Tootfinder

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding.
#Photography

@… Honestly I think I'm like exactly the person you're describing in your example. My day job being what it is, when I hear "host static files" my mind just immediately jumps to like "Yeah, I could do that with S3".
So I'm trying to purposefully step back, take a breath, and take your advice. But I realize I've been so *in* the co…

Over the years I have written a lot of code. Most of my stuff is deep down networking or kernel stuff - users rarely see it.
But sometimes I have to do a user interface. I'm not good at it. But it is amazing how much better I am than so many who produce commercial tools and websites.
I usually back my user input fields with a layer that puts input into a canonical form and then validates it.
That step to create a canonical form is important - it catches bad input err…

Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.

ALS -To The Moon And Back
I'm Lisa Wright, and with me is Portia Turbo. We talk honestly about friendship, joy, and my recent diagnosis of ALS — and what it means to face something big with humour, love, and the people who hold you up...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.great…

Oh oh, I haven't done anything here for a really long time—but health comes first.
And to make matters worse, I lost a very, very good friend more than a week ago, who was taken by the damn MRSA germ... Rest in peace, my friend, you will never be forgotten! 😢
But during my own convalescence, I had enough time to return to my roots with Linux and switch my systems back to the tried and tested, beloved, and familiar. And I'm now leaving the time of experiments and trials …

Is the old "handkerchief code" still a thing in gay culture?
If so, I have a new entry to add: two folded trash bags dangling from the left back pocket means "I'm probably more ADHD than gay. Please don't hit on me, but gently remind me to finish taking out the garbage because something probably distracted me before finishing"

I'm slowly and entirely accidentally working my way through the canon of stuntman Loren Janes. (No relation as far as I've been able to determine.) The first time I saw his name was in the credits for Masters of the Universe leading into a show I'd videotaped; the most recent was in Escape from New York (today). Pretty sure the most famous film he worked in was Back to the Future, which I've seen *many* times, but haven't yet watched again since learning he was involved. …

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: Servalan.
SERVALAN: I think, if you don't mind, I would prefer my slave to address me as "mistress". [Dayna teleports down, gun in hand, and aims at the guards, who back away from Avon.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/192 B7B4

Dear Fediverse,
Any tips on finding a job out of state? Trying to relocate across the US.
All of my job experience (IT Sysadmin) is local to the state I'm in. I don't think it's wise to move without a job. I reached out to recruiters there but didn't hear back from any of them.
#Fedihire

It looks like Nano Retina is back, or are they just trying to sell off their IP? No news since 2022 https://www.nano-retina.com retinal implant.
The clinical study https://

For the time being, PreMiD Presence Stats is now broken due to the API not giving the user count stats for each presence.
While I'm not sure if anyone still uses it and I won't be back to PreMiD in the near future, I will try fixing it, or throw the towel if I can't.
For the note, PreMiD Presence Stats is a project of my Mini HTMLs to see various PreMiD stats. Check it out (maybe later after it is fixed) on

I used to work in an industry that was very interesting to me, and involved a lot of creativity, but as time went on and the company I was at changed I felt I no longer fit there, doing the sort of work they were pursuing with the people who ran things, so I found a way out.
That "way out" caused me a lot of pain and heartache, and set me back financially for a decade, but I'm still glad I got out because I cannot imagine what life would have been for me if I just stayed.…

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DAYNA: [Starts examining the walls] There must be something here.
TARRANT: Look. Come on. Let's get back. If Avon gets to the ship and we're not there I wouldn't put it past him to leave without us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/417 B7B2

I'm back in my garage trying to finish my painting project. I'm converting the space, which is useless as a place to park a vehicle, into a #GolfSimulator. It's a relatively low budget build and I'm hoping to get it into a state where I can hit balls by the end of next week.
But first we need some painting music...
#MyPlaylist #RandomTune #Golf
https://youtu.be/a4Xlyi8Is98?si=J1rErWKZFk6g_9Mz

Describing modem dial-up noises to the 13yo as "two computers screaming at each other"...
"See, nowadays everything is over the internet. You make a phone call, it's routed over the internet. Back then [we wore an onion in our belt as was the style at the time] everything was over voice networks, so when you were on the internet it was translating bits and data into sound.."
I'm not sure at which point he tuned out.

