. In my opinion, it doesn't have to be perfect right from the start.
Thank you, @…

Why am I thinking about dipping back into... - I am BARRY HESS
Why am I thinking about dipping back into Mastodon and Bluesky? I’ve been away for six or seven (!) months and it’s been good. I feel a bit like I’d like  I’m curious if I could do it in a way that would only be a fifteen-minute commitment each week. I have doubts, but I suppose then I could just eject again. Hmm…I think I’ll resist a bit more. How Everest Has Changed Since Into Thin Air (archive): When I climbed to the summit of Everest in May 1996, I was only the 621st person to …

I'm back (sort of-ish). The wee one's illness on Friday spread to the rest of the household. He went through it relatively unscathed* but we older folks were sooo sick. Still struggling a bit with exhaustion but I'm back, baby!
We're still keeping him home for a couple more days just in case.
#Grandparenting

Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).
Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.

Linus Torvalds:
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments
In reply to a developer on one of the Linux kernel mailing lists, Linux creator Linus Torvalds firmly put a foot down to push back against anti-AI comments.

Ohhhh, this webtoon I really liked is back after an almost four year hiatus!! Yay, I'm so happy it's back!!

Bolt awake this morning at 6:15am and could NOT get back to sleep. Try as I might to drag my feet through the usual routine, I still found myself at work at 7:45am which is hecka-early; usually I'm rocking up at the office at 9...9:30ish.
So now it's 10 to 10am, and it feels like I've been here for hours and I want to eat my lunch. I have been productive so far, so that's nice, but everything else about this I hate very much.

Actually, I think @… business model makes a lot more sense than @…. But from the outside, they seem so incredibly resistant to innovation, or at least really slow at it, that I end up back on Signal anyway when I'm messag…

Texans RB Woody Marks on Houston adding David Montgomery: 'I'm very excited' https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-woody-marks-on-david-montgomery-i-m-very-excited

What can you do when your home has been taken back by the landlord?
Talking KDE here, no worries.
With Jtown's demise (um grande abraço @… !) it also gives me freedom again.
And nothing is as brittle as my solemn pledges, so I'm (re)building my bootc KDE image. Don't want no one else but myself be responsible for the mess I make 😆

#today I'm back (on Firefox, on macOS, on my MacBook, in my logged in session here)!
What do you mean you didn't notice that I was away / typing less? Huh? Huh?
Anyhow, I've been doing very little today, aspiring to the @… level of wo…

Weird that our simplest, textual interfaces are bringing the most amount of whimsy back into computing.
Good night, sleep Claude. Hope you catch some winks once you're done running my `/loop`. (Alt text for context.)

I couldn't care less about a bunch of rich people in Brooklyn, I just read the article for the delicious drama. However, about halfway through the article, I started to see so many #FreeSoftware parallels.
1) Volunteers spend countless unpaid hours creating/maintaining something to better their community.
2) For-profit business packages it up as part of their offering.

Set sail! 🧭 Heading back into the world of Windrose today. Pull up a chair and come hang out! 🔴 Live here:
🎮 #Windrose

A guy I used to work with just found this in the studio. It's a clamp clamp I printed on my RepRap back in... 2013 maybe? Look at those layer lines!
I'm happy to say we have better print quality 13 years later and I'm much better at designing things. 😉
#3DPrinting

@… I'm a little surprised how different some parts of the PICO images are. In the sample image of the lady with a red hat (kodak_kodim04), the eyebrow on the right side of the image is slightly higher than in the reference image. Flipping back and forth between them makes it look like she's subtly hinting something

Back when I was diagnosed with #diabetes, I've found two apps to help me. Both were proprietary.
The first one came from the glucometer's manufacturer, and it featured the ability to copy its readings over Bluetooth. It also had a pretty useful bolus calculator. However, it was also annoying in a number of ways: it required an account with all the implied data sharing, was premiumware (though using their glucometer implied a free "pro" version), was quite childish in design, didn't respect disabled animations or dark theme.
The second one was an independent Polish app to compute carbs from meals. It wasn't perfect, but it had a rich database of products and quite a few convenient features (like copying meals or calculating carbs based on recipes). Unfortunately, the authors went full way into AI hype, and while I didn't use any of the "AI" features (they were premiumware anyway), the app itself was becoming increasingly crappy.
Eventually, this motivated me to look for a new app. I've settled for #Diaguard. It's just got the basics: meal composition and computing carbs, plus letting me log blood sugar and insulin doses manually. It used to have a bolus calculator before I used it, but it was removed over legal concerns. Still, it's open source, it's nice, it's got no crap and it respects the dark theme. And honestly, given that I've already reached the point of overriding bolus calculator, I've figured out it's enough for me.
In fact, it's so "enough" that I'm not even using it regularly. I mean, if my blood sugar is predictable and my meals are predictable, there's no reason to waste time logging them. The app is there to assist me when I need it, not force me to use it.
I still keep the two other apps installed. The first one in case I had doubts over insulin doses and wanted to use the bolus calculator. The second one over my database of meals; though I had already exported it, so I just need to figure out if the export is complete enough.
#Android