First day of the year back in #London and I'm shattered. It was a good day, even without any after-work socialising, but... blimey.
(I don't think I can blame the commute really, it's day 1 of an intense week of interviewing folk for a role)

Alright, the internet is all too much right now. I'm gonna take a break for a bit and work on some projects. I have some organizing to do and some bugs to find.
The horrible things in the world don't change what we have to do. Our work is and has always been the same. They may make it easier to get other folks on board, they may make it more obvious that we were right all along, but they don't change our job.
We will do our work of building community, supporting each other, and creating the world we want to see. It will take as long as it takes to do. None of the news changes any of that. So I'm gonna take my break and hopefully come back after I've gotten some of that shit done.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Remember that when you start to feel guilty about taking a breath.

Welp. That was a long night.
Good news: my last box on Debian Bookworm has been updated, I'm now 100% Trixie, both bare metal and VMs.
And the prodigal scope is back from the LeCroy service center after what feels like several months of downtime between waiting for friends to help me rack/unrack the 70 pound boat anchor and shipping back and forth.
Turns out there were multiple failed internal power supplies, both on the acquisition board and the top level system PSU, p…

I can only dream of identifying something as big as a tree. I'm on the microscopes today trying to tell the differences betwenlen lots of tiny snails that all look the same 😶‍🌫️😵‍💫
Back to their roots: a brief history of trees – in pictures | Photography | The Guardian
htt…

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
JENNA: Why indeed?
[Whispers something to Raiker]
[Raiker slaps her across the face]
RAIKER: You'll come round! I can be VERY persuasive!
[Avon takes a note from his top pocket]
[Jenna walks back to Vila, Avon & Nova]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/78

I'm back using Xcode after almost a year away and I truly don't know how y'all are coping with the new file open/tab behaviour.
Maybe you get used to it eventually, but you really shouldn't have to. What a mess.
#swift

#infosec annoyance of the day - I use a tool for work that requires me to put in a rolling one-time code for 2fa, and doesn't show the code as I'm typing it.
That would be ok, except if I switch apps to copy the code so I can paste it in, it usually forces me to re-enter my username and password, then even though I'm in the 30 second validity window, it refuses the code.
So I have to wait till the 30 seconds roll over, copy the code, switch to the tool, re-enter my username/password, hope it doesn't take so long to negotiate with the back end that the code in my clipboard expires, then finally paste the code.
Conveniently I only have to do it multiple times a day, every work day.

I'm wrapping my head around how to capture rebounds in basketball -- this is last Saturday's game of the Big Red women against the Columbia Lions which the Lions won 80-55 in fan-friendly Newman Arena -- next time I am heading back with my Zeiss 55mm/1.8 because I see people shooting basketball successfully with pretty wide lenses
#photo

I"m currently thinking a bit how I want to organise my stuff.
I noticed that for a long time I only managed my calendar through the Nextcloud interface.
Which lead to the following questions.
- What if I would carry all my data with me?
- How much disk space would I need?
- Or what if I would go back to manually syncing things?
- How does #localfirst lo…

I almost signed up for Gaggle Mail even though it's US-based. I figured at least they seem to have good sense in seeing the value of email for discussion groups. And then while trialing I saw they have a function to summarise email discussions via ChatGPT that is *turned on by default*. I mean, wtaf.

So I'm deciding on self-hosting Mailman. It always seems to come back to self-hosting in the end, doesn't it... which is not nearly easy enough for most people to grapple with.

I've been away for some time now but today I'm back. My NUC has a new install of #popos and I think I like it (so far). Not everything works as I would like, but it works good enough to work on.
So I'm back in the saddle working away reading student work for wednesdays seminars.
What do you do this cold (-14 degrees celsius) evening?

"I'm fairly certain that anyone who plays the game will come away with a new perspective," Ncube says.
"Whether it's about an unknown history, injustices that people are still waiting to be addressed or even the fact that people in #Africa can make games that are at a global standard."

When asking someone to do something it's important to be clear about everything you are asking them to do, and when you are asking them to do it, up front.
Increasingly I'm asked to do something, I look at my schedule and other commitments and agree to the ask, and then weeks later am informed that "as part of X (what I agreed to) everyone is expected to do Y (something time consuming that wasn't mentioned before)" or "we need you to provide X (something necessary the day of the event) a week in advance (when there was no indication of this early deadline at the initial ask)".
This means that the calculations someone made regarding whether they could participate are based an incomplete understanding of what is required. That's not fair and it either results in forcing the participant to deprioritize something else or makes them push back on something they never agreed to and potentially withdraw.

Dear Europe and others,
I've had a busy day.
I had work all day - as a hospice chaplain taking care of dying people.
This morning my mother went to the hospital for testing related to her dementia. Then, in the late afternoon she fell and had to go back for more testing. She's OK now.
And ICE shot a woman who did nothing wrong. And will probably get away free.
I'd love to protest in the streets but I'm just trying to live. I'll do what I can.

The officiating has been... good? I'm not sure what to make of this.
Decent first half. Sunderland have been a bit lucky on a couple of occasions, both from Wirtz (post and header).
#LFC look better against low blocks, but it's clear that Endo is not best used as an upfield back. He's been excellent otherwise.
Konate has also been in a very physical battle all game. Kavana…

I ran on this road, kept going, kept going
この道を走り進み進み進み続けた
I can't find the town that's supposed to be on the map.
地図に書いてあるはずの町が見当たらない
When I looked back, the scenery I was seeing disappeared.
振り返るとそこに見えていた景色が消えた
In this world, I'm the last and the last.
この世界 僕が最後で最後最後だ
electro world
エレクトロ・ワールド
Hatsune Kaidan // 2. エレクトロ・ワールド // Noisy Killer

What's your favorite FIrefox and Chrome extensions for putting back traditional Unix/X11 editing keys?
The specific behaviors I rely on are:
Ctrl-A: beginning of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-E: end of line
Ctrl-K: kill to end of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-D: Delete next character [CHANGED]
Ctrl-F: forward a char
Ctrl-B: backward a char
Maybe a couple others I'm not remembering.
(These are actually emacs-style editing keys and I'm a vi user, …

Just sad to have to witness this, when these problems have been solved by designers for ages. I have not commented on the OS 26 releases, but I'm glad people took the time to put into words the horror from a design point of view.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/la

Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…

Welp, I hope there's something good on TV cuz I don't think I'm getting my arm back any time soon.
#dogs #sleeping

When I visit Germany, there are a few products that I usually bring back. Tempo tissues and a selection of Pom-Bär this time. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m655gm5sd22q

"From this universalist faith that God will redeem and bring back every one of his lost sheep, I gained the most surprising gift: the capacity to forgive my mother, the woman who murdered her, and myself."
—Julian Assele '26 M.A.R. in his powerful new piece in Commonweal https://www.commonwealm…

Occasionally, I log into LinkedIn purely to check messages. Sometimes, I find a promoted message or an ad, maybe a connection request. Usually, nothing. Content often feel fake, and it's often difficult to find content that I'm interested in there. Is it even a site for businesses to connect, and people find work any more?
Back when it wasn't owned by Meta, I used to enjoy Instagram. Now it feels like a shop. I still miss scrolling through the feed, discovering content from the people that I followed. Sadly, a lot of creators that I liked are still on there, and nowhere else.
Mastodon is pretty much my only online home now, and I'm very thankful for it!

In the time I've been offline, I've been doing a lot and feeling a lot more mentally healthy. I've been exploring nomadnet a bit, looking at reticulum. I'm definitely going to go back to my break and being online much less regularly.
I actually totally forgot about the anniversary of the shooting, which is the first time that's happened since... uh... the shooting, I think.
I've definitely realized that, on some level, I've definitely used Mastodon (and formerly Twitter) as a coping mechanism, often in order to deal with the stressful things that I've found out about on Mastodon or Twitter.
But, again, none of those things really change our core job: build community. And that's part of what I've been neglecting, and what I can focus on more when I'm not spending as much time talking to people all over the world indirectly. Like, I can just chat directly with folks and talk about this shit.
Yeah, I do think there's value in this community. I don't think it's really screaming into the void (at least, not most of the time). But I know that I need the balance to be way farther on the side of direct engagement with comrades doing and building.
So that's what I'm gonna go back to. I feel as though it's a good sign that with all the writing about getting shot that I've been doing, and all the thinking about that, that the actual anniversary of the shooting I'm actually just thinking about bread.
And that seems like a good note to leave on. I'm gonna go back to some hacker shit.