It's summer holiday time and we're back on the train, this time in 5 changes from Copenhagen to Amsterdam via Hamburg - so far (🤞) mostly on time. I'm astonished too. So let's try not to curse it.
I had planned board games, reading books, having a picnic and photo sorting for this trip. But work is unfinished and since leaving at 6am I've managed to finish two reports, clear some emails and now it's time to look at budgets.
Annoying to work on holiday but everyone else is on a screen too and at least this way I can catch up.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess

Now, I have a lot of reasons to hate vibe coding, but one of them is that I just think more easily in code. I reason by writing the code. It's not something I can easily disentangle.
Architectures tend to live in my head as pictures that change as I write. The words are code. There's no intermediate. So the offer of being able to skip the poc phase is just not interesting. "Oh, cool, I can skip the part where I preemptively identify problems? Great. That's gonna work out well." Vibe coding can give you working proof of concepts that self destruct when you try to grow them (much like any poc code you just try to use without actually engineering).
I don't know that this problem will ever get fixed. Even if it does, I don't know that this fix will ever rival human engineering. I don't think it's actually possible to know that yet, there are too many factors at play. It's definitely lowered the bar for writing proof of concepts. Now a business idiot can make a proof of concept, which even further distorts their understanding of what engineering actually looks like.
In order to go back to work, I'm basically expected to be ramped up on LLM stuff. But it all keeps reminding me of the feeling of powerlessness when we organized against Trump, when we organized against the rally at UW, when I tried to stop someone from pepperspraying people and I got shot. It's all the same ideology of rapists and pedophiles forcing their entire world on us against our will, thinking they can dangle "the Epstein files" in front of everyone and then yank them away like nothing ever happened... Like no one knows they implicate the entire power structure.

I am currently #reading "Reading Wars" by Don Herzog, published by LSE Press.
"Reading Wars explores heated, even murderous, political struggles over who gets to read and what they get to read. Those conflicts, once again in the news, stretch back centuries [...] spanning both the United States and Britain, from the 1500s right up to contemporary battles over banning library…

This was a very interesting episode. Reminded me of my bioethics course I took at uni back in the stone ages (90s).
#ethics

I got an email at work from the union, asking me to follow them on Bluesky and/or Threads. I replied back that I can't until they enable the Bridgy Fed or turn on sharing to the Fediverse. I'm guessing that I will never hear from them again.

I'm old enough to remember when Trump was all over brining US shipbuilding back online...
President Lee: "Trump Asked If Korea Could Quickly Build 10 U.S. Naval Ships" - The Asia Business Daily
https://www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026061916014638865

I'm playing back to back first Outer Wilds and then the last of us part 2, and oh boy I have opinions.
The last of us is beautiful to look at, has a well crafted and tearful story, deeply developed characters, and a lot of other nice things, BUT it's just boring to play. I'm going to finish it because I want to see how it ends, but it's just a churn of the next bandit camp or infected area to pass trough. Stealth or shoot. Not particularly interesting or engaging.
…

I'm seeing an odd rendering (?) glitch on mastodon at the moment - *sometimes* when I mouse over someones @example link the text in that toot 'jumps' slightly and then goes back just for a few frames; I'm not sure if it's mastodon version, firefox, or the phase of the moon.
(Firefox 152.0/Fedora/x86)

After a ~15 year hiatus, I've started going back to #unitarianuniversalist services. This morning we sung Blue Boat Home and it unlocked so many emotions. I think I need more of this in my life.
https://m.youtube…

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924874418802342
This.
I'm so tired of seeing the back-and-forth on open source projects where people pointing out that GenAI is unethical are "rebutted" by others ignoring the ethics and saying it&…

I pay for the Economist. Every time I want to read a new article in the Android app I have to swipe forward. Twice, once to skip over the ad page. Then I let the article sit on my screen for about 10 seconds ready to swipe back to it because the app navigates forward to another ad page. It does that twice, then I can read the article.
I think the underlying problem is I'm blocking their ad server via DNS. So those ad pages don't load and show up blank. And then they have some aggressive error handling to try to force the ad to load again if it failed the first time.