Caelen Carson carving his way forward for Cowboys: 'I feel like I'm back' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/caelen-carson-carving-his-way-forward-for-cowboys-i-feel-like-i-m-back

“I'll carry your books
I'll carry a torch
I'll carry a tune
I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward
Cary Grant,
cash-and-carry,
carry me back to Old Virginie,
I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how,
but I will _not_…
carry a gun.
- Hawkeye (M.A.S.H.)

I have set up my Thunderbird to use plain text and "interleaved, quote under" style, which is also the recommendation of the Linux Kernel mailing list. By default, it doesn't quote at all. I'm sick of throwing huge chunks of HTML back and forth where any long conversation grows into a formatting mess.
#Email

Living in a capitalist society makes me simultaneously hate and understand some things.
Back when the Sunday shopping ban was set in Poland by one of the right-wing parties (with some exceptions for petty capitalists, of course), I was outraged. Why are they forcing their religious customs on me?! But nowadays, I do realize that in a capitalist society, where employment laws are full of loopholes and employers explicitly punish employees for taking a day off, an obligatory no-business day is the only way.
On top of that, after living next to a supermarket for a few years… this is literally the only way to have a quiet day, without cars driving, and car doors slamming all the time. And of course night time deliveries, because you obviously can't lose day's business over such things.
And what I hate even more are these multi-day holidays and long weekends, where suddenly all my routine falls apart, and I can't really enjoy holidays while the train timetable is randomly punctuated. But then, I do realize that obligatory multi-day holidays are the only way for many people to simultaneously have a day off and be able to meet their families and friends.
I'm not really compatible with the world I'm living in.
#AntiCapitalism #ActuallyAutistic

Starting the year with a drive-by contribution to the hamster time tracker.
I find that noteworthy because I'm going back to the time tracker I enjoyed using until 2018, when due to the project announcing EoL (IIRC) I switched to charmtimetracker.
Now that too is EoL since 2023, but hamster development did continue after 2018, so hey, could have saved myself a lot of annoyance by sticking with the software I like and patching it up where needed.

GitHub - projecthamster/hamster: GNOME time tracker
GNOME time tracker. Contribute to projecthamster/hamster development by creating an account on GitHub.

Well, shit. Guess I picked a bad day to re-case my PC and upgrade the GPU. Everything went well until I tried to update the OS, which failed while tossing a Mesa dependency error. Did some checking, and it seems to just be a Mesa issue I can't really do anything about ATM. So I'm stuck in 4K/basic graphics driver mode, with screen tearing a-plenty, till tomorrow? Hopefully? lol.
The new case looks nice at least.

I don't think Wordpress is ready for PHP 8.5 yet! I'm getting 100% CPU usage and major slowing. Switching back to 8.4 for now.

I think that I'm finally back to baseline.

That's it Tahoe, I'm going back

Well shit, I'll see how long I keep my P4L plan I had to involve the FCC to keep a few years back. AT&T is garbage for wireless, I'm sure their acquired fiber isn't going to honor my low rate from CL. #isp

from my link log —
Ode to the AA battery.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ode-to-the-aa-battery/
saved 2026-01-31 https://…

Hey @… here's a screenie of a page linked from masto in Phanpy. How do I get it to open in a real browser so I can come back to it later? This is totally fatal to the way I work.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
ARBITER: Is the accused satisfied that his defence has been fully and fairly prepared?
BLAKE: The charges against me are totally false. I am not guilty, therefore I offer no defence.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/211 B7B4

Good website #uber guys...
I needed to update my password. Then I couldn't go back (yes yes, outside of my browser's back button)

I put the 2015 MacBook pro back on Ultramarine but this time with KDE Plasma. I'm much happier now. Back to rendering videos. 🐧 #linux

I will get to that dwm on Void, probably the evening before I have to get back to work 🤣 . Gotta say the overall setup (and easy snapshots in zfsbootmanager) is a breath of fresh air.
I do have river up and running on Slackware, but I got happily distracted by Sway and nwg-shell. Now I have my window rules figured out over there i'm gonna stick around a bit. It just works.
Cosmix-Saigon (based on Nixbook, my respin) was a 31 minute affair. Then everything was installed and runn…

This is 1 of my bumper stickers. Yesterday, I looked in my rear view while sitting at a red light, & in the car behind me, the driver was holding up his hand, displaying metal horns & tracing the shape w/ the index finger of his other hand, while explaining the sticker to his passenger. I flashed my own metal horns hand for her. She laughed. He looked back over & laughed. I laughed. It was a fun little moment. Those are needed in these bleak times. 😉

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
ARBITER: Is the accused satisfied that his defence has been fully and fairly prepared?
BLAKE: The charges against me are totally false. I am not guilty, therefore I offer no defence.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/211 B7B4

I think it's time to rip out darwin support from my #nix flake. I no longer use macos and don't see myself going back in that direction. I still have an iPhone (for now) and a bunch of appletvs, but I notice I'm drifting away from the Apple eco-system.

Starting back in on speedrunning _Castlevania: Symphony of the Night_. It's really weird as I'm going from a controller to this fight stick, but I'm slowly getting the movement tech back into muscle memory. It's not quite as important for the initial fight, but I'm also gonna need to work on wing smashes and shield dashing.
#castlevania

I'm pretty sure I saw this here, clicked on the video, and then went back to boost/comment and I couldn't find it again. If anyone has a link to the original post, please link

I did a year after high school on a tall ship and travelled around the South Pacific.
I came back and debated between chef & marine biologist (because I thought I could swim with dolphins as a job).
Chose university, failed 2nd year organic chem, switched to CompSci major, hired by Nortel.
Answering a prompt from The Recurse Center

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

This thread is the kind of quality content we keep coming back for here on the fediverse.
And it’s well past time i re-read The Lord of the Rings. https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115582067479688962

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.”

Right, I'm going on sabbatical. I'll be back next year.

I've wandered away from Mastodon for a while. (Been mostly at LinkedIn and Bluesky.) But now I'm wandering back. Apologies if I've not responded to anyone about anything.

Since The A-Team is my favorite TV show, and since I've never done it, last night it occurred to me that maybe 2026 should be the year I finally buy the three seasons I'm missing on DVD (I have two of them, and there were five) and finally watch the whole series front to back, in order.
#TheATeam #80s

I hate trying to work with OS/2. I'm told this worked on IBM systems, but it's a pain in the ass on anything else. Right now, it can see the drive, crate partitions, but not volumes. And it needs volumes to install.
I'm at the point where I be happy if it nuked my two windows installs (because I can put those back) if it would just install itself....
#retrocomputing

I don't think Wordpress is ready for PHP 8.5 yet! I'm getting 100% CPU usage and major slowing. Switching back to 8.4 for now.

Good Morning #Canada
Overnight news of Trump attacking another country in a blatant attempt to seize their resources should be a wakeup call for Canada. Does anyone here think a strike on Ottawa to remove the current government couldn't happen? Could the U.S. find a stooge willing to become the interim leader? How much oil, aluminum, uranium, hydropower or other resources would be looted before Trump strokes out from too many big macs. Yesterday I would have laughed at this scenario but today it starts to be less of a fantasy.
I glossed over this article when it was first published back in November but now I'm leaning towards support of developing a volunteer force in Canada. Perhaps a 2-year voluntary military service for our youth to provide employment and training. I don't want a volunteer military force to ever be used and hopefully it becomes a deterrent. But unfortunately a serious discussion is needed.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ElbowsUp
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/the-military-plans-for-a-volunteer-force-to-defend-canada/