New look!
I'm actually surprised this turned out as well as it did considering i couldn't see the shutter button on the phone camera lol, much less the screen.
This was an expensive mistake, I spray painted some stuff a while back and forgot to put a sacrificial cover over the respirator face shield. Had to replace it and the new one came with a protective covering to keep it from being scratched during installation so I thought I'd take a pic

Here ist the next week in #ProFed. This week I took a break. So there's nothing new to report. I'm back to it already, and next week we'll have some news again.
https://joinprofed.social

I was just looking at the watch again and noticed SR621 is listed on the face next to the model number. That is obviously the battery type. Why would they list this, unless you could do something with the information but there is no way to open the back.
Now I wonder if it is possible to carefully prise off the crystal to get to the module and from there the battery. 🤔
I'm not gonna try now but I might attempt it one day when the battery does run out.

"The boy said, "Dad they're going to take me to task
But I'll be back by Christmas"
It's just a rumor that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding"
https://c.im/@msbellows/116904…

Saving The Streak
Internet is out, and they don't know when it'll be back, so I'm throwing up a quick post from the phone. Athena says hello.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/saving-the-streak/

Saving The Streak – Bob Mueller
Internet is out, and they don’t know when it’ll be back, so I’m throwing up a quick post from the phone. Athena says hello.

Feeling this one hard.
[via my old friend, Martin_FFF]

Today's Bandcamp Friday, of course, and I'm still figuring out what all I'm gonna grab.. will report back later 😂
One I did just get, though- this killer new oi/street punk record 'Sobrevivencia' by Washington's SECLUSION. Been listening to a lot of this one. Love this dude's gruff voice.
https://

Adding files to notes in @… is now live! Now I'm adding bulk editing. So many new features. I can't wait to write about them.

My dad, brother, mom, and me at the US bicentennial. I vaguely remember this was some celebration at Valley Forge National Park in PA. We were living in NJ at the time, so we're posed in front of the NJ wagon.
As a kid who was not allowed to have internet, I didn't know much about the world back then. but I'm quite sure the world is a better place today, despite all the fuckery going on right now.
I mean, we were breathing leaded gasoline, among other things.

My mother brought me to this country from Peru as a young boy.
She always told me that we need to work hard, give back, and help our community,
because that is what it means to be an American. 


When she died of COVID-19,
I promised I would fight like hell for every family like ours.
In 2022 my community sent me to Congress - the first openly LGBTQ immigrant ever elected - to do just that. 

I’m Robert Garcia – now the top Democrat on the House Ov…

Robert Garcia for Congress | Democrat for California's 42nd Congressional District
I'm running for Congress so that every kid can have the same shot that my mother—and this country—gave me.

Ruh is a typical chestcat. She loves sleeping on my chest, given that either I'm wearing something or I'm covered by a blanket. She won't lie on it if I'm covered by a quilt. However, she doesn't mind lying on a quilt without anyone under it. She doesn't like my lap particularly; I have to lean back enough so she could place her front feet on my belly.
Mr Ek is a lapcat. He would gladly lie on my lap when I'm sitting. If I'm lying down, he also prefers the area of my knees.
Lulu is an universalcat. She will gladly lie down both on my lap, and on my chest. And if my chest is occupied, she's ready to lie down almost on my head, just to have the dominant position.
#cat

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Baby Bash:
🎵 Baby I'm Back
#BabyBash
https://davidwilsonrhythm.bandcamp.com/track/baby-bash-baby-im-back-collini-club-house-party-starter-clean-124-track-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7nbLDEX5VrZt70uvYDQ4cQ

Finally, I'm finishing a release of unreleased works from 2006 to present.
All in all, I had about 20 hours of music to sort through.
For many of us, material we really like gets left off of albums because it doesn't fit their flow or feel. Given life's unpredictability, it seemed better to share this work than not to. And there's other reasons, which I'll post once it's done. But writing this now so I'll commit and not back out. :)
(Don't …

I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.