FPS is the biggest available channel that I'm aware of to funnel Academi into ICE/CBP enforcement operations. The point of using FPS to support ICE agents is that FPS is stocked full of troops from EriK Prince's private army (now called "Academi" but formerly called "Blackwater"). This means that carrying out ethnic cleansing can dump money directly into the pockets of America's version of the Wagner Group (side from, of course GEO Group).
The Erik Prince angle also means that there can be an alternative chain of command that exists outside of official channels. ICE is already bad enough, but similar people have worked as mercenaries for a long time. Having an established chain of command over armed occupiers, one based entirely on economic incentives, one that can't be legally monitored or audited, one that's completely outside of the government, should be especially worrying.
I don't believe we've ever seen a clear explanation of who was kidnaping people off the streets, but I know that Academi had a contract (I believe with FPS) in Portland at the time. We also don't know who is on the ground in US cities right now, because they're wearing masks.
The bit reason J6 didn't go as planned is that Erik Prince wasn't behind it. Now there are troops with experience occupying American cities who can be called directly via Erik when Trump wants to make sure he doesn't lose again. And Erik won't back out at the last minute this time, because he's already seen that there will be no consequences for participating in a coup... if the time comes.
#USPol

Training weekend ended early due to external factors beyond our control. Was fun while it lasted.
But that means I'm home tonight instead of under a tarp, which means I can get back to refactoring the STM32MP2 PCIe driver to make it slightly less full of hard coded pointers and magic numbers.

NOTEPAD.EXE now has AI features??!?
I'm going back to Windows 1.01

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
DAYNA: There's nothing else. We just don't want to go back, that's all. We're not criminals; we're not hiding. We stay here because we want to.
SERVALAN: You mustn't let me upset you. It's just that I'm fascinated by your life here. I'm so grateful to you. I don't know what I would have done without you up on the surface. You saved my life. And that's a debt I want to repay. So, [caresses Dayna's ch…

Just sad to have to witness this, when these problems have been solved by designers for ages. I have not commented on the OS 26 releases, but I'm glad people took the time to put into words the horror from a design point of view.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/la

I am simple minded - in that I am often simply blown away at the intelligence that went into the design of some common objects.
Today I'm working with T-Posts, a kind of steel fencing post. They seem simple, but they are well designed to hold fencing and to support things like firing range targets.
And some years back I designed and built a craftsman/arts-and-crafts fireplace. I used over 300 tiles of various sizes. It is really cool how those tiles are sized to fit togeth…

Gunter's chain - Wikipedia

Making this a subtoot so I don't come across as smug or condescending...
My decision to stop using github when they started providing services to ICE back in ~2016 felt awkward at times but has been feeling really good in hindsight right now.
I see a bunch of people now saying "why boycott X company over some "minor" transgression or political capitulation (or over a "neutral" stance on LLM code). The answer is: it shows what their values are, which predicts their future behavior, especially under the tilted playing field of capitalism. I'm by no means perfect at this and I don't think shouting at people to boycott is a good idea for several reasons. People should boycott what they want to, for their own reasons. But I am posting this to try to help others be aware of the upsides of taking action when confronted with "subtle" evidence of corporate unvalues.

#DearLazyWeb: A while back someone posted a screen cap of Google getting confused between Voyager's "The Doctor" and "Doctor Who."
I'm writing something up about LLMs and I'd really like to reference it. I'm gonna go through my boosts and hope I can find it, but could anyone with it handy save me a few hours of data spelunking?
Edit: @… found it. Awesome. lol!

№ 8 Adam Hinton 6'4" from Hollywood Hills, California looks for a way around the Princeton Tigers -- I took this photo yesterday but I'm heading back to Newman this evening to catch a game against the Pennsylvania Quakers
#photo #photography

Is “Resonant Computing” malleable software with a positive ideology applied?
I still haven’t found an umbrella term that captures Causal Islands, Ink & Switch, and similar vibes.
Shades of DWeb principles too.
I’ll keep hosting events that point us in this direction.
Mike Masnick https://

RE: https://heads.social/@livetapes/115980794034889846
was sorry to miss ches smith & clone row's nyc gigs a few weeks back & even sorrier now that i'm catching up with this awesome recent tape, featuring a handful of new tunes. especially f…

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

I ate way too much south indian food, and 12 hours later I'm *still* full.
I'm definitely going back there..

The SSDs in my storage cluster that I bought for a bit under $800 a while back are now over $1300, a >50% price increase.
I'm only at 60% ish usage so hopefully I can keep my rate of data growth in check until the bubble pops. Otherwise I'm either gonna have to pay scalper prices for more NVMe or add some spinning rust back in.
At the rate things are going I've probably got a year or two before things get tight.

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: I, I do not know these people.
ATLAN: DO not or WILL not?
[Underground hangar. Tarrant is still beaming the wall.]
[Research lab]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/360 B7B5

Daffodils from early spring this year, I'm just about to go back and develop 1000s of shots from April that I never had time to look at
#photo #photography #flowers

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: I want you back here. Get ready to teleport.
VILA: Wasting your time, Cally. I'm not wearing a bracelet. I'm not going to be snatched away in the middle of...in the middle of anything. Sightseeing. And you should see some of the sights I'm seeing. No. Perhaps you shouldn't.
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Rewriting an earlier post that should have been edited and verified *a lot more* before posting.
I'm going to connect some dots here. ICE can cross designate with any agency (19 of U.S. Code 1401):
> The terms “officer of the customs” and “customs officer” mean any officer of the United States Customs Service of the Treasury Department (also hereinafter referred to as the “Customs Service”) or any commissioned, warrant, or petty officer of the Coast Guard, or any agent or other person, including foreign law enforcement officers, authorized by law or designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to perform any duties of an officer of the Customs Service.
Back in September Trump diverted a bunch of Federal staff to ICE:
#USPol

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
GLYND: Leaving him a sole survivor?
VARON: No, and, and a security agent named Tarrant. He says Tarrant organized the massacre.
GLYND: Ah, I can't believe that. Still, it will bear examination.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/343 B7B5

Well, I think that's all of the bigger fires put out and I'm back to playing IT guy in the lab doing lots of overdue maintenance.
Of 43 real or virtualized systems, all but 7 are now on the latest OS release. One of the 7 is our home Minecraft server which hasn't been used for years and is still on debian 11 but I want to get it updated before it falls further into bitrot since I do want to play more in the future.

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
RO: Let her go.
KOMMISSAR: She's no good to you, Ro. None at all. You must be rid of her. She should not have been brought back to the palace.
RO: You are, I think, mistaken, Kommissar. She means us no harm.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I don't want to hear Foster. I should report everything I've seen to the Administration.
RAVELLA: You can't do that.
BLAKE: Why not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/60 B7B2

STM32MP2 XC7K160T PCIe test board progress! 66 unrouted nets in the power supply, but I think it'll fit.
There's something for everybody in this board:
* 0201 passives? Check (under the SoC)
* Lots of FPGA? XC7K160T is decently sized
* Lots of CPU? Dual A35s, a M33, a M0 , and a M4
* High speed? PCIe gen2 and a SFP that is theoretically capable of 8 GT/s but I'm gonna try pushing the FPGA a bit and see if I can make it do 10Gbase-R with acceptable BER…

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
FEN: You're a sad man, Travis. Life must have reverence.
TRAVIS: Now. I want the other one.
FEN: No.
TRAVIS: Get the other one.
FEN: You know better than this.
TRAVIS: Do I?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/5 B7B3

I'm going to go back to my social media break, but before I do I'm going to leave you with a thought experiment.
Imagine we're in the middle of the second American Civil War. What do you wish you had done to prepare? What do you wish you had done to bring the regime down faster? What do you wish you had done to avoid this ever happening?
Got some ideas? Think about them. Talk them over with friends. Ok... Now what can you do right now? Ok, now do it.
#USPol

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
HOB: The men want her killed.
SULA: Really?
HOB: Yes, really. The men want her killed now. [Bangs the desk.]
SULA: I'm not deaf, Hob.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/391 B7B5

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
SERVALAN: And yet you remained silent. There was a time when you wouldn't have taken an insult like that from anyone. Not even me.
TRAVIS: True. I want my command back. To get it I'll do whatever's necessary. If you think my silence is weakness, you mistake me.
https://blake.torpi…