Two observations:
- WiFi is notably slower over the German border
- Cloud storage and working in the cloud is a pain.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess

a couple of weeks a go we did a beautiful walk around a village nearby. No mountain, no summit, just a walk that we did a year ago as well.
But what is "usual" for me might not be for others. That's what I'm trying to keep in the back of my mind whenever I'm out and about and think, that a scene probably isn't worth a photo because it's too ... normal to me.
I wrote a bit about our walk:

Lucky, lucky Londoners. I'm quite excited about this new book, with its cheery title

New PSU in and it's smol. The case should be in here soon and I can get this build back online. Also not pictured, I installed a 2TB NVMe drive in the M.2 slot on the back of the motherboard.
#steamMachine #diy

Having protocol decodes overlaid on your FPGA ILA traces is an absolute game changer, I'm never going back to the Vivado ILA lol.
I need to do a bit more polishing of the UI and improve some workflows and probably add a JTAG and Ethernet transport and some other things like adding proper trigger comparators instead of hard coding external trigger only.
But using ngscopeclient for FPGA debug for just a couple of days is already making me wonder what took me so long to do this…

Just wrote yet another piece on LLMs that has been kicking around in my head for a while: "What kinds of conversations can you have with a parrot?"
#AI #LLMs

It's Dr. Mariah Lancaster.
The other day, a 26-year-old man was shot and killed by ICE in Biddeford, Maine.
He was on his way to work.
Congress is funding this
- I'm running to pull back every dollar of it.
It's time to abolish and prosecute ICE.
To change our politics,
we have to elect New Leaders
Please Donate
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Dr. Mariah Lancaster for Congress
With our Democracy on the line, Dr. Mariah Lancaster is ready for battle.

The thing I love about computers is that I can tell you basically anything about how a computer works, not because I know everything but because I know how to figure it out. I can walk you, over the course of an hour, two, there, maybe more, though every step of typing something into a web form, from the electrical signals that get turned into digital via an ADC, to the USB controller memory, to the kernel driver, to user space, through the application stack, back down to the kernel, to the network driver, through routers, up the server stack, TCP/IP, key exchanges, etc.
I don't mean I have the time to dig into these things. I used to, and it was fun. I've given more than my fair share of interviews talking though variations of this. What I'm talking about isn't pure knowledge, but that, given relatively simple theory, and the right tools, every action of a computer can be understood down to the limits of physics.
The thing I hate about #LLMs is that take something comprehensible and make it something almost completely opaque. Even with a solid understanding of the theory, literally no one understands what's happening. That is shit. It makes playing with technology not fun anymore. The way in which companies are making things even more opaque by running stuff in the cloud is everything I hated about closed source on steroids.

Video creators. Please. I am on my knees. I am BEGGING you. PLEASE add any sort of intro and outro to your videos.
I'm so tired of YouTube previewing videos on mute, forcing me to then go back cause the video started with the guy immediately talking.
I'm even more tired of having them still be talking when the screen gets inundated with related content and then cut immediately as they stop talking, making the autoplay bring me somewhere else without a chance of choosing a…

just chmod 777'd /var/www, i'm sure this won't come back to bite me later

@… But, to lean on my own personal experience. I'm reminded of the stories my Polish family taught me as a kid, about what it was like to live under the Soviet occupation. And the immediate answer that comes to mind is: Word of mouth.
That's how I used the web back when I first started ~25 years ago as well: A friend would tell you about a cool site, …

@… I'm genuinely sorry that we can't please everyone.
I rarely look back at historic shots of the front page, today I found one from February 2026, maybe the last Wayback Machine capture before new Reddit became more AI-scrape-resistant:
Hi Friends!
296 votes, it rose to 302. A photograph of the Linux mascot was amongst FreeBSD's top…

"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs

🎶So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh baby, I hate to go🎶
https://youtu.be/rr1sTloviTQ

Okay, I have never in all my years seen a piece of consumer hardware that advertised #Linux support on the front of the box. Yes, I've seen it in small text on the back or side of the box, or in the instruction manual, or somewhere else out of the way, but this is unambiguously "we support linux!". Wild.

Some passengers were missing on board. So they had to find and remove their luggage from the plane. As everyone knows unaccompanied luggage gets really sad and nobody wants that. Now we might be able to depart Schiphol in about 15 min with a little more than 1hr delay.
I'm not complaining. Happy that I might make it back to Berlin today

My son has put up herb drying hooks for me in the utility room! I'm beyond delighted! He's also put up the plastic greenhouse we got weeks ago so it is now filling with things that need potting on and generally sorting out. I'm also hoping to sort out a small raised veg plot and a pond, so my garden mojo is well and truly back. It's nice to feel enthusiastic again. #gardening

Things don’t always go well.
Often I toss out a whole day’s work.
Sometimes I’ll refactor, over time, from design A to design B, and then decide to refactor back to A, or something very much like A.
That’s not a problem: it’s a feature.
Things will not go well on most every project -- and my point here is that that does not mean the end of the world.
We can always move forward, adjusting the design slowly and smoothly to become what we need it to become.
--…

Well, the smart light in the office bedroom has decided to stop connecting to my home app. I can use the light app on my phone but I like being able to just tell the bloody thing what to do. So I'm back to a normal globe again (non-dimmable, non-colourised) - which feels rather primitive. I wouldn't have bothered buying one but this was a gift from my son. And the wee one loves it. Disappointing.💡
#Technology

Starting to dust off the Ethernet switch project and make some strides towards finishing it.
First step: preparing to populate the back side of the remaining switch line cards. I hand assembled one a year or so ago and then the project got put on ice while I got busy with higher priority stuff.
But now that my friends are starting to get their PnP operational, I'm gonna try and run the rest of the boards on it.
Just inventoried components for the back-side assembly run …

#footpathFriday , I'm back! here with a beautiful path that we walked last year in the #schwarzwald .
#eineSpurWilder

I had an interesting chat with a friend who mentioned a book called "The Living Company." Apparently Shell was one of the few companies that saw the 1970's oil crisis coming and was able to adapt. They did it by talking to a bunch of people randomly about the future, identifying patterns, and coming up with possible future scenarios. They then formed clear plans for these future scenarios, where those plans would cover as many related scenarios as possible.
This was actually really familiar to me, though I hadn't read the book, because that's very close to what the Seattle GDC disaster prep committee did. We identified possible disaster scenarios, then identified preparedness steps that served multiple purposes. We got boxes of n95 masks in 2018 and 2019 for wildfire smoke and did a bit of work building box-fan air purifiers. Over the years we handed out these masks to houseless folks who were most exposed to the smoke. When the pandemic hit, we were able to take some of those boxes to first responders just as manufacturing in China dropped because of their lockdowns and as others started PPE hoarding. We focused on N95 because that was one of the overlap points between the unexpected but catastrophic "flu pandemic" that we knew was possible, and the regular "wildfire smoke" problem we were just getting used to.
The book sounds like it's at least partially influenced by cybernetics. There's this Dutch cybernetics connection that I haven't quite figured out. Anyway, this guy talked about how a company needs to be sustainable and all that. My dude, you worked for an oil company. That is categorically not sustainable. All this aside, I think there are a lot of things we can and should take from capitalists (or take back, in some cases). This practice is one of them.
So maybe get together with friends and talk about what you think might happen. We live in a world of crisis, so I'll always recommend disaster preparedness. But there's more than that.
What do you think will happen in the next 5 years?
Assuming that happens, what actions would you take to push that towards the most positive outcome?
I'm listening to Revolutions and reminded of how much effort monarchies put in to preventing revolutions. Corporations can be even more advanced in their planning and preemption. What would it look like if we planned like that?

"The motion by the former judges was a direct appeal to Judge Kathleen M. Williams, who closed the I.R.S. case last week after Trump voluntarily dismissed his suit. It asked her to bring the matter back to life under a rule that permits her to set aside a judgment she had made and examine the terms of the deal that appeared to have been reached in a plan to avoid that sort of scrutiny."
Former Judges Urge Inquiry Into Deal Trump Struck With I.R.S. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/judges-trump-deal-irs.html

The camel's back was broken, my patience ended with T2 SDE Linux.
#t2
https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/the-end-of-patience/

I've been petaling this flower for hours and it feels like I'm barely moving.
This is pointless. I'm going back to a bicycle.

I'm fighting a TTL based double stepper from a Cumana floppy drive; having replaced it's 74LS123 (dual monostable) and 74LS38 (quad OC NAND), it's now continually oscillating and just throws the head to the end of the travels; hmm - from my reverse eng it looks like it loops both the Q and !Q outputs of one back to the !A,B inputs of the other and relies on relative timing to stop the oscillation - which doesn't work on the replacement chips I used.

Distinct legal existence:
This is a distinct legal entity, such as an LLC. Your "church" will need a governing body to run the legal entity it's formed under. However you decide to do this, it must be spelled out clearly in filing forms. There are a lot of ways to "govern" a community, and, since diversity allows evolution, I'm not going to describe any of them.
Basically, all you need is *some* legal incorporation. This is important for the legal aspect (if you are trying to subvert the legal framework within the legal framework). You will need this in order to own bank accounts and property collectively, and you may need this to remove or reduce the influence of the dominant system on your collective governance of finances and property.
If you, on the other hand, just have a communal squat that operates economically entirely in black markets then I don't know why you're reading this.
(Fun fact, which I'm skipping to because I don't want to forget it: As I understand it, The Church of the Subgenious skipped a lot of this by including "paying taxes" in their definition of their church. They pay their taxes every year, and the IRS rejects their payment, which proves they're a church. OK, back to what I was talking about...)
Edit: One thing I forgot about this. There must be *at least 3 /unrelated/ people* named on the legal documents. That is the minimum number to be a legal church.

Marvin Mims knows 2026 might be his last year with Broncos: 'I'm just going to enjoy it to the fullest' https://www.nfl.com/news/marvin-mims-knows-2026-might-be-his-last-year-with-broncos-i-m-just-going-to-en…

No family as houseguests this weekend. The wee one is back at his mother's place and the grand-dog is back with my daughter. I have no plans apart from the usual weekend chores. Husband is feeling somewhat better so I'm hoping we might even be able to go for a small amble on Sunday and have a coffee together.
#Suburbia

I can honestly tell you that, after spending months, possibly years on the Wayland side, going back to Xorg is indeed sheer hell. I got my big-bear suit out and hammered myself through it all, but man, what a chore.
Problem: dwm is so fucking good, patched et al, and Larry is up and running again. Hard to beat that. Tomorrow: all things setup. But st and rofi are already online, so i'm looking forward to that klutzing.

New Cowboys' LB Dee Winters 'excited that I'm back... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48676450/nfl-dallas-cowboys-49ers-trade-dee-winter

Back when the Polish TV introduced the Dragon Ball series (in the late 1990s, IIRC), my parents were perplexed. How could you create a children's animated movie (because obviously animated movies must have been for children) with so much violence?
On the other hand, I'm worried about modern animated series (these formally classified as appropriate for children). They are specifically designed to keep children overstimulated, addicted to nonstop action, thirsty for more.
My brother recently told me that he set a Disney animated movie from the era of our childhood to his children. They simply didn't want to watch it, they found it so boring.
PS. I actually find these modern animations tiresome. I mean, why do things have to move that fast all the time?!

There's a ton of evidence to back this up.
It's not even close.
And I'm baffled by why Dems don't run on this, repeating the data endlessly the way the right repeats their lies.
https://bsky.app/profile/ourshallowstate.bsky.social/post/3m…

The Shallow State (@ourshallowstate.bsky.social)
One of the greatest political myths that has ever been concocted, amplified, and successfully perpetrated on the American electorate, which myth began long before Trump - is that the American economy performs better for the people under a Republican than a Democrat. IT DOESN'T!

Testing out ngscopeclient on the new hardware and it's mostly working but I'm sometimes seeing zero packets coming back on the 100baseT1 decode. Interesting and needs further study...

'Maybe I'm a little backwards': Why Frank Reich re... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48702889/new-york-jets-frank-new-oc-reich-challenge-turnaround

- Distinct religious history
Where does your religion come from? Maybe you're pulling from other traditions that go back thousands, or tens of thousands, of years? Or perhaps not. If you're reading this I'm going to assume you might be anarchist, so I'll just leave this right here:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/erica-lagalisse-occult-features-of-anarchism
You may also have your own text and history. Great ;)

The thing about training an #LLM on human culture and then renting that culture back isn't that it's "Intellectual Property Theft." There's nothing wrong with sharing. There is something wrong with framing LLMs as piracy. That's a completely different concept.
When a powerful group of people takes the writing, the art, the music, various parts of a culture and then make some bland reproduction that lacks all the meaning and essence in the original, then those powerful people profit off that mess while the people who made the original stuff are erased, marginalized, and made to suffer, there is a different term for that.
The term everyone is looking for is "appropriation."
I'm not saying this is the same as other forms of cultural appropriation, but there are definitely enough shared elements that we should revisit that conversation. Perhaps some folks who thought the idea was silly when the idea first came up may feel differently now.

And that's basically it. You only need like 9 of these, and there are 11, so you have some flexibility. Wow, that was a lot to type.
Go find 3 other weirdos, put everything together, and see what happens. It's probably worth it to compare what you come up with to an existing legal church:
https://www.ulcseminary.org/irsqualifications.php
You could also just start a ULC church if you're so inclined. They have templates you can use already. It's up to you.
I'll drop more things here if anything comes to mind. Otherwise I'm gonna loop back with all the folks who reached out and make sure they're tagged.